c/memes · by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 2yA guide to figure out if you're watching scifi or fantasy: 556 points · 31 comments · view on lemmy.world
31 Comments
bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 2y
Scifi is when you get shot by a blaster bolt
Fantasy is when you take an arrow to the knee
downpunxx@kbin.social · 17 pts · 2y
If there's magic, supernatural powers, or a force of any kind, it's Science Fantasy
beteljuice@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 2y
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.
andthenthreemore@startrek.website · 5 pts · 2y
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 3 pts · 2y
Ooh, I could see that label ruffling a few feathers. Lol
Norgur@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
Arthur C. Clarke has entered the chat
irmoz@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 2y
Why?
MxM111@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
What about force fields?
nyctre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Where does the Witcher universe fall with its alien elves?
downpunxx@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
generic fantasy
paholg@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
The elves aren't aliens, humans are.
irmoz@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 2y
Still high fantasy
atlasraven31@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 2y
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?
abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Which is Yoda? I'll wait.
atlasraven31@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y
Annoying dialogue? Powerful but doesn't help the hero? Hands out quests?
He is a video game NPC.
kautau@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
The only canon Yoda to me is bayou Yoda:
https://youtu.be/agL0QYmIeds
bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y
that Dagobah sawamp HEAT
kautau@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I want em YOUNG obi wan. I want, a five year old
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Greenknight777@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y
Posting the shit you are, the rule of poo you follow.
Robaque@feddit.it · 2 pts · 2y
Space opera
Moc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
lordmauve@programming.dev · 9 pts · 2y
TheKarion@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 6 pts · 2y
Are you dwarven?
TheKarion@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
craftyindividual@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
pats amplifier "This goes to elven"
TheYear2525@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
My dividing line is “am I watching for the plot or for the ideas?”
Sygheil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Spock: set phasers to stun
Legolas: uhmmm... Arrows kill
Norgur@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
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.
aaaa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Where does subspace fall on this line? Stargates? The TARDIS?
Sometimes the science is magical. The line is pretty fuzzy
Espiovvv@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Burn the Eldar
MisterFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 1 pts · 2y
This checks out.
Who would be the dwarves? Ferengi?
nyctre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y