#Tetrisphere

[posthumanwanderings]

Neil D.Voss: Tetrisphere - Prepetuate 303

[n64retro]

Tetrisphere H2O / Nintendo Nintendo 64 1997

[videogamepolls]

Requested by @giveamadeuschohisownmovie

[goldom]

My spouse: Look at my new vaporwave sweater

Me: hey, Google "Tetrisphere robots" for me real fast

[hellman55]

Nintendo 64 Longplay: Tetrisphere

[hardcoregamer]

That is to say, finding the "best" versions of Tetris is pretty hard, so for this list, I've opted to pick unique Tetris-branded experiences that all offer new gameplay styles, a solid core experience, and a reason to try them out over every other entry on the list.

[skeletalheartattack]

thamks

you after i free you from the tetrisphere

[localcouchgremlin]

if I ever got the chance to meet MCR I would just recommend them the tetrisphere soundtrack and do absolutely nothing else. have fun with psychedelic tunes for a game with robots barely talked about, its as gender as gerard (very)

[theinsideofablackhole]

Rain World - Original Pearl Writings

A short collection of pearls I wrote, read from the perspective of Looks to the Moon.

(Inspired by gr0mm.)

Pest Control

It's a deployment order confirmation from an agricultural pest control department, followed by a list of several dozen genome sequences.

This farm purchased a specialized virus to eliminate some kind of burrowing crustacean. However, most of the microbe specimens are for controlling the virus itself, to protect the other useful organisms that allow the farm to function.

My creators' technological dominance meant that the genetic arms race had arguably been won, but such a power had to be wielded with care. Industrial ecosystems were managed incredibly tightly, as the introduction or extinction of a single species could have catastrophic consequences without sufficient counterbalancing.

Outside of these carefully quarantined industrial ecosystems, the rest of the world was largely ignored, left to become wastelands of disease. Life prevailed, of course, even when my creators departed and all these ecosystems rapidly toppled...

...I can't imagine you cared for much of this. Sorry, little creature.

Rhino Pill

Amazing... this one is a neuro-spiritual stimulant. It records the experience of a moment where a monk lightly dips a finger into a stream of water, and then... his mind is flooded...

...with an astonishing...

...sense... of...

...enlightenment.

My apologies. The feeling is incredibly intense, even to me.

If I still had the equipment to allow you to read this pearl, you would share that same enlightenment. Experiences like these were impossibly rare, and maintaining the potency of the memory while exporting it into a mass-reproduceable pearl was incredibly difficult. The monk likely perished during that transfer process.

Still, the study of these pearls always led to breakthroughs in the karmic sciences, while public exposure to the enlightenment gave rise to...

...

Oh. The enlightening feeling has already worn off. This pearl's probably just the work of a con artist.

You

This one is a draft for an academic publication. It's probably a sham, as it seems to posit that the numerical accuracy of cusps in an epicycloidal model of karmic patterning correlates with dermal organization patterns. It is simply too unlikely that one's skin has anything to do with...

...This must bore you. Perhaps it would be more interesting to talk about you - the little critter in front of me!

With the life you live, I'm sure you're grimly aware that every animal is made of sacks of meat and circuitry. You, too, are no exception.

Like most of creatures around here, your skin emits surfactants to squeeze you through small spaces. Your brain is safely divided across tetrispheres in head, abdomen, and tail. Interestingly, I can see you have an incredibly hardy secondary gut, teeming with its very own ecosystem. Your body is supported by the help of many tiny, tiny bugs.

In fact - if you were to peer within yourself at a very, very small scale, you'd see that your whole body is a great swarm of simple little creatures, living and dying to make you possible.

I don't think your eyes have the ability to look that closely. Mine do, though - I'd say you're doing quite healthy for a wild animal!

[godblooded]

just thinking out loud about being 🇬🇷

sometimes i talk about the greek immigrant experience — granted, not my own, but what it was like growing up with people who had immigrated — and it’s so wild to me how…. different it is with a lot of cultures and people i know. and it’s even weirder to me because it does feel like my experience when i discuss it because i was constantly surrounded by the effects of that as i saw it through my grandparents and even my parents. my mom and my aunt were both translators for my greek-speaking grandparents in their childhoods, even as a child i was always talking to my papou and my yiayia about what they remembered of their homes — the good parts that they wanted to tell me. i remember making kotopita for new years and how it was never one but tray after tray of round pita pans with shiny silver dollars and ultimately how the food insecurity they’d dealt with during the occupation was forever portrayed in the simplicity of dinners. every recipe my great-grandfather has ever penned feeds upward of 50 people because back in his village he was cooking for both his family and those who couldn’t feed themselves during the occupation.

being greek has always felt dissonant for me. i come from a family who values daughters over sons because we believe they love you more fiercely, they’ll always want to take care of you. is it emotional labor? yes. but my grandfather was never remotely demanding or entitled toward his daughters or his wife. he was asked by a coworker if he was upset he wasn’t having a son when my mother was born, and he couldn’t fathom the understanding that you would care about the gender of your baby, only that you had a new child to love. i was never pressured to date within my culture, was always told it wasn’t a thing, and my sexuality was never even a topic of discussion. when i brought a girl to a holiday, everyone sat me down on their own and told me they loved me and wanted me to know they were so happy for me. i was sent to therapy as a child when my mother kicked out someone i wouldn’t deign to call a father and my grandfather himself went to therapy and was on antidepressants following the death of his wife, my grandmother, which absolutely crushed him to the point where he could barely function. it was never a discussion of whether it was necessary or not, it was only a way to try to heal what we felt we couldn’t deal with.

my grandfather was the most positive example of masculinity i can discuss. he used to wear my grandmother’s bra to make us laugh because he was around 120 lbs. soaking wet and the bra was huge. my grandmother was serious, raised by people who didn’t love her and didn’t teach her how to love — she was married off to my grandfather at sixteen years old, ten years his junior, and neither of them were even aware they were to be arranged. he loved her and she loved him and they were very, very lucky, and she was more loving the older she got, and he taught her how to be okay with that, how to love more openly. because my grandfather wasn’t restrained by a father he had to appease or accept punishment for it he was himself. unabashedly. silly and kind and happy and jovial, told me stories about going to the moon, pretended to make a rocketship for me. my grandmother would take snails out of our garden in the back and quietly fill a bowl a little with some water and a little lettuce, and i’d watch them crawl around before we placed them back gently. if i asked about anything, she tried to teach me. she watched peanuts with me every single morning, learned bigger words every single time. we played video games together, an older greek woman with a maximum fifth grade education capable of playing tetrisphere while i helped her twist for the color combinations.

growing up the kid of greek immigrants is just something i think about a lot. and my grandparents paved the way for everyone i am. i miss them more than i have words to give. but it’s kind of the centerpiece of how i perceive myself. just thinking out loud. mostly, just sharing. 🇬🇷

[n64retro]

Tetrisphere H2O / Nintendo Nintendo 64 1997

[schizochasm]

So. Update.

I don't remember much, with the whole being psychotic af. But

I went and took my meds like a responsible adult (which I'm not really allowed to do, but I did it anyway. Yey me.)

I panicked. Smoked (just nic) with him in the bathroom. As soon as I got to my apartment I remember going "Hey, could you?.." and he was instantly like "Of course!" And got up to be with me.

I remember talking to him and smoking.

Struggling to think or talk. I apologized at some points and he just laughed it off. I always apologize when I get scared and can't act normal cause psychosis. He just tells me there's no need etc.

Trying to not completely lose my mind.

At some point I started to calm down. (Meds kicked in.) But I was still panicking and scared. Got really insecure and at some point regressed to her.

So she was very upset and self conscious. As she always is. And I remember him reassuring me of a bunch of basic things. From "I'm right here. And so is reality." To "You have nothing to be ashamed of."

Eventually I laid down with him. Still having an episode. Then it's mostly a blur.

I got better, worse again, repeat for a while. Going between insecure and upset to scared and unsafe.

Eventually it got worse. And I ended up having a full blown episode. Full force schizo shit.

At some point during it I passed out.

Slept for a few hours and then I just carried on with my day. If very out of it.

My friend called soon after I woke up, and my dad had answered.

So we talked for a bit and then both went to the gas station. I took my main meds and then we went to their place.

We've been watching good omens and I just got home.

I had a Lot of chips. But I needed it after today.

I had some issues while there that I might also post about. Physically.

But now I'm alright and vibing to megalovania and the tetrisphere soundtrack. As you do.

Gonna try to just chill.

[alln64games]

Wetrix

PAL release: 29th May 1998

NA release: 16th June 1998

JP release: 27th November 1998

Developer: Zed Two

Publisher: Ocean (NA/PAL), Imagineer (JP)

N64 Magazine Score: 74%

As Tetris set the standard for puzzle video games, other puzzle games try to have names similar to it. A water-based puzzle game? Of course it has to be named Wetrix. Wetrix is all about keeping water from falling off your square “island”, raiding the environment to keep it contained.

Different “blocks” will fall down from the screen. Most of these are upwards arrows which will raise the land in that shape, along with water to fill up the enclosed areas you make. The goal is to keep as much water contained as possible, as if to much falls off the sides, you’ll get Game Over.

There are other kinds of “blocks” as well. Down arrows will reduce the level of the land, bombs will blow up holes in the island that you’ll need to repair (on that note, don’t try to launch a bomb down a hole, the game will punish you for it), ice to freeze water and fireballs to get rid of some water.

I can definitely see the appeal of Wetrix, but I really could not figure out how to do well at the game. There’s a bunch of different modes, including one where you can change settings to make the game even more difficult.

It’s not for me, but it’s a solidly made game.

Wetrix may not be the best game for the N64, but it’s certainly a better puzzle game than Tetrisphere. Had the developers Zed Two added a little more in the way of variety and incentive – like dancing pandas after 100,000 points and ‘bamboo bonuses’ if you make ’em jive – it would be a far stronger game overall.

- James Price, N64 Magazine #15

Remake or remaster?

A new version would be nice, alongside a collection of the various Wetrix games on N64, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast and PlayStation 2.

Official ways to get the game.

There is no official way to get Wetrix.

[eblu3]

shoutouts to the tetrisphere OST for having some of the hardest club bangers of 1997 how does a nintendo 64 even make these kinds of sounds

[weirdunclegamer]

These all got me thinkin bout Tetrisphere now~

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