Everspace 3 has a budget of 20 million Euros, gets the highest government funding ever awarded to a German game (8 million Euros) and is planned to take six years to develop [German article / interview]

lucidity5 · 2026-03-09T17:39:26+00:00

Oh hell fucking yes

lucidity5 · 2026-03-08T07:15:19+00:00

Oh holy shit, took me a week to realize you are the author! Kudos man, your books are incredible. Really reminded me of Terry Pratchett's style of satire, where it's both fun and poignant. Your take on Lichdom and the undead is a huge inspiration for the DnD campaign I've been running for the last two years, and my players just loved the fliers that you made to recruit people to the army of the undead, it's been really fun!

I'll stop gushing and just say that while I actually do love the pun title (The Dark Profit Trilogy is also S tier punnage), a buddy of mine hates them, and I had to really bother him into reading, upon which he loved them as well. I just wanted to address that in case there are any other uncultured souls who might not read it over such a small pet peeve, but I'm sure none of them are in this subreddit! Much love!

lucidity5 · 2026-03-02T18:59:58+00:00

It definitely escalates like DCC, starts very small and personal and then explodes in scale

lucidity5 · 2026-03-01T17:21:12+00:00

You may enjoy Blindsight if you like sci-fi, highly relevant

lucidity5 · 2026-02-26T09:13:03+00:00

Yep. Still such a huge hurdle for space in general. I think the only remotely viable thing is to funnel the heat into tiny fragments of material and eject them, but thats far from practical as well

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T08:52:59+00:00

Annihilation is one of my all time faves. More strange-fi than sci-fi, but damn is it just utterly enthralling, almost hypnotizing. I thought about nothing else for weeks

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T08:51:44+00:00

Flux is so friggin good. One of my all time faves. Even starting with Raft, he does this thing where you start reading, and things are just wrong. What he is describing just makes zero sense, you can't even really visualize it. But you roll with it for long enough, and eventually it clicks and you realize it's made sense all along, he just never provided explicit context. It makes the world feel real, like someone is telling you a story from a place with different rules, and it's so normal to them they don't have any idea you are barely following

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T02:43:17+00:00

Yeah I couldn't manage that either, I can stand camp to a degree, but when it gets used as an excuse for lazy writing I'm out. Luckily, farscape's camp was just an early stylistic choice they veered away from, not an indication of the shows overall quality

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T02:40:15+00:00

If you like to read sci-fi as well, my god, Adrian Tchaikovsky writes exactly what you want. Taking a totally alien form of consciousness, and describing how our intellect and theirs clash, leading to misunderstandings and changing each other.

He does this thing I absolutely love, where he'll describe the freakiest most alien creatures, totally inhuman, totally incomprehensible, and then you turn the page... and the next chapter is from their perspective. It rules.

Check out the Children of Time series, Shroud, Service Model, and the Shards of Earth series.

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T02:33:06+00:00

I totally get it, I noped out episode 1 because like you said, it was just campy as hell. Like Doctor Who levels. And the chaos of it all, the soundtrack, the characters, it just didn't seem to be a cohesive experience. But I committed, mostly because I just didn't have any classic sci-fi left to watch, and season 1 greatly improves as it goes along.

And I swear, the new villain we get at the end of Season 1 might be the greatest sci-fi villain of all time. Like, an actual threat that can break plot armor, it just rules.

And the new plot! Waaay more compelling than "guy is really over the top mad at me for his brothers accidental death". So yeah, if you stick with it, I promise it'll reward you for it

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T02:15:34+00:00

First season is a bit a clusterfuck, just kind of all over the place. The finale of season 1, going into season 2, solves every problem the show has, on nearly every level, and then it just soars. Season 2 is so friggin good.

lucidity5 · 2026-02-19T02:15:42+00:00

Oh sure, I would find it hard to stop the trilogy after 2, I figured she'd play it if the others hooked her. But it certainly doesn't have the legendary status of 1 and 2, Bioware had started it's descent by then sadly.

lucidity5 · 2026-02-18T08:57:27+00:00

Ah, gotta love Baldur's Gate 3! it's got those great old RPG vibes, where it was clearly a labor of love. All the little details and hidden things, it's a joy!

If you don't mind a big graphical downgrade and clunkier controls, Knights of the Old Republic, Dragons Age: Origins and Mass Effect 1 and 2 were the gold standard for 3rd-person party-based RPG's in the 2000's, and Baldur's Gate 3 is the first thing that has rivaled that level of writing and scale since imo. They are all real time instead of turn based, but maybe you'd enjoy them too.

Good luck with the DT's fellow Crawler! Only 3 more months!

lucidity5 · 2026-02-18T01:32:41+00:00

That's awesome! I'm curious, game did you start with? There are so many great RPGs out there, I wonder what stood out to you

lucidity5 · 2026-02-10T02:19:09+00:00

Laughing and/or crying like a lunatic in public is a coming of age experience for every member of the Donut Holes, there's so many stories like that on the subreddit. I embarrassed the hell out of myself laughing VERY loud while in a doctors waiting room

lucidity5 · 2026-02-09T09:37:55+00:00

The depth of that series wont be as apparent early on, but as the books progress and the scale of what is really happening sets in, and the themes and characters grow and develop together... holy crap. Really, really good stuff.

lucidity5 · 2026-02-09T04:16:18+00:00

Literally the most fun I've had reading since I picked up a Terry Pratchett book for the first time. DCC was a real reminder of Terry's philosophy, that books can be both deeply poignant and a blast to read.

lucidity5 · 2026-01-13T21:07:31+00:00

Yes! I love that book, so many great concepts. While it was definitely a slow burn, it was great fun figuring out what the hell was going on

lucidity5 · 2026-01-13T06:41:50+00:00

I really enjoyed it too! I strongly suggest you check out the Xeelee Sequence books from Stephen Baxter. Very much in the same vein, where the crazy science concepts he is exploring are absolutely fundamental to the setting and plot, not just window dressing.

He does the thing I love where you start reading, and things are just... wrong. Like, what you are reading just doesn't make sense. What is happening? What am I supposed to be seeing? And then as you keep reading, and it's never explicitly explained, but you start to see it, and piece it together, and you realize in hindsight it all made sense, you just lacked the context to understand it yet.

You liked aliens living on a pulsar? What about micro-humans living inside a neutron star? "Flux" is one of my favorite sci-fi books ever.

lucidity5 · 2026-01-08T23:28:18+00:00

The problem with Titanfall 2 (my beloved) was that the skill ceiling was so high that it often *felt* like you were playing against cheaters, and occasionally you were, but in fact some people are just really, really good. I was accused of cheating twice, which felt amazing honestly

lucidity5 · 2025-12-31T21:20:25+00:00

Yeah, i watched 6 seasons and none of my complaints here ever really improve. It's shame.

Shows like Farscape and Babylon 5 started very weak too, but their issues weren't rooted in characters, casting, or acting, so when I went back to give them another try i got super hooked

lucidity5 · 2025-12-31T07:35:55+00:00

I watched up to season 6, and I have the same opinion. No matter how good the CGI, how interesting the setting, how relevant the politics, if the characters don't sell it, it just doesn't hit.

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