By Kieron Gillen on March 11th, 2009 at 1:45 pm.
Rob Hale pointed out this – er – unique version of Tetris which Boing Boing found. He challenged me to complete a line. Playing it, you swiftly realise… no, I don’t think I’m going to do that, Rob. But an alternate approach occurs to me – I wonder if I can actually fail. And I can. I win!
Click to see the full majesty of my design.
Of course, this seems like set up for a challenge for people who are dodging work. How quickly can you fail? I did it in 11.01. Who’s best at being bad? Is it you? Are you the worst?
I manfully resist a Walker-baiting gag. Go!
You have way too much time on your hands.
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I lost in 7:49.
Ahaha!
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6:33!
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I am the biggest loser.
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Finished a line in 13:42… my eyes hurt
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Damn it!
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Rob is the worst! Rob is the worst!
KG
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Tetoris (along with ProgressQuest) is quietly running in the background now. Maybe it will create something beautiful.
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I lost in 5:54!
Now I need something else to waste time on.
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8:15
I feel slow.
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Tangy is incredibly bad!
KG
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Maybe encounter it this way:
- Open it in firefox
- Hold down spacebar to drop pieces (little more) rapidly.
- Now click another tab with the spacebar still held.
- Release the spacebar.
you’ll see that “drop” is now locked until you press spacebar in the aplications tab again.
… i will let it run for an hour; will it finish a line eventually (?)
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So it turns out I was a little bored…
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Failed in 06:10
Then I tried to complete a single line. Until I made a mistake after 8 minutes and gave up in frustration.
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Only 7:05, I made the ridiculous mistake of not building the death tower centrally
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Man Raised by Puffins Wins the Comments!
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Lost in 7:45. Ah well, third biggest loser so far ain’t too shabby. Wait no, that’s not right… third biggest loser ain’t too smart?
I tried to do a line as well but I messed it up about a third of the way along and couldn’t face starting over or trying the second line.
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What now for Man Raised by Puffins?
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Finished a line in 15:36… GG beninaber, I salute you!
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@ schizoslayer: But I wanted to be the loser. :(
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What further could he possibly do?
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30 min for one line!
I’m so proud of myself!
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This guy should we working for Valve :o
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I wonder what other games would turn out like when scaled up. Massive Connect 4? Huge Snakes & Ladders? Enormous Solitaire (not the card game)? Monopoly with hundreds of streets?
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/mails link to select office wasters
/work slows to crawl
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I still can’t fail harder than Tangy. =(
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Finished a line? Wonderful! Now get a Tetris =D
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Losers!
Ok Peronthious… here’s the
Tetris! http://imgur.com/5GFVM.png
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just under 42 minutes is the Tetris time to beat
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Enter drops ‘em even faster, but the tab trick doesn’t seem to work. Shame.
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Post Tetris: http://imgur.com/5GEC2.png (All that for 160 points?!)
And WTF is this?!http://imgur.com/5GF3U.png EIGHT units tall?!
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http://imgur.com/5GF3U.png
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5:38!
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“Stampede towards the Tetoris.”
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This is spectacularly hard to see through my monitor fuzz. Like the idea of leaving it running though. Imagine it as a persistant screen saver?
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Sam is unprecedentedly bad.
Puffins is charmingly creative.
KG
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4:43! Huzzah, I’m the fastest loser!
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But is it art?: http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n166/graviton_flux/tetris.png
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I really should stop playing this.
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Look on my works, ye Mighty.
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I had EXACTLY the same idea when I first played. Took me ages…
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@Man Raised by Puffins
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Wow 10 minutes to fail, that’s harder to fail than I like.
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I am the pinnacle of maturity:
http://i44.tinypic.com/r91kyo.png
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don’t you write that with a “c”?
fail!
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DON’T JUDGE ME
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When you finally make a line it takes like 10 seconds for all the blocks to be sweeped out :D
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How irresponsible for such games to be made during an economic crisis. Tsk tsk.
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When you let it run for a few hours, the end result is kinda perdy and modern-art-ish.
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FUCK!
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5.15, which I was pretty proud of till I saw Rob’s most recent 3 minute effort.
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@Goose: Sweet.
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@ Biff…. you properly fucked my afternoon, and of a couple of my coworkers too… for a RPG that plays itself, Progress Quest is surprisingly time consuming. And for some reason, that put back in my head the idea of trying Dwarf Fortress for the umpteenth time… like that is going to help my productivity.
BTW, I guess you already have, but if you haven’t, you should try the Linear RPG it’s totally worth it!
http://www.sophiehoulden.com/games/thelinearrpg/
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Under four minutes? Holy christing christ.
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EPIC OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE FAIL!
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Iain wins
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Ok, i have been at it for 5 minutes or so now and i really want to see what happens if you do nothing but hold the space bar for 24 hours. If it is allowed to be completely random what will it look like?
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Random Fail:
The culmination of tetoris running overnight plus a couple of hours holding the spacebar. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22999925@N06/3351152125/
…god damn it Goose
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Brilliant Axton.
KG
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