But ... But... FortuneCity was the first thing to make me want to live in an actual big city! Or know what one was!
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
I figure the ideal reality is the colorful Matrix at the end of Revolutions, with everyone empowered with Neo's flight abilities (Obviously, I'm sure that will soon canonically not be how it happened, but until we know for sure...)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
It is interesting seeing Star Trek: Picard try to do action and intrigue plots in a world where casual teleportation is easily accessible It does raise the question of why cities and towns as we know them should even exist, or for that matter why buildings should have doors
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Asimov did a story about that, "It's Such a Beautiful Day" Because he was on record as being a nerd who never went outside and preferred life in an apartment in a megacity to any kind of nature or exercise So he felt it worthwhile to challenge his own beliefs
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
It's set in a world where teleportation is cheap and everyone uses it Every building has a "Door" that can take you to any other Door in the world with the right code So all life is lived inside of buildings
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Until one day this single mom experiences a Door malfunction, which is supposed to be impossible And a guy actually shows up at the outside of her house and comes in through the emergency small-d door required by law, the experience of which freaks her out
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Which is when she learns for the first time that she's actually in a geographic settlement where the school and grocery store and office etc she was assigned to are within physical walking distance To save energy for the Door and because accidents like this still happen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
And her kid is given a map and told how to walk to school until the issue gets fixed The point of the story is that after this happens she slowly realizes the kid has become "addicted" to the outside and is sneaking out of the house to explore the neighborhood
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Which she sees as terrifying and a form of mental illness
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
His brain has changed the way it works because of the incident, he now hates the Door, he needs to know where things physically are in the world and how they fit together, he needs to see things from the outside
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It's implied that all of the Door maintenance techs, a vital but low caste profession in this society, are people infected with this "illness" People who know the lost art of maps and directions
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