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Mini, spoiler free review of Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 days ago by AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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Carl is outside in his boxers trying to get his girlfriend's cat out of a tree when everything with a roof on the planet is destroyed and the smaller number of survivors are made to compete in an intergalactic dungeon game similar to D&D. If this sounds kind of dumb, I described it correctly; it's kind of dumb. It’s also fairly entertaining and has a good amount of heart. People who have played any sort of role playing game, like World Of Warcraft, will probably be extra amused.

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[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (25 children)

Just because you don’t like an answer or the informations someone is providing doesn’t mean that person is being condescending. I can’t defend my point? These are the takes by authors like Asimov and Pratchett, they’re the ones that created and defined these genres.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (24 children)

DCC and Star Trek are no less science fiction than a time travel story or one that relies on time travel, faster than light travel, races of aliens that can change their shape, or humans that can change their gender at will.

I'm story you think you have drawn the one true line, but it speaks to a flaw in your character not a flaw in others.

They're writers not gods. Prachett was best friends with a rapist.

[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

They’re fantasy with scifi aspects, I covered this already.

A scifi book about a detective is still a scifi before a detective novel, a detective novel with scifi aspects, is a detective novel first. These distinctions are important.

There’s a hierarchy, and a proper way books are presented( disagree if you want.

What relevance does someone friends have to the topic at hand?

[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

This is a dumb take.

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