Tropes exist because they work and who cares what the money is called
Anon has seen it all before
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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LazyBaby@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
charokol@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Credits are for future and guns, it’s coins/pieces of gold/silver when swords.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
2 strips of gold-pressed latinum for you
17jGuFCOn89iY@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s just so many more interesting options. Like what if the worms are their dollars?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
what if their dollars are worms?
LazyBaby@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Aliens are humanoid and sexually attractive.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Takes off space helmet on alien planet, “the air is fine!”
wuffah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Oh no! Some of the black liquid got on me. Better they back to the ship.”
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Woah! Don’t open that! It’s an alien planet! Is there air?! You don’t know!”
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, suitable for humanoid life.”
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Marvin the paranoid android from Hitchhikers Guide.
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Literally the One’s from Battlestar Galactica.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Check our Automata (2024)
I won’t spoil anything, it’s a good movie.
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
In Doctor Who the aliens are mostly concerned with Great Britain.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Regional childrens tv show doesn’t count.
But I did forget about Dr Who.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
District 9 did this really well.
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 weeks ago
District 9 was excellent, but those were also refugee aliens.
You know how that’d play out over there…
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
District 9 was set in South Africa.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Actually, our star’s name is The Sun. We do call the system the Solar System, though.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Helios and Luna? You’re mixing Greek and Latin nomenclature! My immersion is ruined!
nullify3112@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep. It’s Sol, not Helios.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What if they were wrong about Selune, not Sol
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Raised by Wolves comes into the chat.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
So does English.
Megafying glass? Suffering from cold = superformia? Do you prefer monoceros or Nasacorn?
Doom@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Nasacorn is delicacy in some places.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
I mean, the word size on the Voyager space crafts seems to have gone further than anything today.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
It only has one memory cell, but we’ve fully implemented real computation
YerLam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or never specify. “That spacestation has massive computing power” “How big?” “Massive.”
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
My pet peeve one
Broke: measuring distance in millions / billions of kilometers
Woke: measuring distances in gigameters / terameters
supercargo@r.nf 2 weeks ago
Government is the UN.
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The warrior alien who solves problems through brute force, and struggles to understand Earth customs in comedic ways.
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
an uncredible scifi where billionaires gain empathy
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Farscape called currency… Currency…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Sun is called Sol.
Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Sol too, if you want to call the closest star the sun wherever you are.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Let’s just settle on Moon™ as a compromise for our moon and just moon for all other moons.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Moon-like natural satellite.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Not if you are Spanish.
TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Right? I can’t think of any scifi that refers to the sun as helios?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Any sci-fi that takes place in antiquity, I suppose.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 weeks 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.