By universe, I'm talking a TV show, Anime, Graphical Novel, Cartoon, Movie, a book, heck even time travel.

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[–] 145 points 7 months ago (20 children)
  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I want to live in high tech but ethical peace and comfort

    Janeway: "Hold my beer"

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Hm... Maybe ... but I'm also shopping around for a universe that includes immortality.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    The Culture has all that, plus furries.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    And loads of sex IIRC

    Edit: I was thinking a different Culture, from the book "remember Phlebas".

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Ok now I need to watch culture, what is this show?!?

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    It's a book series. It's a semi utopia based sci-fi. The culture is an amalgam of species (including human). It's run by "minds" hyper powerful AIs. Humanity is akin to pet dogs. A mix of pampered and useful.

    Basically, humans live in a life of luxury and choice. Changing genders, or even species is very common. Immortality is mostly a logistics and boredom issue.

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  • [+] 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think playing with the body and especially the mind (through eugenics, genetic engineering, or any other means) is as big of a nono in the Star Trek universe as fascism, due to trauma from the eugenic wars (you know, when Khan and his ilk fought baseline humanity).

    Body modification enthusiasts, transhumanists, furries, and anything like that are probably treated with fear, loathing, and disgust.

    Heck, they won't even treat baldness despite being perfectly able to fix it if they wanted to, and they don't seem to have made any effort to cure aging, despite being able to cure almost everything else; their life expectancy isn't much higher than ours, when it should be much higher.

    You want that kind of thing try Iain M. Banks' Culture series. Even more freedom to live your life however you want, the only limits to body modification are your imagination and some of the laws of physics (much less than in Start Trek, though), and people live to a healthy 300 or so, throw a party, and die in their own terms because they're done, or curious. Or do not, no one is forcing them, they can keep on living if they want to.

    Heck, one character used to have about sixty penises all over his body, just for fun. No more, though, even with four hearts at that point it was starting to get difficult to maintain an erection at the same time in all of them.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Human life spans do increase substantially (although not to 300) in the Star Trek universe. From Memory Alpha:

    The average Human life span had gradually increased during their history. The average life spans during the 22nd century was about one hundred years. (ENT: "Observer Effect") This average age was still roughly the same during the 2250, but had risen to 120 by the mid-24th century. (citation needed • edit) However, at some point in history the average life span for Humans was only 35, and by 1999 it had become higher than a millennium earlier. (ENT: "Similitude"; VOY: "11:59") Leonard McCoy had by 2364 reached the age of 137. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint")

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    why not make people taller/shorter, wider/narrower hips, bigger/smaller boobs, more feminine/masculine face, horns, pointed or alien ears, new sense organs, extra arms, etc.

    There was a kerfuffle about Patrick Stewart being bald in the beginning production of TNG but they eventually realized that in their utopian future, no one would care if he was bald or not. Same with gender, body shape, sexual orientation, etc. Everyone is accepted in Star Trek just as they are so there's not much need for changes

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    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.

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    [–] 40 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Already ugly as shit. No downsides.

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  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Pleeeeaase put me in Stardew Valley

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I dunno man, my farmer works from 6h to 23h with barely a break in between, only eats when he absolutely needs to or is going to fight ghosts alone to get sprinklers to ease the work just a little, and maybe has a couple days of talking to people or going to the arcade per season lol.

    Relaxing for the player, maybe not for the farmer themselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    from 6h to 23h

    Those are rookie numbers. In the original ‘Harvest Moon’, the day was time-limited, but the night wasn't. So I had my guy chop stumps for hours in darkness, until the exhaustion mechanic kicked in and had him fall down from any attempt at effort.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Animal Crossing. Just seems like a nice relaxing life.

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  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    You now owe a raccoon 7 trillion leaves

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    But he doesn't charge interest and sets no deadlines for payments. All he asks is that you pay off your existing loan before he'll give you another one.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    You’ve touched a bush. You now owe a raccoon 8 trillion leaves.

    It can still get to be more than a little aggravating being in forever debt

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Man, I don't know your approach, but I have all of the upgrades, I've paid off all loans, and I have 18 million bells in the bank.

    Starting out in debt kind of sucks, but it's usually possible to pay off your first mortgage in a week. I wish the real world were even remotely like that.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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).

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    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    in a world with still very few people to compete with

    My anthropology knowledge is pretty paltry, but isn't that the opposite of how humanity spread? One slow expansion at a time, as a tribe grew too big and then split and settled in the next valley over seems to be more in line with how much of it worked. Some expansions may have been quite different, no doubt, like oceania or the east asia -> north america -> south america journey, but on average you would be relatively near other human tribes, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I don't really know, the way I always understood it is that they were mostly nomadic people following whatever they hunted. Either way it is not that different, instead of settling in the next valley, those that split were moving around a bit further away.

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  • [–] 51 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I'd probably go with Star Trek

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Or "why you should specify where and when."

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Wind in the Willows. How I long to live a lazy life along the Thames with Water Rat and Mole.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I'd choose a Ship's Mind from the Culture Series by Ian M. Banks, specifically a GCU class vessel.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Fuck, Id be okay with any random Culture citizen

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    [–] 19 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    But you could be a Space Marine and die a horrible death in battle, or an Imperial Guardsman and die a horrible death in battle. Or a civilian on a hive world and live in a repressive fascist theocratic hellhole, then die a horrible death when Chaos or xenos attack.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Bein' Orkses is pretty fun, silly humies jus go "pease don krump me mista ork sir" and den you smash em anyway else dey start blubbin.

    Orkses jus go smashin an krumpin an shottin loadsa dakka at fings an sumtimes you gets smashed yerself but its all good in da waaaaaaagh.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Really torn between My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Pokemon.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The My Little Pony world seems idyllic if you are not a protagonist or subordinate of the designated evildoers. Pokémon residents, on the other hand, experience crime, disease, capitalism, and forced cockfights whenever you happen to walk in front of someone.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Disease is still a thing in the MLP universe. And so are crime and capitalism, though to a much lesser extent, usually.

    The forced cockfights are a wild thing, sure, but they're never (or at least very rarely) permanently injured from it, and (at least supposedly) a lot of them seem to enjoy doing it. And going by the anime style, battles don't happen every time you walk in front of someone -- it's usually more of an arranged challenge that you're free to decline if you're busy or just don't feel like it.

    Plus, on the disease front, in the Pokemon universe, you could get injured or diseased, sure, but there are a lot of things in that universe with mysterious healing powers that might be able to fix you up -- not just pokemon with healing moves (which sometimes seem to also work on humans?), but also just a lot of random semi-mystical places and objects that have healing properties. Then again, MLP probably has some pretty good medicine too, with all the magic and potions and whatnot.


    I'm starting to think the biggest differentiator here is the danger factor. In the Pokemon world, even young children can freely explore pretty much wherever they want, without needing to worry too much about their safety. But in the MLP universe, the edges of the map are full of very dangerous places that only the most hardened adventurers would ever dare to visit, with very dangerous and hostile creatures in them. Once you get outside the boundaries of Equestria proper, that world is a very dangerous place.

    Oh, and Pokemon has much more prolific and advanced technology... If I'd like to continue watching movies and chatting on the internet, Pokemon is the way to go.


    Wait a minute... I've been going about this all wrong!

    I'm an author! I could make a fictional universe, perfectly tailored to exactly what I want! Pokemon/MLP/furry crossover with immortality, no significant danger or disease, transformation at will, rampant horniness, and Fully Automated Luxury Communism! Let's fucking go!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I’m an author! I could make a fictional universe, perfectly tailored to exactly what I want! Pokemon/MLP/furry crossover with immortality, no significant danger or disease, transformation at will, rampant horniness, and Fully Automated Luxury Communism! Let’s fucking go!

    And the wheel of time turns again...

    On the topic of pokemon, between the various games and the anime, there are a lot of places that are just plain awesome, and I seem to recall plenty of people that live in the wilderness perfectly happily. It seems like a paradise world, with enough space for everyone to have wilderness if they want it, city life if they want that, etc.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Generic isekai with magic. Should be fun

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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...

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 7 months ago

    I'll go first. I'm stuck between Futurama, Jonny Quest/Venture Bros and even old school Hawaii 5 - 0.

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The lack of porn/hentai universes in the comments is refreshing.

    ...That being said...

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I'm shocked nobody has brought this up yet.

    I would absolutely be a town citizen in Phineas and Ferb. Ideally the guy who always has a new fun project and the side effects from the kids just drop everything in his lap.

    Every benefit of a cartoon world with almost none of the cartoon downsides. Nearly Culture level tech after a few years once the boys grow up to by adults and actually start taking things "seriously" as shown in episodes where they go to the near my future.

    The worst people in the world are so bad at being bad that they are consistently kept in check and even rehabilitated by trained animals.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    star trek next generation 100%. I can't think of anything that would be better than that.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    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.

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