Trans woman, gamer, sci-fi/fantasy writer, catfox. Co-founder of ZeticTech Games.
I’ve had many. None of them did this to me. If they wanted to see what I could do they would put me in a real but low stakes situation with supervision and see how I performed. You’ve become accustomed to the inexcusable to the point where you’re making excuses on its behalf. I pity you.
It kinda had to at some point right? DNA didn’t exist until something other than DNA led to it.
No but you see, other ways of life are unnatural! That’s why we have to artificially enforce our ways on them, like Jesus said!
Oh hey, here’s one now!
I have a Patreon and I promote it sometimes. I post novels and art made by myself and collaborators. Nobody cares. I don’t do endless shameless self promotion, I don’t have a pretty face, I’m not well connected, and I don’t have startup capital to produce the full range of things I’d like to make but can’t because I need a day job and am trying to get a degree.
It’s been soul crushing and every day is a struggle against giving up on it.
Don’t forget capital, but well said.
Currencies are issued by governments, but I agree that capital should be spotlighted as a major part of the problem.
Yes, that would be the ones holding the gun. Predator-minded self-serving people have always been among us, and instead of handling them properly we raise them up and put them in charge over us time and time again. Religion and government, the perennial weapons used by the human enemies of humanity.
Eww, animal abuse.
Insane mental gymnastics on display here. “Let us waste your time doing nothing of value or meaning to prove how you’ll behave when given a task of value and meaning” is linkedinlunatics material.
It would help if a subset of ambitious assholes weren’t taking every opportunity to profit off a genuine movement they don’t belong in. We need to weed them out early or we’re just building another exploitation machine while tearing down the existing one.
What kind of people do you think start and flock to religions that offer worldly power and authority? Organized religion isn’t just problematic, it is the smoking gun.
How is that technology fundamental to the story?
…Have you seen Star Trek before? Like, ever? Any of it? They literally made an entire show out of the question of “how did they explore before they got this tech, and how did they get it?”
This conversation is over.
Oh hey it’s the person who asked me to leave them alone, continuing to reach out and make further contact with me. This is you right now: https://vimeo.com/196937578
Now block me and move on.
In Star Trek, nothing is explained
Yes it is. It’s not always explained well, and it doesn’t always make sense, but the key technologies of the setting such as transporters, replicator, and warp drives all have very reasonable explanations for how they work. This argument makes no sense on its face.
No, it’s three comments.
Please leave me alone.
Feel free to stop replying and/or block me.
Shoplifting is a felony charge.
You’re given the oversimplified modern version for mass appeal. That’s not how libraries and other places categorize the books.
Then they should get with the times, which do change.
We do have that genre? Science fantasy, that was covered already…
No, that’s science fantasy, not sci-fi/fantasy. The image you posted is just sci-fi. You’re not making whatever point you think you’re making.
you really aren’t given your ale dmucj merit here.
Well thank goodness for that!
I think rather we need to go back and have you explain where you got these definitions because I’ve read a great many books of both genres and your definitions don’t fit most of them.
Fantasy doesn’t explain the “magic” or the “tech” it’s all handwaved and is just there as part of the story.
Lots of fantasy magic systems have explanations. They just tend to be fantastical explanations.
Scifi on the other hand, the technology is the foundation of the story, and the rest is built off of that.
You count Star Trek as fantasy despite it fitting this description to a tee. Everything about the setting and the stories they tell are predicated on their living in a technologically advanced society. Replicators, transporters, warp drives, holodecks, self-aware AI, all technologies that make Star Trek possible.
Both can use parts of each other, but how the story is built is which dictates which is the primary category it should be in.
Who says it needs to be put in a single primary category? Why can’t we have a sci-fi/fantasy genre in and of itself?
Basically, before you ask for my qualifications, I’m gonna need you to start making a single lick of sense in the first place.
As a writer of sci-fi/fantasy stories, this level of willful ignorance makes me laugh.
With no real way to verify, you’re just guessing. Educated guessing sure, but unverifiable guesses.