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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

Edited a few typos.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Battlefield earth is unironically good though

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's a super cool gameplay idea.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I want to play this

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That sounds interesting. Do you recall the name?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's a novella that toys with the concept of an endless, flat world https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a6f9dcca-1b82-45dd-ba41-70b313e4c642

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's turtles, all the way down.

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

Surprised nobody mentioned this earlier.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

All hail Great A'Tuin.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

I should call her…

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I can actually read the map now! Appreciate it.

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