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I typically go with single player games. Niche stuff casuals rarely play. It's not a flex or anything, I just a "distinct" taste in gaming

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[–] amplifiedrabbit@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

This is awesome!

Though in my first attempt I ended up in an infinite loop. To be fair, the 4th link in the last pages of the loop is philosophy George Krugers -> Dutch East Indies -> Dutch Colonial Empire -> Overseas Territories -> International Politics/Relations -> War -> Armed Forces/Military -> Armed/Weapon -> Kill/Death -> Life -> Matter -> Physical Science -> Natural Science -> Science -> Knowledge -> Descriptive/Declarative Knowledge -> Awareness (4th link here is Philosophy , so not quite) -> Back to Knowledge

But it was a fascinating exercise. Yes I am bored and need something to occupy my mind.

Edit: typo

[–] eah@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

It doesn't work that well anymore.

After an edit to the Awareness article in April of 2024, switching the order of Philosophy and Psychology, the number of articles that lead to Philosophy this way had been greatly reduced, as Awareness and Psychology formed a loop of their own. In the months after the edit, there were numerous attempts to switch the order of the links leading to a discussion on the Awareness talk page. Following another discussion, the order was changed back in July 2026.

Following discussions like Talk:Mathematics#Hyperlinks missed in the first paragraph about over-linking in the first paragraph of articles, some first links were changed or removed in July 2026. As a result, almost no articles continue to lead to "Philosophy" as of July 2026

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

hah yes sometimes the game breaks, you have to restart it

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe you should allow skipping links already visited, then it could (?) converge

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago

that sounds like it would work