By universe, I’m talking a TV show, Anime, Graphical Novel, Cartoon, Movie, a book, heck even time travel.
I want to live in high tech but ethical peace and comfort
Janeway: “Hold my beer”
Janeway: “Hold my
beercoffee”Beer? Have you ever even watched voyager? It’s coffee all the way for her.
Having said that, voyager mostly wasn’t very good, and federation standards were indeed very fluid in that show
To be fair, they were a LONG way from federation rules enforcement.
One thing they never really get into in Star Trek is how the body modification scene evolved in a future with medical replicators and “Doc will shine a light on it” levels of medical technology. I’m sure they could easily perform a gender transition, including changing reproductive organs to whatever combo a person wanted, in an afternoon, to say nothing of the possibility of cosmetic and functional structural changes. We see them perform highly complex and detailed biological modifications so crew members can pass as aliens like it’s nothing, so why not make people taller/shorter, wider/narrower hips, bigger/smaller boobs, more feminine/masculine face, horns, pointed or alien ears, new sense organs, extra arms, etc. What kind of wild piercings are people getting? What new methods and styles of tattoos have they come up with? The possibilities are incredible. That would be a fun world to explore, even within the Federation’s taboo against genetic alteration.
Quark gets a gender transition on Deep Space Nine
Oh yeah that’s right I forgot about that. He got a full gender transition in a couple hours.
I think playing with the body and especially the mind (through eugenics, genetic engineering, or any other means) is as big of a nono in the Star Trek universe as fascism, due to trauma from the eugenic wars (you know, when Khan and his ilk fought baseline humanity).
Body modification enthusiasts, transhumanists, furries, and anything like that are probably treated with fear, loathing, and disgust.
Heck, they won’t even treat baldness despite being perfectly able to fix it if they wanted to, and they don’t seem to have made any effort to cure aging, despite being able to cure almost everything else; their life expectancy isn’t much higher than ours, when it should be much higher.
You want that kind of thing try Iain M. Banks’ Culture series. Even more freedom to live your life however you want, the only limits to body modification are your imagination and some of the laws of physics (much less than in Start Trek, though), and people live to a healthy 300 or so, throw a party, and die in their own terms because they’re done, or curious. Or do not, no one is forcing them, they can keep on living if they want to.
Heck, one character used to have about sixty penises all over his body, just for fun. No more, though, even with four hearts at that point it was starting to get difficult to maintain an erection at the same time in all of them.
Human life spans do increase substantially (although not to 300) in the Star Trek universe. From Memory Alpha:
The average Human life span had gradually increased during their history. The average life spans during the 22nd century was about one hundred years. (ENT: “Observer Effect”) This average age was still roughly the same during the 2250, but had risen to 120 by the mid-24th century. (citation needed • edit) However, at some point in history the average life span for Humans was only 35, and by 1999 it had become higher than a millennium earlier. (ENT: “Similitude”; VOY: “11:59”) Leonard McCoy had by 2364 reached the age of 137. (TNG: “Encounter at Farpoint”)
Everyone would request the ability to suck their own dicks, and never leave the home anymore.
Discovery ruined that for us, you could end up in the shitty future after the Burn
The only downside is living in a universe that has the Borg. They are existential terror incarnate.
That said, they seem to always get defeated one way or another. Just make sure you live in a major federation star system and you’re golden.
Warhammer 40k
-Nobody
But you could be a Space Marine and die a horrible death in battle, or an Imperial Guardsman and die a horrible death in battle. Or a civilian on a hive world and live in a repressive fascist theocratic hellhole, then die a horrible death when Chaos or xenos attack.
The emperor protects tho…
It would be a lateral move from our current reality.
I’d probably go with Star Trek
Or “why you should specify where and when.”
Also needs to specify “no redshirt positions.”
For real. Welcome to Deep Space 9 in the middle of the Dominion war. And that isn’t even close to as bad as it could get, haha.
The alpha quadrant in the late 2370s.
Gumby and his friends can walk into any book and play in that book’s world, so choosing that fictional universe basically gives you access to all of the fictional universes. The only big trade-off is you and everyone else are ugly as shit.
Already ugly as shit. No downsides.
Might as well reroll
There’s no way I’m playing Paragon route a second time, so I might as well see as much of the content on this f-ed up save as I can before doing a restart.
So, do Playboys count as books?
Gumby’s world only has Clayboys
Easy, a citizen of The Culture. Post scarcity society like in Star Trek but in steroids and completely anarchic. The pinnacle of what technology and society could offer.
That seems like cheating, so option B is technologically the opposite, if I can retain my modern knowledge I would choose to go back in time to live with a society of hunter gatherers of the neolithic. Your only job is to find food in a world with still very few people to compete with and everything nature has to offer.
The lack of porn/hentai universes in the comments is refreshing.
…That being said…
Everything can be porn.
Animal Crossing. Just seems like a nice relaxing life.
You now owe a raccoon 7 trillion leaves
But he doesn’t charge interest and sets no deadlines for payments. All he asks is that you pay off your existing loan before he’ll give you another one.
You’ve touched a bush. You now owe a raccoon 8 trillion leaves.
It can still get to be more than a little aggravating being in forever debt
So, normal life except the air is clean and sometimes people give you fruit.
Man, I don’t know your approach, but I have all of the upgrades, I’ve paid off all loans, and I have 18 million bells in the bank.
Starting out in debt kind of sucks, but it’s usually possible to pay off your first mortgage in a week. I wish the real world were even remotely like that.
I mean, this isn’t a comparison of irl vs a fictional utopia, this is a comparison of fictional utopias.
My choice as well. The best post apocalyptic world. Until you want to get laid. You’re canonically the only human left, but you have plenty of friendly anthropomorphic animals to choose from. Rosie seems nice, but she’s a cat. Marina is thirsty AF, but she’s an octopus. Rocket best big sister type, but gorilla… pink gorilla at that! I know, everyone’s going for Ankha (the Egyptian goddess cat), Audie (the fox), or Raymond if you like men (cat with heterochromatic eyes).
Source: Aphexxtal
My wife cosplays Isabelle, so yeah, that’s a given. My personal Animal Crossing waifu is actually Sable, the eldest Able Sister. In New Horizons (Switch), she’s the one on the sewing machine. When you first meet her, she rudely says “other hedgehog, please,” and proceeds to ignore you, but if you keep talking to her, you become the highlight of her day. She’s a nasty old lady when you first meet her, she knows what she needs and wants, and she does not give kindness freely. But if you get to know her, you will become her favourite person. (She also has history with Tom, so there’s that, too.) (I cosplay Tom, so it works with both of them. I’m not saying Tom cheats on Isabelle with his ex, I’m just saying he has an open door policy, and if you know one NSFW fact about tanukis, it’s probably the same one I know, so you know one woman can’t take care of him alone.)
I can also say that this is her New Leaf outfit (and possibly prior games). I think she will still wear the green top sometimes, but mostly it’s salmon, and the design matches Tom’s shirt, with the Nook leaves.
Star trek has transporters, holodecks, and amazing medical technology. There are other usniverses that have some of these, but not all 3 in one place. But basically, that is what I would go for.
Infinite food on demand as well so the only thing we have to worry about is alcohol that tastes good neat.
Wind in the Willows. How I long to live a lazy life along the Thames with Water Rat and Mole.
Didn’t expect this. Yeah, a lazy life is not bad at all.
I’d choose a Ship’s Mind from the Culture Series by Ian M. Banks, specifically a GCU class vessel.
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Perfect, I also would choose this.
I’ll go first. I’m stuck between Futurama, Jonny Quest/Venture Bros and even old school Hawaii 5 - 0.
Probably a wizard of some kind, as long as it’s not a Rowling one. Just wanna draw runes and ponder orbs, you know?
Discworld UU Wizard. Mostly refraining from using magic, and eating enormous dinners.
I still need to read about Discworld wizards. The closest I’ve got to was the magic school in A Hat Full of Sky
Pratchett’s Wizard Magic and Witch Magic are quite different styles but all the Discworld books are Good at a minimum and your taste will determine which are Beyond Excellent.
I guess I haven’t read any Pratchett wizards then. Recommend me a book! (please)
Since you’ve met Tiffany you should meet Eskarina and get a backdoor exploration into Unseen University. So try Equal Rites. Then for more wizards you can go back one to The Light Fantastic, or keep moving forward to explore the whole Discworld and read 'em all. They each have unique qualities, a motley of new and recurring characters, and insights into some of the better and nastier aspects of our own world.
I like publication order, but if you just happen upon any of them someplace, read it. And as you’ll know already, his Young Adult writing is really only a matter of having a young protagonist. So don’t sleep on The Amazing Maurice either. It’s profound.
That sounds cool! The parts about Tiff’s books I liked so much was it felt like she was mucking about in the unfathomable depths of Discworld so an Unseen University sounds interesting
I mean, you can draw runes and ponder orbs in the real world, if you like!
I think pondering my orb irl might be killing me.
But you’re right. Drawing some runes might help, just as a distraction from the orb at least
If you really want to make a cool hobby out of it, forget drawing orbs. Learn to CARVE them. Literally in stone!
that would be sick. I was thinking about leaving them around the town where I live. maybe try to make a giant rune circle around it
DO IT!
I have a long-term art project on the list where I carve a runestone and just leave it in the woods somewhere.
that’s a pretty arcane sounding hobby for an arcane sounding username
Yeah, I can see that.
Tbh, Rowling actually has the best wizard world. You get a wand and tv to binge? While in LOTR, the fediverse doesn’t even exist.
Nah I don’t want to be a wizard in a world where wizards get to act like they’re the master race
Hard to find a world where that isn’t the case. I’d definitely consider myself part of the master race if I could cast spells.
oh sure plenty where they try to. But HP would be the only setting where that actually works out for them and they’re rewarded by the narrative
I prefer myself some cosmere or some rivers of london
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Specifically, being an ordinary inhabitant of one of the best custom planets without any knowledge of the unethical origins of the planet or even that other planets exist would probably be pretty dope.
Also, all the people answering The Culture has convinced me that I’m gonna need to check that series out when I’ve finished the Ink & Sigil trilogy 😁
Generic isekai with magic. Should be fun
Nearly every isekai I’ve watched/read has involved a lot of brushes with death and/or having to repeatedly pull yourself out of near-impossible situations. Not sure it’s worth the magic and elf-girl harems…
I would do practically anything that isn’t evil for magic, so worth it in my book.
Born as the son of a noble trope or I also have access to direct shipping through a magical web UI trope. Let’s goooo
I’ll go with the “I have a skill that everyone thinks is useless, but it’s actually the most OP skill ever because I’m so smart in how I use it” trope.
Like, my skill is material molding. Most people use it to make nails or to be a production worker of some type, making wheels for carts and the like, but since I know about the modern world, I’ll be making record players and computers and cell phones and solar panels.
Walter Bishop, Fringe
Awesome idea, but Walter goes through some serious shit.
