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[–] 63 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

This is called verisimilitude. Self consistency. If you present the setting as Our World + Premise, then we are forgiving of the premise part but not so much of the unrelated things that don't match what we were told to expect.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 weeks ago*

    Was gonna say this, fucking, yep.

    Its this apparently baffling concept that even a fictional world has to be coherent and consistent within or as itself, otherwise, it seems cheesy or schlocky, obviously fake and contrived.

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