altz3r0

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Could you resist a true virtual reality and should you?

Lets assume we develop the capacity to create virtual worlds that are near indistinguishable from the real world. We hook you up into a machine and you now find yourself in what effectively is a paraller reality where you get to be the king of your own universe (if you so desire). Nothing is off limits - everything you’ve ever...

altz3r0, (edited )

It all the depends on the how and the what.

First of all, if the virtual reality is able to replicate physical sensation indistinguishably from the physical world, it’s not virtual, then, is it? Then it’s just alternative reality. If that was the case, the only dilemma would be the implications to the physical world. Will your body still exist, or are we talking San Junipero here?

As long as there are implications to the real world, then I believe a significant percentage of people will not abandon it, because of empathy.

I personally would only live an alternative reality if there was no one I love back in the real world anymore, or if I were to die.

As for virtual reality in the realm of possibilities, there will always be something missing, as addictive as it may be, so there will always be something to bring you back to reality

As for just trying it, hell yeah! As long as there are no negative consequences physically that I know of before hand.

altz3r0,

I’m sad to say I fell for this trap as well! Wanted to keep using vim, but I’m too old to put so much effort in maintaining my tools, when I have a self-cleaning swissknife … just… right… there.

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Same here, though I do wonder how they will keep us interested, as they have deliberately not shown any combat. Not even stardew valley went as far as removing combat from the gameplay loop.

altz3r0,

Oh I totally agree, I am very fatigued of violence driven games, and have high hopes for Palia. I’m just a little apprehensive that if they just try to copy the non combat parts of zelda and mix it up with animal crossing, it’s not going to be enough.

altz3r0,

By the way, registrations are open, and the open beta begins August 10th.

If you want to give me a cool in-item game, register up with the referral below. :)

accounts.palia.com/sign-up?referral=867fb01e-c3b1…

altz3r0,

EXAPUNK - 50% - 96% Positive

If you like old time puzzle games, and have a pinch for programming, then you will love this. In this game you control bots by creating algorithms to extract data and other challenges. The cool part is you must study the game language and learn the lore from manuals and magazines that the game provides.

SHENZHEN I/O - 50% - 93% Positive

From the same creator of EXAPUNK, only the thematic here is electronics.

Road 96 - 50% 91% Positive

Summer 1996, Today is the day! You hit the road. Adventure. Freedom. Escape. Run. Flee the Regime. Try to survive.

On this risky road trip to the border, you’ll meet incredible characters, and discover their intertwined stories and secrets in an ever-evolving adventure. But every mile opens up a choice to make. Your decisions will change your adventure, change the people you meet, maybe even change the world.

altz3r0,

You don’t suddenly find out that your peeler is several versions behind

And then proceed to spend 17 hours trying to get it to peel just the way the invetors wanted it to, which is different from the other 987654321 peelers around.

After 20 years in the field, I hate love despise like 'm ok with technology

altz3r0,

The spreadsheet.

Always start with the spreadsheet, and go uo from there!

altz3r0,

There are a few books I like to relive every now and then. For me, it's a guilty pleasure, to be honest. Wish I could do it more often, and for more books.

The ones that come to mind are Little Brother, by mr. Doctorow, Sandman by mr. Gaiman (mostly the Death chapters) and... Let's see... Ah, yes, Neuromancer, because I'm a sucker for mainstream books, and that's the one that got me through life.

altz3r0,

I only use the web UI, jerboa didn't click with me. The only issue I have with it s that collapsing comments can be tricky.

altz3r0,

Well, I think that if it is done in a tasteful manner, that is, not flooding the community with posts, there is no issue with posting you blog or just copy-pasting here, if you prefer.

Keeping in mind that this is a specific community for original shortform and longform writing, stories, worldbuilding, and other stuff of that nature.

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I think the plan should be bracing for impact, and how to deal with the after-effect. Because let's be honest, we are in a late stage capitalism, and Meta megacorp will get what it wants.

I don't currently see it spilling it's poison to Lemmy/kbin. I'm hopeful rather, but I may be misunderstanding how the fediverse works.

But for mastodon, I would say the outcome is a segregation, as it's safe to assume that communities that integrate wirh Meta will be consumed. Unfortunately that likely means starting from scratch, with a even nichier community, as far as I can see. Not exactly from nothing, but content loss will be inevitable, which is the Fediverse greatest weakness imho.

Writing as multi-text curation, aka writing as DJing (www.theatlantic.com)

This excellent piece from the Atlantic (Drive link to PDF) describes the author's process writing a fully AI novel. He used a ton of different tools, did the plotting himself, and had the AI not just write but revise, change tone, generate alternatives, etc. etc. Then he assembled the final product himself from all those...

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The author of the article touches on a few good points that I liked, thanks for the share! However, this is a complicated topic, because to me the center issue is quality, and originality.

Something new is something not seen before. Now days it's hard to believe it still exists, and rarer than it used to be, but then something comes around and you go "oh right". This is even more special in prose, and perceivable, imho.

I work on the field, I am also a writer, and I have played with composing stories using LLMs. The reality is the quality is at best a B, and thats if you give very detailed outlines, tone parameters and instructions, adjusting, generating and regenerating responses. Basically, it just felt like a lot more trouble than actually writing the freaking thing myself.

For revision, it does a decent job with finalizing drafts, but get some experience with a real, good editor, and you will see the world of difference, it's too silly to even compare.

Another issue, and this one I heavily believe is the reason we have seen an influx of optimistic, positive look stories now days, is that GPT guidelines prevent it from going into dark places, working around the bad side of the human mind and behavior. This is like cutting the whole point of writing prose to me.

Now, the real issue is that, with good marketing, this at best B, always positive, meaningless piece of entertainment, is more than enough for high execs trying to make a profitable quarter.

So yeah, AI art is crap, and it is killing authors.

altz3r0,

Everspace 1 and 2 are both solid games if you like space exploration and shooting!

ikantolol, to RedditMigration
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I just found another place called Squabbles which seems like a mix of twitter and reddit, with posts and communities but threaded like twitter for its discussions. Is it part of the fediverse? or is it its own thing?

altz3r0,

It's its own thing. I spent some time over there, but the UI didn't click, doesn't look like a good mobile experience either.

altz3r0,

Not really in the sense of a fusion, as my understanding is that those two genres are pretty much opposite extremes, with solarpunk being more optimistic, while cyberpunk is, well, dystopian by nature. I do need to get more into solarpunk, but THE BACKLOG, you know.

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Oh yes, manga and anime has done wonders to the genre by bringing more of a oriental point of view to it. They deserve a list themselves. :P Akira, Gits (before the massive commercialization it received), Texhnolyze and Serial Experiments Lain are the cornerstones of japanese cyberpunk to me. >

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Bruce Sterling is definetly a must read for fans, but Schismatrix and Mirrorshade published after Neuromancer, which explains a little the popularity difference I would say.

There are of course plenty of excellent books not mentioned, and for that I would recommend the Best of Cyberpunk list.

For this list I just wanted to keep it short and digestible with the books that brought new turns or depths to the genre, kind of like the gateway drugs of the genre. :P But as it is with all things regarding knowledge, it definetly is limited by the knowledge I have consumed subjectively.

What's Beehaw's opinion on Facebook doing NDAed meetings with fedi admins/devs? (fedipact.online)

So, recently some fediverse admins (mostly Mastodon) and the founder of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko (Gargron), where contacted by Meta/Facebook for an NDA meeting. We know nothing about it, but we're pretty sure that it was about this project92 thing that Meta/Facebook is creating to "compete" with Twitter....

altz3r0,

They only really need mastodon.social to be on board, as their brand itself can do the rest to compete with twitter, so this discussion is kinda of moot.

I personally don't like it for mastodon, that will definitely lower the standards and bring a lot of advertising wether we like it or not. For other fediverse communities however, I think this is a good thing. It will be much easier to bring the people we want to it once the fediverse is more "popularized".

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@Kwakigra puts a nail to it.

You need to decide if you want to write, or be an author™. Being an author™ now days is a business, and in a business, you don't write what you want, you write what sells.

altz3r0,

Finally finished with Pattern Recognition, William Gibson. It was... nice, it definitely felt like Gibson was uncomfortable writing in the present tense.

Next up is a Brazillian book, As águas-vivas não sabem de si by Aline Valek

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