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This game has ansibles comm relays that violate our current understanding of physics vis a vis speed of communication over light years or time dilation for black holes. It's a game, realism isn't intention. Verisimilitude is. C'est la vie.
Do they violate it or are they beyond our understanding? There's a difference.
No there isn't. Unless and until a new UNIFIED theory that better explains physics with regard to
more of its entirety, doing anything beyond our understanding of physics or violating physics are the same thing. Stop equivocating (unless it's for rhetorical purposes, that's ok), but please avoid false dichotomies... we're still mostly stuck with general and special relativity, with a side helping of quantum mechanics. But hey, at least they finally found the Higgs!
This game has ansibles comm relays that violate our current understanding of physics vis a vis speed of communication over light years or time dilation for black holes. It's a game, realism isn't intention. Verisimilitude is. C'est la vie.
The player doesn't go near black holes regularly. However a pulse laser is potentially fired every second.
And I don't get why verisimilitude must exclude realism. That's warped logic.
Not to be a ****, but have you even bothered to google the definition of verisimilitude? It basically translate to "truth-like," not truth... so it means similar to reality, but not actually reality! Realism literally requires the real. I feel like I should have made the "desert of the real" reference for Baudrillard, but Matrix kinda stole that, then maybe Matrix just recently prolly got ruined further (I'll give the movie a chance when it hits streaming services, not gonna pay for that nonsense. At least Spiderman is doing something new(ish), but didn't run the old thing into the ground!).
Your whole argument is based on an assumption and shouldn't have escalated this far in the first place. Was it proven that being verisimilar is the intention of this or any game? This is not a fact. Mario Kart example.
Look, maybe you're ESL (if so, then you get a pass), or like 12 maybe (less of a pass, but still a pass). But since you failed to elaborate upon your Mario Kart example, Mario kart actually has significant verisimilitude, it has literal physics (pretty good system too, but that is arguably required since it's basically a racing game). But yes, it also has shells and stuff. And yes, of course my argument is based on certain assumptions, since you keep failing to elaborate (I guess in an attempt to appear inscrutable, unless you ESL or 12), but you just end up sounding ignorant... either cogently present your side or sit down and shut up. But finally your last post is starting to do the former!
Other than that lasers in SS are currently not real-like, hence not verisimilar, so touché. This is what I was trying to express. Instead of trying to dox someone for self-interest, focus on the matter at hand.
Dox? Did I post your home address on the public internet, and/or try to convince one of your haters to SWAT you? This is rising to some defamatory level BS, but again, thanks for putting words in my mouth. And I am focussed on the matter at hand, I'm just beginning to think you keep changing the matter when someone points out flaws in your logic to avoid admitting they right and maybe you ain't.
I always look up unknown words in hope of learning something new but here's a tip: not everyone will, so being plain is in your interest, not anyone else's. Using latin words needlessly may result in one of the following:
- people misunderstand what you want to say
- people don't bother to understand you and you get ignored
However, realism was probably not the right word there, I give you that. Would it be realisticism? I dunno, a native tell me.
Verisimilitude is an English word with a Latin root. And if you're incapable of looking up a word you don't know in the dictionary, clearly this argument is moot because I was under the impression that both sides bothered to actually self-improve (and that English was your first language, so you not relying on a translated dictionary). But based on the wording of "a native tell me" I'm beginning to suspect the root of this issue is mistranslation, and the fact that everyone on this forum has to assume everyone else speaks English decently, since it is
literally in English. Look, if you ESL, just open with that so peeps know English isn't your first language. The point I've been trying to make is that realism/realistic means
exactly like reality vs. verisimilitude means similar to reality. So realism is Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator or The Maltese Falcon, while verisimilitude is Game of Thrones, Noah, or the MCU... but sci-fi usually isn't perfectly realistic since it's usually set in the future (and/or set in present but with differences)! But doesn't have to be sci-fi, magical realism is another genre.