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  • I viewed “let’s play” series of Alan Wake 1 and 2. Just wanna share my thoughts re AW2. There are spoilers below.

    So much reading. Yes, you can skip a lot of those. Yes, the title is Alan Wake 2 and Wake is a writer. But a gamer who very much dislikes reading may be turned off or think “I may be missing much by skipping most of the reading, so I’ll drop this game.”

    It seems Alice is alive. So she’s been living sans Alan for 13 years minimum. Extremely :(. I wanted a :) end for them. I can imagine an AW2 where the year is 2013 instead of 2023, and Alan was able to escape the “dark place” in 2013 and live with Alice happily. The writer (I dislike Sam Lake’s writing so I’m not saying Sam Lake) can figure out the plot gymnastics in between to make the game so interesting.

    Scratch slew Jaakko Koskela so easyyy. So powerful. He could just slay Anderson, Casey, Cult of the tree and the Fbc at the start.

    The Fbc’s light arrays placed far from each other outside the sheriff’s station were plot convenience.

    Anderson aided Wake with writing the end despite Wake inserting Logan and David in the tale. Meh.

    Sarah and Barry were sidelined. :(

    Sam Lake most likely disliked a fairy-tale :) end for AW2 but don’t say that in horror, the hero must pay a price to save his pals (or something like that) like it’s a rule.

    It’s time.com’s best 2023 game but it’s 👎 for me.








  • Thanks.

    The problem says “Some boxes hold 10 clips and some boxes hold 100. He has some clips left over.” I think it’s a poorly-worded problem but let’s just suppose that “some” means 2 minimum. I read a comment that went like “If you’ll say that there are some donuts and I’ll find out there’s only 1 or 0 donut, I’ll be disappointed.” Sensible.

    It’s assumed that Brian put clips in boxes as much as possible, so the number of leftovers is less than 10.

    x2 = x1 + 3

    n = x2 − 2

    x2 should be 5 minimum

    the total number of clips is 523, 634, 745, 856, 967, 1078 or 1189

    I asked Llama 3.1 (405b), Claude 3.5 sonnet and Chatgpt 4o after I solved it. I reworded the problem to improve it. I was curious if any of those can solve it. Claude 3.5 sonnet and Chatgpt 4o did. Llama 3.1 (405b) got 523 but didn’t talk re the other answers. A follow-up of “Are there other answers?” yielded all the 7 answers.




  • Been using Samsung messages for years, not Google messages, but I just wanna comment.

    I’m OK with it. It’s been an ai race. It’s natural that Google is taking advantage of the millions of Android phones and of the fact that many are using Google messages and Gmail. Adding Gemini to Google messages is sensible to me. I just hope it won’t be annoying.

    Gmail has been my main email but I didn’t see Gemini in it. Maybe in the future?



  • Found your comment via Lemmy search.

    Hours ago I viewed Civil war. It was entertaining but not great.

    Plemons’ scene was 👍. He’s 👍 at the remorseless killer role. In my mind I compared that scene to the cliched action scene in countless movies where there were so much killing. In that cliched scene, the deaths had little effect on me. Since the writer didn’t establish some kind of connection to the viewer? Maybe? While in Plemons’ scene, I didn’t want Jessie and Lee to die, so the 2 Asians’ deaths were effective for me. Also, Jessie, Lee, Joel and Tony didn’t know what to say to Plemons’ question. Does saying something matter? What’s the right answer? So Plemons will let us go. I guess that type of writing makes tension.

    Jessie going to the line of fire at the end was lame.







  • Only a few left Reddit due to the thing with the 3rd-party Reddit apps. :(

    Don’t fret. I’m 1 of those who switched to Lemmy. I’ve been enjoying Lemmy.

    1 possible hurdle to entry is picking an instance. I wanted to say “Just pick any instance.” but there are instances with no downvote feature. There are instances without porn. We can say “Just pick sopuli.xyz.” It’s a 👍 general suggestion. I didn’t know that the instances are different when I signed up on Lemmy. Someone suggested lemmy.world. I followed him and here I am.