{"id":124,"date":"2006-12-09T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/09\/frozen-bubble-handicapping\/"},"modified":"2015-05-05T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:32:46","slug":"frozen-bubble-handicapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/09\/frozen-bubble-handicapping\/","title":{"rendered":"frozen-bubble handicapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/UbuntuDeveloperSummitMountainView\">UDS<\/a>, I learned that I am a poor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frozen-bubble.org\/\">frozen-bubble<\/a> player.  After getting repeated trounced by <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/people\/pitti\">pitti<\/a>, I decided I had to find some way to level the playing field.  I was my own worst enemy due to my bad aim, but all the malus (as in, the opposite of <em>bon<\/em>us) balls were clearly causing me greater pain.  I wrote a patch that creates a new key binding &#8220;b&#8221; to toggle the blocking of malus balls.  Using this made things a little more even, and after a week of practice, I was a much better player (and quit using my cheat).<\/p>\n<p>Since frozen-bubble depends on a shared game state between all players, everyone will notice if you&#8217;re using a mod like that, since they will just queue up on your malus post:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/malus-blocking.jpg\" alt=\"malus blocking\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So be sure you&#8217;re playing with people you know.  :)<\/p>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2006 &#8211; 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/\">Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.<br \/><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CC BY-SA 4.0\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At UDS, I learned that I am a poor frozen-bubble player. After getting repeated trounced by pitti, I decided I had to find some way to level the playing field. I was my own worst enemy due to my bad aim, but all the malus (as in, the opposite of bonus) balls were clearly causing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}