First, I don't think we're getting a Schlock-nuri.
Second, I think Schlock is physically fine, wasn't he in a VR-like experience, not physically being squashed?
First, I don't think we're getting a Schlock-nuri.
Second, I think Schlock is physically fine, wasn't he in a VR-like experience, not physically being squashed?
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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