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[Neruz]

I don't agree that we're all magically getting some sort of unconscious urge to write the same stories over and over again. I'd rather just hit that with occam's razor and say we're drawing inspiration from our ancestors. And the reason that civilizations have similar myths even though they had "no contact" is because them having no contact with each other is bullshit. We all came from the same place.

More accurately; there are only about 6 - 9 different core storylines (or 'threads').


There just aren't that many original ideas in the world.

[Jude]

Yeah, Jung's idea of the universal mind or whatever is too mystical, but it basically reflects the notions of human universals - common biology leads to common thought processes, which translates into societies developing many parallels, and people thinking in the same ways about lots of things, such as stories.

[Armok]

Ok, I just come home after watching Avatar (in 3d) and it's EPIC! Everything good said about it is true and everything bad said about it is false. And this is for someone who do 3d himself, read TV tropes, and tend to be very picky about scifi hardness.
I think people who consider the movie unoriginal don't really get the REAL plot in all its nuances, and it actually has pretty good science for a movie.

[Duke 2.0]

Ok, I just come home after watching Avatar (in 3d) and it's EPIC! Everything good said about it is true and everything bad said about it is false. And this is for someone who do 3d himself, read TV tropes, and tend to be very picky about scifi hardness.
I think people who consider the movie unoriginal don't really get the REAL plot in all its nuances, and it actually has pretty good science for a movie.

If you don't have anything to complain about then you don't get what we are REALLY whining about.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

Nearly all societies had mythos of pointy eared elves regardless of whether they had contact with each other.

pointy eared elves are newer than short dwarves, in the earlier tales dwarves were not described as short, and elves gained their pointy ears with tolkien and the lotr

A hallmark of fantasy elves is also their long and pointed ears (a convention begun with a note of Tolkien's that the ears of elves were "leaf-shaped")

[Neruz]

Yeah, the Elves of old were pretty nasty critters known for eating children, amongst other things.

[Nadaka]

How is that different from dwarf fortress canon?

[cowofdoom78963]

I just got back from seeing avatar in 3d.


It was Sooooo good.


Soooooooooo good.

[jvempire]

How is that different from dwarf fortress canon?

Since when does Dwarf Fortress have a canon?

[dragnar]

Yeah, the Elves of old were pretty nasty critters known for eating children, amongst other things.

You mean the Fay/The fair folk? Yeah, They were only called that because a more accurate name would be met with deadly retaliation. You would be lucky to simply be killed, and that's just the "good" seelie fay.

[KaelGotDwarves]

How is that different from dwarf fortress canon?

Since when does Dwarf Fortress have a canon?

Well, whatever Toady does to the base game is considered DF canon, as opposed to all the mods.

For example, cannibal elves are a fairly new addition that was a result of the world gen history portion of the army arc being finished and the ethics tag for elves eating the bodies of fallen enemies added into the raws. Also, demon carp. They used to be worse too.

The day after that release was hysterical on the forums.

[Sensei]

Yeah, the Elves of old were pretty nasty critters known for eating children, amongst other things.

What DOESN'T eat children in old faery tales? Including children?

[KaelGotDwarves]

What DOESN'T eat children in old faery tales? Including children?

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Jesus

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[The Mad Engineer]

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This movie depressed me.  All fantasy movies do.  However, they do so on two reasons.  The first being that the movie sucked, and I feel sorry for the genre, or the second being that it is not real and I really want it to be.  With Avatar, it is most certainly the second.

Also, in the end, (Hence spoilers) wouldn't the humans come back?  What's stopping them from amassing Earth's armies and burning Pandora to the ground with some well-placed nukes?

Obviously, the cat smurfs need some sort of leverage to prevent an act of retribution on the part of "The Company".  Maybe if they mined that huge Tiberium deposit (The tree is dead, it would be a shame to waste the opportunity)  for free, and shipped it back home?

They should have kept the humans as slave labor in order to mine the stuff.  But then they would be the bad guys...  What do you think?


Also, on the subject of foating mountains, me and my friend had some ideas.  This unobtanium could probably be some sort of magnetoresistor, that changes its magnetic field with current.  That would mean that the mountains could be held aloft by magnetic force alone, accounting for the messed up sensors of the humans.  But in order to correctly levitate such vast and disparate pieces of rock, you would need some sort of huge computer network, capable of calculating the magnetic flux needed and adjusting the electrical signals being sent into the bedrock.  Enter the Tree Hivemind.  But in order to do so, you would need vast amounts of energy, (Not to mention that a photosyntetic plant organism probably couldn't generate enough power to sustain a neural net), which leads me to conclude that at the core of the tree, there must be some sort of naturally occuring evolved fusion power plant.  The fact that the trees still use photosynthesis is an evolutionary throwback.  So what we have here is an evolved hivemind powered by fusion power, that levitates mountains because it is bored.  What fun!

There.  Plot hole filled.

[Armok]

Seconded mad engineer. Also, there is canonically room temperature superconductor in the ground, and some of those rock formations look quite a fit like field lines, so the mountains levitating completely naturally only requires a MINOR breach of the laws of physics. (assumig that   they are not made of solid unobtanium, because then the humans would just mine THOSE. In fact, if I didn't know that unobtanium has to be limited due to that it wouldnt be so valuable otherwise, I'd assume they ARE 90% of it and that there is some molten unobtanium seas spinning at the center of the planet generating massive electricity and magnetism levitating them.)