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Only somewhat right after the start of the game, but I am seeing some themes that have become somewhat prescient as of time of writing. Open-source networks, centralisation, federated servers, mainstream artificial intelligence, etc.

Would be interested to know the inspirations for the plot!

Side note: Have you heard about the Fediverse? People may be more familiar with it through Mastodon, one of the more commonly used Fediverse software. Most software in the Fediverse communicates using the ActivityPub protocol, which is open-source. With big companies like Meta (Threads) and Automattic (Wordpress) adopting it, there are many concerns which coincidentally are also discussed in this game.

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Hey, I wanted to give a more detailed reply when I find the time, but since it has been a month now I just want to let you know that I was happy about this comment, thank you for catching those details and exploring so deeply.

In short, I was & still am quite interested in FOSS and the way companies interact with it. It’s hard to avoid reading up on Embrace/Extend/Extinguish and other things when diving into that, painting quite a dark picture of the goals companies have whenever they approach any community-based project. It’s an interesting relationship that has evolved a lot over the past years, with so many things to talk about.

The current AI developments are also such a big topic to tackle. It feels weird writing a science fiction story and suddenly being in that position where those stories often become reality. All those NPC rants about Eunomia being a language interpreter with big data, creating the illusion of intelligent speech feels quite on point with how I feel about generative AI now. As is with how it’s bound to be used detrimentally.