Planetocopia: Thoughts?

[Finn]

So I'm assuming most of you have at least heard of this, right? If not, you need to look it up, really great material for ASB alternate history. However, I really, really wish he would shut up about the goddamn Furries, who are incidentally almost always nubile females in his drawings. Anyone else in agreement there?

Anyone who is an expert on these topics who has any objections to the realism of the geography, geology, etc.?

 

[Zuvarq]

Q: What would happen if the ocean was drained by 95%?
A: Fox people.

Q: What would happen if the sea level rose by a hundred meters?
A: Fox people.

Q: What would happen if the North Pole and South Pole were switched?
A: Fox people.

Q: What if there was a Mars-like planet that had 5% water?
A: Fox people.

 

[Random Prophet]

I recall one planet that didn't have fox people. It had regular foxes, with full avian wings. That's taking furry so far it loops back on itself and all remaining sense just... disappears.

Aside from that, it's an excellent site to browse through. The Jared world and Serrana in particular are fascinating; Serrana's probably the most elaborated and consequent piece of physical worldbuilding I've ever seen.

 

[Thande]

So I'm assuming most of you have at least heard of this, right? If not, you need to look it up, really great material for ASB alternate history. However, I really, really wish he would shut up about the goddamn Furries, who are incidentally almost always nubile females in his drawings. Anyone else in agreement there?

Anyone who is an expert on these topics who has any objections to the realism of the geography, geology, etc.?

I just bleep over the furry parts. TBH I wasn't sure if he was Highlander-type obsessed or just because he just wanted to reuse the same bloody pictures for every single setting

His alternate geography is dead interesting. If you didn't know, I have made blank editable maps of his alternate Earths, which can be found here.

 

[The Professor]

Ah yes.
It's a good site once you ignore the furry sections very intriguing.
Have you checked out the various non earth planets?

 

[LNSS]

I like the island world. It's fascinating to think a world island society would work.

 

[Archangel Michael]

Not just foxes, but centauroids.

 

[Oracle of Sobek 𓆋]

I loathe the "alien" life he comes up with, but the planets themselves seem really neat.

 

[jmberry]

I just bleep over the furry parts. TBH I wasn't sure if he was Highlander-type obsessed or just because he just wanted to reuse the same bloody pictures for every single setting

His alternate geography is dead interesting. If you didn't know, I have made blank editable maps of his alternate Earths, which can be found here.

It's obviously an obsession of his. A cursory glance through the rest of his site shows as much (along with dream-interpretation and transhumanism). In fact I believe the reason Wayans stopped updating Planetcopia was because he felt it distracted from the "important" parts of the website.

 

[January First-of-May]

Well, I'm not quite sure just where did he take the whole "Turgay Channel" thing (I've consulted three or four different sources, including Google Earth, and while the channel exists it's about twenty meters higher* than he claims), and I do believe there's a little bit too much furries (if anyone cares: please check if he has any furries on Dubia, which is supposed to be a future Earth rather than an alternate one), but otherwise, very, very good.


*) The saddle in Turgay (also known as the key col of Mount Narodnaya) is 121 meters above (OTL) sea level according to GE and 122 or 123 according to most other sources. For comparison, the actual Europe/Asia saddle (key col of Mont Blanc) - at the Volga-Baltic channel - is only 113 meters above sea level on land (not even counting the depth of the channel itself, which will certainly matter for Dubia). And there's a place near the OTL town of Kirillov (Vologda Oblast) where less than two miles (there's a hill on those two miles, though) separate two basins with heights of about 106 meters - that place is certainly going to be a major trade city on Seapole!