#tetris 2023

[auditvrs]

This game isn't just addictive. It stays with you. It's poetry—art and math working together in magical synchronicity. It's...it's the perfect game.

TETRIS (2023) dir. John S. Baird

[boyleblr]

KEVIN MAXWELL: PUNCHED AND PATHETIC EDITION Tetris (2023), dir. Jon S. Baird

requested by anonymous

[elenatria]

@gavimp we should have known this scene was absolutely canon. 😏

[lecaudal]

Round 3!

Think about the character and their personality, not how perfectly they fit the setting or relationships

Also please go vote on all the other polls!

[gallyg]

Hold On Tight (Tetris Meta)

Sometimes you find a bit of poetry emerging organically from chaos. David Pridie was a programmer for several Tetris games including The New Tetris, the ROM of which contains a hidden text file wherein he reflected on his experiences working at H2O Entertainment. He had a lot of harsh words for the producer of The New Tetris (Don McClure), calling him lazy and incompetent, culminating in a warning to "hold on tight" to his useless job.

As a side note, based.

That exact phrase, "hold on tight," instantly calls to mind the song of the same name from the 2023 biopic thriller Tetris by the K-pop group aespa. The film itself centers the story of Henk Rogers, arguably the most accomplished and passionate producers in gaming history. As the film tells it, Henk Rogers violated corporate protocol and international law in order to get the game Tetris published. In actual history, the story is less sensational, but one can't argue that Henk Rogers went above and beyond what is expected of a game producer.

This paid off financially, obviously, but there's a more human element the film explores which both Henk Rogers and Alexey Pajitnov (the original creator of Tetris) corroborate as being true to life. Henk Rogers didn't just think Tetris was a good product, he believed it was good art. He wanted its creator to be compensated for his contributions to humanity. He did everything in his power to ensure not only that Tetris was presented to the world in the best possible light, but also that Alexey Pajitnov was treated as more than a cog in the Soviet machine, resulting in a friendship which has lasted 40 years.

In short, Henk Rogers is everything Don McClure is not, if the public stories are to be believed.

Anyway, better hold on tight. To Don McClure, this is a warning from a disrespected underling. For Henk Rogers, this is a warning from destiny.

Baby, you and me are a twisted fantasy Buckle up and take a seat, hold on tight

From the first lyrics of the song, the importance of collaboration is stressed. It's not me against the world, it's you and me.

We were built to be two enemies But somehow I know we're meant to be This world's a battlefield, I will be your shield We got something real, worth disrupting the peace We'll disrupt the peace, ah-ah-ah

There's something fundamentally romantic about Tetris. You need every piece to play. The line piece is big and flashy, but you could not build a beautiful stack without the T, the L, the J, and even the S, Z, and O pieces. We are given chaos to find the ecstasy of order.

Tetris is about love.

[salaciouscrumbb]

dude just made a little computer game for fun & ends up in the middle of kgb intrigue 😔

[mostlygibberish]

I liked the part with the tiring 80's nostalgia.

I thought this would be more about the creation of Tetris than the various corporate jerks who got rich off it, but I suppose that wouldn't have made for much of a movie. Then again, neither did this.

The idea that the KGB couldn't stop a plane taking off with a single phone call and had to instead chase them around the streets was ridiculous. Presenting the loss of the tetris publishing rights as a metaphor for the greater collapse of the soviet union was uhh, interesting.

It did piss me off that he pitched how much he loves gaming to Nintendo by mention piranha plants spitting fire, even though I'm pretty sure they didn't do that until like mario 3, which hadn't been made yet. Why must embarrassing "gamer" dialogue always written by people that don't actually know or care about what they're writing?

I wouldn't call it good, but it was watchable.

[charsui]

TBF I made a fan edit of the two of them

truly what was going on w these two

whole move i was like 🏳️‍🌈🤨🫵🏾

[boyleblr]

ANTHONY BOYLE as KEVIN MAXWELL in TETRIS (2023), dir. Jon S. Baird

[elenatria]

“I wanted to smile to him and be friends with him because he’s the creator of this great game,” says Rogers.

Pajitnov is more wary. “Basically I was invited for a routine meeting with some kind of con artist, or adventurer who pretends to be a businessman for Tetris,” he says. “My first impression was rather negative.” 

Pajitnov continues, “But what melted my heart is the moment when he said, besides the other stuff, that he developed a game himself. So he was a game designer. And that was the first game designer I had ever seen in this world besides myself. So it was a very rare opportunity to look [into the] eyes of a colleague. And that’s why we got together very quickly.”

“These times are much more dark than we had at the Tetris time,” says Pajitnov. He looks at Russia and can only hope that a movement will re-emerge to echo the changes of the late ’80s and early ’90s. “I really hope that maybe in a number of years, the same movement will be woken up in Russian people.”  For now, Pajitnov has stopped visiting Moscow. “I have no idea when I will be able to go there again.” 

“He’s such a pain in the ass,” Rogers exclaims, with the comfortable fondness that comes of many years of friendship. In the end, Pajitnov has been cajoled into an Armani jacket and Prada shoes, and the pair retired to his house with a bottle of wine.  

@gavimp just remembering this sweet little interview for fic inspo. 😎

[goldenpinof]

tears streaming down my face nose boop (2018 // 2023)

[cufflinksandsnapbacks]

i couldn't stop giggling when he's on screen in the film (which is most of the scenes really)

TETRIS - 2023

[moonsidesong]

Today (December 8th) is the seventh anniversary of Puyo Puyo Chronicle AND the third anniversary of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2!! Happy birthday to some very special guys<3

[bruciewayne]

despite cinema trying again and again, they truly will never be able to replicate whatever heartbreaking gayass je ne sais quoi the social network (2010) had

[cosmicpopstar64]

I went to Anime Expo 2023! I dressed up in my Puyo Puyo Tetris Ai cosplay!

Ahh furry jumpscare!!! Lol I just didn’t feel like making a separate acc on tumblr for Ai cosplay shenanigans when I barely use the Insta and Twitter I made for him.

One day I will wear him again but perhaps when it isn’t blazing hot outside…

[sylsvi]

since when was i so awful at tetris