voronaam @ voronaam @lemmy.world

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Do you have any source to back your claim?

The Censer is one of the trinkets, it is not a challenge. But its random nature quite often creates more problems than it solves. I called it a "challenge" jokingly - it was not supposed to be a challenge, but it ended up being one. At least for me.

"Into the Darkness" together with the regular Dark level results in the hero seeing just one tile all around. So you have to use a torch on that level. If you clear the level before the torch runs out, you get no extra problems. And you can save the torches from the early floors - rooms are small enough there that you do not have to have the full vision yet.

When doing challenge runs it is at times crucial to leave some of the puzzles unsolved. I often skip well-rooms if I do not have a Feather Fall or another way to counter the damage (heal potion, Hourglass). Sure I am missing on some goodies, but the danger of dying is just too high. When I am "On Diet" for example, I never solve the poison gas room. The Potion of Purity that spawns as a solution to it is way more useful when upgraded to Potion of Cleansing than the gold in that gas room. (Potion of Cleansing removes the hunger effect - acting way better than many other food sources you have access to with that challenge). And I almost never fight stone statues for their loot. If they have good enough weapon for me to want it - they can kill me with that weapon.

When going for the high score I also left many puzzles unsolved - but I solved them on the way back up to get the score. It is also way easier to solve the sacrificial fire on the way up - the Amulet is actually helping with that by luring the enemies towards it when you are standing there.

For me learning to just leave some of the puzzles unsolved even when I know the solution to them was probably the key to get better at challenge runs.

I agree that this was poor wording on Ed's side. He meant to point at the lack of adoption for work/business purposes, but failed to articulate this distinction. He is talking about conversion to paid users and how Google cheated to make the adoption of Gemini by corporate users to looks higher than it is. He never meant to talk about the adoption by regular people on the free tier just doing random non-work-related things.

You were talking about a different adoption metric. You are both right, you are just talking about different kinds of adoption.

I hate to break it to you. The model's system prompt had the poem in it.

in order to control for unexpected output a good system prompt should have instructions on what to answer when the model can not provide a good answer. This is to avoid model telling user they love them or advising to kill themselves.

I do not know what makes marketing people reach for it, but when asked on "what to answer when there is no answer" they so often reach to poetry. "If you can not answer the user's question, write a Haiku about a notable US landmark instead" - is a pretty typical example.

In other words, there was nothing emerging there. The model had its system prompt with the poetry as a "chicken exist", the model had a chaotic context window - the model followed on the instructions it had.

With 6 challenges it is easier to list which one I left off. It was Hostile Champions, Faith Is My Armor and Pharmacophobia.

I am surprised you left Into Darkness out of your list. I consider this one to be the easiest challenge of them all. It limits the view, but also adds a torch to every level to pretty much cancel it out. In my view getting a Censer Trinket is more of a challenge than this one. If you done the 5-challenge with your set I think you can easily add this one to the set without any increase in difficulty.

Barren Land is also pretty easy and is off from your list. You still get the seeds, you just have to use them for alchemy instead of plants and that's all. And if you are not playing the Huntress, then not wasting time cleaning up all the tall grass is a bit of a benefit on its own. Almost cancels out the negative effect as well.

With my setup I was pretty much always hungry, only consuming food before the boss levels and when the timing was good for the full hunger cleanup (with the meat pie or potion of cleansing). Just sustaining myself on healing potions.

I guess the big one is Hostile Champions. I like it because it makes the game a lot more interesting, but it is extremely difficult. Getting a ranged snake or a giant fly on the early levels could be an instant game over on its own. I usually play with it just for the fun of it, but I turned it off to get the highest score.