Underground tunnels, baby holding pens, and, of course, lizard people.

Just something from one of the creators of a game that I love. The podcast episode linked was great too of you want to hear the perspective from the people who made your games your come back to.

    • deranger@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      It’s the best immersive sim ever made, and the predictions it made way back in 99 are pretty amazing. There’s a sick conversation with an AI in a side room in the last level that is one of the best video game dialogues IMO.

      Tap for spoiler

      • JC Denton: I don’t see anything amusing about spying on people.

      • AI: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.

      • JC Denton: Some people just don’t understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.

      • AI: The need to be ovserved and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.

      • JC Denton: Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.

      • AI: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary.

      • JC Denton: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.

      • AI: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.

      • JC Denton: You underestimate humankind’s love of freedom.

      • AI: The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your god, and you will make it with your own hands.

      • 1984@lemmy.today
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        6 months ago

        That one was really good. I’m impressed by the level of insight here. Feels like we were a smarter species back in 2000.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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        6 months ago

        Ah thanks for the vivid trip down memory lane. It’s sad you have to really search hard to find such pearls nowadays.

      • WamGams@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

        This comes up a lot in science fiction circles: did PKD predict the future, or did he invent it?

        Much of his work seems to have been the basis for technological revolution.

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Any time I’ve been there it hasn’t felt any different than other airports. What about it is spooky?

  • Naz@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I remember some interview with Warren where they were talking about the idea for the game and it was like “What if it was every single conspiracy theory, but they were all true?”

    Well it turns out that makes for a pretty compelling story but also far too many of those ended up coming true, lol