| "Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen" - Harry Turtledove There are so many moments in history that if you were to write them as fiction you would get bombed with 1 reviews for not being realistic, the reason is because humans are irrational beings. I could go on and on and list examples but sometimes people do things that are really Black and White in terms of Morality, Irrational, Weird, Deus Ex Machina that causes solutions to magically appear, and so on. And if you put this in fiction you would get bombed with 1 star reviews. But this all happens in Reality. When you try to be Realistic in Fiction you have to go on and on about how every single thing this character did was cause he sucked on his mother's left nipple instead of his right nipple, be all Sigmund Freud with possible reasons why they are the way so its all Morally Grey the way they are like there is a REASON behind everything they do when sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. You have to make it super convoluted for them to find the answer to their problems, you have to make the most unlikable character likable. Fiction has to be realistic or else it gets 1 star reviews while life gets to be unrealistic. |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart!  |
| I mean, no matter how much video games or movies try to make things realistic, it's never going to be 100% true to life. You have to have some fantasy elements whether it be how much damage a person can take, how far they can leave etc. |
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| Great, can we have the next Fallout game as a real-time third-person shooter with crunchy big shotguns and hot Anime girls and where prostitution is not a crime even if you are already in-game-married with 137 waifus. |
| 7th-gen console emulator enthusiast |
| Well it's more down to the fact we are all products of our environment and experiences. Your reality is different than my reality. That is why "internal logic" not "reality" matters most in a story. Still....the average writer in this industry could use more "reality", even if it's a subjective take on reality. |
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