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Topic Started: Dec 5 2007, 06:29 PM (35,981 Views)
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I don't do fantasy. I always though the live on for millennial time thing was just stupid. I write Sci-Fi.
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Jack
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Heh. That's 'cause you don't know his backstory. I think you'd appreciate it a bit more if you understood.
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Probably. I just write normal lifespans. More interesting to see what we can do (from a writing point) now are rather than different races and capabilities and such. None of my characters can pull a rabbit out of a hat - they're stuck with human limit. I can only do so much; and that makes it interesting. :)
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Jack
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Heh. He's human, he just has...a unique problem. No, it's not a magically-extended lifetime. It's simply a result of bouncing back and forth between times and such. ;)
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Apr 6 2010, 04:11 AM
I don't do fantasy. I always though the live on for millennial time thing was just stupid. I write Sci-Fi.
Sci-Fi provides plenty of ways to let people live indefinitely.
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Yeah, but not as much.. Or at least, what I know as Sci Fi. It must involve SCIENCE to live for long time - rather than <waves hand> Elves.
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Well, you can replace body parts, or use nanites to keep the body in prime condition, or even upload the mind to a computer. You could even treat the whole universe as a computer simulation, and someone would "only" have to figure out how to flip the mortality bit to life forever :P

"Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
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But writing about such technology is a pain because then you have everyone on your case about "how this could never be true" or "why this is wrong"...I prefer to keep it limited to technologies that I know are in development. For instance, my Rangers equipment: it's based on the development of the Land Warrior light infantry system in development by the US DoD (Department of Defense) in conjunction with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).
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I prefer slightly advanced settings. Plausible ones in my eyes. Such as spacefilght, but not warpdrive or phasers for weapons. Weapon we might actually HAVE I like. It's more about the situation than the environment, to me, that gives a story merit. That's why book that are half description used to drive me nuts (and then I just stopped reading stories and traded for theology).
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Apr 6 2010, 04:36 AM
Heh. He's human, he just has...a unique problem. No, it's not a magically-extended lifetime. It's simply a result of bouncing back and forth between times and such. ;)
Heh, sounds like one of my characters, only instead of traveling through time, she travels different dimensions. Unfotunately, what with them having completely different and unrelated time streams, it started messing her body's time up so much, she eventually had to freeze that (also called plot device cause I didn't want to be bothered creating more than one character :sweatdrop: ).
Most of my characters have normal life spans (or slightly longer if they have magic sometimes). Though there is the one Elven Druid who lives as long as the forest she's tied to lives- she's hard to write because of her completely not-human way of thinking. :ermm:
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I prefer slightly advanced settings. Plausible ones in my eyes. Such as spacefilght, but not warpdrive or phasers for weapons. Weapon we might actually HAVE I like. It's more about the situation than the environment, to me, that gives a story merit. That's why book that are half description used to drive me nuts (and then I just stopped reading stories and traded for theology).
Well, that's what I do. I do SLIGHTLY advanced settings; i.e., 20-50 years in the future technology-wise, not the hundreds of years that sci-fi usually does to enable stuff like space travel and directed-energy weapons (though I must admit, the technology and backstory behind Halo is the most plausible sci-fi I've read).

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Heh, sounds like one of my characters, only instead of traveling through time, she travels different dimensions. Unfotunately [sic], what with them having completely different and unrelated time streams, it started messing her body's time up so much, she eventually had to freeze that (also called plot device cause I didn't want to be bothered creating more than one character).
That's somewhat what I had my character doing - except he bounces through stories, not dimensions. It's a little complicated.
Edited by Jack, Apr 6 2010, 02:57 PM.
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Apr 6 2010, 03:17 AM
I don't do glorious deaths. I prefer having them alive. So much more fun to play with that way.
i have killed some of my characters...and then i revive them so they can suffer another day...such a great reflection of my own life :lol:
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Not to mention sadistic. :lol:
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Many of my supporting characters are like that. I have a tendency toward imagining epic battles, part of the weight of it being that LOTS of people die (some in truly heroic ways). ANd then it will often be the (essentially) same group of characters working with me in the next huge conflict.

So I like knowing I can trust the guys to my right and my left, ok?

Granted, then there's moments like when as my bounty hunter StarWars RPG character I figured I was suiciding... Then the dice went all in my favor, and I walked out unscathed. (one of my most epic moments of all time, that one)
Edited by TheDeepDark, Apr 7 2010, 03:03 AM.
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I prefer trusting in a good ol' ADM missile.
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