Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20160730160356/@comment-25936766-20160730164539

HookshotHotshot wrote: -Ok. Thank you for not raging. I personally can see some people changing their names, but that's all I'll say on the matter.

-BTW, the "Rules are the same" point happened last month at the beginning of the contest when Ray asked about Casinos for his Contest Character..... -Yeah, there will always be the few that do things like that. Cannot judge the majority for what the minority does, however.

-Ah, yeah, but that was in a different thing: Like Reality Unless Noted. In a fictional work, we assume things are like in our world, unless they are noted in said work in a way that means they aren't.

For example, if the work takes place on a fictional world, we assume the world is round, just like ours, unless it is noted in said work that the world is flat, or cubical.

It's very common in fiction, of all kinds. Which can be both a blessing and a burden, since while it means you don't have to answer needless questions, it means people will expect things to be like in real life when it's not noted, from the way people interact, to the way things work, and even history within the work.

Which is why in works that are obviously ficitonal but take place in "the real world", if the author makes up a fact that is wrong in real life, people do not assume "that's how it is in that world", people assume the author did not do the research.

In the casino's case, it's safe to assume Remnant's casinos work just like our casinos, unless, and only in the things that are, specifically noted to be different.