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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My vote is japanese knotweed is going to win, and it will do so with ease in my experience of seeing how difficult it is to get rid of.

Maybe the previous resident of the house was a scifi writer actually worth their salt and they created the plant royale to observe what that part of the earth would be uniformly covered in after the wild ecosystems are gone.

What am I kidding scifi writers only care about serious man topics like space war and space politics and the specific kinds of engines on imagined starships...

looks down at the unfolding mass extinction

nothing to talk about here but electric sheep..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I like space war but space politics sounds really dumb. I want Neolithic cultures on pseudo ringworlds slung on planetary tethers down to supermind AI machine worlds beyond their wildest comprehension built by the star gods left behind in the wake of the human species.

Is that too much to ask?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think Ian M. Banks ('The Culture' series) already had that, unless that's specifically what you were referencing. Though humanity wasn't a part of The Culture, as explicitly explained when they were viewing us like apes in a zoo, so the ringworlds with primitive cultures on them that had AI machine minds tending them weren't from the wake of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think this is what I'd call close but no cigar. My main difference is I want humanity to be the ancient machine mind makers, with said machine minds being in the image of man, but molded to our old beliefs regarding gods. We made many minds for the many gods, and they outlasted our species. Now it's just the gods maintaining what humanity left behind, maybe interacting with new sentient species that have found the remnants of humanity and are studying them. One of these days I think I'm just going to have to write this big messy bastard out myself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I'm not very knowledgeable in existing works, but Stray is an incredible game that explores this idea I think. I haven't finished it but what I've played so far is fantastic and immersive in that sort of world

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You could write it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think I'm gonna have to write it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Well, in a weird way that reminds of the background story to the board game Bonfire...

No ringworlds, just a dark planet with no ambient light to survive by.

https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/210854/the-world-of-bonfire-the-background-story

https://hallgames.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-world-of-Bonfire_web.pdf