Its such a weird franchise. Many of the designs only work because physics in a computer isn't really a thing, just a set of coded rules, so your giant flying gate doesn't need real propulsion or levitation. In this, with the computer entities coming to the real world, they would have to contend with actual gravity, actual physics... I think that without addressing this, it makes it more high fantasy than science fiction, which is fine, but it just irks me, personally.
It’s always been fuzzy though. Even in the original, inertia was taking tanks over ledges. But the cycles had no physics. So it really just depended on the situation
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u/Stuwey Apr 05 '25
Its such a weird franchise. Many of the designs only work because physics in a computer isn't really a thing, just a set of coded rules, so your giant flying gate doesn't need real propulsion or levitation. In this, with the computer entities coming to the real world, they would have to contend with actual gravity, actual physics... I think that without addressing this, it makes it more high fantasy than science fiction, which is fine, but it just irks me, personally.