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saw a post once that said, that whenever you look at the moon its the same moon that everyone that lived looked at the same moon. looking at the moon connects you to the history of humanity

I like stories when magic is slowly dying because of technology. And they need to find a way to hold on to it. Or stories like Arcane where you try to understand magic with science

I'm working on a wild west fantasy thing, and your mentions of immortal inventors reminded me to put in a gunsmith named Johnathan Asmodeus Brown to help revolutionize technology.

It raises the question. Begging the question is a logical fallacy.

Such a great video. Your style really inspires me

Adding to the aging problem, in the 17776 people are immortal and are stuck in the exact same (todays) culture for thousands of years, because there are no new people that would deviate it

I wouldn't wish to be immortal. But I wish I could live way longer than 80 years, while keeping my shape if when I was 28 years old. Like, live for centuries or millenia.

Well we had centurys of stagnation in most areas of science in Europe. I can imagine some strict religious society having millenias of stagnation.

Funny not to long ago Abigail, from Philosophytube, made a video essay about death. Not the same, but i liked and recommend. I myself have been dabbling on the matter via RPG and Lichdom. Great vid, as aways.

Infinity is weird and breaks everything. I'm convinced that if there is an afterlife (which I believe there is) it cannot have the same laws of physics that our universe has. Since we don't have infinitely accessible resources in this universe. Sooner or later all the stars in the observable/accessible universe will burn out, the black holes will evaporate, and eventually whatever consciousness still exists, will have to cannibalize itself, its own ancient archives, just to remain alive. With finite resources, immortality is impossible, and arguably, finite space and information density also causes major problems. Since memories require a physical location to be stored in, and an infinite amount of memories would require an infinite amount of time to access said memories given finite speeds of causality/communication (lightspeed). Considering that, I think we would begin to get repeated experiences long before we'd exhaust all possible experiences simply due to the fact that we wouldn't have the necessary storage to remember everything. Edit: Ah okay, you mentioned all those points at the end of the video.

I mean, the egyptian empire(s) was so old that they had archaeologists who studied their own ancient history, so, add magic and i dont think anyone would bother with technilogical advancements

You fundamentally misunderstand science. Science and magic wouldn't any different, in fact magic would a part of science itself, whatever the world might look like. Science is the study of natural world, if magic existed then it would be a part of science. Also Scientists often discover out of their own curiosity. They won't stopped just because you can do things that you wouldn't be able to do in real world.

No call to adventure in the time of the enlightenment? I'm sorry, have you not heard of Pirates of the Caribbean? Westerns? The entirety of American mythology is set during this period.

I guess that the most magical world out there its diskworld due to the fact of being a flat earrh over the top of 4 elephants over a space flying giant turtle.... lets say that middle earth and westeros its more "grounded" And well, in discworld people figure out how to build trains, and guns with magic existing. I guess natural selection/ evolution its unnestopeable, and if for that you need a magic world that needs to forecly being static, and if magic its a part of nature.... a part of that world. Things eventually will change with technology and magic somewhat appearing. You can create a cyclic world in wich maybe they hit magic nukes and the entire world dissapears and magically resets to Tier 1....and the cycle begins again. But a world that doesnt change or evolve with humans and magic on the same pot? Its like not asking a normal homo sapiens to not try to tame and mount that weird zebra thing wich is on the plains.

The random stray thrown at the French caught me so off guard on such an empathetic section of the video.

absolute cinema

For the deathloop ending, I always interpreted that as the result of only that part of the world being in a loop. Like an after effect of the time continuing all around the island but with everyday, every loop the island stays further behind. The larger the difference in time, the greater the effect on the border region and how bigger that border grows.

I knew this video would be fire and i was roght u earned a sub man

I knew this video would be fire and i was roght u earned a sub man

Is so unrealistic when in a fantasy show there is magic (like someone flying or no aging) and nobody knows! the government has no found him with this technology! 😅

Time to safe the video and watch it tonight!

oh my god this is my first time watching any of your content and i cannot describe how much i love your style!!!

Thanks for making these. 💖 While I tend to agree with the notion that the certainty of death gives our lives a lot of their meaningfulness, I don’t think we necessarily HAVE TO be content with this. Barring the neoliberal urge to exploit any project to prolong human life (just look at medicine), I feel like on a philosophical level I‘m actually very on board with the „why not“ crew. I once listened to a philosopher give a fiery speech on a small podcast about how they thought death existing was outright criminal. Who says we have to die at 70-100 years? Let’s do more, experience more, f**king live, love, laugh, okay?? :D As naive as it reads, that somehow really touched me. :)

"Should" is never good advise for any writer. Take 40K, it's also in a way fantasy. Yes it's different, but stuck in a specific age or not is really up to the world builder.

This is how dogs think about us.

Love your videos, incredible how they seem like such a polished product so early in the channel’s life. Rooting for you man

another counterargument i like to bring up is that, in science, a lot of people research "useless" things, for example, someone researched the effect of gila monster venom cause, why not? why not try to understand it despite already having an anti-venom of it and many years later, someone saw that study and realized the venom or at least, the way it worked, could be used to treat diabetes so even if they feel like something is "useless" people will still research it out of pure curiosity and that maybe someday, the knowledge might become useful

i just gotta mention taln the chad

when the world needed him most he returned

The industrial revolution (and the end of the renaissance era) resulted from a surprisingly specific set of circumstances. In my opinion it's very feasible to narratively prevent that from happening for centuries longer, or even indefinitely. (1) If the world lacked fossil fuels, we would never have the single most important invention to make the industrial revolution happen: the coal-powered steam engine. Plastics would be impossible. Petroleum would be impossible. Autonomous vehicles would need to rely on batteries (which similarly rely on finite materials) or nuclear power (ditto). Power plants relying on renewables alone would be far less flexible, if they even existed in a recognizable form at all. (2) If there are dangerous monsters roaming about or the natural world is otherwise fantastically dangerous, railroads or other large-scale interconnecting infrastructure would be far less practical. Electricity couldn't travel beyond individual cities. Communication couldn't rely on wires or tubes; only radio towers and satellites, which in our world came more than a century after the industrial revolution began in earnest, and one could argue it wouldn't be possible without industrial technologies. Even in our world there were and *are* many places too dangerous to build roads and power lines. Batteries and steel have existed for over 1000 years before the industrial revolution. Numerous highly-successful cultures in the real world (e.g. romans and egyptians) had brilliant technology for centuries (or millennia) but didn't have a similar revolution. With just a few tweaks I could easily see the industrial revolution never happening in *our* world, let alone in a fantasy world with magic and monsters. I'm personally very interested to see how technology and engineering would advance in a world without the industrial revolution we experienced in the real world.

I think the real reason is as soon as a world gets out of medieval times, we stop calling it fantasy...... Take Arknights as an example. Everyone just calls it sci-fi now.

You have spoken truth, thus you are granted your first ideal. Awesome video! So glad I followed you, looking forward to whatever you'll cover next!

There is a DC comic scene where a man is killed in an accident. As Death of the Endless comes for his spirt he asks "I made it 15,000 years that's pretty good right." She tells him "You lived what everyone gets. A got a lifetime."

So I'm wrtting this thing called "Moorland", civilization "ended" thousands of years ago because a mixture of AI getting crazy, economies autodestroying themselves, climate change and ultimately nuclear war, so now most people live like in medieval times, in this radiated fuckd up desert with castles, and feudalism, the thing is the most powerful ones have motorcycles and some technology that they kept for themselves, also there are AI mechas out of control "protecting" a ghost city and some military places, then there are some fucked up religions, magic and some scientist underground trying to recomstruct the world😂❤

Damm, I almost forgot I was subscribed. But you really surpassed yourself with this video.

Dude. This should have so many views. It’s just like any million sub person. Awesome

Editing brainrot culture into your content is shameful, to say the least. I won't be here to see it.

odd how I watched the last unicorn this morning, then went for a nap in the afternoon where I dreamt that my girlfriend will be healthy and live for as long as I love her... and then you upload this. coincidence? I think not!

Jezrien moment

There are people so stupid, that they minds would never grasp the fact that in a world of magic, "science" as they know it would never exist, and this comment sections proves it.

this guy gets it

In before all the stupid pro death comments. Nice video. Eagerly awaiting your future content

It wasn't a conspiracy though Cringe take

HE RETURNED!!

1 - Asoiaf and Lotr both present a world with little to no magic accesible to the average person. This is especially true in asoiaf, where there should be technological advances given the long periods between disasters and the relative peace found in great cities. Magic simply does not solve everyday problems. 2-As other have said, the dichotomy magic- science would simply not exist. Magic is science and science is magic in most settings where the use of magic is widespread and solves common problems. As such it should advance as science does unless its progress is stopped intentionally by a powerful entity. 3- the stasis not only refers to scientific advances, and your view of history seems to reduce and tie all advancement to scientific advances. There are political, changes, changes in fashion, architecture and many other areas in the real world who have little to do with science, and they should happen regarless of the invetion of the steam engine or the nuclwar reactor. Bran the Builder living in similar conditions that bran the broken , makes no sense and in my opinion isnt really that cool or interesting

It's simple really. Technology is our way of evening out our odds with nature, since we don't have any spikes, poison, or claws. So why do it when you have magic and the odds are in your favor?

As you said. Concervadurism is something that should take in count. If in a fantasy setting there are long living creatures such as elfs. Then the time frame should be stretched in the same scale. Taking more years to achieve develpment and changes but eventually reaching modern eras. One good case scenario is Shadowrun fantasy thematic, featuring a cyberpunk world but with the same elements of Dungeons and Dragons. Magic, elfs, dwarves, Orcs, etc. For me it is the future of Dungeons and Dragons, maybe 10.000 years after, considering the life span of the elves of 750 years in that setup (D&D, not sure about Shadowrun)

I feel like this video misses the point that some people will study all sorts of technologies because they're interested and they see how they can improve things. Looking at these medieval worlds, they don't exactly advance societally either. There are still always plenty of peasants who have no access to magic, so why wouldn't some try to develop tech if magic is out of their reach?

I think that also a world without fossil fuels and gunpowder would be one where it is hard to break out of a medieval like civilization. Is there anyone that thinks modernity is possible without that cheap and available energy, we might be glimpsing it now but the medieval period might have gone on a long time. Yeah the printing press does not need those things but it is not guaranteed that it would be enough.

Surprised Korra wasn't mentioned in this discussion lol. I feel like advancing the timeline completely ruined the charm of the world of Avatar.