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7/9/2021 6:54:09 PM
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what's your favorite genre
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2 RepliesHmm...I'd argue that Cyberpunk and SciFi are one in the same. The science fiction writer, William Gibson, coined the word cyberspace and his stuff is science fiction. Science fiction is my favorite, especially traditional space stuff. My first book was Starship Troopers by Andre Norton. My favorite today is C.J. Cherryh. Fantasy is a close second. Andre Norton again and of course Tolkien. Jules Verne is actually steam punk now that I think about it. Not a fan of alternative history, since I have a degree in history.
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5 RepliesFantasy, though I usually prefer them to have some level of technology. You might be thinking “Oh, that’s sci-fi fantasy”, but not necessarily. The tech could be modern, or even a little bit dated (such as, I dunno, 1940s tech or something). Of course, it [i]can[/i] be sci-fi fantasy, but crucially I like tech to not be the focus. I just like when it’s there. Legend of Korra, or Dishonored for instance. I think you should have put “Punk” as a single genre, instead of divying it up between steampunk & cyberpunk. Both are subsets of sci-fi, along with dieselpunk and similar things. Out of all the punk genres, steampunk is my favorite, especially when they have airships. Love me some steampunk airships! Sci-fi can be fun, but I prefer it to be terrestrial. That’s not to say inter-planetary travel can’t exist, but I definitely prefer when the plot is primarily on one planet. Too many sci-fi stories have the characters planet hopping, or worse, dimension hopping (eugh), and it’s just never as interesting when things are based on a single planet. Being primarily in space is fine, too. As long as it’s not going between a bunch of different planets for the sake of it. Never seen anything too neat with alternative history, but I’ve also never looked.
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Throw a Shoggoth on the roof of all of them and I'm set. Fantasy mainly though, post-apocalypse as a favourite setting.
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3 RepliesHow do you define Lovecraft style horror?
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Electronic!!
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Genre of what? Out of those definitely sci-fi. I can live with generic sci-fi but generic fantasy just comes across as cringey and/or childish. Cyberpunk and Steampunk i would classify as sci-fi subgenres really, and not very good ones at that. And alternate history really depends on the specifics of what’s changed. Stalinist Russia bringing dinosaurs back to life - yes. Holy Roman Empire on the moon - nah.
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7 RepliesI've come to realize it's definitely sci-fi. While fantasy could be on par it very often is not, most are either generic RPG settings or Tolkien ripoffs.
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Si-fi trumps all
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[i]sees steampunk with zero votes[/i] I love democracy. Steampunk is so lame. [spoiler]Sorry, all out of salt.[/spoiler]
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Alt History, like wolfenstein
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4 RepliesFantasy/Science Fiction. If you can somehow blend the two together then you have what has to be my favorite setting ever.
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HYDRA hailing. [spoiler]HAIL HYDRA!!!!!!!![/spoiler]
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Despacito Dos
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Shadowrun.
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Both Fantasy and Sci-fi are pretty same just different eras I'd say, though sometimes I lean more fantasy cause magic and swords are cool, but when they start using bs magic to justify every Deux Ex Machina, yeah no. Sci-fi is also neat but, again, sword fights are cool, and that's why I like Star Wars. What's worse, they bring [u]Sci-fi[/u] [b]into[/b] [u]Fantasy[/u] disguising it as aDvAnCeD AnCieNt tEcHnOLoGy fRoM a CiviLiZATioN LoSt tO TiMe, when clearly that is a [i]f##king motorcycle with tubes[/i]. That grinds my gears. Anyways, Fantasy
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steamy-fantasy-alternate-scifipunk! [spoiler]just kidding, that would be horrible. Probably have to say alternate history such as Battlefield 1, when you get to fight and win battles that would have been different in real life, while giving us a visual image of what ww1 was like[/spoiler]
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Cyberpunk or mecha for sure
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1 ReplyEdited by Double07: 7/9/2021 7:42:52 PMAlternative Sciencepunk
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3 RepliesDon't Fantasy and Sci-Fi more or less cover the other 3?
