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”
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.
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.
Maybe, if this includes traveling to the future where the shoes mostly take place. Right now, in their universe, things aren’t exactly going too well.
Warhammer 40k
-Nobody
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.”
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
The lack of porn/hentai universes in the comments is refreshing.
…That being said…
Everything can be porn.
Is there a porn universe where I also get to be a cool space man?
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.
Animal Crossing. Just seems like a nice relaxing life.
You now owe a raccoon 7 trillion leaves
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.
The Doctor
The TARDIS 💙
So, watching your entire people be destroyed, and then watching people all around you who you get close to often meet horrible, depressing fates, and eventually having to spend 4 and a half billion years in a time loop punching through a diamond wall with your bare hands?
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.
I’d choose a Ship’s Mind from the Culture Series by Ian M. Banks, specifically a GCU class vessel.
I also came in here to choose the Culture, although I’d be a human. Drug glands FTW.
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.
Generic isekai with magic. Should be fun
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.
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.
This, basically
star trek next generation 100%. I can’t think of anything that would be better than that.
Conundrum: STNG overlaps in time with DS9 (even if they didn’t, they’re both part of the same “universe” as posed by the question), so by selecting the universe of STNG, does that mean having to live through the Dominion war? Not sure that makes it a deal breaker either way but definitely takes some of the utopian edge off.
My thought process as well.
TNG? Hell no, it was the end of a Golden Era. SNW, all the way. By the time you get old enough that missions of science and explorations are thrown to the side in exchange for war, you’re 100 and living in some retirement holodeck.
I guess real nice would be to have the star trek online universe where I like goto starfleet and become a captain like out of the academy and am allowed to do whatever I want with my vast fleet of ships n junk. I took STNG because that was the holodeck and replicators and until the borg invasion it was relatively peaceful and even that did not last long.
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
The Elder Scrolls, because I know the duplication glitches and the restoration portion loop. I shall become a vampire Emperor, personally slaughter every fucking Thalmor, and use my magical staff to turn my enemies into sweet rolls and then fucking eat them.
