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The Nile curving west is super interesting to me. It does have a natural western curvature even today that they could have been exaggerating, but not pronounced to this sharp <90 degree angle and not extending so far west. Depending on how far west that actually runs, there could be all kinds of...

I believe the maps say "Atlantae" on the Richat area, not "Atlantis". I could try to dig them up. I don't think I've seen "Atlantis" in anything pre-modern. Atlas "holding up the world" adds a new wrinkle to this whole thing. If the city was an ancient capitol and existed on a high plateau...

Yeah Plato mentions it, plus it's kinda the entire claim to fame of the place, "the ringed city". It had 3 concentric rings with moats between them and limited bridges between them. AKA a very good defensive position, if it was someone's capitol. A large engineering project even by modern...

There are several old maps that refer to the mountain range as "Atlantae", or have a lake depicted there with "Atlantae" near it. I've seen them too and they're a big question mark. As for Atlantis being a coastal city, maybe at the time that WAS the coast, and another landform pushed against...

Not so fast.

"How did Richat survive a cataclysmic flood?" "If there were anything there, there would be stuff to find at Richat" Those things kind of answer each other. Whatever there was to find could have been completely scoured away. The rings (raised and indented) remained because they were massive...

Any number of things could have caused the Great Flood. A meteor might have landed in the Atlantic or Indian oceans. There might have been a polar shift, which is kind of like having a full bathtub on wheels come to an abrupt stop. The Mediterranean might have been involved. We really don't know...

What's the highest elevation lake in the world now?

They really should though. Their other choices are pretty bad.

If I had the time machine from The Time Machine, of all the places in the world, the one I'd wheel it over to is the Richat area. Park it on the mountain overlooking the area, and start shifting back in time until I found the point where it formed. Just to answer this question. Would be pretty...

Probably something like that. At the time Northern Africa was getting large amounts of rainfall and had huge lakes and rivers. Was also probably the location of the "Garden of Eden" in terms of being a lush place where modern humans were known to have "originated from" earlier. Then they had a...

As a noted player of retro video games, it's crazy how much of this Ancient Civs, and specifically "12,000 years ago" stuff pops up in RPGs... from the 1990's. There are a bunch more but I'd be here all day. The really weird thing is that some of these were made before mainstream science...

I would think that steelworks like skyscrapers would at least endure somewhat over a long time, but I'm probably wrong. Stoneworks are incredibly important, and our statues (that we're so eager to destroy) are going to be the only thing future people have to study from this era 3000 years from now.

What I'm most interested in finding out about at this point: Who built the 3 Great Pyramids, WHEN, and how? Modern tech couldn't have built them. As I understand it, the ancient Egyptians (circa 200 BC) didn't know who built them either, they were already ancient artifacts at that point. Do we...

Whoa, is this movie anywhere near as bad as Critical Drinker makes it sound? A two hour mean-spirited men-belittling session? I kinda feel like this is more accurate. Critical Drinker is usually good with his assessments though. So is this an old fashioned battle of the sexes, or a Modern...

Have what's probably a dumb question: I have one of those 5000 BTU GE air conditioners Best Buy always has stacked up in huge piles. It barely cools off half of my living room so I guess I should have gotten the 8000 or 10000. I don't recommend this one, it's just too weak. In any case, there's...

The current most widely-used world map is completely wrong and distorted. It shows the northern hemisphere as twice the size of the south and it shows Greenland as being nearly the size of Africa, Sweden as being the length of India, and so on. I can still use this distorted, wrong-as-fuck...

Yeah I don't care if this movie is woke, matter of fact this is one of those times where it'd be appropriate. It's a very different thing to subvert a beloved franchise and turn a strong male role model into a weak bumbling oaf. This isn't subverting anything, it's just being what one would...

My main questions for Anna Paulina Luna are 1) Are you single? and 2) I love you

When a lot of these maps (from different people and even different centuries) sync up, we can assume they're based on something. For example a ton of old maps have three big lakes in the Sahara. One is the giant Mega-Chad lake, one is the now-Richat area Atlantae, and the other is...well we...

It's already been posted, but this is a good companion to the other video.

Most interesting Youtube video I've seen in a while. Also, WTF:

That's disappointing to hear.

I'd birth Anna Paulina Luna's child.

Yeah it's great for that. IIRC I gave two of them to my Alizewsaur on whichever server that was (Aradune probably) and had it like that from 47-50. Or maybe it was one? Do rings double up on charmed pets? There are so many little enchanter tricks that make a big difference. It's in my 3...

Ha, I think I'm definitely on the spectrum, but hopefully in that Elon Musk "uses it as a skill" sense. Except he uses it to make billions of dollars and I used it to study games and do well in school. It's a wonder I'm not overweight on top of that, because I should be. We'll see if I can find...

Wonder when we'll get a GTA in UE5 with that Matrix engine. First thing I thought when I saw that demo wasn't Superman, it was GTA. Maybe GTA7?

That explains why he isn't shadowbanned despite talking about a lot of verboten subjects. His sub count shoots up incredibly fast compared to other "subversive" types like Styx who was sitting at 487k subs for like 6 months. I'm curious as to what he did to "sell out" and get the censors off...

I have no earthly clue, but maybe someone familiar with FF11 can chime in and explain. I wrote a guide for FF4 back in the day (circa 1996 or so), which is probably why I'm so familiar with that game, but I know comparatively very little about the later ones, especially the online ones. I also...

I've been of the mind for a while that election tampering was less a grand conspiracy and more just common folk taking it upon themselves to screw things up, using the avenues provided to them by lawmakers conveniently loosening up the rules beforehand. That Prager guy said the same thing, that...

Yeah you can't really say the ten level gap or the raid challenges ain't shit when you're doing these things well after the fact with more expansions open. I always thought it was mean on the part of the devs how LGuk has this great HP ring that's easy to get... and it has -10 MR on it which...

Just get the whole set. Make sure you do the discounted all in one pack, which on PS5 is in the "..." button on FF6's screen in the store. Saves you like $30. If you don't have all the time in the world and want to play the best, I'd do FF1 first, then 4. Both are relatively short, worth...

The mid-game of FF4 is the hardest part. Depending on the version, the one-two punch of Calbrena + Golbez has given me more fits than anything else in the game. Good places to level up: -Mt Ordeals is slow, but super easy, and good to level before going back to Baron. Baigan is another tough...

Whoa, that's a nice statistic. Just finished the video, looks like Decoy Voice guy reached the same conclusion I did that it's probably hourly theater employees sabotaging the movie. That's much more believable than an AMC conspiracy. If AMC was against the movie they just wouldn't be showing...

I didn't buy into the "they're interfering with the movie" stuff. It seems like there's an awful lot of examples of it though. Hopefully it really is mostly coincidence but I wouldn't be surprised if a fair amount of theater staff were taking it upon themselves to mess with showings of the movie...

Oh yeah, I see her. Yeah she's not bad at all. Gonna buy one of these just to support the guy: https://shop.thewhyfiles.hellojuniper.com/p/7499374821567

Incredible stuff here. I hope these kind of visuals are what we get from, say, PS6 by 2028 or so.

I don't hate anybody, but I do find it pretty funny how every major thing they rail against for some stupid reason seems to end up doing extremely well. Joker, Hogwarts Legacy, now this, among many other things. CNN or Kotaku heavily railing against anything seems to actually increase its...