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More than 25 million Christmas trees are harvested in the US. Here’s where they grow.
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You sound like me, but I’d draw maps of made-up countries, cities &/or airports.
Occasionally I will still do this - having a computer @ work mostly scratches the boredom itch, but occasionally I’ll be in a meeting w/ nothing but pen & paper.
Imagined airport:
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I guess the joke is that there are no Krogers around the DC area (other than them owning Harri$-Teeter)
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Whoo, look at it go!
Edit: Here’s something for this thread that I posted in the “Count to Ten Thousand” thread:
A map of the Babylon 5 universe in 2257, used for Babylon 5 Wars tabletop space wargame’s background. I don’t know how canonical this is for the B5 universe, but as far as I can recall, the game seemed quite faithful to the show.
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There are a few games around creating fictional maps that you might be interested in:
- Ex Novo: Ex Novo is a playable city-generator that helps you construct, and populate fictional villages, towns, and cities.
- The Quiet Year: The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year.
- The Deep Forest: The Deep Forest is a map game of post-colonial weird fantasy. It’s a re-imagining of The Quiet Year, one that centres upon monstrosity and decolonization.
The only one I’ve played so far is Ex Novo; it was fun. The city didn’t end up anything like I initially expected, but it did end up with a bunch of interesting bits and backstory for them.
They’re all around doodling maps on paper, but with prompts to inspire you from dice or a deck of cards or something like that.
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A lot of people recommend The Quiet Year, but it just drove me up the wall. I’d like more structure, more random or semi-random tables, etc.
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El Novo sounds like what I’d hoped that Sim City would be like (way back when), but wasn’t. I still spent a whole lot of time playing SC - just imagine how much time I could use up with EN! 
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https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75095651/map
The reason why all our phones went berserk this morning (Tsunami alert, now canceled).
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I feel like 
is a reference to what gets called Hawaiian pizza, but that was actually invented in Ontario by a Greek immigrant and named for using Hawaiian brand pineapples. Aside from that it has nothing to do with the islands unless they’ve embraced it very recently.
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could be a reference to the purported use of SPAM™ as a topping there?
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It could just be that the person who made the map had no idea where Hawaiian pizza originated. I’m curious about the 
in Alaska. I can’t remember ever hearing anything related to Alaska and pizza.
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I question the accuracy of everything regarding that map. The fla-shop site (lower right-hand corner of map) basically gives users the tool to create their own interactive maps. I’m guessing someone biased toward the Midwest was expressing their own opinion.
FD: Just the sight of a deep-dish pizza makes me nauseous.
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It’s like a pizza, but 4-dimensional.
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Where’s that puke emoji.
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