I’ve seen a very talented version of the song that continued along that theme–“…for the Devil plays the long game, and he got Johnny with the sin of PRIDE.”
It always takes me at least three tries to insert a USB.
And watch with the Mostly Peaceful Protest memes. Last time I made that comment, someone threatened to burn down my house. And doubled down when I said, sorry, too late. Someone already did that.
Well, I was wondering when someone would combine J.D. Vance memes with Studio Ghibli memes. Have to say I was disappointed. Next time, they should try actually Ghiblifying Vance. Not sure how the beard would come out.
Odd tip: WordPress will still try to autocomplete “disappointed” if you put three p’s in it. Some things just delenda est.
Re: The Ghiblied developer at the gallows: It took me a moment to catch that the AI forgot (or was forbidden) the actual nooses; the knot was just kinda plugged into the back of the neck, Matrix style.
Hmm, a society of time travelers who travel back from their time to the past, and write fiction describing the worst excesses of their home time, in order to attempt to inoculate that timeline from their mistakes…
Actually they could just temporally transmit the stories, once they find a willing writer. Sending ones and zeroes has to be easier than en entire future author…
Press a button and probably get money or you might become french? [laughs in having ancestors named DuRoy and Gagnon] too late (shhh! hush you in the back)
Same. I’m fully half-French (mostly Norman, some Massif Central and, regrettably, Parisian), I like butter, cheese, cream sauces and chocolate to an unhealthy degree, make fun of the Brits when the mood takes me, think Charles De Gaulle was kind of cool (especially his treatment of the daughter who had Downs Syndrome), and refuse to treat Napoleon as Literally Hitler. The worst the button is going to do to me is subject me to those surrender monkey taunts invented by fat useless plagiarist Jonah Goldberg. So what?
And re soda-can-aluminum cast into an AR lower – why? It’s certainly not the milspec Al alloy, but people have 3d-printed plastic lowers running for a fair number of rounds these days.
The lower design is apparently pretty low stress, with reportedly the big threads where the buffer tube connects being the one trickier section to achieve in plastic.
I would think a random-alloy aluminum cast lower would work for a fair bit.
IIRC the AK47 was specifically designed to utilize 3rd world basement smelting to produce their rifle frames where the tolerances didn’t have to be all that accurate. My experience with ARs, while not extensive, has been enough that they can be finnicky if not done just right.
Here’s a link to photos of a guy hammering a working AK receiver out of an old shovel. Note the text in the linked article is incorrect – he didn’t “melt it down and reforge” anything, rather he got it hot and then whacked it to flatten and then bend it (aka blacksmithing) to get form the shovel blade shape to AK receiver shape:
That story reminds me of the old WWII British Sten machine gun. Cheap, easy to produce out of sheet metal. Hell, you probably could make one out of layered soda cans tack welded or even riveted together.
“Lines Brothers was a company in the UK that made sheet metal childrens’ toys prior to the war. When production of the Sten guns began, Lines Bros was a parts subcontractor. Their engineers analyzed the design alongside the machinery the company had available and redesigned a version of the Sten that they could make very quickly and cheaply in-house, by replacing the tube receiver with a rolled and spot-welded piece of sheet steel. Their first order came in January 1942, to a whopping 500,000 guns, which were designated the MkIII.”
The original AK receiver was so hard to machine with shitty Soviet methods they never did hit the numbers they wanted.
It was the AKM “modernized”, IE dumbed down to a stamped and welded receiver, that allowed mass Soviet production, finally, within their shitty capabilities.
Don’t romanticize Soviet garbage. It wasn’t true when Stalin was slinging it.
The Type 1 AK-47 receiver was milled, if I remember right? Then they switched to stamped for the type 2 and type 3 and then the AKM. And then the RPK, and the AK-74, and the RPK-74, and the RPK-74M, and the AK-74U, and AK-this and AK-that. And the Tavor. And all the various Chinese and Norinco and Yugoslav and Romanian variations.
Mr. Kalashnikov’s recoil system and basic operation will probably outlive all of us, if not our children.
On the Original Idiot/ Disney remake meme it is a a shame AOC isn’t a Ginger or at least photoshopped to be one. (per gingercide).
And from that my mind comes up with a variant of the man holding his girlfriend’s hand and looking at the hot chick meme. To wit: Young man captioned DISNEY walking holding hands with Kathleen Kennedy (caption or better image) spinning head to look at Rachel Ziegler dressed as Snow White .
I think I disagree with that top meme. It seems to me that Discworld is narratively fantasy (its basic premise is narrative causality, which is very compatible with fantasy and totally at odds with science fiction) but might be said to be aesthetically science fiction (it treats the Enlightenment and technology and igoring as good things). Conversely, Star Wars seems to be narratively science fiction (its underlying theme seems to be the opposition of mechanistic and vitalistic theories of life, which is a dispute from 19th century biology) but aesthetically has elements of fantasy: knights, princesses, visions, and so on. I think the words “narrative” and “aesthetic” have gotten swapped. . . .
Cool, but until it can deflect projectiles like the movie lightsabers, the canonical movie ones are still magic.
The magic isn’t whether a lightsaber can block projectiles; that’s an engineering problem, and it’s being solved.
The magic is that a Human can sense and move the blade of the saber with speed and precision enough to put it in the path of the projectile. Consistently.
I’m afraid that strikes me as a specious way of drawing the line etween the genres. The overwhelming majority of works of science fiction have “scientific” or “technological” elements that we can’t duplicate and often that, to the best of our knowlege, are impossible. For example, the work that gave us the category of “hard science fiction” and that is still considered a classic example, Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity, is set on an alien planet designed with exquisite care and detail . . . that is being visited by a group of human beings in a starship. FTL certainly is not something we can do and is probably impossible. Are we supposed to Mission of Gravity “fantasy”? Or the six Heinlein juveniles with FTL (seven if you count Starship Troopers)?
E.E. Smith famously said that his Skylark series was fantasy, because its science lacked rigor, but his Lensman series was science fiction. That is, he thought nothing in it was what you call “magic”—in a series with FTL, telepathy and other psionic powers, hyperspatial tubes, tractor and pressor beams, force screens around its starships, and a lot of other extravagances. The things that people will accept as realistic science just amaze me sometimes.
I think the approach that makes sense is to look at what rhetorical justification is offered for the wonders and marvels to gain willing suspension of disbelief. If it’s some form of the appeal to science—”this is advanced technology,” “this is based on some scientific theory,” “this is describable in the language of science,” “this is the result of a program of scientific research,” “this is in a realm reachable via advanced technology [under the sea, inside the hollow earth, in outer space, in the past or future, in cyberspace]”—then it’s science fiction. If it’s some form of the appeal to traditional stories—myths, legends, fairy tales—then it’s fantasy. And in Star Wars, the original movie, “A New Hope,” the wonders and marvels are FTL and alien planets (a technology and a realm reachable with it), droids (products of technology), energy weapons (products of technology—even the light saber is shown as a technological device, not as a spell). All of those are science fictional concepts. And the Force, despite the rhetoric, perfectly fits the old science fictional trope of psionics. All of those wonders and marvels are exactly like those in lots and lots of science fiction novels on my shelves.
Now, to be sure, the chrome appeals to fantasy stories—princesses, knights, that sort of thing. That’s why I said that SW has a fantasy aesthetic. But the load bearing elements are all old familiar SF concepts.
As a developer (even now retired), might have laughed hysterically at the graphic artists losing their jobs with AI graphics available. “First Time?” is right. At that I was lucky and retired from a working job. Too many fellow developers I’ve worked with, and known (both women and men) can’t say that.
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About the Devil letting Johnny win that golden fiddle. LOL
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I’ve thought that for years. It’s a fun song, but Johnny is set up for pride.
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And the Devil would cheat and that meme gave a reason for him not cheating.
Oh, I also thought of the Archangel Michael judging the contest. [Very Big Grin]
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I’ve seen a very talented version of the song that continued along that theme–“…for the Devil plays the long game, and he got Johnny with the sin of PRIDE.”
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Seems somebody gave some thought about the situation, with contributions from a few country stars:
(The video quality sucks rocks, but the music is tolerable, and Johnny’s outcome better than one would hope.)
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Now, reimagine the Devil went down to Georgia, and replace Johnny with Jack Benny.
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Yes! I’m Back with SFBS!
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Can we make gravy out of some of these Ghiblits?
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It always takes me at least three tries to insert a USB.
And watch with the Mostly Peaceful Protest memes. Last time I made that comment, someone threatened to burn down my house. And doubled down when I said, sorry, too late. Someone already did that.
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Ouch
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Dog gone.
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Some nutter tries to burn down (or shoot up) my house, they’re going to get the Evolution in Action treatment.
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The Fleetwood Mac one surprised me.
I note the filters deleted the nooses from “First time”.
And honestly, I can’t blame Biden for nuzzling an anime catgirl.
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Heh, I think the Spanish Ghiblisition was my favorite.
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Well, I was wondering when someone would combine J.D. Vance memes with Studio Ghibli memes. Have to say I was disappointed. Next time, they should try actually Ghiblifying Vance. Not sure how the beard would come out.
Odd tip: WordPress will still try to autocomplete “disappointed” if you put three p’s in it. Some things just delenda est.
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Re: The Ghiblied developer at the gallows: It took me a moment to catch that the AI forgot (or was forbidden) the actual nooses; the knot was just kinda plugged into the back of the neck, Matrix style.
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CAUTION! Sharp memes in this post! You are subject to arrest if viewed in the United Kingdom!
That necessity aside – my favorite one this week is Cat and Owl. That is something that should form the base for a complete anime!
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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
“O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!”
II
Pussy said to the Owl, “You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?”
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-Tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
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“Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?” Said the Piggy, “I will.”
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
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One of my favorites. Trying to remember where I first encountered it… Maybe in one of my sister’s Golden Books?
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I believe their unwritten “constitution” now simply says you are subject to arrest in the United Kingdom. Period. Full stop.
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Who knew “Caliphate” was Future History?
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Hmm, a society of time travelers who travel back from their time to the past, and write fiction describing the worst excesses of their home time, in order to attempt to inoculate that timeline from their mistakes…
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Actually they could just temporally transmit the stories, once they find a willing writer. Sending ones and zeroes has to be easier than en entire future author…
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Painting your car to avoid violent mobs…that reminds me of something. Dazzle camouflage? No, oh well….
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Press a button and probably get money or you might become french? [laughs in having ancestors named DuRoy and Gagnon] too late (shhh! hush you in the back)
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Same. I’m fully half-French (mostly Norman, some Massif Central and, regrettably, Parisian), I like butter, cheese, cream sauces and chocolate to an unhealthy degree, make fun of the Brits when the mood takes me, think Charles De Gaulle was kind of cool (especially his treatment of the daughter who had Downs Syndrome), and refuse to treat Napoleon as Literally Hitler. The worst the button is going to do to me is subject me to those surrender monkey taunts invented by fat useless plagiarist Jonah Goldberg. So what?
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Mine date to the 13th and 14th century when they bailed from Normandy to England. No desire to get more Frenchifried.
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LOL. My married name is that of the famous Marshall (namesake of l’ecole especiale de militaire), and my bloodline traces back to the Bon Coeur name.
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Descended from many of the first settlers of New France, myself.
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It was easy to roll away the stone. Just stuck a steering wheel on it.
Where was this book when my boys were little?
Alright, who let Uri in?
Why cats shouldn’t do drugs.
Inventors do have it rough.
Awww Snow Woke wasn’t that bad. No Houthi’s were harmed when the movie was dropped on Yemen.
Oh, so Doug Ford wants business as usual.
Who added Saruman to the Palantir network?
Nah. Ain’t pushing that button. Risk to reward is too great.
AR-15? Semi-possible. Wouldn’t operate for long though.
Okay. Couple of interesting innuendos in that Fleetwood picture.
Trump identify as female? ROTFLMFAO! That would be soooo rich!
You know this is fake. North Korea doesn’t have the bandwidth.
Biden sniffing. In the universe next door, they had similar problems to ours…
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Zero is a bandwidth.
I am reminded of the NORK soldiers sent to Russia, who all acquired smart phones and started viewing… (one guess).
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And re soda-can-aluminum cast into an AR lower – why? It’s certainly not the milspec Al alloy, but people have 3d-printed plastic lowers running for a fair number of rounds these days.
The lower design is apparently pretty low stress, with reportedly the big threads where the buffer tube connects being the one trickier section to achieve in plastic.
I would think a random-alloy aluminum cast lower would work for a fair bit.
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IIRC the AK47 was specifically designed to utilize 3rd world basement smelting to produce their rifle frames where the tolerances didn’t have to be all that accurate. My experience with ARs, while not extensive, has been enough that they can be finnicky if not done just right.
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Here’s a link to photos of a guy hammering a working AK receiver out of an old shovel. Note the text in the linked article is incorrect – he didn’t “melt it down and reforge” anything, rather he got it hot and then whacked it to flatten and then bend it (aka blacksmithing) to get form the shovel blade shape to AK receiver shape:
https://thechive.com/humanity/diy/apparently-you-can-make-an-ak-47-out-of-just-about-anything-25-photos/
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Well, technically a forge was involved, but no melting…
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That story reminds me of the old WWII British Sten machine gun. Cheap, easy to produce out of sheet metal. Hell, you probably could make one out of layered soda cans tack welded or even riveted together.
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“Lines Brothers was a company in the UK that made sheet metal childrens’ toys prior to the war. When production of the Sten guns began, Lines Bros was a parts subcontractor. Their engineers analyzed the design alongside the machinery the company had available and redesigned a version of the Sten that they could make very quickly and cheaply in-house, by replacing the tube receiver with a rolled and spot-welded piece of sheet steel. Their first order came in January 1942, to a whopping 500,000 guns, which were designated the MkIII.”
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The AK 47 was designed to be manufactured by and used by the Soviets. It was top-tier manufacturing for them.
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And designed for take-over-the-world rates of mass production manufacturing, so it didn’t push any bleeding edges of late 1940s manufacturing tech.
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No.
The original AK receiver was so hard to machine with shitty Soviet methods they never did hit the numbers they wanted.
It was the AKM “modernized”, IE dumbed down to a stamped and welded receiver, that allowed mass Soviet production, finally, within their shitty capabilities.
Don’t romanticize Soviet garbage. It wasn’t true when Stalin was slinging it.
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The Type 1 AK-47 receiver was milled, if I remember right? Then they switched to stamped for the type 2 and type 3 and then the AKM. And then the RPK, and the AK-74, and the RPK-74, and the RPK-74M, and the AK-74U, and AK-this and AK-that. And the Tavor. And all the various Chinese and Norinco and Yugoslav and Romanian variations.
Mr. Kalashnikov’s recoil system and basic operation will probably outlive all of us, if not our children.
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I laughed out loud at the Byron/Shelley long weekend and my daughter asked me if I was possessed
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All excellent as usual, but my two faves are Aquama’am & Stolen Ghiblihood. How dare we?
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Jonesy! Good kitty!
Here’s a hint: If you go around painting swastikas on things, you’re the Nazi.
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Re: Snow White and the Seven Audience Members.
I don’t know how they found such a crowded showing…
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Perhaps they offered free beer for anyone who would stick around long enough for them to take the photo.
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Wait, there’s free beer?
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Wrong verb tense. ;-)
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Well, and it was probably Bud Light, so while arguably free, not really beer…
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Homestuck spotted!
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To the dolphin lighters, it is ill advised to give the Orca cause for war; they may not have good target identification.
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I want to see the ghibli version of Sarah’s shocked face.
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On the Original Idiot/ Disney remake meme it is a a shame AOC isn’t a Ginger or at least photoshopped to be one. (per gingercide).
And from that my mind comes up with a variant of the man holding his girlfriend’s hand and looking at the hot chick meme. To wit: Young man captioned DISNEY walking holding hands with Kathleen Kennedy (caption or better image) spinning head to look at Rachel Ziegler dressed as Snow White .
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The PHLEGM meme – the “G” should be “Gender Studies.”
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I think I disagree with that top meme. It seems to me that Discworld is narratively fantasy (its basic premise is narrative causality, which is very compatible with fantasy and totally at odds with science fiction) but might be said to be aesthetically science fiction (it treats the Enlightenment and technology and igoring as good things). Conversely, Star Wars seems to be narratively science fiction (its underlying theme seems to be the opposition of mechanistic and vitalistic theories of life, which is a dispute from 19th century biology) but aesthetically has elements of fantasy: knights, princesses, visions, and so on. I think the words “narrative” and “aesthetic” have gotten swapped. . . .
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Saying this as a fan who spent the summer and fall of 1977 going to see the original film over and over again, but:
Star Wars is magic users, some good and some bad, fighting each other using magic swords, with spaceships and robots.
Sure the technobabble layers built up over the decades to try and scientificate the magic, but at base The Force, and lightsabers, are both magic.
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Nod.
IMO Star Wars is Science Fantasy not Science Fiction.
It’s Fantasy with some of the trappings of Science Fiction.
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Science Fantasy.
Or simply Fantastic Fiction, because why on earth should stories mostly not of this earth be limited by this earth?
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Lightsabers are being made real.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/youtuber-first-retractable-star-wars-lightsaber
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Cool, but until it can deflect projectiles like the movie lightsabers, the canonical movie ones are still magic.
Oh, and Star Wars canonical blasters are magic too.
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The magic isn’t whether a lightsaber can block projectiles; that’s an engineering problem, and it’s being solved.
The magic is that a Human can sense and move the blade of the saber with speed and precision enough to put it in the path of the projectile. Consistently.
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I’m afraid that strikes me as a specious way of drawing the line etween the genres. The overwhelming majority of works of science fiction have “scientific” or “technological” elements that we can’t duplicate and often that, to the best of our knowlege, are impossible. For example, the work that gave us the category of “hard science fiction” and that is still considered a classic example, Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity, is set on an alien planet designed with exquisite care and detail . . . that is being visited by a group of human beings in a starship. FTL certainly is not something we can do and is probably impossible. Are we supposed to Mission of Gravity “fantasy”? Or the six Heinlein juveniles with FTL (seven if you count Starship Troopers)?
E.E. Smith famously said that his Skylark series was fantasy, because its science lacked rigor, but his Lensman series was science fiction. That is, he thought nothing in it was what you call “magic”—in a series with FTL, telepathy and other psionic powers, hyperspatial tubes, tractor and pressor beams, force screens around its starships, and a lot of other extravagances. The things that people will accept as realistic science just amaze me sometimes.
I think the approach that makes sense is to look at what rhetorical justification is offered for the wonders and marvels to gain willing suspension of disbelief. If it’s some form of the appeal to science—”this is advanced technology,” “this is based on some scientific theory,” “this is describable in the language of science,” “this is the result of a program of scientific research,” “this is in a realm reachable via advanced technology [under the sea, inside the hollow earth, in outer space, in the past or future, in cyberspace]”—then it’s science fiction. If it’s some form of the appeal to traditional stories—myths, legends, fairy tales—then it’s fantasy. And in Star Wars, the original movie, “A New Hope,” the wonders and marvels are FTL and alien planets (a technology and a realm reachable with it), droids (products of technology), energy weapons (products of technology—even the light saber is shown as a technological device, not as a spell). All of those are science fictional concepts. And the Force, despite the rhetoric, perfectly fits the old science fictional trope of psionics. All of those wonders and marvels are exactly like those in lots and lots of science fiction novels on my shelves.
Now, to be sure, the chrome appeals to fantasy stories—princesses, knights, that sort of thing. That’s why I said that SW has a fantasy aesthetic. But the load bearing elements are all old familiar SF concepts.
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Star Wars also has spaceships, FTL and robots. It’s an SF/fantasy crossover.
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All good memes as usual.
As a developer (even now retired), might have laughed hysterically at the graphic artists losing their jobs with AI graphics available. “First Time?” is right. At that I was lucky and retired from a working job. Too many fellow developers I’ve worked with, and known (both women and men) can’t say that.
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Was I the only one who noticed that Tony Hawk said his little brother’s name is Mike?
Mike Hawk?
(bah-dum-tish!)
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I definitely missed it. Now that you’ve pointed it out, it gets the eyeroll usually reserved for dad jokes :D
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