If you could live in a fictional world, which would it be?
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I think the primary problem I have in deciding the question hinges on the fact that I like my chaos and mayhem as fiction. It helps reduce the odds of my being killed in cinematically interesting ways along with other 'nameless background characters'. Unfortunately, most fiction has to have such mayhem occurring to help drive an interesting or compelling plot along, especially when presented in a visual medium. So while there are quite a few potential candidates for this wish list, I think I would prefer to live some place. . . shall we say 'off camera' to avoid being a proverbial red shirt.
That said, I am a being that enjoys my creature comforts and studies history. The best fictional universe that would allow me to enjoy both would be the Star Trek reality. A post-scarcity society that values intellectual pursuits? I like the sound of that.
That said, I am a being that enjoys my creature comforts and studies history. The best fictional universe that would allow me to enjoy both would be the Star Trek reality. A post-scarcity society that values intellectual pursuits? I like the sound of that.
Well it certainly depends on what you're allowing us to do in those IPs. Like being a Space Wolf would be awesome, but everything else in the 40k 'verse is absolute misery and pain.
Likewise being in Star Trek or Star Wars but as a janitor on a backwater, living a desperately lonely and sad life, dying unremembered and unloved, isn't worth it.
Piloting a Jaeger in Pacific Rim would be awesome, but the casualty rate is like 100% and when you die a Kaiju destroys all of Los Angeles.
Maybe Mass Effect, because no matter what you do, there's a chance of banging an Asari. That alone might make being a space janitor worth it.
Likewise being in Star Trek or Star Wars but as a janitor on a backwater, living a desperately lonely and sad life, dying unremembered and unloved, isn't worth it.
Piloting a Jaeger in Pacific Rim would be awesome, but the casualty rate is like 100% and when you die a Kaiju destroys all of Los Angeles.
Maybe Mass Effect, because no matter what you do, there's a chance of banging an Asari. That alone might make being a space janitor worth it.
Not Star Trek, because I don't conform to their perfect image of what the future should be like so I wouldn't be welcome in that communist dystopia and would likely find myself trying to move to one of the countless human worlds which are not part of the Federation (have you ever noticed this? I don't think it's a coincidence that there are so many human worlds in the setting not part of the Federation while most other species are homogeneous with their species and government).
I'd like to live in the setting of Stargate, due to the fact that the world is similar enough to our own that I wouldn't need to go through a decade of education to re-learn everything I'd need to to function in basic society, while at the same time having Earth as the most powerful superpower in the entire galactic cluster who are second to none and have the technology of two species who where millions of years ahead of us and intentionally left behind EVERYTHING THEY KNEW for us to be the guardians of peace and order in the universe. The setting is everything good about the real world mixed with everything good about a hyper advanced one, without the drawbacks of either.
I'd like to live in the setting of Stargate, due to the fact that the world is similar enough to our own that I wouldn't need to go through a decade of education to re-learn everything I'd need to to function in basic society, while at the same time having Earth as the most powerful superpower in the entire galactic cluster who are second to none and have the technology of two species who where millions of years ahead of us and intentionally left behind EVERYTHING THEY KNEW for us to be the guardians of peace and order in the universe. The setting is everything good about the real world mixed with everything good about a hyper advanced one, without the drawbacks of either.
Asari? Pft. It's all about pre-ME3 Quarian tail (When there was still some mystery and they didn't look lame). Post-ME-3, its all about the Hanar.Silentpony said:
Don't worry kids, he's just helping him floss.
The only Universe I can think of that would be great for just about anyone (Because there's no guarantee I would be a Space Wolf or Inquisitor) is Star Gate - The wonder of the Universe is still at our finger tips, but I'm still safe, because humans are dope.
I would choose the late Iain banks culture universe. They have the technology for you to be able to do anything want, be anything you want to be including change your own race if that tickles your fancy.
Middle Earth would be pretty cool too I guess.
I did consider the 40k universe but that would be just too damn scary!
Middle Earth would be pretty cool too I guess.
I did consider the 40k universe but that would be just too damn scary!
That's easy, Pokemon. You only need to spend a few dollars(if Pokedollars are meant to resemble yen, and one Pokeball is about 200 yen) to catch a friend who will be with you for the rest of your life. This new friend would also be much smarter than just any pet, you can get it treated for free if it's sick, and it will defend you with its life against other wild Pokemon.
Unlike most other fictional universes, the regular people aren't just going to be completely helpless against the bad guys. If you are a good Pokemon trainer, you can basically do anything and everything. Most of the protagonists may get wrangled up into huge events, but they are still just regular people who happened to be at the right place at the right time.
I know people like to say how terrifying real Pokemon would be, but I assume this question means you would go into that universe. If so, then Pokemon are not scary considering they are pretty harmless to humans as per the rules of the Pokemon universe.
Unlike most other fictional universes, the regular people aren't just going to be completely helpless against the bad guys. If you are a good Pokemon trainer, you can basically do anything and everything. Most of the protagonists may get wrangled up into huge events, but they are still just regular people who happened to be at the right place at the right time.
I know people like to say how terrifying real Pokemon would be, but I assume this question means you would go into that universe. If so, then Pokemon are not scary considering they are pretty harmless to humans as per the rules of the Pokemon universe.
I don't think people say Pokemon is scary because of the Pokemon... its the fact that the world is filled with children who drop out of school to become Lil' Vicks, capturing wild animals and training them to fight for you own amusement, traveling from town to town to participate in blood sports that most modern nations have outlawed for decades.Hero of Lime said:
While I don't think its evil to play such a game (Like PETA does), I do think that it would be a a horrifying place to live in.
Screw the Hanar.AccursedTheory said:Asari? Pft. It's all about pre-ME3 Quarian tail (When there was still some mystery and they didn't look lame). Post-ME-3, its all about the Hanar.
Don't worry kids, he's just helping him floss.
Err... stop screwing the Hanar. Elcor make the best lovers. They're always open with their feelings, and consent is a much cleaner business.
"Enthusiastic consent Take me you Space Cowboy"
Plus, at that size, you just know they're packing.
Sorry, what was the topic again?
I'd want to live on Titan in Eclipse Phase. The world isn't perfect, powerful unknowable aliens created a virus which caused robots to go crazy and it resulted in the deaths of over 90% of the human population. Also we never defeated the robots, we weren't even slowing them down, they just sort of left and they or the aliens that created the virus could come back at any time to kill us.
But other than living in constant existential dread it's a pretty sweet place to live, assuming you live in the right place of course. Living on Earth would be a nightmare. But Titan is awesome. Basically everyone is immortal, it's post-scarcity, you can change your physical appearance with extreme ease, most people are accepting of all sorts of folks who are marginalized today (like Queer people) although there are new groups who face discrimination, technology has greatly improved the human condition, there are all sorts of neat technological things. I could go on but yeah, the setting is really cool. And assuming you were in the right place it would be a great world to live in.
But other than living in constant existential dread it's a pretty sweet place to live, assuming you live in the right place of course. Living on Earth would be a nightmare. But Titan is awesome. Basically everyone is immortal, it's post-scarcity, you can change your physical appearance with extreme ease, most people are accepting of all sorts of folks who are marginalized today (like Queer people) although there are new groups who face discrimination, technology has greatly improved the human condition, there are all sorts of neat technological things. I could go on but yeah, the setting is really cool. And assuming you were in the right place it would be a great world to live in.
The mad fools! You give me the key to the city and I shall oblige! The realm I choose to live in is my own! I am a writer and have created my own dark fantasy! BWA HA HA HA HA HAAA!!!
Ah, it's a long story of the times in which I owned a message board filled with darkness and the struggles of light against overwhelming evil. It was a place of villainy and calamities, also bizarre occurrances and a bar that traveled from planet to planet. It meshed the serious with the ridiculous, so that you could have a villain cut a swathe of terror and destruction across the galaxy, and then get sued by the survivors in a class-action lawsuit. Good times, man. Good times.Asita said:
This. It's all the post-scarcity utopia of Star Trek, along with augmentations like biological immortality, drug manufacturing glands implanted into your brain, the ability to change sex at will, and mind backups. If you didn't want to live in the Culture, you could live in a virtual environment of your choice, so being in the Culture would let you experience being in any other world.carlsberg export said:
I do believe that these rules also apply to Peter F. Hamilton's Common Wealth series. But I wouldn't want to live there, I do like the prospect of life eventually being over, rather than being stuck in a cascade of near immortality, rejuvenation, and clone back ups your consciousness can be uploaded into.Asclepion said:
Personally my first choice would to be to live in the Honorvers, provided I could have my history changed to being a Meyerdahl-Beta genetic mod, and have my birth place be Sphinx. Because I'd love to be bonded to a Sphinxian Treecat, while at the same time also being a citizen of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Aside from that with genetic modification, their medical technology, and accepting culture, it'd be a great place to be, and I'd probably really enjoy trying my hand at being a Queen's officer in the Royal Manticoran Navy. Also prolong, a roughly 300 year life span is plenty to get a lot done, while at the same not being so long that it gets terribly monotonous. Also as a Manti, I could ingratiate my self to the Graysons, always a bonus there. I just wouldn't want to be born on Grayson, or most anywhere else in the Honorverse, because of how dysfunctional most other places tend to be, especially the Solarian League.
Runner up is in the event I have to be immortal, in which case my choice is the Dark Souls universe, curse of the undead is better than bland immortality. Also I get to run around dying an essentially infinite number of times attempting to kill things far larger than my self.
Well, Pokemon usually need to battle in order to evolve and get stronger. So they don't battle just for the amusement of their trainers. It's pretty natural they live to battle, they naturally learn battle moves. Let's not forget there is a "fighting" type after all. Those guys live to battle.AccursedTheory said:
Another thing is that the bond between human and pokemon in the canon is what brings out both the pokemon's and human's full potential. So it's a symbiotic relationship sort of like a deeper version of that between coach and MMA fighter/Olympic wrestler/Boxer/etc, which is highly beneficial to both parties. People tend to forget that, thus equating pokemon to dog/cock fighting, where the objective is for one animal to kill the other. Pokemon battle more like professionals in the fighting arts, they go until a K.O. or a T.K.O.Hero of Lime said: