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Reading_username@reddit

Facts, lets not pretend the average person in Middle Earth, Harry Potter, Alagaesia, or even Star Wars saw anything outside of a "normal peasant" life. Hard work all day, drinks at the pub, travelling bards telling stories of far away wizards with special powers, and unique creatures. Maybe your uncle saw an Ork or Urgal once in the mountains. Literally no different than getting off your wage slave job today, heading to the bar, and hearing Whiskey Pete™ tell you about the time he definitely saw Bigfoot in the Appalachian mountains.

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ThatWetJuiceBox@reddit

URGAL MENTIONED, ERAGON FAN FOUND, RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

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thatjazzybee@reddit

Murtaugh book went hard

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GuyFieriTheHedgehog@reddit

Everytime I replay Skyrim, I give a sword with the fire enchantment the name Brisingr

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Sophion@reddit

Feck, I've been missing out on giving my enchanted weapons Eragon names for all these years!

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Brownfletching@reddit

Some of the elder scrolls devs are also Eragon fans. They'll slip familiar names and stuff in there every once in a while, both in Skyrim and in ESO. Not to mention the whole "you can ride dragons now" dlc...

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jazerlu@reddit

Urgal ![gif](giphy|q618imRRVODIMoznGC)

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Impossible-Pizza982@reddit

I meant if you put yourselves in the shoes of the characters you’re describing we’d be, we’re living pretty good today

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peepeeinmypajts@reddit

I know all stories are derivative of each other but seriously so seriously eragon is just star wars. Like so blatantly so it's ridiculous.

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Ycr1998@reddit

Oh yeah I love that part where Luke Skywalker becomes a dragon rider!

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peepeeinmypajts@reddit

Farm boy discovers he had magic powers and goes on adventure with old man knight from old age who passes on knowledge but not enough before dying in first book and then in second book big reveal about family and third book redemption of evil family by defeating evil emperor.

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YoungDiscord@reddit

The average guy in harry potter is not a wizard and lives a regular 9-5 job without any magic But yeah, I get your point.

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Fidgie0@reddit

To be fair in real life the average guy is Chinese, so if you're not you're already beating the odds.

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ChadPowers200_@reddit

chinese rice farmer teleports to a fantasy land where he is still a rice farmer

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BipolarMadness@reddit

Chinese rice farmer gets teleported to a world where Chinese "Cultivation" powers truly exist and are tied to actual rice cultivation and farming.

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PeterVN13032010@reddit

Only to get annihilated by a bored immortal sneezing, or the regular beast tide that come once per year

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LordMimsyPorpington@reddit

I'd watch that Donghua.

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flex_tape_salesman@reddit

They meant the average wizard

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Heavy-Requirement762@reddit

thing is that those people have the opportunity to go out and explore. us humans almost fully lost that around 200 years ago

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Reading_username@reddit

Just go outside bro, literally tons to explore.

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Ycr1998@reddit

Nothing exciting tho, just a normal city. The lost temples and hidden caves are too far away.

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LordMimsyPorpington@reddit

Look at Mr. Fancypants here, with his metropolitan jungle of bountiful commerce to explore!

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Ycr1998@reddit

Not my kind of exploring. There's nothing new to _discover_. Explorers and adventurers often do it for the fame and money, but you can't have that when everything worth exploring has already been explored.

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howdoireachthese@reddit

Plenty new to discover. Check this shit out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_sensing_in_archaeology. They’re using that tech because they can’t get to places in person

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Ycr1998@reddit

Can I become rich and famous finding these? Maybe discover some artifact of unfathomable power? Kill evil billionaires? A millionaire at least? 🤏 No? So where's the adventure? D:

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LordMimsyPorpington@reddit

Yea, because life isn't a Legend of Zelda game. Come out here to the middle of Buttfuck Nowhere, and I'll show you what boring really means.

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Ycr1998@reddit

>Yea, because life isn't a Legend of Zelda game. Thanks for agreeing...? lol

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Reading_username@reddit

skill issue

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Ycr1998@reddit

Money issue*

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backinredd@reddit

Nah I’d be the hero and the king would marry his daughter to me. I’ll defeat the orcs and the elves will worship me after I save them.

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SalvationSycamore@reddit

Fuck marrying into politics man, give me a tomboy wandering knight any day

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Iceklimber@reddit

> I’ll defeat the orcs Based on your physique, Orcs will put you in a prety Elf Dress and apply no Lube.

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hagamablabla@reddit

You can literally do this if you go to Ukraine right now.

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skull_fucker79@reddit

"nah i'd be the billionaire and the president would marry his daughter to me. I'll influence the elections and the redditors will worship me after i get rich from inheritance and child labor."

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ElectroNikkel@reddit

Why does it sounds oddly familiar....

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backinredd@reddit

Halfway there already

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Jonesy1348@reddit

Idk some fantasy lands anyone can learn magic with enough study and practice. Ig it just depends on

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Empero6@reddit

Do you think they’ll ever remake eragon?

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polar_pilot@reddit

There is a live action TV show in the works, releasing in the next year or two I think

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Sethleoric@reddit

Wasn't this one of the big story beats in The Hobbit and LOTR specifically, the two protagonists are 50 something bongs living comfy yet kind of boring basically normal lives until the cool old pothead comes by and whisks them off into crazy life threatening adventures. One of them returned rich and happy it happened, but realized the adventurer lifestyle was definitely NOT for him, and the other got PTSD and fucked off to an Elven retirement home out west, also his hometown got sold out by a corrupt policeman but that's another story.

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Jozef_Baca@reddit

Fr, that is why you become a peasant in a xianxia fantasy world so you can at least talk about getting beat up by a young master for looking at them the wrong way.

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peepeeinmypajts@reddit

That's just korea literally 100 years ago btw.

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Momongus-@reddit

Not even a grandpa inside a ring? Come on man

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JP_Eggy@reddit

>Maybe your uncle saw an Ork or Urgal once in the mountains. An Eragon reference? In this economy?

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Chef_Zed@reddit

I love to see the Inheritance Cycle mentioned

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outland_king@reddit

Counterpoint: where is my big titty orc girlfriends? Checkmate

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ElectroNikkel@reddit

We DO have a magic system! https://preview.redd.it/4jesle7y04sg1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e926b8988a718a8868b40a79b0a9d99f658ed12

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KazakiriKaoru@reddit

Motherboards are literally runes for our "highly advanced ancient mechanisms" in the far future if humanity ever falls.

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BipolarMadness@reddit

My favorite trope of "fantasy" is when half way there you start noticing the writting on the wall, and figure out its not fantasy but Sci Fi. "Wait a second... you are telling me all this time the runes being carved are motherboards, the black blood golems are robots that leak oil, demons are aliens from outer space, the ancient armor of the hero that gets passed over generations is actually a space suit power armor, the ancients cave temple was a bunker survival shelter, and the guardian ghosts are just holographic defense systems?"

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bitchnibba47@reddit

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Dominator616@reddit

Dude, that actually sounds kinda fire, do you know any works that are like that?

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BipolarMadness@reddit

Endless Legend is one of my favorites 4x strategy games, where superficially it seems fantasy and most races on the planet tend to act as if they are in a fantasy world. But if you read between the lines the planet belonged to a lost precursor race that used it between a zoo and a biological lab for bio weapons. So all races are either species from other planets that were taken from their original planet with no recollection of it happening, or manufactured from the labs of the precursor races on the planet. The race that look like "elves" for example have a whole personal quest involving constructing a tower that will take them out of the planet to salvation, all without knowing or understanding at all that they are building a primitive space elevator with stone that sadly is bound to fail. There is also games like some of the entries of Heroes of Might and Magic. Chrono Trigger going between fantasy and sci fi with time travel involved. Etc.

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dead-inside69@reddit

Our “ancient tech” isn’t going to be cool and dangerous half buried automaton sentinels, it’s just going to be unmarked minefields, LLMs trapped in decaying drive thru speakers, and LED billboards advertising long dead personal injury lawyers

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ElectroNikkel@reddit

>cool and dangerous half buried automaton sentinels >unmarked minefields I mean, what's the difference

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Supershadow30@reddit

One of them is a cool, vaguely animalistic robot, the other is a lump of explosive connected to a sensor

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ElectroNikkel@reddit

fair, but, what's more practical to guard a place for a long time?

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atlast_a_redditor@reddit

Microchip are literally inscriptions on rock.

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kulingames@reddit

THE FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER

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YoungDiscord@reddit

![gif](giphy|99TFBc6rXqrHG)

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AntimemeticsDivision@reddit

Then perish

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PerterterhTermertehh@reddit

THE PLASMONIC TRANSDUCER

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Supershadow30@reddit

THE NANO-FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR

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Supershadow30@reddit

THE QUANTUM FIELD EMITTER

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TheDanLopez@reddit

I was just thinking the other day how magnetism specifically would be seen as a weird magic system if it wasn't a real thing. "Yeah we got this weird invisible force that we can harvest. We can use it to make things levitate, to aid in navigation, and it can even be used to create energy"

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ElectroNikkel@reddit

"Well, more of, like, transform energy in a more transportable, useable way, but you get the gist"

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Sierra-117-@reddit

Yep. And I’m sure in the future, it will be even more magical. If we can begin manipulating the fundamental level of matter (whatever that may be), things are gonna get very interesting.

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roankr@reddit

We are manipulating photons, we already are at the fundamental!

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Sierra-117-@reddit

That’s why I said matter. Photons are not matter. They can be turned into matter, but they aren’t matter themselves. Just energy fluctuating in the electromagnetic field.

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roankr@reddit

Only if you consider matter to be solely atoms, i.e electrons and protons (which one is already something we do manipulate).

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Sierra-117-@reddit

Yeah, I say this because of our lack of a unified theory. We don’t really understand how gravity works at the atomic level. It’s likely that discovering that means we understand matter in a more fundamental way. And when I say manipulate matter, I mean at a deeper level than those basic subatomic particles. So at the very least manipulating and changing quarks, but maybe going even past that (for example, changing strings if string theory is real). Obviously all this is just speculative BS from someone not well educated in the field. But it’s fun to imagine.

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Raulr100@reddit

How are photons not matter? They have mass.

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-StalkedByDeath-@reddit

Photons *don't* have mass, at least not in the classic sense, which is why they aren't considered matter. They have relativistic mass due to their speed, but they don't have mass the way electrons/protons/neutrons have mass.

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inTsukiShinmatsu@reddit

It's not an Oracle it's AI

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SergenteA@reddit

Think of, how many historical or natural sights there are near your town or city? Yet you, likely go on vacation 1000 km away, instead of exploring nearby.

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zeppy457@reddit

Has bro seen like half the animals?

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UsErNaMeS_aR_DuMb@reddit

A shrimp that punches at the speed of sound, a horse with the height of a building, a miniature whale with a majestic horn, and fish that can (albeit momentarily) fly. There are many universes where these things are mythical creatures of make believe. But here in this universe, they are just some of the many wondrous animals that inhabit the planet alongside us.

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SuperMageFromOW@reddit

Horse with size of a building? Fuckit, I wanna be the ACKSHUALLY person for once Horses and giraffes are actually pretty different from each other. The giraffe's closest living relative is the okapi. ~~they do just look like big horses though. Evolution is a bitch~~ Fun giraffe facts: we have the same number of vertebrae they do in their neck. On males, the "horns" on their head are made of fucking BONE.

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Ycr1998@reddit

Can you make a living fighting those creatures and have bards telling stories of how you defeated them? No. Is it at least _impressive_ killing one of them with the best weapons available? Nope, you're just murdering a poor animal that was minding their own business. Can you _at least_ craft powerful relics and weapons from their corpse? No, just normal bones. So where's the adventure? Yes those creatures exist, but there's nothing epic we can do _about_ them. They're just there. Dragons kidnap princesses. Goblins raid villages. The fun is fantasy is that there's always a call to _do_ something about those problems _with_ magical creature. All the problems in real life are caused by normal boring humans fighting normal boring humans. Yeah the secret temples and magical beasts exist but they have nothing to do with anything.

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WeeTheDuck@reddit

you can literally become a scientist and find ways to cure diseases. You'd save millions if not billions and people will remember you for centuries. Just excuses man

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UsErNaMeS_aR_DuMb@reddit

> In the past, you had gladiators and hunters who got fame and fortune fighting the beasts that exist now. Even in the present, you can say that circus performers such as lion tamers fill this niche in the fame category, and that hunters (legally or otherwise) fill the fortune category. > That’s more of a symptom of the fact that we, through the magics that scientific advancement has provided us, have gone too far in vanquishing the beats which had so long endangered our lives. > Various invaluable materials can be recovered from animals, such as horseshoe crab blood, natural silk, and the various amount of ancient relics made from mere “normal bones”. > I don’t think that one has to slaughter and/or tame the animals in nature in order to have an adventure. The discovery, study, and appreciation of nature are adventures all on their own. And believe it or not, studying animals isn’t just paperwork and taxonomy. > Dragon kidnappings mean burned villages, which means thousands of dead innocent villagers. Goblin raids mean devastated families and raped women. The true quest of all fields of science, which is the only true equivalent of magic of this world, is to solve the real problems we face (illness, starvation, ignorance), whose calls to action are intrinsic in their own natures. > If the causes and combatants in real life problems were so boring, then why would anyone go to the effort of spreading the news of such things as far and as wide as they have been spread right now? Perhaps, in being partially (but not completely) disconnected from the world’s real problems, the temples and the beasts serve the role as momentary reprieves from what can seem to be bleak odds at overcoming the problems of real life.

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rly_weird_guy@reddit

Man I got bullied so hard when I read about flying fish in a book and everyone at school thought I'm a dumbass

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ElectroNikkel@reddit

Like straight of a comedy fantasy adventure, like Konosuba or some shi. Don't forget the grenade tree!

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Delts28@reddit

I've been lucky enough to see flying fish when I worked on a container ship. They would occasionally land on deck which was 5m above the water. They were majestic in flight.

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MarthUTilt@reddit

Biologically immortal jellyfish

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KazakiriKaoru@reddit

And not all jellyfish, just this particular species. Australia also has the most painful plant in the world(Gimpi gimpi) And the dumbest animal in the world that eats nothing but poison(koala)

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roankr@reddit

Welcome back Carl Sagan.

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Brave33@reddit

As usual fiction pales in comparison to reality.

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Thin_General_8594@reddit

Wtf does anon thing earth is? It's FULL of fantasy and mystery https://preview.redd.it/084z1ao604sg1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c79e578f168e504e955856e278e3b54f8703d875 God, I hate up their own ass nihilists

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EthernalForADay@reddit

Soooo... What you're saying is, best we can do is some pretty views that you'll have to save up for for years on end? That is, if it even is possible to do where you are from. Yeah, thanks. Personally, I'd rather risk my life joining an adventurers guild, fighting goblins in ancient dungeons, finding ancient spells/useful artifacts left by long gone civilizations and protecting trade carriages for a living. And no, earth is not full of fantasy and/or mystery. All the mysteries that remain are within incredibly specialized niches, most of which are unlikely to even be useful to anyone once discovered and/or studied. Fantasy is also dubious at best. The only earthly fantasy most of us have, is daydreaming about things we could never realistically afford, or be able to do. Don't get me wrong, earth has stuff to do and enjoy, besides, it is quite safe relatively speaking, which in turn allows us to create those fantastical worlds that we crave so much, but you cannot tell me that it is realistically and objectively more interesting and wonderous than worlds we, humans, conceived exactly because most of us will never get to experience said wonders in any form throughout our lifetimes. It is exactly why those worlds exist in our imaginations to begin with.

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lupusrex13@reddit

But I will see none of it and enjoy none of it so what does it matter, what the fuck does anything matter. I just want to feel alive but there is nothing for me on this cursed god damned earth.

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Thin_General_8594@reddit

Go outside

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lupusrex13@reddit

I do I travel through the woods near by but it doesn't help nothing does. No Matter what I do who I hangout with, I am still a hollow shell of a man, and honestly I don't think that will ever change. Thank you all the same for the advice and I truly hope you have a wonderful day.

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SaltySeni0r@reddit

This might sound stupid, but go back out to the woods with no expectation of beauty or anything. Start staring at grass or a tree or whatever and let whatever thoughts start flowing. Two things can happen: you start thinking really in depth about the tree or the grass or whatever, or you start thinking about something else. Sounds dull but sometimes your best interests are gonna have to come from something boring. Gotta let the mind breath and stop trying to force more interests on it, just let whatever your minds wants to happen happen while staring at a tree.

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KitchenAd5997@reddit

Even if you lived in that fantasy world, things would be the same if you did the same things now

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Godhole34@reddit

filters doing some heavy lifting for a lot of these tbh Not that these places don't look good without filters, but definitely not anywhere as good.

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Thin_General_8594@reddit

Is that not a form of magic of its own? The capability to preserve and modify images

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Dragwhal@reddit

Is that not the point of the post?

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ffidhaon@reddit

The best way to beat a nihilist in an argument is to kill them.

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The_Noremac42@reddit

If you lived in a fantasy world full of mystery and adventure, most of that mystery and adventure would probably kill you.

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brain_rot_studios@reddit

OOP for sure thinks that he would be the main character/hero in such a world. He would actually be a garlic farmer or poop shoveler

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mason878787@reddit

The real world has very few mysterious to solve, but it definitely has adventure that will kill you (I wanna go on an Australian walkabout)

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clone9786@reddit

Very few mysteries? Nonsense! Why, I know a mysterious island that could use a few heroes to infiltrate and uncover on an epic quest!

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Thin_General_8594@reddit

RE zero, (freiren too)is the best example of this I can think of The "fantasy" world filled with beautiful women and magic is fucking **terrifying** and causes him to be manipulated and killed 1000s of times, and in frieren the only reason our cast doesn't die is because they are the wisest and most powerful warriors in their world

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Meme_Master_Dude@reddit

Also in Frieren, even though they have the Mage of the Hero Party with them, running away is still something they do when they encounter a enemy they can't beat, either due to circumstances (anti-magic field) or just a horde of enemies The average Joe is gonna get eaten by a plant the moment they leave their town

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SomeStolenToast@reddit

Just look at how many villages have been destroyed by demons, you dont even have to leave town to die as a peasant at age 30

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ThePassiveGamer@reddit

Damn I wish a beautiful demon would find my village, crush me between her thighs, and then step on me 😈😍

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Jamgull@reddit

The world is full of mystery and adventure, but you can’t experience it properly if you have main character syndrome. You have to understand that you’re not a hero or a villain, you’re just some guy.

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SpaceBug176@reddit

Anon just wants that wereussy.

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AccomplishedWar265@reddit

Fuck you, yesterday i made a fire with gasoline. It said poof and was awesome

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SatoAgain@reddit

I just want to squeeze the deathclaw milkers

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SuperSocialMan@reddit

Need me a mommyclaw fr

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BoogaloGunner@reddit

r/deathclawmating would like a word

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Mar3czek@reddit

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Lukthar123@reddit

They would squeeze you

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arbiter12@reddit

You say it like it's a bad thing

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AvidCyclist250@reddit

Yes, also we are aliens

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EquivalentSnap@reddit

Average person isn’t gonna be the main character of those stories. There living their mundane boring lives

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warablo@reddit

The truth is stranger than fiction

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Dat_aint_Falco22@reddit

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Foxintoxx@reddit

We just went through a global pandemic and year long lockdowns which significantly changed many aspects of life throughout the world and we're now facing civilizational struggle against the AI takeover of society while WWIII is brewing . If you had told that to any of us 20 years ago it would've sounded like science fiction .

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TheTwistedHero1@reddit

Unironically if someone in medieval Europe saw an elephant they'd think it was a monster

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sharterfart@reddit

Bro I'm a gamer I've literally lived 1000s of lives

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Letters_to_Dionysus@reddit

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. -blood meridian

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Lone-Frequency@reddit

Incorrect. In most classic fantasy, there is a general sense of exploration and mystery about the world, whether it be due to hidden treasures, ancient dungeons from past civilizations, magical creatures the likes of which no one has ever seen before, ancient magics lost to time throughout the world, etc. On modern-day Earth, most things within reason have been fairly will explored and well documented.

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nothing_in_my_mind@reddit

True. And also part of the dream is having the powers/means to explore the world and deal with its dangers.

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Lone-Frequency@reddit

Wanderlust is the primary draw for most of these stories. That's why most fantasy settings have countries with primarily open borders, and not the Fantasy equivalent of the TSA or 5 hour layover flights via dragons. Fantasy worlds, despite their typically higher inherent dangers, are also typically far more open and free for people with the mettle and willingness to set forth to see it with their own eyes.

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StrawberryFarms@reddit

The original OP is talking about the feeling of adventure and exploration in a fantasy world. Most of the commenters here are saying Earth is also like a fantasy world and that if we were born in an actual fantasy setting, we’d find it mundane too. Sure, that’s true, but the OP is talking about the experience of being in one, that sense of wonder you only get if you’re transported into that world, not if you were born there.

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Lone-Frequency@reddit

Even if we were born there, most of those settings are shown to be vast stretches of unexplored wilderness, ancient ruins with legendary treasures, etc. The people commenting that we would find it all super boring and mundane if we were born in that world are thinking of it in terms of the fantasy world being just as heavily settled, explored, and historically catalogued as modern day Earth, which is almost never the case in these settings. Most of the time fantasy settings are placed in Medieval or Victorian era European-style locales, where most "technology" is powered purely through sorcery, where a horse and carriage is the most common mode of transportation for the average person, where the land is steeped in *thousands* of years of fragmented history of previous civilizations whom are only known about through the ruins of their once great culture. We aren't talking about "Modern day Earth but add some dragons and a few people with magic wands." In these worlds there is *vastly* more freedom and a sense of exploration and discovery than ours. Even if you *were* born there. Look at stories like Frieren, FMA, hell even Pokemon if you wanna get way more modern. Pokemon's world is stuffed to the gills with *all* of the things I mentioned, and the people in that world are so free that they have global universal healthcare and let freaking *ten year olds* go out on months or years-long adventures with superpowered animals around every turn.

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haojifu@reddit

There is an entire universe of unexplained by science supernormal phenomena that can be examined by anyone who isn't a dyed in the wool skeptic and has the humility to admit that maybe we don't have everything figured out. The frontiers of the mind are just waiting to be explored by literally anyone that cares to.

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Fusifufu@reddit

I think even the modern world allows for exploration if you are fine with being somewhat outrageous or cringe, or generally high agency. I'm not that way, unfortunately, but if anything, people like Trump or Musk should inspire us that you can simply do unconventional things and the world just lets you do it.

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Moe_el@reddit

I just wanna explore the stars man, I want to see what’s beyond of observable universe but no some old cronies have decided it’s not profitable instead we get more orbital debris

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haojifu@reddit

Learn to astral project 🤷‍♂️

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love-em-feet@reddit

I considere real time conversations, information transfer from other side of the world is fantastic

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bdrwr@reddit

Buddy, we can FLY and have instantaneous magic mirror style face to face conversations and level cities in an instant

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Expensive-Season-567@reddit

me if dinosaur didn't seppuku themselves. i would just treat them as lizard

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mason878787@reddit

if you see our world as boring and mundane, you'll probably be bored by a fantasy world. But there is absolutely adventure and mystery in this world, you just have to get off your ass and look for it.

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frontlinejohnny@reddit

My guy probably wrote this post with a little slab of plastic that he keeps in his pocket and thinks theres no wonders on this earth

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CarlosimoDangerosimo@reddit

Born to be an anime protagonist Forced to live in a country ruled by an obese pedophile and watch in horror as no one (including myself) does anything about it

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Momongus-@reddit

At least you know just about everyone is as mediocre

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Jozef_Baca@reddit

Born to be a Gurren Lagann protagonist Forced to be an Evangelion protagonist

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Saket666@reddit

Well yeah but it sucks, I can't go to the neighbouring town because customs won't let me, I can't go the the tavern and get a job because the "market" is overpopulated, 10% of everything I buy goes to the king whom I can't kill because I'll be shredded with a micro cannon his lackeys carry.

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drifters74@reddit

I just want adventure in life, but can't afford it

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ZachF8119@reddit

Real life is full of mystery and adventure Million people in a city. A million conversations. A billion connections. Millions of locations

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Wobblabob@reddit

What's the real world equivalent of taking up a sword and going to seek my fortune? Printing off a CV/resume? What's the real world equivalent of finding hidden treasure on a quest? Taking some annual leave to visit a national park? What's the real world equivalent of conjuring fire from your hands and soaring through the sky? Gymnastics and a parachute? What's the real world equivalent to surviving on your wits, meeting people, helping them, and moving on, with your band of companions? Joining the local council?

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twofacetoo@reddit

Yep, a while ago a friend sent me a video that was basically 'modern life written like a cyberpunk novel'. It really puts things into perspective

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OfficialHelpK@reddit

The world is full of mystery and adventure but if you spend all your time on Reddit and 4chan you won't realise it

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Individual-Heart-719@reddit

Facts. They’d just complain on 4Orb about illegal orcs taking all the jobs and the goblins secretly controlling the world and that’s the reason they haven’t left their parent’s cottage to go to wizard school, or join the merchant’s guild, or join the local warrior’s guild.

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cragon_dum@reddit

r/wizardposting

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ionevenobro@reddit

guy: "¿¿𓅃𓉔𓄿𓏏 𓂧𓇋𓂧 𓇌𓅱𓅲 𓋴𓄿𓇌 ??" me: "Yeah uhh the dead matter juice used to run our metal carriages is getting expensive lately, so we'll have to walk about 10 minutes to buy fruit shipped from across the ocean."

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IT_techsupport@reddit

I'd argue Gandalf would be fascinated if I gave him a vape pen 🤷‍♂️, each civilazatino saw their own as mundande probably.

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ned334@reddit

I used to think: aw if I lived in that fantasy world, id spend every living second learning magic to be the best in the world. And then I go: if that would be true, then why am I not the best at any sport, math, medicine, law anything. Id be lazy in the wizarding world as well

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Goingallinn@reddit

You don't need the surrounding environment to be magical, you just need to have the right balance of chemicals in your brain, then everything will feel magical. If you dont have that, then you will be miserable in every one of those magical fantasy worlds :).

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Sad-Guarantee-4678@reddit

Anon would be eaten, asshole first, by the first pack of whateverthefucks raiding his village

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Satisfying_Fog17@reddit

Our lives are spent on a planet in which violent discharges of electricity occasionally strike the ground and surrounding objects in the form of what we refer to a "thunders". There exist organisms almost exclusively made up of water; a minority of these is capable of cloning themselves at the very end of their lives. Meanwhile, engineering is a realm which is slowly approaching the marvels magic (to some, it already is equal). At any age, the mere concept of a volcano would amaze anyone who lacked exposure to it in their very childhood. These are mere examples; this very world is what you may define as "fantasy".

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Pattern__Noticer@reddit

The fish doesn't know what wet is.

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SyntheticDuckFlavour@reddit

People who think this way are mundane and lack drive. Our reality is filled with mystery and wonder. Even if smarter people already discovered and described most of it, none of us are born with that innate knowledge. If you ever observed toddlers and young kids, you will see them as explorers. They are always curious, asking questions and driven to uncover the mystery about anything that crosses their paths. Sadly, at some point, many of these kids grow up and stop being curious. I don't know why. The world is yours to explore and learn about. With the age of information, pursuing and satisfying your curiosity has been never easier. But many people choose not to, and prefer to experience the world through the window of others shitposting on tiktok.

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Escanorr_@reddit

We dont know if we discovered most of it. Eistein was advised to not pursue physics cause it was completely solved field with nothing to discover. Then the entire relativity happend and suddenly we know nothing. We could be living in a matrix we could in the future access more dimensions manipulate matter, traverse time - who knows? Certainly we dont

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sofa_adviser@reddit

People have already talked about many wonders of our world, so I'll mention my personal fascination - combat aircraft are literally irl mecha, but somehow even cooler: The pride of their nation, on the very bleeding edge of technological development A single craft can level a city block by itself A couple dozen are enough to meaningfully shift the balance in a war Piloted by a single person(sometimes two) Expensive af Air battles are the most spectacular thing ever

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Jack-of-Hearts-7@reddit

If I'm really living in a fantasy world, cast a spell of reappear on my Dad. ...Please?

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roankr@reddit

Someone probably did but it's like carpe retractum and your dad hit three walls on the way and I don't think you want to see the results of that.

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NotRandomseer@reddit

Even with all the protag cheats , most fantasy worlds seem like they'd suck.

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roankr@reddit

No lotion or handsanitizer can make those standards change drastically

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Literally_A_turd_AMA@reddit

Monsters = animals Magic = science Adventure = leaving your house

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kapaipiekai@reddit

I remember doing acid and watching a preying mantis fuck up a wasp in the garden. Some shit about elves or wizards doesn't compare to the shit happening everywhere all the time.

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MoggerOfManila@reddit

>bad guys are still the Jews

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Judah_Earl@reddit

Well, Orcs have overrun my shire...

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