A guide to figure out if you're watching scifi or fantasy:

The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website · 2 years ago

downpunxx@kbin.social · edit-2 2 years ago

If there’s magic, supernatural powers, or a force of any kind, it’s Science Fantasy

beteljuice@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

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.

ThenThreeMore@startrek.website · 2 years ago

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Malgas@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

Corrollary: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website · 2 years ago

Ooh, I could see that label ruffling a few feathers. Lol

Norgur@kbin.social · 2 years ago

Arthur C. Clarke has entered the chat

irmoz@reddthat.com · 2 years ago

Why?

nyctre@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Where does the Witcher universe fall with its alien elves?

downpunxx@kbin.social · 2 years ago

generic fantasy

paholg@lemm.ee · 2 years ago

The elves aren’t aliens, humans are.

irmoz@reddthat.com · 2 years ago

Still high fantasy

MxM111@kbin.social · 2 years ago

What about force fields?