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Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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Post by ineedasername »

Pointless & frivolous. I love it.

There used to be some plugin where you could click a button & be shown a random site that someone had tagged as being interesting for some reason. It was a great way to find all sorts of stuff off the the beaten path like this, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called to see if it still exists.

Does anyone remember it, or whether or not something similar exists today? I used it around the time Web 2.0 was just coalescing into a major thing.

EDIT: StumbleUpon! Unfortunately it seems a bit closed off, gated by a login & invite code. And the items on the public site look like they're just photos...

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#34

Post by travisdock »

ineedasername wrote: post #31

Pointless & frivolous. I love it. There used to be some plugin where you could click a button & be shown a random site that someone had tagged as being interesting for some reason. It was a great way to find all sorts of stuff off the the beaten path like this, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called to see if it still exists. Does anyone remember it, or whether or not something similar exists toda…

Stumbleupon?

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#35

Post by Hodglim »

ineedasername wrote: post #31

Pointless & frivolous. I love it. There used to be some plugin where you could click a button & be shown a random site that someone had tagged as being interesting for some reason. It was a great way to find all sorts of stuff off the the beaten path like this, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called to see if it still exists. Does anyone remember it, or whether or not something similar exists toda…

You might be thinking of StumbleUpon? (https://www.stumbleupon.com) I used to spend hours on that site!

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#36

Post by etra0 »

dwringer wrote: post #13

I think this is great and a lot of fun. The only improvement I could suggest is that it only seems to clear the bottom line. If I have an incomplete bottom line, but the row above it settles and fills up, it never clears and the rows just keep stacking higher.

I had the same issue, but luckily, with your mouse you can move some of the blocks so you can adjust them to break the first line, and then everything collapses and it's kind of fun to see.

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#37

Post by junar »

gotaquestion wrote: post #21
DrPhish wrote: post #15

Love it. Tetris is such a well worn cultural institution that its ripe for parody. Reminded me of this Japanese comedy routine involving Tetris[0] Totally doesn't need any Japanese language skills to enjoy [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXpi3JbQiWU

I turned on CC hoping for translation, and it was captioning in Japanese. Lol.

If you search "Jinnai Tomonori Tetris", there are versions of the video with English subtitles.

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#38

Post by drdec »

dotdi wrote: post #16

A funny thing happens if you just press the down arrow and keep it pressed. The game area quickly fills up with squares, and then it just continues to add more shapes until, after a minute or so, the whole page turns black.

Aborted(Assertion failed: draw_list->_VtxCurrentIdx < (1 << 16) && "Too many vertices in ImDrawList using 16-bit indices. Read comment above", at: ../extern/include/imgui/imgui.cpp,4269,AddDrawListToDrawData)

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#40

Post by bee_rider »

I enjoyed it.

It seems like only full rows in the bottom are counted or something? Or maybe I had a subtle alignment issue. But eventually I got a small gap at the bottom. I ended up with a bunch of full rows, all the way up. Eventually the blocks got over my "dropping point." So, I created a bunch of blocks all at once near the top, compressing all rows below. This caused something to squish into the bottom row, freeing up a little space. 10/10, best compressive tetris mechanism ever.

A shake button would be nice.

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