https://github.com/pncnmnp/xpong/blob/main/main.py#L289:
"- **Shot Angles:** Derive each shot's angle from the (vx, vy) vector:\n"
" • Steep angles (>45°) become daring corner lobs or sharp cross-courts.\n"
" • Moderate angles (15°-45°) look like graceful arcs that test court coverage.\n"
" • Shallow angles (<15°) play out as direct, flat drives down the line.\n"
It does need some pointless anecdotes about past statistics, history of the game, training regimes, new managers and so on!
Though tbh I found it still pretty annoying. Maybe just the tone of voice though, and it's clearly not actually connected to what's happening in the game.
I imagine the major sports game players are working on this.
"Here we see Peter copying and pasting in some generic quick sort algorithm from.. somewhere. Stack Overflow? ChatGPT? Who knows. And he goes for the compile without writing any tests! Let's see if it compiles first time. And it's a noooooo! Bad luck, let's see how he gets out of this pickle. (I told you he should have written some tests.)"
I wonder if NotebookLM's podcast function could be used for this, to comment on code with the spirit of a Latin American soccer commentator. Because having it comment code is already pretty useful if you don't want to explain others what you have been doing. It can do that pretty well for you.
Commentator 2 (Marsha “Two Coats” Hernandez): Greg, I still remember the way you wept in aisle 7. But let’s talk about today’s masterpiece—Disney Princess Pink, the shade officially inspired by the collective inner glow of Aurora, Cinderella, and, dare I say, Ariel's clam-bikini energy.
Greg: Absolutely, Marsha. And look at that glorious semi-damp sheen—like a freshly glazed donut at sunrise. It’s got a dreamy undertone of "your niece’s birthday party at 10 a.m. with a bouncy castle and too much Capri Sun."
Marsha: Oh-ho, what’s this? Is that… yes, I think the lower left quadrant is beginning to matte. Ladies and gentlemen, we may be witnessing the first signs of Stage 3: The Settling of the Pigment.
Greg (choked up): My god… I haven’t seen a transition like this since Elsa’s Let It Go phase. Remember that? How she emotionally dried her entire personality over a solo in under three minutes? Iconic.
Marsha: Speaking of queens, this paint owes everything to Belle’s bedroom in the lost “Live Laugh Library” deleted scene. That’s the shade they were going to use until someone spilled tea on the concept art. Literally. It was Chip. That kid is a menace.
Greg: I’m sorry but—hold on—this is huge. That patch near the window just tightened. We are witnessing micro-shrinkage. It’s subtle, it’s refined, it’s got the attitude of Mulan at a dim sum buffet. She came hungry, and this paint came to DRY.
Marsha: Greg, if this drying pace keeps up, we’re on track for a Suburban First-Timer Finish Time. I haven’t seen Disney Pink behave like this since the infamous 2017 "Frozen Themed Daycare Hallway Incident." They had to repaint in Tiana Teal—the shame.
Greg: And oh! There it is! That final middle patch—she’s going matte, folks. This wall is becoming a canvas of completion, a poetic stillness in a chaotic world. I feel like I just watched Cinderella get her slipper and a Roth IRA.
Marsha (tearfully): This… is why I do this job. For moments like this. For the shimmerless silence. For the slow, glorious commitment to finality.
Greg: And so we leave you, dear viewers, staring into a flat, fully-dry future. The room has changed… and so have we.
If you're jokingly imitating filler from bad commentary I understand but I think I'd like more play by play and less color, but of course pong has a limited amount of inputs to work with for that commentary.
One thing that could very well work for the latency issue some commenters post is to just send the events and receive commentary outside of the rendering and playback so that it, within some max delay, can look more immediate and in sync.
Very fun idea. Hope to see it with more complex things with more inputs.
ayongpm•3h ago