r/XboxSeriesX • u/Turbostrider27 • Dec 04 '23

Xbox wants Starfield to have the 12-year staying power of Skyrim Discussion

https://www.pcgamesn.com/starfield/popular-like-skyrim
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u/SwimmingInCircles_ Dec 04 '23

Multiverse travel and whatever the hell them shouts are is more realistic to you than aliens?

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

Maybe not the multiverse Unity thing but grav drives and such, yes

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

How are grav drives that break physics more realistic than alternate biology?

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

I didn’t say that. I said alternate intelligent life within the tiny grain of sand of the milky way galaxy that is featured in the game.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

So literal physics defying grav drives are more possible than something that can literally possible happen?? It's clear you've got some weird notions of the world.

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

Just because humans haven’t been able to work out the physics yet doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Keep in mind in the game it’s given to us by people from another universe. We’re only 140 years past the invention of the automobile.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

No it's literally not possible. Travelling faster than light would blueshift all visible light in the universe to infinity and fry you in less than a second. Even if you built the machine nothing is surviving the journey. But somehow this is more probable for you than other intelligent lifeforms lol? We still find new species on the bottom of earths ocean and yet you think we know for certain the galaxy is empty... The only thing we know for certain is ftl travel is impossible.

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

Youre saying that aliens visiting this tiny portion of the milky way galaxy is probable in the next couple hundred years while also saying the technology they’d have to use to do so is impossible

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23 edited Dec 04 '23

Youre saying that aliens visiting this tiny portion

Already throwing in strawmans. When did I say anything about aliens travelling here? I'm talking about us discovering aliens ALREADY in the GALAXY. Your entire rebuttal rested on changing the goalpost its sad really.

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

The game doesn’t occur in the galaxy. It occurs in an area of 100 stars out of a possible 400 billion in the galaxy. There is alien life in the game, but not intelligent. The odds of other intelligent life being in this part of the galaxy is looowwwwww and if there was we’d probably already gotten some sign by now. They would have to travel here and that travel would need to involve faster than light travel.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

You get hung up on one word I said and think it makes some sort of point. It doesn't. You still mischaracterized my argument. Your rebuttal is still invalid. The probabilty of us finding intelligent life in the universe is higher than the chance of faster than light travel. You know how I know this? Because faster than light travel is factually impossible. Zero percent chance of happening. You're disagree with every expert in every scientific field arguing otherwise.

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

So now it’s just “finding” and not them visiting?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23 edited Dec 04 '23

No it's about the fact that saying aliens can't be in starfield on the basis of realism is plain stupidity. You are clearly picking and choosing want you want in the game using realism as a poor excuse. If we can have FTL travel than on the basis of realism we sure as hell can have aliens. You trying to argue otherwise just highlights your lack of highschool level scientific literacy. If you don't want aliens then explain why from an artisitic standpoint, don't try to appeal to realism and then throw realism out the window for navigation.

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