Anon has a power fantasy

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• Estiar@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a lot of hidden costs and infrastructure needed for magical flying beasts. Not to mention limited capacity. Little can compete with the horse drawn cart when it comes to capacity for price though.

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  • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Boats beat out horse drawn carts by an insane amount.

    It’s why trade hubs and major cities were practically always on a major river and/or in a favourable location for a port.

    I find most campaigns severely lack river transportation

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    • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep, not having a bunch of your trade going to feeding and caring for your horses makes a huge difference.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This message brought to you by Big Equestrian.

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    • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Big horse killed my baby

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Big (and smol) Equestrian

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  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All magic comes with a price.

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What can I get for tree-fiddy?

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    • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It just costs 1 gold coin a month…

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  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have giant hummingbird mounts in my game, but guess what? They need nectar from giant flowers, or just barrels full of sugar water, and/or they sometimes pick fights with giant insects in order to try and eat them. (Fun fact, hummingbirds eat small insects IRL) They’re dead useful and loads of fun, but it exacts it’s price.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m so very glad that I never tried to enlarge my pseudodragon familiar to try and ride him into battle. Never even thought about the fact that pseudodragons cannot pay attention for shit.

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  • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Big chocobo disagree with you

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    • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Large chocobo is pretty neat but can’t compete with my spherical sheep mount

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plus, not every species can be domesticated. Gryphons and dragons are independent and not herd animals. So they may not understand the concept of following a leader, which is an important part of domestication. And if they did, you’d probably have to best them in combat before they’d do it.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But you can talk to them and make friends with them

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But what if cart drawn by flying pony?

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    • Estiar@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I could never ask Fluttershy to haul things for me. At that point, I would start carrying things for her

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  • Gladaed@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This, but also for coal power in the 80s and 90s.

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  setting has lemmy

  still using 4chan

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are positives and negatives to both platforms. Lemmy has an abundance of information about Linux and memes about Star Trek but misses out on literature discussion and completely lacks the ability recognize sarcasm. 4chan is a concentrated discussion hub where every interaction is seen and evaluated, but occasionally it hosts a slight hint of bigotry.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      4chan (…) occasionally it hosts a slight hint of bigotry.

      Understatement of the month. You don’t even need to visit the obvious alt-right infested boards to see that

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  • three@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly I love image boards so much.

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• thechadwick@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You would just not believe the regulatory burden of maintaining magical creature flying safety regime too.

  You drop a simple glove off directing and 30min later, boom. You’ve got a gnome commission setting up barriers around it and paperwork for weeks to come…

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Setting has electric cars

  Car enthusiasts of the setting are fanatical about petrol cars instead

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are now because you can still get petrol reasonably cheaply. When the price rises because everyone else has gone over to electric I think they’ll be less interested. Part of the problem is that there’s a whole generation of people who’ve grown up with loud noise equals cool car.

    Pretty soon though there’ll be a whole generation for whom the vast majority of cars were electric their whole lives and I suspect they’ll be less interested in petrol cars. It’ll become a much more niche hobby.

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    • Shard@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even for luxury cars that run on petrol, there’s been a need to mimic old engine sounds so that the owners don’t feel like their cars are underpowered.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    > Setting has public transport

    > Setting is still full of carbrained petrolheads

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      just once, I want to see a Mad Max movie where everyone gets on a train. Oh wait, they did that kinda with Snowpiercer

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  • Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I bought my 30 year old car 15 years ago for $2000 and it still runs well and hasn’t needed too much in the way of repair. Find me an electric that can do the same and I’ll make the jump in a second.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Find a 1994 EV in good nick? I can find you 2024 internal combustion cars that won’t last 15 years; I can find you a 2024 EV whose manufacturer says will last a million miles (or maybe that’s the 2025 version), that’s 33.3 thousand miles a year for 30 years. But that manufacturer lies.

      Did your car claim a greater than 30 year low maintenance life when new? Is its lifespan typical of the model?

      Can we take your position as “has an outlier lifespan car, doesn’t want to replace it”? My last car I sold was 20 years old and had seats with worn out cloth (and exposed padding) and broken plastic trim around its adjustment controls

      Nissan leaf battery replacements were a minor repair when the first of those needed them. They got much better than new batteries for pretty cheap

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    • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re killing people around through pollution. We don’t have to find you a car, we should put you in jail.

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• MargotRobbie@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A more accurate analogy would be along the lines of having jets and helicopters in the world but still using cars or trains as the main form of transportation.

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  • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not sure how it applies, when trains are the superior form of transportation

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    • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly. This is how it applies.

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not to go down the road to the store.

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fall off a horse -> dust yourself off and get back on. There’s a whole idiom about how falling off horses is a frustrating but ultimately minor inconvenience.

  Fall off a gryphon -> you are dead.

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  • multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Superman was paralyzed from falling off a horse. It can be way more than an inconvenience.

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    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Could slip in the shower too. Not sure what my point is… just trying to be extra pedantic I guess.

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    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, what’s the reasoning? Dude can stop bullets and be slapped through buildings but a Lil fall screwed him?

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a whole idiom about how falling off horses is a frustrating but ultimately minor inconvenience.

    There’s also a whole list of people who have died falling off of horses. So there’s that.

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is possible to die falling off a horse. It is nearly impossible to live falling off a flying mount.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most fantasy settings that allow for gryphon / dragon / other winged mode of transport, also have saddles for such beasts that tether the user to the saddle/ animal. If you fall off, you unclipped your harness and deserved it.

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s considerable extra risk and cost for insignificant benefit. Helicopters exist but I don’t take one to work.

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    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also magic like slow falling potions

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Both of these can be explained with the same reasoning.

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  • squid_slime@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Capitalism!

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    • spookex@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Didn’t know that capitalism made people blow the miniscule dangers of nuclear power out of proportion and create irrational fear

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  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A wizard did it.

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  • Igloojoe@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For the nuclear energy one, i was thinking factorio. Which the reason no nuclear yet is that im just lazy.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Makes me wanna link the thread where people were making the argument that wheelchair users and deaf people wouldn’t exist in fantasy settings.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just because there is magic doesn’t mean everyone can afford it.

    Also interesting to think about, if a deaf person has a magic amulet that grants different hearing, are they no longer a deaf person or are they a deaf person with a magical aid?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      are they a deaf person with a magical aid?

      I think they’d still identify as deaf for community purposes.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s basically hearing aids or cochlear implants and the thing is sound is uncomfortable if you’re used to not sound.

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    • Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are they naturally deaf or just hard of hearing? A deaf person would get a zero to sound checks no matter what.

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember seeing the same for trans people, but in granblue fantasy some people still weaponized how Cagliostro was a born a man to make her mad, doesn’t matter how she looks or what she has down there, bigots will exist even in fantasy.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fantasy worlds really often have sex as something one may select. It doesn’t serve the non-binary folk all that well, but there are several ways to pick either of the binary options

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    • Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Another problem is that in order to have magic that is capable of fully transitioning someone, you basically need to enable full body modification for other purposes as well, so transhumanism becomes something you need to represent in your story (unless you just add arbitrary and meaningless restrictions to the magic).

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They can totally exist in fantasy settings, but there has to be a reason why magic “doesn’t work” to heal that. “It’s a curse” or “there’s a powerful magical will” or whatever.

    If it’s DnD, it can easily escalate into whether Reincarnation “fixes” that, since the person is getting a new body of a possibly different race.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are deaf people in our world that refuse cochlear implants. Why the hell does magic need a reason to “not work” when people IRL prefer to stay the way they are?

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope. Stop with the fucking ableist erasure of differently abled individuals. it’s just a fun little game to play with friends. It doesn’t need fuckingnmassive essays of world building.

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A horse costs way less than a scroll of Teleport, or seven Fly. Like how it’s cheaper to drive than take a plane. You also don’t take a plane when an hour long drive will do, and you don’t cast Teleport to go from your room at the inn to the nearby village to clear out some goblins.

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  • elshandra@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you don’t cast Teleport to go from your room at the inn to the nearby village to clear out some goblins.

    Me who casts teleport to go from the inn, or my house, to the centre of town in games.

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  • Dagrothus@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Towns can hire wizards to make teleportation circles to make quick cheap travel to specific places. No one more than an hour’s ride from a capital would use any other way of getting there

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• VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Coal 675 billion kwh

  Nuclear 775 billion kwh

  Renewables 894 billion kwh

  Natural Gas 1802 billion kwh

  This meme is dumb and wrong. Funny tho.

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  • lessthanluigi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Setting has Nuclear energy

    Still uses Natural Gas as main energy source

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  • whoreticulture@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Natural gas is not really an improvement 😭

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    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think Natural Gas is something like a 20% improvement over coal. So it is an improvement, but yeah it’s still 80% bad and it’s gotta go.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dystopian Fantasy; only the rich and powerful have access to magic.

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  • daemoz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like mistborn nobles

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    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, they also execute anyone not noble who inherits magic.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    only the rich and powerful have access to magic

    You need lots of free time, rare books, expensive materials… I can totally see the random farmer getting into it.

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• johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Discworld really handled the overlap of magic and technology the best.

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• DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “We need to subsidize the horse industry to protect jobs!”

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