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Like you're in a slasher but pretend you're in a hallmark.

Who doesn't like Lucy?

Vanilla Sky

No, it's "please give me your candy" (with the implied threat). Vs "give me your candy or I'll smash".

(Also, I reworded the post because you people are so literal and easily distracted.)

Replace death with any heavy executive-issued penalty. The point here is the polite-implicit vs the impolite-explicit. (Ok i reworded it)

You should say, "please reword to be an open ended question or I'm destroying your post". Don't make merely implicit threats. It's spineless and our respect for you diminishes.

Lose the "please" too. It's meaningless.

Most of us don't know that you are the moderator or that your polite requests are actually demands backed by executive threat. Best to make it clear.

Every time I eat a mcD cheeseburger I get a tummy ache. That shit is concrete.

I figure he's just a smart guy with a radically alien perspective. There's still some useful overlap, surely.

I dig pink Floyd deeply.

Presently listening to obscured by clouds a lot

And therefore..... this is an example of the dreams of youth definitely not being the regrets of maturity.

Popular scifi, written to appeal to the majority, for tv and movies, is actually only one special kind of scifi. And the majority isn't known for its depth or taste.

I'm not saying that there aren't exceptions, but ya, that's how it is.

There's a whole world of written scifi where the point is basically to show you something strange. Ideas so weird that scifi is the only way to convey them.

Here's some free, online scifi by good authors. Your mind will be blown.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

https://qntm.org/structure

https://library.gift/fiction/9F6810564C853BD3EA7223E4AB1FA575

Is science fiction enough for talking about politics?