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After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Post by jimmydddd »

gorjusborg wrote: post #155
jameshart wrote: post #136

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It's not even a 'style' though, is it? It's just using the controls as designed. Hyperclicking I get - it's pushing the button faster than the inbuilt repeat rate. DAS seems to just be.. what people must have been doing before hyper clicking got invented? Were people calling it DAS before hyper clicking became a thing? Or was it a retronym introduced to describe the disadvantages of that technique compared to hyper c…

The latter, and that happens all the time. I didn't hear ICE vehicle until EV was really on the scene.

Analog clock

Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Post by smooshV »

sixQuarks wrote: post #67

Wow, practicing for 3-4 hours per day! I feel like they’re gonna be regretful for spending that much time on this later in life. I spent way too much time playing battlefield 1942, had fun but way too much time wasted.

Yeah I'm sure the incredible discipline needed to achieve this will have no other utility later on...

Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Post by subtra3t »

xerox13ster wrote: post #38
helix278 wrote: post #33

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What is hypertapping and tapping?

These are shown and explained in the video. tapping/hypertapping: what you do to your mouse trying to get your click speed above 10 CPS rolling: the same but tapping each finger on the bottom of the controller while pressing the buttons to feather tap the switch state extremely fast. like fiddling a mechanical keyboard key over the actuation point. The equivalent of putting sharpied electrical tape on your mouse and…

> you do to your mouse trying to get your click speed above 10 CPS

There are multiple ways to do this. Jitter clicking and butterfly clicking are the most common ways to do this which don't make use of a particular defect in some mice (double clicking).

Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Post by AlwaysRock »

wnevets wrote: post #84
AlwaysRock wrote: post #34

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> It's kind of interesting to think about in times long past where warfare was melee based and how there would have been similar outliers. Somebody who lucked into some good genetics, good diet, and good training would have been a mountain among men. The UFC exists today. Some fighters, like Jon Jones, are incredibly gifted and have won, and held, a championship title despite doing a lot of things "wrong" outside of…

> like Jon Jones, are incredibly gifted with lots of steroids and other PEDs

Sure. Like many other athletes. I'm sure folks back in the day going into combat used every advantage they could as well.

Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Post by fdeage »

hannofcart wrote: post #27
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #24

The last couple of years in Tetris have been wild I grew up with Tetris and playing a traditional DAS [1] style and never was able to put the time into learning hypertapping. Once rolling came out a few years ago I totally abandoned trying to keep up. My highest score was almost a maxout on 29 Something you'll notice too is that the younger players are crushing the traditional players by changing the rules. So, NOBOD…

I thought I knew Tetris. I guess I don't. I'm just humbled by how little I understood of the comment above.

"Human subcultures are nested fractally. There's no bottom." (https://xkcd.com/1095)

Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Post by charcircuit »

mrob wrote: post #127
charcircuit wrote: post #98

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Do the display controllers for LCDs not wait for an entire frame to be written, so it can display it at once?

It's possible to buffer whole frames, but there's no technical requirement to do so. Gaming LCDs update line by line.

>there's no technical requirement to do so

It lets you avoid tearing even if the sender starts acting weird.

Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Post by epups »

thechao wrote: post #170
whatshisface wrote: post #30

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They must have been incredibly disappointed when they first encountered a well-disciplined line of mediocre pikemen!

Discipline, not training, for sure! The Spartans considered training (for war) to be demeaning. https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...

Your reference does not seem to substantiate your claim. While interesting, it seems overly occupied with offering heavy moral judgement based on a modern perspective, to the point where it is exhausting and frankly annoying.

Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Post by ComputerGuru »

So for a certain class of games, I have found the secret to be — after having developed the muscle memory and the instinct — completely “zoning out” and playing solely by reflex. You simply can’t mentally process and intentionally respond in the timespan required to beat these games at higher levels, it has to be fully subconscious and automatic to win.

The only issue is that I haven’t figured out how to intentionally disconnect. It’s almost like falling asleep: you can be jarred back to reality and realize you were “zoned out” and can sometimes feel yourself on the edge of zoning back out, but the very act of “cognizantly deciding” to relinquish mental control is at fundamental odds with actually doing so. So you just have to “let it happen” so much as I can tell.

(My personal best high score in snake or some similar game on TI-82 or whatever came when I was playing covertly under the desk arm in math class in middle school while paying attention to the lesson with all my non-visual senses.)

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