• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I don’t think you understand what our senses are capable of.

    You’re literally just handwaving all the issues. Which is completely fine, as long as you stop pretending there’s some actually reasonable science behind this fantasy-machine.

    The only limitations it has is the writer’s imagination and the budget of the show. That’s all. It’s soft scifi.

    None of your explanations have even remotely explained anything. But you’re refusing to accept they are actually handwavy soft scifi, which they very much are.

    Saying “volumetric displays and forcefields” doesn’t make it rational that a group of people in a limited size room could think they’re all in very different places in massive village for instance. That I could play tennis with you in the same village while there’s a whole dancing competition going on in the same village but 3km away, with competitors and real people in thw audience.

    If you don’t realise that 16 people in a small room the size of a couple of buses couldn’t do that unless they’re being essentially completely neurologically manipulated and just still instead of actually being on a tennis court, then I can accept it. It’s completely just fooling your brain and not actually doing any of the things. That’s acceptable. Pretending that saying “volumetric displays and forcefields” is a good explanation for any of that is beyond ridiculous.

    It’s a soft scifi fantasy machine. Maybe you’re just allergic to even thinking you might be watching fantasy instead of scifi and that just irks you doesn’t it.

    But honestly, Outlander is harder scifi than this. And it’s not especially technological. (It still is marked as scifi though or was at least)

    • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      You’re literally just handwaving all the issues. Which is completely fine, as long as you stop pretending there’s some actually reasonable science behind this fantasy-machine.

      There is, and…

      Saying “volumetric displays and forcefields” doesn’t make it rational

      … It does.

      But that’s OK. You don’t have to understand it.