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    1. Dan listens to the churning atmosphere‏ @danlistensto May 28
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      Space fantasy, heroic epic, and operatic drama. It's not speculative fiction at all.

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    2. Chaos‏ @chaosprime May 28
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      cannot concurhttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1105523570992693248 …

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      the only good worldbuilding George Lucas ever did was the ubiquity of astromech droids. handling spacefighter repairs with an independently powered, independently mobile AI unit is such good engineering sense that one is forced to conclude it happened entirely by accident
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    3. Dan listens to the churning atmosphere‏ @danlistensto May 28
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      counterpoint: giving astromech droids the personalities and the social status of, approximately, puppies makes them a variety of familiar rather than a machine.

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    4. Chaos‏ @chaosprime May 28
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      okay but it isn't really playing fair to take things presented as speculative elements and say "well i can reinterpret this to fit it inside a fantasy trope" y'know also an astromech droid is clearly a kind of taco

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    5. Dan listens to the churning atmosphere‏ @danlistensto May 28
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      1. a wizard never plays fair 2. reach out with your feelings. you know it to be true.

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    6. Dan listens to the churning atmosphere‏ @danlistensto May 28
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      (just a little bit) more seriously, is that actually a speculative element? what is being speculated on? the future development of military robotics? I guess that's one possible reading but the whole thing is thrown off by "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away"

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    7. Chaos‏ @chaosprime May 28
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      development of military robotics in some context somewhere; spec els need not be predictive or predicated on the present day as a starting point, or alternate history wouldn't be spec fic and it clearly is mind you you're specifying the big umbrella when you say spec fic

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    8. Dan listens to the churning atmosphere‏ @danlistensto May 28
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      sure, very big umbrella. I disagree that specfic does not need to be predicated on present day (or some other real historical timespace coordinate) as starting point though. It can be oblique, but the reference must be present on some level.

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    9. Chaos‏ @chaosprime May 28
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      well sure, they told you the spacetime coordinates: it's a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (which by any reasonable standard is all of them except the one you're in, to be sure) for my part i'd say the important thing is "doing the math", not "real world" referentiality

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      Chaos‏ @chaosprime May 28
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      like, if R2D2 weren't a spec el, he'd be just some kind of robot pet who fulfills his narrative functions as a familiar and that's the end of it. he's a spec el b/c, accidentally or no, the math is done on his social function and what it would imply for things like him to exist

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        2. Dan listens to the churning atmosphere‏ @danlistensto May 28
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          Hedwig (HP's owl familiar) performs useful functions for protagonist as well, in extremis on multiple occasions, right up to the noble sacrifice.

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        3. Chaos‏ @chaosprime May 28
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          you can have spec fic fantasy; Harry Potter religiously avoids doing the math, leading to an enormous amount of fan industry doing the math and being amused at itself at the absurd results, and occasional JK forays into pretending to do the math which turn out even worse

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          whereas the Crowning Moment of Awesome lightspeed attack in that movie a minute ago is either not a spec el or a spec el done so badly as to completely break the world model

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