Nostris Cup #1 🏆

Prize Pool: 7,774 sats

Participants: nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yetvd96x2uewdaexwqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qqsqu5sj950tjhxa3wjlvkq47lgujyj63s2ds2vfatjj4vmfa6nv0eqmth2rq, nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqtxwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tmwwp6kyvt5wg6xgum5v9c8gepjwdcrjwrgxa5xc7tnwqu8zmr9xekhwdmhd4sh26rxddnh5vmjd4uxgepcdej8qun4wdh8wvnex4nn7cnjdaskgcmpwd6r6arjw4jsqg9xyduv5datpkxmjr78anns8vhfm68rtu2sagnumtl6y975ghye35dyyaer, nostr:nprofile1q9phwue69uhkvurcdyehs6rhvgehs7rzw3j8zmmcdek85vnedpsk2cnhdankvmntw9chjut4v33xc6f5dfmkxet2dd6nycmvv3ckgtn0de5k7mspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqqyqame2m7854s0f2syusx6hse8qflq9qx3qk645z5zguf559k0w5ju4ukwae, nostr:nprofile1qy0hwumn8ghj7amnwvhj7mrpdenjuun9d3shjuewd3skuep0veez7qpqcfunkt32sd6pjavpkjpyf3rrjt3f7yp34pkp2da9f002h8gc27uqgmlmyr, nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7emjv4jkuum0w4kzuumsv93k2qg4waehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvsqzq6szkl2atswwas7s455d6uwyelhtkcuhh9077hx4qvkfygap85p2w8akyr, nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7cn9wehjumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcprfmhxue69uhk2mrfw3jhxtnwdaehgunpw35jummjvuhsqgqelxhm37z47h5xkkl2zc883mzcw9jgkyx7mvzr7jqxlj5vu58y6v2udy9h, nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj7env9ec82unsd3jhyetvv9ujucm0d5hsz8mhwden5te0d4hku6t5daexc6t6v9exgtnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0qqsxve63trnr8rlgnldyrrjz5zlj573tzvjsfhf50uq45xyhrdjygvqpsc7mh, nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdshsqgqnhj2ajgwgk6exeu65jjtymtuxlycjlegfy3yr6fngy7temqyf05h62q97, nostr:nprofile1qy28wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mqz9nhwden5te0dehhxarjv4kxjar9wvhx7un8yqqzpkdr9xh6hvnr4zhjz6pcadz7ruzvcvqqwpzxf9rufwg8uxl0tqxhxjfxyc, nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7ct8vaezumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpq62zpxufpw8pnuytaf0gfxzkqtvk9rvcwkvppa7x57y3n7qkfpg4sx8w3k8

Good luck all! Please try to complete your matches as soon as you can. If you are facing technical difficulties, let me know. I can pay the LN invoice to start the match, just ping me. Let's get it done by the next weekend, shall we? DM or tag each other in replies here to coordinate the match.

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Can we play tomorrow night around 10p? I’m traveling all day for work and will be home tomorrow night.

Of course, no problem! Thanks for getting back to me!

Around 10p EST

I don't think I can make it at 10pm EST, but I can do 10pm EST on Tuesday. Will that work for you?

Yes, that will work 🤝

Good deal!

Game on! I'll see you tonight.

Stream the finals on primal ? I'd watch/talk shit

that sounds fun, if I'm in the finals I'll stream it

Lfg team Danny

I’m not making the finals but excited to play. I played a little today it’s a lot of fun.

Yup! I am ready!

So, we just both log on at the same time? I saw the multiple player options.

Yes, just join the multiplayer option. I am available right now if you are free.

Ok sweet, joining now.

I am there

Are you able to make a payment to start the game?

Just refreshing the page and re-joining!

Yes you hit start

Oops, I didn't see the game go off at all. I left the lobby and re-joined.

Re-join?

Yes I’m here now and paid sorry for the delay

It's OK, it's a bit quirky but as long as we both get there at the same time we should be able to start.

Ready?!

I just paid, I will let you hit start whenever you are ready!

😂🤝🤙🏻

GG Shug!

To be fair we can make this a best of 3 if you wish! But I have to run now and will be back in about 90 minutes.

😂 I have to play a pro gamer.

😂 Sounds fair for a floppy bird champion!

Pro-Am in particular, but I'll see what I can do (and see if I can get Alby working properly).

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How does this work?

If I'm reading this correctly, I play whoever wins here?

I think so yeah, Defaux and I are going to play tonight and we’ll keep you posted who wins, wish us luck!

All the luck to both of you!

Don't psyche me out! Lol

I'm in right now, just as I'm about to install Alby GO, and see how it works for me.

Okay. I don't really know how matchmaking works here, but I'll jump on

Well, I see you

For some reason, I get an error 400 on my Alby wallet, so I need to figure that nonsense out.

How do I get an invoice to pay to start?

When you click pay 10 sats, do you get the pop-up with a QR code? There should be a link to copy the invoice. If you share that I can pay it.

Basically, as long as you both join around the same time and no one else is trying to use the site, it will match you both up.

How do I get an invoice to pay?

Click on pay 10 sats in the middle there, it should then prompt you to connect your wallet (NWC) or provide you with a QR code.

Do we both need to be in multiplayer mode and ready to start a match? I don't see any such button.

I think I won my round by forfeit 👑

no no, I was afk, and then sleeping! how about in 1 hour?

That could work. Maybe a tad longer. Be in touch

Apologies. Some stuff came up. Play by ear later today?

No problem!

Ok when you are

how about now

Let's do this

321 forfeit

I lost horribly

don't worry about it man, been playing tetris all my life :P

I used to have an A ranking on tetr.io

Oh wow! I mean I only made one line lol. Pathetic.

At my peak as a kid I made 112 lines one time, something like that

gg

I botched it badly. I'm better than that showing, but not by much. Godspeed

A suggestion has been made to make it best of three series going into the future. There’s always next time.

Yeah, or double elimination so matchmaking luck plays less of a roll. Seems the field is stacked with sharks anyway though

Yeah, I like the idea of a double elimination

sounds good to me, let's do that next time :)

Current standings

Is it too late to withdraw sponsorship? Accounts payable is really on my ass 😅

Yes 😂

You haven't seen the last of me. By hook or by crook, I will have my revenge

You’ll get more than those sats back from some sucker at a poker table soon, I’m sure

I'm in louisiana so im central us time zone. Its almost bedtime right now but we can do tomorrow?

Yeah I’m central too. You wanna aim for 7pm tomorrow?

I could probably carve out a few minutes earlier than that, say around 2? Otherwise, im out of pocket until way late tonight or tomorrow evening, likely.

I forgot we have to go out of town for a family funeral. Kinda been trying to block it from thought because it's a heavy one.

🫂

My condolences first off.

And secondly, 2PM works for me

Fantastic.

Okay, so how do we do this? Lol.

If its easier, we can talk it out on cornychat.com/itsanotherroom

See you there!

This one was a SUPER TIGHT match! If i hadn't gotten a few lucky pieces in a row I would have been toast, but I got the W from nostr:nprofile1qqspn7d0hru9ta0gddd759sw0rk9suty3vgdakcy8ayqdl9geegwf5cz5lcm2

nostr:nprofile1qqsqu5sj950tjhxa3wjlvkq47lgujyj63s2ds2vfatjj4vmfa6nv0eqpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwp5hgatx9e5kutcz6lpq6 using cornychat.com was pretty cool for this. It was like playing with a friend in the same space. If you want to set up an official #nostristournament room, I can help you with it.

Yes it definitely adds to the experience in my opinion!

I'm happy to hear this. Feel free and take the initiative with the room creation!

Money is on Danny! I need this

7:30 pm Pacific a good option?

that will be late for me (am currently in chicago)

So maybe tomorrow morning at 8:30 or 9:30 am Pacific? Is that alright?

Yeah, works for me

Yo, I'm ready to go whenever you are.

Having issues on my end, please wait 5 to 10 minutes

Feel free to let me know when.

ok now shoudl be fine actually

And now it's my turn to have some issues. I'll be a minute.

I completely fumbled this, I played terribly, GG

sorry to disappoint nostr:npub162zpxufpw8pnuytaf0gfxzkqtvk9rvcwkvppa7x57y3n7qkfpg4shatdhy , I lost, fair and square :(

the lag threw me off haha

Really? I thought you were a lock!! Best 2 of 3? Clippy got lucky!

Sometimes that happens. GGWP.

Tried to fix something, so let's see how this goes.

for the next tournament please try and fix the following issues.

you won't be able to fix the biggest issue (the movement not being logical and janky, plus the vertical duplication), since that's not something you can explain to the ai

- [the bag](https://tetris.wiki/Random_Generator), the current way it works is kinda throwing me off, because it's hard to strategize

- [holding pieces](https://tetris.wiki/Hold_piece), I try to do this all the time out of habit and lose one line's worth of time before I realize that it's not a feature lol

- try implementing [SRS](https://tetris.wiki/Super_Rotation_System) or [ARS](https://tetris.wiki/Arika_Rotation_System) whichever one you prefer (personally SRS), or which ever one the ai understands best

- [ghost pieces](https://tetris.wiki/Ghost_piece)

- [lock delay](https://tetris.wiki/Lock_delay), this might be hard to get the ai to do, not sure

Thanks Danny! I will definitely consider all these improvements.

I’m also open to the idea of releasing the code so that the improvements can be made. I don’t wanna be the gatekeeper.

Maybe we could have some vibe coders look into it once the source code is released (I'd recommend anything in the GPL family for licenses to make it Free Software).

Otherwise, regular developers can work with vibe coders for some ideas they could try. Also, as to making some of these fixes, have you considered implementing them in Electron? I'm sure that could help with the speed.

I would love to improve the speed of the game and do some bug fixes that came up. I don't know how much time I can dedicate at this particular moment in time on this, but am happy to share the code.

nostr:npub1ven4zk8xxw873876gx8y9g9l9fazkye9qnwnglcptgvfwxmygscqsxddfh completely off-topic, why do you say that this can’t be explained to an AI? Trying to hone my prompt writing skills and this would help a lot if you could explain, thanks in advance!!

how do you explain something that you have to "feel" to get?

it's hard to explain even to humans, the best you could do is tell the ai to dial the ARR, DAS, DCD and SDF to be within reasonable standards (2 frames, 10 frames, 2 frames and 6x, the default values in tetr.io ), but first you would have to actually get the rendering to be a constant 60fps, and have no random delays, ideally, which would require a lot of tweaking.

but generally speaking, how do you explain something like the "feel" of the controls without actually trying it? human developers can test the game, and "feel" when the movements are janky, an LLM cannot. even if somehow LLMs got faster, smarter, and could understand this feeling I'm describing and they could perform actions in 100ms, that would still be too much delay for it test the interaction.

hopefully that makes sense

We are so going to win!! 🫂

sorry, one last thing, a website that has a REALLY good multiplayer tetris experience on web is tetr.io, it is so nice, feels buttery smooth, could never have been written by an LLM, it's as good as native tetris games actually running on the hardware (in fact, it feels better than many native ones)

Maybe after grok integrates with neuralink, then feelings can be communicated in 0s and 1s

A fellow Dune enjoyoor

I geek hard on Dune, there’s a podcast where they read a chapter every week and also have a book club to just discuss the universe. It’s called the Gom Jabbar and it’s really good: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr_60r7LdK0S3pVKbf46g-V1-40bMvqCB&si

I've read the books twice. Am I perhaps the expert? Should I start a podcast?!

Seriously though, is it a good pod?

Ya man, start your podcast, if there’s one thing that this world is missing is more podcasts 😂😂

Great question i have access to a computer around 17:00 est. honestly i was more about spreading the word about the tournament. If its too late its a forfeit while disappointing i understand the show must move on

If you are up for it we can can still play. I will be available around that time.

Take the win my friend i appreciate the addition but i am going To take the L

No worries, thank you for expressing interest and supporting the event. 🫂

You good to go now? I happen to be free

Let's do it! Meet you there. Going in right now.

Best 2 of 3 since it’s the semi finals?

Sounds good to me!

Good games, friend! You deserve the win!

It could've gone either way. Best of 3 is the best idea. In fact I am even thinking best of 5 is better. You never never how the pieces will fall.

Yeah it was really competitive and it’s way more exhilarating playing this way than solo

I agree!

This whole thing has got me envisioning a website like a full arcade meets online poker.

Where you can play any game for 50sats from things like Dig Dug, Galaga, PAC Man, Pong, Street Fighter, Mario Kart, MK3, etc

That would be awesome! I was just thinking the other day, we should have the World Series of Nostr (poker) event. nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7ct8vaezumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpq62zpxufpw8pnuytaf0gfxzkqtvk9rvcwkvppa7x57y3n7qkfpg4sx8w3k8

We play poker on lightning with the corny chat people

Is that a Friday game?

What’s up nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h when’s the next poker night?!?

friday? im back, wuz waitin for ya to get back 😁

Friday night Poker returns!

any idea about my dad?

nostr:npub16e3vzr7dk2uepjcnl85nfare3kdapxge08gr42s99n9kg7xs8xhs90y9v6 I need a meme of me but as darth vader telling tanel im his father

Guys the thread is too long, who won? lol

the divorce attorney

Pitufo in finals with clippy

I think...

Who is clippy?! 😅

Ah, I get it! The pfp is Clippy! lol

I am not sure if you had seen, but there's a Mario Kart for sats implementation by nostr:npub1337xxyne0pw52zgd984xqqs2q7qhqpt7phhn7xp6t9yt406vrvescdpkdt It's pretty awesome!

That’s amazing, I’ll have to check it out!

GG! Very close. I wasn't confident at all in any of our matches. First game I took took long to build a structure hoping for a 4 line clear.

Not gonna try to remember how to spell neisendog vosculas or whatever 😅

Good point! lol

BO3 should be fine for the finals.

In the future, we could do BO3 for the rounds before, and Grand Finals be BO5.

I like this idea.

#GE y'all.

It looks like I'm facing nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yetvd96x2uewdaexwqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qqsqu5sj950tjhxa3wjlvkq47lgujyj63s2ds2vfatjj4vmfa6nv0eqmth2rq or nostr:nprofile1q9phwue69uhkvurcdyehs6rhvgehs7rzw3j8zmmcdek85vnedpsk2cnhdankvmntw9chjut4v33xc6f5dfmkxet2dd6nycmvv3ckgtn0de5k7mspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqqyqame2m7854s0f2syusx6hse8qflq9qx3qk645z5zguf559k0w5ju4ukwae in grand finals.

Pitufo proposed a BO3 grand finals match, so I thought it might be interesting to do BO3 for regular matches, and BO5 for grand finals. If many, many more players, I'd propose BO3 for regular matches, BO5 for quarterfinals, BO7 for semifinals and grand finals.

As for the format, we're currently doing single elimination, but I could see in the future, if things get more organized, double elimination, and losers are sent to a loser's bracket (as is the case in fighting games).

That's just a hypothesis, though.

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Who won?!

🤮🤮🤮

Lol all love for everyone here.