Starfield. Its boring as fuk, and that's what you want. Nice quiet life. With spaceships.
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I would have said Adventure Time but someone else got there first. I'm only about a third in but maybe Persona (5)? For the music alone πΆ
Sigil, FR
The one where common sense is actually common.
Stardew Valley. Theres some fucked up shit beneath the surface, but you can financially support yourself just from taking nature walks. thats all i want.
Animal Crossing for me.
Idiocracy, at least Kamacho is kompetent
Wheel of time
Tron, throw me in the computer.
Discworld.
The Cosmere, specifically post-Catacendre Scadrial. The vibe is just so cool between Wild West and 1930s New York mixed with amazing powers that anyone can use given the right tech.
I mean, practically? Orionβs Arm.
Taking care of humanity is literally trivial.
Thereβs a big soup of civilizations and frontiers and mysteries to explore. Some danger to keep it interesting. Infinite and transcendental pleasure to experience, entire simulated worlds you can try.
But itβs grounded in real physics, so you donβt get that big can of worms from living in a universe that isnβtβ¦ self-consistent.
In other words, its as sci-fi as you can possibly get without things getting timey wimey.
But my adventure-yearning-heart says Avatar.
Bending is just so freaking cool. Itβs the best magic system ever.
Honestly, my own, but it would depend heavily on exactly where.
In the city of Dragonwatch on New Earth, humans, chimera, and xenos live together in something resembling the modern world but cooler. There's public transit and healthcare that actually work. Augmetics are common, but not required. Nobody uses the terms 'cis' or 'trans' because changing your gender just isn't a big deal. And because I'm writing smut, there's plenty of opportunities for vigorous entertainment.
Also, no cell service. I'm bringing back phone booths. If you want a network connection outside your house, you go to a terminal and plug your slate into the network. None of this instant communication that's ruining fiction these days.
I haven't actually written much, and I'm committed to do the actual writing part without ai, and it's going very slowly (was really proud of doing 15k words in two weeks and since then I've done 100 words in six months). I do use ai for compiling my notes and exploring ideas, and for other uses outside this project. That's going to be an automatic no from some people and I respect that. If it helps, 99% of the major character and locations and other important details I had established before generative ai was a thing. I've been dicking around with this setting since 2001, and have only started using ai a couple years ago.
Anyway, external validation helps the creative process, if my setting sounds interesting I'd love suggestions for communities where I can post chapters when I eventually have something worth sharing.
An alternate universe where the shooter didn't miss.
Star Trek.
TNG era Star Trek; not modern Trek.
This is the one. A post scarcity society where you can do just about anything you want as long as you have a certain minimum proficiency. Plus, almost all the life threatening shenanigans happen way out in space far enough away it's just part of the background news.
Culture
100%. You can look however you want, live as long as you want, and pretty much do anything from going on wild space adventures to just chilling in complete safety with every want/need taken care of.
Very few of them, which annoys me. 90% of fictional universes are dystopian, on the edge of collapse, and only savable by a smaller group.
The Trails games kind of stood out for having a world thatβs usually on pace, and isnβt even aware of whatever sinister plot your detectives/adventurers are looking into.
For a second I thought you said the 'Trials' games. I guess living in a world of cartoonish side scrolling motocross wouldn't be so bad
Not even Trials is safe from dystopian sci-fi. The series has some gnarly entries lol
As awful as Rimworld can be, there's also some amazing tech that would be great to have. Sure 99% of the planet is some combination of nuclear wasteland, cannibals, Eldritch terrors, ravenous marauding insect swarms and capricious machine god puppets, but my colony is a paradise bastion where each colonist is perfected, given only the taks that fulfill them most, and catered to every need and desire in utmost luxury. Except body purists, but fuck those guys some people simply refuse to be happy.
You sound like the kind of person that would be kidnapped, have your legs and arms cut off, your eyes removed, the unnecessary organs harvested for sale, only to finally be given over to the tax collector as dues on their next visit.
Sounds like body purist propaganda. Of course all those inferior flesh bits will get removed and replaced with superior bionics. Kidnappers? Tax collectors? If you meet a stranger on the road, they're probably just going to eat you and you should shoot first just in case.
I feel like I'd totally die of an infected papercut or get mauled by a pack of rampaging Labradors on the Rim, but in the meantime I volunteer for crafting/ research duty!
In my colony, it would never come to that. The medical trainee on duty would amputate and fix you up with a badass bionic spine, kidney and arm the minute the paper cut occurred and probably implant you with some custom genetics while you're under. But if it did get that far, possibly due to a surgical mishap, we always keep the medicine cabinet stocked with resurrection nanites just in case. As for the Labradors, what's left of them after the minefield and auto guns, every citizen over the age of 13 is armed at all times with their preferred weapon type and a suit of power armor, so you and your neighbors and the security robots and your faithful alpha thrumbo will certainly be able to handle it.
Star Trek
As someone with some profound ADHD that has affected my career, I have to say, I would be fucking amazing in the Star Trek universe. For someone with an interest-based focus ability, a society where the standard of social merit is, "do cool shit you're passionate about," would be Heaven. I can do things. I can do amazing things. When I'm passionate about something, I can move mountains. But stick me in a cubicle and ask me to do the same grind day in, day out? I really struggle. Some people say they would just disappear forever into the Holodeck. But for me, the coolest thing about the Star Trek universe is that regular people can simply do whatever they're most passionate about, without concern for monetary profit.
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Easy. A post-scarcity world sounds amazing. Never have to really worry about the necessities, just explore whatever art or joy you have.
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Frankly, any cozy-game universe would probably be perfect. Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, Disney Dreamlight Valley. Even if I end up bored of all the happiness, I can go villain then later have a redemption arc.
Whichever universe food commercials take place in. Soon as someone says their hungry the most beautiful food appears instantly but somehow no one ever gets fat. I know that IRL those commercials use paint, woodchips and all sort of nasty stuff to get it looking like that, but IN UNIVERSE everyone loves it. I wanna live there.
Culture. No question.
Wouldn't mind a lift, if the good ship Arbitrary is listening.
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Brazzers
The world of Shrek has tons of cool magic in it, sign me up! But also most cartoon/animation worlds, where you can survive all sorts of physical shenanigans with no injuries or consequences.
So long as it's post-show, I would have basically zero qualms living in the Summer Camp Island universe. No spoilers as to why.
I also wouldn't mind living in the Legend of Hei universe if I was a spirit. The caveat being I am some animal spirit. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't like it as much. Being a human looking spirit or like that one weird looking blue guy whose cave was turned into a tourist attraction would be kinda mid for me.
Then again, I see no reason why I wouldn't love to be in a peaceful enough looking universe as Angry Beavers ( but only if I were a beaver or otter ).
Similar thing with Tiny Toon Adventures. Seems like a fine enough fictional world to live in and, if I'm lucky, I think I'd fit in at Acme Looniversity, if I was an animal toon young enough to attend instead of being my current age. Would be kinda creepy for me to be mg current age and attending that school as a student...
Although, I think I wouldn't mind being my main Toontown character... so long as tge world isn't as small as the game is. If it were an actual fleshed out world, you bet your jellybeans that I would be off fighting cogs!
Yeah, so I am gonna stop here because there are a TON of different cartoon/cartoon adjacent/animated universes I wouldn't mind living in.
Seinaru Otome to Himegoto wo
I'll take my chances of death by snu snu.
Futurama. People go to the moon for donuts, there are fast food joints even in the furthest reaches of space, you can go any part of the world in less than a second, most, keyword MOST, robots cater to your needs, you can live literally anywhere, and silly, adventurous stuff happen all the time.
Also, the various lengths of wire.
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most of them seem to require an advanced alien/ being to save "humanity"
Adventure Time. Wild crazy adventures, all sorts of interesting creatures. Artisan pickles. You would never be bored.
Was about to reply the same but thought I'd check if anyone else said it. +1!
Less well known but,
Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers or
The nine worlds of The Hands of the Emporer by Victoria Goddard
nice people doing the best they can, in a world that isn't like our current dystopia
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Just like Mona Lisa, a manga (soon to be anime) where people are born genderless and at 12, they choose which puberty to go through.
Yes I'm trans, why do you ask? π And this whole manga's concept is making me really dysphoric π
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