Scifi is when you get shot by a blaster bolt
Fantasy is when you take an arrow to the knee
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If there's magic, supernatural powers, or a force of any kind, it's Science Fantasy
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.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Corrollary: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Ooh, I could see that label ruffling a few feathers. Lol
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Why?
What about force fields?
Where does the Witcher universe fall with its alien elves?
generic fantasy
The elves aren't aliens, humans are.
Still high fantasy
Does it have a scanner bed or do they just stick you in a regular old bed by a waterfall and hope for the best?
Which is Yoda? I'll wait.
Annoying dialogue? Powerful but doesn't help the hero? Hands out quests?
He is a video game NPC.
The only canon Yoda to me is bayou Yoda:
that Dagobah sawamp HEAT
I want em YOUNG obi wan. I want, a five year old
Posting the shit you are, the rule of poo you follow.
Space opera
Science fantasy?
pats amplifier "This goes to elven"
My dividing line is “am I watching for the plot or for the ideas?”
Spock: set phasers to stun
Legolas: uhmmm... Arrows kill
I separate by the mechanics at play: do supernatural things exist in places they do not exist in reality (humans doing telekinesis, mind reading for example... Or outright magic like the force)? If yes, it's likely fantasy.
Where does subspace fall on this line? Stargates? The TARDIS?
Sometimes the science is magical. The line is pretty fuzzy
Burn the Eldar
Humans - Humans (duh)
Vulcans - Elves / High Elves
Romuluans - Dark Elves / Blood Elves
Klingons - Orcs
Andorians - Ice Elves
This is as much as I could come up with.
This checks out.
Who would be the dwarves? Ferengi?