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.
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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.
thanks, haha, I was checking the comments before I said "discworld"
And openly stated that his worldbuilding strategy was to sidle up to something cool and make off with it when nobody's looking.
Does anyone have that map on the right? It looks cool
Oh, so it really IS intentional fantasy and not something a flat earther came up with
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!
I mean, the tags literally say fantasy, so I guess OP is getting what he asked for
Reminds me of the 4-poles map from the Exalted fantasy setting
Could see this on a ringworld. Come to think of it a ringworld would be the perfect place to base a fantasy novel on.
There have been a couple in the vein of sufficiently advanced technology
Heterotopia
"You could make a religion out of this."
No, don’t
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. 😮💨
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
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It's like SCP.
That's more flatland than flat earth
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
Are you afraid of the word shit?
Can you imagine how terrible the world would be if people could say shit on the Internet?!
Damn! That would be fucking awful.
We might even think about poopoo!!
But we can say shit on the internet, and the world is pretty terrible.
Saying shit makes it ever so slightly better I would say
It could be someone else censoring it and they just took the image
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Whi fucking censors shit
The map reminds me a little of the world in Hunter x Hunter. The viewer is initially shown a world map (a flat projection) that is basically the typical cluster of continents in a vaguely ring-like shape, but it is much later revealed that it's not a map of the whole planet but just a fraction of the surface area, and all the inhabited continents are actually completely encircled by one giant super-continent labeled "The Dark Continent", meaning every known ocean was just part of one super-continental lake called "Lake Mobius".
p.s. watch/read hunter x hunter, it's a cool manga
I stopped reading a couple years ago. I think we still haven't reached the new continent by the time the new mega hiatus hit, right?
They’re on a boat headed toward the mega continent. There’s a lot of political drama/murder.
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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.
if flat earthers would just write books
Yup, if Pratchett had been born thirty or forty years later we would have gotten unhinged twitter rants instead of discworld
I am not sure I like my Pratchett being likened to an actual nutjob flat earther. Or did I miss him being all about that other than writing humorous books about a world like that?
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Horse shit. Pratchett was a well grounded, sane human being.
That's how conspiracy theory evolves into religion.
So fucking true
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.
it's actually really cool i want to do a steampunk TTRPG there
If you need anything more than The Babylonian map of the world you're just over complicating things.
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.
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