If you had a choice, what would you prefer, science or magic?

Doesn't science also mean psychic powers which is pretty much magic but with your mind instead of anything else?
 
Are we talking like fantasy novel magic? Fireballs, lightning bolts, mind control? Because that would be sweet.

If you’re talking magic like a bunch of fat smelly lesbian Wiccans dancing naked that’s a hard pass.
 
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Magic but broken down into a Science.
 
Magic is cool and all but chances are you will be a peasant and not the cool guy casting fireballs. Plus most of the magic systems kinda suck. Either nobles have the power, so you get fucked going against them, and if you are a noble you are in constant stress to get better. Having magic makes you a pariah/eternal virgin. Or it's random so better hope your neighbour kid doesn't nuke your village.
 
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Magic, duh.
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Magic is cool and all but chances are you will be a peasant and not the cool guy casting fireballs. Plus most of the magic systems kinda suck. Either nobles have the power, so you get fucked going against them, and if you are a noble you are in constant stress to get better. Having magic makes you a pariah/eternal virgin. Or it's random so better hope your neighbour kid doesn't nuke your village.
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redo of healer and other edgy isekai were documentaries the entire time?
 
"Magic" in ye olden days was kind of science-lite and a lot of media points this out, but magic as ability stuff? Definitely more useful, especially for annoying your enemies. However magic in it's perception in the public eye has mostly nowadays been ruined by new age/wiccan types that go and spell it like "magyck" or "macjikxs" or some other stupid fucking variant and frame it as consooming candle product and "paying tribute to" some old world deity mixture without actually following the customs of the culture's gods they yoink shit from very clearly just based on the cool name situation.

Science is cool but it's got stipulations. Magic has some stipulations too but magic also tends to have shapeshifting shit without the need of being a t-1000. That's an extreme bonus because I could shrink myself to garden gnome size as a wizard and then harass people when they come home by pretending to be a statue and throwing small rocks at them from a different area than where i'm standing. I'd be all over a chance to pull goofy shit like that. it'd also give troons literally no excuse so people would just laugh at them for not taking the effort to learn magic when they bitch about how horrible society is to them for "not passing".


skykiii said:
Megaman is a science world and yet its still little like modern Earth
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Megaman is literally just meant to be modern earth but with robots made by 2 wacky science guys that used to be partners everywhere. Once you get to X it becomes more "science-world"-y but then also introduces some magical elements like Wily somehow still being "alive", possibly a ghost, talking to zero in his dreams in x4 and helping Sigma directly in x5 solely because he wants someone to kick X's ass for him because he hates Dr. Light so fucking much. Wily doesn't want Light's last robot to outlive Zero just to prove how he's better than him at making robots. Ironically zero does outlive X but it's due to shit completely unrelated to Wily's shit. Those kinds of worlds would both be cool to live in if not for robots occasionally randomly committing terrorism. Would live in, 100%


Chilson said:
counterpoint: science = gun.
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not william stenchever said:
Counter-counterpoint: magic guns
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counter COUNTER COUNTER point: magic=remote controlled icepicks repurposed as missiles that contain immortal souls you can summon at any time and shoot your enemies with faster than bullets. If I'm shooting someone I want to make sure that shit's gonna hurt.
 
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HyperboreanRightsActivist said:
Back when I was a kid when I was extremely fucking gay and annoying (around 12-13), I would act like the anime imouto stereotype around my older sister to piss her off mostly. I don't think it ever worked, she found it endearing and I eventually stopped doing it when I realized just how embarassing it was. This was in the early 2000's when weeb shit was just starting to seep into my rural shithole.
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To give you some credit though, you said you were trying to be annoying. Real cringe would be if you honestly thought your behavior was endearing.

There actually is, IIRC, at least one anime that does this--Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V has this fat boy who has feminine "cute" behaviors, and I think he's meant to be comedy relief, but my recollection is he came off as kinda creepy.

Tablet County said:
I'd rather have soft science so we can finally get around that pesky square-cube law and make Battletech real.
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I've always heard that the Square-Cube law was BS and that measurements we took of dinosaur bones blatantly violate it. Even if its real I'm sure designers of actual functioning mecha would be able to think of a solution.

That said every time I read up on the Square Cube Law it doesn't make sense anyway, and seems to apply more to like, shrink rays or something.
 
Ancient mystic tomes are way more interesting to read than dry dull research papers.

Magic wins again bitches!
 
I like the idea magic over science. Magic gives me the vibe of self-empowerment, while science is more reliant on external factors.

Think of it this way: the gigachad wizard can be the ultimate introvert. He can sit in his tower, never talk to anyone, never have sex, and just become an all-powerful, wise, reality warper by studying the arcane arts on his own and never having to give a shit about anything else and no one can do anything to him. The virgin scientist has to pick an area of expertise, become a slave to society to perform their work, publish their findings, and maybe, just MAYBE benefit from it monetarily to live comfortably, and you still won't be as cool or rich as the guy who just plays sports for a living.

Wizards can call lightning, kill people with words, summon familiars, and create their own medicine.
Scientists do SOME of that, but not as cool, and not one scientist can do more than one of those.
 
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Magic, Runescape-Style Rune-powered Magic. It allows for current science to exist, but it also lets you teleport to Lumbridge whenever you want.
 
ArnoldPalmer said:
It allows for current science to exist
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I mean, wouldn't most magic allow current science to exist?

It's not like the existence of scrolls of fireball would prevent electricity from conducting through copper or prevent people from eventually finding out that it does.
 
science is method of data collection whereas magic is typically portrayed as being a way to directly influence the world.
 
Lasers and helicopters and microwave popcorn all would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
 
skykiii said:
I mean, wouldn't most magic allow current science to exist?

It's not like the existence of scrolls of fireball would prevent electricity from conducting through copper or prevent people from eventually finding out that it does.
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Consider that Lord of the Rings takes place in the hollow earth. Sometimes a fantasy setting will go against the grain of what's possible in reality.
 
I only respect the Gods of Chaos. Tempt me not with your attempts to violate the ways of this world with your magic and science.
 
Might, magic and science are for nerds, trannies and women. Uhm ackchuyally the scoyentific method dictates waaah shut the fuck up nigga have an axe to the skull and now I'm coming for your wizard gf.
 
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