How long before Avi find proof it is powered by aliens

I posted it on Lemmy, and someone suggested:

https://www.antiwordle.com/

I dont know how relevant it is to your game

I have this unfunded deeply held belief that the whole US system rely on its stellar entertainment industry.

In France even the best shows imported from the US , like Survivor, are horribly bad in their local iteration: Koh Lanta.

(exception for Rupaul Drag Race , where for once, they followed the US script, and is recognized as one of the best show here, now.)

We have the same problem in German TV as far as I watched. Even Rupaul drag race there is bad, since they removed any funny banter from the Judges and lack any trace of humor.

Even the European sport: Football (soccer in the US) , is inherently boring once compared to Basketball. And even if it was good, you have 1 match /week at best during sport season.

  My point is, with a population way less entertained, strikes, and activism are more prevalent. 

And it has nothing to do with how rich people are.

We can argue that on average US citizen are more rich than European henceforth less inclined to have beef with the government.

But even one of the richest nation of the world: Switzerland, has more political sense and activism than the US... and awful TV shows.

The way the US population is domesticated, is not through easy life, cheap consumption, but just because the US has the best entertainment in the world by an order of magnitude. Even the novels are better. The US has cursus to create good writers, and it work. (B.E. Ellis come to mind. I dont know about Palahniuk or John Irving formation but I would not be surprise if they followed some creative writing class. And I can name multiple of US good modern author, and none from other nation beside Murakami. In France our best author are the racist deepshit Houellebecke, and the egomaniac A. Nothomb)

May be someone knowledgeable in Korean, or Japanese entertainment industry (which seems good from the outside) and those nation relationship with their government can confirm or dismiss my idea.

   I read the "Jupiter protocol"

After all, thoses shorts are an easy read, by skimming the boring past, I see myself coming for more.

I try to see the AI pattern. So far: Unecessary Time jump . And boring everyday dialog still in. Weirdn as some dialogs are perfectly fine but the Ai keep some uninteresting one in here.

One point during the story, at the begining, I would have bet a human writer did some editing.

Read Quarantine by greg Egan.

Picked it up randomly. Nice surprise. I never heard of this dude, and appartently he is a super hard science SF. I dont like hard science, but is was very good.

After the revelation that human are destroying the universe through observation of quantum .. it become a bit stale, and the long explanation (of quantum incertainty, to justify the twist) went well over my head, and lasted for way too long (hard science, I suppose)

Still one of the best SF I read in a long time. Way above 'the 3 body problem" from which I was expecting so much.

Read Promethea. By Alan Moore.

Very wordly comic. Not the best Moore, but the charm is still here. This time it is all about human mythos and the sephirot tree, and tarot card as a revelation of human history. All stuff fascinating me since I read "foucault's Pendulum" by H.Eco.

The second tome is a bit stale with the exploration of the Sephirot tree being long and without purpose.

The very good: All the humor of the "weeping gorilla" comic, background joke. And the fact that the name "Promethea' is an annagram of "Metaphore"

the last story at this time 'echoes of the living' is badly written. I wouldnt tell it is AI though.

And the twist is pettry okay and come well together.

(Funny fact: I won a short story context with exactly the same ending: revelation of an old time communication betwen Human and an alien species. Mine was from another star. May be less impactful than this one)

Still I'm not enticed to read the others stories. To be fair, as much as I like SF, I hardly find any writer worth reading. Beside F.Herbert, and some Azimov (for the plot only)