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POOL IS CLOSED posted:But hey in this future universe we can perhaps be long past such inequality and instead be concerned about the bear menace. Look on the bright side: the people of Earth should have a much deeper empathy for what the lives of the colonists are like now that the Commando Bears have spent 10 years wrecking Earth's infrastructure. Even better, it should also prevent the complacency that comes from living in a place far away from any potential space-based front lines.
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nweismuller posted:I'll look down, and whisper 'no'. You're already halfway to writing the background of a Space Opera: add in a popular fantasy video game setting for it and you've basically written the premise for a new Star Ocean game. "A Bulrathi and a human summoned into a fantasy world as a last ditch effort to stop the Demon King. The Bulrathi has dozens of tactical nukes; the human has the most advanced personal power armor in the known galaxy, now augmented by magic. Things don't end well for the Demon King...or, for that matter the regular kings, once the human see's some of their hideous abuses of power."
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Suddenly, the humans stumble upon a very active galactic community: two that might be considered friendly, and three that are rather terrifying. At least the
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nweismuller posted:That's an interesting breakdown. Who's the third terrifying species in your mind? 1. The Klackon are basically designed to fight wars, and it's hard to believe they've gotten more friendly since the last MoO LP. 2. The Darlok are obviously spy masters, which we've already seen can have extremely ugly effects even by a species with no bonuses toward espionage. 3. The Meklars probably killed all of their creators, or worse : better yet, they seem as geared for war as the Klackon. And if we're being technical, the spaceship near Orion won't be very nice either.
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Crazycryodude posted:I still think they sound shady as hell and we'd better nuke them before they nuke us They do actually have some incentive to be honest, just like it says in the blurb: if they just straight up lie about their origins and general policies and the "aliens" learn about it, they risk turning everyone against them completely by accident, and they know it.
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- and that's assuming this isn't a bunch of BS fed to us by the Cabal/made up by the mob to get some free cash while screwing over the gullible outlanders.
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Siegkrow posted:I'd argue this point, seeing as we still read Shakespeare, de Cervantes AND the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes or Pride and Prejudice. On the other hand, I've never seen any theater or movie successfully update Shakespeare, so we keep putting in the Elizabethan era equivalent of memes, scandal and dirty jokes without even noticing. Did you know that putting a ghost into a play was scandalous? That's why there's such a big lead up to Caesar's ghost appearing: it was meaningful to the audience of the past, but now it's just dull and confusing. As for Frankenstein, Dracula, and Sherlock Holmes, they're generally imagined in their most popular form, not their original one: the monster from Frankenstein is most popularly known as a dumb brute instead of the intellectual he is in the actual novel, Dracula is portrayed far too widely to for all the versions to be the same person, with some portrayals ranging from Vlad the Impaler outright, to a recluse monster with a veneer of civility, to a perfect gentleman tragically bound to a curse he can barely control. Sherlock Holmes is the same way, not so much read about in the original books as built upon in later media, usually putting him up against people he barely (or more commonly, never) interacted with. Even Jane Austin's works, which are at least portrayed consistently, are more about being an exploration of the historical period than actual entertainment. With that in mind, I'd place my money on the cultural milestones: things like Dune and War of the Worlds will probably survive as cultural milestones that shaped a genre, while things like Star Wars and Harry Potter will probably be forgotten. Of course, predicting what will turn out to be a cultural milestone is kind of hard, but a good bet would be any work that codified a group of tropes, like what Evangelion did for anime, and Civilization/Counter Strike did for video games.
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