How do you incorporate pseudoscience into your fantasy settings, /tg/?
>Meridians
>Astrology
>Brainwashing
>Mesmerism
>Memetics
>Orgone Accumulators
>Lumineferous Aether
>I-Ching divination
>Seances
>Crystal Healing
>Psychic Powers
>>44516896
World of Darkness, Call of Cthulhu and Unknown Armies?
I ran an Adeptus Evangelion game which used the Spirit Science origin of the world video as line for line truth, with the addition of a three way WW2 Never Ended style Coldwar.
Shit got crazy. Two pilots had tantric sex meditation to open their Chakras and to birth a Christ Comciousness and unlock the ancient city hidden under the pyramids while piloting Ascended Humans dressed like robots and using their merkhabas to fight off ascended ancient Mayan-Lemurian priests.
>>44516896
As actual science.
>Yes, I-ching DOES work.
>Chi in human body? Yes, it is there. If you know kung fu well enough, you even can fashion a battle aura from it.
also
>memetics
>not an actual science
>laughinghorizonemployees.gif
>>44516971
Memes are not science, anon.
>>44516991
Sure, if you don't think psychology or sociology are sciences.
>>44517023
But psychology is literally not a science. Everything that can be explained via psychology or sociology can be explored in a much more complete manner through anthropological study.
>>44516971
>if you know Kung fu, you can form a battle aura from it
>>44517046
Sure, your dick is longer than the dick of the other discipline. That doesn't change psychology being an ordered and systematic observation of the natural world and therefore a science.
>>44516896
yes to all of them.
>>44517101
All I'm saying is that psychology and sociology are entirely unnecessary.
>>44517138
The definition of a science is not "things I like".
>>44517046
>anthropologist thinking they're cute trying to shit on psychology
Come back when you decide to use physics instead.
>>44517099
>not embracing the cheesiest stereotypes
>>44517046
>>44517101
>>44517138
>>44517153
xkcd is shit, but this one is on point for once.
>>44516896
>How do I incorporate x into my setting?
Are you new?
GM fiat.
Just say its a thing and it becomes a thing.
>>44517156
Between this, and my current wikipedia binge, I'm getting a lot of ideas for adventure hooks.
>A student at a prestigious martial arts school is suffering from a qigong deviation as a result of improper training.
>His battle aura has mutated into an unnatural radiance of cancerous death.
>You have been hired to kill the student and destroy all evidence of the school's wrong-doing.
>>44517167
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>>44517138
>>44517101
>/sci/fags
shoo.
>>44517212
>not defeating him in fair combat and show him a better path, purifying his aura
Of course memes aren't science. They're magic. Dark, cosmic magic they we foolishly meddle in.
>>44517241
>>44517167
Philosophy being so far to the right that it didn't fit on the comic, right?
>>44517214
Hey, I'm a historian. I'm over in fucking humanities and even I know what is and isn't a science.
>>44516896
Here are a few ideas I had for my psionics-heavy D&D campaign:
>I-Ching Coins
A set of three I-Ching coins, made from a psychoreactive iron alloy, may be used to identify psionic powers and effects. The weight of the coins shifts in response to psychic ambiance. The results of the coin flips produce sequences of hexagrams that correspond to psionic powers, and can be interpreted in order to determine how power stones may be addressed. A set of three I-Ching coins grants a +2 circumstance bonus to all Psycraft checks.
>Meridian Pins
A Meridian Pin consists of a tiny psychoreactive crystal attached to a small needle. These are surgically implanted into the body on important meridian points. The crystals expand and contract in response to fluctuations in the body's energy flow, causing the needles to apply or release pressure thus regulating the body's flow of energy. Each Meridian Pin grants a +2 circumstance bonus to a specific use of the Autohypnosis skill depending on which part of the body the Meridian Pin is implanted in.
>>44517306
Theology is right next to philosophy. On their right side, sociology is seen once again, and both philosophy and theology think that it has some valid criticisms of their stance...
And there we go.
>Not learning all about them
>Not making a setting in which they are actually real
>Not making systems as ridiculously intricate and detailed as they are in real life
>Being a fucking pleb
>>44516896
>How
By not explaining shit. That's where you paint yourself into a corner, and without need.
Use it just for flavor. Don't violate any obvious rules of reality /without reason/. That breaks suspension of disbelief and makes it hard to be emotionally invested.
Make it sound and look good. Invoke concepts and put them in context.
>violating thermodynamics
Energy can come from and go to places our science doesn't know about.
>inserting anachronism
Just make sure you flavor it in the culture of the day instead of just plugging modern concepts into fantasy worlds.
>god mode
Scale the opposition with the protagonists.
>too much detail
Do something more important instead now, like running away.
>using real world sources
What if the scientist had a secret? What if the records were faked? What if someone later put the research into a different context in secret?
>>44518113
...
Do you have a version of that for the long 18th century?
>>44518187
It's all just wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=rendering&return_to=18th+century&collection_id=7c6a1ad07b212728e916cb7f19a8f7bfd2a4e2a7&writer=rdf2latex&is_cached=1
>>44516896
>Meridians
What's pseudoscience about those?
>>44518187
18th century
c. 1700: Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano.
1709: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.
1712: Thomas Newcomen builds the first steam engine to pump water out of mines.[185] Newcomen's engine, unlike Thomas Savery's, uses a piston.
1716: Henry Sully presented first Montre de la Mer to the French Académie des Sciences
c. 1730: Thomas Godfrey and John Hadley independently develop the Octant
1733: Stephen Hales takes measurements of blood pressure.
1733: John Kay enables one person to operate a loom with the flying shuttle[citation needed]
1736: John Harrison tests his first Sea Clock, H1.
1742: Anders Celsius develops the Centigrade temperature scale.[citation needed]
1745: Musschenbroek and Kleist independently develop the Leyden jar, an early form of capacitor.
1746: John Roebuck invents the lead chamber process.
1755: William Cullen invents the first artificial refrigeration machine.
1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
1765: James Watt invents the improved steam engine utilizing a separate condenser.
1767: Joseph Priestley invents a method for the production of carbonated water.
1769: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot invents the first steam-powered vehicle capable of carrying passengers, an early car.
1770: Richard Salter invents the earliest known design for a Weighting Scale.
1774: John Wilkinson invents his boring machine, considered by some to be the first machine tool.
1775: Jesse Ramsden invents the modern screw-cutting lathe.
1776: John Wilkinson invents a mechanical air compressor that would become the prototype for all later mechanical compressors.
1783: Claude de Jouffroy builds the first steamboat.
1783: Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier build the first manned hot air balloon.
1785: Martinus van Marum is the first to use the electrolysis technique.
1786: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
1789: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
>>44518319
1790s
1792: Claude Chappe invents the telegraph.
1793: Eli Whitney invents the modern cotton gin.
1795: Joseph Bramah invents the hydraulic press.
1796: Hanaoka Seishū creates tsūsensan, the first modern general anesthetic
1798: Edward Jenner develops the first successful vaccine, the smallpox vaccine.
1799: George Medhurst invents the first motorized air compressor.
1799: The first paper machine is invented by Louis-Nicolas Robert.
18th century
1745 – Ewald Jürgen Georg von Kleist first capacitor, the Leyden jar
1750 – Joseph Black: describes latent heat
1751 – Benjamin Franklin: Lightning is electrical
1761 – Mikhail Lomonosov: discovery of the atmosphere of Venus
1763 – Thomas Bayes: publishes the first version of Bayes' theorem, paving the way for Bayesian probability
1771 – Charles Messier: Publishes catalogue of astronomical objects (Messier Objects) now known to include galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae.
1778 – Antoine Lavoisier (and Joseph Priestley): discovery of oxygen leading to end of Phlogiston theory
1781 – William Herschel announces discovery of Uranus, expanding the known boundaries of the solar system for the first time in modern history
1785 – William Withering: publishes the first definitive account of the use of foxglove (digitalis) for treating dropsy
1787 – Jacques Charles: Charles' law of ideal gas
1789 – Antoine Lavoisier: law of conservation of mass, basis for chemistry, and the beginning of modern chemistry
1796 – Georges Cuvier: Establishes extinction as a fact
1796 – Edward Jenner: small pox historical accounting
1796 – Hanaoka Seishū: develops general anaesthesia
1800 – Alessandro Volta: discovers electrochemical series and invents the battery
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>>44518187
Also keep in mind that information is dissipated much more slowly and in more exclusive circles during the 18th Century. So for a certain invention or discovery to be commonly available or accepted might take a few Decades.
Thusly.
>>44516896
Shitty one way time travel.
Time travellers bring technology back with them from the future, it gets reverse-engineered but not mass produced, new future tech becomes incredibly valuable.
>>44516896
1d6 on whether or not it's still anything more than just quackery.
>>44516896
>How do you incorporate pseudoscience into your fantasy settings, /tg/?
I don't think my setting would benefit from the introduction of Sociology, Women's Studies or any such humanistic bullshit.
>>44517138
Anthropology doesn't have an experimental component like psychology (psychometrics, cognitivism, behaviorism, social psychology) does.
It's generally less grounded in statistical analysis than psychology or sociology, too, instead relying more on the observer's interpretation.
>>44521187
Oh, and neuropsychology.
Physical anthropology doesn't often concern itself with people's insides.
>>44521125
>No humanistic bullshit in my whimsical make pretend time.
WOW you are so scientific n shit
>>44516991
>>44516971
Memes are an WASPjinron. They're a pseudoscience born from certain lingustic patterns of meaning that hold great weight within US culture, they're an US equivalent of Nihonjinron theories.
>>44521405
Where are her real legs? Is that not a costume?
>>44521436
The back legs would be her real ones.
>>44517167
As an economist, I would actually say that economy is just applied sociology.
