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Jun 6, 2022 10:19
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I skimmed the wikipedia page and I still don't know what that is.
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Jun 6, 2022 10:39
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I only started to get into paracosms recently, whats your favorite?
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Jun 6, 2022 10:48
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Wouldn't a paracosm be made out of paramatter? And wouldn't that mean they're all shitholes?
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Jun 6, 2022 10:55
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I remember being eight years old and spending many happy hours drawing population density maps and alphabets and currency systems for a series of imaginary planets. Would any of you like to guess how successful my career has been and exactly how many days it took me to crash out of university?
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Jun 6, 2022 10:57
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suspicious donkey! posted:I only started to get into paracosms recently, whats your favorite? My own honestly but one of the fun parts of trawling around on Deviantart is finding accounts dedicated to people's paracosms that are just so bizarre but have thousands of words/images detailing every single aspect of them. I used to think people were being dorks putting that stuff out as if anyone would care, but now that i grew out of my edgy 'having fun is cringe' phase I realized sometimes people just post stuff for themselves as an archive and its kinda neat to peek at. Tree Bucket posted:I remember being eight years old and spending many happy hours drawing population density maps and alphabets and currency systems for a series of imaginary planets. 
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Jun 6, 2022 11:04
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how does paracosm make you feel?
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Jun 6, 2022 11:10
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with all the recent events it has been hard to find enough time to paracosm
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Jun 6, 2022 11:16
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suspicious donkey! posted:with all the recent events it has been hard to find enough time to paracosm Lmao if the state of real life hasnt driven you deeper and deeper into your inner fantasy world
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Jun 6, 2022 11:19
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When I was going through puberty I had a paracosm where everyone had MASSIVE primary and secondary sex characteristics. Like of physically impossible size. Dicks the length and girth of steel girders. Balls in need of a pig cart. Breasts with their own zipcode. Vulvas like a mountain cave; vaginas you could drive a car into (to accommodate the massive dongs, natch).
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Jun 6, 2022 12:09
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Our famil was poor, all we could afford was a second hand semicosm
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Jun 6, 2022 13:08
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I never wrote mine down, they just lived in my head.
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Jun 6, 2022 13:17
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the limitless potential of the imagination leads to awesome paracosms but it also leads to Gor and I don't think we should ever forget that.
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Jun 6, 2022 14:47
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:the limitless potential of the imagination leads to awesome paracosms but it also leads to Gor and I don't think we should ever forget that. This is a very salient point that I will explore in my book Goons of Gor
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Jun 6, 2022 14:55
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Bismuth posted:Lmao if the state of real life hasnt driven you deeper and deeper into your inner fantasy world i dont see how that is related to paracosm i may not actually now how to paracosm
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Jun 6, 2022 15:03
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i just hope all you paracosmers itt follow safety protocol and regularly check your patacosming equipment, otherwise its an accident waiting to happen
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Jun 6, 2022 15:10
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i'm in a paracosm rn
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Jun 6, 2022 15:11
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I am the moon emperor, who holds his midnight court atop the split mountain.
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Jun 6, 2022 15:20
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:i'm in a paracosm rn What if *gestures vaguely* all this is a shared paracosm and all of our individual fantasy worlds are actually unique realities?
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Jun 6, 2022 15:39
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Over my life I’ve had many dreams that take place in the same fictitious version of my hometown. I can almost map out the major landmarks and areas. However, I feel no relationship or connection to this fictitious place because I know it only exists in my dreams. I dream about it maybe once a year, and when I wake up my reaction doesn’t really go beyond, “Oh I guess I dreamed about that place again.”
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Jun 6, 2022 18:12
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I have run several decades-long RPGs and I've got to say the world building part is one of the best parts
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Jun 6, 2022 18:18
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Beartaco posted:I skimmed the wikipedia page and I still don't know what that is. It's about the power of imagination.
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Jun 6, 2022 18:21
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The Bloop posted:I have run several decades-long RPGs and I've got to say the world building part is one of the best parts How many of them include some kind of cataclysmic event that occurred in the past
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Jun 6, 2022 18:43
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:How many of them include some kind of cataclysmic event that occurred in the past I mean I suppose all of them (as is true of real life) but I think only about half had that as a major plot device
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Jun 6, 2022 18:46
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The Bloop posted:I have run several decades-long RPGs and I've got to say the world building part is one of the best parts Please share the most shameful place ever created.
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Jun 6, 2022 18:47
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Please share the most shameful place ever created. somethingawful.com
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Jun 6, 2022 18:49
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Cubone posted:somethingawful.com lol
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Jun 6, 2022 18:50
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Dare we enter Bloops magical realm?!
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Jun 6, 2022 19:52
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cosms of peril
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Jun 6, 2022 20:01
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Everyone's always talking about microcosms and macrocosms and now the paracosm but how come no one gives a poo poo about the regular cosm
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Jun 6, 2022 20:01
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because we live there and it's poo poo
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Jun 6, 2022 20:12
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I had to look up what this topic was and I recall an extremely vivid dream I had several years ago where I lived an entire separate life. I was born, I grew up, I fell in love, I got married, we bought a house, had a kid, etc. I lived an entire life in this one dream and I woke up feeling more hollow than I had ever felt before. I practically lived through a mundane version of The Inner Light from Star Trek TNG, to give you an idea of what it felt like. But although some of you might think this is weird, I never felt resentful that I now had to live in the real world after experiencing that. Instead, I felt glad that a version of me, even if he only existed for a few hours in one dream in one night in one time of my life, got to live a fulfilled life.
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Jun 6, 2022 20:27
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You're posting in a parocosm. We're probably all dead. Over a third of the population seriously doesn't believe in facts. Like, they don't think facts exist and don't recognize or live by the reality some things "are", and some things "aren't", and that a great deal of these things are well documented. There is no way I'm going to believe such a massive portion of humanity is dumber than most dogs I've met. Like, Trump was President. LMFAO if you think we exist in this world. Gologle posted:I had to look up what this topic was and I recall an extremely vivid dream I had several years ago where I lived an entire separate life. I was born, I grew up, I fell in love, I got married, we bought a house, had a kid, etc. I lived an entire life in this one dream and I woke up feeling more hollow than I had ever felt before. I practically lived through a mundane version of The Inner Light from Star Trek TNG, to give you an idea of what it felt like. But although some of you might think this is weird, I never felt resentful that I now had to live in the real world after experiencing that. Instead, I felt glad that a version of me, even if he only existed for a few hours in one dream in one night in one time of my life, got to live a fulfilled life. Maybe when that happens you're peeking into another reality you exist in.
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Jun 7, 2022 00:50
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Jelly posted:You're posting in a parocosm. this post is coming from INSIDE the paracosm
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Jun 7, 2022 00:52
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Over my life I’ve had many dreams that take place in the same fictitious version of my hometown. I can almost map out the major landmarks and areas. Gologle posted:I had to look up what this topic was and I recall an extremely vivid dream I had several years ago where I lived an entire separate life. I was born, I grew up, I fell in love, I got married, we bought a house, had a kid, etc. I lived an entire life in this one dream and I woke up feeling more hollow than I had ever felt before. I practically lived through a mundane version of The Inner Light from Star Trek TNG, to give you an idea of what it felt like. But although some of you might think this is weird, I never felt resentful that I now had to live in the real world after experiencing that. Instead, I felt glad that a version of me, even if he only existed for a few hours in one dream in one night in one time of my life, got to live a fulfilled life. I have something like this, ever since I was a kid I've had extremely vivid dreams that take place in a shared world that while I'm there feels completely real but when I wake up I realize obviously I cant actually fly or shapeshift or do magic. There seems to be like, continuity across nights and even months +, and recurring places, characters, and events. Sometimes when I've been really low in life I've spent a ton of time sleeping or eagerly awaiting my next chance to sleep just so I could go back to that place, even though I experience bad emotions (fear, grief) there, the opportunity for excitement and freedom was a lot greater than real life. Obviously spending most of your life asleep to escape reality isnt like, great, so I dont do that any more but I still eagerly hop into bed every night hoping I get some kind of adventure. Some of the deaths/disasters I've experienced in my dreams have bled into sleep paralysis though and boy howdy I hate that.
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Jun 7, 2022 00:56
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:this post is coming from INSIDE the paracosm Is that the same thing, is a simulation technically a paracosm?
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Jun 7, 2022 00:56
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The Bloop posted:I have run several decades-long RPGs and I've got to say the world building part is one of the best parts It has to be really hard to say goodbye to a paracosm that you’ve built over decades
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Jun 7, 2022 01:05
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tehinternet posted:It has to be really hard to say goodbye to a paracosm that you’ve built over decades It's more like, farewell for now Usually because life moves on and gaming groups break up, not by choice
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Jun 7, 2022 01:35
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Please share the most shameful place ever created. I'm not ashamed of any of my games, actually Certainly the ones from the 90s and 00s would be different if I were running them now but even so they were fine
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Jun 7, 2022 01:37
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Meme Poker Party posted:It's about the power of imagination. I choose to imagine we're on page 6 where someone picked a better topic.
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Jun 7, 2022 07:35
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