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Definitely horror.

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If peoples are fighting for a star, this is mario party. Regardless if the fight is in-game or Irl.

So the Loc-Nar and Palantirs and the prophecies from Harry Potter on one hand, and the monoliths and Borg Cubes on the other hand? Multiple sides would indicate the Gems from "Steven Universe" and "Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld," and the Silmarils and Arkenstone.

@rifflexielian.bsky.social you are being Appreciated over here

but what about fighting for an idea man

If you are trying to get rid of a multi sided beacon then A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BECACON

Me, now inspired to write a fantasy with a cube in it 🙃

Umm. Doesn’t a sphere have an infinite number of sides? (I’ll see myself out now.)

A real world exception to prove the rule... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattusa...

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If people are fighting for a sphere, it’s back to science fiction. If they are fighting for a box, fantasy.

They're D&D Players.

Destiny is sci-fi, but it’s got knights and wizards and orbs, so many orbs

Wakfu is Sci-fi 🤯

If people are fighting for a disc you're reading spy fiction.

Blinks confusedly in Deep Space Nine

In the situation where there’s hyperbolic relics around often you are either talking to rustics or reading slipstream fiction

Hypercube is definitely sci-fi

The God-fragment from Anbennar would like a word, it's clearly a cube and a fantasy setting ☝️🤓

If they're fighting over a 20-sided die?

we now know ...it's a hormuz minefield

If people are crashing a plane into the Pentagon, you are reading an account of 9-11

more sides is also sci-fi, we count those

If it's a dodecahedron then you are reading The Phantom Tollbooth

So, if people are fighting for a pyramid, are they reading science fantasy?

If they are fighting over something with two sides (a banknote or a coin or a bond), it's just plain old capitalism If they are fighting over a four-sided pyramid, it's an RPG session and someone dropped a dice on the floor and someone else stepped on it and it's a Whole Thing now

If it has more sides than a cube you're probably fighting over dice while playing DnD

If it has more sides that means you opened the box and he came!

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I guess this answers whether Star Wars is sci-fi or fantasy

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I feel like @kierongillen.bsky.social might want to weigh in here...

Why has nobody mentioned that they forgot the very root of fantasy. People fighting over a torus.

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Deep Space Nine is fantasy

If they are fighting over a pointed crystal its a JRPG

More sides than a cube? Must be horror.

If people are fighting against an orb, you're watching Star Wars. If people are fighting against a cube, you're watching Star Trek.

A differential that also works is: Godzilla is sci-fi, King Kong is fantasy, and if they meet up then I don't know either.

If it's a dodecahedron it's Lovecraftian horror.

If people are fighting over an icosahedron then it's D&D

Torus therefore Lord of the Rings.

My angles are many My sides are not few I’m the Dodecahedron Who Are You ? [Norton Juster, ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’]

Many sides can also be fantasy

Brisco County Jr. is now confused... :)

This post fails to account for the movie “Sphere”, starring Samuel L. Jackson. Definitely sci-fi, definitely an orb.

Brb, starting a new religion worshipping the benevolent and tyrannical ORBOCUBE!!!

In the Doctor Who story Meglos people are fighting over a *dodacehedron*. Next level stuff.

If people are fighting for a non-Euclidean object, you're reading Lovecraft.

In Star Trek the crew got turned into these shapes at one point

More sides than a cube is horror. The more sides, the more horror it is.

If one side is fighting for a cube and the other side is fighting for a cross, you're reading historical fiction.

How does Stargate fit into this?

If they are fighting for a rectangle (banknote), it's called reality.

If it has only two sides it is a war narrative. If it has more than 4 it is a corporate espionage thriller. 😉

If they're fighting a shapeless mass, it's horror

Orb is Fantasy, Cube is Sci Fi, More Sides is Horror.

if it's got more sides it's probably the Lament Configuration and why are you people fighting over it!

If they're fighting over a truncated icosahedron, then you're probably reading a Rothmans Football Yearbook.

How many sides does Dream Island have?

My two cents on this nerd-fest in the comments: for three-dimensional figures, "sides" are called faces.

Gallo-Roman is an option!

Baldur’s Gate features an Icosahedron.

If it has more sides, it's called horror.

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crystals high fantasy with sci fi elementd

(looks at WIP) This checks out

Behold fantasy!

😅

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If its brick-shaped it's a heist movie.

Idk man I think that’s just hellraiser

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If people are fighting over the love of an emotionally distant, brooding aristocrat while attempting to live on a mere governess’s £30 per year salary, you’re probably not reading Manga.

If people are fighting for a shiny rock then it is a love story

If people are fighting for a tetrahedron, find a new D&D group.

wait what about the Minecraft movie then...

If they are fighting for a rube, it's a medieval famine.

What about six stones formed at the beginning of time that could be hidden in an orb or a cube or be liquid-like

If people are fighting for a dodecahedron, you’re watching Critical Role, Campaign 2.

If it has a three-dimensional shadow it's Cosmic Horror.

If people are fighting for an orb you could be watching basketball.

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This suggests an mathematical relationship, where for every given increase in number of faces on the shape we move a definable distance through the difference between pure sci-fi and pure fantasy. BRING ME AN ALGORITHM!

More sides means more scifi technobabble

What if its all the shapes simultaneously?

What if I'm fighting a Decahedron?

If people are fighting for an orb that is also a cube you are watching A Minecraft Movie

If people are fighting over an icosahedron you're playing Dungeons and Dragons

If people are fighting over a pyramid, you're reading history.

If its a fancy religious dodecahedron, its definitely a DnD campaign

If people are fighting for a briefcase, you’re reading crime fiction.

You're probably reading Kepler. 😅

What if you're rolling various polyhedra instead of reading about it? Oh, that's D&D

If it has 20 sides, you’re playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Elfstones of Shannara sliding into the chat...

Has an orb more sides or less sides than a cube

What if people are fighting over whatever shape this is?

If people are fighting over a Wire, you're reading political drama

But if people are fighting over an icosahedron, you’re playing Baldur’s Gate 3.

If it has more sides than a cube, and breaks your brain to look at it, you're reading lovecraftian horror.

Ok, explain this then.

sci fi+ fantasy

More sides than that implies an unearthly, noneuchlidean geometry. Some maddening structure from beyond time and space.

theory instantly shattered by #Solarbabies 😎

If people are fighting over a trapezohedron, then you're probably in a Cthulhu Mythos story, and, I'm sorry, but things are not going to end well for you.

Hmm…

If it has more sides, you are clearly at a table fighting over an important die roll in D&D.

One of the ideas I want to write will have people fight over a dodecahedron. No, it’s not a a TTRPG, and the dodecahedron is the size of a small planet. I guess I’m inventing a new genre xD (Tbf, I mix fantasy and sci-fi, so that would makes sense)

And if it is amorphous, you are reading paranormal.

"If it has more side than that", probably it is cosmic horror.

and if they're fighting over five cubes, it's yet another yahtzee session turned violent brawl!

If people are fighting over 7 Koopa Hotels you might be Hotel Mario

If they are fighting with *highly* focused beams of light, its SciFi. If the beams of light are only locally focused then its Fantasy.

Interesting

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@rifflexielian.bsky.social ya doin' numbers over here.

I tend to use this ⬇️ as a guide.

If people are fighting over an icosahedron, it's your D&D group falling apart.

More side, it's Lovercraftian horror.

When the object has so many sides it appears like an orb and science is indecipherable from magic.

If people are fighting over a pyramid it can be either sci-fi or fantasy. Sometimes even a combination of both.

If it has more sides than that it’s hard SF

If people are fighting for a triangle you are reading historical fiction (or possibly modern day but involving old stuff)

If people are fighting for a buck it's realistic fiction.

Ring, now do the ring. If people are fighting over a ring, what's that?

If people are fighting for a 100-sided polyhedron you are in the table-top gaming store.

Morr sides = Cosmic horror

What if you are fighting for a tesseract? ;-)

That would be a dragon.

Probably playing Control.

No wait. People are fighting for chip fabs in Taiwan. So real life is sci-fi because those are rectangular

If people are fighting for oil, it's non-fiction

If people are fighting for an evil cat-like thing, that’s a Magical Girl

New Bouba/Kiki style guide unlocked.

if you're fighting for a diamond, you're reading pulp adventure

If it’s a shining trapezohedron you are a cultist in a Lovecraftian horror story.

Not quite true, in Hellraiser they are fighting for a cube and it is totally gothic horror.

And if it’s a ring…well.

Probably science fantasy

People on Star Trek Deep Space Nine sometimes fight over the Orbs of the Prophets while the Emissary of the Prophets lost his wife while fighting against a Cube. So what does that make DS9? What do you have to say now? #allstartrek

If they fight for a disc, you read Pratchett.

If it's a trapezohedron you're in cosmic horror

Polyhedron - anime

D&D

More sides than that, it's just fanfic for your $80 D&D dice set

If it has around 20 sides, you've either touched the Beacon of Meridia or a D20 and you're playing DnD

A game of @kierongillen.bsky.social's DIE?

scifi loves dodecahedrons...

Useful information to clarify: If there are more sides, and the object being fought over is a gemstone, it’s fantasy. Additionally, if the orb being fought over is a power source, then it’s sci-fi. However, if the cube being fought over is gelatinous results are indeterminate.

The out now Mortal Kombat has more of a disk shaped medallion which in a 2D fighting game like Mortal Kombat orbs would be like a disc so it checks out to me. Orbs and disks

It's probably literary fiction in that case, and likely written by a woman

Your particle ray is no match for cold steel in the hands of a trained warrior! The sacred Dodecahedron will be mine!

More side makes it Lovecraftian.

If they're fighting for any sort of polyhedron, it's Science-Fantasy.

DnD, innit?

If it has more sides than that, it's probably a pushover. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j6W...

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If people are fighting inside of a tesseract, you are reading The Beast The Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World.

What about DS9 and their not-exactly-orb-shaped orbs?

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If you're fighting over several dodecahedrons, you're likely playing a tabletop RPG. ...Or things have gone quite wrong, and we will sing your stories if there are any of us left to sing them.

Wakfu is scifi and Deep Space 9 is fantasy. Got it?

If it has more sides, then it's probably Lovecraftian cosmic horror.

If people are fighting over an orb, you are in Deep Space Nine. youtu.be/AjO9mAx6xBo?...

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Ultimate fantasy item, today found in museums: the petrosphere

If it's a big red ball, it's by JJ Abrams😂

Sci-Fantasy

So sci-fi is low-poly fantasy...or is it Clarke's Law?

If it's paper, numbers or lines on a map they are fighting over, that would be current events.

@earational.bsky.social

Fear and Hunger says hi

If it's a pyramid, then it's science fantasy

What of the rest of the Platonic solids?

BG3 would like to have a word...

cc: @aliehsn.bsky.social

Ahem

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If people are fighting for a tesseract, you are watching the MCU

If it has more sides than that, then it’s a Great Holocron and you’re reading both.

I think it comes back around to fantasy tbh

As the number of sides increases the object becomes more spherical, and the genre shifts towards fantasy. If the number of sides reduces to 2 you have national treasure and the object is the constitution.

More sides mean is a Sci fi future than rolled back to a medieval fantasy, like in the first 3 Ultimas

If what you're fighting over has non-Euclidean angles that fill you with a sense of uncanny fear of the squamous, rugose, and chthonic, then, my friend, you're in Lovecraft country.

Lovecraftian horror. The answer is Lovecraftian horror.

oh yeah now what?

If it’s a triangle, you’re 99.99% playing a Zelda game.

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wait i thought fighting for an orb was sports

Futurama where it's both. theinfosphere.org/Anti-backwar...

@ptwiddle.bsky.social One for you.

What if they're fighting for this fella

You're in maths class.

Does this make Roy of the Rovers fantasy?

And if you're fighting a cube, it's Star Trek. Right? (Also a sphere, but...well...)

Ok, but what if the orb is a cube?

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If it has more sides then it’s Sonic the Hedgehog

If it has 12 sides then we should probably let the Krynn Dynasty has it back

If they're fighting inside a cube, you're watching horror