The Tetris Gods Frown Upon Me

[TDK]

Fucking l block, why are you never there when I need you? Fucking reverse squigglies agh

Relevant. (http://www.collegehumor.com:8081/video:1924722)

[Krylo]

Is this supposed to be a discussion on Tetris, or just an excuse to link the Tetris God video again?

[Zilla]

Relevant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8&feature=player_embedded)

[Krylo]

Regardless of the intent of this thread, I think this (http://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html) is more deserved of being linked here than anything else you could link.

Edit@Zilla: I am glad you linked that. I don't have to make another link now.

[pochercoaster]

All I get are squigglies. :(

Yes I realize that's the point but it's literally all I got for an entire game...

Also that video is hella old. I'd be surprised if there was anyone who hasn't seen it...

[Fenris]

which ones are squigglies and which ones are reverse squigglies.

[Krylo]

All I get are squigglies. :(

Yes I realize that's the point but it's literally all I got for an entire game...

Also that video is hella old. I'd be surprised if there was anyone who hasn't seen it...

Rotate you squigglies so they are up and down. Begin making a line across the bottom. You will get line pieces at exactly the point where one more squiggly would have given you a line.

[Zilla]

High score of Hatetris is 3.

[pochercoaster]

Initially I didn't realize that it'd actually give you other pieces- I thought it was supposed to be a practical joke. Then when I started a new game I got a line block.

[Krylo]

Initially I didn't realize that it'd actually give you other pieces- I thought it was supposed to be a practical joke. Then when I started a new game I got a line block.

It is a practical joke.

The joke is that it always gives you the, literal, worst piece possible.

[Geminex]

Yep.
There's still some guys who manage to get, like, 30 points, though.

[Zilla]

It's interesting because the block it gives you isn't random. If it were to give you straight S blocks, you would eventually lose, but you would have a score of about 30 or so before that happened.

There has to be a way to play this and come out ahead, I did get a score of 3...

[Krylo]

I think the most I've ever gotten was around 7 or 8. I can't remember exactly what I did anymore, though, as it was aaaages ago.

I can say that the basic trick is to make it so that you can make a line no matter what it gives you, as often as possible. The fact that it's not random--that it calculates the worst block to give you--is also useful. It means you can control what it will give you to an extent.

I've never cared enough to figure out how to get really high or anything, though. Would take a good amount of testing and what not to probe how it decides what is worst and blah blah blah and man fuck that.

[pochercoaster]

It is a practical joke.

The joke is that it always gives you the, literal, worst piece possible.

Well, yes, I got that it gives you the worst pieces given the name, but I thought worst piece = 100% squigglies all the time.

Think I'll go to sdleep since it's getting hard to express myself. >.<

[Zilla]

That's not the case because if you arrange them so the ends stick up and down, you can consistently make rows with them. You just slowly build up layers that you can't do anything about.

[Fenris]

This isn't answering my question guys

[Living Bobbeh]

S and Z

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I got 10 on hatetris once butonly played a few times- haven't really tried to crack it , highest score on the website is 30.
Surely with all s-blocks you could make lines forever. It seems pretty straightforward to me.

[Amake]

Well that was depressingly hard. Here's something more cheerful: http://www.tetris1d.org/tetris.php

[Fenris]

S and Z

I get that, but which one is the squiggly and which one is the reverse squiggly?

[Hanuman]

This isn't answering my question guys
S is reverse squig, Z is squig.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Surely the s should be the squig

[Zilla]

I thought they were all named after letters except reverse L?

L, O, T, I, S, Z, and reverse L. They're the entire list of tetrads.

[Hanuman]

I thought they were all named after letters except reverse L?

L, O, T, I, S, Z, and reverse L. They're the entire list of tetrads.
We were speaking about the video terminology, but:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris#Colors_of_tetrominoes