Hurried Thoughts: You Can't Feed a Society with Mushrooms
Added 2024-01-22 19:06:01 +0000 UTCThis is just a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but I tried to make it a bit interesting.
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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
Nikolai Lofving Hersfeldt
2024-01-25 11:14:35 +0000 UTCThis 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.
Thanasis Kinias
2024-01-22 19:33:05 +0000 UTC
