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Bizarro World: World Record Tetris (2007)

236 points by rinesh 12y ago

Thiz 12y ago
When windows 95 came out, I got hooked on solitaire. I played for hours till I could finish it under 100 seconds, then to 90s, 80s, 70, and 60s. It was really hard to finish it below 50 seconds but once I got to 49s then that was my mark. Hard to do but got some games done under 50 seconds and then suddenly I got a lucky shot with all cards in an easy setting which I finished in 37 seconds. My own world record. I considered myself the fastest mouse mover of all universe.
- joezydeco 12y ago
  You will definitely have a bit of fun with this, then: http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/solitaire/ http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/solitaire/ Drag the mouse for great victory.
  - batmansbelt 12y ago
    I'd only seen that before on my mobile. It's a much better experience on a desktop machine. Thanks so much! :-)
  - bentcorner 12y ago
    Supports multi-touch as well.
  - triangleman 12y ago
    batmansbelt, it seems you are hellbanned, that means nobody can see your posts unless they are logged in and have "showdead" turned on.
  - lotharbot 12y ago
    Passed this around my family. Everyone who remembered the game got great joy from it. Then my autistic four year old insisted "MORE CARDS! MORE CARDS! BOOOOOOM!" You, sir, have made my day.
    - joezydeco 12y ago
      Awesome!
- m_myers 12y ago
  That is simply staggering. I can barely get through one pass of the deck in 37 seconds. Was that with three-card flip or one-card?
  - Thiz 12y ago
    One card. Three is too hard and I get stuck too often.
- bshimmin 12y ago
  A decade or so ago, a friend of mine and I were living out of hotel rooms in Italy whilst we were waiting to rent a flat and find jobs. We were running low on funds and were struggling to find ways to entertain ourselves (and it was January and the weather was terrible - six inches or more of snow on the ground for several weeks). With nothing much else to do, and no wifi in the hotels, we took to a supremely healthy life of smoking Camels, drinking cheap beer, and playing Marble Blast Gold in our hotel room on my G4 iBook. We finished the game pretty quickly and then became hopelessly obsessed with shaving fractions of seconds off our best times on the easier levels; we were both supremely competitive people (and averagely well coordinated, I guess) and this went on for two or maybe three weeks until we found somewhere to live, got Internet access, and had some meaningful form of employment. We hardly played it after that. A few years later, I looked online and found some sites with high-scores; ours were, on certain levels (the ones we'd really cared about), by so far the best in the world it was pretty funny.
  - whtrbt 12y ago
    The level with just a vertical drop down a pipe to land on the target below, filled with random obstacles to bounce you off a perfectly straight run. Three of us were competing on that with ultra-close scores... I wish I still had our scores. We played that one hundreds of times, experimenting with the straight roll off the edge, roll-jumping, a quick brake before slipping over the edge, everything we could think of to shave off that last little bit. Thanks for reminding me. :)
    - bshimmin 12y ago
      I remember that one! Our favourite was the level with the hoops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37CsfIix2LA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37CsfIix2LA Let's just say the time they get on YouTube there wouldn't really hold a candle to what we achieved after several consolidated days of effort!
- ordinary 12y ago
  I think you may enjoy this: http://solitaire-ranking.org/rankings/sol_std_95 http://solitaire-ranking.org/rankings/sol_std_95 If you had a video of your attempt, or at least a screenshot of the ending screen, you would be either the #3 (if it was 3-draw) or the #7 (1-draw) Windows 95 Solitaire player in the world.
  - Thiz 12y ago
    I remember I printscreened that particular game, but it was almost twenty years ago and no, I guess that computer is in some dumpyard somewhere in the abyss of my memory. Thanks for the link. Good to know I was really good at that.
- at-fates-hands 12y ago
  In the dying days of paging, I worked at a retail place that sold pagers and when business was slow (which was most of the day at that point) we'd have freecell challenges of how many games you could win consecutively. As soon as you lost, someone else got a shot. I was champion briefly when I had around 40 games in a row. Then my co-worker blew me away at 64 for about a week. Nobody ever got beyond 100, the closet before I quit was a high schooler who was on a 73 game tear. Those pale in comparison to some of the world records I think are in the 10,000 games and up level.
- readerrrr 12y ago
  I played Solitaire with settings: vegas, deal three, for a while years ago and have gotten a similar record of around half a minute( I can't remember the actual number ). It was a similar scenario, where the cards were stacked really nice after the initial position was cleared. Then right click did most of the work. The vegas setting had a money balance that would persist trough the games. And you started at -52$ if I remember correctly; usually my goal was to get over 200$ and clear the board. I would get this in about two out of three attempts. Since with vegas you can only deal the deck three times, there is a strategy where you use the first deal and scan the deck, so you can reach the aces and lower numbers in the remaining two deals. But I quit playing before I got to master that.
post_break 12y ago
Her score on twin galaxies. http://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?player=44371 http://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?player=44371 She's been destroyed by Harry Hong though. http://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?scores=14856 http://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?scores=14856
- glibgil 12y ago
  Why did they have to kill her?
  - yread 12y ago
    That's interesting - he has 9,999,999 points
    - mecheng123 12y ago
      That is the maximum score. You can play on, but the score is capped there.
- 3rd3 12y ago
  Harry Hong is a beast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umt4ZESWSeQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umt4ZESWSeQ
  - michael_nielsen 12y ago
    You may enjoy this game, from Jin8 (much, much faster): https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jwC544Z37qo#t=227 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jw... It gets particularly incredible at the 5:10 mark.
    - jMyles 12y ago
      I've never been able to understand how this video is possible. I want to see where his eyes are looking - I'm assuming pretty much always at the block queue?
blatherard 12y ago
Should probably add (2007) to the title. Four months later the previous record holder, Harry Hong, took back the title with a 4,988-line run (about 5x Lori's run), which remains the record to this day.
- soperj 12y ago
  Seems kind of strange that suddenly this guy goes from 600 pts to almost 5000. It's also weird that his total points from marathon mode was 9,999,999.
  - boomlinde 12y ago
    I don't know. Assuming that he scored the original record because he was an avid player, he probably spent a lot of time naturally honing his skills afterwards, and with no one else to beat it for a while, he didn't have any reason to defend it.
  - ksmiley 12y ago
    Not too weird. That's just how high the score counter goes. You can keep playing after that, but the number stops going up. (source: I've gotten that score myself. (although I paused every hour or so when my arms fell asleep, so that disqualifies me from submission))
  - differentView 12y ago
    Some people play down to the level of their competition.
- jcromartie 12y ago
  Tetris DX must be somehow more forgiving than the original Tetris.
  - ksmiley 12y ago
    Yes, Tetris DX's maximum speed is pretty permissive. Even at level 30, you still have enough time to orient your piece and place it anywhere on the playing field. This isn't the case for the maximum speed of other Tetris versions.
hnal943 12y ago
The article mentions King of Kong, which is great. But I think the better documentary on this whole scene is Chasing Ghosts. It's a broader look and really gives you a feel for the type of people involved in this scene. Makes it even more surprising that this lady was a world record holder, if only for a little while.
- Donzo 12y ago
  Better still is "The Ecstasy of Order," a Tetris documentary. I'd hate to spoil it but the conclusion really is unbelievable. I bought the download on Amazon for like 4 bucks or something. Definitely worth checking out.
  - boyaka 12y ago
    http://www.hulu.com/watch/429491 http://www.hulu.com/watch/429491
    - maxmem 12y ago
      Thank you!
- tootie 12y ago
  King of Kong was heavily edited to the point of being misleading.
  - at-fates-hands 12y ago
    Not sure how you can edit the fact Billy Mitchell is an arrogant douche canoe.
    - tootie 12y ago
      They absolutely did. Read this account of the restaurant scene: http://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/118881-Issue-6-The-Restaurant-Scene?s=d43fa897babb5dde5f7cf0e6f5c10a8b http://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/118881-Issue-6-Th... Here's a collection of public statements by Twin Galaxies on the littany of inaccuracies in the film.
yread 12y ago
Be sure to read to the end!
pestaa 12y ago
Lovely article, thanks for the repost.
DanBC 12y ago
> A very pregnant photographer is lying on the floor underneath the table, shooting Lori as she plays. The flash is right in her face. Wow, that sounds sub-optimal.
bobwise 12y ago
Day comes over to shake her hand. Lori is laughing as Day declares her "the greatest Tetris player in the world," then turns to me to add, "And I must say, she's also the prettiest." Maybe if gamers didn't think it's ok to casually objectify female gamers there would be more women playing and it wouldn't be such a big deal that this player was a woman.
- rimantas 12y ago
  Yep, time to bring out burqas in the Western world, don't you think? Sure complimenting someones beauty scares the shit out of them .
- canadaj 12y ago
  Or maybe it was a sincere compliment? If Lori was a bodybuildier, maybe Day would have said "And I must say, she's also the strongest." I'm also not sure how calling someone pretty objectifies them.
  - tehwebguy 12y ago
    The conversation is about someone's accomplishment, then it is turned to one person's opinion of her looks. That's the problem. Bodybuilders build their bodies. Her accomplishment was scoring highly.
- gr3yh47 12y ago
  i really hope this is sarcastic, but either way, it's still a perfect example of what is wrong with feminism
- nilkn 12y ago
  This is just a random thought, but it does occur to me that a lot of effort is expended in discouraging guys from objectifying women, but little to no effort is expended in doing sort of the opposite: encouraging women to objectify guys. I've never really thought about it before, but maybe the most natural solution is to just level the playing field rather than trying to get a big group of people to stop doing something that they more or less naturally do. We're definitely seeing this happen with celebrities and big budget movies, for instance. Nobody's stopped objectifying women, but they have started objectifying men more than ever before, at least as far as I can tell. I've heard more about Chris Pratt being hot this week than I have about any female celebrity, for instance, including his female costar Zoe Saldana.
thumbtackthief 12y ago
Simpsons did it. http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/6dbqbm/looks-like-homer-played-much-tetris http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/6dbqbm/looks-like-homer-p...
freshyill 12y ago
I don't claim to be a pro, but Tetris got a heck of a lot easier when they started letting you spin your pieces infinitely once they hit the bottom. I maxed out levels… then lines… then the score on the Nintendo DS in 2006 or 2007. There was a bug in the game, however, that wouldn't let you save scores above 99,999,999, which was kind of a bummer after a game that took up about a month's worth of commutes.
adolph 12y ago
See also Evets Kainzow: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/21/apple-co-founders-tetris-fueled-nintendo-power-exploits http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/21/apple-co-founders-tet...
munificent 12y ago
Tangential, but can anyone place her accent? It's really unusual. Maybe she was born in Texas and then moved to the West Coast as a kid?
ilitirit 12y ago
If you like this kinda stuff be sure to watch this: http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/ http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/
futuravenir 12y ago
I scored 1 in beginner Minesweeper. (And 2,3,4,5 etc) It was clearly very lucky. I think it involved something like the initial click and 2-3 others. It was a really fortunate board. I just checked Minesweeper records and the best they have is 3. Why is my name not up there in lights?http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/World_Record_History#Official_Records http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/World_Record_History#Offici...
- lotharbot 12y ago
  The 3 second record was unofficial in 1992. The 1-second record has stood since 1997 (and is officially unbreakable.) The expert record of 32 is really impressive. I can't finish intermediate in 32.
  - futuravenir 12y ago
    Woohoo! Tied a world record!
franzb 12y ago
Here's a short video with Lori Baker and Andrew Gardikis (Mario Bros record holder): http://www.destructoid.com/boston-globe-weaves-a-long-tale-of-intrigue-love-and-tetris-39203.phtml http://www.destructoid.com/boston-globe-weaves-a-long-tale-o...
- b0b_d0e 12y ago
  No one seems to have mentioned this yet, but as of the end of June, Andrew lost the world record to Blubbler http://smb-leaderboards.wikia.com/wiki/SMB_Leaderboards_Wiki http://smb-leaderboards.wikia.com/wiki/SMB_Leaderboards_Wiki Also, sometime earlier this year, andrewg decided to retire from speedrunning and get his life back on track, but it looks like since his world record was beat, he is back at making attempts to get the world record http://www.twitch.tv/andrewg1990 http://www.twitch.tv/andrewg1990
gregoire 12y ago
There's a documentary about the best Tetris players (on NES): "Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters"[0]. It follows one man's journey to gather the best Tetris players in the world for the first "Classic Tetris World Championship", as well as the preparation of the players, who try to break a new record, or to reach the unattainable level 30. If you like obsessive people and want to learn more about the boundaries of Tetris, I recommend this documentary. [0]: http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/ http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/
lotharbot 12y ago
Related: http://www.ivghof.com/index.php http://www.ivghof.com/index.php The International Video Game Hall of Fame
danelectro 12y ago
Well, if you all are into old games vs PC other than just Tetris, there's always Acquire which was originally a 3M board game from the 1960's. That was when I played it as a young teenager in the Academic Games Club at our interesting high school. It's a financial game, but better and faster than Monopoly, the highest performer (best investor/player) still wins, but at least everybody makes money, hell everybody starts with capital. Each the same amount of capital, how often do you see that :-) Growth stocks are involved, with bonuses (which can almost be regarded as follow-on rounds adding to exits, until game-end liquidation) rather than dividends. Quite easy to learn In the '70's, it appeared for the Apple and the Commodore PET. There was also a slightly more modern DOS version which was from Avalon-Hill, the successor to 3M for their games: http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire.zip http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire.zip There is also another version from Bill Humphrey, the 1966 playing rules are in a DOC file within this ZIP (tailored to his PC version): http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire2.zip http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire2.zip Each player also is issued an information card you will need for proper financial planning: http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquirecard.htm http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquirecard.htm The numbers on top in the blue header are the size of the hotel chain. The upper number (low $) in each cell is the share price for the named chains in the left-hand cell. The middle number (high $) in each cell is the bonus amount for majority holder of the named chains upon exit/liquidation. The bottom number (not-as-high $) in each cell is the bonus amount for second-majority holder of the named chains upon exit/liquidation. Here's an alternate: http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/44033/acquire-3m-version-colorful-and-easy-read-informat http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/44033/acquire-3m-version-c... and another: https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Six-Info-Cards-+-Lg-Card.jpg https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Six-Info-Cards-+-Lg-Ca... and another: https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Enlarged-Info-Card-B.jpg https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Enlarged-Info-Card-B.j... While I was looking for my original 3M hard copy edition to bring to my local makerspace for the young board gamers I did find a better user vs PC version from G.C.Crawshay, also DOS but have confirmed it will play in WinXP or Win7 if you have a 32-bit PC: http://www.george.crawshay.com/cgi/products.pl?game=Acquire http://www.george.crawshay.com/cgi/products.pl?game=Acquire Naturally it will play from a bootable DOS floppy as well. Some are surprised when you can fire up any old surplus PC having a floppy drive and it works ideally without having to have a working HDD in the system. No mouse either. USB floppy drives work too. EDIT: I believe the floppy will also play on a 64-bit PC
tempestn 12y ago
My favourite Tetris was the BOWEP (Best of Windows Entertainment Pack) version that came with .. Windows 3.11 was it? Or 95? One of those. I would regularly wrap the score starting at level 10. Unfortunately it doesn't run on 64-bit Windows, and I find it's not smooth enough in a VM to be the same experience. Have considered trying to get it running in DOSBox, but haven't gotten around to it yet!
- dmoo 12y ago
  I have fond memories of playing this in 2 player mode where I played both players with each hand.
  - tempestn 12y ago
    Ha, good idea! New motivation to see if I can get it running!
zerohm 12y ago
I kept thinking, if Day thinks this girl is good, he probably hasn't seen this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo Be sure to watch the credits.

236 points by rinesh 12y ago

Thiz 12y ago

When windows 95 came out, I got hooked on solitaire. I played for hours till I could finish it under 100 seconds, then to 90s, 80s, 70, and 60s. It was really hard to finish it below 50 seconds but once I got to 49s then that was my mark. Hard to do but got some games done under 50 seconds and then suddenly I got a lucky shot with all cards in an easy setting which I finished in 37 seconds. My own world record. I considered myself the fastest mouse mover of all universe.

joezydeco 12y ago
You will definitely have a bit of fun with this, then: http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/solitaire/ http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/solitaire/ Drag the mouse for great victory.
- batmansbelt 12y ago
  I'd only seen that before on my mobile. It's a much better experience on a desktop machine. Thanks so much! :-)
- bentcorner 12y ago
  Supports multi-touch as well.
- triangleman 12y ago
  batmansbelt, it seems you are hellbanned, that means nobody can see your posts unless they are logged in and have "showdead" turned on.
- lotharbot 12y ago
  Passed this around my family. Everyone who remembered the game got great joy from it. Then my autistic four year old insisted "MORE CARDS! MORE CARDS! BOOOOOOM!" You, sir, have made my day.
  - joezydeco 12y ago
    Awesome!
m_myers 12y ago
That is simply staggering. I can barely get through one pass of the deck in 37 seconds. Was that with three-card flip or one-card?
- Thiz 12y ago
  One card. Three is too hard and I get stuck too often.
bshimmin 12y ago
A decade or so ago, a friend of mine and I were living out of hotel rooms in Italy whilst we were waiting to rent a flat and find jobs. We were running low on funds and were struggling to find ways to entertain ourselves (and it was January and the weather was terrible - six inches or more of snow on the ground for several weeks). With nothing much else to do, and no wifi in the hotels, we took to a supremely healthy life of smoking Camels, drinking cheap beer, and playing Marble Blast Gold in our hotel room on my G4 iBook. We finished the game pretty quickly and then became hopelessly obsessed with shaving fractions of seconds off our best times on the easier levels; we were both supremely competitive people (and averagely well coordinated, I guess) and this went on for two or maybe three weeks until we found somewhere to live, got Internet access, and had some meaningful form of employment. We hardly played it after that. A few years later, I looked online and found some sites with high-scores; ours were, on certain levels (the ones we'd really cared about), by so far the best in the world it was pretty funny.
- whtrbt 12y ago
  The level with just a vertical drop down a pipe to land on the target below, filled with random obstacles to bounce you off a perfectly straight run. Three of us were competing on that with ultra-close scores... I wish I still had our scores. We played that one hundreds of times, experimenting with the straight roll off the edge, roll-jumping, a quick brake before slipping over the edge, everything we could think of to shave off that last little bit. Thanks for reminding me. :)
  - bshimmin 12y ago
    I remember that one! Our favourite was the level with the hoops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37CsfIix2LA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37CsfIix2LA Let's just say the time they get on YouTube there wouldn't really hold a candle to what we achieved after several consolidated days of effort!
ordinary 12y ago
I think you may enjoy this: http://solitaire-ranking.org/rankings/sol_std_95 http://solitaire-ranking.org/rankings/sol_std_95 If you had a video of your attempt, or at least a screenshot of the ending screen, you would be either the #3 (if it was 3-draw) or the #7 (1-draw) Windows 95 Solitaire player in the world.
- Thiz 12y ago
  I remember I printscreened that particular game, but it was almost twenty years ago and no, I guess that computer is in some dumpyard somewhere in the abyss of my memory. Thanks for the link. Good to know I was really good at that.
at-fates-hands 12y ago
In the dying days of paging, I worked at a retail place that sold pagers and when business was slow (which was most of the day at that point) we'd have freecell challenges of how many games you could win consecutively. As soon as you lost, someone else got a shot. I was champion briefly when I had around 40 games in a row. Then my co-worker blew me away at 64 for about a week. Nobody ever got beyond 100, the closet before I quit was a high schooler who was on a 73 game tear. Those pale in comparison to some of the world records I think are in the 10,000 games and up level.
readerrrr 12y ago
I played Solitaire with settings: vegas, deal three, for a while years ago and have gotten a similar record of around half a minute( I can't remember the actual number ). It was a similar scenario, where the cards were stacked really nice after the initial position was cleared. Then right click did most of the work. The vegas setting had a money balance that would persist trough the games. And you started at -52$ if I remember correctly; usually my goal was to get over 200$ and clear the board. I would get this in about two out of three attempts. Since with vegas you can only deal the deck three times, there is a strategy where you use the first deal and scan the deck, so you can reach the aces and lower numbers in the remaining two deals. But I quit playing before I got to master that.

post_break 12y ago

Her score on twin galaxies. http://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?player=44371 http://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?player=44371 She's been destroyed by Harry Hong though. http://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?scores=14856 http://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?scores=14856

glibgil 12y ago
Why did they have to kill her?
- yread 12y ago
  That's interesting - he has 9,999,999 points
  - mecheng123 12y ago
    That is the maximum score. You can play on, but the score is capped there.
3rd3 12y ago
Harry Hong is a beast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umt4ZESWSeQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umt4ZESWSeQ
- michael_nielsen 12y ago
  You may enjoy this game, from Jin8 (much, much faster): https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jwC544Z37qo#t=227 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jw... It gets particularly incredible at the 5:10 mark.
  - jMyles 12y ago
    I've never been able to understand how this video is possible. I want to see where his eyes are looking - I'm assuming pretty much always at the block queue?

blatherard 12y ago

Should probably add (2007) to the title. Four months later the previous record holder, Harry Hong, took back the title with a 4,988-line run (about 5x Lori's run), which remains the record to this day.

soperj 12y ago
Seems kind of strange that suddenly this guy goes from 600 pts to almost 5000. It's also weird that his total points from marathon mode was 9,999,999.
- boomlinde 12y ago
  I don't know. Assuming that he scored the original record because he was an avid player, he probably spent a lot of time naturally honing his skills afterwards, and with no one else to beat it for a while, he didn't have any reason to defend it.
- ksmiley 12y ago
  Not too weird. That's just how high the score counter goes. You can keep playing after that, but the number stops going up. (source: I've gotten that score myself. (although I paused every hour or so when my arms fell asleep, so that disqualifies me from submission))
- differentView 12y ago
  Some people play down to the level of their competition.
jcromartie 12y ago
Tetris DX must be somehow more forgiving than the original Tetris.
- ksmiley 12y ago
  Yes, Tetris DX's maximum speed is pretty permissive. Even at level 30, you still have enough time to orient your piece and place it anywhere on the playing field. This isn't the case for the maximum speed of other Tetris versions.

hnal943 12y ago

The article mentions King of Kong, which is great. But I think the better documentary on this whole scene is Chasing Ghosts. It's a broader look and really gives you a feel for the type of people involved in this scene. Makes it even more surprising that this lady was a world record holder, if only for a little while.

Donzo 12y ago
Better still is "The Ecstasy of Order," a Tetris documentary. I'd hate to spoil it but the conclusion really is unbelievable. I bought the download on Amazon for like 4 bucks or something. Definitely worth checking out.
- boyaka 12y ago
  http://www.hulu.com/watch/429491 http://www.hulu.com/watch/429491
  - maxmem 12y ago
    Thank you!
tootie 12y ago
King of Kong was heavily edited to the point of being misleading.
- at-fates-hands 12y ago
  Not sure how you can edit the fact Billy Mitchell is an arrogant douche canoe.
  - tootie 12y ago
    They absolutely did. Read this account of the restaurant scene: http://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/118881-Issue-6-The-Restaurant-Scene?s=d43fa897babb5dde5f7cf0e6f5c10a8b http://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/118881-Issue-6-Th... Here's a collection of public statements by Twin Galaxies on the littany of inaccuracies in the film.

yread 12y ago

Be sure to read to the end!

pestaa 12y ago

Lovely article, thanks for the repost.

DanBC 12y ago

> A very pregnant photographer is lying on the floor underneath the table, shooting Lori as she plays. The flash is right in her face. Wow, that sounds sub-optimal.

bobwise 12y ago

Day comes over to shake her hand. Lori is laughing as Day declares her "the greatest Tetris player in the world," then turns to me to add, "And I must say, she's also the prettiest." Maybe if gamers didn't think it's ok to casually objectify female gamers there would be more women playing and it wouldn't be such a big deal that this player was a woman.

rimantas 12y ago
Yep, time to bring out burqas in the Western world, don't you think? Sure complimenting someones beauty scares the shit out of them .
canadaj 12y ago
Or maybe it was a sincere compliment? If Lori was a bodybuildier, maybe Day would have said "And I must say, she's also the strongest." I'm also not sure how calling someone pretty objectifies them.
- tehwebguy 12y ago
  The conversation is about someone's accomplishment, then it is turned to one person's opinion of her looks. That's the problem. Bodybuilders build their bodies. Her accomplishment was scoring highly.
gr3yh47 12y ago
i really hope this is sarcastic, but either way, it's still a perfect example of what is wrong with feminism
nilkn 12y ago
This is just a random thought, but it does occur to me that a lot of effort is expended in discouraging guys from objectifying women, but little to no effort is expended in doing sort of the opposite: encouraging women to objectify guys. I've never really thought about it before, but maybe the most natural solution is to just level the playing field rather than trying to get a big group of people to stop doing something that they more or less naturally do. We're definitely seeing this happen with celebrities and big budget movies, for instance. Nobody's stopped objectifying women, but they have started objectifying men more than ever before, at least as far as I can tell. I've heard more about Chris Pratt being hot this week than I have about any female celebrity, for instance, including his female costar Zoe Saldana.

thumbtackthief 12y ago

Simpsons did it. http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/6dbqbm/looks-like-homer-played-much-tetris http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/6dbqbm/looks-like-homer-p...

freshyill 12y ago

I don't claim to be a pro, but Tetris got a heck of a lot easier when they started letting you spin your pieces infinitely once they hit the bottom. I maxed out levels… then lines… then the score on the Nintendo DS in 2006 or 2007. There was a bug in the game, however, that wouldn't let you save scores above 99,999,999, which was kind of a bummer after a game that took up about a month's worth of commutes.

adolph 12y ago

See also Evets Kainzow: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/21/apple-co-founders-tetris-fueled-nintendo-power-exploits http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/21/apple-co-founders-tet...

munificent 12y ago

Tangential, but can anyone place her accent? It's really unusual. Maybe she was born in Texas and then moved to the West Coast as a kid?

ilitirit 12y ago

If you like this kinda stuff be sure to watch this: http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/ http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/

futuravenir 12y ago

I scored 1 in beginner Minesweeper. (And 2,3,4,5 etc) It was clearly very lucky. I think it involved something like the initial click and 2-3 others. It was a really fortunate board. I just checked Minesweeper records and the best they have is 3. Why is my name not up there in lights?http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/World_Record_History#Official_Records http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/World_Record_History#Offici...

lotharbot 12y ago
The 3 second record was unofficial in 1992. The 1-second record has stood since 1997 (and is officially unbreakable.) The expert record of 32 is really impressive. I can't finish intermediate in 32.
- futuravenir 12y ago
  Woohoo! Tied a world record!

franzb 12y ago

Here's a short video with Lori Baker and Andrew Gardikis (Mario Bros record holder): http://www.destructoid.com/boston-globe-weaves-a-long-tale-of-intrigue-love-and-tetris-39203.phtml http://www.destructoid.com/boston-globe-weaves-a-long-tale-o...

b0b_d0e 12y ago
No one seems to have mentioned this yet, but as of the end of June, Andrew lost the world record to Blubbler http://smb-leaderboards.wikia.com/wiki/SMB_Leaderboards_Wiki http://smb-leaderboards.wikia.com/wiki/SMB_Leaderboards_Wiki Also, sometime earlier this year, andrewg decided to retire from speedrunning and get his life back on track, but it looks like since his world record was beat, he is back at making attempts to get the world record http://www.twitch.tv/andrewg1990 http://www.twitch.tv/andrewg1990

gregoire 12y ago

There's a documentary about the best Tetris players (on NES): "Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters"[0]. It follows one man's journey to gather the best Tetris players in the world for the first "Classic Tetris World Championship", as well as the preparation of the players, who try to break a new record, or to reach the unattainable level 30. If you like obsessive people and want to learn more about the boundaries of Tetris, I recommend this documentary. [0]: http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/ http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/

lotharbot 12y ago

Related: http://www.ivghof.com/index.php http://www.ivghof.com/index.php The International Video Game Hall of Fame

danelectro 12y ago

Well, if you all are into old games vs PC other than just Tetris, there's always Acquire which was originally a 3M board game from the 1960's. That was when I played it as a young teenager in the Academic Games Club at our interesting high school. It's a financial game, but better and faster than Monopoly, the highest performer (best investor/player) still wins, but at least everybody makes money, hell everybody starts with capital. Each the same amount of capital, how often do you see that :-) Growth stocks are involved, with bonuses (which can almost be regarded as follow-on rounds adding to exits, until game-end liquidation) rather than dividends. Quite easy to learn In the '70's, it appeared for the Apple and the Commodore PET. There was also a slightly more modern DOS version which was from Avalon-Hill, the successor to 3M for their games: http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire.zip http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire.zip There is also another version from Bill Humphrey, the 1966 playing rules are in a DOC file within this ZIP (tailored to his PC version): http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire2.zip http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire2.zip Each player also is issued an information card you will need for proper financial planning: http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquirecard.htm http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquirecard.htm The numbers on top in the blue header are the size of the hotel chain. The upper number (low $) in each cell is the share price for the named chains in the left-hand cell. The middle number (high $) in each cell is the bonus amount for majority holder of the named chains upon exit/liquidation. The bottom number (not-as-high $) in each cell is the bonus amount for second-majority holder of the named chains upon exit/liquidation. Here's an alternate: http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/44033/acquire-3m-version-colorful-and-easy-read-informat http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/44033/acquire-3m-version-c... and another: https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Six-Info-Cards-+-Lg-Card.jpg https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Six-Info-Cards-+-Lg-Ca... and another: https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Enlarged-Info-Card-B.jpg https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Enlarged-Info-Card-B.j... While I was looking for my original 3M hard copy edition to bring to my local makerspace for the young board gamers I did find a better user vs PC version from G.C.Crawshay, also DOS but have confirmed it will play in WinXP or Win7 if you have a 32-bit PC: http://www.george.crawshay.com/cgi/products.pl?game=Acquire http://www.george.crawshay.com/cgi/products.pl?game=Acquire Naturally it will play from a bootable DOS floppy as well. Some are surprised when you can fire up any old surplus PC having a floppy drive and it works ideally without having to have a working HDD in the system. No mouse either. USB floppy drives work too. EDIT: I believe the floppy will also play on a 64-bit PC

tempestn 12y ago

My favourite Tetris was the BOWEP (Best of Windows Entertainment Pack) version that came with .. Windows 3.11 was it? Or 95? One of those. I would regularly wrap the score starting at level 10. Unfortunately it doesn't run on 64-bit Windows, and I find it's not smooth enough in a VM to be the same experience. Have considered trying to get it running in DOSBox, but haven't gotten around to it yet!

dmoo 12y ago
I have fond memories of playing this in 2 player mode where I played both players with each hand.
- tempestn 12y ago
  Ha, good idea! New motivation to see if I can get it running!

zerohm 12y ago

I kept thinking, if Day thinks this girl is good, he probably hasn't seen this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo Be sure to watch the credits.