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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"A ship that is undergoing superluminal translation, or, in lay terms, 'jumping to lightspeed', is not genuinely passing through a different 'space' or 'dimension' of some kind but has instead been converted from tardyonic to tachyonic particles"
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"Well I consider that a pedantic objection, the reason the construct of a 'hyperspace' persists is that undergoing this conversion process causes an object's interactions with its surrounding space to be altered to a sufficient degree that for all practical purposes"
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This is a brilliant idea, reminiscent of the Red Zone vs. White Zone announcers in Airplane!https://youtu.be/Dsut7j8Kjy8?t=56 …
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