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  • dmir@gehirneimer.detoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Suppose the last movie you saw and the last videogame you played had a crossover. What would that world look like?
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    5 days ago

    There actually might be no war at all, because some things make warfare between these two species that much more difficult.

    Behind the spoiler are details from Project Hail Mary, so if you’re planning on reading/watching it yourself, best not to look there.

    Spoilers
    • There is a massive difference between Earth’s and Erid’s atmosphere requiring so much preparation and war engineering from either party
    • That said, Rocky was able to make a sort of a spacesuit that worked extremely well, at least in the Hail Mary spaceship’s atmosphere (which wasn’t 1:1 earthlike, I believe)
    • That suit was made out of Xenonite, which is a substance Earth cannot compete with, probably making damn good armor
    • Earth has little to nothing to survive Eridian atmosphere in warfare circumstances: no material or tech that can be used for a spacesuit here, certainly not in the amounts for planetary combat, especially given the air supply that would be required

    Either side’s troops seem so fragile in the enemy condition and so unconquerable on their own turf.

    Honestly, Earth and Erid could make formidable allies more than anything, because a war between the two would be very stalemate-y attrition-type deal.

  • dmir@gehirneimer.detoPC Master Race@lemmy.world•The bigwigs who want AI-generated NPCs and writing think you're too dumb to appreciate a good story—don't prove them right
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    7 days ago

    There are already comments, even here, saying that it’s okay for filler NPCs and non-crucial interactions. And with the executives, this might be the perfect start, an Overton window that they slowly (if that) push open further and further, replacing more and more of the human in the art process in the name of profit.

    The latter is especially disappointing, not because these people don’t care or understand art, but because the profit here is illusory, almost entirely upstream, lies in pure speculation, and kills the planet and economies at a pace that’s practically unseen. They only do it because they think everybody else is doing it and they can’t be left behind, lest the line doesn’t up and they don’t talk about the current trend on another bullshit meeting.

    The corporate world is such a mistake.