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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

A guide to figure out if you're watching scifi or fantasy:

startrek.website

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A guide to figure out if you're watching scifi or fantasy:

startrek.website

The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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  • bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz
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    Scifi is when you get shot by a blaster bolt

    Fantasy is when you take an arrow to the knee

  • downpunxx@kbin.socialBanned
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    If there’s magic, supernatural powers, or a force of any kind, it’s Science Fantasy

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      So we are living in science fantasy. No one has any idea where the four fundamental forces come from. They just “exist” like magical forces.

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      Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

      Arthur C. Clarke

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
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      Ooh, I could see that label ruffling a few feathers. Lol

      • Norgur@kbin.social
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        Arthur C. Clarke has entered the chat

      • irmoz@reddthat.com
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        Why?

    • nyctre
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      Where does the Witcher universe fall with its alien elves?

      • downpunxx@kbin.socialBanned
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        generic fantasy

      • paholg@lemm.ee
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        The elves aren’t aliens, humans are.

      • irmoz@reddthat.com
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        Still high fantasy

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      What about force fields?

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    Does it have a scanner bed or do they just stick you in a regular old bed by a waterfall and hope for the best?

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    Which is Yoda? I’ll wait.

    • atlasraven31@lemm.ee
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      Annoying dialogue? Powerful but doesn’t help the hero? Hands out quests?

      He is a video game NPC.

      • kautau
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        The only canon Yoda to me is bayou Yoda:

        https://youtu.be/agL0QYmIeds

        • bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          that Dagobah sawamp HEAT

          • kautau
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            I want em YOUNG obi wan. I want, a five year old

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      Posting the shit you are, the rule of poo you follow.

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    • Robaque@feddit.it
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      Space opera

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    Vulcans are just space elves? Always have been

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    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
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      Are you dwarven?

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  • craftyindividual@lemm.ee
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    pats amplifier “This goes to elven”

  • TheYear2525
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    My dividing line is “am I watching for the plot or for the ideas?”

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    Spock: set phasers to stun

    Legolas: uhmmm… Arrows kill

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    I separate by the mechanics at play: do supernatural things exist in places they do not exist in reality (humans doing telekinesis, mind reading for example… Or outright magic like the force)? If yes, it’s likely fantasy.

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      Where does subspace fall on this line? Stargates? The TARDIS?

      Sometimes the science is magical. The line is pretty fuzzy

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    Burn the Eldar

  • MisterFrog
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    Humans - Humans (duh)

    Vulcans - Elves / High Elves

    Romuluans - Dark Elves / Blood Elves

    Klingons - Orcs

    Andorians - Ice Elves

    This is as much as I could come up with.

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      This checks out.

      Who would be the dwarves? Ferengi?

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