Nari

I’ve been a Kagi user since launch, and it has completely replaced everything for me except image searches. It’s the best $10 I spend each month.

Mastodon’s “Explore” section does a good job of aggregating the “Trending” [whatever that means without a real algorithm] posts from all the servers that federate your instance, so the kind of front page experience you’re describing is definitely within the realm of possibility. Someone would just have to build it.

I think it’s important to keep in mind that this is all in “minimum viable product” territory, rather than being the final form Lemmy/Kbin/etc. It’s really exciting to think about all the new and weird features that are possible, assuming people put in the time to develop them, and users provide support, either financial or other.

I’ve text generation stuff a few times when the party’s done something I wasn’t prepared for and I needed to improvise. In addition to the flavor text and naming stuff you’ve done, ChatGPT’s pretty good at turning prose ideas into brief snippets of poem, or taking a clear idea (“fill the pot with water to open the door”) and obscuring it with metaphor and whatnot that forces them to puzzle through things.

The AR stuff is what I’ve wanted since the first Oculus dropped – being able to remove all the obvious parts of technology from my physical spaces (the multiple monitors, the computer tower, all the cables and whatnot) in favor of a thing I put on my head and do real work? Yes please. Fuck gaming – I want my life back, and to have work shoved off into a weird phantom realm where I don’t have to think about or look at it when I’m off the clock.

Well, the tomato sauce is a guarantee, since tomatoes are a New World plant.

Great list. I would also say most RPGs, if they’re any good, will give you the choice – Mass Effect, Skyrim, Pillars of Eternity, the Divinity games, etc.

Lots of adventure games as well – The Longest Journey/Dreamfall games, Life is Strange, Whispers of a Machine, etc.

Honestly, the number of games where you’re trapped playing a lantern-jawed, grunty doofus is way, way less overwhelming than it used to be, which I really appreciate.

I’m increasingly convinced that the pop music of the future will consist entirely of mediocre or terrible songs written by real people – that the flaws and fuck-ups of lousy artists will suddenly seem like magic when compared to an endless stream of algorithmically generated, pristine computer bullshit.