My favorite/least favorite tetris variant is Not Tetris 2, the one that doesn't snap to a grid. It's maddening. All this guy's games are mad at you.
Getting the World Record in Hatetris (2022)
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#12Tetris, er, um I mean the use of interlacing cube blocks in random ways not intruding on existing IP, is such a deep well of variations on a theme from the hard core speed cults to a jelly gummy wiggle version to my fave that adds a z-axis [1] -- it just keeps on entertaining. [1] https://github.com/diarmidmackenzie/blocks-arcade
> Tetris, er, um I mean TTC has such an iron grip on Tetris that even clones which don't use the name or anything similar to it are still at risk of being shut down, it's ridiculous. It's possibly the only example of game mechanics being de-facto copyrighted, in spite of game mechanics ostensibly not being copyrightable, due to some legal sleight of hand where they successfully argued that the look of Tetris is their…
> That look is inextricably tied to the mechanics, there's no way to make a Tetris clone which doesn't look like Tetris.
If we lived in a just world, that would make the look uncopyrightable, rather than making the mechanics copyrightable.
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#14Off topic but I did not know that Hatetris and "there is no antimemetics divisions¹" have the same creator : qntm !
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#15Off topic but I did not know that Hatetris and "there is no antimemetics divisions¹" have the same creator : qntm ! 1- https://qntm.org/scp
That was a fun book
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#16Off topic but I did not know that Hatetris and "there is no antimemetics divisions¹" have the same creator : qntm ! 1- https://qntm.org/scp
I really enjoyed Fine Structure too
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#17Related: Losing the World Record in Hatetris (2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36558013 - July 2023 (1 comment) Getting the World Record in Hatetris - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32495842 - Aug 2022 (1 comment) Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27063894 - May 2021 (245 comments) Hatetris - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4846607 -…
The "Losing the World Record..." article is especially worth reading.
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#18Off topic but I did not know that Hatetris and "there is no antimemetics divisions¹" have the same creator : qntm ! 1- https://qntm.org/scp
https://qntm.org/ra is also great, especially if you've read Sam's work and want more. It will appeal to technical types: magic is real and has a rigorous mathematical theory behind it, which is cool as far as it goes, but he takes it in an interesting direction from there.
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#19Do not miss P.S. section at the end. It is very inspiring! Quote: "We’re not researchers at all. We’re just two people who became obsessed with a problem and put their meager knowledge to use, beating rocks against rocks in different configurations until something resembling a spearhead came out. ... You, too, can do something like this. Find a problem. Become obsessed with it. Learn everything you can about it. Fall…
Sounds to me like they are superb researchers.
(Eureka moments leading you down more deadends is so wel put too.)
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#20Off topic but I did not know that Hatetris and "there is no antimemetics divisions¹" have the same creator : qntm ! 1- https://qntm.org/scp
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