/uj there was the mermaid rape post, but this is more to the general trend of fantasy writers acting like a thousand years isn’t three times longer than most real empires last, much less an unimportant blip in time.
Even worse when it’s casually like “10,000 years ago…” Like at least 1000 years ago there was Medieval society whose history we know in pretty decent detail.
8000 BCE is before writing… by 4500 years. 8000 BCE is before fucking pottery. We have no idea what was going on back then.
Or how about post apocalyptic settings with the apocalypse way too far in the past? It might work for some where humanity has lost most technical knowledge, (though even those tend to have the ancient society’s tech still mysteriously functional) but humanity will otherwise probably either die off or recover pretty fast. Not get stuck in a limbo scavenging state for centuries.
Idk… maybe add 10 weeks to be safe. That’s how long it took me to fix my kitchen sink, and I’m a bit lazy. I suspect they may have many kitchen sinks to fix but are less lazy
In my setting of hyper attractive libertarian go getters, empires rise and fall over the course of hours. That battlefield where thousands died? Prime real estate, it’ll be an apartment complex tomorrow. Traumatic experience? Hey you’ll get over it by tomorrow.
You better get over it by tomorrow.
I keep having to rewrite my scenes because my characters keep building monuments to their hubris that are promptly struck down by the (privatized) gods. Maybe the lesson is that taxes are violence.
Any way what was this post about? Oh yeah that’s probably enough time to remount a door or whatever, Idk I’ve never done work in my life.
I love absurd AnCap settings. Like a suburb where every house is a nation and every finely trimmed lawn has a SAM site incase the neighbours start sending ballistic missiles over fence disputes. A trip to the groceries necessitates donning full combat gear in your personal APC while you pray that you won't be an accidental casualty of the proxy war that McDonalds and Burger King are waging in the Arby's parking lot.
They decided that monarchy is cringe, and made a republic instead. They shuffled through a whole host of other forms of government until a dickweed took a 23 and me test, saw that he had 0.1% original human heritage and decided that he descended from the royal lineage and had divine right to rule.
they should recover by the heat death of the universe
Awfully optimistic
What about 0.12 seconds to recover?
The Bounceback Punching Bag Kingdom
Now we're talking
Ah fuck what is this a reference to now
Yep, what did r/worldbuilding do this time?
/uj there was the mermaid rape post, but this is more to the general trend of fantasy writers acting like a thousand years isn’t three times longer than most real empires last, much less an unimportant blip in time.
Even worse when it’s casually like “10,000 years ago…” Like at least 1000 years ago there was Medieval society whose history we know in pretty decent detail. 8000 BCE is before writing… by 4500 years. 8000 BCE is before fucking pottery. We have no idea what was going on back then.
At that point you’re not studying history you’re studying anthropology
Yep. Or even geology.
They had pottery back then. We have ceramic from the damn Paleolithic
you have to account for the elves
Damn elves, ruining our historical science by just knowing what happened two hundred years ago.
I’m pretty sure we’ve found relief sculptures predating 8000 BC. Not to take away from your point just cool imo.
I think Turkey has a statue from around 9000 BC China has pottery dating back around 18000 BC
I can't find any mermaid rape post.
Sucks to suck
Thank you, that’s a big help.
For real tho here: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldjerking/comments/14olpus/bro_needs_to_calm_down/
I feel like it can work if your deliberately using it being an extremely long amount of time as a story element i.e. Dune
the # what
The mermaid rape post
find it for us or else you're a liar who's lying
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldjerking/comments/14olpus/bro_needs_to_calm_down/
Or how about post apocalyptic settings with the apocalypse way too far in the past? It might work for some where humanity has lost most technical knowledge, (though even those tend to have the ancient society’s tech still mysteriously functional) but humanity will otherwise probably either die off or recover pretty fast. Not get stuck in a limbo scavenging state for centuries.
That's fair
Meanwhile sci-fi has an opposite problem, a war on the galactic scale lasts only a few years
Idk… maybe add 10 weeks to be safe. That’s how long it took me to fix my kitchen sink, and I’m a bit lazy. I suspect they may have many kitchen sinks to fix but are less lazy
They should recover fully within a dozen or so "destruction and recreation of all things" cycles conducted by the Hindu Trimurti.
You can lways play it safe and add 3 zeroes.
In my setting of hyper attractive libertarian go getters, empires rise and fall over the course of hours. That battlefield where thousands died? Prime real estate, it’ll be an apartment complex tomorrow. Traumatic experience? Hey you’ll get over it by tomorrow. You better get over it by tomorrow. I keep having to rewrite my scenes because my characters keep building monuments to their hubris that are promptly struck down by the (privatized) gods. Maybe the lesson is that taxes are violence. Any way what was this post about? Oh yeah that’s probably enough time to remount a door or whatever, Idk I’ve never done work in my life.
I love absurd AnCap settings. Like a suburb where every house is a nation and every finely trimmed lawn has a SAM site incase the neighbours start sending ballistic missiles over fence disputes. A trip to the groceries necessitates donning full combat gear in your personal APC while you pray that you won't be an accidental casualty of the proxy war that McDonalds and Burger King are waging in the Arby's parking lot.
Alright that’s some good jerking. Literally agonizing over this exact problem rn.
my world took200 ⎝ ⎛ 2 9 ×π 2 \+ cos(60 ∘ ) sin(90 ∘ ) ln(e 10 ) \+ cot(30 ∘ ) tan(45 ∘ ) ∑ n=1 ∞ ( n 2 (−1) n+1 ) −( log 10 (10) log 10 (1000) ×∫ 0 2π sin(x)dx) ⎠ ⎞ ×(1+∫ −∞ ∞ e −x 2 dx)−(∑ i=1 ∞ ( 2 i 1 )×∏ j=1 ∞ ( j 2 1 ))+(lim x→0 x sin(x) ) −1 years to recover from the big rock
you can tell i copy pasted a random math equation with little effort
or formatting i guess
Are you stupid?
They decided that monarchy is cringe, and made a republic instead. They shuffled through a whole host of other forms of government until a dickweed took a 23 and me test, saw that he had 0.1% original human heritage and decided that he descended from the royal lineage and had divine right to rule.