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Behold the World

Donkeyspace • 3 implied HN points • 07 Mar 24
🎭️ Culture Games Esports Internet Travel Media
  1. GeoGuessr is a game that highlights the beauty and complexity of perceiving and interpreting the world through online snapshots.
  2. GeoGuessr is a game that relies on skill and intuition rather than complex strategies, making it unique from traditional esports.
  3. GeoGuessr serves as an example of how games can evolve and fill educational voids by engaging players in new ways of navigating and understanding data.

How Games Will Save the World (Again)

Donkeyspace • 1 HN point • 22 Jun 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Games Art AI Chess
  1. Games have a unique ability to help us navigate crises by offering new ways of thinking beyond formal models.
  2. Art, including games, plays a significant role in shaping human values, perspectives, and cognition.
  3. Through games, we engage in problem-solving, skill-building, and self-modification, which can be beautiful, pleasurable, and essential for understanding complex concepts.

On the Properties of Great Card Games

Matt’s Five Points • 19 implied HN points • 16 Sep 11
🎭️ Culture Games Entertainment Social Interaction Leisure Hobbies
  1. Great card games need meaningful and complex strategies. The best games allow skilled players to win more often while still giving everyone a chance to have fun.
  2. Rule simplicity is crucial. If a game takes too long to learn, it's not likely to be played often, so the rules should be easy to understand quickly.
  3. Games should have low downtime and be scalable for different numbers of players. Everyone should be involved and able to play, and the game should work well whether you have three or seven players.
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Calculating the Sharpness of Different Players

Chess Engine Lab • 0 implied HN points • 19 Apr 24
🎾 Sports Chess Players Tournaments Games Styles
  1. The sharpness score can be used to assess chess players' gameplay, comparing their style and strategic decisions.
  2. To calculate a player's sharpness, looking at the change in sharpness after each move can help isolate individual performance.
  3. Analyzing sharpness in matches between players can provide insights into their contrasting styles and performance evolution over time.

Your own wikileak cable

Matt’s Five Points • 0 implied HN points • 20 Dec 10
🎭️ Culture Games Diplomacy Strategy Social Interaction Board Games
  1. The game 'Diplomacy' is special because winning relies more on negotiation than just strategy on the board. You have to really work with others to succeed.
  2. Playing the game online brings a new level of intrigue because all conversations happen through messages, making it feel more secretive and strategic.
  3. The online format allows for longer times between moves, which encourages deeper conversations and planning among players, enhancing the overall experience.

On Jim Joyce and this generation's Harvey Haddix...

Matt’s Five Points • 0 implied HN points • 03 Jun 10
🎾 Sports Baseball Athletes Games Statistics
  1. Perfect games are really exciting to watch and can turn a boring game into something thrilling. People will often go out of their way to watch every pitch of these games.
  2. The missed call by umpire Jim Joyce during Galarraga's near-perfect game is one of the most tragic moments in baseball history. Many think it marks the worst missed call in a regular season game.
  3. People might remember Galarraga's name for years, but it may not carry the same weight as Harvey Haddix's legendary 1959 performance. There’s a unique story about Haddix that adds to its memory.

Zoom games

Joshua Gans' Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 04 Dec 20
🎭️ Culture Games
  1. Predict where someone walking during a Zoom meeting will end up for a fun game that boosts meeting energy.
  2. Observe signs to tell if someone is paying attention in a Zoom meeting, like mismatched emotions or frequent video turning off.
  3. Notice private chats happening in Zoom by observing people's reactions and then publicly calling them out to see their response.

Hate-heart

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends • 0 implied HN points • 03 Nov 15
🎭️ Culture Social media Games Internet culture Music Industry Self-help
  1. Trolling used to be more about humor and skill rather than harassment and meanness. We should bring back the art of clever trolling.
  2. In the social media world, there are unique individuals like Crosby Tailor who not only model but also sell cookies claimed to help burn fat.
  3. Playing digital games like Tetris might have lasting effects as some individuals see the game when they close their eyes, and scientists are still exploring the reasons behind this phenomenon.