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So there's been a little hiccup in reality and you're stuck in a liminal space, all alone, until the caretakers of this universe fix everything. They can offer you an "accommodations humans are accustomed to await in" and you get to pick where you're going to spend a very small amount of real time that will however feel like about a week of time passing to you...
The environs work exactly as you'd expect them to, or close, it being an amalgamation of what you think things should be and what the caretakers think should be based on their grasp of human cultures. You will be the only person on there for the whole duration, everything else just appears as if put there and operated by human hands.

What's it going to be?

  • A modern municipal sleeper train (15%, 11 votes)
  • An entire ocean liner (27%, 19 votes)
  • An intercontinental aeroplane (1%, 1 vote)
  • A really kitted out caravan (30%, 21 votes)
  • A sleeper train circa 1940 (24%, 17 votes)
69 voters. Poll end: in 2 giorni

in reply to Sini Tuulia

Idly thinking about how the most luxurious largest vessel would feel creepy as all heck if you were there all alone, and if everything worked exactly as you expected them to, it would be good thing if you weren't a Titanic enthusiast or something...

That said, I figure an old sleeper train would be big and comfortable enough to have fun and do an explore in.

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in reply to Sini Tuulia

Chose that one, too. An ocean liner might have too much of an "1899" vibe.

youtu.be/IYzCWXamb_8

in reply to Katzentratschen

@katzentratschen Ah, I wish Netflix didn't suck or I could be bothered to torrent, I'd probably enjoy watching that...
in reply to Sini Tuulia

It was cancelled after the first season anyway. At first, it seemed promising, a good take on the "All Just a Dream" trope, but then it started to unfold rather disappointingly.
in reply to Katzentratschen

@katzentratschen It's my pet theory, and probably someone else's, that they pay the writers and everyone to make a really solid first season, and then deliberately make it much more shit the second season, so they can milk more viewer money from both, but don't have to pay all the workers more because of the deal they had that first 2 seasons paid out a lump sum, and 3rd would pay a slice of the profits, but they can cancel because "viewership dropped" - and world building and starting with a bang is easier than writing an actually compelling ending, or a good long-running series, and the writer's rooms were incredibly underpaid.

I don't remember what the actual legal scenario was, but a lot of industry professionals were very mad about it!

in reply to Sini Tuulia

the old sleeper train should come with a nice and comfy restaurant, my only concert would be showering but I guess I could come by with just a washing basin. I won't really be getting dirty anyway.
in reply to just_chill

I checked 1940’s, and that was when they had open plan and no privacy things and not all that much comfort; contemporary ones (as opposed to these running contemporarily…) have more comfort
in reply to just_chill

@just_chill @mirabilos Probably depends on the country and price point, too. You've been able to pay to get actual entire suites on Sleeper trains for a while, and some modern ones are pretty spartan
in reply to Sini Tuulia

I get motion sick quite easily so no matter which option I go with, I'll spend the whole week too dizzy to move lmao
in reply to Neville Park

@nev It doesn't actually move or give you motion sickness unless you expect it to oh no
in reply to Will

@will The caretakers' grasp of human culture isn't all that great, and they're really attached to the "in motion" aspect of it
@Will
in reply to Sini Tuulia

@Sini Tuulia I was thinking 1940s sleeper train, but only if they somehow arrange the toilet situation to work, well, better than it would on an actual sleeper train from the 1940s that is stopped in a station.

But I'd expect them to do so, being the caretakers of the universe and everything.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@valhalla The universe in general is doing pretty good, but there's a bunch of details that are really fucked that they seem to consistently overlook, so who can say
in reply to Sini Tuulia

thought of taking the sleeper train circa 1940... but I think that would still feel too weird without seeing other people... so caravan it is.
in reply to Sini Tuulia

Funny, LibreTranslate interprets „sleeper train“ in German as „Schlaftrainer“, what would be a „sleep trainer“. 😁
in reply to Sini Tuulia

I think I'd pick the ocean liner, even though it would feel haunting at first. Because if it's a cruise ship there will be entertainment to be found, a well stocked pantry and probably even a gym.
And it won't be weird to look out the window and only see water, and I don't know what the windows of the other places would show.
And there's a clearly defined border. If I open the door of the camper and step outside, do I risk leaving this reality and being stuck in the void forever?
in reply to Gulleko

@Gulleko All the doors to the outside probably wouldn't budge, but definitely not going outside into space beyond reality

The ship might even have a cinema!

in reply to Sini Tuulia

Normally I'd hate to be on an ocean liner, but alone? Count me in! As long as there's no storms. 😶

I hope it has a library.

in reply to Sini Tuulia

a modern train, because then I could be reasonably assured of getting lattes

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