• AFK BRB Chocolate
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    310 months ago

    Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be believable. A good story shouldn’t make you suspend disbelief to the point that it keeps feeling unrealistic, at least within the world that the author created.

    If I write a story about an average Joe who goes back in time to the 1700s, people might be able to accept that premise, but then if I write that, because he’s from our time, he knows how to do everything our civilization does, from making and programming a computer to building a jet airplane to landing people on the moon, I think most people would find that too unrealistic to be enjoyable.

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      Okay I might have written that comment little bit of tongue in cheek just as the op, but regardless we’re talking about whole another level of unbelievably. All major countries teaming up against alien threat? Yeah sure bit of a stretch but maybe. Compare to your example? Completely different story

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
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        210 months ago

        And yet, to OP’s point, we couldn’t even all agree - or come close to all agreeing - to get vaccinated to stop a virus that was killing millions of people and jamming hospitals.