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Stripe Black Friday Dashboard (Physical Machine)

by oli5679 on 12/1/24, 12:45 PM with 20 comments

• by xnorswap on 12/3/24, 1:39 PM

  I know this isn't really about Snake, but this implementation of snake is frustrating to play because:

  1. It doesn't buffer inputs. If you are travelling Left and quickly tap Up then Left, it'll treat it as a no-op instead of moving you up a row.

  2. You can suicide by quickly tapping Up + Right while travelling Left. It'll fail to buffer the input, so you immediately turn 180 degrees back on yourself and die. If you're travelling Left, then you can't press just Right, but an intermezzo tap of the Up key bypasses the input validation that prevents a 180.

• by coreyh14444 on 12/3/24, 1:38 PM

  As a user of the Toshiba T3000 laptop and various other machines of the 1980s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T3100) which had a similar display, this is really hitting the nostalgia button HARD. Kudos.

• by bhouston on 12/3/24, 2:10 PM

  Sort of lame compared to Shopify's Black Friday dashboard. Stripe sort of feels like they lost some magic.

• by 1970-01-01 on 12/3/24, 2:41 PM

  Frozen at 43%

  Useless.

• by m3kw9 on 12/3/24, 4:30 PM

  That font glow looks completely wrong, it looks like a lazy blur applied on top