Why must everything in RL be boring but PracticaL?

Is it just me, or does everything that seems cool in fiction be completely impractical in RL? Why must everything be some sort of dull efficiency? Is there anything that is Awesome yet Practical?

Also, don't dare you answer with computers of any kind or the internet. That's cheating.

How are we supposed to answer you without using a computer and the Internet ?

edited 30th Oct '15 9:07:05 AM by Aetol

Because life isn't an anime, only a genre of anime.

Here's the thing, OP.

Real life sucks in way worse than any fiction came come up with.

When it DOES get awesome, though, things can get awesome AND practical.

For example, there were things like massive prison escape involving bomber planes and stuff. That stuff was awesome.

edited 30th Oct '15 12:54:39 PM by dRoy

I'm still hoping for a genre shift.

You know what's practical, yet awesome? Self Contained Breathing Apparatus and what Americans call 'bunker gear'.

'Hey, this building is all on fire and shit, but I'm inside and not dead! How cool is that?'

Also aeroplanes. Seriously; they fly in the sky.

Also guns. Dangerous, yes, but to hell with you if they are not awesome.

Yes. Firearms are awesome.

'Hey, I moved my finger and his head exploded!'

That is awesome. As long as it is not your head or other body part.

Preferably not human beings at all, really.

If they are, better make sure they are enemies. And dead.

Real life is only boring because we've been desensitized to it.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

I breed tropical fish.

EDIT: And red-headed children, apparently.

edited 30th Oct '15 8:22:13 PM by InverurieJones

Plus we can make shit fly by electrocuting frozen objects.

Which makes us lower than the apes, which make shit fly by lobbing a handful.

Also, many real life things are Awesome, yet Impractical.

When your objective is short term success or long term failure, it's usually worth it to do the obvious solution.

Boring, but if you were able to just cheat roads by driving on the sidewalk and have it be legal then the world would be chaos. Or just evolve everyone to have stronger bones to withstand collision or something.

Actually, evolving stronger bones wouldn't help... in fact, it may only just worsen the injuries we receive from crash-levels of impact, mainly due to the shock being transferred into the soft and squishy flesh and organs instead. It'd be much more advantageous for us to evolve faster reflexes and stronger leg muscles to leap out of the way of oncoming cars instead.

I was making a joke, guy.

Apparently the real counter to surviving car impacts is; getting drunk enough fro the body to not get into shock as easy and not getting hit by cars.

Take drugs, then nothing is boring!