11-12-2018, 04:18 PM | #1181 |
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Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels
How do insurance companies and murder investigations work? Did he just lose control of his car in the rain, or was it caused by a ghost?
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11-12-2018, 06:42 PM | #1182 | |
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Ghosts outside the modern west sometimes have fewer human rights or none if the locals label them evil spirits. Ghosts do tend to fade with time, but it isn't all that consistent. Some ghosts from the 1920s have faded away. Meanwhile, there are around ninety-some ghosts that were around before the birth of Christ. Fewer than ten are considered older than five thousand years. However, many ghosts claim to be older than they are.
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11-12-2018, 06:45 PM | #1183 | |
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11-12-2018, 06:50 PM | #1184 |
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Exorcism is well understood and legally regulated. Ghosts can and have been arrested for crimes and convicted. Ghosts are no more or less law abiding than humans. Ghosts can be interrogated.
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11-17-2018, 12:24 PM | #1185 |
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The TV show Ugly Americans suggests a weird parallel. Due to a magical accident, the vast majority of humanity has turned into other types of intelligent beings. Different types of fay, mutants, vampires, Harry Potter style Wizards, and Witches, etc. Society is in chaos as people deal both with the loss of being one species and the struggle of the legal systems to accommodate the new complexity.
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11-17-2018, 02:14 PM | #1186 | |
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There are several webcomics where monsters are just other ethnic groups. There are also comics and cartoons with the same subject (the Hotel Transylvania franchise, for example). My personal favorite from my childhood is Transilvane, an artifical world in DC Comics created by Dabney Donovan, based on Hammer Films monsters. Actually, I think it's not only playable but sounds fun.
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11-17-2018, 03:15 PM | #1187 |
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Objects: Huaman beigns around the world were transformed into anthropomorphic inanimate objects in 1991. These objects posses some amount of mobility, sentience, and liveliness. They don't age or require food or water, and are highly resistant to normal wear and tear, but can be destroyed by the sorts of things that would destroy their nominal form.
Society is slowly winding down as the need for economic activity comes to a halt. Many -- but not all -- goods and services are now irrelevant. People are discovering that it's often easier to sit back and let a year or two slide by as a CD player or a car than it is to forcing themselves to fill human roles. Current date 2002. |
11-17-2018, 04:41 PM | #1188 | |
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11-18-2018, 07:15 AM | #1189 | |
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11-19-2018, 10:11 AM | #1190 |
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For some baffling reason, this timeline features advanced computers and mass internet usage despite being in the middle ages! Smiths can craft electronics by hand and batteries are readily available, ones that can be charged with cranks, sunlight or water-wheels. The current date is 1000 AD, the world is TL 3 but with TL 9 electronics somehow. According to cursory research by timeline-hopping agents this +6 TL to electronics has held true even back into the stone age, where tribes would make tabulating machines to track their stock of supplies. With global communication networks being over a thousand years old as a tech at this point, the world has explosively shared culture, information, memes and shitposts about everything from cooking to religion and more. Yet travel is still hard and most people are dirt farmers, with rugged and sophisticated smartphones helping them out. In many places this huge access to information means that people are much better educated on average than OTL 1000 AD, and also inundated with false internet data on social media platforms, of course. |
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