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pizzakarin
Posted 2015-05-13 7:45 PM (#10516 - in reply to #10514)
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Location: Austin, Tx		It wasn't so much that I can't handle physics being bent or broken, it's that this story is an off-the-shelf transhuman story with a level of technology that comes with that. The author relies on the audience to be familiar with things like mind-uploading, artificial gravity, genetic manipulation, etc and so does not bother to explain any of these things. So when she casually throws in robots that gain energy by moving, it's a violation of the physics of the setting as established not through worldbuilding but through piggybacking on the collective worldbuilding of the genre. If she had deviated from that standard (in more than just reskinning) and established a reason for me to believe that the laws of physics had been rewritten (and I would like to note that I don't think we've come close to creating a perpetual motion machine in the lab) I might have been able to do the mental gymnastics necessary to accept this as a part of the story.

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