at least he wasn't a Flat-Earther

Or one of those tree stump plateau people

@goodguy5 Oh god, do I even want to know what that means?

@RevenantBacon IIRC, plateaus are the remnants of giant petrified trees that were cut down by the Biblical giants or something?

@RevenantBacon Well, in order to get to that metastable equilibrium you do have to continuously blast one with a jiggawatt laser. Still, it's good to know we've discovered refractors for when the world floods.

@goodguy5 Wwooooow.

All I can think of: "In the Age of Ancients the world was unformed, shrouded by fog. A land of gray crags, Archtrees and Everlasting Dragons."

Methinks these folks have taken Dark Souls lore a bit to serious

Before the 3rd dimension was invented, most people believed that the world was flat

Take me up to that blessed 4th dimension, oh master. And beyond to the 5th and 6th!

@MikeQ I like how you used the word "invented" like everyone was as flat as a sheet of paper before someone came up with the bright idea of "hey, what if we weren't?"

As far as I know, the world was black and white before someone invented color photography.

In unrelated news, color photography was invented before I was born.

lol

XD

@RevenantBacon Definitely not the product of one dimensional thinking...

Should this question get the 5e tag?

@NautArch no, but it can be re-asked for D&D 5e

note that it's one of the ones we already put back from [dnd-5e] to [dnd-next-playtest] because it is talking about playtest specifics

@doppelgreener Interestingly, there is an upvoted 5e answer for it, though.

@NautArch that's because for a while it was tagged [dnd-5e], even though it has nothing to do with the released edition but is entirely a problem based on the playtest

@doppelgreener ah, okay.

like, that's a large part of the reason we put the tag back and saw converting [dnd-next-playtest] straight to [dnd-5e] as a mistake in hindsight: lots of playtest questions are in fact localised to the playtest as it existed at that exact time, and are trivially and obviously answered by D&D 5e materials.

makes sense

"hey, the game doesn't actually talk about ending concentration" "yeah the NDA is still in effect but here's what i can piece together and talk about" is not a D&D 5e question

sort of like the issues we're having with the eberron stuff.

what are those?

Wow, it was labeled as 5e for 4 years. Oh actually maybe this had to do with the renaming.

oh, is that like this thing?

@Rubiksmoose Yeah, renaming

The [dnd-next-playtest] tag just got straight-up renamed to [dnd-5e]

@doppelgreener yeah, kinda. Basically they released content and then changed content. SO it's unclear what state a certain question is now asking about or receiving answers from.

Rename dnd-5e to dnd-previous.

lol

Re: Flat Earth, it's possible that there are more believers in the Earth being flat(ish) than ever before.

@kviiri Thanks, internet.

Somewhat hard to estimate though --- we have a pretty good understanding around which time the learned of each culture embraced the idea of spherical (or approximately so) earth, but much less an idea of how many commoners had a contrary opinion

@kviiri I guess also there's the question of how firmly held those beliefs are

@Carcer yeah

also, not explicitly affirming a round earth doesn't necessarily mean belief in a flat earth

it might just be "i dunno, i haven't thought about it really"

or it might be many other options: many mythologies just have us be in some version of a realm that may or may not have a definite end, and that's an entirely distinct concept from "we're a flat firmament floating upward in the void of space"

you can easily imagine someone would guess that the world is a flat plane of some kind but not really feel strongly about the actual shape of the world

turtles all the way down

Now that I'm thinking, I don't know the last time the shape of the Earth actively impacted a decision of mine. "Ya know what? The Earth is round and that means I should eat soup today!"

Yea, like we discussed in NAB a while back, the old Finnish mythology considered the world to be flat, with the sky being a dome placed upon it. And if you went far enough you'd reach the "Home of the birds" where the sky was so low only very short people lived there

@Medix2 It affects airplane and ship routing and that might indirectly impact your decisions quite a lot!

@kviiri Fair, but I would have to deal with the repercussions of the shape no matter what shape it actually is. Maybe I should join NASA to be more directly affected by the shape of the Earth

@Medix2 You can't even tell it's a ball when you're dukin' it out, it's that large.

Whenever you look at a clock and think "11:45, that's almost lunchtime", you're rounding up and that's how the Earth's roundness affects you.

@Glazius captainamericaunderstoodthatreference.gif

@Yuuki what a marvellous point of theological contention that would be

"Yes, we all agree that the earth is round, but is it rounding up or rounding down!?"

@Yuuki Is 11:45 a quarter to noon, or 97 quarters past noon?

[200 years of war]

@Carcer It rounds towards zero, clearly

@Carcer There's a couple of fringe factions that mumble on about glasses of water, but most sane people think they're just crazy.

Am I the only who visualizes a year as a square?

Fall is the left

summer the top, winter the bottom

spring to the right

I alternate between half-circle and circle. I think circle with the five seasons so winter is at the bottom, summer at the top, is the most natural to me.

(the five seasons of Finland: winter, spring, summer, autumn and november)

This year, tho, summer was immediately followed by November, which was followed by even more November, and then November. I think we have practically zero hope for any vember.

Ah, I wish it felt like November in the midwest

I picture the year as 12 rectangles (a calendar)

I view it as all the calendar pages are aligned into a square

Ah, I just put them in a line and draw dividers at each month, solstice, and equinox

Do you imagine any sort of looping back on itself?

I don't think so. Years are kinda separate in my head, each year is, well, a new year

I'm probably just influenced by the amount of timelines and horizontally depicted progression charts I've seen

i don't think i have a specific visual conception of this stuff

@Carcer The best part is it sets up a running gag where you can ask people what they think of the whole dukin' it out on a giant ball affair.

To me the year is a circle. I can fit the months on the face of a (traditional) wristwatch or a compass card.

When I flew over the ocean and was far away from ships in my helicopter, the ocean looked like an enormous blue dinner plate.

I remember trying to describe how I saw it to my co pilot when our ship was doing a transit from Hawaii to Japan. We were flying way out ahead of the task group. It was one of those nearly cloudless days over the Pacific that just takes your breath away.

He just saw the horizon splitting the sky and the sea ... or so he told me.

hoping my comment is received in the tone intended

I've been very interested in the different ways people are coming up with to represent both the Gregorian and Bahá'í calendars in one graphic after the Universal House of Justice unlocked the latter from the former in 172BE.

You can also see the roundness of the earth by looking at the sky if you are on the moon

@MikeQ I just checked, Space X is not accepting my frequent flyer miles. :(