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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 awwstn »

tedunangst wrote: post #115
tiltowait wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In this case, he even intentionally intentionally triggered the crash. As cool an achievement this is, I struggle to call it "beating" the game, since players could still theoretically go much further. Given that the glitch is predictable and well-documented, I'd consider it to be yet another (and new) obstacle to overcome, not the end. This is therefore the first time someone's ever hit the obstacle, and the first t…

The game is man vs machine. The machine fills the space with blocks; the human clears space for the blocks. The machine wins when the human fails to make room for the next block. The human wins when the machine fails to deliver the next block.

this comment is fantastic and gives a clear answer to anyone griping about whether this is considered "beating" the game. scruti is the first human to beat the game, now other people will try to beat it in other ways on other levels.

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

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Post by JohnBooty »

mgerullis wrote: post #72
JohnBooty wrote: post #52

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Well, it's definitely a judgement call. I think most "serious" Tetris players can get to 30 easily in a short amount of time, right? Like 15-20 minutes? It'd be hard to think of that as a legitimate "ending." Whereas a run to level 100+ or whatever for this kill screen is a major achievement. Took people 30+ years to get there. I don't know, though. It's all subjective. If you want to think of a hypothetical lvl 30 c…

Um, it wasn’t until 2011 before the first person achieved level 30, as the video mentions fairly early on

Thanks for the correction

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

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Post by f_allwein »

hintymad wrote: post #49

What an inspiring video. I might go so far as to say it is this level of geekiness that moves our civilization forward.

Seems like a really supportive community as well. Compare this to „King of Kong“, which seemed much more competitive/ dodgy.

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

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Post by pests »

refulgentis wrote: post #56
xerox13ster wrote: post #38

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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…

Gently teasing :) - I definitely got _more_ confused, these are interesting examples. > what you do to your mouse trying to get your click speed above 10 CPS. ?! > The equivalent of putting sharpied electrical tape on your mouse and rubbing it. ?!?

People hold their fingers against the buttons of the NES controller. They then tap the back of the controller to push the buttons into their fingers.

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

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Post by shermantanktop »

recursive wrote: post #92
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.

You think most other kids are spending that time on something less regrettable? This is a serious accomplishment. Being able to commit to a goal, and putting in the work to achieve it is a useful skill. I believe it's transferable to some degree between disciplines. It might be called "grit". He's not just goofing off. In order to get to this level of performance, he'd have to have an organized training program, not…

I'm not a sports person, or an organized-competition person for that matter, but I see a qualitative difference between "best bowler in school" and "setting world records for bowling."

I wouldn't say being the first is a waste of time, because I think virtually any effort at self-improvement has some value. But being among the best in the world, even in a smaller competitive environment, is extraordinary regardless of the intrinsic value of the activity.

It also reflects a certain tunnel vision which can be helpful or harmful later in life. But he'll be dining out on this story for a long time.

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

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Post by mrob »

charcircuit wrote: post #98
mrob wrote: post #91

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CRTs have better refresh characteristics at the same refresh rate, which is relevant to NES Tetris because it runs at a fixed 60.1Hz (slightly faster than NTSC). But LCDs are available with higher refresh rate than CRTs, so if the software supports it you can get lower average latency on an LCD.

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.

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

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Post by galkk »

The speed of change in Tetris after invention of rolling is crazy.

Just like 4-5 years ago it felt like Joseph is GOAT and his records will hold for a while, and now he and the style that he perfected (hypertappjng) looks like relic of dinosaur era.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by Stevvo »

tslocum wrote: post #64

Speaking of Tetris, you can play it (single-player or multiplayer!) in your terminal via SSH: ssh playnetris.com Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/netris

A minute or two into a game I got booted off;

Connection to playnetris.com closed by remote host.

Connection to playnetris.com closed.

>ssh playnetris.com

ssh: connect to host playnetris.com port 22: Connection refused

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