Telorand @ Telorand @reddthat.com

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AI: The "pen that can write in zero gravity" when pencils exist.

If you liked Hollow Knight, you should give Symphony of the Night a try sometime. The gameplay loop is similar, and like Hollow Night, there's no hurry.

I think they're both good, with the older one being the one that, imo, defined the Vania side of things. But being on the older side myself, I understand having limited time to take on new games!

The art style is great, and the ability to choose your loadout adds a unique twist to how Metroidvanias usually work. I had a good time playing it, and it reminded me a lot of when I played Symphony of the Night many years ago.

Many Metroidvanias are boring because they lack character that would motivate you to do Metroidvania levels of backtracking.

This is a good point, and likely why I've not gotten that into many of the more recent ones (with some exceptions). I suppose in that sense, it's revolutionary next to many of its contemporaries.

Hollow Knight is clearly one of the best to ever do it in my opinion. It also totally transformed the landscape of metroidvanias, with subsequent games imitating it left and right.

Can you expand on this? I feel like there's some interesting perspective in there.

And I will probably play Silksong eventually, too but I'm just trying to understand why people think it stands above the rest.

Yeah, I'm not shitting on the game, just trying to understand why people are so excited by it.

I don't really understand the appeal of Hollow Knight. Like don't get me wrong, I loved it, but having played lots of other Metroidvanias, including the classic Symphony of the Night, it didn't rock my world or reshape the paradigm that existed. It is a good Metroidvania alongside others.

Is the appeal a kind of generational thing—people who hadn't played a lot of those predecessors but experienced this one first?

Edit: I appreciate the responses and everyone's unique perspective!

I wish we could make fines a percentage of unrealized gains that are over a certain amount. That would make some of them care.

This framework was tested on nine complex challenges. It achieved an 85 percent success rate, whereas the best baseline only achieved a 39 percent success rate. This suggests its applications in various multistep planning tasks, such as scheduling airline crews or managing machine time in a factory.

85% isn't good. It's a vast improvement, but it's not a good rate at scale. If you have 100,000 actions, 15,000 are wrong. If you have 1M customers, 150K are calling customer support.

Also, even if we're talking about smaller scales like scheduling airline crews or managing machine time, how is AI not overkill? You have to have relatively massive amounts of hardware for the payoff of what a handful of people could do. Or a "dumb" algorithm. Or a signup sheet. And now we're adding additional computing overhead?

AI is still a solution in search of a problem.

I would, but I just switched to LibreWolf, and in the process, my settings got wiped out, so I'm still rebuilding.

Surprisingly, there's still plenty of websites that don't need much JavaScript at all, so I think it's better to just start fresh for your personal use.

NoScript is pretty straightforward. Default behavior is to block most JavaScript, but they have a few that have been let through to keep the web mostly functioning. You can go into settings and change the default behaviors or just ignore all that and start whitelisting things as you go.

Gotta have something to do when we're unable to retire. 😉

Another DIY option to look at is Mycroft. They used to sell devices, but they've since stopped all development as of 2023. There's likely still a community tinkering away, so I'd imagine you could still run your own if you wanted.

As will I, but those look like legit release notes and not a joke. Nothing jumps out as too good to be true or just bizarre.

Yes! NoScript is my tool of choice.

It can sometimes be annoying to have to whitelist things, but after seeing that when I allow the main domain (and maybe their CDN) through the filter, and ten more domains will try to do whatever it is they do—Google Tags and Analytics, some data broker, some cookie tracker, etc.—I'm willing to take that extra step just to keep all these companies from snarfing up my data.

A little annoyance is a small price to pay, in my mind.

Fr, though, duck typing in Python is one of my biggest annoyances.

I run a whitelist. I'd rather be more private than know what to blacklist (and there's often a lot of extra JavaScript that gets called, mostly for tracking).

It's not that tedious. You just add as you use the internet. Refresh the page when you've whitelisted.

On that note, indie gaming has never been better!

I took a general comment and said something very specific. What you saw as dual meaning, I saw as one. OP did not make their intended meaning clear.

Maybe we can be better than Reddit and be more charitable with each other here, yeah?

They won't. Nobody is coming to save us. We have to stop waiting for someone else to be the heroes we need.

Related and from a "history of religion in the US" POV.

https://youtu.be/LvmwGwnJf7c

Bruh, why are you taking umbrage? Chill, I didn't shit on your birthday cake.