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I would, in fact, love to call America Pocahontia. When can we start?

You guys should seriously stop using google like it is a university and start reading actual books.
I don't know what to tell you. From what I remember of my primary school days, we used actual books (Google didn't even exist) and those actual books told us that we use the word "Oceania" to identify the continent. Then if this was all a socialist psyop to mold young innocent minds I'm powerless against it, probably because my mind got molded by a socialist psyop when I was a child.
 

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Just since some people seem to still have questions what a continent is.

Continents are tectonic plates that also form the major landmasses of Earth. The only gross violation of the system is Europe / Asia which makes no real sense. Europe and Asia are actually 1 big continent Eurasia that for historic reasons was split in 2.

There is also a pacific plate that is of significant size and thickness as it is the remnants of a former continent. If you want to call that a continent (Oceania) is up to you. I wouldn't because currently it is underwater and the few sandbanks on top don't count. But there definitely once was a huge continent there that could be called "Oceania"


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next they will change the name of America to Pocahontia and you will gobble it up
Amerigo Vespucci was an evil white man and most likely a racist whose pamphlets led to exploitation and oppression of indigenous population, rise of slave trade and illegal enrichment of Europeans. Therefore, the continents shall be renamed as Northern and Southern Oogaboogia
 

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Dude, what the fuck. Calling it Australia or Oceania doesn't change what's underneath. I don't understand why it's so hard for you to accept that different languages can use different words to identify the same thing.

It's not like I go nuts every time one of you people calls pasta with butter FETTUCCINE ALFREDO.

Ok, I actually do. But pasta is far more important than geography.
 

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Nor do I but Hirnweichling goes around for some time and tries to spot and thematize minor pedantries about my posts, and then has the nerve to call me pedant. It's like he has a crush on me or something but feels rejected.

Wether you call it Oceania is not my business but everyone in the geosciences knows that Australia is a continent and Oceania a wishy washy term with political notions.

The actual irony is that I never was interested in the question but was chuckling over the fact that DUs homeland isn't even in the statistics. And that one day they will just cut him and the rest of Australia off from the internet. But none of you fools understood that.
 

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next they will change the name of America to Pocahontia and you will gobble it up
Amerigo Vespucci was an evil white man and most likely a racist whose pamphlets led to exploitation and oppression of indigenous population, rise of slave trade and illegal enrichment of Europeans. Therefore, the continents shall be renamed as Northern and Southern Oogaboogia

And worst of all, he was a godamn Italian
 

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next they will change the name of America to Pocahontia and you will gobble it up
Amerigo Vespucci was an evil white man and most likely a racist whose pamphlets led to exploitation and oppression of indigenous population, rise of slave trade and illegal enrichment of Europeans. Therefore, the continents shall be renamed as Northern and Southern Oogaboogia

And worst of all, he was a godamn Italian
Everyone knows that Italy and Italian are just wishy washy terms with political notions.
 

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You should've studied simple logic instead. The question was strictly within the context of
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this

And you, while looking at Antarctic 2 0.00% assumed (at first I thought you were joking) that any potential users from Australia somehow are not included in the list at all!

P.S. I'm curious where users from Central America are from according to this, exactly.
 
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Oceania is just a blanket term for NZ and AU (and I dunno the smaller islands around them as well I guess). Most online games use it as a blanket server name as well. Basically for those whitey countries living southeast of SEA. You guys are thinking too much about this :lol:
 

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Just since some people seem to still have questions what a continent is.

Continents are tectonic plates that also form the major landmasses of Earth. The only gross violation of the system is Europe / Asia which makes no real sense. Europe and Asia are actually 1 big continent Eurasia that for historic reasons was split in 2.

There is also a pacific plate that is of significant size and thickness as it is the remnants of a former continent. If you want to call that a continent (Oceania) is up to you. I wouldn't because currently it is underwater and the few sandbanks on top don't count. But there definitely once was a huge continent there that could be called "Oceania"


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This is very simplistic. You can literally open Google maps and see where Africa is splitting in two, the rift is visible with the big lakes its making, and that weird Ethiopian mountain that looks as if the largest river on the planet had its delta there.
So your plates map is neither complete, nor static. And continents are a cultural term, historic term, not a geologic term. If it was geologic, there'd be no "Europe".

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You should've studied simple logic instead. The question was strictly within the context of
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this

And you, while looking at Antarctic 2 0.00% assumed (at first I thought you were joking) that any potential users from Australia somehow are not included in the list at all!

P.S. I'm curious where users from Central America are from according to this, exactly.


You're probably right but no fucks are given. Australia is not part of Oceania, no matter what you think I thought but actually didn't think or whatever.
 

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Just since some people seem to still have questions what a continent is.

Continents are tectonic plates that also form the major landmasses of Earth. The only gross violation of the system is Europe / Asia which makes no real sense. Europe and Asia are actually 1 big continent Eurasia that for historic reasons was split in 2.

There is also a pacific plate that is of significant size and thickness as it is the remnants of a former continent. If you want to call that a continent (Oceania) is up to you. I wouldn't because currently it is underwater and the few sandbanks on top don't count. But there definitely once was a huge continent there that could be called "Oceania"


tectonic-plates--812085686-6fa6768e183f48089901c347962241ff.jpg

This is very simplistic. You can literally open Google maps and see where Africa is splitting in two, the rift is visible with the big lakes its making, and that weird Ethiopian mountain that looks as if the largest river on the planet had its delta there.
So your plates map is neither complete, nor static. And continents are a cultural term, historic term, not a geologic term. If it was geologic, there'd be no "Europe".

4AB2601A00000578-5562589-image-a-18_1522425128152.jpg

Let's discuss plate tectonics!!

Yes it's actually quite complicated and fascinating, with roads in Somalia breaking apart so that a 1m gap has to be filled up every year. Still I would object if someone said Africa is now part of Somalica because some children atlas in Italy teaches that now, or some results in google can be presented.

There are more plates and new plates are still being discovered to be forming and other plates are locked with each other. But I can look at Australia for days and I still don't see an "Oceanian" plate forming.
 

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Everyone knows that Italy and Italian are just wishy washy terms with political notions.
Finally someone who knows the truth. That there is no such thing as Italy or an Italian. And that Rome consisted of cave dwelling slavs who thought that vinegar and cabbage was the height of cooking until Moors taught their stupid asses to make pasta, something they still can't cook a decent bowl of centuries later. Opera was just a combination of German folk songs and alpine yodeling that got popular after the German tribes sacked Rome and picked up the fake Italian identity. They even stole all their philosophy and religion from the Greeks.

The only thing that can be said to be Italian is fascism which was invented and implemented there without BAME influence at the height of fake national identity. If you read history carefully you will even see that the white supremacist slavs of Rome were at war with the progressive policies of women's choice that Carthaginians enjoyed under the goddess Tanit, who also benefited sex workers. Republicans never changed, still against the same things and under control of Russians.
Nah, the identity of a country is defined by its people. And the people of the Codex are European:

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Jesus fucking Christ. Australia isn't even on the list :lol:
Are you blind? Asia is on the list.
 

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Amerigo Vespucci was an evil white man and most likely a racist whose pamphlets led to exploitation and oppression of indigenous population, rise of slave trade and illegal enrichment of Europeans. Therefore, the continents shall be renamed as Northern and Southern Oogaboogia

I assume you were just kidding, but I ask anyway if this is even true?

It have no information that Vespucci was anything but a great scientist who studied the geography of the new world and came to the right conclusions before anyone else.

The outcome is fascinating because everyone believes Columbus should have received the honor but he fell inches short of the real discovery of America, which was unexpected and required hard evidence, not just a voyage to the nearest Caribbean island.

Columbus was one of the best navigators of all time, who correctly foresaw the westward route around the globe, was actually able to organize and complete the trip and discovered the Caribbean which naturally became the springboard to the subsequent discoveries in America. But he did not look for America but a route to India. Which ironically was blocked by his real discovery (America), a huge ocean (the Pacific) and that the globe was actually 40% larger than he thought.

It was a bit ridiculous though. His achievements as a navigator also made him a scientist and he came within inches of "discovering" the nature of the new continent himself. Had he just sailed a little bit longer on his trip along the Brazilian coast he would have found the gigantic Amazonas estuary and thereby established that he had navigated a continent and not just a big island. But he was not a very lucky man, burdened by his political ambitions and difficult character.

Vespucci on the other hand had the time, providence and ability to complete the work that was still necessary, not only on sailing voyages but also in the long scientific argument that ensued. Columbus had no time for that.

Btw Vasco Núñez de Balboa is largely forgotten, but he actually delivered the real proof by searching for, and seeing the Pacific as the first human from Europe. Unlike the two others he was merely a conquistador, but he had enough foresight to make sure that everyone else stayed behind so he could be the first (white) man who saw the Pacific, all alone. They should have actually named the Pacific after him, not after the deceptively "good" weather.
 

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Just since some people seem to still have questions what a continent is.

Continents are tectonic plates that also form the major landmasses of Earth. The only gross violation of the system is Europe / Asia which makes no real sense. Europe and Asia are actually 1 big continent Eurasia that for historic reasons was split in 2.

There is also a pacific plate that is of significant size and thickness as it is the remnants of a former continent. If you want to call that a continent (Oceania) is up to you. I wouldn't because currently it is underwater and the few sandbanks on top don't count. But there definitely once was a huge continent there that could be called "Oceania"


tectonic-plates--812085686-6fa6768e183f48089901c347962241ff.jpg

This is very simplistic. You can literally open Google maps and see where Africa is splitting in two, the rift is visible with the big lakes its making, and that weird Ethiopian mountain that looks as if the largest river on the planet had its delta there.
So your plates map is neither complete, nor static. And continents are a cultural term, historic term, not a geologic term. If it was geologic, there'd be no "Europe".

4AB2601A00000578-5562589-image-a-18_1522425128152.jpg

Let's discuss plate tectonics!!

Yes it's actually quite complicated and fascinating, with roads in Somalia breaking apart so that a 1m gap has to be filled up every year. Still I would object if someone said Africa is now part of Somalica because some children atlas in Italy teaches that now, or some results in google can be presented.

There are more plates and new plates are still being discovered to be forming and other plates are locked with each other. But I can look at Australia for days and I still don't see an "Oceanian" plate forming.

My point was that continents and plate tectonics aren't the same thing. The continent of Africa includes all of Morocco, despite the African plate not including all of Morocco. And as new plates are forming and/or discovered, we won't change the continent of Africa, because continents are cultural constructs, that are defined for historical reasons, and aren't geological term subject to change when the science changes.
So when you wrote that "Continents are tectonic plates that also form the major landmasses of Earth." I felt a strong urge to go AKSCHUALLLYYYYY.... no, they aren't. Continents are literally a European cultural export, and not scientific or natural.
 

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I assume you were just kidding, but I ask anyway if this is even true?
I'm joking, but these people are not joking. There's a great and long going controversy in Kwanza about Columbus day.

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I understand Indians disliking Columbus, but actual WASP Kwanzas walking with such ideas? Brain damage.

And thus I think: what these people think of Vespucci? If they do know about him
 

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I always find this weird, Columbus and Queen Isabella were (by the standards of the time) almost SJWs who dreamed of a new paradise on Earth where everyone would live happily together.

Columbus was not an enemy of the indigenous people, he just failed quickly when the natives and the people he brought with him discovered they would be going to live together not nearly as happily.
 

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