• Redfox8@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Spoilsport! But like you say this is fiction, and entertainment, it is a fantasy world! :)

    But yeah, the last one bugs me in soo many films and tv shows. They have super advanced AI robots tech, they can regrow a hand in a day, no more disease and live 257, transport living moving organisations across great distances, have developed telepaths and telekinetics, and can fold space-time, but are fucked if they can shoot straighter than a drunk badger with one ‘arm’, balancing on a log going down a rapids!

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, the fact that we already have the technology to make a gun that handles the aiming for you… and we aren’t even shooting light, which would be even easier to auto aim. Fights should be super short and boring, one shot, one kill… 20 shots, 20 kills. There would be no action heroes because very few people would ever live through more than a handful of fights. The heroes would be the beurocrats, so we’d have to spend alot more time watching them.

      Sounding like they made the right choice.

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          3 months ago

          Ah fair, not quite as easy as re-aiming light accurately then, but probably still easier than solid metal.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Guns shouid make fights super boring. Literally just kill anyone you’ve got line of sight to.

        But instead, they make fights more interesting, because now cover is a thing and it’s all angles.

        I’m sure there will be something interesting about laser vs laser wars that we can’t even imagine now (unless we quit being pussies and start putting realistic robot capabilities into video games).