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Pausing Tetris to avoid losing was hilarious.
by ok_craig 14y ago
Pausing Tetris to avoid losing was hilarious.
- niggler 14y ago"The only way to win is not to play"
- acchow 14y ago"The only winning move is not to play." The author is humorous, poetic, and brilliant.
- keeran 14y agoand possibly a fan of WarGames :)
- alan_cx 14y agoExactly what I thought. I even think it was a clever way to end, and a point he might have been making as a sort of subtext.
- acchow 14y agoI've never seen WarGames. After reading the synopsis, the subtext is undeniably intentional.
- alan_cx 14y ago30 year old movie spoiler alert!!!! War Games: Very, very basically, from deep, deep memory... A computer about to launch a global nuclear war is played at tic-tac-toe to learn it cant win. It deduces that the only way to win a nuclear war is not to start the thing in the first place. Any other strategy is a lose, or what we call mutually assured destruction. Its obviously more complicated than that. Even though its 30 odd years old, it worth a watch.
- carterschonwald 14y agoIf you look at the other work Tom7 has done over time, you'd find thats generally the case with his stuff.
- michaelochurch 14y agoShit. I just lost.
- chjj 14y agoThe "you can't fire me, I quit" approach. I like it.
- tvirot 14y agoNot sure if people notice the last sentence in the article: "Murphy ran a few other games through it, including Tetris, and found that the program would eventually just pause itself rather than continue playing and lose, a tactic shared by annoying, over-competitive cousins around the world since 1985."