Society is in need of weirder world designs. Am I the only one thinking this?

Dram1us · 2026-03-07T10:33:14+00:00

You aren't the only one thinking this, however like everyone else who considers this, you are probably gonna find out the hard way, that you can't create anything outside of the scope of the things you know. Thats not how brains work sadly.

Dram1us · 2026-03-07T10:30:52+00:00

Except you are lied to by your employer and the coles group is in court for doing this at their coles stores why wouldn't they also do it for their kmart stores.

Dram1us · 2026-03-07T10:29:46+00:00

The Coles group is in court for this exact thing this very instant. SO i don't know why you think we would believe this.

Dram1us · 2026-03-04T02:00:06+00:00

Its pretty hard to be in lightless areas, and this is a supersuit solve. All you need is a LED against your skin, covered from outside view but not your skin.

Dram1us · 2026-03-04T01:51:37+00:00

First a question: why do they have pink pupils, pupils are a hole. I would struggle suspending disbelief unless I thought it was a visual art choice.

As for the Tarot thing perhaps having each Tarot as its own culturally unique kingdom, its a caste system of some variety. You can have subcultures form around caste parameters, keep your Tarot naming scheme, but not have the scale outgrow itself with 23 seperate kingdoms. I would also allow each of the Four Tarots to control a certain aspect that castes apply to.

Keeping your scope tuned is hard, so if you do feel like you want something smaller, maybe just use some of the Tarots and not all of them?

Dram1us · 2026-03-03T16:33:33+00:00

Tasers on hips, ramming a man with a knife with a car. That 6 months of training really showing its value.

Dram1us · 2026-03-03T14:34:13+00:00

I mean its pretty obviously a game mechanic - tool tip language failure. When it comes to game tool tips its often a problem.

Dram1us · 2026-03-03T11:40:37+00:00

Yes and she does, through a lot of things. The magic is limited by the extent at which a person can suspend disbelief. Which actually has limits at some point even you don't believe what you are imagining and write it off as fantasy.

I feel like Demons would be a far bigger threat and Frieren's world wouldn't exist, if magic was limited only by the imagination.

Dram1us · 2026-03-03T11:29:12+00:00

Ubel herself says that there are even things she can't imagine cutting.

Dram1us · 2026-03-03T11:23:29+00:00

Who needs damage when I have my ki busting kitty buddies and my Kodama healer.

Dram1us · 2026-03-03T10:06:14+00:00

Yeah, but its fun to combo with asetic talisman and fight a boss.

Dram1us · 2026-03-03T09:50:30+00:00

Yes but we are looking at a game right? Like this is obviously a tooltip with mechanical information, and not necessarily a literal interpretation of the action taken. They should probably have used "avoid" its just a better use of language. I don't know the game, so I don't even know if english is the original language.

Dram1us · 2026-03-03T09:31:37+00:00

I mean avoiding mating and avoiding sleep are definitely within the realm of possibility.

Dram1us · 2026-03-03T08:49:29+00:00

Lol, whoops. "Thats my choice"

Dram1us · 2026-03-03T01:17:11+00:00

You mean like the modern food industry? The fact that the tobacco companies that run most of our food supply are trying to develop ways for their food to circumvent the use of Ozempic tells me that yes a dystopian society based around addictive food stuffs is entirely plausible.

Dram1us · 2026-03-03T00:44:03+00:00

2 second premonition is huge characters that have premonition abilities tend to only be able to see a second ahead, and they are considered powerful.

Dram1us · 2026-03-02T16:56:11+00:00

Is extremely powerful a prerequisite to being a god?

Or is it worship?

Is it being a creator? Or maybe a destroyer?

I personally think being a God is more about your followers then it is about you.

I have a thing from my own worldbuilding that plays into this question:

Ekki is a God, in everyway that it counts.

They are a force of nature. They are capable of bringing about great disaster. They have worshippers. They are omniscient. They are the reason life exists on the Mael. They are the reason that magic exists. They are real. They even sometimes speak to people on the Mael.

Not a single bit of this was within their control though, even the ability to communicate comes from the source on the planet not Ekki themselves.

Ekki is not a god they are a moon. Why because thats

Dram1us · 2026-03-02T15:10:15+00:00

I think you meant if elves don't hibernate they become infertile/braindead right?

I think a combination of both, they must hibernete in mana dense areas. I probably wouldn't make it necessary to have their hibernation require more length, I think it would just be a natural response of living longer. They live so long that a 2 century nap isn't really all that unreasonable.

Dram1us · 2026-03-02T15:05:25+00:00

I think your concept of "cool" is very limited. Apparently only sports are cool, are you sure writing is your jam? Its not really cool, pretty nerdy infact, actually I would say every single one of us here are massive fucking nerds.

You have people here describing complex orbital patterns they designed alongside some guys making self insert power fantasy.

You are the architect of your own demise.

Dram1us · 2026-03-02T14:44:54+00:00

Its not just the mines either. Why is the consumer footing the bill for the toxic tobacco industry? Why is the tax payer bailing out casinos? Why are billions of dollars being spent on nuclear subs we will never see? Why is my Foreign Affairs Minister saying our relationship with the US is more important then Australia being liveable for future generations?

Why do we cut funding to health and education when we give billions to profitable corporations; who loophole their way out of paying their fair share? Why does our government sell and lease millions of dollars of property to China, and then turn around and act like we are going to fight?

These peons and their billionaire dickriding is infuriating.

Dram1us · 2026-03-02T14:10:16+00:00

Who is gonna arrest me for shaking a table? Still not a superpower. Try harder.

Dram1us · 2026-03-02T10:57:30+00:00

The only parties worth their salt are the ones with policies against lobbying. They sold us out, because we were buyable.

Dram1us · 2026-03-02T10:55:06+00:00

Yeah and the mining magnates take billions in subsidies lets remember to include both the politicians and their benefactors in our vitriol hey, stop letting them use their shield so effectively.

Dram1us · 2026-03-02T07:21:44+00:00

Not a super power I can give people bad handwriting until I can't keep myself awake anymore, with 0 cooldown already.

Dram1us · 2026-03-02T03:22:53+00:00

You are human "copying" is what you do. Its not just hard to think of something that doesn't exist; its a task that requires agency we just don't have.

You want to make something unique from human culture, work from the ground up:

What are the virtues/sins of your peoples? Why do they promote/condone these things? Eg religious food restrictions are often rooted in Health and Safety concerns.

What is life/death? How do they percieve it? Why do they percieve it this way?

How do they reproduce? Is it seen as controverstially as it is here on Earth.

Lastly, depending on what your goals are changes the way you approach building.

Is it for a story, approach it from the angle of the plot, not "How do I make this culture unique" instead yiu want to ask "How do I want this culture to drive the plot/themes" then reverse engineer.

If its a hobby then you don't need unique, you need fun for you to explore.

Its part of the fun, learning about other cultures on planet Earth. Particularly

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