A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Other way around. If your fantasy / sci-fi novel does not sell well, rebrand it as a new groundbreaking "history". Include how it gets ridiculed by main stream science that does maliciously ignore all the evidence.
You have instantly gained a huge, uncritical customer and fan base.
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Silly L. Ron Hubbard, trying to convince people to follow in your footsteps again?
Battlefield earth is unironically good though
One of John Travolta's greatest roles
Travolta should perform all his roles on a slant.
Lol this is exactly where my mind went after reading the op as well
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.
That sounds interesting. Do you recall the name?
Found it in my history, it's Neo Atlas 1469.
I reject your findings.
I want to play this
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".
Tried again with the "deeper thinking" version. Reus by chance?
That's a super cool gameplay idea.
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.
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.
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".
JKR can't write a consistent world that makes sense either.
Well, she is a conspiracy theorist too. Mostly directed at trans people.
-reads up on new Flat Earth lore- ...did...did a Flat Earth lore creator watch Attack on Titan recently...?
So basically Disc World?
My god...
...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???)
Brandon Sanderson is a Mormon and is a professor at BYU. I interpret his works as Mormon fanfiction.
He's pretty good at worldbuilding, too. And so far his worlds are actual spherical planets.
I should call her…
It's turtles, all the way down.
Nah, just one turtle with 4 elephants on top, holding a flat world.
All hail Great A'Tuin.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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
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.
