Kobold King he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Some spoilers for Perfect State follow. This morning I finished reading Perfect State, another good novella by our beloved Bandersnatch. There were things I liked about it and things I felt were kind of meh, but all in all I greatly enjoyed it. In particular I adored the central concept of the story: the concept of a world where brains are removed from fetuses and plugged into elaborate virtual realities specially formulated to match their personalities and desires. Which brings us to this simple thread. Assuming that Perfect States match the idealistic fantasies that we all daydream from time to time, what would your personal State be like? Personally, I think that my State would basically enable me to be the Doctor from Doctor Who. I would live in a vast and procedurally generated setting with joint fantasy and science fiction elements, which I would explore with some kind of magical ship that enables me to traverse through time and space. I'd arrive on planets just on the cusp of war or some natural disaster, and using only my wits and inexplicable charisma would save the day, earning the praise and admiration of the masses before running back to my ship and setting sail for another distant part of the cosmos. ... Ahem. What would your Perfect State be like? If there were a world programmed entirely to enable you to be the hero of your daydreams, what would it look like? 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze1616 he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Ahem. What would your Perfect State be like? If there were a world programmed entirely to enable you to be the hero of your daydreams, what would it look like? Personally, I think that my State would basically enable me to be the Doctor from Doctor Who. I would live in a vast and procedurally generated setting with joint fantasy and science fiction elements, which I would explore with some kind of magical ship that enables me to traverse through time and space. I'd arrive on planets just on the cusp of war or some natural disaster, and using only my wits and inexplicable charisma would save the day, earning the praise and admiration of the masses before running back to my ship and setting sail for another distant part of the cosmos. You summed mine up pretty nicely for me! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan the Zinc Compounder he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 I am a Paladin of the order of the Lazer Blaster 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbird he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 First, I was leaning towards something sci-fi like, with FTL, space battles and all that that goes with it. Then I saw Kobolds post, something that would allow travel to all types of worlds sounds far better than just one. Or maybe like how Star Wars, with all it's advanced technology, there still is melee combat that can keep up with everything else, in the form of lightsabers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Frankly, having once been addicted to World of Warcraft, and having now come back to the real world, I think my ideal would be pretty close to this world. I'm not a person who enjoys violence in "real life". So, yeah, I'm pretty boring!! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightsworn Panda he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 I would create a world where everyone were pandas, and the land was one never-ending bamboo forest! I'd probably create a world where humans weren't limited to a 3-dimensional form. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Slowswift he/him Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 (edited) Probably some weird Cosmere-meets-Middle-Earth-meets-Doctor-Who type thing. And with a progressive society a la Mistborn. So one day I'm fighting off orcs with Allomancy and the One Ring and then hundreds of years later I'm on the TARDIS exploring the universe. Edited April 10, 2015 by Slowswift 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormingTexan he/him Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 I'd be on the Enterprise not wearing a red shirt. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Honey Badger he/him Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 My perfect state would be a peacified ( not a word but whatever) Earth, and I would have the power to control time, so if I wanted to hang out with my friends for a longer time, I could use a bendalloy bubble, stuff like that. There would also be portals/ gates to the universes of other books so I could world hop around 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconis he/him Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 For me it would have to be an RPG type similar to SAO 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Slowswift he/him Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 Who would not want to be MISTBORN when given the chance? Why be Mistborn when you can be Fullborn? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneSpren he/him Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Probably some weird Cosmere-meets-Middle-Earth-meets-Doctor-Who type thing. And with a progressive society a la Mistborn. So one day I'm fighting off orcs with Allomancy and the One Ring and then hundreds of years later I'm on the TARDIS exploring the universe. That's me minus Doctor Who. Add Star Wars and Reckoners - bliss! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Slowswift he/him Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Why be Fullborn when you can be Shard? Why be a Shard when you can be Adonalsium? ...because old Ado's kicked the bucket, that's why. You win. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning he/him Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Why be a Shard when you can be Adonalsium? ...because old Ado's kicked the bucket, that's why. You win. Why be Adonalsium, when you can be a reconstituted Adonalsium? ;-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulcastJam he/him Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 The question is, what is Brandon's hidden continent? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicocoberru she/her Posted October 10, 2015 Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 Me. A dragon and continents to discover. Or me learning all languages of the universe. Or Belle's library in Beauty in the Beast. Or being a Full Mistborn and a full Feruchemist. Uuuuh. Its hard to choose. Oh, wait. ALL OF THEM. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allomancy she/her Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 A place made out of CANDY!!! Where all you would ever need to eat would be candy, and you would never get sick of it!!! ... oh, I guess mistborn, shardbearers, elantrians and such too... and yeah. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citadel16 he/him Posted December 1, 2015 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 i would be the God slaying warrior in the book I'm writing. that would be... epic 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormgate he/him Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 I'm not entirely sure what I'd be. Um... Mistborn, Feruchemist, Tenth Heightening, Rithmatist, cured Epic, holder of all ten Honorblades, Oculator with a Smedry talent, Elantrian, Forger. Did I miss anything? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickenPlague he/him Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 I'm not entirely sure what I'd be. Um... Mistborn, Feruchemist, Tenth Heightening, Rithmatist, cured Epic, holder of all ten Honorblades, Oculator with a Smedry talent, Elantrian, Forger. Did I miss anything? Shardholder? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormgate he/him Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 Nah, you have to deal with pesky Intents. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickenPlague he/him Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 Nah, you have to deal with pesky Intents. Just choose a shard you can agree with. Such as Laziness. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormgate he/him Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 But I am more than a single-minded intent. I have various fields of interest, and don't want to be limited by a Shardic Intent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickenPlague he/him Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 But I am more than a single-minded intent. I have various fields of interest, and don't want to be limited by a Shardic Intent.50 different shardic intents would fix that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormgate he/him Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 You are very insistent that I become a Shard in my Perfect State... Do you have any cookies that turn people into Shards? I'm not buying, BTW. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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