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I've approached this with my own aliens, a species which can routinely live to 1,000 years due to advancements in medical technology. Their average life span in generally between 700-800 years so a long time. For them technological development didn't actually move slower in comparison, as there's a lot of factors that goes into developing tech with the environment, locale economics, and geopolitics playing a much larger role in general. But one thing of note, because they live so long this gives them the opportunity to become skilled in a variety of trades in comparison to other short lived sophonts which means they tend to prefer technology that's more geared towards increases in individual productivity and self-sufficiency than say mercantilism or mass commerce.

I'd imagine generational differences would be pretty extreme if they developed so quickly. Early cultures didn't really have a concept of futurisms or progression, life was cyclical. If tech advancement was faster and occurred over the course of a single generation, this greatly changes their perspective of religion and the world around them. The idea of "progressing" might flavor their words perspective much earlier in their history than with us. I'm still developing this part for my own aliens

I like the idea of self driving cars, especially for people with mobility issues but they'll never be safe enough for use without their own infrastructure because of the complexity and also terrible design of American roads. Personally I think its better to spend our tax dollars on building better public transit and human sized transportation methods but the absurd amount of push back from both the populace and also the government basically guarantees it isn't going to happen in my life time. But i generally don't see the self-driving car experiment working out in the long run.

Personally i don't see VR as the future of gaming, VR is all about an increase in immersion which isn't always what you want in a video game. It'll be its own unique thing. As to whether or not it'll remain niche entirely depends on how the technology develops and its ease of use. From what i tell now, and what VR will probably be used for predominately (and well its mostly being used this way anyway) is socializing. Yeah you can play video games with it but I think the primary drive for VR for a lot of people will be what is essentially digital chatroom, movies, theme parks basically VR chat and things like it.

its old but it isn't retro at least not yet. Most xbox 360 games have modern game design none of them have that "retro" feel. Its an old system but none of the games feel old. Now the OG xbox being considered retro makes me feel like a dinosaur.

the alternate universe where the sony actually made that CD drive for the snes

while metroidvania is an apt comparison souls-like games and specifically dark souls games feel a lot like classic dungeon crawlers ( but with real time combat instead of grids. Which in the case of fromsoftwares earlier games kingsfield, makes a lot of sense.

dang, must be like dodging land mines

As someone who casually enjoys 40K, it has a tendency to attract some of the most rancid people. OSR has this problem too sometimes, but its not nearly as bad as 40k. And the general RC hobby. Part of the reason i don't fly fpv drones as much as I'd like too, can't stand the chuds at the airfield I've never met a more unhappy group of people, and they don't even fly anything there either!

For me its less so about the world-building itself but the presentation. I like when a fiction setting feels otherworldly like it operates on its own internal logic that makes you feel like a stranger in a strange land. One of my favorite ttrpg settings is vaults of vaarn, an indie game very much inspired by Caves of Qud and while the lore is fairly sparse, what you do get paints a vivid but weird history of an far future post-human earth. I think its neat.

I don't understand, so their goal is to shift from centrists to conservatives? What is even happening right now?

people like larger phones because they like social media. For people in developing countries a cell phone is their only personal computer so for them having larger screen more preferable. People just like larger phones. I loath them because I don't have pockets. I could probably live with a dumb phone, but mobile banking, and maps are too useful of a feature for me to live without out. tbh unless your a power user or gamer there really isn't much of a reason to upgrade your cellphone anyway