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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    Well, considering such people would be three generations back.....so....about 120 years ago.....

    there has been changes in that time, and basically changes bring changes in culture and behavior. there are some things that people do today that mystify me, okay? like just to use a safe example, what person 120 years would get the concepts of internet memes? the concept of those people on twitter who literally post everything they do on twitter just because they can? or look at smart phones, those would basically be magic to them, small little rectangle that somehow does so many things, that would be science fiction to them at best and not even one they would see coming. because no one saw the computer miniaturization thing coming, no one. not even the science fiction writers decades after the people your talking about, because they thought? that such a thing would thousands of years down the line.

    they wouldn't know who Superman is, who Batman is, because they lived before superhero comics were a thing, black and white steamboat mickey mouse would be a new development to them. they just wouldn't have any context for anything thats happening now or what we're talking about, they wouldn't understand fandoms of these complex fictional universes, or why we do this or that.

    like just because they're technically in a modern industrial age like ours, doesn't mean they'd fit right in. culture shock is a thing. like your talking about early 1900's at the latest. early 1900's and 2020 are vastly different beasts, especially as tech advances.
    Culture shock is a thing. "Not understanding my thought process" is several orders of magnitude greater than that.
    Last edited by Fyraltari; 2020-11-18 at 06:12 AM.