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[–] 61 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Japanese sci-fi:

American sci-fi:

French sci-fi:

British sci-fi:

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  • [–] [S] 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I love that you chose an American recurring character from the most popular British sci-fi of all time as your example of American sci-fi 😄

    Also, Captain Jack is more of an omnisexual perpetually single guy lol

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  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, just being a bit cheeky. Was trying to think of exceptions to the rule while playing off the premise.

    The "Japanese" example is an American movie about two robots in space yearning for each other and for mankind's return to Earth.

    The "American" example is a British series with a recurring (albeit American coded) character who interacts with aliens and engages in a good bit of polyamory.

    The "French" example is a Japanese series about a horny bounty hunting crew exploring a galaxy full of breasts.

    And the "British" example is probably the most reaching since it's more realistic fiction than sci-fi, but it's a newer French movie about a nuclear attack that the US is culpable of escalating.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    German sci-fi: The future is an intricate clockwork of super-efficient bureaucracy. The threat is something that destroys this blissful utopia.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    British Sci-Fi: A normal bloke in a tracksuit is the last human in the universe and while looking for Pot Noodles visits various planets, all of which look like a quarry in Hampshire. He’s being hunted by cyborgs in black bondage gear who report to a talking budgie.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Nah, everyone is dead because captain Holister gave very important job (fixing the radiation shields) to Rimmer knowing that he is incopitent. Not because of america.

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    My favourite polygamous aliens are the denobulans from Star Trek: Enterprise. I wanna know more about their culture. Each man has three wives and each woman has three husbands, and they're all allowed to have sex outside their marriages too. I like to imagine most of them are bisexual too and frequently hook up with their spouses other spouses

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Did the British write Fallout?

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Feargus Urquhart (leader of Black Isle Studios* who made the first two, then founder and CEO of Obsidian, who made New Vegas) is a dual citizen of Scotland and the US who was born and raised in Scotland, so that's a strong "partly" in my book 😁

    *which was in fact named after the Scottish peninsula where his family came from

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    No way. In Fallout it was China that dropped the first bomb. Or communists that infiltrated the government that made the US drop the first bomb.

    Or maybe it was Zetans. Or The Republic of Greg.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Russian sci-fi: we are found by horrors beyond our comprehension. Someone tries to trade entry to the Apocalypse in exchange for some sausages. Half of the sausages are used to bribe the guard so he doesn't do his job of shooting any civilian that approaches the Horror Pit.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Honestly, as an unfortunate American, that last one is quite fair, especially over the last ten years.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    ”Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”

    ”Let me answer your question with a question: have you seen the movie Mad Max?”

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I really am convinced that's where we're headed.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Its a race between mm and waterworld, or a combination of the two

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The French and the Brits both have it right.

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