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[Mandrake hates typing. He's still not good at it. But he's discovered it's a better medium for keeping emotions out of his replies than video or voice. So, text it is.]

I've been having a discussion with a friend of mine here about the variety of different places that we all come from, and how some seem much more different than others.

With that in mind, I find myself curious enough to ask:

What is your home world like? Using this one as the basis of comparison.

Feel free to answer with as little or as much detail as you would like. You can also answer anonymously if you wish.

Comments

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[celestialpervert]

My my, what an interesting question.

I'll be simple to begin with.

Angels are real, as are demons and the children of Lilith or as most like to call them, Monsters. Pagan gods do their own thing and we've narrowly avoided the apocalypse.

How about yours?

-Balthazar

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[doneproperly]

Interesting. It sounds a very biblical kind of world. I can think of many who live in my own world who seem to live in yours. Metaphorically speaking.

Demons are real in my own world as well, though no evidence of angels or gods, as far as I'm aware.

[There, that answers the question sufficiently enough while also being simultaneously vague. He doesn't really want to talk about his own world, after all.]

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Shucked to hell.

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... What makes it "shucked," exactly?

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[bullysandwicher]

My world is really cool! Okay, recently a lot of crap has been happening, but before that, it WAS really cool.

[ No1 shall try to explain ]

It's called Magic land, and it's close to Hell. Devils are our Gods and they have fun messing with Magic Users, but some Devils are super nice. They also do awesome things and can be a lot of fun.

In any case, there were no countries and no continents. There were no dumb laws, and though there were no humans in Magic land, we could access the Human world by using our magic!

[doneproperly]

It sounds somewhat similar to the Other Place in my world.

What of these "magic users" you speak of?

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[glassinine]

What is yours like, Mr. Mandrake?

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[It takes all of Mandrake's patience and willpower not to type out a petulant "I asked first," and he thinks to himself ruefully that this is the exact reason he's being won over by the virtues of text-based replies. He bites his lip as he considers how to reply.]

It's... different, to say the least.

The technology in my world is comparative to somewhere around the 1940s in this world, near as I can tell, despite it being 2005. Many of the advancements made by technology here were made by magic in my own, so it has been a learning curve for me, to say the least.

[There. That's specific enough to answer the question without giving away anything personal.]

And what of yours, Mr. Edgeworth?

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[huitzilin]

We lived in Texas and there was a city that needed heroes and everything.
There was also a bad company that did bad things.
Then we went to Mexico and got margaritas on the beach.

HAve you ever been to a rodeo????

[doneproperly]

... It sounds very similar to here.

Ah... no. I can't say I have.

[He doesn't say "I don't even know what that is," because that is the beauty of these devices. He doesn't need to let on what he doesn't know. A quick internet search gives him the answer he was looking for.]

[darwinatrix]

Similar enough to this one, albeit with completely different countries; the maps are totally different. The year is 1915, so the technology level differs as well, but this world knows nothing of alchemy.

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Alchemy? Such as turning lead into gold...?

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[hands4healing]

Hello, John!

Um, well, our technology isn't as advanced in some ways as this world. And where I live, we don't have a beach, but I think I told you that at the party.

[Because she'd mentioned it so many times, she figures she must've told that to everyone she spoke to at the party.]

But my country is a military state. Run by the Fuhrer, Amestris is a new country, compared to those around us, only about five hundred years old, and expanded by battle. We're surrounded by three countries and a desert, and currently have ongoing battles with two of those countries.

Right now, at least...when I'm from, there's a state of...well, there are problems happening within the country. Military unrest? Populace unrest? [She really isn't quite sure what to call it.]

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[It feels strange to hold a conversation with someone he already knows over text when they've responded with video. Reluctantly, he switches to video as well and gives a polite nod of his head to Winry.]

Greetings, Winry. A pleasure to see you again.

Military unrest is quite different to populace unrest, is it not? Perhaps you could explain the situation for me in more detail, so I might better understand.

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[godly]

[Light opts for text, and it has nothing to do with the bruise he's sporting on his face right now. It's because Mandrake's post was text and it's only natural to respond in the same format.

Really.]

This world's technology is more advanced than my own, more so than what mine can expect to achieve in its own 2014. There's also no magic, no superpowers, nothing supernatural.

[....That he remembers, at least, and not counting the people dying inexplicable ways. But he's not eager to share the latter over a public feed.]

Something of a mundane answer to add to the list you've already gotten.

[doneproperly]

Not at all. It might seem mundane by your standards, but my own world is different enough that it's still rather fascinating to me.

Would you say your world and Mr. Edgeworth's are quite similar, then?

[inmyothertights]

You like to ask questions without providing anything in return.

[doneproperly]

[Billy's hit the nail right on the head.]

I suppose that is in my nature.

Are you really so interested in hearing about my world, or are you merely making an observation? I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

[He's not, really. But he's hoping an open show of seeming acquiescence will be enough to keep Billy from prying too deeply. He's sick and tired of justifying himself to people here who know nothing about his life or his world. More than that, he's sick of justifying it to himself. It gets so tiring.]

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A LOT like this one, superheroes and everything

minus the cold war
and the 50s flair

and some of the tech

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You must feel quite at home, then.

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[sassguard]

Humans have been in contact with other sentient species for just under forty years. We've spread all through the Sol -- the solar system, and we've got a few colonies on different planets.

Pretty different.

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Truly?

What year is it, where you come from? If I may ask.

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[whippings]

It's very similar to this one, although superpowers were less common and the political climate was markedly different.

I also wasn't forced to live in America.

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Is America truly so terrible? True, it's no Britain, but the way I see it, this version of America is a considerable improvement on the one in my world. The America I know is a barely civilized collection of backwards colonies.

[ex_question191]

Still not totally sure that I wouldn't find myself back home if I hopped on a Greyhound to California, that's how the same it is. But I called my dad's house and some strange lady answered. So.

Also I own a hoverboard now, that wasn't a thing outside of Back to the Future.

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... Back to the Future? That sentence doesn't even make any sense.