I fear I’m not nice enough to swear to h*ck, but I kind of wish I was that has to count for something 😇😂
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*heck
Whoa! Language!
How dare he!!!
Stop!! What if my children see this on Lemmy?! How am I supposed to explain it to them?
Fuck, he was this close to saying h*ck
Karl Urban long hair vs Karl Urban short hair.
@Randelung Technically correct, the best kind of correct 😁
Just got done playing the Mass Effect games (science fiction) and now I’m playing the Dragon Age games (fantasy) and I don’t see a difference other than one is in the future and the other is in the past. ;)
I seem to recall that at one point I was super opinionated about this, but nowadays I feel like these genre distinctions are sort of meaningless and I can’t remember why I felt so strongly about it.
@ryven There is often so much overlap that the distinction becomes pretty pointless 🤔
Both are scifi 🤷
You think a story that take place a long tome ago where with wizards weilding magic to fight a dark lord is sci fi?
Soft scifi
It’s pretty simple, Star Trek is sci Fi and Star Wars is fantasy
Star Trek is only sci fi if you’re scientifically illiterate and multisyllabic words, that you clearly don’t understand, nevertheless impress you
Tell me you’ve never seen Star Trek without saying you’ve never seen Star Trek
Ok. Explain the science of Q continuum.
It’s essentially Clarke’s third law, kiddo.
Now, explain how that means Star Trek isn’t science fiction, spud.
In hard sci-fi, the science drives the story. In Star Trek, most of the tech: warp drive, transporters, holodecks, replicators, etc. functions like narrative magic.
Problems get solved by “reversing polarity” or “rerouting auxiliary power.”
The underlying physics is rarely consistent or explored deeply.
Oh wow that’s crazy that’s it not 100% scientific, maybe they should make a term for a genre that’s particularly fictional. Hmm I wonder what to call it 🤔
I get it. Science fiction is an oxymoron.
Yet good science fiction relies on first principles. It’s plausible.
Bad science fiction introduces magic and it remains magic. Good science fiction introduces magic then makes it seem scientifically possible. Like Andy Weir.
No, sweetie, you just have an absurdly narrow and fundamentally useless definition of science fiction.
I think people already see them as different genres. The revelation is that they’re both subgenres of speculative fiction.
@early_riser That is true 😁
Science: the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
Is magic studied or experimented with? Congratulations that’s science.
Are there theories about why the world is the way it is? Congratulations that’s science.
Are there names for categorizing any phenomena, species, or objects? (As in are there words in this fantasy?) Congratulations that‘s science.
QED: all fantasy is science fiction.
