r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Alextral • 1d ago

I really hate this

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Fantasy and science fiction being cramped in the same section, which is already so small :(

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u/Bardmedicine 1d ago

There is so much crossover, why make things difficult?

Where would you put Star Wars?

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u/Madmonkeman 1d ago

Sci-Fi because of the tech. I always base it off of the tech.

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u/road2five 1d ago

But the tech is just magic

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u/justhereforfighting 1d ago

You mean to say you don't think kyber crystals could make a rigid plasma beam that only extends a few feet before coming to a stable point? Come on now, that's SCIENCE!

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u/auntie_eggma 1d ago

C3PO and R2D2 are golems?

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u/road2five 1d ago

The force, lightsabers, warp speed, etc is what I mean. There isn’t much speculative science in the series. And yea they basically are, considering how there isn’t really any actual insight into artificial intelligence. They’re just humans in a robotic skin essentially 

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u/auntie_eggma 1d ago

Hard sci-fi is not the only sci-fi. The internal workings do not have to be explored to count.

Robots are not magic, and trying to argue that they are just because you've decided to die on an indefensible hill is just silly.

The best you can possibly hope to sensibly argue is that Star Wars is both sci-fi and fantasy.

Also, warp speed is an element in loads of science fiction so I don't know why you think that's a point against it.

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u/road2five 23h ago

Why do redditors love to say “you’ve chose to die on this hill” as if I’m making a serious moral stand and not just bullshitting online 

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u/auntie_eggma 20h ago

I mean, if you're arguing points you don't actually believe in*, that's definitely a weird hill to choose

*'Just bullshitting online'.