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Poll

What Sci-Fi setting would you call home?

Star Wars
- 2 (6.5%)
Star Trek
- 4 (12.9%)
Babylon 5
- 3 (9.7%)
Lexx
- 1 (3.2%)
Flash Gordon
- 1 (3.2%)
Dirty Pair
- 2 (6.5%)
Space Adventure Cobra
- 4 (12.9%)
Battlestar Galactica
- 0 (0%)
Futurama
- 3 (9.7%)
The Jetsons
- 2 (6.5%)
Buck Rogers
- 0 (0%)
Bil The Galactic Hero
- 0 (0%)
Skullskull 40,000
- 1 (3.2%)
Underwater Star Trek
- 0 (0%)
Stargate
- 0 (0%)
The Fifth Element
- 4 (12.9%)
Mass Effect
- 1 (3.2%)
Rocket Robin Hood
- 1 (3.2%)
Andromeda
- 0 (0%)
Harlock et al.
- 0 (0%)
WALL-E
- 0 (0%)
Space Channel 5
- 2 (6.5%)
Diebuster
- 0 (0%)
Culture
- 0 (0%)
Firefly (which is a bad place to live)
- 0 (0%)

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Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« on: May 05, 2010, 05:03:03 AM »

So let's say you had to choose a specific sci-fi universe to live in, at any timeframe of your choosing. Where would you live, and why?

I'll add more universes as people suggest them, and reset the poll every time we hit 20 choices. My only real criteria for including something is that there's spaceships, I guess, so people don't try to shoehorn in stuff like 3rd Rock From The Sun.
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2010, 05:09:39 AM »

So let's just say HP Lovecraft had mad passionate sex with Arthur C Clarke...
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2010, 05:13:14 AM »

Since we're being pedantic.... Do you mean which one we think is the most utopian, or which we're the biggest fan of?
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2010, 05:15:33 AM »

So let's say you had to choose a specific sci-fi universe to live in, at any timeframe of your choosing. Where would you live, and why?
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2010, 05:20:54 AM »

Of the ones I know, Futurama seems the most livable because there are so many different places to choose from unlike BSG for example which would basically be on a spaceship with a bunch of assholes and death.
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2010, 05:31:15 AM »

The Jetsons, because it depicts a future where everything works, and the problems of day-to-day life are familiar but vastly smaller in magnitude.
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2010, 05:40:38 AM »

Fifth Element, without question.  Jetsons is too cheesy and saccharine, and every other alternative I'm familiar with has too many planet-killing supervillains for me to consider calling it 'home'.  Fifth Element has a total of one, and it's sufficiently and permanently dealt with by the end of the film, making for some prime futuristic real-estate (even if the apartments are cramped).
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2010, 05:42:49 AM »

Let me put it this way. George Jetson works nine hours per week. His job is to press the button that makes his computer do all the work. In his society, this sort of labor is considered grueling, but not back-breaking. With the salary earned from this position, he is able to support the lifestyles of a family of four, none of whom have ever been shown to exhibit frugality, plus a robot maid, talking dog, and complete expert maintenance for the variety of machines which provide them with every imaginable material comfort in their house atop a glistening spire that rises above the clouds. Which is so large that the family prefers to traverse it using moving sidewalks. He has a flying car and several jetpacks, and he can travel to other planets more-or-less at-will. All of his problems come from the fact that he is living in a sitcom, which is something that I think I could handle.
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2010, 05:49:22 AM »

Dirty Pair, but only if I can be the Charlie to those Angels.
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2010, 05:50:35 AM »

I'm pretty sure Bill's got the right idea about all this.

Titanic struggles are for all the kids who think they're Jesus Luke Skywalker.

@ Niku: You do recall the survival rate for, ohhhhh... everybody but Shasti in that series?
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2010, 05:52:52 AM »

Actually, my vote is for Rocket Robin Hood, so long as I get to be this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebsSyfHaIRY
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2010, 06:00:07 AM »

@ Niku: You do recall the survival rate for, ohhhhh... everybody but Shasti in that series?

WORTH.  IT.
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2010, 06:05:58 AM »

Mass Effect because of the amount of raw bullshit plotonium floating around. Seriously, imagine being homeless on the Citadel.

Not to mention that with the traditional "Bioware Gambling Game With Rules For Five Year Olds", I could become rich by sitting in a cool room with drinks all day occasionally pushing a RNG while browsing super extra-net porn.
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2010, 06:24:34 AM »

I chose Fifth Element's world. Relatively few dangers, and door-to-door Chinese Food restaurant.

Also, what the employees at McDonald's wear.
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2010, 06:29:18 AM »

Let me put it this way. George Jetson works nine hours per week. His job is to press the button that makes his computer do all the work. In his society, this sort of labor is considered grueling, but not back-breaking. With the salary earned from this position, he is able to support the lifestyles of a family of four, none of whom have ever been shown to exhibit frugality, plus a robot maid, talking dog, and complete expert maintenance for the variety of machines which provide them with every imaginable material comfort in their house atop a glistening spire that rises above the clouds. Which is so large that the family prefers to traverse it using moving sidewalks. He has a flying car and several jetpacks, and he can travel to other planets more-or-less at-will. All of his problems come from the fact that he is living in a sitcom, which is something that I think I could handle.

POST OF THE YEAR
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2010, 06:33:14 AM »

:concur:
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #16 on: May 05, 2010, 06:53:04 AM »

Star Trek depicts a universe in which food is produced from thin air, entertainment comes in the form of encapsulating, fully physical virtual reality, there's no concept of money or the not having thereof, and there's always exciting and challenging work to do if you happen to feel like it, but if not you can be a lazy useless shit all your life and let technology just take care of you.  As long as you're not stupid enough to ever set foot aboard a starship or, er, be Klingon, you're pretty much living in paradise.
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #17 on: May 05, 2010, 07:07:40 AM »

I personally voted Space Adventure Cobra, and if you have to ask why, then I don't know you.
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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #18 on: May 05, 2010, 07:12:42 AM »

Star Trek depicts a universe in which food is produced from thin air, entertainment comes in the form of encapsulating, fully physical virtual reality, there's no concept of money or the not having thereof, and there's always exciting and challenging work to do if you happen to feel like it, but if not you can be a lazy useless shit all your life and let technology just take care of you.  As long as you're not stupid enough to ever set foot aboard a starship or, er, be Klingon, you're pretty much living in paradise.

Quote from: Captain Kirk
"Maybe we weren't meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through – struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lute. We must march to the sound of drums."

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Re: Pedantic Sci-Fi Poll
« Reply #19 on: May 05, 2010, 07:47:09 AM »

Have you seen what the Star Trek civilians wear?

By contrast, look at what Leelu wears.
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