I would describe myself as a pantheist: I see the existence of the universe as a whole and the multifaceted consciousness in it as divine. So science is as much a technical as a spiritual journey for me, and love / amazement / experience of the world seems the highest form of living.

I also feel that children often embody this in a very pure form, and it is only when society and social constructs kick in that we seem to forget our purpose and get all tangled up in imaginary goals and obligations.

I think it will be Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

I think it should be Astro Bot or UFO 50.

While technically correct, they do have it in China itself, it’s a modified version called Douyin. It is more restricted, censored and tightly controlled.

I agree that it is a cyberweapon, but don’t think that it’s only used against foreigners, they use it just as much to observe and influence their own population.

Finally, I would like to point out that to a lesser extent this is also the case for a lot of USA owned social media and tech companies. Edward Snowden’s revelations for example indicate this. While the extent of government control and influence is much larger in China, I wouldn’t underestimate the influences of Meta, Google and Microsoft for example.

Journey of the Broken Circle! Played this on switch and it deserves more attention.

A short, side scrolling platformer about connection and love.

“but won’t trow me into a pit of emotional despair”

Your suggestions are both amazing games, but I would like to confirm to OP that these games are quite distopian and feature some body horror.

Could you elaborate? I have no idea what you are talking about.

I think that is a bit the conceit of the collection: classic games in looks / features, but taking into account the progress that has been made in game design and mechanics. I actually prefer it this way, like an alternate timeline in which computers didn’t get more powerful and people were forced to iterate on ideas within these constraints.

I’ve only just started today, so these are my first impressions of the initial 10 games:

• Barbuta: such a strange little game! First impression is very hostile and strange, but it keeps luring me in with it’s puzzle-like complexity. Discovering new stuff in this one is super satisfying.
• Bug Hunter: seems interesting, but did not want to hurt my brain with the strategy aspect, so on hold for now
• Ninpek: precision platformer auto-scroller, I am really bad at this so not really for me
• Paint Chase: amazing little game, really fun paint battler with cool powerups
• Magic Garden: this one got its hooks in me, a great twist on snake and pacman with a risk-reward mechanic. Highly recommend!
• Mortol: this is so creative! Still at the start, but using your own body as a tool to be used by your next “lives” is amazing.
• Velgress: made me think of playing Doodle Jump on my Nokia Slider phone, good times.
• Planet Zoldath: spend literally 1 minute in this, something on a planet, then my brain wanted another impulse :)
• Attactics: really cool, sort of real time strategy game. I really like it, but feel like I need to play it more to understand the strategies better.
• Devilition: chain reactions of blowing up demons! Quite a head-scratcher, but really satisfying when you start your demolition and everything goes as planned!

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No problem, nice of you to correct your previous comment! Have a nice day :)

4/5 8/10 5/5 7/10

A lot of the initial criticisms have been fixed in further updates. Now the connection is very stable, works with outside networks. They just implemented PS Plus PS5 streaming (so without connecting to a console).

They are selling unexpectedly well.

It might not be your cup of tea, but I would hardly call this an embrasement.

I’m sorry, but that is just not true. Even 5g hotspot from smartphone allows people to have access to their PS5.

If all you want to do is remote play, the PlayStation Portal is already out and well received.

I just bit the bullet and subscribed to a Linux VPS (virtual private server) at IONOS. I’m from Belgium, so I took the German datacenter. I’ll keep you updated on my experiments! I’ll be trying out a Luanti server, bit of it doesn’t work out I have other projects that I could use the server for :).

Xonotic is still quite active!

I agree with this take, well formulated!

There seems to be an error: 2019 is Resident Evil 2 (the remake), not 4. Otherwise a fun list to scroll through!

I just tried it myself, I can also not reject them. That’s not OK, worthy of a separate post even!

As I said in the other comment, another option is the open source Luanti (formerly MineTest). It is a base “engine” for which you can install different community made games. There are games that attempt to copy Minecraft as completely as possible (with survival mode etc.): https://content.luanti.org/packages/?type=game

Voxelibre and mineclonia seem promising.

There’s also minetest I believe, which is an open source Minecraft clone, but without compatibility with the actual game.

That’s a very interesting point of view, and indeed well formulated in the video!

I don’t necessarily agree with it though. I as a human being have grown up and learned from experience and the experiences of previous humans that were documented or directly communicated to me. I can see no inherent difference with an artificial intelligence learning on the same data.

I never did all the experiments, nor the research previous scientists did, but I trust their reproducibility and logical conclusions. I think on the same way, artificial intelligence could theoretically also learn these things based on previous documented findings. This would be an ideal “général intelligence” AI.

The main problem I think, is that AI needs to be even more computationally intensive and complex for it to be able to get to these advanced levels of understanding. And at this point, I see it as a fun theoretical exercise without actual practical benefit: the cost (both in money, time and energy) seems far too large to eventually create something that we can already do as humans ourselves.

The current state of LLMs is one of very basic “semblance” of understanding, and close to what you describe as probability based conversation.

I feel that AI is best at doing very specific tasks, were the problem space is small enough for it to actually learn the underlying model. In the same way I think that LLMs are best at language: rewriting text or generating stuff. What companies seem to think though is because a model is wel at producing realistic language, that it is also competent at the contents of what it is writing. And again, for that to be true, it needs a much more advanced method of calculation than is currently available.

Take this all with a grain of salt though, as I am no expert on the matter. I am an electrical engineer who no longer works in the sector due to mental issues, but with an interest in computer science.