The Culture is objectively the safer answer. Living in Star Trek feels like it carries a fairly significant daily risk of being assimilated / used in a Romulan plot / sucked into some weird negative space wedgie / having a console explode in your face for no good reason.
Meanwhile, if you’re in the Culture, you’ve pretty well got it made.
Yes, I know the clock for it’s utter destruction would be ticking. Still, the way it’s described in the books has kept me yearning to see such vistas with my own eyes.
I think the place where I would love to live forever would be Stone Hill zone in the first Spyro the Dragon video game. I guess the whole world in that game is wonderful, but something about those beautiful rolling hills, and that wonderful music feels like heaven to me. It’s simple but I always felt this way about it.
I have it pretty bad for The Elder Scrolls. I’ve returned to the series time and time again for decades now, primarily Morrowind and Skyrim, and spend a huge amount of time each playthrough reading every single book and immersing myself in Nirn and it’s lore. I genuinely feel humbled by all of it, and something about that universe, the depth of its history with its unreliable narrators leaving much to speculation, as well as that immense sea of stars, Masser and Secunda, and the guardian constellations watching over you at night to the overwhelming swells of Jeremy Soule’s music is just profoundly moving to me in a way I can’t quite put into words.
I thought this, but, like many worlds, it seems like it isn’t so great if you don’t have plenty of money. There are places where this is less true, but still…
If, however, I could be a bender (sremoveds in UK) then that would actually be pretty cool…
Galorian, the Pathfinder setting. I imagine most people with any kind of education here on earth could live an easy life as a wizard, but being blessed by Desna might not be that hard for someone who left their world behind. Wandering in service to the great dreamer might be a really nice life.
And since earth canonically exists in the setting i could use some wizardy-woo to teleport there if i ever need something that isn’t easy to get on galorian (or whatever plane or planet i move to)
People forget that all souls games are set specifically in periods of total collapse. Between these there have been thousands of years of hyperbolic prosperity. Someone built Lordran, Lotric and Drangleic you know
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