[ EPU Foyer ] [ Lab and Grill ] [ Bonus Theater!! ] [ Rhetorical Questions ] [ CSRANTronix ] [ GNDN ] [ Subterranean Vault ] [ Discussion Forum ] [ Gun of the Week ]

Eyrie Productions, Unlimited

Subject: "AINA: Extremely Belated Review"     Previous Topic | Next Topic
Printer-friendly copy    
Conferences The Legacy of Korra Topic #78
Reading Topic #78, reply 22
Pasha
Charter Member
1018 posts
Aug-15-14, 11:44 AM (EDT)
Click to EMail Pasha Click to send private message to Pasha Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list Click to send message via ICQ  
22. "RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review"
In response to message #18
 
   >
>>It's less that there aren't anacronisms in the warfare sections and
>>more that you don't think about them in context, so don't give a shit.
>
>Mmm. Maybe, but... the thing is, all the stuff you describe still
>involves a setting that is more technologically and (in some ways)
>socially advanced than we are right now. We can't make jets that fly
>in space, 1960s-looking or otherwise. Or construct giant city-smashing
>robots. It would require materiel sciences that are well beyond state
>of the art and are, in effect, magical.

...you missed the very, very important part of that phrase which was "Like Planes." Think the difference between B5 (They flew like spaceships! Kinda!) and Star Wars ("Let's have WWII Dogfights in SPACE!")

>The point is, that stuff is all still head-and-shoulders above what we
>have right now. It's not like you have, say, Destroid squadrons that

Erm, again, not really. The machines being used, sure. The actual effect? Not so much. From what we've seen, infantry tactics (and heck, armour tactics) seem to still be, basically those from the 1950s. They're recognizable to us as warfare. And I'm saying that, to someone from the 1600s, much of what we do today wouldn't be. The concept of airstrikes? Of fire control? Heck, the concept of suppressing fire is less than a hundred years old. Again, it's not that these are anachronistic so much as this isn't something you give a shit about, so you don't look at it too closely, so it doesn't bug you<1>. Heck, characters in UF regularly use SWORDS as personal combat weapons in firefights.

>have to communicate with each other using signal flags rather than
>highly encrypted burst transmissions. Sometimes it seems like people
>in UF are walking around with less everyday tech on them than I am
>right now in 2014 (or at least, using it less well) and on occasion
>that's bothered me.

Yeah, 'cause I totally know what an acoustic dampner web is, and my robot buddy always opens a little drawer on her head to use like a flashlight. Also, look at it from this direction: I can't take my phone to CANADA without hassle, and you want me to take it across dimensions?

--
-Pasha <1> I should note here to Gryph that, while I like hard mil SF that tries to do this sort of thing, I also like pulpy SF that says "Fuck it, swords in a firefight, that's cool!
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
 AINA: Extremely Belated Review [View All] Mercutio Aug-13-14 TOP
   RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Nova Floresca Aug-13-14 1
   RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Gryphonadmin Aug-13-14 2
      RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Nova Floresca Aug-13-14 6
      RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Mercutio Aug-14-14 9
          RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Gryphonadmin Aug-14-14 10
              RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review BobSchroeck Aug-14-14 14
              RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Mercutio Aug-15-14 17
                  RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Gryphonadmin Aug-15-14 19
   RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Pasha Aug-13-14 3
      RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review pjmoyermoderator Aug-13-14 4
          RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review eriktown Aug-13-14 5
              RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Matrix Dragon Aug-13-14 7
      RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Mercutio Aug-15-14 18
          RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Gryphonadmin Aug-15-14 20
              RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Matrix Dragon Aug-15-14 21
                  RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Blackbird Aug-15-14 24
         RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Pasha Aug-15-14 22
              RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Gryphonadmin Aug-16-14 26
                  RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Peter Eng Aug-17-14 28
          RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review McFortner Aug-16-14 25
   RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Matrix Dragon Aug-13-14 8
   RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review drakensis Aug-14-14 11
      RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Mercutio Aug-14-14 12
          RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review SpottedKitty Aug-14-14 15
              RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review drakensis Aug-15-14 16
              RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review SneakyPete Aug-18-14 29
   RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Peter Eng Aug-14-14 13
      RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review Terminus Est Aug-15-14 23
          RE: AINA: Extremely Belated Review SpottedKitty Aug-16-14 27


Conferences | Topics | Previous Topic | Next Topic

[ YUM ] [ BIG ] [ ??!? ] [ RANT ] [ GNDN ] [ STORE ] [ FORUM ] GOTW ] [ VAULT ]

version 3.3 © 2001
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
Benjamin D. Hutchins
E P U (Colour)