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FrightenedTomato15 karma

Nah. Something like Star Wars is what I'd call Science Fantasy. Star Wars doesn't try at all to explain its technology using real scientific terms - just made up fantasy science bullshit like Khyber Crystals.

Marvel tries again and again to claim things are science-y by throwing juuuust enough technobabble at us to keep up from thinking it's completely made up but then they also do silly things like the Ant Man shrinking a tank bit.

FrightenedTomato11 karma

In my personal opinion, suspension of disbelief works when something is established at the start and not when a story violates its own rules halfway through the story.

For instance, the writers establish right at the start that Superman is an alien who is powered by the sun and can fly and punch hard but is hurt by green crystals for some reason. It's stupid as fuck but as this is the premise being presented at the start I accept it and suspend disbelief to accept that yes, a near omnipotent God is weak to green crystals.

Now, halfway through the story if Superman suddenly shrugs off kryptonite like it's no big deal then there better be an explanation for how he did that. You can't just hide behind "it's a superhero comic, who cares?" at that point since you're violating your own rule.

TL;DR: You can't double dip into the suspension of disbelief bowl and not expect to get called out for it by your audience.

FrightenedTomato5 karma

10160 as a matter of fact. If each atom in the universe was used to represent a permutation of the 7x7, we would have 1080 combinations (approx). This means that if each atom in the universe was a universe in and of itself, we would have enough atoms to represent the permutations of a 7x7.

(1080)2 = 10160

What do you think of puzzles like the square-1, curvy copter, etc?

FrightenedTomato2 karma

Universally hated for a reason, you know?