I strongly prefer scifi to fantasy but I’ve got to admit, it’s really easy to quickly explain a fantasy concept to someone

like my “a witch hands you a TF potion” poll. the scifi equivalent would take a lot of explaining because every scifi universe is different, but everybody knows what a witch is and can imagine what a transformation potion is, so I can explain everything you need to know in literally just seven words

maybe this is part of why D&D got so popular: it’s just really easy to quickly get someone up to speed, like: “you’re adventurers and you’re going into a cave full of goblins”

anyway I’ve been thinking about making more cute little choose-your-own-adventure style polls and I guess if I do I’ll probably stick with fantasy instead of scifi. as much as I wish I could do scifi it would just take way too much explaining lol

come to think of it, maybe I could do cyberpunk? cyberpunk is less homogenous than fantasy, but much more homogenous than scifi, so it should still be pretty easy to quickly explain and evoke a certain vibe/genre at the same time

@kasdeya “a space witch hands you a TF potion”
“you’re adventurers and you’re going into a cave full of space goblins”

@Tengu hehehehe! I mean there’s always the Star Trek trick of [scifi location] + [familiar descriptors] (like “Tarcassian razor beast”)

@kasdeya “Tarcassian razor™ beast”

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a catgirl hands you a custom CRISPR patch hot off the bioprinter ...

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Tim Cain has a video on this, agreeing with you.

@Kaution I love Tim Cain, but I don’t think I’ve seen this video! I might go looking for it