This randomly came into my head first thing in the morning, apropos of nothing.
Which I’ve no idea what that crossover entails
A giant robot car piloted by a forsaken child powers the city?
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- 2 months
Megas XLR is a children’s animated TV series from the mid 2000s about a guy from New Jersey who finds a broken giant mecha and fixes it, and “improves” it by replacing the head with a Car and the control scheme with a Xbox Controller (for weapons and fighting and flight) and Steering Wheel (for navigation.)
The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas is a serious sci-fi short story by Ursula K le Guin, about a utopian city named Omelas and those who walked away from it after they learned of the dark secret that keeps it utopian
<the dark secret>
it’s powered by the suffering of a forsaken child
- Redacted@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
I dont remember the robotcar mech being used for anything but fighting monsters. It doesnt power the city
- 2 months
Omelas is a utopian city from a short story that’s powered by the suffering of a forsaken child
- Redacted@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
I cant find anything about that online, i assumed you were talking about MEGAS XLR, the 2004 cartoon with the car mech where they for sure just fight robots. No city powering.
Okay on the third reread i figured out what youre talking about. A theoretical crossover between megas xlr and the le guin story. Nvm continue schizo posting o7
- 2 months
You know that regular people can have weird thoughts first thing in the morning, right?
It’s caused by a thing called being sleepy and not eating yet
- Redacted@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
You dont need to be literally schizophrenic to schizo post, this was a schizo post.
