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This is basically me whenever people ask if I play videogames (thelemmy.club)
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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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[–] 28 points 3 days ago (12 children)

I play the wikipedia game. Start on a random article, click the first link over and over until you reach philosophy. How many clicks did it take? try and beat that

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago* (4 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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days 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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Well they said "click the first link"

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    Oh I totally missed that. I suspect you'd end up in a lot of circles tbh.

    Heh, I found one starting from the featured article of english wikipedia today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Krugers I clicked on the first link in the article, not on the page, and also skipped the reference links. Took about 8

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