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Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by astrange »

bla3 wrote: post #42
jstanley wrote: post #28

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I've noticed this as well, and not just on HN. If you do a bit of knitting that is obviously an amateur's attempt, people will say "wow, so cool that you can knit". When you work hard and get better at knitting and you produce stuff that is so good that it's commercial-product quality, people will say "what's the point in spending all that time and effort when you can just buy one?". Only when you become so good at k…

It's also true when learning languages. If you speak a language a tiny bit, locals act politely impressed. If you speak it kind of good but aren't a native speaker, at least in some countries that lands much worse than speaking the language badly.

The joke about Japan is that people will constantly tell you "nihongo jouzu" (your Japanese is good) when it isn't really. You know you're getting somewhere when they start correcting you. Although I don't think they'd get mad at you either way; maybe that'd happen at work or if you get something else cultural like body language wrong.

Having a bad accent might help you sound like an enthusiastic tourist though; Americans start off with pretty bad pronunciation, Spanish/Italian/Finnish are closer and people might think you're fluent.

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by Jeremy1026 »

nyerp wrote: post #87
shawabawa3 wrote: post #76

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> But you've GOT to improve the sharing feature. This is a great, accessible daily game. Connect it with Facebook, or at least give people something they can cut-and-paste without having to open an email client! They're using the "Wordle" share method which worked insanely well, precisely due to the fact it didn't try to share with facebook or anything annoying, you just copy paste into an IM client

That's not correct, based on my experience. Yes, you could copy-and-paste the "results" page, but that contains the answer, so it's no good for sharing. To get the actual "share" text (using Chrome on Windows 11), I had to open an email client when prompted and then cut-and-paste the text from the email the game created.

In wordle when I click the share button I get the green/yellow/black emojis copied to my clipboard showing how I did, but not my guesses were.

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by austinjp »

Love it. Some notes:

It seems buggy in several places. First, sharing doesn't work for me at all. Nothing ends up on my clipboard, WhatsApp messages are empty, etc. I'm using Firefox Nightly on Android. Second, I think my opponent when playing the computer skipped a go, since their score didn't increase on one turn and their played word didn't change.

If you can get sharing working I'll be playing this regularly :)

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by KineticLensman »

gbudee wrote: post #127
KineticLensman wrote: post #59

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FWIW: So I started some hobbyist game dev using Unity and realised that the full process of making a game has dependencies on a mass of lower-level skills including lighting virtual environments. As a hobbyist photographer I could see some useful analogies from lighting studios and other scenes So I pivoted, and eventually made money, not from selling a game, but from developing tutorials about digital lighting. I wa…

Could you link me to your tutorial? I'd like to improve the lighting in my game and I'm quite excited to have seen your comment!

Thanks for being so interested! However the tutorial is actually specific to the Daz Studio system from Daz 3D, and the Iray render engine, and isn't free [0]. I'm in the process of doing a similar thing using more open source tools and released through a more accessible channel but realistically that will takes ages.

[0] https://www.daz3d.com/killer-lighting--lighting-for-photorea...

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by danieltait »

nyerp wrote: post #71

Love it!! But you've GOT to improve the sharing feature. This is a great, accessible daily game. Connect it with Facebook, or at least give people something they can cut-and-paste without having to open an email client! And the information you provide below is good (it provides a bit of "braggy" info without giving the answer away) but I would make it more conversational, e.g., "I beat Dad!" and then "I beat Dad agai…

Thanks for the feedback! Have tried to improve now
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