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  • Favourite Anime
    Lots. Off the top of my head (and in no particular order)...

    Ghost in the Shell
    プラネテス (ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ)
    Any "real" science fiction actually
    Angel Beats!
    Clannad: After Story
    Your Lie In April
    Pet Girl of Sakurasou
    境界の彼方
    しんせかいより
    Spice and Wolf
    ことうらさん
    FLCL (original)
    Any Miyazaki/Ghibli
  • Favourite Genres
    Comedy
    Fantasy
    Mystery
    Romance
    Sci-Fi
    Slice of Life
    Space Opera
    Rom-Com
  • Favourite Character Type
    Kuudere

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    Data systems engineer
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    reading (SF), electronics, science, engineering, space, computer programming.. and of course anime.
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  • Favorite Video Game/Series
    Kerbal Space Program. Anything that you can craft or build in actually... Minecraft, Valheim, Cities: Skyline, Stardew Valley, Terraria, etc.....
  • Favorite Video Game Characters
    GLaDOS, Duke Nukem, Jebediah Kerman
  • Favorite Game Consoles
    PC Master Race - May our frame rates be high and our temperatures low.

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  1. Just found a place that has "Science Fiction and Fantasy", and "Sword and Sorcery" genres.  WTF??  Why bother to have two separate categories if there's no meaningful separation?  "Science Fiction" IS NOT the same thing as "Fantasy", and it is annoying as heck to have to dig through the one to find the other!

    No name or link because I don't want to risk sending them any clicks.   :veryangry::veryangry:

    1. efaardvark

      efaardvark

      "Fantasy" is not-real, by definition.  "Science" is real, by definition.  If I'm looking for something not-real then I am definitely, logically, absolutely NOT looking for something real, and vice versa.  I will certainly allow that bad SF can be considered fantasy, but that's generally the author's fault not the genre.  There's also stuff like Sword Art Online that certainly looks like fantasy, even though it is actually science fiction.

      That said, as a buyer I can't use a label like "science fiction and fantasy" in any meaningful way.  Lumping them together is simply being lazy and/or ignorant.  They might as well be just saying, "Here's a book.  You figure it out."

    2. Illusion of Terra

      Illusion of Terra

      Well, they might have a point. After all, you might need quite a bit of fantasy to believe that something was actually meant to be science fiction 😂 
      Also, with 'alternative facts' being a thing nowadays, who knows what's 'real' 😂 

      Seriously though, personally I'd expect quite something different from the 'fantasy' genre than from the 'science fiction' genre. Science fiction being something that while it might seem like magic still being able to be described in some way by natural sciences (and often related to some 'tech stuff'), while fantasy being something that functions on a completely different level (and often related to some flashy 'magic stuff').

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