Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Guppyevery new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)

Believe it or not, the whole mechanized agriculture model is still controversial. Lot of juries are out about the net impact there, which is still creating slums, eroding soil, destroying rural communities and associated with overuse of chemicals to this day.
So that's not necessarily a reassuring analogy.

So you're saying that comparing two groups of workers whose work and the products thereof have traditionally been undervalued, and in the modern age are being forced out by corporate (or wearing the "corporate-funded nonprofit" figleaf) interests is apt after all?

And yeah, from all indications from actual programmers who have looked into it, despite wild claims AI ain't coming for the programmers any time soon. But those fatcat illustrators living in luxury, they better look out.

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Yeah, no. Screw these guys.

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Oh wow, I've been following this for *years*, and it's amazing to finally see a 1.0 release. Going to have to check out what's changed since the last time I've played. Quite a lot, I'm sure.

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I played the demo for this in the last Next Fest, and it didn't really give you a whole lot to go on. The small taste they gave was very repetitive, with few changes in most cycles. Hopefully the full game doesn't have such a slow start. There were hints of more, but only one really big thing was shown, and it didn't play much of a role in the demo.

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Quoting: wvstolzingI wonder if the scary sections look more or less scary now.

... and yes, the lower-res it gets, the more eerie & disturbing it looks in certain sections; I'm not kidding.

Hard agree. Even the hooded chainsaw dudes at the start look a lot goofier now that we're getting a better look at them.

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Quoting: EikeOnly Windows and Linux, no Mac. They sure know where money is to be made.

;)

Whoopie Goldberg is gonna be so mad!

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Jonathan Sims will be familiar to fans of the horror podcast The Magnus Archives, an apt choice here.

Nicole Goodnight appears to also come from the world of supernatural fiction podcasts, particularly one called Shadow & Smoke. Seems well cast here in any case.

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idk if I especially care about the space combat part, but having a whole new species/faction to interact with and having some customizable toys sounds great fun. Still holding out hope they overhaul the existing species to be a bit more interesting in a future update, but this is a welcome step toward that.

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Quoting: Luke_Nukemi love this game. But the static bodies of water is just... weird and unnatural. It makes all the planets that may have a similar composition to earth feel completely lifeless.

Also the fact that rivers don't seem to exist. Oceans are also uniformly shallow, so you can't make a deep water base.

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I like where they've gone, although I keep holding out hope that they'll overhaul the space stations, alien bases and similar stuff to make all that more immersive. Almost every other aspect has been re-done, it's time that one got some attention.

But I expect Echoes will not be that at all.

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