This is the funniest one yet.
I thought it would be terrible and that by combining in Doge that it would sully the whole thing and be the straw that broke the camel's back. But really, it adds something to the game that wasn't there.
There's a new sense of whimsy that wasn't there in the original, and the messages when combining Doges adds a sense of accomplishment.
This is a HN meme paired with a comedic reddit meme. We should be aware that it is this kind of content (+1 funny) that degraded /. and defines reddit. HN has not been and, I believe, should not be the place for this.
A little bit of humour is good. The problem is that if a little bit of humour is tolerated, it becomes more acceptable to submit and upvote, so a little bit of humour turns into a lot of humour. This could start to significantly displace "real" content. I would expect PG to step in well before this becomes a problem, so I have no qualms upvoting things like this on rare occasions.
I think it's too late. Ideally I would take your comment seriously and reply intelligently but all I can do now is laugh at the cute doge. we're all doomed. Also I think the psychedelic colors are ruining my brain.
I was on the wroc_love.rb conference this weekend and either people were playing 2048 on their notebooks or hacking on it - with other board layouts, other numbers or similar mods.
I did better than I usually do. At first I thought the lack of a sense of what the numbers were would be a hinderance, but it seems to have helped this time (sample size n=1).
Is it easier than the regular 2048? Seems that just pressing the directional arrows in a simple pattern[0] will keep the game going for a long while. At least that was my experience.
I have not laughed out loud at a HN post in quite a while. Thank you for that. When I scored the first time and it a said "such player", I laughed quite loudly in my quiet office.
I'm a 31yr old with a decade younger sister who introduced me to doge and I'm embarrassed to say that I did better in this version than in the ones with numbers. Much sadness
AFAICT, the "derp" dog means you won, aka reached 2048. With a score that high, you probably had a derp, although you may not have. My personal best is over 53000 on the conventional game, well past 4096. I highly recommend not letting yourself get sucked in any deeper, though. With a score of 12440 you probably have a solid strategy, so it's probably more luck that lets me get as high as I did.
I got a derp on this game at 9000. So derp (the top of the table), must mean "1024". In which case I take back my comment. It's possible to reach 1024 with a strategy only slightly little better than random shuffling.
Has anybody combined two derps to see what happens when the list & images run out?
