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Water mountains are my new favorite concept

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Show me in the bowl of water how it's done

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Hmmm. That would finally explain water skiing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Grandpa was a ball earthist... It's a shame we all carry in my family.

On another note, THE GOP JUST FUCKING DECIMATED ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN THE US, DIDN'T THEY? These folks just get to walk around, mid manic episode, pointing rifles at poll workers, licking doorknobs during COVID, injecting bleach and horse paste into their eyeballs, committing January 6th while stabbing cops with sharpened flagpoles and worshipping a compulsive liar and convicted felon who doesn't know where he is half the time...

We used to have places these folks could go to get help.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yo I think I gotta add this to my D&D campaign setting

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m imagining you ruining your players’ suspension of disbelief by including something that real people in the real world really believe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I hope it doesn't! I hope they see it or hear of it and are intrigued. Maybe they wonder if something exciting is going on there, and want to check it out.

Idk yet, but they're probably resulting from a leak from the elemental plane of water, or a leyline nexus or something there and water magic is stronger there and so there is a flotilla of wizards trying to study it under the harsh conditions. Or it could be a hole in the world and somewhere else there is a big whirlpool, and the wrecks get spit out at the top of the water mountain and there is a whole culture of salvagers who explore the turbulence and dive for treasures. Maybe an empire of sea elves has been magically growing it for decades with the intention of using it as a weaponized tsunami so they can raid and conquer farther inland. I love irl conspiracy shit like this that asks more questions than it answers, because in a fantasy setting the answers get to be cool.

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

This is what fundamental scientific illiteracy gets you.

When you have no reference point for how the world around you works anything makes sense.

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

Flat earthers 10 years ago in school: “when am I ever going to need to know the difference between a plane and a sphere in the real world?!”

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nah it's just trolling and people like you overreacting and feeding the social media machine, Zuck et al. love it

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

I only feed the Lemmy social media machine. I bet I have cost instance admins entire pennies!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's been 10 years, it's not trolling.

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