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RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? |
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01-14-2017, 04:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2017, 04:01 PM by Valence.)
There is a huge difference between a tomato pie and a pizza to my eyes though.

(01-14-2017, 02:43 PM)Kilieit Wrote: [Image: e6a022eca4.png]

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XIV is loosely based on 15th - 17th century cultures, plus any "anachronistic" technical advances made possible with magic and magitek (such as the early propagation of things which, in the real world, stayed on their original continents for much longer - for instance, I'm going to say coffee is likely to have been invented somewhere along the Thavnairian archipelago, which we know Eorzea has active and open trade routes with).

Most of these foods were either invented thousands of years before then, or were invented during the time period XIV is based upon.

Just because they've become modern conveniences doesn't mean they were invented in modern times.

That's not what I'm saying though, I'm aware of coffee's age...

I'm pointing out that the way you are gonna depict a real life import in the game will totally decide if it's rubbish or brilliant. RL rip offs are very hard and finicky things to do right. Especially when they are still used as modern conveniences in a modern culture.

If you don't translate them back in their historical context, they remain used as a modern RL culture, but in Eorzea. And it doesn't ring true at all. I don't think I'm being wrong in assuming that coffee - as a coffee ignorant person overall - wasn't exactly consumed the same back in the time it appeared in the Middle East, and that the culture of coffee back then, was anything even remotely close.

Historical flavor, yes. Not a problem of timeline.

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Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Kiera Hawkeye - 01-12-2017, 09:03 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Kilieit - 01-12-2017, 09:09 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Sounsyy - 01-12-2017, 09:23 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Amnesic - 01-12-2017, 09:47 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Maril - 01-13-2017, 01:29 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Kilieit - 01-12-2017, 10:12 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by ExAtomos - 01-13-2017, 01:14 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Mae - 01-14-2017, 12:36 AM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Valence - 01-14-2017, 05:28 AM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Mae - 01-14-2017, 04:49 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Solenne - 01-14-2017, 09:20 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Kilieit - 01-14-2017, 12:41 AM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Nako Vesh - 01-14-2017, 02:27 AM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Charity322 - 01-14-2017, 08:58 AM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Kilieit - 01-14-2017, 02:43 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Valence - 01-14-2017, 04:00 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Sounsyy - 01-14-2017, 05:51 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Arrelaine - 01-14-2017, 02:58 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Sounsyy - 01-14-2017, 02:59 PM
RE: Popcorn in Eorzea? - by Mae - 01-14-2017, 06:49 PM

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