I’ve never watched Blade Runner, only this scene, but this scene is incredible. And this quote gives a really strong impression of a much larger world.

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For 40k, I actually feel like “An open mind is like a fortress with its gates open and unbarred” is a cooler, if less iconic quote. It just conveys the ridiculous dystopia of the Imperium so well and so quickly.

But yeah gotta love the classic BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! YOUR CORPSE-EMPEROR WILL NOT SAVE YOU!

My project has been retconned so much I don’t think it can even be considered the same world anymore, however here’s some of the most major changes:

-The entire genere changed from steampunk to fantasy then to post-apocalyptic.

-The country I initially focused on was completely removed, along with the entire continent.

-Planet turned into a large moon orbiting a gas giant.

From what I’ve heard (back when I used Reddit) they aren’t linked, there’s apparently a bunch of people who have one but not the other.

Someone said that it’s cause they’re almost opposite effects- car sickness is when you feel movement but don’t see it, whereas vr sickness is when you see movement but don’t feel it- but I’d take this with a grain of salt since it’s just some random person on Reddit guessing at the cause.

Personally my experience is mostly the same as yours, I don’t get either.

Oh I didn’t know that, I thought they were locked to the server like Lemmy. Ok then I’ll just use masdodon.social for now until I know more about the rest.

Aww that’s a shame, the real Neptune looks really dull.

They’re not contradictory. All other headsets’ passthrough is just so bad that even though the Apple headset isn’t good it’s still way ahead of them.

He’s a wizard, the revolver is actually firing shrunken 16 inch HE shells.

HOW DO YOU YELL WITHOUT CAPSLOCK?

This is something I’ve been putting off. My world is post-apocalyptic. Originally, it was set so long after the apocalypse that the languages had changed to something completely different, but I’ve sinced changed it to <1000 years after the apocalypse, so I now have to come up with variations of modern names that are still somewhat recognisable but changed in some way.

I have no idea how to go about this, so I just… haven’t named any of the people in my world. I really should get around to this.

It doesn’t reduce the surface area though, the butt stock is still the same size.

Good point, I didn’t think about the smoke at all. I don’t think dwarves generally have innate breathing protection, so that would be an issue.

I feel like I should clarify that this isn’t part of a project of mine, I just had this idea for a generic fantasy world (I guess maybe something Forgotten Realms/ D&D esque) and wanted to put it out there, so I’ve got no other lore surrounding it about dwarven structures or breathing or darkvision, etc.

That said, I feel like dwarven structures are usually very well lit, so they wouldn’t be fighting in dim light much. And I think darkvision seems to be unaffected by bright flashes and stuff- they don’t seem to be negatively affected by fireballs or whatnot.

Yeah I just added that because dwarves = axes I guess. A normal bayonet would be much more practical.

I’ve got two answers for this, one for before the apocalypse happened, and one for after.

Before the apocalypse, it’s easy enough. I wanted the tech of that era to be near-magical, so that after the apocalypse it’s seen as magical.

1- There’s already a bunch of mall santas (that profession is still around in the 2100s), just hire one.

2- Get a large sack, buy a bunch of toys off A3 (Amazon-Alphabet-Apple), done.

3- You’d have several choices for this. If you’re on a low-gravity world, you can hide propellers or thrusters inside the sleigh and it’ll probably be enough to fly. On Earth though, you’ll either need to basically build it as a massive 4-rotor drone, carry it with a helicopter, or use anti-grav tech. I’m leaning towards the former, since I haven’t decided yet how I want the pre-apocalypse anti-grav tech to be like. That’s the flying done, the sleigh shape is just building a decorative frame.

4- Humanity’s gene-editing tech isn’t good enough to make flying reindeer, so they’ll have to be regular reindeer strapped to a rig in front of the sleigh. It might be hard to make that look convincing.

5- Humanity’s gene-editing tech is good enough however, to make a reindeer with a florescent nose.

As for difficulty, the hardest part here would be getting permission to modify a reindeer to have a glowing nose. The rest is doable for a small dedicated group.

If they actually try to break into houses though, they’ll just get arrested. That is if they don’t get shot down first for refusing to identify themselves (“Santa” is not a valid identification number) and going into controlled airspace.

After the apocalypse, it becomes significantly more difficult, for obvious reasons. Note, the post-apocalyptic part takes place on a far-off moon called Eren B, with about 1/3rd Earth gravity and few Earth animals.

1- Finding someone fat might be difficult, as the low gravity kinda stretches everyone out vertically, but it’s definitely doable. The beard and red clothes is easy.

2- Easy, sacks are everywhere. Obtaining that many toys would be expensive but that’s nothing compared to the next few points.

3- Oh boy, this would be almost impossible. You can “fly” using a Shard Of Gravitation, but the problem is that you only have control over how strong it is, which is why they are primarily used to lighten vehicles instead of fully lifting them off the ground- if you lift off, you have 0 control. There have been experiments with people strapping 5 or 9 Shards to a single platform, with them arranged around the sides, so by changing their strength you can stay upright, but that is insanely expensive- even a single shard is worth more than some villages. And it still only lets you hover, not control your movement. Perhaps, if you manage to find an undamaged fully functional ancient sky-ship (an artefact that would quite possibly be the most valuable thing on the planet), and built a wooden frame around it, you could get a flying sleigh. I suppose another way would be to invent airships. Eren B’s low gravity make them a lot easier to build, but that would still require a bunch of technology that just isn’t available to them.

4- Impossible again. Reindeer don’t exist on Eren B. The original terraforming effort didn’t move over the entirety of Earth’s ecological diversity, as that would have been pointless. Reindeer were left behind, together with most of the substitutes you could use. The closest you could get would be to strap horns to a horse, but that’s still difficult, as there are very few horses on Eren B and the ones that are around are carefully guarded by a (currently unnamed) group in the south, because of the large advantage it gives them. It’s not entirely impossible to get a couple from them though, either through trade or by stealing them.

5- I guess you could strap a lantern to a horse’s nose? You’re already strapping horns to them.

This would be impossibly difficult. No.3 especially is the issue, even if the entire planet was dedicated towards this goal that would still probably be impossible.

Huh neat, I like that idea of Saint Nick’s thing being mundane objects, seems to fit well for me.

I mean this seems like an easy answer to me no? People in the past wouldn’t suspect you’re from the future, they’d think you were posessed or something. People in the future would be much more likely to think of time travel, plus they’d have records of old accents and stuff.

There are also some ants that farm certain types of fungus! It’s really cool.

Oceangate as well.

Oh neat. I watched the anime version a while ago, but I didn’t read the original. If I ever get back into the series I’ll check your community out.