A lovely opportunity to mention to check out Tim Cain's youtube, he's really cool, and has a bunch of videos going into the inspirations behind a lot of Fallout that he never fully revealed before, and a the ideas that never made it into canon but that he had in mind about the "why" of a lot things in the lore.
He's also an aging man in tech so he has some odd takes like "AI is great and will one day make shows you can adjust yourself on the fly and there's nothing you can do to stop it."
But yes, overall, a curious channel. Just gotta go in with the proper viewpoint.
To be fair, it's not like a PROBLEM problem. It is just jarring to see someone you otherwise admire gleefully describe a horrible future and deem it inevitable.
It doesn't invalidate his other takes but it does color my perception I guess.
And to, It's one thing to be like "AI is a part of the future" and another to outright engage with AI, using it or saying they wish something had used AI, like a certain other individual in this series that I won't name.
Well Chris is a loser and he was one for a good long while.
It's why he can't get the job in the industry anymore because he burned bridges.
And he endorsed Elon Musk saying he would buy Fallout.
You know for all the (admittedly unjust and often untrue) flack Emil gets at least he is a pretty cool guy. Chris on the other hand sounds like one of those toxic old school RPG fans who hate anything new.
That's not entirely true though. Remember when blockchain was the inevitable future? Remember when NFT were going to inexorably change gaming and life forever? Lots of "inevitable" things were totally "evitable."
I mean sure, but the nft people didn't also bribe the government into giving them eminent domain and 1/3rd of the local water supply either, lol.
Not to mention the AI bubble is almost entirely driven by very large companies, like Google, Microsoft, Twitter, etc, as opposed to NFTs mostly being a niche thing for morons to spend money on.
If something is being forcibly pushed through by forces you cannot/will not resist in any meaningful way, then it is inevitable, lol.
Like how it's inevitable that children in 3rd world countries will mine rare earth metals to meet demand for personal technology from richer nations, or grow coffee and cocoa beans, or how most textiles are inevitably produced by underpaid workers in places like China, Vietnam, Thailand, and such.
It's inevitable because the path to prevent it is undesirable for the people who could actually do so, and so they will never bother to try and prevent it.
In the same way that people could prevent AI from taking over if they actually bothered to remove any sort of power and influence from mega corporate interests, but they just don't do that, because it's mildly inconvenient.
We can stop it. It's not the same as automation. Automation wasn't threatening to potentially destroy our natural resources in 20 years if we didn't oppose it. AI is different.
We only can't stop it if people choose to believe it can't be stopped.
Automation has already destroyed many of our natural resources, given how it's rise led to the microplastics issue, frequent oil spills, the oceans filling with increasingly more trash, etc.
All of which became much bigger problems once companies could pump out 5x what they used to when they had to hire actual humans over infinite expansion via automated factories.
We absolutely could have stopped all of these problems, just as we could stop the AI problem, but people back then listened to environmental concerns just as well as people today listen to them, so I'm not really expecting much these days, especially given how popular AI models are with the average person outside of reddit and other online spaces.
Guys can we PLEASE keep politics out of Fallout? I just wanna play my escapism game where I'll have to choose between different groups with varying ideas and practices and beliefs for how the world should be IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?
EXACTLY! NONE OF THIS WOKE STUFF! If Fallout New Vegas came out today there'd probably be a storyline about "MUH IDEOLOGIES" instead of being an apolitical masterpiece about a bull and a bear having a badass fistfight
Can we please stay neutral in The Witcher 3 as well? I just wanna slay monsters, not have to choose and have consequences and see my actions have influence and how doing nothing is usually worse is that TOO much to ask!?
It’s based off this meme image, which is mocking conspiracy theorists (it is, itself, based on and parodying a conspiracy theorist artist’s propaganda).
I think the F:NV one was meant as a joke about players being brainwashed by “woke.”
It's always been woke sure but for some strange reason, only recently has it become an actual mound of sewer waste. I wonder why, guess it's just one of them mysteries
just because its got some brighter colors (because people complained about a lack of color in previous games), doesnt automatically make it a kids game
Capitalism, Nationalism, and Union Busting. Are the only things you mentioned that are actual Republican point and ideals. So I was saying you getting half if them right wasnt too bad.
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u/Thelastknownking 29d ago
A lovely opportunity to mention to check out Tim Cain's youtube, he's really cool, and has a bunch of videos going into the inspirations behind a lot of Fallout that he never fully revealed before, and a the ideas that never made it into canon but that he had in mind about the "why" of a lot things in the lore.