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"Real Life Science Fiction"

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Kuronaga
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
The Chicken Coop
#1 - 2015-06-27 05:39:34 UTC
Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?

Who came up with that?
Velarra
#2 - 2015-06-27 06:12:26 UTC
Kuronaga
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
The Chicken Coop
#3 - 2015-06-27 08:11:47 UTC
That would probably have been a more appropriate catch phrase.

Could've made it a play on words, as well, given the perceived difficulty of EVE.
Delt0r Garsk
Shits N Giggles
#4 - 2015-06-27 08:58:28 UTC
Eve is many things. Hard science fiction it is not.

And thank god for that.

I am a physicist and my first attempt at a video game was hard science fiction. It was boring, lame and stupid.

A little imagination goes a long way. Yes even the kerbles have some imagination.

AKA the scientist.

Death and Glory!

Well fun is also good.
Kuronaga
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
The Chicken Coop
#5 - 2015-06-27 10:11:19 UTC
I guess it's kinda difficult to call it hard science fiction, but it is moreso than a lot of others.

I mean its a hell of a lot harder than Star Wars, which is pretty much just space fantasy.
Hir Miriel
Elves In Space
#6 - 2015-06-27 10:16:04 UTC
Kuronaga wrote:
Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?

Who came up with that?


Life is a little bit science fiction.

For example most of our bodies isn't us. It's some amalgam of bacterias and so on that hitch a ride with us, or we hitch a ride with them.

And then if we look a little deeper we find out that we don't even know what sort of life that bacteria etc. is., biological dark matter is the term for it.

Makes me wonder if we are really running our lives.

There you go.

Real life science fiction. Happening right now, inside you.

~ ~~ Thinking inside Schrodinger's sandbox. ~~ ~
Cyborg Girl86
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2015-06-27 11:14:57 UTC
Anyone bother to think about the fact that space is a vacuum, yet you can hear explosions and weapons and mods and stuff, despite the fact there is no noise in real space.
Harrison Tato
Yamato Holdings
#8 - 2015-06-27 12:21:10 UTC
Cyborg Girl86 wrote:
Anyone bother to think about the fact that space is a vacuum, yet you can hear explosions and weapons and mods and stuff, despite the fact there is no noise in real space.


Not to mention the space wind. Really it sounds like we are underwater.
Hengle Teron
Red Sky Morning
The Amarr Militia.
#9 - 2015-06-27 13:28:09 UTC
It's all perfectly explainable.
Kuronaga
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
The Chicken Coop
#10 - 2015-06-27 15:10:42 UTC
Cyborg Girl86 wrote:
Anyone bother to think about the fact that space is a vacuum, yet you can hear explosions and weapons and mods and stuff, despite the fact there is no noise in real space.



One of the first things I ever thought about, but the lore actually does explain it. The Pod tech synthesizes sounds based on the environmental expectation. This was to give the pilot more situational awareness, as well as keep him from going crazy.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#11 - 2015-06-27 16:20:52 UTC
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness

I'd place eve around the 3 mark (as long as you accept that planets actually orbit, and that being stuck in one place is just a game thing)

Woo! CSM XI!

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Mathias Raholan
Iron.Guard
Fraternity.
#12 - 2015-06-27 19:55:05 UTC
Harrison Tato wrote:
Cyborg Girl86 wrote:
Anyone bother to think about the fact that space is a vacuum, yet you can hear explosions and weapons and mods and stuff, despite the fact there is no noise in real space.


Not to mention the space wind. Really it sounds like we are underwater.



If you read the chronicles it explains that your camera drones make the sounds for you to give you a sense of awareness
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#13 - 2015-06-27 20:15:27 UTC
Harrison Tato wrote:
Cyborg Girl86 wrote:
Anyone bother to think about the fact that space is a vacuum, yet you can hear explosions and weapons and mods and stuff, despite the fact there is no noise in real space.


Not to mention the space wind. Really it sounds like we are underwater.


ShockedShockedShockedBut, I thought we were. This isn't a submarine game? What the hell have I been playing all these years!?

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2015-06-28 00:20:39 UTC
Well, one thing is for sure .............

Where Science Fiction goes, Science Fact soon follows.

Blink



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