Modern sci-fi is pretty much all derivative of Dune. So if you look at a modern adaptation of Dune today you might think "this is just Star Wars/Star Trek/Warhammer 40K/etc." But it's in fact the other way around, Dune doesn't take from Star Wars, Star Wars takes from Dune.
Contrary to popular belief, a set of full plate does not slow you down or limit your mobility at all. If it did it would not have been so widely adopted.
It's like they're trying to be fascists but they're so bad at it. All they can do is run around and jerk each other off while telling their goons to go harrass minorities
I mean, at this point studios must know what it means to let MS meddle in things. Or is the feeling of "no, not with me, this time will be different" so prevalent?
What if you take the battery from a small laptop? It may still be bigger than a whole smartphone, but comparatively small and with some ten watt-hours.
Well yeah, if you explain magic it stops being magic, that's how magic is. If you explained the magic of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings using advanced quantum physics or something you'd turn it into an explainable, mundane world, like what we have done with the real world. But the magic remains under different terms.
I dunno about that. The sentinelese don't even have a written language or engage in agriculture, if you show them a glassy black rectangle covered in strange glyphs, that squawks and speaks without a mouth, and glows like a fire while remaining cold to the touch, how can they assume it's anything but an enchanted object? I can't imagine they have the slightest clue of the simplest procedures for constructing something like that, they don't know what a diode or a battery is or how doping works. They don't even understand electricity.
You can also look at the cargo cults of Melanesia. They saw WW2 operations in the area and interpreted them as rituals to summon goods (cargo) from their deities. How does a member of a non-industrial society interpret an airdrop if they have little to no concept of airplanes, parachutes, or even advanced metallurgy?
Unless there begins to exist a new business based around lobotomizing smart devices.