when you reveal a big crime by a powerful person the cops show up immediately and take that person away
idk if it's related but so many mystery shows have the whole "summing up" thing where all the characters are in a room and super detective dude explains everything
Mainly Poirot
Even shit as simple as some lady thought she cut me off on her bike, but actually I was crossing diagonally so she was fine. But like, there wasn't time to explain that and now I feel bad that she felt bad about something she didn't actually do.
Man....I gotta let some stuff go.
I was lead to believe that quicksand would be a lot more common than it turned out to be in real life.
In a similar vein, I thought I would have had to secretly cut or burn my way out of ropes several times by now.
Actually, rope in general is weirdly common in cartoons. Unless you're a sailor or BDSM enthusiast, that's just not how people bind things anymore.
I know what you mean. I always thought I would see anvils a lot more often in real life than I actually have.
I thought everything was the way it was, why the roads were exactly this far apart, the lights that long, was because people knew exactly the best thing to do, and the way it is was that best way, and I thought that about p much everything for a very long time
wait what? are you saying my middleschool geography class wasnt the font of all knowledge?
THIS SO FUCKING MUCH
One day you just click like "hold on, everything is mostly done shitly, nobody really knows how to do things, everything is shit because of it"
That, deep down, evil and powerful people have the same priorities that regular people have, and they can sometimes be persuaded to act in an ethical manner by appealing to their humanity.
If anything, Captain Planet is closer to reality with its villains being greedy, self-destructive morons.
Maybe, but that still ties into another unfortunate thing people learn from cartoons: "Evil is ultimately caused by individual people doing evil things, and if you get rid of those bad apples, that will stop evil from happening."
On the subject of the moon being visible during the day, a guy I work with who is 35 years old noticed the moon was out during the day and was genuinely surprised. He could not even begin to fathom how it was possible. I briefly considered telling him the earth was flat but I didn't go through with it.
He also posted on his snapchat a video of himself sitting in his truck asking "do you guys ever wonder if they got the idea for making planes by watching birds? Idk, just something to think about"
Does learning "nuclear power is intrinsically dangerous and bad" from The Simpsons count?
George Takei declined to do the monorail episode because he didn't want to risk making public transportation look bad. :fidel-salute:
I mean... Obviously not the ones who are prosecuted and go to jail for murder. Those aren't cops.
The Flintstones fallacy: believing that the way people before us organised and interacted was pretty much just capitalism but with more rocks. Of course I didn't believe this as a concrete idea, but it was there in the background of a lot of my musings on society.
You'll see this with people who talk about gender relations. The best hunter brings more meat and gets the best girl. Except solitary hunting has never been our main tactic, and resource accumulation is a phenomenon of agricultural societies. And hunting isn't an RPG where some guy has higher skill rolls so gets 35% more meat on hunting actions.
Or you'll see it in fantasy settings where anything you need can be bought from a shop. Consumerism is an incredibly new development in human relations, and for the most part people have not engaged in economic transactions as we experience them today.
What's the proper way to run a shop in something like DnD then, bartering?
Interesting question. I guess it depends on the game you're running and what kind of gameplay loop you're going for. The fantasy consumerism trope isn't necessarily a bad choice for you game, as long as its not unexamined.
I like the idea of role-playing economic relations. Maybe you need to get into the good graces of the local nobility to access the capable blacksmith in town. Maybe you need to be rich to frequent the kind of place where you'll meet an enchanter or alchemist.
Kinda use DnD to expose class and power structures, ya know? Which reminds me of an excellent Marxist theorist by the name of Cockshott (lol). His video on [the medieval economy] (https://youtu.be/8PuvPEoNK5o) is very interesting.
Closely related is The Boomer Fallacy: everything in history, especially gender relations, was just a slight variation of white middle-class American life in the 1950s.
Swallowing watermelon seeds will make a watermelon grow in your stomach.
This isn't particularly deep but back when I was young I tried to eat the "butter wrapped in a waffle" that Homer makes and it was gross
