Believe it or not these trends are usually present at the time of writing.

What SF writers usually do is recognize and extrapolate these trends. Like in “Her”:people turning to tech in stead of connecting with their fellow human beings.

Competent SF writers then magnify these trends and set them in the future. What if a lot of people fall for artifical intelligence (Her)? What if there is nuclear war (almost every 80’s SciFi)? What if humanity exports their problems to space (almost every current SciFi)? What if the divide between rich and poor keeps growing and advancements in tech and bioenhancements continue? And so on.

Also no part of the actual game is locked behind paying, only cosmetics.

Tbh I feel like things StarCitizen was promising: explorable galaxy with detailed ships and space to space combat with social components and some kind of economy, games like Elite Dangerous and Eve delivered years ago.

For anything beyond it’s highly unlikely they ever will deliver. The scope and pace of delevopment is just too large to come close to any kind of completion those games have even in 10 or 20 years. Anyone sane enough to see this has moved on to actual, real games either MP ones like the ones mentioned or singleplayer ones that fulfill the fantasy of being a trader in space like No Man’s Sky or X4 foundations. So now all that’s left is the believers.

As long as it’s a pipe dream the game can be anything to anyone. It doesn’t need to have functioning combat, physics or even run on most hardeware. All in-game problems will eventually be fixed just a little further down the road and SC can be exactly all the things you dreamed of! You’re invested since 2012 so what do you have to worry about, it’s come such a long way since then!

Especially since like with small indie games or competitve games at the highest level you can interact with people in the community: other financially or emotionally invested people just like yourself and you can meme fringe opinions about what changes they should make to the game into existence. Especially since the community of actual players is quite small…

I personally don’t think SC will ever be close to any kind of finished product. They will probably be releasing new ships for people to buy for as long as someone will pay for them and they legally can but there will be no finished game. Not in 10 years nor 20.

To finish the game would be to kill all the individual hopes and dreams of every SC backer, anyone emotionally invested enough to make or watch content of the game, anyone who bought in when it was on kickstarter.

I disagree, I think most people simply don’t care.

Come to Lemmy we have:

Anti-Ai Ai generated memes.

Ultra-conservative leftism (Soviet Union was amazing actually)

Anti-bot anti-reddit post (reposted from Reddit by bots).

I’m too young to own property in my life time and don’t understand the renegotiate mortgage meme.

How come the rates are lower if the house goes up in value?

Who funded Hamas? Hint

Gaza is not a sovereign country but a prison. Nothing gets in or out without surveillance by Israel. They gambled on Hamas not hitting as hard as they did.

No surprise here, they are criminals too. Embezzling funds meant for roads and infrastructure to fund pensions as well as being openly corrupt.

They’re just arseholes who have no real economic agenda except filling their own poket.

Good, he is but one of 100.000 grifters anyway.

Just remember it’s the high art of small fast food fliers and corporate emails we’re talking about here.

Xitter is loosing users too. So where are people going? Threads?

Or is the format becoming less relevant?

Most people don’t care if the chicken shop owner used Ai for their fliers or not.

The flier is not really the product anyway.

Not a huge fan of Ai either but this behaviour is silly to me. Who cares if a flyer was made using AI.

Memes in niche communities I follow on Lemmy get hundreds of votes (and like 30 people complaining in the comments) when they’re obviously AI made. Like this one here. Others don’t even though they are also Ai made.

It’s just stupid to think you can always tell or that someone who does a bad photoshop is am amazing artist.

I think it’s fine to use anywhere where people would use stock footage before. Not in art and music but for a flyer or a quick internet meme why the hell not.

It’s not as though the technology will disappear if I don’t like it.

My favourite name for any application ever is Nero.

What does Nero do?

Burns (CD) ROM!

Good riddance honestly.

Even when Jack was managing that shithole it was still a shithole. Magnitudes better than the nuclear wasteland it is now but a shithole none the less.

Btw the embeddedscience.org article you linked is, at least partly Ai generated. …

They’re scared of props lmao.

I guess so. This is the first vid I’ve seen of this channel and it also seems to be promoting some kind of AI platform which doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence.

That being said the video is well made and entertaining. They don’t make the obvious conclusion that the Ai really really isn’t well suited to autonomously design and can’t effectively run something as simple as a lemonade stand but the kids are cute.

My comment questioning if celebrating the deaths of US soldiers was such a good look for them got removed by mods on lemmy.ml/c/worldnews

Apparently this was an irredemable position that goes against everything the average .ml mod believes in (shitposting on niche, far-left sites).

The AIs pretty much immediately agreed on child labour.

I absolutely love it!