MimicJar

But us in the middle who pretend we're smart

The trick you'll learn is that everyone is just pretending. The more your learn the more you realize you don't know.

I think the run back is fun for some people and I think the game should deliver the best version they can for those people. For me, it's just not fun. The reward is smaller than the frustration it causes.

It took Silksong coming out for me to identify why I wasn't a fan of Hollow Knight, and it's touched on in this video.

It's the runback.

The Dark Souls series of games have the same "problem", and it's why I don't enjoy them either.

I'm a huge fan of Celeste, Super Meat Boy, the Ori series. When I fail at these games, I'm right back in the action.

I'm not against having to learn boss patterns, I really enjoyed Cuphead because after I've failed I'm right back in the action.

And while it's an easier game by comparison, Shovel Knight was a fun game. The checkpoints were plentifully and I could increase the difficulty by destroying them.

But when I played Hollow Knight I reached a point where I was just running to the boss and dying. Then again. And again. And again. I wasn't getting better. And the time it took to get back just took too long and wasn't fun. It wasn't a rage quit. I was having fun at one point... But then the game wore me down and eventually it wasn't.

I don't think the game needs to change. Although I think adding difficultly modifiers would be a good idea. I played through Metroid Dread on normal difficulty and after beating it was having so much fun I immediately played it again on Hard difficulty. If there were a mode with more checkpoints in Hollow Knight and Silksong I might give them a shot.

True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.

After you updated the config did you update-initramfs or update-grub (I forget which flags might be needed off hand).

Since this is happening pre-boot it isn't reading from /etc.

who needs the web?

Generative AI that's who. For it to spit out information, it needs information. The argument may be that it is better at collecting all that information in one place and returning an answer, although we know it hallucinates responses. But to even begin a response it needs data, it needs the web.

Assuming a single game, Minecraft. It should be a kids museum style where you can build things. You can make each room a different biome or structure.

That's exactly what piefed does actually.

Reddit sorta half did it with the "other discussions" or duplicate tab.

As an example,

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/duplicates/1lvi6kb/a_clicktocancel_rule_intended_to_make_cancelling/

I never saw any apps implement it, but it does look like it was part of the API, but maybe it wasn't robust enough.

I also know at one point, and possibly still, is that it lacked URL normalization. So for example, exanple.com/headline and example.com/headline#topstory would be treated as two different articles.

Similarly https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Would be treated as separate articles.

These are all fixable problems, but require work.

Before Arch that role belonged to Gentoo.

To add, before the change the Gentoo wiki was a top resource when it came to Linux questions. Even if you didn't use Gentoo you could find detailed information on how various parts of Linux worked.

One day the Gentoo wiki died. It got temporary mirrors quickly, but it took a long time to get up and working again. This left a huge opening for another wiki, the Arch wiki, to become the new top resource.

I suspect, for a number of reasons, Arch was always going to replace Gentoo as the "True Linux Explorer", but the wiki outage accelerated it.

I get that Doom or Sonic 2 or Goldeneye or other 90s games aren't guaranteed a place every year

FWIW Sonic 2 was the game that kicked things off this year.

But also I think the goal should be either showing off new tricks or showing off new games. Older games are going to have fewer new tricks. Obviously sometimes a barrier is broken or a new category is put together that has interesting gameplay, but in general we probably will see fewer old games.

That isn't to say that old games should go away completely, but if there is a bias towards newer games, it makes sense.