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The Tetris Effect

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Re: The Tetris Effect

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Post by pimlottc »

noduerme wrote: post #19
dang wrote: post #82

[belated stub for offtopicness] " Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This could for all I know be the most brilliant solution to 3D Tetris ever, but the font is just so terrible that I find it hard to get past the first paragraph, which makes me doubt the validity of any further (possibly quite clever) design solutions that are being presented. Design serves a single purpose, which is to present information in the clearest possible way. Any design choices you make which don't serve th…

The first part of the article, at least, works in reader mode.

Re: The Tetris Effect

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Post by khamisiyah »

Still very difficult to visualize the Z-layer (how far the blocks are into the screen). Maybe another way to make 3D tetris more viable would be to have a camera that automatically adjusts for the best viewing angle for the player?

Re: The Tetris Effect

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Post by brynbryn »

dang wrote: post #82

[belated stub for offtopicness] " Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re: The Tetris Effect

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Post by intrasight »

I was in graduate school when Tetris exploded. One of the PhD students in our lab nearly failed out due to his Tetris addition. For me, that what "The Tetris Effect" refers to.

Re: The Tetris Effect

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Post by [deleted] »

dang wrote: post #82

[belated stub for offtopicness] " Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re: The Tetris Effect

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Post by samyar »

dang wrote: post #82

[belated stub for offtopicness] " Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The bro couldn't find an uglier font than this ?

Re: The Tetris Effect

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Post by b3lvedere »

intrasight wrote: post #24

I was in graduate school when Tetris exploded. One of the PhD students in our lab nearly failed out due to his Tetris addition. For me, that what "The Tetris Effect" refers to.

"If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear."

https://imgur.com/v1QA0AZ

Re: The Tetris Effect

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Post by DeathArrow »

>The Tetris Effect can also invade people's waking lives with intrusive thoughts that interpret the real world through the lens of this particular cognitive pattern

So Tetris was a plot of USSR govt and KGB to control westerners minds? :D

Re: The Tetris Effect

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Post by Waterluvian »

beeburrt wrote: post #12
dang wrote: post #82

[belated stub for offtopicness] " Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That font is terrible for reading. Maybe for like headings it’s ok, but long paragraphs, no.

I had a real problem reading this. Luckily reader mode seemed to work fine and stripped all the style from the document.
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