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Submitted ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • chad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Brandon Sanderson is a Mormon and is a professor at BYU. I interpret his works as Mormon fanfiction.

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      He’s pretty good at worldbuilding, too. And so far his worlds are actual spherical planets.

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  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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  • lenuup@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Silly L. Ron Hubbard, trying to convince people to follow in your footsteps again?

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      • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Battlefield earth is unironically good though

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      • mmmac@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lol this is exactly where my mind went after reading the op as well

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  • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Uncensored.

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can actually read the map now! Appreciate it.

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  • Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That sounds interesting. Do you recall the name?

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      • Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Found it in my history, it’s Neo Atlas 1469.

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    • fishos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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”.

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      • Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Neo Atlas 1469

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I want to play this

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    • shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s a super cool gameplay idea.

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      so Asgard and Atlantis are real after all

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    • programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And they also made and explanation post. It is unironically pretty good.

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  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    -reads up on new Flat Earth lore- …did…did a Flat Earth lore creator watch Attack on Titan recently…?

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    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So basically Disc World?

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      • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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???)

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      • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        My god…

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  • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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”.

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    • groet@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      JKR can’t write a consistent world that makes sense either.

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      • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well, she is a conspiracy theorist too. Mostly directed at trans people.

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  • Fortatech@gregtech.eu ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I should call her…

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s turtles, all the way down.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah, just one turtle with 4 elephants on top, holding a flat world.

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      • Keineanung@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        All hail Great A’Tuin.

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    • baggins@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Surprised nobody mentioned this earlier.

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  • godlessworm@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • lenuup@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d say education disorder, not mental disorder

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  • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • lemmyng@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s a novella that toys with the concept of an endless, flat world app.thestorygraph.com/…/a6f9dcca-1b82-45dd-ba41-7…

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