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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I want to put all my carts in some kind of book or case instead using individual cases. What's a good option for something that can hold a few dozen carts and isn't gigantic? You've got options on Amazon. Or you can spend $5 on some adhesive craft foam and make one. Waffle! fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Jan 16, 2022 |
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ExcessBLarg! posted:So I do the "counting" thing where you add up the size of the hints and the required blanks to figure out which hints on the board have the least number of potential placements--say two "variants". At that point, with a computerized solver it's pretty cheap to make a copy of the board and walk done the solution branches for both variants, and just throw away the work for the invalid branch once you've determined that it's invalid. The problem is that many subsequent operations will be the same in both branches so you end up duplicating the effort even though only one of them will yield a valid solution. Compound that with many guesses and the work gets pretty inefficient quickly. With a little more work, a solver won't need to duplicate the board, or throw anything away. The way I approached mine is first to generate, for each rank and row, the set of possible ways to fill it in (which isn't a big deal, since it is determined/constrained by a given clue). Then on each iteration of the loop, I look (using the currently available representations) for cells that can definitely be filled in, or definitely cannot, applying that to the grid, as well as filtering out representations that would contradict the grid as it stands at that moment. With each iteration, more of the grid is filled in, and more potential representations are filtered out, until there is nothing left to do. Since, in principle anyway, a good nonogram is deterministically solvable and requires no guessing, this simple approach works well, and doesn't result in contradictions. For the puzzle on page 197, my solver resolves it in 25 iterations, for example. Edit: I've been grinding out mega-picross recently, as I once more mull over a mega-picross solver. I feel perhaps I could use a similar approach as for normal Picross. But the wrinkle of the fact that the representations for mega-clues span rows/columns keeps tripping up my thoughts on data structures. magimix fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Jan 16, 2022 |
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Hammer Bro. posted:Holy HECK did this thread not do its job. Sure y'all said Tetris Effect was a good VR experience and now it had a Switch port, but you did NOT say how engrossing the music, visuals, and audiovisual gameplay was. I spent the first half trash talking, the second half being trash talked, and the whole experience having my vision black out around the TV screen. I have several times mentioned in this thread that Tetris Effect is the best Tetris, but I'll forgive you since my full comments were in the last thread: 100YrsofAttitude posted:While you're all moonlighting as a bounty hunter, I've been playing Tetris Effect. I love this game. One of the few games I've bought sight unseen and on launch. It's just fantastic. Everyone should play it. Someone mentioned earlier on the soundwork elevates it from great to mind-opening. I still don't know what my favorite stages are, but I love the first one, the NYC piano one, and the Volcano one in particular. They feel SO good.
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So Hades is definitely not a good phone game. I managed to keep my streak up with the Spear, but the game requires just too much concentration. I lucked out due to the Boons I had going, but yeah I can't reasonably hold a conversation and play it. I started up Pyre on PC, and it's neat. I wonder why they never brought it over. It can be played with a gamepad. I'd get it at this point just to support the company. Dead Cells is more or less in the same group too. Too hard to chat and play well. I can't beat Dicey Dungeons Inventor 4... and it's a game that requires a bit too much reading to chat well with. Tetris Effect is good but it KILLS my battery on m OG switch. I may try Stardew Valley. The time limit doesn't help, but if you pause liberally to gather your thoughts it's low key enough.
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Snake Maze posted:This is not a passive aggressive dig or anything: it’s pretty fascinating (and kind of impressive) that you’ve been programming a solver for picross despite apparently having no idea how to solve picross. magimix posted:The way I approached mine is first to generate, for each rank and row, the set of possible ways to fill it in (which isn't a big deal, since it is determined/constrained by a given clue). Then on each iteration of the loop, I look (using the currently available representations) for cells that can definitely be filled in, or definitely cannot, applying that to the grid, as well as filtering out representations that would contradict the grid as it stands at that moment.
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If I bought a switch lite (or an OLED) for my wife, is there a way for both of us to play the digital games we already own on our primary?
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Does Tetris Effect have the same hard drop sensitivity setting that they added to T99? That's the only reason I didn't pick up Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 because it makes a huge difference in my experience going between titles.
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Huxley posted:If I bought a switch lite (or an OLED) for my wife, is there a way for both of us to play the digital games we already own on our primary? Your Account can play any of Your Games on any Switch. Any account can play any of Your Games on Your Switch. Set the new Switch (ostensibly hers) as Your Switch. You can do this by selecting your icon in the upper right of the store on your current switch, and deregister it. Then just open the shop in the second one. Nothing else required.
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Chronojam posted:Your Account can play any of Your Games on any Switch. Cool! And then if I bought a game I wanted to put on both I would need to download it on the console I bought it on, deregister, register on the other one, and download it there. And just swap back and forth as I buy things.
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Grindstone, a fun puzzle "battler" game, is half off right now. Kind of like candy crush but with swords, monsters, etc.
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Huxley posted:Cool! And then if I bought a game I wanted to put on both I would need to download it on the console I bought it on, deregister, register on the other one, and download it there. And just swap back and forth as I buy things. No juggling required-- just download the games using the "redownload" option. Deregistering simply lets you reassign a primary system, doesn't delete your profile from the system or touch your games/saves at all. You'll even be able to play games online together, so you can join the same server and Monster Hunter together or Cross Animals on each other's island.
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Thanks! I guess now the trick is finding one. Huxley fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Jan 17, 2022 |
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I forget, was Cris Tales any good? It's half-off, for $20.
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Read After Burning posted:I forget, was Cris Tales any good? It's half-off, for $20. I tried it when it launched on Game Pass, and despite having that Valkyrie Profile-style of combat that I love, something about the gameplay just felt stiff and unfun.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:I can't beat Dicey Dungeons Inventor 4... and it's a game that requires a bit too much reading to chat well with. I got the same problem, the 4th stage is the hardest from the ones I've seen. I haven't beat for for the inventor yet either. I'm imagining trying to beat 4 with the Witch and getting irritated already
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chaleski posted:I got the same problem, the 4th stage is the hardest from the ones I've seen. I haven't beat for for the inventor yet either. Witch 4 and 6 are both irritating beyond all belief. We had 19 runs at Witch 4 before clearing.
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i've been killed in the first or second encounter with as far as i could tell nothing i could have done to avoid it on just number 2 for some characters. i'm less interested in continuing than i was after the first round...
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Read After Burning posted:I forget, was Cris Tales any good? It's half-off, for $20. Nah its all style the gameplay bored me instantly Coxswain Balls posted:Does Tetris Effect have the same hard drop sensitivity setting that they added to T99? That's the only reason I didn't pick up Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 because it makes a huge difference in my experience going between titles. You can turn off the push up to instantly place block option in TE
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Coxswain Balls posted:Does Tetris Effect have the same hard drop sensitivity setting that they added to T99? That's the only reason I didn't pick up Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 because it makes a huge difference in my experience going between titles. I think so. The game has a ton of customization. I never had an issue with either game for what it's worth. chaleski posted:I got the same problem, the 4th stage is the hardest from the ones I've seen. I haven't beat for for the inventor yet either. I guess the strategy is to get one or two good upgraded objects and then hope for the best. It doesn't help that the Character trait (all 6's) isn't actually that strong. A lot of time you don't actually want or need a six. I'l probably move on and try the other stages in a moment per my 3 life rule.
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which game is the best for if you just want to play regular marathon tetris on the terlet using a switch? for 3-4 hours just sitting there. this part doesnt matter
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https://twitter.com/n64thstreetgifs/status/1482905692180664325?s=21 Words to live by.
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Real hurthling! posted:You can turn off the push up to instantly place block option in TE I don't mean turning off the hard drop by pressing up altogether. In T99 they added a sensitivity option so that the up direction needs to be held for a couple of milliseconds to register. The lag is imperceptible even in high level play but it completely got rid of accidental hard drops for me with a cross d-pad, and when it was patched in I went from never winning because of misdrops in high pressure situations to consistently getting first place.  Unfortunately using joycons with the separated buttons isn't an option because they destroy my tendons when playing Tetris. 100YrsofAttitude posted:I think so. The game has a ton of customization. I never had an issue with either game for what it's worth.   Does it have that option in there? T99 upped my game substantially and when I went back to PPT it was insane how many misdrops were happening despite ostensibly playing the same game. I have a hunch that the Pro Controller's reputation for having a bad d-pad is mainly due to the PPT demo not having any kind of debounce filtering with the inputs since I've never had those kinds of issues with wrong inputs in other games.
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Just one question: if I buy a Switch, can I play couch co-op by just hooking up a second set of controllers?
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jackhunter64 posted:https://twitter.com/n64thstreetgifs/status/1482905692180664325?s=21 Goddamn I'd love to play that game again, I never beat it
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Coxswain Balls posted:I have a hunch that the Pro Controller's reputation for having a bad d-pad is mainly due to the PPT demo not having any kind of debounce filtering with the inputs since I've never had those kinds of issues with wrong inputs in other games. it's due to the d-pad being unreliable in every game where that matters, op. such as celeste or super mario picross (where on half the puzzles you're on a time limit and penalized for mistakes, such as drifting over a column while drawing a vertical line).
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QuarkJets posted:Just one question: if I buy a Switch, can I play couch co-op by just hooking up a second set of controllers? Yes, obviously. Some games you can even play co-op with just the two joycon that come with the Switch, although this isn't fun for anyone for long periods of time.
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Butterfly Valley posted:Yes, obviously. Some games you can even play co-op with just the two joycon that come with the Switch, although this isn't fun for anyone for long periods of time. Though at the same time, don't ignore those little button covers that come with the system, that have the wrist strap with them. The strap is whatever, but sliding on the controller add-ons (seriously what are they called?) makes hitting SL and SR WAY better. If you go split joycons, use them.
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b_d posted:it's due to the d-pad being unreliable in every game where that matters, op. such as celeste or super mario picross (where on half the puzzles you're on a time limit and penalized for mistakes, such as drifting over a column while drawing a vertical line). Like I said, it's just a hunch going off of how it was fixed in Tetris 99, since digital buttons having a sensitivity setting is already kind of weird. I wonder if the joycons having discrete buttons being the default has created QA blind spot where input filtering is being skipped entirely with a lot of games. I did the tape mod on my own controller but the T99 sensitivity patch had the most drastic effect on my play before and after so it's definitely something that seems fixable in software. It'd be neat if it's something that could be implemented in a firmware patch or something to have that fix for every game, but who knows what kind of weird bugs it might introduce if a game isn't expecting that behaviour.
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Cavauro posted:which game is the best for if you just want to play regular marathon tetris on the terlet using a switch? for 3-4 hours just sitting there. this part doesnt matter Tetris Effect. 99 only offers 150 or 999 lines or something to that effect. Effect lets you choose speed, endless or not, and a whole bunch of other variables. I would argue that the themes are slightly more fun in 99 since it’s franchises you know, and since it has a classic game boy one, but Effects themes are a loving trip and worth experiencing always with the sound on. That said it’s 3 times the price of 99 so up to you. I think 99 has nothing on Effect which is the single best way to Tetris.
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jackhunter64 posted:https://twitter.com/n64thstreetgifs/status/1482905692180664325?s=21 That is pretty much what I said every time I rented it
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Nobody told me that Katamari Damacy, in addition to being fun and stupid and addictive, is also frustrating as all hell
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Coxswain Balls posted:Like I said, it's just a hunch going off of how it was fixed in Tetris 99, since digital buttons having a sensitivity setting is already kind of weird. I wonder if the joycons having discrete buttons being the default has created QA blind spot where input filtering is being skipped entirely with a lot of games. I wouldn't say that digital buttons having a sensitivity setting is particularly weird, as long as you consider that it's sensitivity in time instead of sensitivity in space.
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Coxswain Balls posted:I have a hunch that the Pro Controller's reputation for having a bad d-pad is mainly due to the PPT demo not having any kind of debounce filtering with the inputs since I've never had those kinds of issues with wrong inputs in other games.
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