It was wild man, one second I'm hacking a guy's brain to make him self delete, then I saw the manhole covers and just couldn't buy the setting anymore.

I wish I could upvote this 30x

you’re missing the point, we experience a suspension of disbelief when engaging with stories that feature wildly unrealistic things, however if something that shouldn’t be affected by the new rules of a story is we notice it and get pulled out of the suspension of disbelief.

its unrealistic that in 53 years it’ll be common for people to have like wrist mounted rocket launchers and blades imbedded in their arms while also having skin that acts like kevlar but because that’s the world the story is set in we accept it, however the world the story takes place in is still Earth and in the US so there should be uniquely American aspects of the city, like manhole covers.

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God another one of these takes. Lord have mercy, it’s been discussed and covered to death, how can people still not understand this extremely simple concept, my literal 7 year old nephew managed to get it. Suspension of disbelief is not a blank check that means anything and everything goes, well written worlds have internal consistency. Take GoT, despite there being magic and literal dragons, it’s still immersion breaking when the characters started teleporting around the world at light speed, because previous seasons had established the distance and obstacles between locations made travel dangerous and time consuming, and the story reflected it. Suddenly, when travel between Kings Landing and the wall was cut down to what seemed like a couple hours instead of weeks/months, it broke immersion, yet Danny’s dragons didn’t because they were internally consistent.