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Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:16 pm
by Oldrac the Chitinous
Hey, Tetris turns 25 today!
I don't know about the rest of you, but I plan to observe this occasion by playing some Tetris.

Re: Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:19 pm
by LordRetard
Ah fuck tetris, I need to get to work.

I'll play it later. Did I ever tell you guys that I used to be really good at tetris? It's not a very interesting story, in fact that's the whole thing.

Re: Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:40 pm
by davoid
Original Doctor Mario is where it's at!



Tetris used to always stress me out as a child. Something about frantically calculating patterns and working with the shapes without any explicit motivation or context* really frustrated me.


* "explicit motivation or context" is defined as (for the purpose of making my point) "levels that are visually different from each other and give a sense of progress, a plot, or at least a kind of 'pat on the back' after achieving the goal."

Re: Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:50 pm
by AHMETxRock
You were spoiled. Why think of an overly complex game when you have a game that, with skill, can be played forever?

Re: Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:57 pm
by Frostbite
You were spoiled with too much crack.

Re: Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:52 pm
by AHMETxRock
Yes, the women were pretty forward with their offerings of their bodies.

Re: Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:40 am
by Trooth
davoid wrote:Original Doctor Mario is where it's at!



Tetris used to always stress me out as a child. Something about frantically calculating patterns and working with the shapes without any explicit motivation or context* really frustrated me.


* "explicit motivation or context" is defined as (for the purpose of making my point) "levels that are visually different from each other and give a sense of progress, a plot, or at least a kind of 'pat on the back' after achieving the goal."
Damn kids with your playstations. In my day, we didn't have a princess to rescue. Our only aspiration was surviving longer than we had last time so we could get a bigger number.

Re: Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:42 pm
by fancybone
My mom was a local Tetris champion at her university. She probably should have used the time spent on that to study more, but I think her life has worked out pretty well regardless, and being able to say "I was the best Tetris player at the university" is probably cooler than "Hey I learned some crap I never cared about and never used anyway."

Re: Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:57 pm
by LordRetard
That'd be cool, except there's no way that I could possibly be the best at all of UofT. I sincerely believe that most of these people have nothing better to do than play tetris.

Re: Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:06 pm
by fancybone
LordRetard wrote:That'd be cool, except there's no way that I could possibly be the best at all of UofT. I sincerely believe that most of these people have nothing better to do than play tetris.
What's the T stand for? There's a whole lotta T states out there. And plus I think there's some T's in Canadia.

Re: Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:16 pm
by LordRetard
It is Canadian, University of Toronto.

Re: Happy Birthday, little falling shapes!

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:17 pm
by Cirtur
Toronto