• Maltese_Liquor@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I see people make comments like this about shows, movies, etc. and I’ve never understood this line of thinking. I generally expect things to work the same as they do in real life unless it’s explicitly explained otherwise. Not sure if I’m the odd man out in thinking that way or what.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 hours ago

      you sorta said it but an exception is places like the fae wilds, where you assume physics is only barely present enough to hold your organs together (hopefully)

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      13 hours ago

      No, you’re right IMO. Just because something is different from our world doesn’t mean all logical consistency is off the table. This idea is called versimilitude.

      • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        Verisimilitude

        I had to look this up and I’m very surprised this is a borrowed word in English, at first glance I would assume it’s an evolution of “very similar to”