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  • Mostly for finding information that for whatever reason can be difficult to find using search engines. For example, I’ve used ChatGPT to ask spoiler-free questions about plot points in books I’m reading, which has worked rather well. It hasn’t spoiled me yet, but rather tells me that giving more information would be a spoiler.

    Last time I tried to look something up on Google, carefully, I got a massive spoiler for the end of the entire book series.

    I also use it for code-related questions at times, but very rarely, and mostly when using a language I’m not used to. Such as when I wrote an expect script for the first (and perhaps only) time recently.




  • At the International Roguelike Development Conference 2008 held in Berlin, Germany, players and developers established a definition for roguelikes known as the “Berlin Interpretation”.

    These guys have extremely strict definitions, which mean that most “rougelike” games are in fact roguelites, if you care about what they think.

    There are nine “high value” factors that are more or less a requirement:

    Random Environment Generation
    Permadeath
    Turn-Based
    Grid-Based
    Non-Modal
    Complexity
    Resource Management
    ‘Hack-n-Slash’
    Exploration and Discovery

    Plus six “low value” factors that are less important:

    Single Player Character
    Monsters are Similar to Players
    Tactical Challenge
    ASCII Display
    Dungeons
    Numbers

    There is, as you might expect, a fair bit of controversy about that though.