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MistyHighly recommend reading this story about a reporter casually finding out his wife is a world Tetris champion: https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/
Allan Chow@misty i remember reading this!
Sn4ptr4n
Delta Sierra@misty This is possibly the sweetest thing I've ever read!
Thanks for the breath of fresh air.
@notthatdelta Isn't it great? I'm glad you enjoyed!
@misty an island of wholesomeness, much appreciated in these trying times.
I'd follow you twice if I could!
JRandomHacker@misty I think the funniest part of this for me is hearing about andrewg holding the SMB record at a "perfect" 5:08 - as we now sit only 9 frames away from a "perfect" 4:54.265
@jrandomhacker Hahaha. How little we knew back in 2007......
CyclesBecauseSummerIsComing😀@misty and it only takes a Tetris world record for the guy to accept that possibly his wife is better at packing the car....😢
Edit: the husband itself clarified he always has been totally ok with her packing skills. Sorry to misread
Edit: the husband itself clarified he always has been totally ok with her packing skills. Sorry to misread
Duncan Blues
Janet@CyclesSmiles @misty but loaded with a sweet New England self-deprecation I think. Nicely written.
SamuelJohnson@CyclesSmiles @misty Nooooope. I have *always* and without hesitation accepted that my wife is better at packing the car. Hands down better. Not just better, faster too.
@samueljohnson @misty thank you. I happily stand corrected in my interpretation of the story. Good for you!
@CyclesSmiles @misty 🤣 Sorry, I misread it as "a guy". 😬🤭
LiteralGrill@misty That was a DELIGHTFUL read.
fluffy 💜@misty I could practically hear the Summoning Salt vaporwave music while reading this (I love this article every time it comes by)
Sadly she no longer has the record, which now sits at 915 lines. https://www.twingalaxies.com/records/voting-performances/250260-game-boy-game-boy-color-tetris-dx-marathon-mode-lines-915
@fluffy The fact she’s still in fifth all these years later is really impressive, especially since she never recontested it!
@misty oh and now I see the one I linked to is actually fourth place. https://twingalaxies.com/games/leaderboard-details/Tetris-dx/game-boy-game-boy-color
shork@fluffy @misty looks like she's rank four by score, rank five by lines https://twingalaxies.com/20334
Kestral
Workshopshed@misty an excellent read, thanks for sharing
Lappenjammer@misty That was delightful.
Maltimore
Wurzelmann@misty love it, thanks for sharing! 💜
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@misty here is the leader board with Lori in it. Just adding it because I found this article amazing.
https://www.twingalaxies.com/games/leaderboard-details/Tetris-dx/game-boy-game-boy-color
https://www.twingalaxies.com/games/leaderboard-details/Tetris-dx/game-boy-game-boy-color
DJGummikuh@misty what a nice and uplifting story 😍 Thank you for sharing!
Landsil
Thierna
Kevin Lyda@misty That's a fantastic story. The end is hilarious.
"""As I go to pack the car, I realize that Lori has bought some things on the trip, and fitting them into our Jeep Cherokee is getting tricky. Then I look over at Lori, and it all makes sense. "From now on," I tell the new master of fitting shapes into tight spaces, "you pack the car.""""
Smart man! Know when your partner is clearly better!
Gail Parenti
Jordan Biserkov@misty
How many "world records" are at their current values because women have been systematically excluded from competing?
My guess? 25%
How many "world records" are at their current values because women have been systematically excluded from competing?
My guess? 25%
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Henrik Pauli@misty That is so cool!
And I'm so glad they kept this archive and that it's not walled off for GDPR reasons and other nonsense like that.
Ben
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)@misty Thank you, that was a great read!
ChloChloaca@misty The weirdest part of this article, imo, is that it doesn't actually allow Lori to speak. There's like...2 quotes from her, even though the article is mostly about her.
Jordan Mechner@misty Awesome!
Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏@misty I suck at Tetris but friends used to invite me to help them move because of my talent for packing stuff into the truck. The last line made me laugh.
JohnnieMac@misty In a world of doomscrolling, this was a nice reprieve.
Third spruce tree on the left@misty I read that whole article. Not a single ad. omg.
Kids, this is what the internet USED to be like.
Vacuolic
thedoh 🇨🇦@misty One low key excellent part of this is talk of andrewg's Super Mario Bros. 1 5m9s run being beaten by Scott Kessler by a second in a "perfect run" as we are now actually 9 frames from perfection in Super Mario Bros 1, with average11's current 4m54.415s world record.
Andrewg himself would eventually set a world record with a 4m58.092s.
Ciarán Ferrie@misty I love that last line!
Purple Trouble@misty this is the sweetest thing I have read in a while, thank you so much!
Matt Hodgkinson@misty Here's the cover with her beaming, presumably having won. https://www.funspotnh.com/-Articles/pc-bizarroworld.htm
@mattjhodgkinson I didn't realize it made the cover! That's great.
Jessamyn@misty Oh how neat. FunSpot is just a few hours from here, I should really get back there. I loved reading her story, wish there was a bit more from her in it.
@jessamyn Yes, agreed! I do get the impression from how she's described that she was a little aloof about the whole thing, seems like she took it in stride until the day of, but I wish I got a little more of her perspective.
Wouter Verhelst@misty
I did a bit of creative searching on DuckDuckGo and came across this:
https://pastebin.com/3gsjdbwp
Interview with her (not by her husband) moments after the attempt.
@jessamyn
I did a bit of creative searching on DuckDuckGo and came across this:
https://pastebin.com/3gsjdbwp
Interview with her (not by her husband) moments after the attempt.
@jessamyn
Wraithe
Quixoticgeek@misty i think this article may have been the inspiration for the episode of the TV series "Bones" S05E09 "The gamer in the grease" there's definitely some references in there that match up with the way the arcade is portrayed and some of the characters.
@quixoticgeek Looks like that aired ~2 years after the article was written, so feels very plausible it was fresh in a writer's mind!
@misty yeah. I had to check the publish date on the article and the episode. It's the image of the guy wearing a referee shirt that made me think of it. (Am currently binge watching the series.)
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