I can’t wait to visit Starfleet Medical to get my back and stomach fixed, live in a post scarcity utiopia, see other worlds, and study whatever I want.
EDIT: I think the worst thing will be contemplating the metaphysics of transporters. But maybe I’ll just never take one.
Still haven't watched it (Section 31, realised you also mention Lower Decks and that I one I watched, I watched it all!). And at this point I am not sure I ever will.
No shit? Well hell, I gotta play more Space Age then, my current spawn doesn't have a lotta water so I haven't needed landfill, and I've yet to get to another planet.
I don't know shit about factorio really but this is still really funny and I feel like I understand it more now and it makes me wish even more that I liked playing it
I highly recommend watching The Worst Guide To Factorio, which is where that quote came from. Gives a great overview of the game with awesome lines like that.
Some other great ones include:
Do you have a STEM degree or similar mental affliction?
Using this very average German, we need to build an automation factory, and to do this, we're going to become more obsessed with belts than an anime protagonist so that we can accomplish more insertions than a sounding enthusiast.
It was never about winning, it's about sending a message. This planet is alive, and I'm going to teach it fear. And in order to do that, we're going to be expanding harder than a furry artist trying to make rent.
Hope you started this several hours ago, because now it's time for the Kovarex enrichment process. ... Fun fact: It's named after the game's lead developer and works by exposing the uranium 238 to the radioactive yikes that is his Reddit posts.
Scale up our circuit production to an absurd degree and consume them like they're Doritos. Size does matter and anyone who tells you otherwise is a bottom, and I'm always on top of my game.
And probably my favorite:
Finally, I have to address a bit of an elephant in the room. The lead developer of this game kind of sucks. I truly hope they've had a redemption arc since their controversy but I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending this game without acknowledging it. So to balance the scales I've done what any reasonable person would do in this situation. I learned LUA out of spite and made a mod that lets you be gay and select pronouns.
Elden Ring is the world that is entirely devoid of hope, where many golden eras are all long past like millennia ago. There maybe another golden era coming, but it could just be a gilded age.
Melina has hope, and gives reasons for it if you talk to her down near the three fingers but before you interact with them. There's just no hope of the status quo ever being fixed.
Melina had hopes on Miquella. Ranni had hopes on the stars. Each of the holder of an Elden Ring shard had a vision. Yet that was the precise reason for the current situation. Sure, their heart might have been in the right place, their hopes might have been just, but their methods were not. Hence, the lack of hope for regular denizens of that world.
FromSoft fans who have been around since Kingfield in the late 90s: "always has been" (because from hit gold with the old and decaying fantasy world with dwindling hope in its inhabitants atmospheric vibe and keep reusing it)
I feel like my life would t be any different. I’d be a wizzard with an annoying job dealing with people who don’t understand magic and all the familial obligations.
I’d be fine, which is nice, but I’d just be me in another universe.
Maybe I’d be longing for a less weird universe. And that makes me sad.
So I guess I would t like to live in Discworld universe. I wouldn’t be the wyrdest person there.
Each zelda game is wildly different when it comes to the state of the world so i can't say for sure. All i know is i need to protect my pots from that maniac in green
My favorite fictional universe is Star Trek, but right now I'm really into The Expanse and that's probably more interesting.
Keng mi luck mi gonya kom sif wabelta nakángego ere setashan dédeya wowk tumal wit rashang ereluf unte owkwa showxa kewe mi livit suck da big felota. Kowltim tenye luck pashang mal. Unte nawang pochuye mi fo mi belta so mal.
I am a trekie too. I only hope to not get reincarnated on one of the planets that got razed to the ground for backgroundstory.
Additionally it could be devastating for the federation if one trekkie gets assimilated by borg
If you take them at face value and not as a gamified abstraction, sure. "Pallet Town" having three buildings is unlivable but it isn't shown that way in non-game media.
The organized crime is rough but that usually gets sorted out by a child at some point so just keep your head down.
These terrorist organizations are at least nice enough to let you attempt to capture a relatively weak pikachu for over a decade. My boss gets mad if I go over my 15 minute coffee break.
Not up to date on pokemon lore by a longshot but iirc Jessey and James are actually just nice people who really like pokemon and do their jobs badly on purpose.
It's nice to see how many of yall are quick with whatever your favorite fictional universe is..
I have never put much thought into one I'd deem as a favorite. I like a lot of games, shows, books, and such.. But I don't think I'd be able to pick just one.
Brandon Sanderson's cosmere. Kinda even chances between being instantly killed, enslaved, selling my soul to make a living or being stuck in the same office job I already have, but this time I'm Magneto.
Of all the worlds we've seen, when and where would you prefer to be put, assuming you have the same likelihood as a random person to have access to the magic system)?
I would probably want to be put on either Sel (specifically the area with soul stamps from the emperor's soul, since that's the only magic I can think of that everyone can use) or the world from Yumi and the nightmare painter (since that's just a relatively normal near-modern city).
It’s a really shitty decision but I’d probably go for the shattered plains pre-Alethi, I absolutely love the vibes of the chasms and exploring with esshondai sounds fun. Just gotta remember to gtfo before dalinar shows up for the second time and hope I don’t get murked by a salty ancestor looking for a meat suit
That's a tough question. Nalthis would be cool - technically, anyone there can Awaken as well, as long as you accumulate enough Breaths, which also give you cool passive bonuses. But also I want to see magic powered spaceships, and we don't have enough books set in late eras yet.
With full steel and iron, and knowledge of the lynchpin spike, you might be able to take them all out before running out, depending on how much steel you have.
Yeah, not sure, Pokemon fans would be as excited, once they're there. They could have basically their universe, if they just organize a dogfighting league and they don't do that.
Dogfighting of sentient beings. Some of which have the capacity for human speech. All of which show clear signs of experiencing pain. Some of which can have full conversation with you and speak intelligently. Yeah, that's who you're sending in for your personal blood sports. Pocket Monsters indeed. Not the creatures. You, the "trainer".
Tbf, the vast majority of these creatures are significantly more powerful than humans, and many significantly smarter. They seem perfectly okay with it. I mean hell, you can capture and battle with Poke-God himself. I like to think of it more like a sport all pokemon love or some shit than Pal World-type slavery.
Nah it's okay, they're taken care of in the stasis of the ball. What does taken care of mean? Well, they're in stasis, so technically they don't have any needs to meet, so they're totally fine. What is stasis? It's like being frozen, like cryostasis, but not like that. No, of course they're not fully aware of every agonizing second of blackness! Wait, I mean, they're aware, but not able to actually think or feel anything, and they can't even talk so it's not like they're complaining. Some of them are complaining? Fuck idk. ...are we the baddies?
Jk that's not supported by canon. Well, the bit at the end about self awareness anyways. [I realized after writing this last sentence immediately before this that it could kind of refer to either the Pokémon's self awareness or the self awareness of the person exploiting the Pokémon. I will not be correcting it to clarify which I meant]
Pokemon fans can go to dog fighting to understand why they might not be as happy as they think.
Also imagine that some of the dogs can electrocute, burn and drown other dogs. Also, sometimes they put a chihuahua against a great dane.
I'm not certain if I'd be more fucked in Factorio, The Elder Scrolls, Terraria, or Stardew Valley. I'd be fucked either way though since I assume I'd be a rando off screen, and not the main character
Oh absolutely! I've logged a few too many hours in Derail Valley. It's very fun for when I just want to hop on and drive some trains, although it doesn't really scratch the "I want to play with trains from $SpecificLocale during $SpecificTimeframe" Itch that simulators like Trainz do, where you can for example drive a Metra commuter train from Harvard into Chicago, or jump to Germany and drive the ICE or switch freight wagons in post-grouping Britain, or drive local freights through rural Australia
I held off the dragons till I did everything else because I got so annoyed with them killing townspeople in Skyrim.
Morrowind taught me to take over some asshole dark elf's house in Seyda Neen, and powelevel all my skills to 100 before I left the first town so that a random cliff racer, or kwarma forager didn't take out me and any random NPC around me.
Oblivion, beeline to Anvil, buy the house, and again just max out all my skills. Mostly so that the random encounters didn't kill me. I don't remember having issues keeping NPCs alive in that one.
I'm entirely uncertain that any of us normal non magicka wielding randos would survive long in any of the most interesting times of mundus.
Yeah something like the Oblivion Crisis would be tough on the commoners. But if I could just chill in Vivec City or even Whiterun for most of history it's pretty safe.
Oh dude. I hadn't even considered SCP. At least you might meet Alan Wake. Never played the games, but I assume he's an interesting guy if he lives in that universe, and has survived multiple games.
I haven't played the games either, tbh I didn't even know there were games.
I've been reading SCP's for probably over 15 years now though, with varying levels of obsession with it during that time. There is so much lore and interconnectedness now, seeing it grow from just a few stories was incredible.
I actually didn't know there were this many. I've read a lot of the SCPs, but the organization deciding that they needed to kill everyone just kinda killed the universe for me.
We're talking about SCP-5000 Absolute Exclusion Harness right? That's the main famous SCP where the foundation starts trying to exterminate humanity. But yeah, it's all told through digital archives onboard a wearable device that renders the wearer completely safe from basically reality as a whole that just appeared and tells of a chilling alternate reality where the foundation starts exterminating mankind and it is implied that the wearer ends up using the suit to survive and then "reset reality" using some other SCPs and that reset reality where that all never happened is the reality the rest of the SCP Foundation we know exists. The Harness is the only thing left as it is shielded fully from basically anything.
I think I'd be pretty screwed. I'd most likely be living in some remote, forgotten village, trying to eke out enough of a living to pay the local lord for the privilege, while trying to avoid my home being raided by Aiel, or Seanchan, or Dragonsworn, or one of the other dozen armies roaming the countryside. Or maybe I'd be serving in one of those armies, fodder for the front lines, going up against enemies with no qualms about using the One Power for killing.
There's a tiny, remote chance that I could be studying in one of the schools in Cairhien or Caemlyn, trying to push technology out of the dark ages, which would be pretty cool. But that still comes with the risk of being a target of Darkfriends and the Forsaken, which is less cool.
Morrowind for me. If I could get past being killed by stray crabs I think I could settle down pretty well somewhere. As long as I don't get too involved in anything that seems world-endy...
Wheel of Time wouldn't be so terrible except that you lose 400 years of technological progress and you're completely screwed if you're a male and end up being a magic user.
There is one animated meme making the rounds now, posing the question on whether viewers would want a bucolic near-communist solarpunk future where everyone is happy and has their needs met, or a 40k future of massive mechs that can level entire cities on their own.
I say: why not both?
Crunchy outer shell of 40k that is just enough for a healthy defence of humanity, 90+% gooey solarpunk interior that gives everyone else a psychologically healthy and comfortable life.
I'm good. I mean, there's a hell portal right next to a certain town in the countryside, but even the demons of this world are more "asshole characters and weird animals" than actual-ACTUAL-demons. Plus they seem to have completely handled issues of poverty and such by taming all of nature with magic, even if they still use money and have jobs. Less 'socialism' and more 'post-scarcity society, but with magic instead of tech'.
.... I'm talking about Equestria from Gen 4 My Little Pony by the way.
....... Then again ponies are like SUUUUPER racist, so if I end up there as a human, I think I'd be experimented on.
Thing is, unless you live in the core worlds in any time period, and even then a relatively rich part of the core worlds, your life is gonna be pretty shitty in Star Wars. The Outer Rim is notoriously shit for anyone living there. Naboo might be nice, or Alderaan if you can actually find a place to live there and pick the right time period, so basically a couple decades before the prequels.
...Neither of those time periods are cushy. The Old Republic is a constant war between the Sith Empire and Republic, reaching far into the core worlds. I wouldn't call that cushy for the average dude. You're either enslaved by the Sith, enslaved by the Hutts, or conscripted by the Republic.
Post-OT in Legends wasn't exactly nice either, what with the Yuuzhan Vong War which killed an estimated 300 trillion people and multiple planets completely destroyed. You'd actually be better off in the Galactic Civil War! At least then only one planet blew up.
The State of the Art and Excession are the two I haven't gotten my hands on yet. I'm reading Matter right now and am consistently blown away by how forward thinking the author is. All of his work holds up so well.
I don't know if I'd want to live in the UFP. Post-dominion war (and during it) it gets a bit dystopian. And of the time periods depicted, there's only a pretty narrow window where they're not at war with at least one major power. Specifically after the khitomer accords are signed and prior to the encounter with the Borg. So, really only a 70 year period. And even then, there's a cold war with the Romulans.
That galaxy is largely hostile and while a lot of UFP citizens are able to live in blissful ignorance, I'm not sure I'd enjoy that.
I’m on season 6 of DS9. I remember thinking about how fucked up it was that Sisko
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
gases that maquis planet, but now he’s just falsified evidence to pull the romulans into the war (and Garak had a senator killed, to really sell it). The worst part is that the federation approved of the forgery.
:::
I'll be allright, it is just a small silly ring that I have to throw in a burning mountain. That is surrounded by orcs and other evil beings. While the ring is fighting against me and giving me supernatural powers.
Oh and no pressure, only the whole world will be destroyed and everything I know and love will be gone too.
So either I die rather quickly or live in a world of lasting sorrow and decay with short bursts of beauty doomed to fail. But at least I can be philosophical about it, right?
That's not lucky at all.
As eventually those 22 minutes have to end in order for something new to happen with a hope for a better universe that you do not see but but witness its creation if you are lucky.
If you are lucky your actions lead to others' happiness and fulfilling lives. Not keep yourself around needlessly extended.
Deathworlders universe:
Aliens exist and they are terrified of us, we calm them down a bit, one faction destroy earth, but we have allies and two other planets, alien medicine that make us healthy and cool tech, sounds allright...
D'ni universe:
Magic is semi real, we can write links to physical worlds and travel there instantly, sounds bloody brilliant...
Forza Horizon:
Immortality, fast cars that never breaks down or need fuel, several big houses vast garages, yeah, I can see that being fun....
Fallout universe:
Nuclear post-apocalyptic wasteland or cramped insane vaults, nah, hard pass.
Well, depending on where and when in the story I land in Eorzea, it can be a nice and boring existence, one where I get to see all the famous heroes of the age from all across the realm, or a painfully short one.
Well, as far as Path of Exile 2 is concerned, I'll try to become someone's pet. Pets don't fight, are invincible and all they do is follow their owner wherever they go. I'd be able to see wondrous landscapes and all kinds of monsters without a care in the world.
I would love to know what happened with the person(s) who played Elon’s PoE account. Like great I need the DOGE expose and the revolution, but can I get an in-depth Wired piece on this one particular person or group first please
At the moment, that would either be Bofuri or Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear. As long as I don't make an enemy out of the indestructible girl in black armor/a bear costume, I should be just fine.
I can’t wait to visit Starfleet Medical to get my back and stomach fixed, live in a post scarcity utiopia, see other worlds, and study whatever I want.
EDIT: I think the worst thing will be contemplating the metaphysics of transporters. But maybe I’ll just never take one.
My own meme and it applies here.
Oh... Can I change my answer? I wanna be in Star Trek, too.
monkey's paw finger curls
(It's the Section 31 movie universe)
If there were no jackass genie or monkey's paw shenanigans, I'd want to go to the Lower Decks universe specifically.
Still haven't watched it (Section 31, realised you also mention Lower Decks and that I one I watched, I watched it all!). And at this point I am not sure I ever will.
Do yourself a favor, don't.
Holy fuck, I just did, made it 20 minutes in and it is so much more worse than I thought. Nope, not going to waste more time on that.
Lmao I'd be off to requisition a runabout lolol fuck this planet lmao
I’d find some small tropical moon and set up orbital defenses
Really depends on the time period though. There were quite a few unpleasantries even in that universe. Klingon War, Dominion War, Borg,...
Ok, Bones
Anyone care to join me at the Holodeck, I have a vampire & werewolves novel... XD
Factorio.
I'm fucked, because I'm also terrible at optimizing my factory
Nah its cool factorio guy doesn't HAVE to leave.
No pollution, no biters.
Very doable.
Just find an island, 100 stone for 2 landfill, and get to the island by picking up a landfill behind you and placing it in front of you.
You have eternity, so take trips off your island to mine things by hand, craft things by hand, etc.
Eternity awaits.
Yeah the only thing stopping you is the laws of physics which are seemingly different here. This could work.
I'm pretty sure you can't pick up landfill without mods.
In Spaceage you can.
No shit? Well hell, I gotta play more Space Age then, my current spawn doesn't have a lotta water so I haven't needed landfill, and I've yet to get to another planet.
In the base game too
Counterpoint
I don't know shit about factorio really but this is still really funny and I feel like I understand it more now and it makes me wish even more that I liked playing it
I highly recommend watching The Worst Guide To Factorio, which is where that quote came from. Gives a great overview of the game with awesome lines like that.
Some other great ones include:
And probably my favorite:
Niiiice :D
That last one lmao
Be gay, select pronouns, and devour the world for 1.2k more copper plate production per minute.
You only have to optimize the factory enough to protect yourself. If you can progress faster than the biters, you're probably fine.
LOTR. Entirely depends on when and where I show up
You're a ring on a chain around the neck of a Hobbit.
Well then it'll take divine intervention to kill me
Congratulations, you're born as a mighty Uruk-Hai warrior! In the distance you hear trees yelling
... as Shelobs sex-slave hopefully ...
Dark Souls/Elden Ring
It's not like I can die so it's not that bad. It's worse.
Elden Ring is the world that is entirely devoid of hope, where many golden eras are all long past like millennia ago. There maybe another golden era coming, but it could just be a gilded age.
Melina has hope, and gives reasons for it if you talk to her down near the three fingers but before you interact with them. There's just no hope of the status quo ever being fixed.
Melina had hopes on Miquella. Ranni had hopes on the stars. Each of the holder of an Elden Ring shard had a vision. Yet that was the precise reason for the current situation. Sure, their heart might have been in the right place, their hopes might have been just, but their methods were not. Hence, the lack of hope for regular denizens of that world.
FromSoft fans who have been around since Kingfield in the late 90s: "always has been" (because from hit gold with the old and decaying fantasy world with dwindling hope in its inhabitants atmospheric vibe and keep reusing it)
Exactly. Plus living in those worlds would suck, especially since you cannot even die.
I would totally retire to Majula, pet the kitty, befriend the blacksmiths daughter.
SCP fan
Cyberpunk 2077. But I don't have to wonder about it. Its happening already.
At least Cyberpunk got joy girls and working cybernetics. We get Gilead and cyber trucks that short out from a car wash.
Me as a fallout fan, probably longer than I should lol
Considering how fast I died by rats in the original, I'm fucked.
That was me on 7 days to die. My ass! More like 20 mins to die.
Discworld's fine by me.
I feel like my life would t be any different. I’d be a wizzard with an annoying job dealing with people who don’t understand magic and all the familial obligations.
I’d be fine, which is nice, but I’d just be me in another universe.
Maybe I’d be longing for a less weird universe. And that makes me sad.
So I guess I would t like to live in Discworld universe. I wouldn’t be the wyrdest person there.
Well, if you're a wizzard, then you probably can't spell (that's the joke)
Would you be working with Hex?
Just don't call the librarian an M-word and stay off the streets of Ankh Morpork at night.
Need to be careful during the day, as well. And no eating Dibbler's sausages!
Came here to say this.
It get a job with Moist Von Lipwig and learn all I could
Their university leadership are slightly more coherent than mine - I'll take that life.
Star Trek? Hell yeah. The Borg might be a small problem and the Klingon, but no cooking, no cleaning, no need for money.
I consider the Borg to be a goal, not a problem.
I am introvert. I cannot even imagine having people mind connected 🤣
You will no longer be an introvert. Your conscious will meld with ours. There will be no you, only us.
And on that day the collective adsorbed so much crippling anxiety that it never left its cube again and the threat was forever vanquished.
Well i hope that us, will be more practical and less talkative, because my mind will melt or explode, if the women will talk as much as today.
Being turned into a Gorn breeding sack? Kinda into it
I am confident we will get there. Have faith.
Of the heart?
I don't know. It seems that it is going towards the Star Wars universe though.
Eve online
Very screwed
Avoid the null zones and be a peaceful asteroid miner? Oh, and try to make enough to pay some mercs. Just in case
I'd be fine as a capsuleer but the odds of being a normal human in that universe are astronomically high.
Me as a drunken dwarf risking my life so the company I work for gets more money: Rock and stone!
Rock and roll and stone!
Stonie Hawk is that you?
For Karl!
Sometimes I wonder if moving dirt and shooting bugs is a good way to make a living...
I'm definitely dead the moment the Vogons destroy Earth to make room for a hyperspace bypass.
You never know, you could turn out to be the most important person in the universe. Happened to me once, you know. Wouldn't recommend it.
Not if you befriend an undercover alien writing for The Guide!
You might just end up on the replacement Earth without the dolphins.
So... Do I stay as I am or do I become a pony when I end up in Equestria? 🤔
Cum, let's do some friendship!
There's no shortage of fanfic about either option, last time I checked (circa 2012)
Oh I know that much. I'm still on fimfiction.net 😂 it's just nice to have clarification as to what kind of fic I'm going to end up in 😂
Each zelda game is wildly different when it comes to the state of the world so i can't say for sure. All i know is i need to protect my pots from that maniac in green
+1 for Zelda fan. But just be pot seller and you're set for life.
I'll take a half.
Hide a chicken in one of the pots, never have trouble with that maniac again.
Just leave the area and come back to your pots being respawned. Infinite money glitch
You'll cease to exist when the Wind Fish gets woken up.
My favorite fictional universe is Star Trek, but right now I'm really into The Expanse and that's probably more interesting.
Keng mi luck mi gonya kom sif wabelta nakángego ere setashan dédeya wowk tumal wit rashang ereluf unte owkwa showxa kewe mi livit suck da big felota. Kowltim tenye luck pashang mal. Unte nawang pochuye mi fo mi belta so mal.
I am a trekie too. I only hope to not get reincarnated on one of the planets that got razed to the ground for backgroundstory.
Additionally it could be devastating for the federation if one trekkie gets assimilated by borg
I mean, immigration within the Federation is free, right? Just move to Earth. Earth is mostly fine
In 2026 the United States experiences its second civil war, which ultimately starts WWIII. And in Star Trek it's pretty rough too.
What if you are reincarnated as the crystalline entity?
om nom nom organic life
Pokemon seems awful
Ever present terrorism, most towns don’t have food
Animal attacks are more common and dangerous
If you take them at face value and not as a gamified abstraction, sure. "Pallet Town" having three buildings is unlivable but it isn't shown that way in non-game media.
The organized crime is rough but that usually gets sorted out by a child at some point so just keep your head down.
These terrorist organizations are at least nice enough to let you attempt to capture a relatively weak pikachu for over a decade. My boss gets mad if I go over my 15 minute coffee break.
Not up to date on pokemon lore by a longshot but iirc Jessey and James are actually just nice people who really like pokemon and do their jobs badly on purpose.
No one said you couldn't join them
I guess I hate ugly people enough to join Flare
That doesn't sound that bad
The anime version seemed pretty nice. I actually got pretty depressed for a few days when I was a kid and realized I would never live in that world.
Elder Scrolls... So here's hoping I land somewhere in Cyrodiil with a long gap in between major catastrophic events.
I'd be living in Solitude.
I always liked Falkreath. I was born on a full moon though, so I'd probably fit in just fine.
It's nice to see how many of yall are quick with whatever your favorite fictional universe is..
I have never put much thought into one I'd deem as a favorite. I like a lot of games, shows, books, and such.. But I don't think I'd be able to pick just one.
Multiverse it is.
Crucially, you don't automatically get to travel the multiverse. You just know it exists now.
Brandon Sanderson's cosmere. Kinda even chances between being instantly killed, enslaved, selling my soul to make a living or being stuck in the same office job I already have, but this time I'm Magneto.
Of all the worlds we've seen, when and where would you prefer to be put, assuming you have the same likelihood as a random person to have access to the magic system)?
I would probably want to be put on either Sel (specifically the area with soul stamps from the emperor's soul, since that's the only magic I can think of that everyone can use) or the world from Yumi and the nightmare painter (since that's just a relatively normal near-modern city).
It’s a really shitty decision but I’d probably go for the shattered plains pre-Alethi, I absolutely love the vibes of the chasms and exploring with esshondai sounds fun. Just gotta remember to gtfo before dalinar shows up for the second time and hope I don’t get murked by a salty ancestor looking for a meat suit
That's a tough question. Nalthis would be cool - technically, anyone there can Awaken as well, as long as you accumulate enough Breaths, which also give you cool passive bonuses. But also I want to see magic powered spaceships, and we don't have enough books set in late eras yet.
Good news! You appear as adult Feruchemist with full metalminds. Bad news, you've just been kidnapped by a bunch of Steel Inquisitors.
To be fair, with full steel and Fortune, good luck reacting or predicting where I'll be in the next second.
With full steel and iron, and knowledge of the lynchpin spike, you might be able to take them all out before running out, depending on how much steel you have.
Yea, I'm on Roahar. Time to find out how hot men's food really is!
You mean I get to love on the Discworld on the backs of 4 giant elephants on the back of a cosmic turtle?
HELL YEAH!
Adventure Time so basically the plot of the Fionna and Cake series (which I highly recommend)
The what now‽‽‽‽
It's absolutely amazing. Adventure time for adults
It's on max :) DM if you need either a link to watch whatever or have questions
Helldivers...
Sounds of sweet liber-tea
Pokemon fans: 40k Fans Americans:
Fallout. I'm dead before I realize where I am.
The game was rigged from the start...
Ring a ding ding
Yeah, not sure, Pokemon fans would be as excited, once they're there. They could have basically their universe, if they just organize a dogfighting league and they don't do that.
...I hope.
Dogfighting of sentient beings. Some of which have the capacity for human speech. All of which show clear signs of experiencing pain. Some of which can have full conversation with you and speak intelligently. Yeah, that's who you're sending in for your personal blood sports. Pocket Monsters indeed. Not the creatures. You, the "trainer".
Tbf, the vast majority of these creatures are significantly more powerful than humans, and many significantly smarter. They seem perfectly okay with it. I mean hell, you can capture and battle with Poke-God himself. I like to think of it more like a sport all pokemon love or some shit than Pal World-type slavery.
Nah it's okay, they're taken care of in the stasis of the ball. What does taken care of mean? Well, they're in stasis, so technically they don't have any needs to meet, so they're totally fine. What is stasis? It's like being frozen, like cryostasis, but not like that. No, of course they're not fully aware of every agonizing second of blackness! Wait, I mean, they're aware, but not able to actually think or feel anything, and they can't even talk so it's not like they're complaining. Some of them are complaining? Fuck idk. ...are we the baddies?
Jk that's not supported by canon. Well, the bit at the end about self awareness anyways. [I realized after writing this last sentence immediately before this that it could kind of refer to either the Pokémon's self awareness or the self awareness of the person exploiting the Pokémon. I will not be correcting it to clarify which I meant]
“AITE I’M IN!”
Pokemon fans can go to dog fighting to understand why they might not be as happy as they think. Also imagine that some of the dogs can electrocute, burn and drown other dogs. Also, sometimes they put a chihuahua against a great dane.
I'm an old man in D&D? Yeah, I'm dead
You could always sell your soul to an archfey or something
Personally I would be the strongest cleric under Lliira
Which is far less of a problem in D&D
I'm not certain if I'd be more fucked in Factorio, The Elder Scrolls, Terraria, or Stardew Valley. I'd be fucked either way though since I assume I'd be a rando off screen, and not the main character
Stardew you'd at least be fucked in the good way. I mean, just look at Mayor Louis and Marnie
what are your thoughts on Abigail?
her diet lacks minerals
Who doesn't love Abigail? My wife and I came within a hair of naming our first child Abigail but ultimately chose a different name
He must be grateful for that decision.
Nope. You'd most likely be stuck in the city the player escaped from, or the war that Jodi's hubby is in in the first year.
Because of your username, are you familiar with Derail Valley Simulator? It's an excellent locomotive simulator.
Oh absolutely! I've logged a few too many hours in Derail Valley. It's very fun for when I just want to hop on and drive some trains, although it doesn't really scratch the "I want to play with trains from $SpecificLocale during $SpecificTimeframe" Itch that simulators like Trainz do, where you can for example drive a Metra commuter train from Harvard into Chicago, or jump to Germany and drive the ICE or switch freight wagons in post-grouping Britain, or drive local freights through rural Australia
It's pretty safe to be an NPC in thr Elder Scrolls as long as you aren't important or interesting and you're polite to adventurers.
I held off the dragons till I did everything else because I got so annoyed with them killing townspeople in Skyrim.
Morrowind taught me to take over some asshole dark elf's house in Seyda Neen, and powelevel all my skills to 100 before I left the first town so that a random cliff racer, or kwarma forager didn't take out me and any random NPC around me.
Oblivion, beeline to Anvil, buy the house, and again just max out all my skills. Mostly so that the random encounters didn't kill me. I don't remember having issues keeping NPCs alive in that one.
I'm entirely uncertain that any of us normal non magicka wielding randos would survive long in any of the most interesting times of mundus.
likewise, as soon as the vampires show up i gotta finish their quest because they keep eating my peeps
Yeah something like the Oblivion Crisis would be tough on the commoners. But if I could just chill in Vivec City or even Whiterun for most of history it's pretty safe.
Safest bet is to be a child in Skyrim.
Not sure if there's any mods left on the main sites to make them killable.
I don't think I have a favorite universe - especially not if I get to live as a regular person. I think I'd pick Elder Scrolls
SCP fan. I'm fucked.
Oh dude. I hadn't even considered SCP. At least you might meet Alan Wake. Never played the games, but I assume he's an interesting guy if he lives in that universe, and has survived multiple games.
I haven't played the games either, tbh I didn't even know there were games.
I've been reading SCP's for probably over 15 years now though, with varying levels of obsession with it during that time. There is so much lore and interconnectedness now, seeing it grow from just a few stories was incredible.
I actually didn't know there were this many. I've read a lot of the SCPs, but the organization deciding that they needed to kill everyone just kinda killed the universe for me.
https://containmentbreach.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Notable_SCP_games
I just happened to find out that Allen Wake is set in that universe because of some article that I read in the last couple years.
I mean, that explicitly didn't end up happening though, that reality got reset. The chilling part is the implication that that's a very bad thing.
Wasn't aware of that part. Good Lord. I am beginning to suspect that SCP lore may be a magnitude of order larger than TES lore.
We're talking about SCP-5000 Absolute Exclusion Harness right? That's the main famous SCP where the foundation starts trying to exterminate humanity. But yeah, it's all told through digital archives onboard a wearable device that renders the wearer completely safe from basically reality as a whole that just appeared and tells of a chilling alternate reality where the foundation starts exterminating mankind and it is implied that the wearer ends up using the suit to survive and then "reset reality" using some other SCPs and that reset reality where that all never happened is the reality the rest of the SCP Foundation we know exists. The Harness is the only thing left as it is shielded fully from basically anything.
Check out Alan Wake, Alan Wake II, and Control, all by Remedy Entertainment. They're not directly SCP, but they're adjacent/parallel to it.
I think I'd be pretty screwed. I'd most likely be living in some remote, forgotten village, trying to eke out enough of a living to pay the local lord for the privilege, while trying to avoid my home being raided by Aiel, or Seanchan, or Dragonsworn, or one of the other dozen armies roaming the countryside. Or maybe I'd be serving in one of those armies, fodder for the front lines, going up against enemies with no qualms about using the One Power for killing.
There's a tiny, remote chance that I could be studying in one of the schools in Cairhien or Caemlyn, trying to push technology out of the dark ages, which would be pretty cool. But that still comes with the risk of being a target of Darkfriends and the Forsaken, which is less cool.
The wheel weaves as the wheel wills.
Morrowind for me. If I could get past being killed by stray crabs I think I could settle down pretty well somewhere. As long as I don't get too involved in anything that seems world-endy...
I would just sit by the lake, enjoying the rain ripples on the water, and listen to the soundtrack.
On the Sword Coast, I'm becoming a light cleric so fast.
Until you get some experience in, avoid fights with cats
Shrek fans transforming into (fireproof?) asses ...
Assuming I can find Sam and Dean or stay the fuck away from Sam and Dean I would be safe.
Wheel of Time wouldn't be so terrible except that you lose 400 years of technological progress and you're completely screwed if you're a male and end up being a magic user.
Yeah, but... Might get a shot at Rosamund Pike.
Personally I'm more interested in Taylor Napier. Or maybe both of them at the same time 🤔
Various flavors of high fantasy -> probably very dead very quickly unless I gain magic abilities once I'm in-universe.
i hope I'm fit for starfleet.
There's always the Space Janitorial Service.
> PUT GEM IN MOUTHWesteros. So pretty screwed unless it's Dorne or maybe Highgarden.
Berserk 💀
There is one animated meme making the rounds now, posing the question on whether viewers would want a bucolic near-communist solarpunk future where everyone is happy and has their needs met, or a 40k future of massive mechs that can level entire cities on their own.
I say: why not both?
Crunchy outer shell of 40k that is just enough for a healthy defence of humanity, 90+% gooey solarpunk interior that gives everyone else a psychologically healthy and comfortable life.
The factory must grow!
I love Cyberpunk 2077 but since I'm German I might be mostly okay
Well I'm either getting raped by a deathclaw, get to exist in the same universe as Dagoth Ur, or WELCOME TO ESTALIA GENTLEMEN!
I'm fucked regardless so ya might as well send me in with those backed by Faith, Steel, and Gunpowder!
MFW Dagoth Ur isn't dead yet
Kill a god? How could you kill a god, what a grand and intoxicating innocence.
Great. Me and the brown coats floating like a leaf on the wind...
let's be honest we'd be mudders lol
*raises grog flagon to Jayne statue*
Or working in the mines taking medicine to stay alive
Depending on when you arrive, it could all just be a wash......
I'm good. I mean, there's a hell portal right next to a certain town in the countryside, but even the demons of this world are more "asshole characters and weird animals" than actual-ACTUAL-demons. Plus they seem to have completely handled issues of poverty and such by taming all of nature with magic, even if they still use money and have jobs. Less 'socialism' and more 'post-scarcity society, but with magic instead of tech'.
.... I'm talking about Equestria from Gen 4 My Little Pony by the way.
....... Then again ponies are like SUUUUPER racist, so if I end up there as a human, I think I'd be experimented on.
With a bit of twisting you get diablo1/2 universe
.... For real?
I was a child that didn't understand english when I played Diablo, so I'm willing to take it at face value but like.
For real?
I am making a huge stretch ngl. But yeah town/village with a hell portal (sort of), and rather unfriendly fellows going around
Marvel.
Shit my insurance rates are going up.
Only if you're in New York.
Or anywhere poor or remotely interesting.
Looks like me and the homies are getting stuck in the Lethal Company universe. We're probably fine. Unless we work for The Company, then we're fucked.
Thing is, unless you live in the core worlds in any time period, and even then a relatively rich part of the core worlds, your life is gonna be pretty shitty in Star Wars. The Outer Rim is notoriously shit for anyone living there. Naboo might be nice, or Alderaan if you can actually find a place to live there and pick the right time period, so basically a couple decades before the prequels.
Living in the Old Republic would likely be pretty cruisy, before the events of the prequels.
If we pretend the Disney era stuff doesn't exist, it would also be quite tranquil after the original trilogy.
...Neither of those time periods are cushy. The Old Republic is a constant war between the Sith Empire and Republic, reaching far into the core worlds. I wouldn't call that cushy for the average dude. You're either enslaved by the Sith, enslaved by the Hutts, or conscripted by the Republic.
Post-OT in Legends wasn't exactly nice either, what with the Yuuzhan Vong War which killed an estimated 300 trillion people and multiple planets completely destroyed. You'd actually be better off in the Galactic Civil War! At least then only one planet blew up.
My favorite fictional universe is The Culture. I think I'm going to be alright lol.
I just hope we're born in Culture space, rather than one of the less...forward thinking societies.
Also plot twist: our universe is the Culture universe, we just haven't made contact yet. I think it was shown in State of the Art
The State of the Art and Excession are the two I haven't gotten my hands on yet. I'm reading Matter right now and am consistently blown away by how forward thinking the author is. All of his work holds up so well.
Wake the fuck up samurai
We have a city to burn.
as a UC Gundam fan
Jupiter seems to escape most of the world-shattering events.
Yeah but those Jovians are bit extreme
the reapers coming to make nearly all life extinct?
ah yes, "the reapers". sorry honey, I don't believe that nonsense. not screwed at all. life's pretty good in this universe.
You know, I'd be alright as a pegasus
Though living in the utopian society that is the United Federation of Planets would be nice too
I don't know if I'd want to live in the UFP. Post-dominion war (and during it) it gets a bit dystopian. And of the time periods depicted, there's only a pretty narrow window where they're not at war with at least one major power. Specifically after the khitomer accords are signed and prior to the encounter with the Borg. So, really only a 70 year period. And even then, there's a cold war with the Romulans.
That galaxy is largely hostile and while a lot of UFP citizens are able to live in blissful ignorance, I'm not sure I'd enjoy that.
I’m on season 6 of DS9. I remember thinking about how fucked up it was that Sisko
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler gases that maquis planet, but now he’s just falsified evidence to pull the romulans into the war (and Garak had a senator killed, to really sell it). The worst part is that the federation approved of the forgery. :::
Yeah he went full on evil that season
I'm excited to see if I can channel. Of course, the reds will try to kill me if I succeed... but still worth a shot!
I'll be allright, it is just a small silly ring that I have to throw in a burning mountain. That is surrounded by orcs and other evil beings. While the ring is fighting against me and giving me supernatural powers.
Oh and no pressure, only the whole world will be destroyed and everything I know and love will be gone too.
Yea, Lord of the rings. I'm screwed...
You're way more likely to be a random civilian pressed into service to defend Minas Tirith, if that helps.
I'm dead anyway. But thanks, it may increase my odds slightly.
…NieR.
So either I die rather quickly or live in a world of lasting sorrow and decay with short bursts of beauty doomed to fail. But at least I can be philosophical about it, right?
Glorious android ass.
Perhaps the last thing I see before it slices me into pieces.
That or a Shade, a Replicant, a Machine, a Dragon, a Logic Virus, Kainé…
Outer Wilds. I'd have all of 22 minutes to enjoy it before death.
But you may have those 22 minutes, forever, if you are lucky.
That's not lucky at all.
As eventually those 22 minutes have to end in order for something new to happen with a hope for a better universe that you do not see but but witness its creation if you are lucky.
If you are lucky your actions lead to others' happiness and fulfilling lives. Not keep yourself around needlessly extended.
Geoguessr.
Ok.
Is it fictional tho?
Dementia simulator
Humm, I have a few universes that I like....
Deathworlders universe:
Aliens exist and they are terrified of us, we calm them down a bit, one faction destroy earth, but we have allies and two other planets, alien medicine that make us healthy and cool tech, sounds allright...
D'ni universe:
Magic is semi real, we can write links to physical worlds and travel there instantly, sounds bloody brilliant...
Forza Horizon:
Immortality, fast cars that never breaks down or need fuel, several big houses vast garages, yeah, I can see that being fun....
Fallout universe: Nuclear post-apocalyptic wasteland or cramped insane vaults, nah, hard pass.
Downright feudal at the end, though! Just gotta hope you're a rich/lucky landowner.
The Matrix.
Pretty fucking screwed.
Huh, nothing changed...
Weird, I guess.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
It very much depends.
Ss14. Shit
Space Station 14? The fact you specified 14 instead of 13 gives me hope that it's making good progress.
It's pretty good, check it out on steam!
If I ever had to work on a station with a singularity or a tesla I think I'd just fuck off to Frontier space and start up a frezon business.
The Pokemon fan is probably thinking about catching Ditto and making it turn into every person they find attractive.
If it's a furry they might go for Vaporeon.
Fallout is shitty but doable, I like the idea of rebuilding society and I like the technology.
That said, with he new show lore, if VaultTec is able to just keep nuking things that sprout up then ig it's pointless.
I'd probably be all right, Tyria looks nice this time of year. At least as long as the Charr play along.
You're now in the middle of the brand.
Would I be a slugcat or an ancient? Rain World
Well, depending on where and when in the story I land in Eorzea, it can be a nice and boring existence, one where I get to see all the famous heroes of the age from all across the realm, or a painfully short one.
certain periods of time in Middle Earth could suck a little bit. I'd love to hang out in valinor during the years of the trees tho.
You would still be human, so you wouldn't be allowed there. Númenor before Sauron's shenanigans would be awesome though.
Good if you want to buy 4MB of stolen ram, however.
hello fellow Eagleland citizens of 202X, it sure is nice to be an adult who can drink espresso in this fine country free of evil space aliens
Do I have the force or am I just some average pleb getting fucked by the empire
You can have both.
Everyone looks partially cartoony and keep talking about a vault.
And the damn neighbour has some weird mutant dog.
Scrappy is goddamn precious
Oof i like Rogue likes.
In some religions that subscribe to the belief of reincarnation, life is a roguelike.
Yes, a true Rogue-like where every run is fresh.
Springfield here I come
Just don't kick a giant mouse in the butt and you'll be fine. Otherwise, you'll become a political prisoner.
Personal spaceships commonly available?
Lots of unusual, but generally friendly aliens?
The Space Dandyverse wouldn't be too horrid.
Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West, so I would do okay, depending on the tribe I lived with and staying away from killer robots.
People on Archer seem extra durable. As long as the main cast stays far far away should be great.
It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the tales of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up your hearts.
Well, as far as Path of Exile 2 is concerned, I'll try to become someone's pet. Pets don't fight, are invincible and all they do is follow their owner wherever they go. I'd be able to see wondrous landscapes and all kinds of monsters without a care in the world.
I would love to know what happened with the person(s) who played Elon’s PoE account. Like great I need the DOGE expose and the revolution, but can I get an in-depth Wired piece on this one particular person or group first please
To be honest, I am not interested in those stories.
I'll welcome living in 40K universe to this bullshit.
You're technically already in the 40k universe, just really far back in the past
How long until America is ruled by a corpse on a golden throne, though?
I mean… he could order a golden throne at any point and it wouldn’t surprise me
Killing vermins could be fun......
Can I suddenly be a Star Trek fan?
Mass effect... As long as I'm not on a far away colony close to Terminus / Batarians and the reapers aren't there yet I'm good 👌
Mass effect too. Kinda scary with all the collectors, man eating bugs 🥲
For the Alliance 💪
Unless you get plopped down in strathhome just before the plague
At the moment, that would either be Bofuri or Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear. As long as I don't make an enemy out of the indestructible girl in black armor/a bear costume, I should be just fine.
Life in the Discworld wouldn't be so bad, most people seem to have an OK life.
I'll just pick a light-hearted high fantasy setting with casual reality warping...
Gotta be one of those
Oof. After the bombshell in the most recent Bobiverse book, sort of fucked in a few thousand years. But I’m sure the Bobs will sort it out.
I haven't read it yet, but I want to get to it soon
It’s a bit silly, but such a fun series. Wish I could live in that world.
Project Moon universe.
Either I'm out in whatever hellscape the outskirts look like or I'm dying in the backstreets.
It'd be fine. I'm a Star Wars geek.
Your destination... Alderan ...
Good. I've got nothing else to worry about. :)
Fear and hunger; At least let me be one of the atrocities serving one of the mad gods
Half-Life
Actually just fully fucked.
Researcher on project Async.... I hope.
It'll be all fun and games until I go hollow
I'm going to search for the beached Lookfar. If memory serves, it was abandoned on Selidor, just past the Dragons' Run
Joke's on you. I'm into the grim darkness of eternal war! Lol
Nice invincible verse
Where do I get my Gundam?
Good thing I don't really have a favorite fictional universe... that I did not make myself...
Can I still play OSRS Mobile if I'm stuck in RuneScape? If not, I'm screwed
Well, it is none of these lame ones posted.