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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7

      I think what's telling about genre discourse is that the Nerd Genres, fantasy and science fiction, act like the definition of a "genre" is having "rules" about what's "allowed to happen" in the setting, and nerds think all genres work this way when mostly they don't

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7

      SF and fantasy don't even actually really work this way The distinction between these two genres is just the superficial chrome, what it looks like - "psionic powers" aren't actually less impossible than "magic" in any sense, they just look and feel different

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    3. Adam Prepares to enter the No Malarkey Zone‏ @StickmanSouza Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      The difference between sci-fi and fantasy is whether or not the reality-bending wonders ostensibly have explanations for how they work, regardless of whether the reader (or writer) cares to figure out what it is.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @StickmanSouza

      I don't even think this is true, cf. Brandon Sanderson's elaborate "magic systems" Most characters in "high fantasy" settings DO understand how "magic" works about as well as we understand how technology works, it's just that the explanations are "fantasy-themed"

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        2. Bazzalisk 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🐝‏ @bazzalisk Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @StickmanSouza

          The character who keeps explaining the inner details of the magic system in long exposition is basically the fantasy version of me, then?

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
          Replying to @bazzalisk @StickmanSouza

          I still remember that old viral LJ post "If the world was science fiction" Where the wife is like "Honey did you remember to book the plane tickets?" and he's like "As you know, heavier-than-air flight was first achieved by the Wright Brothers in 1903"

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        1. Adam Prepares to enter the No Malarkey Zone‏ @StickmanSouza Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          I haven't actually read any Sanderson, how in-depth does he go? I guess if you dig deeply enough into any magic or technology you reach a point where you have to go "it just works like this, OK?"

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        2. eggynack‏ @eggynack Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @StickmanSouza

          Yeah, like, the big "explanation" in Star Trek is literally that they stuck some crystals into the engine. Swap "dilithium" out for, say, "spirit", and you're starting to trend towards fantasy town.

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        3. Adam Prepares to enter the No Malarkey Zone‏ @StickmanSouza Apr 7
          Replying to @eggynack @arthur_affect

          I was trying to formulate a response to this that wasn't just "but a scientist somewhere performed experiments to determine how to stimulate those crystals" because the only thing you'd have to switch out is "alchemist" and we are, indeed, back in fantasy town.

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        1. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @StickmanSouza

          Yeah, see, i disagree with this entirely and used Sanderson coincidentally as an example before finding this tweet in the thread 🤣 Brandon Sanderson writes shitty SF with medieval flavor, not shitty fantasy.

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