<![CDATA[Looking at you, No Man's Sky]]>This post did not contain any content.]]>https://polykyklo.gr/topic/63df1048-2521-4452-aa9b-c1e2fa8efac0/looking-at-you-no-man-s-skyRSS for NodeSun, 24 May 2026 17:45:59 GMTThu, 23 Apr 2026 13:02:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:30:26 GMT]]>Agreed. I love NMS but it gets old roaming around an unchanging biome

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23449583https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23449583Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:30:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:45:21 GMT]]>And only a few specific exports of a single variety. Apparently Romulans found one fermentation technique and never experimented again.

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://l.twipped.social/comment/434656https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://l.twipped.social/comment/434656Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:45:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:41:58 GMT]]>I would love a game like NMS that actually had varied bioms and civilizations. I know it's to much to ask. And with out as much fighting so I can focus on exploration and trade. But it's to much to ask

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23393527https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23393527Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:41:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:36:14 GMT]]>Tree World? We go hard.

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23393440https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23393440Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:36:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:36:02 GMT]]>Earth is not your average planet. We've been looking for YEARS for goldilocks planets.

If anything, all those single-biome planets aren't extreme enough.

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/26088964https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/26088964Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:36:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:29:36 GMT]]>

People don’t have to be absolute identical clones for it to be a monoculture.

On a planetary scale, hundreds of millions if not billions, they absolutely do. There are simply too many variables for people to crystallize around.

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23393362https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23393362Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:29:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:44:02 GMT]]>I mean the Ferengi are mono-ethnic and mono-cultural and they are spread throughout the whole damn universe.

Maybe we are the one that is not like the others?

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://programming.dev/comment/23472030https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://programming.dev/comment/23472030Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:44:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:13:09 GMT]]>Dam bro. No wonder California is always talking about Cost of Living. They got it all

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://programming.dev/comment/23471985https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://programming.dev/comment/23471985Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:13:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:42:12 GMT]]>I'm working on a Starfinder campaign, so explaining all of these and the lore becomes more complex. I'm homebrewing a lot of the lore, because I'd rather make my own than learn a different one (and it lets me make things up on the spot that I don't know). I know for one planet, its industrial revolution made its inhabitants flee underground, since the surface became too hostile. Magic helps with a lot of explanations too.

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23391711https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23391711Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:42:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:27:14 GMT]]>Earth is pretty rad if you take humans out of the equation.

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://piefed.social/comment/11085234https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://piefed.social/comment/11085234Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:27:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:34:55 GMT]]>California, such diverse film locales

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/26082196https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/26082196Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:34:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:58:48 GMT]]>It's amazing how Quizxiolia Gemini III looks absolutely nothing like southern California!

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/25324285https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/25324285Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:58:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:13:04 GMT]]>They're making a new game with that exact premise actually. Only one planet but still

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23380022https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23380022Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:13:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:42:44 GMT]]>Naquda mines?

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/22920116https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/22920116Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:42:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:58:54 GMT]]>Imagine how jank that game would have been on release if they tried varied procedurally generated biomes hahaha.

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/22919686https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/22919686Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:58:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:50:54 GMT]]>A lot of stargates seem suspiciously located in abandoned quarries in the Pacific northwest

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23378644https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23378644Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:50:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:24:20 GMT]]>Don't forget that if the planet is inhabited, it has only has one civilization that is mono-ethnic and mono-cultural. Star Trek is the most prominent offender example of this. Still a good series though.

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/25696271https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/25696271Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:24:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:14:26 GMT]]>Read what I wrote. I didn't define a monoculture as literally every individual being the same. I defined a monoculture a a planet that had a similar level of cultural diversity to a small country like Iceland. We would typically call countries like this a monoculture, even though they obviously have variations gender, class, etc. People don't have to be absolute identical clones for it to be a monoculture.

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23378249https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23378249Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:14:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:41:02 GMT]]>Which somehow has an indoor jungle, an ice cave, an underwater section, a fire cave, a cathedral, the entire Library of Alexandria, the inevitable clock tower, an arcade and bowling alley...

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23377882https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23377882Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:41:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:37:52 GMT]]>It might have had biomes in the past, but that's a different discussion. There's no evidence of life currently existing on Mars.

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://adultswim.fan/comment/8814288https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://adultswim.fan/comment/8814288Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:37:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:59:30 GMT]]>I think you're vastly underestimating how quickly culture deviates and develops. A planetary mono-culture would require every person to grow up in exactly the same circumstances. No stratification from class or gender or sex or age or ethnicity. No varying seasons or biomes or climates. Exposed to all the same media at exactly the same time, and all with the same intelligence and personality and ability to interpret it.

In short, the only time a mono-culture makes even a tiny bit of sense is when it's a hivemind. (Or mind-control but that's pretty much the same thing)

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23377369https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23377369Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:59:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:54:58 GMT]]>Hey, be good if we wreck all this, which belongs to us all by birthright, so the ultra-rich could get to one of them and build a massive slave colony, with a green house exclusively for themselves to masterbate in, while we fight over oxygen, right?

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23377288https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23377288Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:54:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:43:06 GMT]]>The word for world is forest

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23377135https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23377135Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:43:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking at you, No Man's Sky on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:35:00 GMT]]>

wasn’t it a metaphor

Maybe. I just remember re-reading the book in preparation for the TV Show's release, and being somewhat set back by how low tech even the more advanced set pieces were in the book compared to the show. It makes more sense when you recognize these books were written in the 1940s, practically before rocketry was a thing. But it's still a bit of a trip to see what Asimov considered the future would look like.

]]>https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23377018https://polykyklo.gr/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/23377018Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:35:00 GMT