I've noticed most sci fi gets worse before it gets better.
Like, in Star Trek, it's canon that in 2026 a dictator starts WW3 and causes nuclear war killing at least 300 million initially and a few billion more later on and it takes like 100 years for the world to recover.
It's crazy. I remember growing up feeling like it was just a foregone conclusion that humanity would eventually unify and explore space.
It didn't even feel like optimism, just the obvious direction we were moving. Now i watch a movie like Alien and think that's an optimistic view of the future.
Right? Some video game historian is going to stumble upon Stellaris 174 years from now, be playing some megacorp or oppressive autocracy and have a wtf moment.
You act like Trump is some random podcaster, not the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth that is acting belligerent both home and abroad. It's like telling someone that Hitler 'lives rent free' in like 1936.
Comparing a modern us president to Hitler is laughable. He's literally almost in the lame duck stage, what happens when he's no longer a politician? Your statement is going to seem pretty stupid when he steps down willingly.
When the novel "Neuromancer" came out 42 years ago, it was seen as leaning optimistic, because it didn't take place in a far future nuclear wasteland, but instead in a world whose backstory included only a very limited nuclear exchange.
Too bad we have a better chance of being a tomb world by then vs any sort of prosperous unification.
If you read the lore of the UNE it looks likes got pretty bad before they got good.
If you read the first contact with the CoM, they imply they thought Earth was gonna end up a tomb world.
I've noticed most sci fi gets worse before it gets better.
Like, in Star Trek, it's canon that in 2026 a dictator starts WW3 and causes nuclear war killing at least 300 million initially and a few billion more later on and it takes like 100 years for the world to recover.
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Yeah I heard about it last year and I was like "huh that's interesting"
Turns out Trump is actually a huge Star Trek fan faithfully trying to recreate the timeline, and that’s why he is like he is.
It's crazy. I remember growing up feeling like it was just a foregone conclusion that humanity would eventually unify and explore space.
It didn't even feel like optimism, just the obvious direction we were moving. Now i watch a movie like Alien and think that's an optimistic view of the future.
Right? Some video game historian is going to stumble upon Stellaris 174 years from now, be playing some megacorp or oppressive autocracy and have a wtf moment.
I think the spiritualist megacorp is looking the most likely.
Militarist/Xenophobe is also fairly likely.
I can't imagine humanity immediately open to embracing aliens so soon after potentially unifying our planet.
Nah, we'll just threaten to tariff them if they don't allow Trump Towers...I mean branch offices on their planets. Oh, they have to accept Jesus too.
No, just willing to listen to us ramble about him (think Jehovah's Witnesses not Baptist Missionary)
Bro can we not
Rent free
You act like Trump is some random podcaster, not the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth that is acting belligerent both home and abroad. It's like telling someone that Hitler 'lives rent free' in like 1936.
Comparing a modern us president to Hitler is laughable. He's literally almost in the lame duck stage, what happens when he's no longer a politician? Your statement is going to seem pretty stupid when he steps down willingly.
Oh we’re gonna be fine. We’re not the first generation to think the world’s gonna end probably won’t be the last.
Thank you!
When the novel "Neuromancer" came out 42 years ago, it was seen as leaning optimistic, because it didn't take place in a far future nuclear wasteland, but instead in a world whose backstory included only a very limited nuclear exchange.
Once you have computers technology advances a lot faster.
I just found Earth on my current play through. According to my game we will be back to the Renaissance era by then.