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Re: Tetr.io

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This has to be some kind of wasm construction right? I've hardly ever seen such a smooth but rich experience on web.

There's no WASM, it's mostly vanilla JS, together with the PixiJS library, which does 2d WebGL rendering. It has in-house libraries for text rendering, particle systems and the such. It's not super strong, but as long as you understand the limitations of the browser and try to adapt to the client's machine, you can get a very decent experience in. I hope this game sparks a bit of a trend of trying to make more genuin…

It certainly inspired me to give it a try, very well done!

Re: Tetr.io

#132

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Huh. Seems like I may be in the wrong here. I've been watching some of the NES Tetris videos recently and they don't even go this fast so I thought it wasn't possible. I guess that's that's the different between a "sprint" and a "marathon" though? I can barely even register the next piece at that speed, I wonder if these players are mostly just visualizing the board in their mind. Doesn't seem possible to be looking…

NES tetris and modern tetris are VERY different games. NES tetris didn't have hard drop, hold, SRS, 7-bag randomizer, or multiple piece previews, all of which are in all modern guideline tetris games and can help you go faster. Tetr.io and Jstris go even further than guideline tetris: there's no line clear delay and you can set DAS/ARR[1] to anything you want, which lets you go even faster. The bottleneck isn't the k…

Wow, thank you for this very thorough response. I also had to look up SRS [0] as a key concept. Really impressive the way that all the different piece and placement combinations have been broken down in a comprehensive way.

I can see now how this becomes a much more organized and deterministic game with these changes, allowing players to plan their moves and inputs precisely so that they are barely need any visual feedback to confirm the state of the board, allowing them to queue up multiple moves in rapid succession.

Of course I’m sure it takes a lot of training and practice as well!

0: https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/SRS

Re: Tetr.io

#133
post #73

Is there a way to play with a gamepad controller? This is the coolest web game I've ever seen. So fast and smooth even on my ancient laptop. I didn't know you could do this in a browser. Now I want to see a Subspace remake to complete my 90's nostalgia trip.

Subspace/Continuum is available on Steam

Re: Tetr.io

#136
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His shader stuff and graphics programming articles are neat. But yeah his other stuff is... misguided, at best (and I think he's amazingly wrong in his latest article). I just don't read those ones.

Could you elaborate on why you think Wittens is “misguided”? Do you think, for example, that he is not in a good position to write about the oppression of minorities?

Hmmm, well, his very first post ("Who Doesn't Go Nazi?") is about being an anti-vaxxer, saying how anti-vaxxers would resist becoming Nazis, and comparing anti-vaxxers to the Jews, which already has me questioning his critical thinking skills.

I looked at a couple of his other articles, and despite being a good writer, there's some subtle, and not-so-subtle, points he misses. E.g., in "Storms and Teacups", he thinks that Jezebel celebrating women's "equality and self-determination" means they are hypocritical to criticize Michelle Williams for dressing up as a Native American, and the fashion industry because they "didn't objectify a woman in a tasteful enough fashion".

This shows he doesn't understand that 1) "equality and self-empowerment" are not to come at others' expense, an unstated, but real, caveat, he seems to have missed, and 2) criticism of an industry doesn't have to involve every possible complaint all the time. That's just editorial focus.

Ironically, towards the end of the article, he says "We don't want to talk about the full complexity at play here", while parroting standard responses. I'm 99% sure he spends his time digging up things that confirm his viewpoint, locating the 1% of outliers that support him, and no time engaging with the scholarship of the majority of the other side. It's like trying to talk about racism using only Candace Owens' talking points.

Re: Tetr.io

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Could you elaborate on why you think Wittens is “misguided”? Do you think, for example, that he is not in a good position to write about the oppression of minorities?

Hmmm, well, his very first post ("Who Doesn't Go Nazi?") is about being an anti-vaxxer, saying how anti-vaxxers would resist becoming Nazis, and comparing anti-vaxxers to the Jews, which already has me questioning his critical thinking skills. I looked at a couple of his other articles, and despite being a good writer, there's some subtle, and not-so-subtle, points he misses. E.g., in "Storms and Teacups", he thinks…

I don't know how you can say this with any intellectual integrity. I suspect you either didn't read the Storms and Teacups article, or you skimmed it and recoiled at every word, refusing to consider any of his arguments in any capacity.

> It's like trying to talk about racism using only Candace Owens' talking points.

Are you so sure you aren't guilty of this yourself? How much Thomas Sowell or John McWhorter have you read?

Re: Tetr.io

#139
Told my gf to try it. Said she doesn't really like it. "It's just another tetris game". And then she proceeded to play it for the next 4 hours. Multiplayer is truly brutal. Very hard to play.

Re: Tetr.io

#140

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the website may look cool, but judging from the first article (at the time of reading), the content is atrocious.

If you find his latest article objectionable — even though his words are completely in line with the perspective held by non-crank doctors[0] — then you’re probably the kind of person for whom it would benefit the most. Try to instead give it five minutes [1], digest and understand the content, and rise above the faith-based scientism that is the likely cause for increased anti-vaccination sentiment. [0]: https://you…

Fairly bold of you to assume I didn't read the article, but anyway:

I've given five minutes to the thought that being an anti-vaxxer in the middle of a pandemic when vaccines are provided to you for free and at the point that only very long term effects can be a concern is comparable to being a jew in nazi Germany, and I still think it is atrocious, sorry.

But I mean, there's only so much you can talk about when "faith-based scientism" is used for vaccines.

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