Stars: A Day Without Shortstacking Ratholers

[pete fabrizio]

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BluffThis,

Have you ever written a computer program? They are incrediably complicated and tedious especially one that would have some artifical intelligence involved. It took my brother(who was probably one of the best programmers in his class) and entire year working in a team to write a program that could play connect 4.

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I've written a fair amount of code in my youth, and I think a motivated nerd could easily knock out something like this in a few days if they had the card-playing algorithm in hand already (and it only takes one, since I think most bot conspiracy theorists believe that all or most of the shortstackers are using the same program). Also, the program your brother worked on isn't at all analogous -- this pushbot algorithm is a million times easier to write than trying to program a computer to figure out how to play even a simple game like connect four by itself.