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Someone earlier mentioned the Civ IV vassal states in passing, and the way vassals were able to contribute to someone else's victory joined with some thoughts I was already having to form the question: why do we need to have a single winner to the game? The idea of the single winner is...

Creeds, Prophets and Revolutionaries. This is some idle religious system thinking inspired by some posts around. It's a system with an on-map component, though quite different and largely tuned down from the one in Civ VI, because while I think the implementation in VI was bad, the general...

I wasn't gonna post this, but since all the other civs, even the ones that aren't even in Civ VI, are doing it... Here's one design I sent Zaarin yesterday, since we both have a vast preference for an earlier version of Canada, from its colonial days, emphasizing the role of forests in Canadian...

No, we don't know the details of what "LOTR prequel" means, except an educated guess that they,re probably not remaking the Hobbit that quickly. But beyond that? Is it Balin's expedition to Moria? Aragorn's journeys as Thorongil? the hunt for Gollum on both sides? We haven't got the slightest...

Better prepare yourself, and possibly build an apocalypse shelter. Because, not happy with making the world grind to a halt for a month once, Niantic (yes, the same folks) are at it again, and this time, they've set their augmented reality sights on a franchise that dwarfs even Pokémon in...

And so past season is dead and done, and it's time for the off-season funtime again, this time with added spectacle of an expansion draft that promise some action before the draft and free agency. For the second year in a row, the Habs have hit the ground with a June Big Trade, this time one...

Just when you thought Quebec and the other provinces were finally getting along (and the Quebec premier was a Canada-loving type). Mwahahahahahaha. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/quebec-plans-to-reopen-constitutional-debate-launch-coast-to-coast-discussion...

Well, the off season has been going for a few days, but it officially exploded today with a blockbuster trade that will be a big deal hockey trade for the next decade or so (and will probably result in rioting in the hockeyest town in the world): To MTL: Shea Weber (D) To NAS P.K. Subban...

DISCLAIMER: the following is not (yet) based on a published paper (though a paper is apparently set to be published). And it'S entirely possible that the satellite picture are just a coincidence. But it's still an interesting theory, and the fact that there appears to be *something* right where...

Or, in plain text: Harriet Tubman will be replacing Andrew Jackson on the 20$ bill, after nearly a century of Jackson polluting US currency with his treaty-violating, supreme-court-defying, genocidal face. http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/20/news/10-bill-hamilton-20-tubman/index.html (Sorry...

So, as part of the worldbuilding for the universe I'm creating (might be for a novel, might not be), I'm trying to come up with interesting, quaint, weird, mysterious or otherwise intriguing small- to mid-sized towns in North America. Now I know a few already myself, obviously. A good number in...

In fact, we're so badly broken up that we can't see one another without American help. And, for once, it isn't Quebec's fault (:-p Valka). Due to intense cold (likely), a brand new bridge north of Lake Superior split in two. One half of the bridge is now two feet higher than it should be...

Because the thread didn't exist yet, somehow. We're failing here, guys! Strange bit of a season so far. Do you know how weird it is, as a Habs fans, to consider Blue and White more threatening than Black and Gold (especially mid-to-long term)? Boston, you have failed us dammit. (Not that...

Well, as close as it's ever going to get: http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-go/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=22&v=2sj2iQyBTQs This...could be huge.

So thanks to Steam jumping the gun a little, Paradox Development Studio's mysterious Project Augustus has now been unveiled, and it is Paradoxian Grand Strategy in Space. That's about all that's known about it so far, other than the facts that leaders will be important, there will be...

What, no thread yet? The off-season has started epic already and the Hawks haven't even made their big cap-saving trade yet! Bruins fire sale! The Flyers somehow managing the feat of trading a guy who will never play again but who counted against cap space anyway! Players (not pick swaps)...

So after seven years, the comission tasked with investigating and reporting on the assimilation policies (especially the residential schools) in Canada have issued their final report (including 94 recommendations)...

http://www.threehundredeight.com/p/alberta.html These are the latest forecast from the closest thing to a Canadian 538 for the Alberta provincial elections, today. Yes, Alberta. Yes, the New Democrats look like they might form a majority government there, after 40+ years of conservative...

Developing story. Red diamonding it because that's my town and I'm not in the mood for sheananigans. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/attacker-shot-dead-in-parliament-after-soldier-shot-at-national-war-memorial-1.2808710 I'm a few kilometers away from downtown (Experimental Farm area for...

Because fantasy leagues are fun, but just plain hockey talk needs a home, too! As much as it burns my soul to admit it (but the fact we beat them help),I got to say I found the Leafs a pretty impressive-looking team tonight. Looked a great deal more skillful and fast than in past version of the...