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-reads up on new Flat Earth lore- …did…did a Flat Earth lore creator watch Attack on Titan recently…?
So basically Disc World?
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?
Lol this is exactly where my mind went after reading the op as well
Battlefield earth is unironically good though
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.
so Asgard and Atlantis are real after all
And they also made and explanation post. It is unironically pretty good.
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.
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?
Neo Atlas 1469
Thanks!
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.
Yes, and I was hoping it would find articles or game descriptions that would give it an answer. I wasn’t expecting magic. I was expecting it to pull from its sources and regurgitate an answer. GTFO of here trying to “wElL AcKsHuLly, AI is…”
Crazy of me to think that in all the games journalism it’s pulled from that it might know. For the record, the answers it did give me were close and it was able to articulate why those answers might not be right because they didn’t meet all of my criteria and it elaborated as to why. The answer I got was actually fairly helpful, unlike whatever you just dumped out.
That sounds interesting. Do you recall the name?
Found it in my history, it’s Neo Atlas 1469.
That’s a super cool gameplay idea.
I want to play this
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.
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.
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.
Surprised nobody mentioned this earlier.
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.
I’d say education disorder, not mental disorder
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 can actually read the map now! Appreciate it.
I should call her…
There’s a novella that toys with the concept of an endless, flat world https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a6f9dcca-1b82-45dd-ba41-70b313e4c642
