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Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

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Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

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Post by morelikeborelax »

bschwindHN wrote: post #183
101008 wrote: post #120

This may be buried in the comments and you will never see it, but thank you very much Gabriele. Your game helped me in a very weird circumstance. I was afraid of flying, specially on the takeoff and landing (and turbulence as well, ha). So I read somewhere that if I focused on something else, it would help me. So for the past years, I played 2048 during takeoff and landing, and it worked. It helped me to focus on som…

This is bizarre. I came into this thread to make this exact same comment - I play 2048 religiously during takeoff, turbulence, and sometimes landing. It works really well, though if you were to watch a replay of my game, you could tell when turbulence hits because I start making faster and less logical moves :)

Very bizarre, as I also found it helped with this! I was only a First Officer at the time, but even as a Captain today I find playing 2048 during take off and landing really helps.

Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

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Post by chrismorgan »

rafram wrote: post #208
chrismorgan wrote: post #195

Bug report: digits don’t show for me. (Interesting æsthetic, actually, unmarked tiles.) Firefox, Sway/Linux, Settings → Fonts → Advanced → “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above” disabled, and web fonts blocked altogether via uBlock Origin.

That’s not really surprising with those settings.

It is, actually. Firefox's PDF renderer on text meeting certain conditions is the only thing I've encountered breaking in a similar way (not rendering text), in almost five years of using this configuration.

I expect it to just render with my chosen fonts. That's what everything else does.

Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

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Post by lifthrasiir »

6DM wrote: post #130
lifthrasiir wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While it's unfortunate that the Threes team didn't receive a proper recognition, I believe the popularity of 2048 mainly comes from the fact that it can be, in some sense, "finished" unlike Threes . Yes, you can continue after 2048, but it was a good milestone that is initially hard but can be done relatively easily once you've got the hang of it. The clear milestone makes every game play much more disposable unlike…

I will add, from playing with this just now, three's feels so much harder.

Yeah, that was also why I stopped play Threes shortly after trying it a bit.

Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

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Post by dngit »

morelikeborelax wrote: post #221
bschwindHN wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is bizarre. I came into this thread to make this exact same comment - I play 2048 religiously during takeoff, turbulence, and sometimes landing. It works really well, though if you were to watch a replay of my game, you could tell when turbulence hits because I start making faster and less logical moves :)

Very bizarre, as I also found it helped with this! I was only a First Officer at the time, but even as a Captain today I find playing 2048 during take off and landing really helps.

Wait, you're a Captain, and you fear of taking off and landing? I have so many questions :). Also, as someone who is scared of taking off and landing, I'm even more scared now.

Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

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Post by Neywiny »

Thank you. I've thoroughly enjoyed 2048 the past 10 years. The new one isn't showing the numbers for me, though. I'm on Firefox on Android. Classic one works perfectly. Works fine on Edge for mobile (only have it for situations like this where I'm tracing browser dependencies).

Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

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Post by averageRoyalty »

dngit wrote: post #224
morelikeborelax wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very bizarre, as I also found it helped with this! I was only a First Officer at the time, but even as a Captain today I find playing 2048 during take off and landing really helps.

Wait, you're a Captain, and you fear of taking off and landing? I have so many questions :). Also, as someone who is scared of taking off and landing, I'm even more scared now.

I suspect they were being facetious.

Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

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Post by bryant »

So I just had a repeat experience playing the game that massively turned me off to replaying it.

Was at 4096, and I tend to bunch up all of my numbers in sequential order like a snake, with the metaphorical head being the bottom left. Well, I was no longer able to avoid swiping down or left, so I had to swipe up. I had the full complement of two undos left, and 8 spare squares for numbers to appear.

Three times in a row, a number appeared in the bottom left when I swiped up. Odds of which should be 1/512 unless the game biases in favor of certain squares for hidden difficulty.

I pretty much decided not to play after that, because it was the third time that's happened. Not yet knowing what the actual code is that decides where new numbers appear, it frustrated me enough to not want to revisit this version of the game.

Re: Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

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Post by rythmshifter »

As a newcomer to this platform, I distinctly recall discovering this project as one of my earliest and most cherished memories of encountering engaging and rewarding endeavors within its community. Well done!

My phone said this sounded more professional but I kind of hate it.

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