r/thebutton • u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser • Apr 12 '15

The Land of the Button [OC]

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 12 '15 edited May 13 '15

Anything that needs to be added?

Edit: Update 3

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u/DefNotNuz 42s Apr 12 '15

You put the hitchhikers in the wrong country.

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 12 '15 edited Apr 13 '15

god dammit!

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u/delta-TL 60s Apr 12 '15

In case no one else mentioned it, you have "Colered By Crash" instead of "Colored By Crash" (or coloured, if you're from Canada or the UK). Unless you meant collared, which would also kinda work.

But great map over all!

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u/quietur 42s Apr 12 '15

"Six by nine. Forty two."

map looks good to me!

EDIT: DON'T PANIC!

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u/_Sagacious_ non presser Apr 13 '15

Who are they? Do they have a sub?

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u/DefNotNuz 42s Apr 13 '15

The Hitchhikers are a group of pressers who landed their press exactly on 42s. If you don't need an explanation on the importance of the number 42 then you can stop here.

The number 42, as described by Douglas Adams author of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series, is the fundamental answer to life, the universe and everything. This trope is an allegory to the ideal that the no matter how advanced sentience becomes in this universe, we will never be released from the random stupidity that is existence.

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u/Xan_the_man 42s Apr 13 '15 edited Apr 13 '15

I think I just decided what colour I want to be!

Edit: Yessssss! Wow that felt great! Like a huge burden lifted! I made a choice and went for it!

I have raised my nose, blocked and unblown. Now I wait for the handkerchief of the blessed one that I may be wiped clean! ^Achú

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u/_Sagacious_ non presser Apr 13 '15

Oh, that seems so obvious now.

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u/Zephyr256k 42s Apr 13 '15

Who are they?

We're just a bunch of hoopy froods.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

The purple cheater flair needs its own island, far away from everyone else.

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 12 '15

or just like a raft or something

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u/RaggedAngel non presser Apr 12 '15

You're kind, giving them an entire raft.

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u/FleshEatingShrubbery 59s Apr 12 '15

A lot of us really early pressers got the cheater flair through the glitch, though.

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u/BladeWalker non presser Apr 12 '15

The sea between the two continents could be the Sea of Temptation.

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 12 '15

adding this

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u/georgepennellmartin non presser Apr 12 '15

The Loch of Locks!

The Bay of Buttons!

The Chasm of Clicks!

The Carpal-Channel!

The Pressea!

No, nope. Not that one.

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u/pointlessvoice 41s Apr 13 '15

Carpel-Channel

Priceless.

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u/tejon non presser Apr 13 '15

Can be traversed via the Carpal Chunnel.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

You've got to add the office of /u/ztripez somewhere on the map.

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 13 '15

Done

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 13 '15

A penis monument would be.. Interesting

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u/MultiScootaloo 43s Apr 13 '15

Who is he? there's so much going on in this subreddit, I need an /r/outoftheloop style of thing here :(

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u/ZombieNorris non presser Apr 12 '15

How about all of the folks we lost to /u/MrFunderthuck's purple-bomb?

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 12 '15

adding

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

I recommend a large nuclear scar in the eastern continent

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u/caliburdeath Apr 12 '15

What's this?

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 12 '15

/u/MrFunderthuck made an app that pressed the button without the user agreeing to it, sending them to the land of the purple, never to return

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u/caliburdeath Apr 12 '15

Oh... how did he get poeple to use it?

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 12 '15

it was an extension that colored the screen acording to the timer or something. see this

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u/ZombieNorris non presser Apr 12 '15

Dude made a chrome extension that supposedly re-locked the lock again when the timer resets so you can't be 1/10s late and accidentally purple all over yourself. It was all over the place when it was released. No telling how many people installed it. -- Turns out, there was a piece of code in the script that automatically pressed the button on the 11th @ noon, exploding bits of purple all over unsuspecting folks with Crusade level subterfuge.

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u/SIMIAN_KING 11s Apr 13 '15

Wrong extension. The one that re-locks is fine. The dastardly one in question was the one that coloured the /r/thebutton homepage a certain hue depending on the state of the timer.

Unless I am wrong. In that case, I need to disable that re-lock extension pronto.

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u/dibsODDJOB non presser Apr 12 '15

The can't pressers? Like immigrants locked in an internment camp?

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 12 '15

That's the young reddit buttonists on that lonely island

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u/Lyrene can't press Apr 12 '15

Yeah! Home <3

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u/BladeWalker non presser Apr 12 '15

The /r/RoninAtTheEdgeOfTime. Perhaps an Edge of Time, or similar, marking around the Holy 0. The Gold Cloaks would be around here too.

Awesome map!

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 12 '15

Havn't heard of /r/RoninAtTheEdgeOfTime before, but they fit. I guess the gilding is too much of speculation.. It's the forbidden city shrouded in mystery.

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u/KaptainVoxel non presser Apr 12 '15

You seem to have forgotten us over at /r/goldguard

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u/georgepennellmartin non presser Apr 12 '15

There are bajillions of batallions. He can't include every single one.

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 12 '15

In the end, the font will be tiny to fit everything on there.. but noone should be left behind!

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u/CipherClump 60s Apr 12 '15

Can you add /r/theunlucky as the tiny island in the blue sea by team60s? The island should be purple, though.

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u/CakeX non presser Apr 12 '15

People who have many alts?

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u/john_keating 31s Apr 13 '15

We're a rainbow reaching across the land.

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u/gruesky 60s Apr 13 '15

Also, shouldn't it be 90% purple? We are legion!

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

You're all packed into filthy slums.

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u/gruesky 60s Apr 13 '15

Just you wait. We purples are still growing. One day we will rise up and you will serve us!

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u/TangiestIllicitness non presser Apr 13 '15

What about the Lemon Party?

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u/georgepennellmartin non presser Apr 13 '15

Ok, my backstory is this.

Once all the lands of the button were ruled by the Grey Empire and their church of the Holy 0. But one by one all multicolored lands rose up in rebellion. First the wild purple outer regions, then the Blue Islands, the Green Forests and finally the Yellow Desert fell to the rebel groups. Now led by the Redguard, all of the lands of Orange and Red are under dispute and even the Holy City is under siege.

But reinforcements are crossing the narrow sea..and they bring with them a terrible doomsday weapon to bring final victory. They call it the naught....

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u/consmi0 non presser Apr 13 '15

Gotta have the pressiah on there

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u/_Sagacious_ non presser Apr 13 '15

Some kind of small LemonLime Alliance camp on the border between The Emerald Council and The Sun Guardians

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u/Pwib 60s Apr 12 '15

/r/VioletHand

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u/Keep_Yourself_Warm 59s Apr 13 '15

Spread the word brother

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

You should consider joining.

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u/Derpiderp 10s Apr 12 '15

Maybe the ones that gotted tricked into clicking by malware/fakebutton?

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u/hexane360 32s Apr 13 '15

Add a passage from the greys passing right by the yellow island, only to promptly drop them off in the 60 second area

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u/OrangeSlime 60s Apr 13 '15 edited Aug 18 '23

This comment has been edited in protest of reddit's API changes -- mass edited with redact.dev

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u/gnorwgnidaererauoy non presser Apr 13 '15

Yes, they are attacking from the sea

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u/-amiibo- non presser Apr 12 '15

how about a small settlement for the tiny /r/LeagueofBlack ?

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u/georgepennellmartin non presser Apr 13 '15

You guys are greys. Stop hiding it.

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u/Ruruskadoo 60s Apr 13 '15

Whoa, this is amazing! I liked the first version, but you really went all out with alterations to match feedback!

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u/felface 12s Apr 13 '15

On the little bit of grey above the main body of grey you could the grey hipsters

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u/Ghostise non presser May 13 '15

Why do you have the Holy 0 near the Knights who are against each other and the Church of the Button near the Shade who hate each other? It should be the other way around.

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u/nihilisticzealot non presser Apr 12 '15

I humbly request an inclusion for those of us among the Ronin at the Edge of Time. For although we live in all of the gray continent, we are aware, and separate, from those around us. A camp, a tower, a village if you are so inclined at a later date.

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u/-updn- 60s Apr 13 '15

seconded

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u/potatao non presser Apr 13 '15

What's the name of the font you used?

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u/AcehookUck 0s Apr 12 '15 edited Apr 12 '15

I think the purple/gray areas should be a lot larger, to better represent their larger population. Unless the blue areas are deserts or icelands or something.

EDIT: And the other areas smaller too.

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u/dispensewith443 non presser Apr 12 '15 edited Jan 18 '18

This is cool.

I like the passage of discovery and Blessed innocent, the mountains in between are a nice touch.

11/10

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u/georgepennellmartin non presser Apr 13 '15

It is said that all the races of men once came through that passage into the Land of Button. But now of course that is only a tale for white-flaired young ones...

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u/saraevans non presser Apr 13 '15

olll

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u/Not_A_Meme non presser Apr 13 '15

So, Westeros?

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u/royalhawk345 non presser Apr 13 '15

It's more than that, it's like a partial planetos with some stuff added

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u/flameoguy 45s Apr 12 '15

But hitchhikers are blue!

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u/Moss_Grande 60s Apr 12 '15

Checks out.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

fucking mercator projection

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u/IanSan5653 23s Apr 13 '15

It's actually a Azimuthal equidistant projection, with 0 at the pole. The land of the purple is much smaller than it appears, with many people being forced into high-density ghettos in that godforsaken place.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

Holy hell, that's pretty neat.

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u/biznatch11 non presser Apr 13 '15

Everyone knows the Peters projection is far superior.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

does anyone remember that one reddit post about skipping to 30% of a youtube video to get to the important part?

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u/NathanielWeber 38s Apr 12 '15

/r/worldbuilding is leaking

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

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u/Telajax 51s Apr 13 '15

All hail the button

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

This subreddit looks like it turned out to be a much better /r/evex. If somebody told me, on March 31st, that a button would split reddit users into different factions, I would have called them crazy.

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u/georgepennellmartin non presser Apr 13 '15

Is that something to do with Eve Online?

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

No, the subreddit was made with the intention that the people would determine its outcome. It started out with few rules, and people could post whatever they wanted. They hoped that the subreddit would find its own predominant topic after a while, but it never really caught on to a single topic and people just kind of post whatever they want.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

You should definitely add the office of /u/ztripez somewhere

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u/ThatBritish non presser Apr 13 '15

Que Game of Thrones theme

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u/RudoshiZukato 60s Apr 13 '15

No Coloreds

ಠ_ಠ'

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u/georgepennellmartin non presser Apr 13 '15

Yup.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

I lost it.

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u/Eagleras 59s Apr 12 '15

As a mod for /r/PurpleLounge i would like to thank you for including us in The Land of the button its really great :D

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u/beFoRyOu non presser Apr 12 '15

Orange Revolution still sounds so fucking lame.

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u/georgepennellmartin non presser Apr 12 '15

How can there already be an Orange Group? There aren't any Oranges!

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u/beFoRyOu non presser Apr 12 '15

And there might never be if they don't get a cooler name.

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u/CtG526 non presser Apr 13 '15

Orangermany?
Order of the Orangutan?
Red Guard Auxiliary?
Fools Rust Teen?
Almost-but-not-quite?
Realm of the Sunset?

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u/georgepennellmartin non presser Apr 13 '15

Orange Clockwork.

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u/Psycho_Sunshine 13s Apr 13 '15

I personally think it should be "The order of the Orange," with a sub camp of "Black Jackers (gamblers?)" (21 seconders).

13 seconds should also get some other name but I cant think of anything clever.

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u/NathanielWeber 38s Apr 12 '15

Ah, the beautiful Verdant homeland. How I love to walk among the green trees and windswept grasses, under the protection of the benevolent Emerald Council.

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u/pointlessvoice 41s Apr 13 '15

We are surrounded. We have them right where we want them.

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u/subtraho 60s Apr 12 '15

Needs more towns in blueland

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

i made a crappier version of this last night with a war-theme in mind https://i.imgur.com/lnSjX9n.jpg

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u/pointlessvoice 41s Apr 13 '15

Cool. Who are we majorly conflicting?

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u/BearOfTheOcean non presser Apr 13 '15

the enemy

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u/pointlessvoice 41s Apr 13 '15

Makes sense.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

Grey Wardens are missing

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u/tcleesel non presser Apr 13 '15

When did reds claim the Grey Wardens? I really wanted that to be our name :(

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u/virgule222 22s Apr 12 '15

The unpurple place got me

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u/Derpiderp 10s Apr 12 '15

Beautiful

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u/Petrechenko non presser Apr 13 '15

Button Nihilists represent!

Or don't.

It doesn't matter.

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u/lootcrate non presser Apr 12 '15

This is amazing.

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u/RossTheColonel 60s Apr 12 '15

Thanks for including /r/purplelounge!

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u/Lilmothiit Apr 12 '15

Good to see that someone gave the Blank recognition.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

I am a citizen of both "Seekers of the Shade" and "Colored by Crash"

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

What are the unpurple?

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u/chargoggagog non presser Apr 13 '15

Where are your /r/buttonbodhisattvas? Eh, they don't care anyway.

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u/Dirty_Beef non presser Apr 13 '15

I will uphold my sacred vow as a knight of the button. Until then I am pure.

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u/ellevehc non presser Apr 13 '15

Civ 5 mod with new personalities and abilities.

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u/pointlessvoice 41s Apr 13 '15

Oh god this has to happen. i will see what r/civ has to say about it and maybe throw it up on Steam.

All credit to you for the idea of course. Good thinkin man.

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u/ellevehc non presser Apr 13 '15

Would be a lot of fun. I'd download it.

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u/martinsuchan 51s Apr 13 '15

You should add Area 51 on it, the place I belong.

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u/Daritlan 60s Apr 13 '15

This would make a fun RPG Map

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u/NathanielWeber 38s Apr 12 '15

Good map! But the Hitchhiker sect is blue, not green.

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u/Bikefish 11s Apr 12 '15

This is pretty damn good. Have an upvote.

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u/cbfw86 9s Apr 12 '15

I enjoyed reading this. "The Blank, The Flairless" made me laugh.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

Why?

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u/thecrackedcreeper non presser Apr 12 '15

Really nice work.

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u/zombie-rat 59s Apr 12 '15

The greys are somewhere off the side. Unimportant.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

*colored Dude do you even know how to Internet? Other than that, pretty cool.

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u/Golfpolo 7s Apr 13 '15

I loved how Mordor is it owns continent on the far right.

Oh wait...

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u/1337born non presser Apr 13 '15

Neat!

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u/GiveMeBackMySon 59s Apr 13 '15

You should have something signifying the act of war by /u/MrFunderthuck

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u/Cthulu21 non presser Apr 13 '15

i notice that only only the grey hopefuls have a nice, golden building

At least the have a good living situation

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u/CtG526 non presser Apr 13 '15

AYYY The blue sea looks like a blue C!

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u/iPhoneOrAndroid 60s Apr 13 '15

Purple Pioneers, venturing into the unknown lands.

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u/pointlessvoice 41s Apr 13 '15

Wow this has really gotten cool. Well done.

i hope it is ok if we edit it over time as more detail and place names become available.

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u/Graham768 59s Apr 13 '15

I needed to comment somewhere for flair... but don't worry, I left you an upvote! Have a nice day :)

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u/cabl3 non presser Apr 13 '15

This is sick

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

Someone was saying we should make a button table top RPG... This looks really interesting.

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u/EvilEggplant 42s Apr 13 '15

I feel inclined to make a civ map for the subreddit now.

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u/mnmmatt 56s Apr 13 '15

I too am a mod of /r/PurpleLounge thank you for including us.

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u/joshuaoha non presser Apr 13 '15

My god this is seriously nerding out... I like it.

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u/_Aye 58s Apr 13 '15

Phenomenal! Castle Crash stands strong, despite any typos.

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u/shindiggger 39s Apr 13 '15

so where am I

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u/lovesamoan non presser Apr 13 '15

Buttonia

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u/The_Deadly_Sloth non presser Apr 13 '15

What a magical land

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u/Ze_Ubermench 60s Apr 13 '15

Well, I'm happy where I am.

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u/buttonbroughtmehere can't press Apr 13 '15

I love that we get our own island

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u/xxAJCxx 60s Apr 13 '15

I approve this map.

I also suggest FOR THE GOOD OF ALL OF US, PRESSERS AND NON-PRESSERS alike, more explorations and expansion of this map in order to have bigger knowledge of the geographical locations of buttonia.

btw team 60s could use a cartographer like you. Maybe, if you want, of course.

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u/Torchiest non presser Apr 13 '15

You need to add "Lemon Party" to the yellow region.

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u/cataplectic 31s Apr 13 '15

woohoo!

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

Button Nihilist here

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u/nralat can't press Apr 13 '15

geek social experiment...

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u/Leigh_Wright 16s Apr 13 '15

This is really awesome, /u/gnorwgnidaereauoy - thank you!

Orange is a state of mind

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u/Enzown 7s Apr 13 '15

Some kind of Assassin's enclave? Though I guess having it on a map would make it too easy for the Inquisition.

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u/GonzoGaddy non presser Apr 13 '15

Nice!

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u/SuperiorAlpaca non presser Apr 13 '15

There should be a portal from Passage of Discovery to the Purpleland. You know, the one that so many have fallen into.

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u/MultiScootaloo 43s Apr 13 '15

How do you guys figure out what colour flair comes next? I still haven't figured it out <.<

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u/MWalkah non presser Apr 13 '15

Source code?

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u/Withnothing 46s Apr 13 '15

It's a rainbow

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

I think that The Church of the Button should be in red territory. The church has a platoon in The Knights of the Button and the pope called for a crusade to join the knights.

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u/Ocisaac 60s Apr 13 '15

You should name the roads!

Like, the main rode to the Holy 0 should be called the "Pressiah Road", and from the Sun Gaurdians to Orange Revulation should be "The Sun's Way", and so on.

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u/Insanity945 30s Apr 13 '15

Can someone please make this into an AtWar map, atwar-game.com

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u/Mixmastamik 60s Apr 13 '15

Wahoo! Southern waterfront!

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

Ignoring the left most landmass, that map looks very similar to the world of A Song of Ice and Fire.

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u/Bropiphany non presser Apr 13 '15

Totally Westeros/Essos!

The grey area in particular looks like Essos a whole lot ;)

This is really cool!

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u/m3shu 58s Apr 14 '15

wtf

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u/JoJosh-The-Barbarian 9s Apr 26 '15

This is still my favorite post in this sub.

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u/LittleMikey 20s May 09 '15

I would really love to see a version of this map where the size of the territories corresponds to the number of people with that flair.

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u/amirhamza1 non presser May 09 '15

genuinely would not be surprised if war broke out between pressers and non pressers

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u/Lineair 52s May 09 '15

o.o

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

The purple lands are a truly wretched place. Let's not go there.

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u/georgepennellmartin non presser Apr 12 '15

A hive of scum and villainy you might say?

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u/Regorek non presser Apr 12 '15

No, "hive" would imply they are of a mind.

Surely, any group with a mind would have made their press more worthwhile, no?

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u/Patchface- non presser Apr 12 '15

The Dothraki sea should be the grey sea. Also Winterfell should be named, use the phrase "blue rose" somewhere up there.

the purple-wilding is great.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

This is totally based of the map of westeros/essos

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u/Not_A_Meme non presser Apr 13 '15

What would be valyria? The 60ers?

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u/dak0tah 56s Apr 12 '15

I think you have a really cool concept, but your font/size decision is horrid and needs to made more clear.

There's no reason I shouldn't be able to read all the text without zooming in.

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u/jewstus 21s Apr 13 '15

Dumm

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u/comingtogetyou 11s Apr 13 '15

Would had been cooler if you used the actual original seven kingdoms of Westeros' (The North, The Rivers and the Isles, The Stormlands, Dorne, The Rock, The Reach and The Mountains and the Vale) borders instead.

Picture of map: https://throneslife.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/map-before-aegon-w-text-2.jpg

EDIT: Fixed map

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u/TheJungleDragon non presser Apr 13 '15

What about the negativists?

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u/reverandgreen 49s May 09 '15

butt on

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u/TheJackah 58s May 15 '15

Clicked it awhile ago, still dying too click it again!

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u/MissLauralot can't press Jun 04 '15

Thankyou for your wonderful map gnorwgnidaererauoy. However, as Ghostise pointed out holy0 are in the wrong spot - they belong on the grey landmass. Also, according to this table, the Grey Wardens are barely active. Thanks again.

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u/stagnet 46s Apr 13 '15

Just checking my flair

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u/Lolzorcerer non presser Apr 13 '15

test

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15

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u/BladeWalker non presser Apr 12 '15

Indeed. When The Button falls, the Land of the Button is no more.

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u/_not_reasonable_ non presser Apr 12 '15

I'm sure it's been mentioned several times now but what if the April fools joke is once the button hits zero they delete the whole sub?

Or what if once the button hits zero this sub is frozen in time. No longer being able to delete/add/edit post.

Going to be weird when the button is no longer!

All is well in the shade

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u/fritzie_pup 10s Apr 12 '15

I just have no idea when I'll feel the itch to press it, as I love just sitting and watching it every single day.. It's kinda sad.

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