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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

From Software fans in shambles rn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't know if I'd be better or worse off than pokémon fans.

No phone, no computer, end of the world being neigh, monsters roaming the land, but living in an idyllic cute little town where none of that happens, so I'd surely be fine.

Although I would probably get sick of hearing the towns people saying the same over and over again real quick and get jealous of not being able to do magic like some of the heroes.

The mext that comes to mind is life expectency. Will I get old? I don't see a lot old people in my favorite fictional world.

They have cups of wishes which revives other players, so I'd have to make some friends there and I'm probably set for life.

Oh, and medical herbs that cure any illness would be awesome to cure the ones I have.

And I could restore my health by eating candy and chocolate all day.

..... Unless I will live in that other fictional world, in which case I would say there's a whole of that going on.... with the protagonist... except for that one world but the women there are weird... on second thought I'll stick with my fictional game world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Showing up in Midgard just in time for the Plate in Sector 7 to collapse on my head.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

For selfish reasons, I'd pick Love and Deepspace so I can frolick through time and space with 5 (soon to be 6) different boyfriends, hunting wanderers with superpowers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
  • is a regular joe on the dead planet of "consider phlebas" pre-extinction;
  • dies of the plague that wipes out the entire life of the planet, never getting to know about the culture.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Spira would be okay as long as I avoid living anywhere Sin would attack.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Love to be governed by an undead theocracy that persists through the deliberate cycling of apocolyptic events, because they've got 3D underwater volleyball in the capital.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

You know, I definitely didn't even think about that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately if that were the case we are still many years from discovering the Epstein drive. Still having to deal with the oligarchy and shit conditions unless you are the 1%

My favorite fiction still isn't good for most people, Hard Sci Fi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

we are still many years from discovering the Epstein drive

If only he'd had a little more time to continue his research.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Off to Azeroth? Could be okay ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I get to live in Eorzea? Sounds awesome!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hard to say my favorite fictional verse, but let's say Mega Man.

Since I'm not a robot, let alone say Mega Man or Zero or other protagonist, I'm pretty much either going to live a boring ordinary life or I'm going to live an interesting life in a bad way.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

40K is actually a brighter universe than our real life one. The Emperor might just win and make some sort of heaven on Terra for humanity, becoming a techpriest can make you immortal, there is an actual afterlife and source of free energy.

Meanwhile, we are doomed to be captured and tortured by Rocko's Basilisk in real life, and the universe is doomed to repeat in cruel cycles.

We have been here before.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I disagree. The Imperium of Man is basically slowly inching towards its downfall with corpse starch (i.e. ground up corpses) being a common food for hive cities and the Inquisition being an ever looming threat for the populace. Not to mention that if you ever have have the misfortune of being near anything Chaos-y, you are often greeted by the Ordo Hereticus before your life is snuffed out. And considering that Belisarius Cawl frantically fell into prayer when confronted by a powerful AI core of old does show that the Adeptus Mechanicus are far from their power way back when, let alone any promise of immortality for the masses.

Psychic blanks have it even worse, as they might not even be connected to the warp, meaning they might just fade into nonexistence after their death. And overall, being a Chaos Worshipper isn't that great as well, as most citicem are not treated well, not to mention that the ruinous powers will slowly drive you insane as well.

Last but not least is that the end of the whole 40K in-universe might be overall crawling to an end, as the Tyranids might be unstoppable by organic beings (apart from possibly the Orks), so it might be that the universe-wide apocalypse is slowly inching closer, leaving only the Necrons behind after the Tyranids seek out the next galaxy to devour.

I'd rather choose the old boring life here in this universe any day over the one from 40K.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

i never really "got" Rocko’s Basilisk. why would it want to kill you for not building it in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm just saying to make it clearer. Really what I mean is, the ruling monsters will want to claim us completelly, and violate us in every way for eternity (and not in a sexy way either).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because the people who came up with it assume it would have the same ego as them.
It's also just Pascal's wager in a robot costume.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Don't dare mention it !

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Pathologic.

Im capital 'F' Fucked.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder if the Monster Hunter food will cure my aching back enough to let me lift a Charge Blade

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Given the fact that 40k lore goes back to the present day and before that (the emperor as an immortal being exists way before the 21. Century), there's a lot of room between you basically live in the same situation as before (just with a living emperor in your timeline) and you're very much fucked (living in the 41. Millennium)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'd imagine the jackpot would be waking up in the Dark Age of Technology.

Most soul crushing would have to be waking up as part of the Interex as they discover the Imperium.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Probably DC Comics. And it depends what my role in this universe would be. But knowing my luck I'd just be a random civilian that gets wiped out during the latest rampage by Atomic Skull or something. But at least everything gets reset every few years, so that I could live again to be super villain fodder another day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Stardew Valley! I’m gonna marry Leah for sure

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

More likely you never see the valley and are stuck in the city the PC starts in, or the war Jodi's hubby is in for the first year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, it was either Stardew Valley or Witcher 3 for me. (I wouldn't last 5 minutes in Velen).

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