Me: "Hey wait, I've been doing this prep work for my game and inventing countries, but I don't actually know what their climates are like, I should look at that."

Me Later: "Shit, the tropics are huge and the subtropics are small. Is that right?"

Me Later: "Okay so I did it right this time and the tropics are still huge but it's like that on the real world in most map projections."

Me Later: "Spheres are WEIRD and so are planets but at least I know people in this empire are wearing shorts."

Also I know now JUST HOW FAR the character who hates hot places is going to need to travel to find someplace reliably cool. They live just south of the equator.

It's pretty far.

@orrery Head south for high summer. n..n

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