What are you playing this week? February 05 2024 Edition
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    I'm getting into enshrouded with a friend. We've just rescued the carpenter. This game has a lot of promise!

    I also finally bought Ori and the Blind Forest. This will be my first metroidvenia style game.

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  • What games can you not get into because they feel too outdated?
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    I completely agree with Dark Souls! That was also the title I had in mind which did groundbreaking work and paved the way for so many games since.

    Haven't played Factorio so maybe that's one I missed again lol.

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  • What games can you not get into because they feel too outdated?
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    Yeah maybe, thanks for the tip.

    However, I do feel that, being the groundbreaking tech of that era from which all post games practically were derived, I won't have the same "iconic" experience today as I would have had back then. I feel like I just have to live with the fact that I missed it.

    That's okay though. Maybe some games today will be the predecessors and iconic titles of times to come ;).

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  • What games can you not get into because they feel too outdated?
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    Probably controversial but half life 2 for me. I got it very cheap on a sale after years of hearing how good it was. Just couldn't get into it. Even worse, every time I felt nauseated after a couple of minutes.

    I guess this is just an example of a "you had to be there" scenarios. I was there as a gamer at the time but had no funds to play all the games. I skipped on HL 2 and can't get into it 20 years later.

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  • Hi all I found the Nothing Phone 2 in my search for a new device. Since my OnePlus 6 is giving up after 5 years, I'm in need of a new one. I love everything I see about NP2. There is one thing holding me back: they only offer 3 years of updates and 4 years of security patches... This is a serious drawback for me because I really don't want to end up with a OnePlus6 scenario as I have today... Compared to the Pixel 8, which is a tad more expensive but offers 7 years of updates, this is a big gap! Even other flagship phones from other companies offer more support than NP2 (Samsung, Oneplus). This does not fit the sustainability value that Nothing seems to stand for. Is there any chance that they will extend support for NP2 later? If not, how easy is a Custom ROM after 4 years without breaking anything? Thanks in advance for any advice

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    I get that AMP sites are supposed to load faster. But why do they have to be so ugly?
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    Accelerated Mobile Pages. Basically a sort of fast-load version of your actual page for mobile use. Something Google came up with to enhance mobile search? It never really got off imo...

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  • The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion
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    Also been playing RTM with a friend the past week. Definitely fun but still pretty buggy. TBH it's the sweet spot for us LOTR fans and Survival fans. It's got a bit of both but does not excel in any of them.

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  • Experience with LineageOS on OnePlus6?
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    No connectivity issues on your side? I'm losing data connection continuously and I'm unable to make or receive calls. Very annoying. This only happened recently and I think it's software related.

    I want to try a custom ROM to see if that improves things. If not, I will have to buy a new phone unfortunately.

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  • Hi all Apologies if this is not the right place to ask. I'm trying here because it involves Belgian banking and identity apps. Does anybody have experience with LineageOS custom ROM on OnePlus6 and still have their banking apps, Payconiq and Itsme running without issues? I'm considering installing since official OxygenOS support stopped 2 years ago and my phone is starting to have connectivity issues. Any help is appreciated! Cheers

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    What android phones do you recommend and why?
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    I have the same feeling. Using a 5+ year old OP6 and still good battery life and overall performance. The only reason why I want change is because of security updates having stopped already for quite some time. I'm hesitant to jailbreak and install clean android because of banking apps.

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    Could you please explain what piped links do exactly? I see them here all the time but they rarely work for me. I'd like to understand

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  • if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?
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    First of all, a lot of humans do see the flaws but are indeed unable to correct them. This would also show in the training data. The AI OP is talking about would be much more powerful to actually act and change something.

    Don't confuse Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or even Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Your statement suggest you understand ANI, which is all the AI that we know today. However powerful they seem, they can only reproduce what they have learned from the training data.

    AGI (or human level AI) will be more what OP means here. Sentient, in a way that it can make its own decisions, think on a human level, feel on a human level and act on those feelings. If it feels humans are not important or harmful to what it values, it will decide to remove humanity as a whole. Give it the power to govern the world and it most certainly will act not in our favour.

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  • if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?
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    This. Objectively, our species is ruining its own habitat consistently for years. A sentient ai would probably see that and remove the cancer in order to preserve the majority of nature

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  • if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?
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    That's where it would start. I imagine it would be capable to see the flaws in the system and rectify them. This most probably means we as humans won't come out on top however.

    A sentient ai would probably be the most dangerous thing to the human species as a whole.

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