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Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Terry Pratchett is pretty much the Tolkien of flat earth literature.

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    • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s pretty obvious when you think about it.

      You have all the continents on the one side and ocean on the other so there has to be some sort of counterweight to make sure everything doesn’t start slipping and falling off. Sure the four elephants provide a stable base on top of Arduin but you if you completely stock a plate on top of a glass only on one side it’s going to fall off even though the plate is full of soup.

      For any doubters they should feel free to take a ship to the edge of the world and take a peek at the irrefutable evidence filling up your entire view before your eyes. Your could argue that the world is multidimensional since some people are known to travel the mysterious L space but it hasn’t been proven yet. Until then you can be sure that most evidence point to the obvious fact that the world sits on top of four elephants on top of the great turtle floating through space.

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      thanks, haha, I was checking the comments before I said “disc world”

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And openly stated that his worldbuilding strategy was to sidle up to something cool and make off with it when nobody’s looking.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does anyone have that map on the right? It looks cool

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    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      deviantart.com/…/THE-WORLD-BEYOND-THE-ICE-WALL-3-…

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      • SmoothOperator@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, the tags literally say fantasy, so I guess OP is getting what he asked for

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Reminds me of the 4-poles map from the Exalted fantasy setting

        Image

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      • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Heterotopia

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  • cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “You could make a religion out of this.”

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    • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, don’t

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have wanted to make a soulslike game that uses creationism lore for its world building for a while because it perfectly would fit the religious/biblical overtones I want, while also being 100% straight up fantasy with some pretty dope ideas for a fictional world.

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    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No artist vision is ever perfectly realized, so go for it.

      And if you can’t find store bought assets that fit the theme try to come up with some yourself.

      You only truly fail if you never try.

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    • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You should set up a Kickstarter, send it to all the SovCit and Flat Earth Facebook pages, saying that you’re going to create a realistic SIM of flat earth, and then release a fantasy game based on all of their ideas and watch the meltdown create the best press a game has ever received before launch.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The book of Judges would make a great game. Like a bit where you capture foxes, attach torches to their tails, and have them run through enemy farmland burning it all down.

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      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just … That bit about chopping up a concubine will put it firmly in the 18+ rating. And the subsequent I’ll-turn-my-back-and-not-see poaching of young women might be a bit much for modern sensibilities.

        Still, a Riddles in the Dark crossover with

        Out of the eater came something to eat;
        Out of the strong came something sweet

        … No okay I can’t actually see how that would work, but I’m sure someone could!

        Also plunging a left-handed dagger into a fat king - that’s probably peak Lemmy cheesecake.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The idea of a world that’s periodically being demolished and rebuilt, to satisfy the egos of tyrants, does seem to fit the ideology of a Flat Earther.

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, you know how to code for a 3D game? I know game design! We would just need to find the artist at that point, and I can help with fundraising

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hit me up.

      Together, apes strong.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s like SCP.

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    • callyral@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      SCP-6011 - Flat Earth

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s more flatland than flat earth

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  • Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    if flat earthers would just write books

    Yup, if Pratchett had been born thirty or forty years later we would have gotten unhinged twitter rants instead of discworld

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    • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am not sure I like my Pratchett being likened to an actual nutjob flat earther. Or did I miss him being all about that other than writing humorous books about a world like that?

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      • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “my” parasocial relationship detected lol

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Horse shit. Pratchett was a well grounded, sane human being.

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  • AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you afraid of the word shit?

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you imagine how terrible the world would be if people could say shit on the Internet?!

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      • MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Damn! That would be fucking awful.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It could be someone else censoring it and they just took the image

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “These four letter words… If they all come into public use, we’ll have nothing left for special occasions!”

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  • GarbageShoot@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The map reminds me a little of the world in Hunter x Hunter. The viewer is initially shown a world map (a flat projection) that is basically the typical cluster of continents in a vaguely ring-like shape, but it is much later revealed that it’s not a map of the whole planet but just a fraction of the surface area, and all the inhabited continents are actually completely encircled by one giant super-continent labeled “The Dark Continent”, meaning every known ocean was just part of one super-continental lake called “Lake Mobius”.

    p.s. watch/read hunter x hunter, it’s a cool manga

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I stopped reading a couple years ago. I think we still haven’t reached the new continent by the time the new mega hiatus hit, right?

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      • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’re on a boat headed toward the mega continent. There’s a lot of political drama/murder.

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      • GarbageShoot@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s right, it was just like 30 chapters or so since then most likely, and it’s all been the succession war on the boat headed there. I think most likely the story is written so that they never actually reach the Dark Continent because the ship was always meant as a vessel for the sacrificial ritual of the succession war. On a meta level, there’s not a specific enough stated goal for the expedition, so I think it’s meant to be a pie in the sky. I’m fine with that though, since the succession war has been my favorite arc in the whole manga so far. All just my personal opinion on it, of course.

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  • arin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whi fucking censors shit

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  • Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s how conspiracy theory evolves into religion.

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  • Des@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    looks like the refined version of this map was actually made by a worldbuilder integrating every conspiracy into one for a real world fantasy setting

    it’s actually really cool i want to do a steampunk TTRPG there

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  • YourPrivatHater@ani.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So fucking true

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  • brianary@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Aquaman movies were laying some groundwork for the Warlock comics to maybe be included, which is a hollow-earth reality. It’s too bad they did such a terrible job.

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  • YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you need anything more than The Babylonian map of the world you’re just over complicating things.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you write a bad sci fi or fantasy novel you can just call it a true story and you’ll sell a lot more copies.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this is why i really like the book “shadow of the conqueror”, it takes place in a world consisting of a floating continent suspended in a seemingly infinite expanse of air, and from that the author just worked out how to justify this in cool ways and the consequences of having a world like that.

    map of the book’s world

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