[GS] Sneak Peak 15/01

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And another victory for logic.
Reinforced by the fact that you posted this at 4:51 a.m. my time. Well done, sir. :hatsoff:

I have never bought anything by Ikea. Are they any good? They opened a huge facility in my city recently, but I've never been in there. I have no idea what they sell (I thought Ikea was mail order, but apparently not). They must be doing well for themselves to open such a large place in my city (of course my city is very business friendly and land is cheap).
They make relatively simple functional furniture and other household items. While the store displays everything as it might appear in your home, the furniture comes in small (relative to the final product) boxes and must be assembled at home. It is of fair quality - If your daughter needs a dresser because you no longer want to store her clothes on the shelves of the changing table (because she's been out of diapers a year and you no longer want to have the changing table around), an IKEA dresser will do the job without busting your budget. And you hope it will last until she goes to college. :cool: (Yes, I'm speaking from personal experience here. :p)
 
Reinforced by the fact that you posted this at 4:51 a.m. my time. Well done, sir. :hatsoff:


They make relatively simple functional furniture and other household items. While the store displays everything as it might appear in your home, the furniture comes in small (relative to the final product) boxes and must be assembled at home.
I like the furniture itself okay, but I absolutely abhor the store space itself. Just show me the dang chair aisle.

Required viewing in prep for the reveal today:

Spoiler :

Long ago in days of yore
It all began with a god named Thor
There were Vikings and boats
And some plans for a furniture store
It's not a bodega, it's not a mall
And they sell things for apartments smaller than mine
As if there were apartments smaller than mine

Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men
Everyone has a home
But if you don't have a home you can buy one there

So rent a car or take the bus
Lay your cash down and put your trust
In the land where the furniture folds to a much smaller size
Billy the bookcase says hello
And so does a table whose name is Ingo
And the chair is a ladder-back birch but his friends call him Karl

Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men
Everyone has a home
But if you don't have a home you can buy one there

Ikea: plywood, brushed steel
Ikea: meatballs, tasty
Ikea: Allen wrenches
All of them for free
All of them for me

I'm sorry I said Ikea sucks
I just bought a table for 60 bucks
And a chair and a lamp
And a shelf and some candles for you
I was a doubter just like you
Till I saw the American dream come true
In New Jersey, they got a goddamned Swedish parade

Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men
Everyone has a home
But if you don't have a home you can buy one there
 
not long now
 
All this talk of IKEA and the key in the livestream is making me wonder if a a furniture factory/warehouse/store will be thier unique building.:undecide:
 
All this talk of IKEA and the key in the livestream is making me wonder if a a furniture factory/warehouse/store will be thier unique building.

So would this get more or less blowback from everyone upset over Canadian stereotypes with the Mountie and hockey rink? Would that be considered a stereotype of Sweden?
 
All this talk of IKEA and the key in the livestream is making me wonder if a a furniture factory/warehouse/store will be thier unique building.:undecide:

Sweden promise to be some kind of fun (at least for me being a scientific/cultural/diplomatic player) but if its THAT their UI, I'll be very, very, disappointed.
 
All this talk of IKEA and the key in the livestream is making me wonder if a a furniture factory/warehouse/store will be thier unique building.:undecide:
If Canada can have Hockey Rinks, Sweden can have furniture factories as workshop replacement. :p But hopefully not!

IKEA is/was tremendously successful, I doubt there is another furniture company of similar size - and certainly not of similar impact on how "we" live. When I was at college and visited friends, all apartments were furnished similarly (except for the people that don't furnish or don't buy new things, which weren't that plentiful in my experience 15 years ago yet). I didn't matter in which city I was: every college student had at least some kind of Malm, a Billy and often that dreadful paper lamp... I also encountered these things in the Middle East and the US, so it's not limited to Europe. Maybe in 100 years, people look at how we lived in and furnished our apartments and state that there were two major interior design styles/waves in the decades between WWII and WWIII: Bauhaus (which started earlier but didn't become "universal" until much later) and IKEA.

Yes, I know that Scandinavian furniture was quite popular before IKEA, but it was usually quite expensive and thus limited in impact. IKEA is the opposite: cheap and for everyone (at least it started like this, it got much more expensive meanwhile iirc).
 
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Let be serious one moment and just try to analyse this sneak peak thoroughly.


We see a globe in front of a large library. But the books are in the background, showing that they're not important and we should not focus on them.

The globe is grey ; the color grey can be compared to the blue color (source: grey eyes can have blue reflects). Therefore, it's safe to assume that the globe is blue. But if it was meant to be blue, why is it not blue? In fact, in Antiquity, the color blue was very rare because very expensive (source: my elementary school lessons). Ergo and thereupon, we have there the proof that the civ is antique and not at all modern because if it would have been modern the globe would have been blue and not grey (evidence A).

Plus, the globe being blue (source: evidence A), the world is seen as a big ocean. Why a world would be represented by an ocean? The answer is clear: it's a link to the Flood cataclysm. But all folks have, at some point in their history, a Flood myth. So why make a globe out of it? Well, we have to face that it leads only to the conclusion that creating globes of the Flood is only to sell them as merchendise and touristic souvenirs. This is the proof that the new civ revealed will be a nation of merchants and, per se, navigators and travellers, because I do not have to prove why merchants are navigators (evidence B).

But take a look about the globe: it's atop books. What does that mean? Well, it's obviously a metaphor about the world dominated by words and knowledge. What is the main conduit of knowledge? Undoubtedly words (source: common sense), and words are largely, in our world and society, composed with letters picked from an alphabet (source: any text you can read, so don't bother me). The place of the globe is the proof that the new civ/leader is linked with some kind of writing and alphabet (evidence C).

We said that we should not focused on the library in the background, but it's safe to assume that you should not listen to me (source: this development), so lets focus on the library in the background. Books are unimportant, but not the shelves: they are in wood. It's not a coincidence and it's undeniably a hint about the civ having a link to wood. But which wood? Well, in fact, if you look at the flag of Lebanon, you can see that there is a Cedar on it. Cedar is a tree well know to give wood (source: my head) and wood is what the shelves are made of. Coincidence? I think it would be too naive to think so. Never underestimate Firaxis to generate clues everywhere (source: every tweet they ever made). So, since the shelves made of wood are incontestably a reference to the flag of Lebanon, we have the distinct and absolute proof that the new civ is near Lebanon, ergo in Middle-East (evidence D).


Now, looking at evidences A, B, C and D, we now know that the revealed civ will be an antique civ of merchants linked to some sort of an alphabet and based in Middle-East. Ipso facto, the only conclusion is without any doubt Phoenicia led by Queen Dido.


And another victory for logic.
Truly you have a dizzying intellect. I salute you and cannot refute your impeccable logic.
 
All this talk of IKEA and the key in the livestream is making me wonder if a a furniture factory/warehouse/store will be thier unique building.:undecide:

If it is a furniture factory, it should give a production discount to all buildings and modern wonders because the furnishings come flat packed and are easy to assemble with the included hex wrench.
 
If it is a furniture factory, it should give a production discount to all buildings and modern wonders because the furnishings come flat packed and are easy to assemble with the included hex wrench.
Speculations and jokes aside, I still miss an early wonder that helps producing other wonders and am a bit sad that GS doesn't seem to include this.
 
So would this get more or less blowback from everyone upset over Canadian stereotypes with the Mountie and hockey rink? Would that be considered a stereotype of Sweden?
Captain Sweden :lol:
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If it is a furniture factory, it should give a production discount to all buildings and modern wonders because the furnishings come flat packed and are easy to assemble with the included hex wrench.
But adds massive unhappiness during the time you're building them.
 
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I'm looking forward to the reveal of Sweden knowing it should likely be a Science focused Civ. If there is a bonus to diplomatic victory, or if Sweden is stronger in diplomacy in general that'd be sweet.
 
IKEA shop needs to be non-removable UI, which can be built in the territory of other civs, 1 per city, and granting to Sweden 1 gold per pop size :smoke:. And the host civ would get 1 amenities... and meatballs, i.e. +2 food :lol:
 
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