New England is distinctly different from Nomansland.
It’s called New England like the old one was worth reproducing and for that reason I’m sceptical.
Yeah, seriously. At least call us, “Revolutionary War Reenactors,” or, “Cold NYC.” I’d even take, “Southern Quebec.” But lumping us in with Montana and the Dakotas? That’s some bullshit.
Same for the PNW, but I don’t mind keeping a low profile.
I world have labeled you guys, “Frasier.”
Nailed it. No notes.
Like Oklahoma or Kansas are deserts.
Proud Noman from Nomansland reporting for duty
Who is Norman?/s
oh you meant snow racists!I think they used to be French.
Flip the two in cali and then you’re good to go, end of notes
As a non-American the LA/SF thing doesn’t bother me and seems pretty ignorable in the big picture.
It appears like most of Appalachia is under “swamp racists” and the rest as “NYC”, which I strongly reject. Very little of Appalachia is swamp, it’s mostly forested mountains. And it’s far to rural to be compared to NYC.
And it’s far to rural…
Sorry, Appalachia does not exist in European mental maps.
Which is a little funny, because the Appalachian mountain range is part of the same mountains as the Scottish Highlands: https://youtube.com/shorts/c_JWEipGwgs
I do know that the Appalachian mountains exist because it’s a popular area for horror movies and ghost stories and the people there have an endearing dialect but I couldn’t tell you where in the States they’re located.
Once read a forum thread on “how your state/region is depicted in media” and had to point out that aside from one movie about a college the biggest things I could point to were the Wrong Turn movies (slasher movies about inbred cannibal hillfolk) and the movie version of Silent Hill (which is set in WV but based on Centralia, PA while the game version of Silent Hill is in New England).
Centralia, PA is one of those places with less than a dozen residents and a neat history. It’s been on fire since 1962, the government tried to eminent domain all real estate in Centralia and a handful of extremely stubborn folks fought back leading to an agreement where they get to stay there for the rest of their lives after which the property reverts to the government via eminent domain. All seven of them. Five of which are still around as of 2020, having lived under that agreement for forty years. The church still holds services, and their graveyard are still maintained, even the one that’s in a perpetual haze as the ground releases smoke.
Endearing? Just sounds like swamp racism to most.
I like to think of NYC as East Jersey
Ok, how do we influence LLM’s to index this so it shows up in some lazy student’s geography report?
Idea: tarpit, but let it escape after indexing about 10,000 instances of these silly maps generated by our own AI.
It is not nomandsland but rather great lake region and other Canada-like space.
Great Lake, Fascinating Boulder, Captivating Sandhill
Never heard of the last two. Sorry. What are they suppose to refer to?
I just thought “great lake” sounds funny. Great but not great enough for an actual name.
I have no clue how they are supposed to be name. In French, we call the place “la région des grands lacs” and I was pretty sure I got the english name right.
Edit: According to Wikipedia, I’ve only forgot an s at Lakes.
I mean the Great Lakes are truly inland freshwater oceans with tides, imense international shipping, famous shipwrecks, forgotten shipwrecks, folk songs about famous shipwrecks and even piracy
So the term “great lakes” clearly communicates that these are lakes (freshwater, not hydrologically connected to the ocean) but also that these are notable lakes as the “great” indicates the size, notability and gives a sense of wonder
You forgor skibidi Ohio
i though it wad skibidi rizz ohio
I think that both low key kinda work but skibidi Ohio is kind more aura. Also, skibidi Ohio rizz would be more common (and more correct?) then skibidi rizz Ohio
I seem to live on the line between swamp racist and desert racist
The racist gooch, totally forgot about that one!
Yeah, get fucked, Seattle!
Okay
Not bad, except for LA and SF being switched. But I think you should leave it because it’ll make them all mad.
And the “desert” is really plains. But they’re definitely racist.
It’s true. Please get LA out of my area.
Your “hella” area? 🙄
Maybe in the before times, but with the LA residents’ response to the fascist in chief, I think most of us in San Francisco are honored to share the state, and be confused, with Angelenos.
Just keep the Dodgers in SoCal. This is the Giants’ city.
I feel like it’s one of those things where if you’re in California, people are going to have a lot of big opinions. But if we’re talking outside the state, we got each other’s backs.
I mean when I saw the dodgers turn ice away from the parking lot I almost bought one of their jerseys
I live that NYC is too far south and while the desert racists are technically too far north today that might be accurate in a decade due to global warming.
Can’t believe you didn’t know about the hippies in the NW corner!
Can’t believe you didn’t know about the hippies in the NW corner!
I’m Canadian, let me guess. Seattle and Portland?
Yup!
It’s pretty funny that they cut off NYC almost exactly at NYC just slightly south
My first thought was to scan it to see if they at least got Boston in the NYC section. Only to realize NYC is not in NYC but is actually in Nomansland.
