true, but the examples you mentioned can be excused as mythos or high tech, but this is just complete ignorance.
Chrome is trying to point out that TF, in general, doesnât follow science to a âTâ but is still fun as fiction like that is appealing because it presents a world without limits and a world that is nothing but limits can often be rejected by consumers as these stories were made to have them indulge in a bit of escapism and some simple fun.
True, and I get that, I just think thatâs a bit too far.
Again, such is transformers. I doubt that most of the writers are particularly wise in the ways of science, and just do whatever they think is cool.
Black hole grenades? Robot-gods and mechanical eldritch monstrosities whose blood revives the dead and turns the living insane? A giant building block that miraculously brings inert technology to life? Yes, itâs all utterly ridiculous and impossible. But thatâs just how things work here, and Star Trek-like technobabble and good olâ Space Magic are often perfectly viable excuses for it all.
Naturally, there are some limits in place so that a half-decent story can still be told, believe it or not, but in many cases Transformers does play fast and loose with science and logic, and thatâs just how rolls.
Point Conceded.
Which, if you look closely, seems quite reasonable, if you could test it, (Which of course you canât)
Just look at the âThe SCIENCE!â Show on the Game Theorists YT channel for an example of this in many different gaming franchises.
One of my favoriteâs is Mnmenthâs reasearch lab on CNCNZ which goes throught the sience, (or lack therof) Behind Command and Conquer.
- You do not account for density, so something of enough mass could be quite small, but incredibly dense.
- Transformers are 20x larger than humans, so the tech wouldnât be as small as youâre postulating. Odds are itâs a small super collider that compacts particles until thereâs enough density to create a micro blackhole, which then collapses on itself shortly after being fired
If you think this is nuts, read through Twilight of the Golden Age, my last RP, sometime. A lot of the shenanigans in that game could only be justified by straight-up space magic. This RPâs universe very much leans on the âfantasyâ side of âScience-fantasyâ, and I fully admit that Iâm no scientist myself, which only contributes to the insanity.
Iâm glad we could come to an understanding.
Point Conceded
Still. That makes it about the size of a nuclear bomb, but it doesnât matter because of the above point.
There never was a misunderstanding. I just thought it was odd, thatâs all.
Oh, my mistake, then.
Itâs cool. I see how I could come off as such. Plus Iâm always over analyzing things.
We all tend to over analyze the fictional stories we love; itâs, sometimes, part of the fun of enjoying it.
true enough. itâs even better when they actually stand up to the scrutiny. (Inheritance Cycle and Star Trek.)
Black Hole Grenades are too cool for science to make sense of them.
Oh, science worksâŚuntil you pass the event horizon, then everything goes to crap as literally all the rules of science as we know them just break and fall forever into the eternally crushing depths of the black hole.
And what about Song? I saw that Topside called her in in his quarters, is that still an option?
No; that flew out the window when the boss fight started, unfortunately.
Okay, did the Decimator teleport the ship and everyone in it to low orbit or did it actually launch them out faster than they could process?
What just happened is truly a mystery. A dimensional decimator doesnât have that kind of power, even considering the damage that particular bomb had sustained.