{"id":281,"date":"2009-09-07T12:50:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T19:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/?p=281"},"modified":"2009-09-07T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T19:50:18","slug":"well-that-didnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/2009\/09\/07\/well-that-didnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Well. That Didn’t Work."},"content":{"rendered":"

I just tried a suggested\u00c2\u00a0alternative method of playing.\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than moving to the predicted point, why not try to track the ball, like the CPU paddle does.\u00c2\u00a0 Well…\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s what happened with that attempt:<\/p>\n

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  1. Paddle shoots WAY up.<\/li>\n
  2. Paddle overcorrects WAY down.<\/li>\n
  3. Paddle is off the screen.<\/li>\n
  4. System is confused.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Not terribly successful.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll try again with lower motor settings, since it seems like the motor has kicked up the power since last night for some reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I just tried a suggested\u00c2\u00a0alternative method of playing.\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than moving to the predicted point, why not try to track the ball, like the CPU paddle does.\u00c2\u00a0 Well…\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s what happened with that attempt: Paddle shoots WAY up. Paddle overcorrects WAY down. Paddle is off the screen. System is confused. Not terribly successful.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[15,31,20,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}