Pulp Fiction, Fantasy Land and Why There's no Sci-Fi Land - Matt Colville Clip

Excerpt from Matthew Colville's Twitch Stream which can be found here: / mcdm
Sometimes I just love hearing Matt Colville speak. His thoughts on how pulp fiction informed fantasy was interesting.
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[@davidioanhedges]

Medieval meat was rarely chicken, eggs were eaten, but you rarely ate chicken... it was more likely to be mutton ...
The ubiquity of chicken as the default cheap meat is a very recent trend

[@RotmistrzAleks]

Very interesting and makes sense

[@digitaljanus]

In the mid-90s TSR put out the Alternity RPG, which was ostensibly trying to be the generic SF system in much the way D&D was the generic fantasy system. An otherwise positive review in Dragon Magazine--TSR's own publication!--noted that this premise was faulty. IIRC, the money statement was "Think about Dune, Alien, Star Wars, and Star Trek, the biggest science fiction properties, and think about how they all handle interstellar travel. Completely differently from each other! Can you really capture all those options with a 'generic' system?"

[@stephensutherland2830]

What did/could he mean about a Puritan/Calvinistic attitude toward material things? I don’t think those speak to what he’s trying to address.

[@ChristopherRoss.]

The term "Puritan" has come to mean minimalism and moral conservatism outside of the theological definition. The idea coming down to attaching morality to _things_ . Things that excite emotion or are pleasurable are "bad", while things that are bland and uninteresting are "good". Personally I find the idea a parasite on the theology, but the common parlance of the term still holds.
In Matt's example, I think he's more talking about the value in general attached to things. Books are expensive, therefore they are precious. If you own it, you own it for a purpose.
Yes I'm replying to a year old comment. *shrug*

[@stephensutherland2830]

@@ChristopherRoss. I appreciate the reply! It took me a while to remember the context. If that’s what he meant it’s a tragically wrong understanding of the Puritans, but that doesn’t mean your interpretation in wrong. Strange paths that terms and definitions take over time.

[@cameronmaas2644]

“They don’t have used book stores anymore more.”

[@antoniopadilha2476]

Is this true in america or is he exagerating?

[@jackhopper3752]

@@antoniopadilha2476 Possibly, I don't know what the bookstore circuit is like in Southern California, where Matt lives. But there is a US chain called Half Price Books which sort of pulls double duty as a used bookstore and a new one. I live in Chicago and I only know of maybe two or three independent bookstores that ONLY sell used books. There are stores that have used book sections in addition to selling new releases, though. Maybe he's excluding them?

[@JFGraham26]

@@antoniopadilha2476I have a used book store local, but they’re rare!

[@angryguy3000]

The Matrix is set near the year 3,000 and in a fake 1999 - I like how matt considers this “the near future”