make fantasy great again!
Submitted 4 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Flamekebab@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I can actually read the map now! Appreciate it.
M137@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Uncensored both in that they actual censorship is removed but also that it hasn’t been compressed to shit so we can read and see the details.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 4 weeks ago
I remember a game I played ~9 years ago where you could send ships to explore the world and when they got back you had the option to reject their findings. If you never rejected anything, the world would be exactly like Earth, but everytime you rejected it would randomize the section that had been explored and over time it would start generating a whole new world.
And you could even make the planet flat by rejecting the discovery of it being round.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
That sounds interesting. Do you recall the name?
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 4 weeks ago
Found it in my history, it’s Neo Atlas 1469.
fishos@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Adding to the requests for a name. I put your post into Gemini and it gave me a few choices, but all clearly wrong, before giving up and saying “it must be some obscure indie title”.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Yeah, so “AI” is just text prediction. It won’t give you results that haven’t been talked about a lot (accurate or otherwise). It’s not actually using intelligence and trying to find the answer, so it’s useless for something like this.
makyo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I want to play this
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That’s a super cool gameplay idea.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Oh my god that’s so cool I wish I’d thought of it. It’s similar to this idea I’ve been mulling over about a world where areas are fixed/dynamic based on how certain people are about them. But that is a better implementation than anything I sketched up.
rockerface@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Here’s an updated map. AFAIK, the author isn’t actually a flat earther, but made this to meme on all the conspiracy theories at once. And also for the love of worldbuilding.
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
And they also made and explanation post. It is unironically pretty good.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
so Asgard and Atlantis are real after all
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Don’t be ridiculous. They have a world-sized serpent, not an ice wall, which is completely illogical.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Conspiracy theorists don’t have the imagination to write fantasy literature. They can’t account for the inconsistencies in their theories and 99% of the time the reason they give for why a certain thing is the way it is amounts to: “the Jews did it”.
groet@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
JKR can’t write a consistent world that makes sense either.
rockerface@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Well, she is a conspiracy theorist too. Mostly directed at trans people.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Yeah I remember loving all that conspiracy, X-Files, Umberto, past lives, lost cities, etc etc — all that stuff. But scratch at any of it and it’s always some of the dullest, unimaginative reactionary bullshit just a hair’s width below the surface.
Not to stereotype, but reminds of prison where everyone complains about capitalism without actually using that word (probably different now), but talk to them for more than 30 minutes annnnnd yup that’s antisemitism again. Fucking hell.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
-reads up on new Flat Earth lore- …did…did a Flat Earth lore creator watch Attack on Titan recently…?
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So basically Disc World?
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
My god…
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
…you know what Discworld x AoT would kind of be a banger. Might have to go see if someone ever wrote fanfiction about that (should I write fanfiction about that???)
chad@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Brandon Sanderson is a Mormon and is a professor at BYU. I interpret his works as Mormon fanfiction.
rockerface@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
He’s pretty good at worldbuilding, too. And so far his worlds are actual spherical planets.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
This makes the end of The Wheel of Time make more sense.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mormonism and BYU need to be abolished.
Fortatech@gregtech.eu 4 weeks ago
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I should call her…
realitista@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 weeks ago
It’s turtles, all the way down.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nah, just one turtle with 4 elephants on top, holding a flat world.
Keineanung@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
All hail Great A’Tuin.
baggins@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Surprised nobody mentioned this earlier.
Ellvix@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Hell yes! I totally use ley lines, contrails, and all sorts of crap in my DMing. It works crazy well and has so much documentation my job is easier.
Artyom@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Falling for conspiracy theories is a mental disorder. They’re failing to process information critically. They couldn’t write anything because writing requires skill, persistence, and consistency.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
And writing, particularly editing, requires considering multiple possibilities and disregarding the bad ones.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I’d say education disorder, not mental disorder
godlessworm@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
i bet those books would suck tbh. the conspiracies they come up with for the most part aren’t even imaginative
if someone said “i just thought of a great idea for a fantasy world for a book im gonna write. you know how the earth is round? what if… it wasn’t?” you would just be like “why?” and none of these people have ever been able to answer that
lenuup@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
What if the world was flat, like a disc. A discworld, so to say. And it is like this because the corner of the cosmos it floats through is just a bit more absurd than regular reality.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
That’s a great way of saying this. I used to enjoy talking about this stuff and when people would question if I believed any of it I’d have to explain I just like thought experiments and writing syfy shorts.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Yeah! It’s like just considering these things is fun and enriching. You might let yourself get swept away in the fantasy a bit, but ultimately you’re telling yourself different stories.
So they only ever feel like stories, and not like, a whole to paradigm that you’re going to flash your BIOS with rofl. Just maybe run it in a sandbox/cgroup and see if anything actually fun or inspiring comes out.
Pardon the opaque metaphors.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Turned out, writing interesting compelling stories is hard actually. You need way more than an idea, especially if your idea is “what if true things, but the opposite”
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Fun fact. I made a fictional world that us a flat earth (flat planet?) I just found the implications of such a world to be fascinating and went with it.
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
There’s a novella that toys with the concept of an endless, flat world app.thestorygraph.com/…/a6f9dcca-1b82-45dd-ba41-7…
lenuup@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Other way around. If your fantasy/ sci-fi novel does not sell well, rebrand it as a new groundbreaking “history”. Include how gets ridiculed by main stream science that does maliciously ignore all the evidence.
You have instantly gained a huge, uncritical customer and fan base.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Silly L. Ron Hubbard, trying to convince people to follow in your footsteps again?
abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Battlefield earth is unironically good though
mmmac@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Lol this is exactly where my mind went after reading the op as well