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@bitofabother I boosted my thread here so folks more in touch with this stuff than I am can comment or make corrections or stuff :)

@bitofabother Personally, I feel that my Ideal Self could well be a resident there. Maybe not a native, but I'd gladly make a home of the place.

Aesthetics of Neptunian culture are hard to describe definitively. On a basic level there's a strong color palette of greens, blues, and purples. Luminescence is a big theme. The game Subnautica actually does a pretty good job of showing a flavor of possibility -- alien, but unmistakably vibrant and oceanic. Overflowing with life.

Society is passively anarchist and extremely laid-back. The Mindlink facilitates strong group bonds.

One advocate of this culture uses "kelp" as a euphemism for marijuana and that's been widely adopted in my circles.

A common invocation(? not really sure the right word) is a representation of the Mindlink communication Love+Flow+Glow.

So... yeah, that's a brief on Neptunian culture.

@bitofabother this planet and society was first described collaboratively by certain subsets of the Seattle-centered nexus of the postfurry sub-subculture. I'd have to look up exact dates and history; it was before my time.

Since its initial description, an increasing number of folks have taken on roles of being representatives of this Neptunian culture.

The degree of metaphysical seriousness here depends on who you ask and what day it is.

On the low end, it's "this is an interesting and reasonant concept, and a fun conceptual space to play in. There's also an ethos here that's worth projecting into our world."

On the high end, it's "Halcyon and Neptunian culture legitimately exist in time and space somewhere within real universes, our concept of it is a metaphysical echo, and some of us as beings have experienced or will experience lifetimes there."

Depending on the day, I'm intermediate to high on that scale.
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@bitofabother okay so. Imagine an ocean planet, called Halcyon. There's some islands but they're scattered and smallish.

There's lots of coral reefs and open water.

This planet is inhabited by a post-scarcity, post-human culture. Some of these beings are terrestrial or littoral, many more are primarily aquatic.

A defining feature of the planet-spanning ocean is that it facilitates a background mid-level telepathy, called the Mindlink. Beings in and around the ocean are continually empathically connected.

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@starkatt I just saw a trailer for a game like this! https://www.common-hood.com/

@starkatt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77siw5QlHcM

@starkatt there's Thea: The Awakening, which is this weird… Slavic, folksy, fantasy, turn-based… you build up your village, send out adventuring/resource gathering parties, then have random CYOA-type encounters with and your villagers have skills that translate into different kinds of cards in different skill challenges…

restore the power of the gods (or not), make friends and peace with the remnants of the orcs, dwarves, and elves… if you can win their trust after humans broke the pantheon & life as everyone knew it

snouts just passed 1 million snoots.

apparently, according to my account page, 23,713 (+1 for this one) are mine.

that's roughly 2.3-2.4%, if my math is accurate.

<voice type="Starship Troopers Marine">I'm Doing My Part!</voice>

@starkatt You can definitely do some of this in Starbound and I'd be surprised if there aren't mods that lean more heavily into it--I uh, basically play the game as a farming sim as it is....

@starkatt oh! I have one! The minecraft mod pack Regrowth, which is focused on pretty much exactly this: restoring a dead world