Overanalysing worldbuilding in grand fest

[electronvolt]

Buckle up folks, this is gonna be a long one. (i realise that it's not that deep, but I'm writing this anyway)

First off: the food. There are quite a few food stalls in the grand fest venue. For example, we have this ice cream stall: . This probably shows that dairy exists, or has existed, in squid times. If dairy existed, this means they have mammals (impossible). Otherwise, this means they were able to invent dairy substitutes without ever seeing the real thing. (or it's sorbet...)

Next up: pizza. Now, the history of pizza is very interesting. Flatbreads have existed for hundreds of years, but the invention of the modern pizza came in the 18th century, when people in and around Naples began adding tomato to flatbread. The image on the sign appears to be a pizza Margherita, invented in the 19th century (the legend about the queen liking it is disputed). The existence of that stall suggests that either all of that stuff happened, or that Splatoon society found a record of pizza. It also means that Inklings were able to invent vegan cheese from scratch, something we humans have struggled with even while being able to reference actual cheese.

Short bit: they have eggs in food, which (presumably) means they are farming birds.

But wait, there's more! It seems plausible that they would convergent-evolution their way to doner kebabs with no context, but what meat is it? Could be chicken, but would that mean they're selectively breeding chickens for meat?


On to non-food stuff (some of this has some serious implications):

The bands playing on the stages appear to be jellyfish Beatles. This means they've seen the Beatles. How? Did they find an album cover? Do they have a Beatles album, or video of them? What other bands do they know about? How do they know enough about humans to know what hair is when they made those wigs? The splatoon beatles raise many questions.

They also have pyrotechnics, which means that they not only invented gunpowder, but put enough time and research in to make modern smokless powder, instead of the older black powder. Splatoon's weapons all work using pressure-based systems, so why do they have gunpowder? Do they have bullet-firing guns? Are cannons canon?

One last thing: Marina's computer. Yes, yes, Pearlina, but more importantly - which linux distro is that? (Let's be honest, we all know Marina would run linux.) There appears to be a icon bar along the bottom, so it could be elementaryOS, pop!_OS or similar. The actual computer icons seem to be: a grey/white circle, a pink/purple shape, a SquidForce logo (battle stats app?), 3 folders (which implies either a similar paper folders -> computer folders progression, or knowledge of human computer systems), the yellow and blue octopus symbol from splat2, and a game controller (either some kind of side order dev program or a steam/emulator thing).

There's probably more, but I cant think of anything right now so enjoy the wall-o'-text everyone

 

[MandatoryCatalyst]

Yes, yes, Pearlina, but more importantly - which linux distro is that? (Let's be honest, we all know Marina would run linux.) There appears to be a icon bar along the bottom, so it could be elementaryOS, pop!_OS or similar.

As the worlds only pop!_OS user I'm choosing to believe that's what she's using. Maybe someone else in the world can relate to not only using Linux but using a niche distro that no one ever plays video games on so finding information for troubleshooting is an actual nightmare no I'm not bitter don't worry about it

 

[2Ws2Ls]

Yes, yes, Pearlina, but more importantly - which linux distro is that? (Let's be honest, we all know Marina would run linux.) There appears to be a icon bar along the bottom, so it could be elementaryOS, pop!_OS or similar.

doubful she runs linux, if were going so far as to question the existance of the beatles, we should be questioning if the linux kernel exists. linux didnt pop out of nowhere, its based on unix, which also didnt pop out of nowhere. so to answer your question, its arch (btw) /s

 

[sevenleaf]

yknow, i wonder if not being able to compare to the real thing would make creating substitute milk/cheese/other dairy products easier for splatoon society? since if you don't know what 'real' milk and cheese taste like and you have no way to find out, how would you know your substitute doesn't match up? and if everybody grew up eating substitute dairy products, they're likely all used to it

or something

 

[Azhdarcho]

I guess I’ve been assuming that squids are rehashing human history because of the microplastics from Alterna. In my mind, that means that anything they reinvent is because of this “DNA memory”, or whatever you wanna call it, and not necessarily because they found an artifact. Their whole society is basically reinventing human society, and there’s no way they found artifacts for absolutely everything – for instance, they reinvented the Voyager Golden Record, which is (edit:) trillions of kilometers into space in their time. So why not reinvent the Beatles or vegan cheese?