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El chocolate era más grueso y más duro y podías fácilmente "descascarar" el chocolate y comerte la malva sola al final. Un manjar.

I've been playing Dusklight for a couple of weeks now and even though I remembered this game being a little extra on the map aspect, I didn't think it was going to be such a mess. To be fair, the dungeon design is top notch, even though you can get lost, in the end everything fits together in a kinda surprising way (and I'm only on the third one).

Still I can't help but feel there's a resemblance in how they make it feel like purposefully easy to lose track of where you are or how to get to other places just by looking around. Take Lake Hylia for example, you got a big mostly empty space (the lake itself) and a tiny part with like 3 small bridges, stepping stones, a ladder, a cave, etc that feel disorienting from the pov of the player, and since they're a small part compared to the whole area, they appear super tiny on the HUD map.

I currently use a Galaxy S25 and probably wouldn't mind swapping it for a qwerty phone because I love the physical aspect and the form factor. However I also take advantage of Dex mode every single day by connecting an external USBC display and sometimes a controller for light gaming.

I know this might be a very niche use case but I do believe I'd pay 600-700 usd for a device that could do both, and I wonder if others would consider it as well. Since the current first version already checks pretty much all of the boxes I imagine this could be a way of stepping up to a Pro version, since it promotes professional productivity lol

By this I mean having the specs to run work/gaming stuff when connected to a monitor or glasses. I currently do that with my S25 but the phone use is way too distracting, I'd rather have it as a clamshell like the new commodore when I'm not doing work/games.

It's not like I watch it repeatedly and still don't get it, but it shouldn't be so hard for the first time I would assume. They talk about places like we know perfectly what and where they are (are we supposed to keep a map on the side while watching?) and don't get me started on characters, some of them have like two lines in an entire season, especially the 20ish ones, and then we're supposed to care if something happens to them. I watched a recap before the current season but honestly I ended up even more confused because it was just too much information. Am I am idiot?

This idea has been popping up in here several times a week lately.

I get it, you think because time is infinite and the universe is super big, some things are bound to repeat at some point. First of all, entropy doesn't work that way. But even ignoring that, just think about it for a minute.

Your mind, built by your consciousness, is the product of a very specific chain of events and experiences, from before the moment of your conception to the act of reading this words. This means it can only exist as it is if your exact mother birth you, and for her to exist there's a similar set of things that needed happening, sans you, and this extends all the way back to the beginning of time. How can you have that twice in the same universe?

Here's another angle of this impossibility: imagine you have the power to clone yourself, exactly 1:1 to the point you won't even know if you're the original or the clone. The two of you will actually have achieved same exact consciousness, yay, but only during the very first instant. A second passes and you're different people, because you are not occupying the same place in space and your chain of thinking would have already diverted. Even in this perfect scenario you can only achieve it for an infinitesimal fraction of time, like a tangent touching a circle.

And lastly here's a math angle: There's an infinite amount of numbers between one and two but none of them is three. Also you can keep counting infinitely, but you'll never count the same number twice.

People looking for esoteric explanations tend to put consciousness in contexts where it behaves like it occupies a place and is made of something and can interact with stuff and turn into something different.

I've seen countless examples of this here and every day there are more. They ask where does consciousness go after death, or if it can be copied, or if it turns into energy, or how does it interact with reality.

But consciousness is ultimately not a thing but a process, and a process can stop without having to "go" anywhere, it just stops happening. Energy is used in order to make it run, but it's not "made" of it. If we consider consciousness as a stream of experiences this helps explain why we can't "find" the redness of red or the taste of fanta, since these are not stored data but experiences that only last while they're happening (remembering is also a form of experience).

This is why I like the computer analogy (even though most people discard it assuming it's about comparing every single aspect of both systems, which is a waste of a thought exercise because it kills any argument). It helps explain the relationship between matter and mind better than any other analogy (is there any?). Mark Solms defines consciousness as an abstract space for decision making and creativity, and I think software is also an abstract space that we created to take on some abstract processes (computing) that utilize symbols and meaning, which are outside the realm of matter. And more importantly to this discussion in particular, when you turn off the computer, software also doesn't go anywhere, it just stops happening.