Does anyone else get bummed out by the fact that fantasy worlds don't exist? It almost feels like a cruel joke played by God that we humans are capable of creating anything in our heads, new imaginary worlds, fantasy landscapes, people, architecture, ect, yet none of it will ever be real, and can only be lived through vicariously in art. There are no giant underworlds with underground cities like in Elden Ring or Skyrim, no floating sky islands like in Avatar, no orcs or trolls or wizards. All these things are just representations, piss-poor imitations of real life made in the brains of some bipedal ape on some weird green and blue planet.
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Why would you ever want to live in Elden ring
I want to live in Narnia and have a nice supper with Mr and Mrs Beaver and see Aslan.
Based. Love Narnia but only the books. I'm still mad how dogshit those movies were.
Mrs Beaver fricks human men
just read more fantasy books. eventually you'll have your fill and you'll be sick of fantasy shit.
different anon than OP but I've been into fantasy settings for a little under 30 years and I still have no loss of interest
are you really trying to validate that the current planet we live on is better than a world wherein magic is possible
explain yourself
Science and technology are real life magic. Imagine how blown away characters from a fantasy world would be if they saw a smartphone.
science and technology have price tags
magic in most fantasy settings does not
been reading fantasy since I was 7, am now 28, when do I get my fill?
I've been into fantasy for over 25 years and it's just as good to this very day. Though I am selective of what I choose to read.
Relax anon, the best adventure begins when we die just don't try and leave, it is not your decision when you go. See you there some day I hope!
>my life would be just as shit only without all the modern luxuries and internet
no
It wouldn't be fantasy if it was reality
Enjoy the escape
Didn't everyone tell you off already last time you made this thread?
>ywn be a Hobbit enjoying a nice cold ale after a day of hard work in the fields of the Shire
Just move to a farming village in Europe lmao they would love to have some young blood to help out
You'd be a loser in a fantasy reality all the same.
>Does anyone else get bummed out by the fact that fantasy worlds don't exist?
Considering that nearly all fantasy worlds have monsters etc. that could easily kill you, no.
13 is a tough age huh?
You've been hardwired to coom and consoom and as such you'll never be happy with what you have, the idea is to want more 24/7. But think for a minute anon.
The world we live in, as is, is objectively some high level sorcery shit. It's literally something that the wildest escapist autist from the medieval era couldn't even dream of happening. Even if you did get transported to some meme video game (that isn't objectively a dystopian nightmare for everyone except for the MC), and throw fireballs or fly, it'd get fricking mundane FAST.
Here you can travel at a 1000kph speed above the clouds and reach any destination on the planet by tomorrow. You can operate a 1,5 tonne machine of steel that goes up to 200kmh lmao, jump from the tallest building ever with a parachute and land on your feet. Bacteria, deadly viruses, all that shit, you take a pill and within a week you're good as new. Shit, just having the knowledge of billions of other humans, accumulated for a millennia, readily available at your fingertips is insane. This is something you can leverage literally today to pick up any skill and be great at it given enough practice. Objectively a prepared modern day human with our current tools could steamroll half of fantasy.
Now take your pics own advice and touch grass.
this
imagine what we will accomplish in another thousand years
I don't think for one second we'll be in another star system, but we sure as shit will probably have some sweet genetic modifications and cybernetics. Possibly brain dive VR tech that actually lets you live out experiences in fantasy worlds too.
I'd take being a techno-godling over some fantasy wizard anyday, because as the former you could be both.
If we can manage to avoid the Mad Max timeline in the next 50 years...
>Can't melt the world into one with burning eye lasers
It's shit anon.
Based
Not OP but my only complaint about this world is that the world lacks actual wonder and carefree wonder that often just exists in cartoons or a sense of spiritaul peace but otherwise it's a good world
Most of the ocean is unexplored and space is so hilariously big it'll take millions of years to explore our own galaxy.
There's a ton of wonder out there, we just don't have the tech to do anything with it right now, and won't for centuries.
That carefree wonder comes from the fact that mortality doesn't apply the same in a video game than it does in real life.
Yeah, there are no long term consequences for dying in a video game.
neither are there in real life
or rather you won't be there to see them anyway
I know the chances are good that when you die that's it.
But I still hope that conciousness is like some weird quantum inevitability and that you're just thrown into a different universe/later time period once the current you dies because its just so weird to think that your self awareness seemingly came from and will return to nothing. The possibility of infinite other worlds and always perceiving something would make it feel less of a weird improbability that there's anything at all.
I feel the same. It's hard to even imagine what true nothingness is like, and I do think humans have come way too far for everything to be just a giant cosmic coincidence.
It's kind of scary to imagine what's beyond the veil.
we are literally living the golden age of humanity, but everyone is depressed
That's because our brains weren't meant for this society.
A long time ago we spent our days toiling outside, hunting animals, cutting down trees, building shelters.
We didn't have the technology or medicine of today and as a result the average life expectancy was only 30 or so, but that was okay, because that was all we needed to live a fulfilling life.
Now we live in the era of capitalism where we must contribute to society as a whole rather than just our close family. We spend our days inside of houses or buildings, drive cars, and sell cryptocurrency.
That's why so many people these days are on a wienertail of antidepressants. Our brains are old hardware running new software. We were made to be in the wild, our minds are the same as they were 10,000 years ago, and we were never meant to live the way we do now. And that's part of the reason why OP's post exists.
>our brains are old hardware running new software
Probably the best description of the issue I've ever heard.
you are right but in a different way, what we suffer from is information overload, we are not prepared to be connected and aware with everyone in the world all the time
THE PATRIOTS WERE RIGHT
I largely agree, at least for myself personally. Fantasy and magic are all well and good, but sometimes I fantasize about a simple life where I live off of the land, far removed from the craziness of modern wage slavery and working for myself and maybe a few others to just be happy and stay alive. And this is coming from a guy who isn't some simpleton or even lazy at all. I just don't feel at peace with the way society is despite all of its conveniences and technology, which I do enjoy.
>WOAH u can fly on plane to place where nothing is new and everyone has already been to have prepackaged "fun" that only the most brainless can enjoy without noticing that their pathetic existence is the exact same as of billions of other people
YEAH PLANE GO FAST WOOOSH GET ME TO THE SUNSHINE EH 😉
You sound like the most miserable person, I really hope you find happiness one day anon. I cannot imagine anyone would want to spend time around you, you're probably alone and sad as frick.
That’s just 90% of Ganker, dude.
Yes I am miserable because there is nothing new under the sun and everyone is a fricking butthole moron. I can't even enjoy walking down the street because of all the cripple low IQ freaks in the way waddling slowly to god knows where
What I'd give just to meet one, just one, interesting person that isn't terminally online because they are also bored and isolated.
you're not special, you're not smarter than everyone else. Grow up, you need to be 18 to post here.
>you're not smart
Everyone that says this is low IQ and takes an hour to figure out how to construct an Ikea flat pack. Shut the frick up and swallow your seed oils until you need a mobility scooter you useless waddler
holy shit you're a homosexual
How long did that Ikea closet take you to construct dude?
we've had this exact same thread with these exact same replies, and no, it's not deja vu. is this post op replying to himself? Or do you guys actually have this shit saved to copy and paste?
Sometimes I'd like to live in a fantasy world where I could be a mage and have a hot witch wife in a comfy woodland town somewhere, but then I realise I'd probably just fantasise about living in a weird sci fi world (our own or something similar) because its just human nature to fantasise like that.
What actually gets me about fantasy worlds isn't the fantastical nature of the setting but rather the completely unrealistic way that people act.
For example, most noteworthy npcs are willing to help you for basically nothing in return.
If you have a party, they're all ride-or-die pals for life who wouldn't dream of abandoning you no matter how bad things get.
If it has romance, it is mostly simple and there is mutual benefit for both parties.
Townsfolk are warm, talkative and friendly. There is a sense of camaraderie - that people are generally open to be interacted with, and they don't mind telling you things that might help you or give you things to help your adventure along.
Basically, people generally are kind to one another and generally like the player character. This is contrasted with real life where everyone largely cares only for themselves and are closed off to anyone who isn't in their family or clique.
this, plus no wagie corporate bullshit, but living more simply and closer to nature. Even if it may be more brutal in some ways, at least life would be more honest and focused on what's around you and not about shooting each other over what you see on your phone. These are the really big draws that make me wish things could be different. Real life can be very demotivating for someone like me because I can't seem to fully get over the fact that things as they are now could be so much better if people could see it and weren't so stupid.
I'm mostly happy in this non-fantasy world of ours. The only thing I'm bummed out about is the lack of fairies. Why the frick aren't they real? It's not fricking fair. Every day I wake up and I just have to pretend like I'm okay with that.
But no. I'm not okay. I will never have a fairy girlfriend. I will never even meet a fairy. Girls will always be human sized instead of being a couple of inches tall. I will never catch a peek up a fairy's skirt as she flies around without a care. This world is cruel and unjust and I will never be truly happy.
I feel the same way about goblin/gremlin girls and mages in general. Plus androids, but those have a chance of existing someday.
>fairies
Just go to your local gay bar there are fairies everywhere lol
I too wish I had a Feo Ul gf.
Cope
If it was real it wouldn't be fantasy, just reality, and then you would just b***h and moan about how shitty things are still. The real world is filled with incredible things, every fantasy world was born from our world.
Sounds like OP needs to get into the occult and start casting some black magic.
I want to live in a world where I can sniff a hot alien girl's eggy braps.
Earth is absolutely stunning, go outside sometime to see it.
No, because I’m not a fricking loser that wastes away on the internet.
I have a functioning life away from my PC, go to the gym daily, and have sex regularly. If you wait for things to get better instead of actively trying to change them, you might as well frick off to
to cry with the rest of the pathetic homosexuals crying about how life owes them because they’re lazy, ugly, irredeemable crybaby b***hes.
>If you wait for things to get better instead of actively trying to change them
You know what? You raise a good point. I will henceforth dedicate my life to making fairies real. I don't care who gets in my way, I WILL realise my dream and nobody on this shithole of a llanet can stop me.
That’s the way, anon. I believe in you - use that autism to make your fantasy a reality, and not to have a mental breakdown on Ganker. We never thought Hologram women having live concerts would be achievable, but now we have Hatsune Miku.
Maybe one day biology will allow us to artificially create fairies as well.
No, most fantasy worlds aren't worth living in. Especially the ones like Elden Ring.
Yeah OP imagine living in a world where everything wants to kill you even the crabs.
>pozzed
>israelites
>söÿboy
>Black folk
You already live in a fantasy world though, anon! It’s the fantasy of anybody thinking anybody actually gives a shit about your psychotic /misc/ posting, homosexual. Now go back to your Goblin board and screech about how Halfings control the media and how you have Alabaster High-Elf skin, and aren’t a filthy green-skinned Goblin shitposting from a cave, with no job.
Stupid c**t.
(You)
If you didn’t read, how do you know I’m “seething”, anon? :^)
Even if we lived in a fantasy world you still wouldn't explore it. You'd still be sitting there on your pc doing nothing.
what the frick kind of machine is that
Whitoid mixer 5000
I’m on a phone and can’t see any of these WEBMs, so the intended effect is lost on me. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but it’s entirely lost on my use of said phone, hence your argument doesn’t carry the weight you think it does.
However, if what you’re posting is rekt, then I will have you know that I spend a lot of time on /b/ in said rekt threads, and enjoy the content of them. So IF I could see them, I would be finding both your scitzophrenic rants and the things you post to be enjoyable.
With that said, I want to. Thank you for the entertainment, but regret to inform you that you will probably get reported (not by me) for posting rekt/gore outside of /b/. However, as I said, I cannot see said rekt/gore, and am just assuming it is. It might not be, hence you might not get reported.
Either way, god loves you, and so do I. I hope you get the therapy and love you need, Jackson.
But you said you didn’t read? At the very least, you’re admitting you did read to some degree. I win, you lose. I still love you.
But you did read it, because you knew I was on a phone. Also, it’s not an iPhone. You’re wrong twice now, and I’m right twice now. I win, and I’m sure you know this. I love you, and hope you recover mentally one day.
Don’t transition, it’s not the answer.
Real life is more interesting though, you probably just live an empty existence based on consooming. Look into things like astral projection and you'll see how "magic" isn't only limited to games
Well now I’ve been right 3 times, and you’re a liar - so your integrity and opinion are by default lower than mine. Sorry, but you’ve lost. Feel free to keep posting to learn from said loss though.
I still love you, and so does God 🙂
Annie are you okay? Are you okay? Are you okay, Annie? You’ve been hit by, you’ve been struck by, mental illness.
DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUN DUN
No, anon, I was directly quoting the song - you mentally obsessed jackass. I love you too, and so does god.
A surprising amount of normalgays ITT coping
Yes, i hate real life
Who knows what's out there in space.
I do. The closest we can get to it imo is living in fantasy like towns and larping as knights or samurai and by keeping historic traditions/rituals/customs etc alive.
I hate modernity if you can't tell. It's so bland and devoid of soul. I play games to escape.
Such a stupid question