Comments by "p11" (@porky1118) on "Trope Talk: Writing What You Know" video.

I prefer to let my people live in a world different to ours. This makes it easier to include minorities as well. It's my creative freedom of exploring how the people in this world act and feel. And if it's different than they would in our world, it's because of the different situations.
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@legrandliseurtri7495 I agree. If it's in a fictional world, I would always call it fantasy, though. But I don't like adding too common fantasy elements. For example the common fantasy races aren't that interesting (elves, dwarfs, etc.), especially if it's a typical medival setting. Adding new races doesn't seem too interesting to me anymore. Why do you need them? Most of the time, you could also just add a new country or tribe of normal humans, who just have a different culture. I prefer realistic fantasy worlds. Magic is fine to me, but I prefer more physics based magic systems (energy preservation) and only use it, when there is no good explanation using physics. So Sci-Fi is often better. But without space travel preferably. One of my recent ideas for a fantasy world is not like most fantasy worlds, which add new races, creatures, magic and technologies. Mine only has one race, which has only one gender, no differences in age, no other animals, only one edible food...
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I commented this, just before it's mentioned in the video :)
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I also added humans, who can do photosynthesis, and called them plant humans. But I didn't care about the efficiency, the skin size and the amount of oxygen produced, I just cared about the sunlight per day per area and the amount of energy to be produced. The question is, how many plant human can feed how many people. Because plant human eat soil and shit delicious fruits or something like that.
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In anime you often see half-knowledge. I hate that. They never talk about science, and when they do, it's something almost every adult should know, but presented as if the person telling about it, being very smart.
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