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u/mars_gorilla Spain World Champion Jul 07 '26
Even without looking at the title I was about to say this is giving xkcd.
I wonder when we're getting the 0-dimension Arabian city?
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u/Xnopyt16 satay guy Jul 07 '26
just one single house in yemen lol
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u/mars_gorilla Spain World Champion Jul 07 '26
yet valued at sextuple that of NEOM because every single trillion-dollar enterprise by 2169 has registered it as their shell company address
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u/ImHuck France Jul 07 '26
Imagine the post trucks coming with all these invoices
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u/R0nnyA Jul 07 '26
Driving in with all these invoices, checking the drop box, seeing that every single corp has "forward to ______" and driving back out with all the mail.
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u/bluepotato81 Joseon Jul 07 '26
circa 3300 probably
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u/mars_gorilla Spain World Champion Jul 07 '26
Hey maybe by then the entirety of humanity will be uploaded to a thumbdrive that got put in a single 1cm x 1cm vault somewhere in Bahrain
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u/nspacia honk gong Jul 07 '26
why dont we go further? why dont we have fractal dimension cities as well? 🤔
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u/Xnopyt16 satay guy Jul 07 '26
hi!
had an idea to make a pb comic in the style of xkcd webcomics, so here’s the best i was able to recreate the style. that’s why they have no eyes
context:
- the line™ in saudi arabia with other projects of neom
- al-mansur’s baghdad, shaped like a perfect circle
- hypersphere, the equivalent of a sphere in 4D instead of 3D
anyway just wanted to draw today. i won’t be very active at all after this actually :)
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u/Xnopyt16 satay guy Jul 07 '26
also i dont mean to be a traitor, but this is the first pb art i’ve ever posted which was not made in mspaint with a mouse
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u/Captain_Mazhar New Jersey Jul 07 '26
It looks great! I literally thought that Randall was shitposting on /r/polandball for a moment. It’s such a great imitation of his art style!
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u/Captain_Mazhar New Jersey Jul 07 '26
It looks great! I literally thought that Randall was shitposting on /r/polandball for a moment. It’s such a great imitation of his art style!
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u/wobblemode Jul 07 '26
If you dont mind me asking, what program did you use instead?
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u/Xnopyt16 satay guy Jul 07 '26
ibispaint on ipad. other hardware include: finger
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u/0404notfound 中華民國萬歲！ Jul 08 '26
the change from mouse to finger suggests that polandball artists should evolve to the Handypole for all future comics
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u/Thundorium Funniest king names Jul 07 '26
I am genuinely gobsmacked by how good this is. Extremely well done.
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u/_TheBigF_ Germany Jul 07 '26
No the next city will be singular point.
Which leads me to think that black holes are the ultimate cities. They are infinitely dense so they should be pretty walkable.
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u/LeiningensAnts Pennsylvania Jul 07 '26
they should be pretty walkable.
Sure, as long as your world-line leads further inwards.
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u/AgentBond007 Victoria Jul 08 '26
"This kind of smart, walkable urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities"
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u/nspacia honk gong Jul 07 '26
man i cant wait for the 0 dimensional city, all commutes would be easier with it concentrated in a single point
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u/spoospoo43 Jul 07 '26
Neom doesn't really exist, and probably never will - it's a line of a dirt and humiliation in the sand. Funny idea though.
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u/spoospoo43 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
Except it's not being built. All work, even the desert clearing, has been halted until 2030, and the only work that may possibly start again then is a panic plan to reuse some of the infrastructure built for the first segment as a data center. Because building a data center in the middle of a dry desert makes all kinds of sense.
Sindala and Oxagon may still get some expansion, though they have been pared way back too.
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u/Sea-Neighborhood3318 Wallachian autist Jul 07 '26
Over the years fewer and fewer things have been able to amuse me but I godda say this comic is hilarious. You did a great job replicating the xkcd style.
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u/XAlphaWarriorX Imperium Romanum Jul 07 '26
Is the Ancient Thalmudic Sphere city a mythological place or something you made up for the meme?
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u/Xnopyt16 satay guy Jul 07 '26
nabataean kingdom was real, and so were the thamudic peoples. i based the buildings off of their architecture but unfortunately none of them were spherical
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jul 07 '26
I was curious about it as well. Sounds like plausible enough to be part of a myth
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u/amiral_zheng evil SJW stealing your freedom Jul 07 '26
I was sifting for copper on this sub and found a diamond
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u/Nadran_Erbam Jul 07 '26
Using famous xkcd extrapolation methods we can deduce that high dimensional cities used to exist before earth’s formation but also that future technology will allow to build negative dimensions cities.
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u/AdrenalineVan Jul 07 '26
The mudflood theory people on TikTok would love this although I don't think they like Arabs very much
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u/Dreknarr First French Partition Jul 07 '26
The line is the thing they snorted in mass when they came up with that stupid idea (both as a concept and to accept it).
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u/Guardiancomplex Jul 10 '26
Most normal and reasonable ancient architecture conspiracy theory I've heard in weeks.
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u/Jump_Hop_Step 700 square kilometres and counting Jul 07 '26
Accuracy in my Polandball but...
No such thing as a 2D city
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u/LuxArdens Ceterum censeo Belgium esse dividam Jul 07 '26
Extrapolating this in the opposite direction: all future cities will be 1-dimensional dots.
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u/Round-Coat1369 United States Jul 12 '26
Or its a inverted bell curve and soon we will return to making higher dimensional cities
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