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[–] [email protected] 122 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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

Edit: give me 100 upvotes and that will satisfy me more than 2k on Reddit.

Edit 2: AWESOME!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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. This predictive use of the world theory led to the discovery of the golden island. 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

thanks, haha, I was checking the comments before I said "discworld"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, so it really IS intentional fantasy and not something a flat earther came up with

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Honestly, I didn't question that just because I've heard flat-earthers talk about the "ice wall", so I just assumed it really was from a FE forum or something.

But hey, new world map for a tabletop!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Could see this on a ringworld. Come to think of it a ringworld would be the perfect place to base a fantasy novel on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

There have been a couple in the vein of sufficiently advanced technology

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Heterotopia

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"You could make a religion out of this."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

No, don’t

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

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.

The only thing stopping me from even starting such a project is that it is one of the few ideas I have that absolutely requires a visual touch that I can't provide, and store bought assets would not do what I have in my head justice at all. 😮‍💨

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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. Truly I say to you, Christian video games haven't mined their own lore far enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Hit me up.

Together, apes strong.

[–] JackbyDev 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's more flatland than flat earth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's still technically a flat earth

edit: there's also SCP-8001 - The Edge of The World which is related to the topic of a flat Earth

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Are you afraid of the word shit?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MajorHavoc 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Damn! That would be fucking awful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We might even think about poopoo!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

But we can say shit on the internet, and the world is pretty terrible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Saying shit makes it ever so slightly better I would say

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

"These four letter words... If they all come into public use, we'll have nothing left for special occasions!"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Whi fucking censors shit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

It's more hard science fantasy, but Stephen Baxter's "Raft" sets up a bizarre universe around a dead star where physics is very wild.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

That's how conspiracy theory evolves into religion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

So fucking true

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The one on the left is giving Malazan vibes. If someone could manage to keep a K'chain Che'malle caged up, I could see somewhere in the world turning fighting it into a blood sport.