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You would have to be extremely patient even for electromagnetic communication. A single round trip to the nearest star would take 8 years.


Turn based games strategy games have a resurgence in popularity and become things passed down the family.

"See this knight? My great-grandfather recruited it into this CIV V game 72 years ago. Now it is time for it to fulfil its destiny and crush the archer built by the Bob's great uncle"


Correspondence chess, maybe.


The future is diplomacy through play-by-post RPGs over interstellar Usenet.


I think the interstellar protocols would have to be redesigned around UDP, because a reliable protocol would have too many round-trips and would be intolerably slow.


It is possible to engage in constant communication even with a very long delay. Simply both start sending questions of a certain theme, and after the one-way time you can have a fluid conversation, albeit the theme of conversation will change very slowly.




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