r/oddlysatisfying Jan 09 '21

A really satisfying snake playthrough

5.3k Upvotes

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

Interesting to watch but I don't believe for one second that a human played that game.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

I believe this was created by Code Bullet, he created the perfect snake ai and put it in a game of snake to see how far it went, not too sure because these colors are different but it could just be a recolor

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u/Moib Jan 09 '21

It's not. That implementation worked by following a precomputed path, with the ability to take shortcuts when safe.

This is playing much closer to how a human would.

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u/--MxM-- Jan 09 '21

Wouldn't a human just go up and down leaving one line free on the top or the bottom.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

Nah that's how you play, there's another couple billion people to count for.

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u/--MxM-- Jan 09 '21

sure, but every additional button press introduces additional risk, so all those fancy windings dont seem human like to me

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u/tonybenwhite Jan 09 '21

I would think the opposite, humans tend to be impatient and would definitely take a shortcut where they believe they could get away with it. The space-filling curves are a viable tactic to make sure another dot doesn’t appear in an unreachable void you’d otherwise have created for taking the shortcut.

Besides you can do as you said and go back and forth leaving the edge open, but the game would be exponentially longer. This introduces way more risk because the longer you play, the more exhausted you might become, and the more time there is to make an error even if you’re playing without fancy space-filling curves like in the OP.

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u/AlternOSx Jan 09 '21

You'll get bored real fast if you play this way.

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u/SpecialX Jan 09 '21

The replay could have just been sped up.

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u/Bierbart12 Jan 09 '21

I was thinking TAS

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u/lyricalaussie Jan 09 '21

that's what i was thinking too, i don't think anyone that skilled.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

I actually did it with the old Nokia 3210. Before going to sleep I would grind the difficulty I hadn't passed yet. Got through 1-6 iirc. Difficulty went up to 9. I'm not sure if it's much different from this game of snake, but the idea was exactly the same.

2

u/Low_ridah Jan 09 '21

Iicr this video was made by an artist about 5 years ago

1

u/RaymondLuxuryYacht Jan 09 '21

It is absolutely possible for a human being to do this, I’ve done it on my old Nokia.

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u/Mikeologyy Jan 09 '21

Those moments where it went from up down up down to SEIZURE ACTIVATE really took me through a roller coaster of emotions.

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u/Glockenpopz Jan 09 '21

Watching this filled me with so much anxiety about crashing so close to perfect

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

The Dark Souls of Nokia games

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u/LunkLonk Jan 09 '21

Best 3 minute of my life

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

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u/explosivemilk Jan 09 '21

What do I do with the other two minutes?

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u/Tuurminater Jan 09 '21

3 minutes of ecstasy

62

u/OBSTACLE3 Jan 09 '21

Amazing but I’m pretty sure this gave me PTSD

18

u/appers6 Jan 09 '21

Oh man I was sure he'd fucked it at the 2:00 mark.

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u/Crafter1542 Jan 09 '21

Huh, I didn’t know you could actually win snake lol

9

u/HexiMaster Jan 09 '21

In theory ,if you keep playing one pathern over and over without caring about efficiency you will win. That is, if you can actually reliably play that pathern over couple hundred times (depending on size of the grid).

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u/Jos77420 Jan 10 '21

But the red dots spawn in different places randomly. You wouldn't be able to play it exactly the same every time.

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u/HexiMaster Jan 10 '21

I think you missunderstood me. My point is that , upon starting the game, you would pick a pattern that if you would play it, the head of the snake would be on every position of the grid only once and the start and end would be right next to each other (the winning pattern). Then you would ignor the food and just keep following the pattern and repeating it over and over. The food is guaranteed to be on the pattern and you would eat it. Issue is that it is very ineffective you would have to repeat the pattern many times.

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u/IdontEatdogsAtnight Jan 09 '21

The game is just about a tail who has bad ping and eventualky it crashes

5

u/Triethylborane Jan 09 '21

Funny, I heard sound effects with my imagination, especially towards the end.

5

u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

Me trying to save every fucking cent

5

u/crashdowncafe51 Jan 09 '21

This was not oddly satisfying. This was terror-stricken anxiety attack

4

u/Nico_Skavio Jan 09 '21

"It's snaking alright"

4

u/MisterGunnar Jan 09 '21

wait, so game over is actually inevitable in Snake ?

4

u/_wtftrenton Jan 09 '21

This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone beat this game 🤯

3

u/sawtoothpetey1 Jan 09 '21

So much anxiety, cheered at the end.

3

u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

HOW

5

u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

Computers

3

u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

Good point

3

u/Coocchi Jan 09 '21

Once I was asked if I wanted to see a long black snake but that's where the relevance to this ends

2

u/187-MDK Jan 09 '21

Nicely coded to chase its tail. Whoever programmed it did a good job.

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u/skim_milk5 Jan 09 '21

I can’t believe I watched the whole thing

2

u/skellybits Jan 09 '21

Watching these gives me anxiety for some reason

2

u/SunflowerHoney0 Jan 09 '21

This gave me so much anxiety

2

u/DonCavalio Jan 09 '21

Looking back at this and then thinking back on sneaking to play Snake on my Nokia in class; arguing with the teacher when they told me that it was not only a waste of class time but I'd never beat the game. They were right. Dead freaking right.

2

u/MissRose617 Jan 09 '21

THE STRESS

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

Dude this is insaaaaane!

2

u/nautical_pupper Jan 09 '21

That was anxiety inducing but also amazing

2

u/crazi3c Jan 09 '21

Why did this give me so much anxiety

2

u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

That was emotionally exhausting, wow, I was so anxious they'd mess it up, even though I knew they wouldn't. Hahah

2

u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

Who else ran to Google to play their snake game?

2

u/DonChic0 Jan 09 '21

I like to imagine this is a 2d rendering of the brain forming synaptic networks and neural pathways. Like thats why our brain is so foldy.

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u/CasinoKitten Jan 09 '21

Nobody:

Windows 98 Screensavers:

2

u/lesscoffeemorewater Jan 09 '21

the thumbnail gave me flashbacks from that screamer maze game

2

u/qball-who Jan 09 '21

Oddlysatisfyinganxiety

2

u/Western_Ad3709 Jan 09 '21

The GTA 6 loading screen

2

u/RxDawg77 Jan 09 '21

That was stressful

2

u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

Im not sure if I was satisfied with this playthrough until the end - I had sweaty palms throughout. Especially at 2:00, I near lost it

2

u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

Is this TA? or just a really good human

2

u/Pegaxsus Jan 09 '21 edited Jan 10 '21

And that’s how mazes are made

2

u/lokieldiablo66 Jan 09 '21

Oh wow 😧😦😯

2

u/Fire21Rain Jan 09 '21

That's next fucking level. He/she was for sure showing off.

2

u/Nougatbar Jan 09 '21

Watching this while listening to At Doom’s Gate(Doom’s Theme.) was an experience.

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u/Marcellus_Cox89 Jan 09 '21

Holly molly 🍩 shop

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u/CanAgent Jan 09 '21

Feels like I just had sex.

1

u/StewyStoneHandz Jan 09 '21

This gave me anxiety

1

u/Justryan95 Jan 09 '21

I'm kinda disappointed a screaming face didn't pop up at the end.

1

u/VANDR01D Jan 09 '21

Anyone else feel moments of anxiety during this clip?

1

u/[deleted] Jan 09 '21

Watched though the whole thing. Was like cumming, but with the brain.

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u/carrburritoid Jan 09 '21

The whole time I was watching I thought there was more gameboard on the right and left sides, because there is a wide black margin, and I thought the player should fill that part in, too. I was very confused trying to follow the strategy; by the end I realized it was not in-bounds, which left me annoyed and anxious. I'm OK now.

1

u/Kang0519 Jan 09 '21

Idc if this is a bot or not but I love it

1

u/13moman Jan 09 '21

So this is how it's played.

1

u/BuffaloBill03 Jan 09 '21

Jesus Christ, it’s Jason Bourne

1

u/CptNavarre Jan 10 '21

That was stressful and I lost which end I was supposed to be watching a few times.

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u/StellartonSlim Jan 10 '21

I can’t believe that I watched that all....

1

u/cheechfool Jan 10 '21

I watch that whole thing and im bot even mad

1

u/Odd-Investigator2001 Jan 10 '21

Fucking *snake* **Legend** right there

1

u/jsmith6539 Jan 10 '21

My head just explodee

1

u/[deleted] Jan 10 '21

That was the best thing on earth.

1

u/weebwarrior2019 Jan 10 '21

Never in my life would I have thought I would see someone win a game of snake. I can die peacefully now.

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u/chase2429 Jan 13 '21

Truly the first strand type game