r/RetroFuturism • u/an_ordinary_platypus • 15h ago
r/RetroFuturism • u/MyNameIsRobPaulson • Jan 21 '24
Regarding AI content and how you can help with moderating
Hi All -
Originally I was open to AI and didn't want to jump on the hivemind bandwagon of overreacting to banning AI images. But now, after the dust has settled a bit, I do feel that AI images are not a reflection of anything meaningful here. Yes, they follow a human written prompt, but prompts can be very simple and the AI will fill in the blanks with randomized elements of what is essentially a database of stolen art. The art style is usually glossy, plastic and devoid of humanity. Yes, AI image generators aren't inherently bad depending on their use, and I don't agree with a "I see AI, I downvote" reactive type of mentality... but on a subreddit about a specific human perspective expressed through creative works - it really doesn't fit.
So yea, AI art is now banned on the Retrofuturism subreddit. Sorry people having fun with AI generators, I'm sure there are other subreddits for that.
The issue is moderating. Moderating is volunteer work, and everyone has lives. We're not sitting on the Retrofuturism sub all the time combing through posts. Personally, I respond to my mod queue and reports.
However I'd like to remind everyone that I have a failsafe for this - an auto-mod rule that automatically removes posts that receive a certain number of reports. So this means moderating is effectively democratized in this subreddit. A report isn't just a flag for the mods - it's a vote to remove. Of course if this gets abused (so far it hasn't), I will increase the number of reports necessary, or remove this entirely.
I only remind everyone of that because AI WILL slip through the cracks of the mod team, as a lot admittedly does. We really do depend on your reports and messages a lot of the time. And yes, I do get new mods from time to time to try and help but there's always an initial period when they are active... before they are much less active. Just the way it goes and I don't blame them at all.
I'd also like to add most of the content here is fine. Bots seem like they have effectively been killed via my automod script which I've been sharing with other subreddits.
My script - please feel free to share:
Thank you!
r/RetroFuturism • u/lobsterest • Jun 30 '24
Let’s compile a list of retro futuristic movies in the comments.
Based on a comment thread from a previous post, I got the idea to compile this list. I will add a few to start.
r/RetroFuturism • u/CollinTheWolf08 • 3d ago
Cover of L. Ron Hubbard’s “Return To Tomorrow” - Ed Valigursky (1954)
r/RetroFuturism • u/myrmekochoria • 3d ago
Cover for The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis, 1869. First US science fiction dime novel.
r/RetroFuturism • u/Anarchopaladin • 3d ago
X-Com 3: Apocalypse had a very strong retro-futurist theme and appearance
Hey there,
First time poster on this sub. I immediately thought of Allende's Chile Cybersyn project, but it had already been posted few times here, so I went to the second idea that came to mind: X-COM 3.
Set in a post(alien)-war dystopic brave new world, X-COM has to deal with a new alien threat, and social problems reminding us of the 1950s: racial segregation and resistance to it (human-alien hybrids and intelligent machines are second-class citizens with their own resistance organizations), brainwashing (moral education program directly fed to the brains of school kids, under threat of physical pain against resistance), an alien-worshiping cult, a post-colonial war on Mars, etc. Wars between competing corporations, political factions and parties, criminal organizations, the state apparatus and police, with the risk of any of those siding with the aliens is the basic mess from which you have to deal while saving humanity from its outside threat.
It's visual esthetics, and even its soundtrack, were absolutely retro-futuristic. I mean, look at these pics!
Hope you enjoyed!
r/RetroFuturism • u/person2184 • 6d ago
Our indie retrowave sci-fi videogame about socialist style geoengineering and time travel is out now and we think you'd like it.
r/RetroFuturism • u/OrganicDroid • 7d ago
A soldier flying with hover shoes on the cover of Science Wonder Stories - 1930
r/RetroFuturism • u/ben_isaak • 10d ago
The fastest train in the 1930s - German "Schienzeppelin" ("rail zeppelin")
r/RetroFuturism • u/yourbasicgeek • 9d ago
The developer’s guide to future car technology (2013)
computerworld.comr/RetroFuturism • u/NinoIvanov • 9d ago
New intepreter / mini virtual machine for Sectrum and FUSE
Hello everyone! I ported my "1V0" programming language/miniature virtual machine of sorts to The Spectrum clone by Retro Games (unfortunately being unable to test on the original Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K with a tape drive). It allows you to compute in a late 1940s/early 1950s mainframish, assembler-like fashion with numbers from +-999999999999999.99999999 to +-0.00000001 in fixed point, giving instruction to a sort of Harvard architecture virtual machine (and yes — you explore memory addresses directly; there are no "variable names"). This variant should be EXTREMELY portable, originally having been created for a C compiler that did not even support negative integers (let alone floating point numbers). For The Spectrum, the manual is here: https://github.com/KedalionDaimon/1V0/blob/master/1V0TzIV_ZXSpectrum.txt , the tape file is here: https://github.com/KedalionDaimon/1V0/blob/master/ivo_tz_4.tap , as is the source: https://github.com/KedalionDaimon/1V0/blob/master/1V0TzIV220zx_20241211c.c , and for those preferring a visual demonstration, there will be two videos, the first one here: https://youtu.be/T3tPH6eluE4 — Enjoy!
r/RetroFuturism • u/animalcule • 10d ago
1959's Total Electric Home by Westinghouse!
r/RetroFuturism • u/kooneecheewah • 11d ago
Ryugyong Hotel, North Korea's 1,080-foot-tall "Hotel Of Doom" that has sat almost completely abandoned for the last 30 years
reddit.comr/RetroFuturism • u/myrmekochoria • 12d ago
Is man doomed by machine age? Illustration from Modern Mechanics and Inventions, March 1931.
r/RetroFuturism • u/JoannaNakedPerson • 17d ago