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I never use ‘revives’ and I hardly ever see an ad. Yes, it gets quite hard when you get to your high score, that’s the time to take a break. I usually get excited and power through and choke. It’s important to keep the field clear and place stuff in the middle when you can. Maybe this guy just sucks at Block Blast?
This guy unpacked the code to show that once you’re 1000 points past your high score the game has an increasingly higher chance of being impossible. Not “quite hard”, but literally unable to win. There’s a good little interactive sample of how the game builds the impossible hands that it then serves.
Your note on “time to take a break” is funny to read, because the game accounts for this, too.
I had a bunch of Linux-loving, anti-ad, tinfoil hat employees in the early 00s. They tried to convince me of how bad things will become. It turns out that their tinfoil hats weren’t nearly thick enough.
How long before so much of daily life is governed by such algorithms, models, dark patterns? “Oh, you didn’t pay rapt attention to the entire chain of ads. Guess your car is going to have to break down this week and your egg prices will go up 25% at every grocery store.”
There are gambling companies who are using all this surveillance ad tech and AI to retarget gambling addicts who are trying to quit. This will also apply to other addictions. So if you are trying to quit drinking, you will still be in the “interested in alcohol” segmentation and will get a lot of ads and coupons for alcohol. Struggling with your weight? If those ad companies are noticing that and they will, you will get ads for sweets and ads shaming you for being fat trying to sell you quack medicine.
We will lease our underwear soon
yeah i saw the writing on the wall around that time too. started self hosting as much as possible. paid dividends pretty well so far.
