Tropes exist because they work and who cares what the money is called
Anon has seen it all before
Submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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LazyBaby@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
charokol@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The money can’t be any real earth currency, and making up something like florbs would also make people roll their eyes. Credits is fine
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 2 months ago
Exactly. You've got limited time to tell your story in a movie, so establishing a fake currency that nobody except hardcore numistatics nerds will care about is kinda pointless when everyone already understands that credits = future money.
And as you say using a real currency will at best make no sense, or at worst offend a group of people who may boycott your movie.
I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I think in Rick and Morty one of the rack currencies is called a schmeckle, which is Yiddish for penis (diminutive).
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The money can’t be any real earth currency
no, now that you’ve said this i want to see a sci-fi movie where all trade is based on the Vietnamese Đồng
dabu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, I like being thrown into a new world and still somehow understanding the basics of it so it’s familiar. No need to name everything differently if that’s not the focus of the game.
Credits will do fine
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Credits are for future and guns, it’s coins/pieces of gold/silver when swords.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
2 strips of gold-pressed latinum for you
17jGuFCOn89iY@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s just so many more interesting options. Like what if the worms are their dollars?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
what if their dollars are worms?
LazyBaby@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I think that’s super valid for a novel especially, as long as you don’t mind that the movie adaptation decides it’s not worth taking 10 minutes out of the runtime to explain vs something people will immediately understand
Or maybe there is nothing else interesting in the novel, and it won’t matter anyway because no one reads or adapts it
RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 2 months ago
It has been so funny to me reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov as it appears very tropy, but then you realize that those things are tropes because of the books.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 months ago
Aliens are humanoid and sexually attractive.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Takes off space helmet on alien planet, “the air is fine!”
wuffah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Oh no! Some of the black liquid got on me. Better they back to the ship.”
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Woah! Don’t open that! It’s an alien planet! Is there air?! You don’t know!”
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, suitable for humanoid life.”
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Would actually be fun to have an android character that tries to be less human. Like it’s an unfortunate happenstance that someone designed him to be human-like, and its primary goal is to purge this aspect of itself. Like an Uncle Tom character with deep-rooted anxieties and a machine supremacy complex. Come to think of it, this has to exist already, it doesn’t feel all that original, but I can’t point to where I would’ve seen that.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Marvin the paranoid android from Hitchhikers Guide.
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Literally the One’s from Battlestar Galactica.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Have never seen the show, but from a quick search, that seems pretty spot on for what I had in mind.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Check our Automata (2024)
I won’t spoil anything, it’s a good movie.
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You know Uncle Tom was basically the perfect human right?
That’s the point of the book. Pro-Slavery people use to argue that slavery wasn’t that bad so long as your slave master treated you well; so Uncle Toms cabin is a book about a flawless human who is also a slave named Uncle Tom that literally every single person who ever meets him deeply loves and respects but is powerless to stop anything bad from happening to him because he’s not legally a person
If Uncle Tom sucked in any way the reader could always justify the bad shit that happened to Tom not as a result of his legal status, but as a consequence to his shitty actions or personality.
It destroys in every way the argument that slavery can be fine if your slave masters treat you well and for this reason it’s rumored to be the book that broke the proverbial straw and kicked off the civil war.
frobeniusnorm@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Especially the later assimov robot books have that theme somewhat; at least robots that think weather being more or less human in some regards is better.
gera@feddit.nu 2 months ago
Gunther Hermann
supercargo@r.nf 2 months ago
need skulgun for head
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Check out this recently published book: Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer
Main protagonist is a humanoid bot who strongly rejects the human trappings and designs given to it by its creator.
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 months ago
Aliens land in the US.
Soldiers open fire on the Aliens
Why is there no movie where they land somewhere else and we all go “well thank fuck they didn’t land in Texas”
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
In Doctor Who the aliens are mostly concerned with Great Britain.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes, it was an experience watching Torchwood and thinking it so hilarious all this stuff was happening in Wales. Made me reflect on how I never gave a second thought to how aliens only ever landed in the United States in all the time I’ve been watching shows about aliens.
Though, to be fair, every once in a while, the (usually movie) wants us to know that the United States liberated THE ENTIRE WORLD so we’ll see a montage of racially diverse people celebrating around recognizable global landmarks. Thank you America! Please continue to bomb us to spread your freedom!
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 months ago
Regional childrens tv show doesn’t count.
But I did forget about Dr Who.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
District 9 did this really well.
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 months ago
District 9 was excellent, but those were also refugee aliens.
You know how that’d play out over there…
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
District 9 was set in South Africa.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In real life, the sun is called “Sol” and we are in the “Solar system” as in, sol-ar. Others are called star systems, some are named; “Polaris” is usually just called that instead of the “Polaris system” or the like
Helios -> Helios system follows this same logic.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Actually, our star’s name is The Sun. We do call the system the Solar System, though.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s called “the sun” in English yes. Now, this is going to sounds crazy, but hear me out on this one… There are other languages than English. And I’ve heard rumors, that scientists across the world are all using this weird one called “Latin” when it comes to naming stuff.
Furbag@pawb.social 2 months ago
Helios and Luna? You’re mixing Greek and Latin nomenclature! My immersion is ruined!
nullify3112@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep. It’s Sol, not Helios.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What if they were wrong about Selune, not Sol
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Raised by Wolves comes into the chat.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
So does English.
Megafying glass? Suffering from cold = superformia? Do you prefer monoceros or Nasacorn?
Doom@discuss.online 2 months ago
Nasacorn is delicacy in some places.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Broke: Memory units in optimistic numbers of megabytes and gigabytes.
Woke: Memory units in astronomically-high numbers of gigabytes and terabytes.
Bespoke: Memory units in totally incomprehensible units like kiloquads or exanodes.
Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Slaps the superships central computer “This here runs on 12 bits of memory! Our engineers really outdone themselves with optimisation this time.”
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I mean, the word size on the Voyager space crafts seems to have gone further than anything today.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
It only has one memory cell, but we’ve fully implemented real computation
YerLam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or never specify. “That spacestation has massive computing power” “How big?” “Massive.”
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 months ago
My pet peeve one
Broke: measuring distance in millions / billions of kilometers
Woke: measuring distances in gigameters / terameters
supercargo@r.nf 2 months ago
Government is the UN.
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The warrior alien who solves problems through brute force, and struggles to understand Earth customs in comedic ways.
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 months ago
an uncredible scifi where billionaires gain empathy
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
Farscape called currency… Currency…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i missed that. when i made a “dnd” (i forget which system) module, i named the money units “moneys”. i mean we were all high except my wife, and she’s contractually obligated to giggle at my jokes and the rest of us were high and giggly so it went over well. it’s nice to know i thought up the same joke as farscape. we were probably inspired by the same thing, only i watched it like 30 years later because i’m me.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eh, in my sci-fi universe the Sun is called “Sol-Centauri”, but still just referred to as “the Sun” by most people.
Varesti@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Sun is called Sol.
Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And Luna makes a ton of sense if you want to remove the ambiguity of a moon and the moon.
Klear@piefed.world 2 months ago
Sol too, if you want to call the closest star the sun wherever you are.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Let’s just settle on Moon™ as a compromise for our moon and just moon for all other moons.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Moon-like natural satellite.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Not if you are Spanish.
TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Right? I can’t think of any scifi that refers to the sun as helios?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Any sci-fi that takes place in antiquity, I suppose.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And moon is called Luna
That’s why an orbit around the sun is “solar” and an orbit around the moon is 'lunar"
It seems like earth is just called earth for most spaceflight purposes (e.g. low-earth orbit), although the word for it in some Latin languages comes from “terra”
I think it’d be fun to call earth “Humus”. We get words like posthumous, exhume, humility from it, and it’s theorized that it may share an origin with the word Homo, from which we get “Human”.
So if we called it Earth we’d be Earthlings, if we call it Terra we’d be Terrans, if we called it Tellus we’d be Tellurians, but if we called it Humus we could stay as Humans =D
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Isn’t humus ‘earth’ more in the sense of literal soil on the ground, rather than the planet? More of a human scaled interpretation, at least.