Farscape called currency… Currency…
Broke: Memory units in optimistic numbers of megabytes and gigabytes.
Woke: Memory units in astronomically-high numbers of gigabytes and terabytes.
Bespoke: Memory units in totally incomprehensible units like kiloquads or exanodes.
Or never specify. “That spacestation has massive computing power” “How big?” “Massive.”
Slaps the superships central computer “This here runs on 12 bits of memory! Our engineers really outdone themselves with optimisation this time.”
In real life, the sun is called “Sol” and we are in the “Solar system” as in, sol-ar. Others are called star systems, some are named; “Polaris” is usually just called that instead of the “Polaris system” or the like
Helios -> Helios system follows this same logic.
Would actually be fun to have an android character that tries to be less human. Like it’s an unfortunate happenstance that someone designed him to be human-like, and its primary goal is to purge this aspect of itself. Like an Uncle Tom character with deep-rooted anxieties and a machine supremacy complex. Come to think of it, this has to exist already, it doesn’t feel all that original, but I can’t point to where I would’ve seen that.
Marvin the paranoid android from Hitchhikers Guide.
Literally the One’s from Battlestar Galactica.
Especially the later assimov robot books have that theme somewhat; at least robots that think weather being more or less human in some regards is better.
You know Uncle Tom was basically the perfect human right?
That’s the point of the book. Pro-Slavery people use to argue that slavery wasn’t that bad so long as your slave master treated you well; so Uncle Toms cabin is a book about a flawless human who is also a slave named Uncle Tom that literally every single person who ever meets him deeply loves and respects but is powerless to stop anything bad from happening to him because he’s not legally a person
If Uncle Tom sucked in any way the reader could always justify the bad shit that happened to Tom not as a result of his legal status, but as a consequence to his shitty actions or personality.
It destroys in every way the argument that slavery can be fine if your slave masters treat you well and for this reason it’s rumored to be the book that broke the proverbial straw and kicked off the civil war.
Check out Automata (2024)
I won’t spoil anything, it’s a good movie.
Gunther Hermann
need skulgun for head
It has been so funny to me reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov as it appears very tropy, but then you realize that those things are tropes because of the books.
Also see: Tolkien was a total hack.
TVTropes is a cancer site now. Can’t recommend anyone visit it.
Lesson: Never support a project unless it’s open source.
Aliens land in the US.
Soldiers open fire on the Aliens
Why is there no movie where they land somewhere else and we all go “well thank fuck they didn’t land in Texas”
District 9 was set in South Africa.
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District 9 did this really well.
District 9 was excellent, but those were also refugee aliens.
You know how that’d play out over there…
…the same way it played out in the movie?
In Doctor Who the aliens are mostly concerned with Great Britain.
Yes, it was an experience watching Torchwood and thinking it so hilarious all this stuff was happening in Wales. Made me reflect on how I never gave a second thought to how aliens only ever landed in the United States in all the time I’ve been watching shows about aliens.
Though, to be fair, every once in a while, the (usually movie) wants us to know that the United States liberated THE ENTIRE WORLD so we’ll see a montage of racially diverse people celebrating around recognizable global landmarks. Thank you America! Please continue to bomb us to spread your freedom!
Regional childrens tv show doesn’t count.
But I did forget about Dr Who.
Just a little regional kids show that is also one of the most famous TV shows of all time lol
I’m from Britain. Its an export show for Americans.
In my opinion as neither Brit nor Murican I would say it becoming an export show started with Matt Smith as Eleventh Doctor and especially with series 6 in 2011.
I’m (unfortunately) American and can assure you it’s a well-known export. Not really my thing either but it has more reach than you’re giving it credit it for
I come from the island and the Hambly Pambly franchise has outperformed it in mindshare, at-least before I became an immigrant and escaped.
Very true and so has James Bond! I’d even say Taskmaster is giving a run for its money now that they’re uploading it. Even my brother in law asked me if I’ve seen it and he’s all-in on American entertainment
Sun is called Sol.
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And Luna makes a ton of sense if you want to remove the ambiguity of a moon and the moon.
Moon-like natural satellite.
Not if you are Spanish.
Let’s just settle on Moon™ as a compromise for our moon and just moon for all other moons.
Sol too, if you want to call the closest star the sun wherever you are.
Right? I can’t think of any scifi that refers to the sun as helios?
Any sci-fi that takes place in antiquity, I suppose.
Aliens are humanoid and sexually attractive.
Takes off space helmet on alien planet, “the air is fine!”
“Woah! Don’t open that! It’s an alien planet! Is there air?! You don’t know!”
“Oh no! Some of the black liquid got on me. Better get back to the ship.”
“Oh no! Something bit me while taking swamp samples from the jungle planet with 0 PPE!”
Bonus: “We’re not allowed to treat them, because they’re sentient naturalised swamp people now.”
“Let me back on to the ship!”
Tropes exist because they work and who cares what the money is called
The money can’t be any real earth currency, and making up something like florbs would also make people roll their eyes. Credits is fine
I think in Rick and Morty one of the fake currencies is called a schmeckle, which is Yiddish for penis (diminutive).
No, they won’t.
Oh, okay
Exactly. You’ve got limited time to tell your story in a movie, so establishing a fake currency that nobody except hardcore numistatics nerds will care about is kinda pointless when everyone already understands that credits = future money.
And as you say using a real currency doesn’t make sense in most future movie contexts, and using the “wrong” one may even offend some people who may then boycott your movie - which is obviously not desirable when you’re a studio trying to make money.
I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.
“I need a length of rope!”
[Puts down a gold coin worth a month’s wages.]
And for everything else, there is multipass.
I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.
I think that’s also because a couple hundred years ago practically every currency was just a certain weight of gold, silver or copper. Different coins were just an easy way to recognize the weight.
I think that’s also because a couple hundred years ago practically every currency was just a certain weight of gold, silver or copper. Different coins were just an easy way to recognize the weight.
Maybe we need to get some numismatics to weigh in here, but I think currency could be extremely tricky depending on where and when you were. I remember reading about medieval Italy and it seemed every city issued its own currency with different denominations, names, and weights. And even then, people would be scraping them to get some precious metals off of them, and with all those different currencies, counterfeiting must have been a real issue.
To apply this Tolkien, the Shire would probably have a different currency than even Bree, though Butterman would even take your coins from Gondor out of politeness to travelers.
Yeah, I like being thrown into a new world and still somehow understanding the basics of it so it’s familiar. No need to name everything differently if that’s not the focus of the game.
Credits will do fine
Watto, lul!
Credits are for future and guns, it’s coins/pieces of gold/silver when swords.
Somehow I understand completely & agree.
2 strips of gold-pressed latinum for you
an uncredible scifi where billionaires gain empathy
Government is the UN.
