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Hurried Thoughts: You Can't Feed a Society with Mushrooms (Patreon)

Published:
2024-01-22 19:06:01
Edited:
2024-01-23 00:03:58
Imported:
2024-07

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This is just a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but I tried to make it a bit interesting.

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Hurried Thoughts: You Can't Feed a Society with Mushrooms

If you spend much time perusing forums where people trade worldbuilding ideas, you've probably come across someone asking about a fully unde...

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Thanasis Kinias

This is a really great writeup! I feel like the mushrooms trope is a symptom of a bigger problem in worldbuilding, where we start with a “ooh that’s cool” idea and then grab onto any figleaf of plausibility cover and become immune to information that it doesn’t actually work.

Nikolai Lofving Hersfeldt
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I've been wondering a bit lately if it might be worth it to do a couple more conceptual posts about approaches to worldbuilding or if it wouldn't fit the tone of the blog, because I've been noticing a lot how often people seem compelled to excuse their worldbuilding choices in these ways that often just end up weakening the final product