Andrew Deacon
muesliThe difference between science fiction and reality is that science fiction has to make sense.
Wolf480pl@fribbledom
that's a nice SF post
Reid 
Tim Ruppert@TMRuppert @fribbledom it is fantasy, but they often sell it as science fiction (especially with Iron Man, Captain America, or all the S.H.I.E.L.D. stuff)
SISalp@fribbledom
When reality seems to make sens, it's probably no longer reality but a concept.
Knowledge is not easy, it's a effort against oneself. When it's "logic", it's likely wrong or partially wrong.
When reality seems to make sens, it's probably no longer reality but a concept.
Knowledge is not easy, it's a effort against oneself. When it's "logic", it's likely wrong or partially wrong.
Jaicup@Dominique74230 @fribbledom When it's a model it's always wrong. It's just a matter of how wrong and in what ways
MacCruiskeen@fribbledom Obviously, that isn't actually true, but you're saying it in reality, so it doesn't have to make sense, so it is true.
Serf de Web@fribbledom
I could get tendinitis all over again listing all the nonsensical science fiction out there.
I could get tendinitis all over again listing all the nonsensical science fiction out there.
@fribbledom
Relevant cartoon: "Hark a vagrant"
https://drawnandquarterly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/harkinterior_30.jpg
Relevant cartoon: "Hark a vagrant"
https://drawnandquarterly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/harkinterior_30.jpg
enoch_exe_inc@fribbledom Which is why I’m fond of worldbuilding that leaves the “true nature” of certain things up to the speculation of its inhabitants rather than insisting on a “single correct explanation”. Examples include the origin of the VSD (Viral-induced Spongiform Disease) pandemic, the PONR (point-of-no-return) theorem in combinatorial game theory (particularly chess), or the concept of cognitive singularities.
SnowBlind2005Science Fiction facts!
cognitively accessible math@fribbledom that's true of so many forms of storytelling. Maybe storytelling is trying to make it make sense.
Count Holdem@fribbledom The good ole factory of sense, is being rendered extinct.
Yours,
#Capitalism
Beggar Midas@fribbledom Oh no it doesn't. John Carter Warrior of Mars. For example. BATTLEFEILD EARTH FFS. Ten volumes FULL of tripe. STAR wars for crying out loud. Magic space wizards? I mean, come the fuck on. lol
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@Beggarmidas @fribbledom Ah, but you can solve this one by definition if you so choose:
If it makes sense it's "SF".
If it doesn't make sense it's "fantasy".
So yes, Star Wars is fantasy (unless you introduce a separate Space Opera category).
But that way #Discworld ends up as SF ... hmm ...
@TimWardCam @fribbledom Hrm....YOu make an excellent counterpoint!
FoolishOwl@fribbledom I've thought that the difference between storytelling and reporting a series of events, is that there's implicitly a storyteller who is telling the story for a reason, which informs how the story is told.
D. G. MarshallScience fiction contains warnings about dystopian futures. Reality contains numbnuts who read those warnings, and decided they were actually instruction manuals.
Scott the F is implicit Baxter@fribbledom well, good science fiction has to make sense.