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2009-05-30, 11:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Avatar Battle Royale-Discussion Thread XXI: We're a Big, Happy, Dysfunctional Fam
Except for the fact that ABR is neither steampunk nor spacepunk
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I don't see why we need different genres for fantasy with different technology levels. Some happen in Roman-like types, some in Dark Ages-like times, and other in Futuristic-like times.
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2009-05-30, 11:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-05-30, 12:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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How about everyone just agrees with what they personally believe is the right genre and we stop arguing for pages on end what is, between us all, the right answer?
ABR's genre: It has one.
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2009-05-30, 12:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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By what I know of the word present then it could be set in the present days (which means it aint too far from the actual time) but not in the actual present even that word was writen in the past (not long into the past but still in the past) I don't say that stuff can't happen at about the same time as the book/movie is made just that it has to be at least a little into the past or future (It would be fun to write a story that starts two minutes ago but makes a time skip after one minute to 2012 just to see what genre people think that is) maybe you use another version of the word "present" than me? care to explain what it cover? The one I use is that present is in the exact moment as it happens (if you stopped time then it would remain present but otherwise it would continue into the future which then becomes present as it happen, then it becomes past when over) not exact minute or anything like that.
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2009-05-30, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Why not say it's a mix (new gennres get's mixed all the time, I'm starting to think that it's pointless since you can just call everything a new genre or sub-genre) then it doesn't need to follow every rule that someone somewhere (like that guy who think Robin Hood is a dog) has made about the individual genres.
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2009-05-30, 12:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-05-30, 12:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Keris, has it ever occurred to you how amazingly condescending you can be when you argue? It's a bit rude, to say the least.
First, no, it would be Sci-Fi. Different planet, aliens, robots, cyborgs...that is Sci-Fi. The other stuff makes it Sci-Fan, and that remains to be seen.
Second, I never claimed to know what steampunk meant, but there is one tiny hole in your argument: technically, Lokutus uses steam-powered things. Just saying.
Anyways, I side with MM's argument, but it needs a better name, as Schizotec isn't the only high-tech nation, and there are aliens. I also agree with him that Sci-Fi is way too unclear in its definition. How about 'Tech-Fan'?
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2009-05-30, 12:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-05-30, 12:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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I said Schizotech, not Schizotec. It means it is a fantasy with a mixture of all technology levels.
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2009-05-30, 12:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Abr Genre shall now be known as the Nameless Genre.
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2009-05-30, 12:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, I've been working on changing it, but I just find it frustrating when people don't bother to check their facts. I try personally, and end up browsing with Wikipedia and Wiktionary permanently open in different tabs.
The presence of space whales and robot aliens has no basis in modern science, hence it is not science fiction. It is based on pure conjecture, so has strong fantasy elements. Sci-Fan was actually the wrong term, it's more Spec-Fic.
I have no idea who "Lokutus" and google was unhelpful here. And if you intendto use the term steampunk, you should make sure you know what it means.
Schizo Tech is a recognised term, from which the nation of Schizotec draws its name. And "Technological Fantasy" seems awfully close to "Science Fantasy".Last edited by Keris; 2009-05-30 at 12:25 PM.
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Technofantasty (Tech-Fan) sounds good, because it has the correct implications, but no prior meaning.
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Really? The internet begs to differ.
And to me, a technofantasy setting is one with the primary focus on advanced tech, like P3 or possibly FI. FFF isn't tech-fan, but Fantasy with Sci-Fi elements.
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2009-05-30, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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I don't think genre names are supposed to be accurate, scifi is supposed to be future stories (could even be an apocalyptic future where we has gone back to cavemanish technology) not necessary about science (it is often but I'm pretty sure it don't need it) and the name Fantasy... I can't even see why that name....
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2009-05-30, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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I vote for Schizotech, Nameless, and Omnitech (which really sounds like a less foreign way to say Schizotech).
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2009-05-30, 12:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Because it travels through space, not time. It travels beyond the fourth wall to get to the other plot, rather then back in time. No time travel invovled.
And, since P3 is dead and all, I see no reason it couldn't be canon. And because the spaceship has returned and got destroyed in FFF already.
As for genre: We don't need no stinkin' genre! It's unclassafiable, bitches!Last edited by Green-Shirt Q; 2009-05-30 at 12:33 PM.
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2009-05-30, 12:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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But your manoeuvre through space took you to a different point in time. Hence you travelled in time.
And P3 isn't dead. It's pining for the fjords.
Ah. Well, they're steampunk, yes, but one swallow does not make a summer, and the presence of a small steampunk faction does not make the genre as a whole steampunk.
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