For all my peeps who like wordlbuilding. Let's talk about cross cultural convergent evolution of ideas.

[RepresentingWrath]

Help me: how do I justify cultural convergence towards liking big tiddies?

I will help you! Imma convert you to my church of thick thighs.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Help me: how do I justify cultural convergence towards liking big tiddies?

Seek salvation in the bosom of the Vampy Mommy Goddess, for she will be your savior.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

With further incorrect statements?

what did i say that was incorrect?

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

what did i say that was incorrect?

The same way, I said nothing that was incorrect.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

The same way, I said nothing that was incorrect.

I don't understand you. You even corrected yourself in a later post.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

I don't understand you. You even corrected yourself in a later post.

Hardly. One guy doing something doesn't establish a technology. So it all comes down to definitions. As usual.

 

[greyblob]

it is very simple. ancient civilizations communicated/recieved information from jinn. jinn have different species such as elves, gnomes, ogres, etc. it's all real. it's how ancient egyptians built the serapeum

 

[RepresentingWrath]

it is very simple. ancient civilizations communicated/recieved information from jinn. jinn have different species such as elves, gnomes, ogres, etc. it's all real. it's how ancient egyptians built the serapeum

 

[owotrucked]

Then the jinn evolved into crabs and left the surface

 

[ATTICLover]

Rememeber how you heard that everything turns into crabs? Carcinisation (American English: carcinization) is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. Convergent evolution creates analogous structures that have similar form or function but were not present in the last common ancestor of those groups.

What is this cross cultural thingy? Well, do you know how there were various pagan religions before? And despite not coming into contact at all, or barely contacting each other, they had similar stuff in them like end of days? Another example, some kind of vampire is present in a lot of beliefs. It is not exclusive to religion, but I'm too lazy to search for other examples, and I think you all got the concept. So the point of the thread is, do you use it? Maybe different fantasy races come to the same scientific conclusions, or their religions are similar. Or maybe you completely abolished this concept, and made everything different. Heck, maybe one or two of your characters study this stuff. Share your opinions, thoughts, and experience with this.

I'm using it in my story. That part is still not up since I just wrote it 4 days ago.

Robots who used the bygone history and figures of humanity to use their stories against them giving them massive existential crisis of surpassing their ancestors technology yet had never seen the space, and massive variety of literatures, philosophy, and music compare to what they are doing right now and it's not even the corpo overlords and the intolerant government total fault who censors everything just for the common people to just work and do nothing. Their history was indeed wiped out.

So yeah, I'll bring mechanical monsters, androids that imitates those mythical features, some legendary characters and use the power logic I made and make them have cool powers.

 

[Aaqil]

I will help you! Imma convert you to my church of thick thighs.

I don't think that's gonna help, [:p]

 

[Anemic_Vampire]

I almost never get what you are trying to say, but you sound smart. I won't add anything helpful here, but I must reach my daily word count goal by writing something.

The crab example is cool. Does the Golden Ratio meme count in here somehow? I'm not even sure if this thread is about science or culture anthropology.

I agree with that vampire being ever-present in different beliefs part too. We have our local version of vampire, they are just a lot more weaker. Supposedly, they can be dealt with by a rose flower instead of garlics.

 

[J_Chemist]

To an extent, I plan to utilize this concept but I won't share anything spoiler-like in case for some reason one of my readers falls into this thread. I'm also still ironing it out.

It's more of a distortion of the truth that ends up leaking out throughout the Overworld. The various races and "entities" know about the same general rules/ideals, but there's been so much cover up and changing of words that it's concealed. It all leads to "Crab".

 

[Cipiteca396]

One of the original core concepts of my little multiverse was based on something like this. I ended up settling on a Body focused Biotech civ, a Mind focused Tech civ, a Heart focused Magic civ, and a Spirit focused Religion civ.

They all used entirely different resources and abilities, but they could mostly do all the same things. I figured if they needed to do something, they would find a way to do it. A few things are easier with one faction or another, but the fun thing about that is once they see someone else doing something, the knowledge that it's possible makes it more likely they'll do it too.

Since it was meant to be for a game though, it would have killed the faction identity and made everything too 'samey and boring'. I had to abandon games and turn to writing instead, which was sad.