There’s an Aztec city building game called Tlatoani. It’s in early access, but has enough meat on the bone that it’s one of my goto games.
Out of curiosity I checked Steam DB for active player numbers. I have discovered at any given point I am 10% to 25% of the given player base BY MYSELF. I am 1 of 4 people playing this game right now in the world. With the prevalence of the internet I always assume whatever weird bullshit you’re into there’s at least a thousand people talking about it; making memes outsiders could never comprehend. It’s actually novel to fly under the radar for once.
What do you do that doesn’t have a community associated with it?
Right, its a tool. I think of it like autotune or daws. Sure, id much prefer to make music on a tape machine and artists not have to use autotune, but we dont have the time or money any more to do that.
Authenticity will truly suffer because of the use of llms and image/video generation, as will the internet as a whole (its already dead except for small pockets). So to me, is a net negative on society, but it was inevitable.