On a related note, the game Satisfactory is a sci fi factory building game set on an alien planet, and there's a big ass spiral galaxy in the night sky. When I saw it I had to stop for a minute and think about the lore implications. Either this is millions of light years from Earth at least, or billions of years in the future.
Either way the fact I'm playing an indentured servant practically owned by a mega corporation hell bent on rapaciously expanding their factories throughout space is fucking bleak.
Now, maybe the artist just put it there because it's pretty and spacey, but the devs are clearly massive nerds and I would 100% believe that they intended that implication.
Yeah tbh I couldn’t find a better picture, because as we all know internet search has gone to complete shit. Andromeda is 220 thousand lightyears across, so much bigger than MW, that was what I tried to reference in my title