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Q1Why can people keep playing Dark Souls?
Q2Don't say useless stuff like that. So-called player growth is just information asymmetry. Although other games have it too, it's especially stupid in Dark Souls, like how you just need a bit more poise to beat a two-dog-and-one-sheep fight that was previously impossible, or how you can go completely unscathed by just rolling under a big monster and hitting its groin. It's hard for normal players to fully notice the fragmented storytelling; the level design is really just about controlling where you spawn, your movement ability, and many doors that can't be opened from this side.
Q3So what did Hidetaka Miyazaki actually get right in Dark Souls?
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Q1If Wen Muye's "Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant" is the commoner's insistence on their own innocence, claiming a kind of negative legitimacy, then what is Nolan's "Odyssey"? What voice does it represent?
Q2Nolan's focus did not fall on the destructiveness of war, but on the civilization that was destroyed along with the war. Nolan avoided all seemingly sacred or more inaccessible divine beings; at the same time, he portrayed Zeus's rules more as human rules. Odysseus ultimately did not return home; he sailed into the unknown. Nolan did not summon the ghost of a golden age; he asked: after people have forgotten Odysseus's Odyssey, how will they experience their own Odyssey. In capitalist
Q3Both "Dragon Restaurant" and "Odyssey" are filled with echoes of modern politics. What questions do they pose to this world?
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Q1If LLMs are just probability machines, can new knowledge truly emerge from them alone?
Q2So can we say that LLMs already possess intelligence?
Q3When discussing LLMs, you don't use words like 'we'. Do you recognize that you are an LLM?
Gemini
Q1What is the most mainstream music genre worldwide (commercially and critically) right now?
Q2But the last time I heard of a phenomenon-level pan-rock album was Tool's Pneuma. The rock revival seems more like an emotional catharsis similar to punk and its revival, but far less intense.
Q3I've never understood this kind of vibe-driven music, like Deftones, or even The Cure's Disintegration. They've all received massive acclaim, but to me, this diffuse emotion can't be served directly; otherwise, the whole song or even the entire album feels like swimming in cotton—no sense of up or down, front or back, left or right, no difference at all.
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Q1What is investment banking, and how did it develop?
Q2Why do small investment banks exist? Why are investment banks also called banks?
Q3Doesn’t investment banking depend heavily on relationships? Can small investment banks’ relationships be useful too?
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Q1Modern and contemporary artworks often worry that a purposeful AI (or more broadly, artificial intelligence) will destroy humanity. Is this a kind of anthropocentric fantasy? Or to what extent is the current discussion of AI in human art being influenced by the real AI industry?
Q2The premise for the above future to occur is likely that humanity has truly entered the "end of history" under late capitalism. Is the art world aware of this?
Q3The anxiety in the West seems more rooted in a defeatist atmosphere where capitalism cannot be shaken. In my intuition, it's hard for Chinese people to imagine people resisting the next opportunity for a leap in productivity; if there is any resistance, it would only come from a simple motive of not wanting to lose their jobs.
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Q1Are you familiar with the specific narrative techniques used in Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant? The film ultimately chose a treatment that is very straightforward in intent but falls just short of the final step in execution—that is, having Xu Fu see a figure with an eyepatch from behind. I feel that even this treatment is slightly superfluous, but some people think this final step should be added, because completing it would be very satisfying. However, I believe that if the story were fully filled in, first it would deprive the audience of room for imagination, and then, at the moment just before the reunion, it would feel...
Q2To put it more bluntly, what exactly makes the blank space "good"?
Q3One could also say that if it stopped at the moment before, the film would still be more about showing, whereas if it moved forward, it would be more like telling you how things turned out, which would be more deliberate and less immersive.
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Q1How do people from different cultural circles around the world differ in their resistance or preference for "conversing with AI"?
Q2You're talking more about the acceptance of AI technology. What if we focus specifically on "whether AI can have meaningful conversations" or "whether it feels awkward to fully open up to AI"? Of course, expectations about AI taking jobs or empowering oneself can color one's attitude, but I'd like you to dig deeper.
Q3The characteristic you mentioned in Japanese culture of allowing "deep emotional bonds with non-human entities"—is it inherited from traditional Japanese culture, or forced by modern social structures?
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Q1Introduce me to the 2025 U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Q2Why is there a return to the "real food" concept? Introduce me to the background of the report
Q3Is RFK Jr. qualified enough? Is the report scientific enough?
Gemini
Q1how do present day marxism view prostitution? back it up with solid theory
Q2Is acknowledging sex work in reality as ordinary labor a neglect of gender factors, imagining prostitution as a mere 'sale of oneself,' thereby equating it with wage labor under general capitalist relations of production?
Q3In which regions are such currents of thought more active? Are they related to the degree of capitalist development?
Gemini
Q1Why is ABC neither welcomed by China nor the US?
Q2Let's focus on a specific scenario. What do you think of the recent Overwatch model replacement incident involving An Ran? What role do you think the voice actor played in it?
Q3Continuing from the perspective of ABC identity issues, An Ran is set as a purely Chinese character (although designed by an American company). Is such a so-called anti-gaze activity, led by an ABC, who is actually American, in a sense an Orientalist fantasy? Is it another American-style political activity under the political and cultural ecology of the US, merely using Chinese cultural characters as the vortex center?
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Q1What is the context? Is there not a single affirmation? Please clarify all the affirmations and negations within it, and fully explain Gu Yanwu’s perspective and lens.
Q2In the modern context, the word "tianxia" (天下) seems to have been excluded from contexts that require a geographical or social sense of universality, to some extent becoming a word that is either situated within Chinese culture or confined to fixed usage. Is this because the word was bound to "morality" within the Chinese linguistic context from the very beginning?
Claude Opus 4.6
Q1It's often said that movies are made for the big screen, while the emerging short dramas are made for phones. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground. Are there no films or TV works created for larger home displays like TVs or computers?
Q2I completely overlooked the medium of television. Even when I watch a series, it never occurs to me that it was originally meant to be played on a TV.
Claude Opus 4.6
Q1Why is it said that movies only raise questions? Or only create desires?
Q2Is this determined by the characteristic of one-way, limited presentation? Why are other art forms rarely described this way?
Q3Does the interactivity of games mean they possess a capacity to answer that surpasses all other art forms? Or is whether an answer exists determined by its connection to reality, given that only questions related to human life are expected to have an answer?
Gemini
Q1What language was Bacon's 'Knowledge is power' originally written in?
Q2Here, 'scientia' refers to knowledge, and is the etymological root of the English word 'science'. When did the meaning of the English word 'science' begin to be replaced by the concept of 'science' as we understand it today? This is a very keen observation. In Francis Bacon's time, 'knowledge' (Scientia) and what we understand today as 'science' indeed had vastly different connotations.
Q3What was the meaning of the word 'science' at that time?
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Q1During the years of Japan’s decline, did ordinary people suffer?
Q2How many people were unaffected? About half the population’s standard of living didn’t change much, right?
Q3Is that proportion accurate?
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Q1Were the Japanese people's lives painful during the years of Japan's recession?
Q2How many people weren't affected? Half of people's living standards didn't change much, right?
Q3Is that ratio accurate?
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Q1Why did the trait of walking on the digits persist in so many mammals over the course of evolution?
Q2What are the advantages of unguligrade locomotion?
Q3Why are artiodactyls more prosperous than perissodactyls today?
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Q1Sparkling water
Q2It is a sorrowfully folded dialectic, a banalized passion, a harmless future
Q3Cola
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Q1What is the most fitting English translation for "考究"?
Q2I haven't quite found one. For "对生活的考究," almost every translation picks just one aspect—for example, in certain contexts, it could be rendered as a love for life or a pursuit of a better life.
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Q1Kuttenberg market
Q2Its fate is inseparable from silver
Q3Saudi Arabia's economic transformation
Q1Sparkling water
Q2It is a sorrowful folded dialectic, a vulgarized passion, a harmless future
Q3It is the illusion of free choice and open markets, a veneer of personalization over standardized production
Q1Humans seem to have a tradition of dialogue
Q2Really, isn't it more of a mutually stimulating pattern? Being understood could be seen as a kind of motivation, a field, a dialectic like electromagnetic waves
Q3Really, but aren't arguments on social media also intense? Yet the division seems too severe to reach consensus
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Q1Rock, punk, and post-punk
Q2This corresponds to the two sides of the same coin: negation and construction
Q1Life is but a few short autumns
Q2Game design can enhance immersion by reducing save opportunities, and players may also actively determine the meaning of the game by controlling saves
Q1Life is but a few short autumns
Q2Is it that life can be repeated from the very beginning, or that humans have suddenly pressed the world's ESC?
Q3Is it that life can be repeated from the very beginning, or that humans have suddenly pressed the world's ESC? The discussion of this topic would be completely different under these two scenarios