Snakisms

dang 3 years ago |

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Snakisms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13804522 - March 2017 (140 comments)

For the views which state “swipes control snake”, is it part of the gag that by and large swipes do nothing? Or is that because I was too hasty loading nihilism?

dgoldstein0 3 years ago | |

For me the swipe controls only work some of the time. Might be dropping some inputs

JoshCole 3 years ago | |

It must be really hard to play when you can't swipe. I suggest playing determinism; it should completely eradicate your control issues.

eyelidlessness 3 years ago | | |

After clicking nihilism, determinism was my next stop for sure. I didn’t have any expectations that weren’t met!

cwillu 3 years ago | |

Try dualism if you want to experiment with mind control

lrpe 3 years ago |

Took me way too long to realize that you can't die in stoicist snake.

fardo 3 years ago | |

You can instead enjoy the horror of creating a situation in which despite not losing, there is no valid direction of motion, so your immortal snake is forever trapped in a prison of its own making.

kelseyfrog 3 years ago | | |

The true winning state is to understand that it's up to you to decide whether to feel neither horror nor comfort in that realization.

lobstrosity420 3 years ago |

I have no idea if the people ITT complaining about the mailto link are in on the joke or not but I lol'd.

cbanek 3 years ago |

TFW you read this as snackisms and was confused for like, a full minute.

Then you realize it's snake-isms, and finally get the joke and laugh for a full minute. What a day. Love this.

idk1 3 years ago |

Narcissism my favourite, I won't spoil it because it's a delight to find out, that was just fantastic, the whole this was brilliant.

smitty1e 3 years ago |

Worst python article ever.

eliasffyksen 3 years ago |

Nice to see I'm not the only one obsessed with Snake. This goes directly in my bookmarks :P

jb1991 3 years ago |

It was interesting until it auto-opened a mail window somehow without me pressing on anything obviously, and the email had a subject of "I love your work!" to the developer. Man, do I not like that sort of site behavior.

blendergeek 3 years ago | |

This is the "narcissism" snake. That is expected behavior.

GRBLDeveloped 3 years ago |

Anyone able to beat my 10K on casualism?

lobstrosity420 3 years ago | |

I can do it in optimism :)

camtarn 3 years ago |

Very much amused by Nihilism.

sAbakumoff 3 years ago |

I wish it had the "Buddhism" mode.

__MatrixMan__ 3 years ago |

Narcissism is my favorite. I lol'd.

eurasiantiger 3 years ago |

On iOS this suddenly wanted to open a page in Mail. You have been warned.

cwillu 3 years ago | |

Joke explainer:

Narcissism mode attempts to send an email to the author when you score a point: “https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?fs=1&tf=cm&source=mailto&s...

   Subject: I+love+your+work
   to: pippin.barr@gmail.com
   body: I+wanted+to+take+a+couple+of+minutes+to+write+you+an+email+about+how+much+I+respect+and+appreciate+your+work...

eurasiantiger 3 years ago | | |

Right. Joke.

bgun 3 years ago | | |

If you think iOS opening mailto: links in the Mail app represents some kind of security breach then I have bad news for you.

eurasiantiger 3 years ago | | |

If an application developer expects people NOT to react defensively to automatically launched external applications, they are deluded.

That link does not open from a user-initiated event, even if it technically does.

Cederfjard 3 years ago | | |

That's fair, but if you don't think it's meant as a joke, what do you think the intention is?

viridian 3 years ago | |

Wait, are you Eurasiantiger from reddit?