faythofdragons

I get it. My first introduction to FOSS was getting insulted by people for not knowing about FOSS, and it really put me off of things. It was made abundantly clear to me that only smart people know about Linux, and if I didn't know about Linux, I was too stupid to run Linux and needed to stick to Windows like the loser I was.

So I stuck to Windows because I'd rather be a loser than an asshole. I have since tried linux, but everybody hates that I think Ubuntu is good for n00bs, so there is no winning.

Unfun fact! Carter tried to establish community mental health care centers across America, but Reagan immediately undid it.

I was hyped for it's release earlier, but now that it's not out of early access yet and they're already releasing DLC, I think I'll give it a pass.

I don't know why my brain said this was memeable, but here we are

Yes, it's not a high bar at all. It just requires slight divergence with reality. Some degree of unreality, if you will.

See, I hear 'fantasy' and think of orks and fairies and shit, but I can think of many non-fantasy movies that have incredibly unrealistic aspects.

Like, idk, James Bond's gizmos are completely unrealistic and break the laws of physics, but it's not fantasy to me.

Like I said in another comment

Yeah, I really think it’s a type of media illiteracy, and it’s much larger than just sexualization.

I envision 'realistic' as a spectrum. If it is 100% realistic, it's a documentary, if it's 100% unrealistic, it's probably a fantasy movie or something, and most works of fiction fall somewhere between.

characters and everything that happens to them are the product of the writers and their research

Like, you understand this is my point, right? The plot is not real, and that's what makes it fictional?

Fiction does not require unrealistic elements.

If it is entirely realistic it is no longer fiction. Ergo, fiction needs some degree of unreality. I don't see how that's controversial, haha.

What's wrong with it?

Nah, fiction needs unrealistic elements. You can have realism in fiction, but fiction is defined by its deviance from fact. If a movie were completely realistic, itd be a documentary.

Yeah, I really think it's a type of media illiteracy, and it's much larger than just sexualization.

Like, I grew up in the church, and remember when they adopted the Left Behind novels into church canon as prophecy. It's the same kind of not being able to tell fact from fiction, and my parent's church encouraged it because they were a bunch of con artists.