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seth hard carried, other guy just likes to hear himself talk. other guy mainly regurgitated what seth said and relished in his own glory, at least that's the vibe i got. he sounds like hes convinced everything he says is liquid gold, continuously interrupting seth with less important/helpful information. first ever episode i saw, maybe I'm just in a foul mood and have a misguided perspective, maybe there's something to it. I also really like progression fantasy, so maybe seth had a point there..

It's definitely what I miss. Although Hard Sci-Fi has it's place, it's important to realize we've only had serious tech for barely a century. Classics like Dune and Foundation are set ten thousand years into the future, and considering how many physical laws have advanced in that short time, and unless you want to argue this is as good as it gets, you may as well just throw out the physics textbooks at those timescales because who the heck knows what will happen.

I find the most compelling fantasy story telling has a way of highlighting both the aristocracy of a world as well as foundation layers of society, AKA everyday people such as farmers, miners, bakers, street sweepers, and so on. Everything floats on the mundane foundations of life. At the same time everyday people are fascinating when we take the time to explore their lives instead of following the classic was of just highlighting those we perceive as 'in power'. Farming or foraging would be just about the base layer, as well as hunters, because if your society doesn't eat, it doesn't exist. (Unless you flip it and create a race that doesn't need to eat. That would be cool to explore.)

Great episode! I find that three of the most important parts of a culture is celebrations, clothes, and foods. I'd love to see more attention spent on all those topics in world building, and they can truly make a world stand out.

Always cool to see people genuinely passionate about this show. I might be biased given i've always loved wildlife and environmental science but Scavenger's Reign struck a chord in me that no other piece of media, short of maybe the game "In Other Waters" by Jump Over The Age, has before. A genuinely awe inspiring, harsh and dispassionate yet beautiful alien world that feels like something truly out of this world rather than simply mirroring the life found on earth. Believable yet unknowable at the same time. Alive. It's an ethos I want to strive for with my own writing and TTRPG storytelling. Great video mate!

It does have some cool setting ideas & presentations, unfortunately the chars, dialogue, plot, & pacing aren't great which makes the show a bit of a slog. Finished it but sped it up to 1.5x speed after the first 2 eps, deprioritized the plot & dialogue, focused on the setting & visual setpieces.

Thanks for having me bro!

So THAT'S what Fatboy Slim meant! Took me FOREVER to finally get it!!

2:24 " I don't want to set the world on fire, I just wanna tell you about A world where I did"

Zom 100 is the anime you were thinking of towards the end

Great discussion 😊

Great video! I really liked the tips mentioned. I love the idea of a very grounded, realistic fantasy world - it really deepens the effect of simple magic or anything unnatural. Rarity, proximity, and barriers to entry, along with making what you want to make, are great ideas! There is a lot of randomness or rather "organized chaos" in world-building, much like the real world. Are you planning to do something specific for Dungeons and Dragons world-building? I’m more of a visual builder (animated scenes, landscapes, atmospheres, etc.), so I create maps and scenes for other DnD campaigns while also building my own world that others can use later.

My old dm studied economics and accounting if I’m remembering right, and his homebrew setting reflected that. Gods were essentially bankers and stockbrokers trading in souls, goblin currency came with a purposeful luck debuff to force currency to move quickly and train goblins to be self-reliant and clever, to name a couple things. The campaign I was a part of had a huge focus on townbuilding which evolved into running a nation, and the level of though this man put into fleshing out trade and national economies and how those things impacted various groups still boggles my mind. Sure, there was still normal DnD stuff to do, but we also had to think about supply and demand and find clever ways to use magic and trade contracts to become a self-sufficient nation before a well-established nation could annihilate us. The whole experience had a significant impact on me as a writer

Rarity, Proximity and Barriers to Entry …. Love it!

Tolkien = plot driven C.S. Lewis = Character Driven Tolkien's strength is world Building (of course) C.S. Lewis 's strength is his proes and character development. Two wonderfully different ways of approaching writing and two great friends that show them in amazing ways. Super interesting how fairy tale and myth intersects in both of their works.

By far one of the best cartoons ever made. I watched it when it first came out and am STILL enjoying it with my kids to this day.

I would describe C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy as Sience Fantasy. (Really loved all of them as a teen.)

You guys talk about "finding meaning" in the world. Kinda vague. Could you give an example of how you found meaning in one of your worlds? Or point me to a video where you gave an example?

A lot has evolved from my days of pencil, paper, and grid paper notebooks. I found Campfire through NaNoWriMo and for the most part, it has done its job. Thanks to Jon for the recommendations on world building software. I have been doing this since the 90s, and only recently wrote a book using similar software; man I wish I had this software in my early days of DM'ing though.

Hell yeah man!

I don’t think I ever thought that deeply about the world development of arcane. However the characters are so well developed and the artwork is so beautiful and intricate that I watch it despite not enjoying how dark it is.

19:25 “Does this Unit have a soul?” Moment

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hey James! hey Seth!

I think @9ja9ite brings up a good point. I think some of this comes down to intent, and the audience. We all have a scaffolding in which we experience and interpret the world. I've heard people (sapients, or reasoning biological creatures ... however you want to think about thinking) described as predictive difference engines. We can't stop our brains from predicting the future and then comparing our experiences to those predictions. This is why people get better at stuff the more they do it (practices makes ... etc). We typically can't turn this off, and to really step outside our frame of reference, or the context of our experiences, is one of the points of story telling. Allegory doesn't try to build any more context than absolutely necessary, and anything that is expected outside of what is described seldom has an impact on the story. It just really doesn't matter where the troll comes from. But, as people develop more sophisticated frameworks with which to perceive the world around them, and the world of stories, the more the world of the story matters. You can be as fantastical as you want, as long as you aren't so incongruent that your visitant to the world just says ... nope ... I can't follow that, and I don't want to keep trying (or perhaps that's the experience they are going for). ... where was I going with this? ... oh, right ... I'm only 12 minutes into the video ... I'll watch the rest of it before really spending some time writing a comment. 😛

I noticed that, too. It's a fictional story about what happened. If that's how it happened, then that's what happened, and since it is entertaining, you tell the story. There's no problem with the plot. It's not even that there is a problem but that the problem doesn't really matter, it's that there...is...no...problem.

I think that’s what makes the series so different from everything else

Titanic was a dumb movie. Nothing Rose and Jack do stop the Titanic from sinking. The only thing their story effects is Rose ends up on slab of wood (which was clearly big enough for two) instead of one of the evac boats. Chinatown (generally regarded as one of the all time greats) is stupid. Gittes accomplishes nothing, everything that was going to happen happened anyways and he was always one step behind anyways. Watchmen, usually considered one of the greatest comic book movies ever, is all about the heroes having no effect on the villain's plot. The Pianist, the protagonist has no effect. He goes to a Concentration camp and is killed. Nothing he does stops the Holocaust. Best example, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is all about two characters who are important to the play, ut have no effect on the overall story. It's almost like the purpose of a story is to entertain, and not necessarily for the character to advance the plot. And Raiders is a super entertaining story. Plus, as others have already pointed out, Indy's role is hugely important to several dozen dead Germans, a handful of dead Nepalese henchmen, one dead Arab swordsman, a dead monkey and a not dead Miriam. Plus since he's literally the last man standing he's pretty important to the outcome.

Also the Germans would have come back and got the ark cause indy would not have taken it away.

This video is a waste of time, offering no real information of value; just a useless opinion from an idiot.

No, indy was the one who found the ark. The Nazis were digging in the wrong place.

Miriam would have died. Indy was important.

But he is also basically the same character at the end of the film as he was at the start. He is a good example of "not every protagonist needs an arc."

I didn't have an issue with the politics in mistborn, it could have been done better but it was fairly unobtrusive. However, I feel like Brandon Sanderson couldn't make the story he wanted without some politics involved.

Oh boy. FIRST!

It's insane that Christopher Walken learned the sand walk and aged himself just for Dune 2....such Dedication

First time seeing you guys come up on my feed. You had me scratching my head out of the gate when you were saying world building started with the brothers Grimm and the moved into Tolkiens time. You guys - what do you think religion is? It’s world building. Angels and demons and spirit realms. All the religions of world have just been people world building for thousands of years. All the way back to ancient Sumerian texts they were creating myths and legends. World building is practically the oldest form of creative writing humans do.

He almost worked with the actress/heroine from the first Dune film in “Batman Returns”, but because she has a rotten personality to work with, Burton went with Pfipher instead.

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Lets go! Super excited for this one.

It was even cooler in the Jedi Academy trilogy (Legends novels) when an Imperial remnant attacked the Jedi Praxeum and one of the students (Dorsk 81) Force pushed 3 Star Destroyers from Yavin 4's orbit to outside the star system. It ended up killing him, but making an FTL Force push against multiple starships has got to beat Starkiller.

Legends luke could move black holes so legends power limits are way higher then cannon especially Disney cannon

If I remember correctly, it wasn't just a star destroyer....it was a super star destroyer which are almost a dozen times bigger than the average star destroyer

DAMN THE CONSEQUENCES!!!!

Starkiller is just built different

The problem with saying he was powerful enough to pull down a star destroyer: it was already coming down, he was just delving deep into The Force to adjust its direction. Its not a small feat at all, but it is less power than a lot of people try to estimate.

I never said no. It put force works for others better if they can be tricked in to believing. The only limit to the force is one's will. No try, just do. That is why so many fans loved the animated Starwars clonewars shorts from Cartoonnet work that team from Samuri Jack did.