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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.
You could also go with Blue's Clues, cause they can hop not just into books, but also pictures, paintings, and each others' dreams/reveries.
So, do Playboys count as books?
Pleeeeaase put me in Stardew Valley
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.
Yeah, but it's only a couple of years, starting with nothing but a dilapidated farm, until that farmer becomes a millionaire. I'd take it.
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.
Yes, started a new farm a week ago after years without playing, give me that sweet chill farmer life!
Animal Crossing. Just seems like a nice relaxing life.
You now owe a raccoon 7 trillion leaves
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.
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
So, normal life except the air is clean and sometimes people give you fruit.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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?
I'd probably go with Star Trek
Wind in the Willows. How I long to live a lazy life along the Thames with Water Rat and Mole.
I'd choose a Ship's Mind from the Culture Series by Ian M. Banks, specifically a GCU class vessel.
Fuck, Id be okay with any random Culture citizen
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.
Warhammer 40k
-Nobody
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.
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.
Really torn between My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Pokemon.
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.
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!
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.
Yeah, no offense to Pokemon, loved the games, but definitely one of those situations where the vibes are STARK contrast to what would be the lived experience.
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'll go first. I'm stuck between Futurama, Jonny Quest/Venture Bros and even old school Hawaii 5 - 0.
The lack of porn/hentai universes in the comments is refreshing.
...That being said...
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.
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.
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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