This is all sorts of awesome. Happy Nerd Year!
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Jan 112011
Finally, Soviet Russia’s two greatest exports — epic history and Tetris — are together in one YouTube video.
Slightly educational, surprisingly funny if you’ve got an awareness of Russian history, and engaging even if you don’t.
(Via the Facebook of one Tyler Shipley, leader of a band called The Consumer Goods that it is worth your while to support so they can record a planned fourth album.)
Sep 022010
Interior design and architecture blog DigsDigs has a post up about a modern kitchen design called “Tribe.” There are about a dozen photos, from all different angles, and loads of info, and I think it looks sleek and well-designed and way too expensive for me.
But I can’t get past the picture above — doesn’t the shape and placement and colour of those two cupboard units just scream “Tetris!!” to you?
I love it, but do you think it was deliberate?
Jul 232010
You know what Tetris didn’t need? Artificial 90-degree limitations when you rotated the blocks. Thankfully, that’s been fixed:
See how much harder that is?
You can download the game from here to try it yourself. And read a thread about it on Facepunch (I got a sexy Victoria’s Secret interstitial ad when I went there, mildly nsfw, but the thread itself is tame).
Apr 222010
Like Tetris? Sure you do. But you also hate it. Admit it: there’s a part of you that thinks the game is deliberately sabotaging you.
Well, wonder no longer — someone has programmed a game of Tetris to do exactly that.
Hateris is exactly like Tetris except in two important ways:
- It calculates the worst possible block to send to you each and every move; and
- It doesn’t drop automatically, giving you all the time in the world to think about each move.
I couldn’t get past three lines before the screen filled up. And even that was a fist-clenching victory.
Play it here — if you dare. And get ready to hate those S-shaped ones.