Mastodawn

Feb 6

Sorry if all my memes are not 100% accurate
i do what I can, man.

Feb 6

just want to make ppl laugh thats all

Ashwin Dixit Feb 7

just want to make people pee their pants. good jokes just happen to be a good way to accomplish that goal. 😂

JakobT Feb 7

@cmconseils And you do - keep on posting 😁

Feb 7

@jakobtougaard thanks

TheZorse Feb 7

You make me laugh very often!

Nelia T.Feb 7

These days, approaching reality from the humour side of things is more than ever needed.

Keep it up!

Ceremus Feb 7

@cmconseils I couldn't even tell if you were wrong, this one is tough to verify or falsify because there were like, 5 different "original" versions of Tetris.

Did they mean the PC version? Between NA and EU there were two different distributors who each made their own version, not counting the original Russian freeware version.

The "original" Nintendo version? There are three of those. One Nintendo made for the NES console, one for the GameBoy, and an unlicensed NES version made by Atari that had to be recalled over a rights dispute.

Did *any one* of those releases have a manual that gave names to the blocks? I don't know! Maybe?! 😂

Mark Levison Feb 7

@ceremus I played it on a Sunday Sparc workstation so even more variants. @cmconseils

Kim Scheinberg Feb 7

@cmconseils
Damn it I was going to turn this into a trivia night question

Ben Evans Feb 7

@cmconseils I laughed. I thought it was a good gag, and we need more of those.

@kittylyst thanks

Don't take this personal. It's just nerds who enjoy your memes and then pour out related knowledge they happen to have.

@cmconseils for the record, this is untrue. we're a collector and have a paper copy of that manual. they do not have names.

it's funny though :)

Bård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)Feb 6

@ireneista @cmconseils

Now they do! 🙃

@baardhaveland @ireneista @cmconseils

Rachel ☘️🌎✨🕊️Feb 6

It could be from an alternate universe. .. oh Ricky you’re so fine you blow my mind-hey Ricky!

Condorito Feb 6

@ireneista @cmconseils

While this is correct, this is not True. So says Blue Ricky

Piper Thunstrom Feb 6

@ireneista @cmconseils okay I went to double check because they do have names but I know that they're a weird unofficial thing meant to make discussing the game in the abstract easier.

And I found this: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/i-just-learned-the-names-of-tetris-blocks-and-theyre-perfect_uk_66b4a6e8e4b042ee2cd02cd3

Apparently, this joke fooled Jeopardy.

I Just Learned The Names Of Tetris Blocks, And They’re Perfect

Who knew Tetris blocks had so much lore?!

HuffPost UK

@pathunstrom @cmconseils yeahhhhhh it's perennial (always with that exact same shopped photo), which is why we weigh in any time we see it

@pathunstrom @cmconseils we've been meaning to make a short video of us flipping through our copy, but since we don't use a smartphone we also don't have an easy way to do that

Jonathan Yu Feb 7

@pathunstrom @cmconseils @ireneista ah, that's so smart that you don't use a smartphone

@jawnsy @pathunstrom @cmconseils well it's just the privacy implications bother us, really

isol Feb 6

@ireneista @cmconseils

Does your page 12 look like this instead?

@isol @cmconseils give us a bit, we'll double-check when there's not a cat on our lap

@isol @cmconseils Yes.

there's not a specific page that appears to have been the source of the doctored one, it looks like it was made from whole cloth

Gary Houston Feb 7

@ireneista @cmconseils who knows who to believe any more, the person on the Internet who has a page scan from the manual, or another person with a competing page scan. Wasn't the original game Russian in any case?

@ghouston @cmconseils well, the point of us saying it is that it at least benefits people who know us personally, which is a nontrivial number. it doesn't help anyone beyond that circle very much, as you say.

@ghouston @cmconseils as you may have noticed, the world is descending into disinformation and spam, and it's our firm belief that leveraging social connections is a necessary strategy to fight back against that.

@ghouston @cmconseils that said... we also saw when the original claim was made and it was clearly a joke in that context. it shouldn't be hard for someone to dig that up again.

https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/Tetromino

Till Feb 9

@ireneista

You could instead just link this page, so people can learn the real names instead.

They are are I, O, T, S, Z, J, and L.
Or Tee, O, Ess, Zed, Jay, Elle and Ai (and Ex) in Puyo Puyo Tetris.

@ghouston @cmconseils

Tetromino

A tetromino, officially known as a Tetrimino, is a polyomino made of four square blocks. The seven one-sided tetrominoes are I, O, T, S, Z, J, and L. In certain Tetris games, the colors of each tetromino vary. The spelling "tetromino" is standard among mathematicians. The Tetris Company had preferred tetramino around 1999 and has used Tetrimino since 2001. TTC has trademarked the name Tetrimino and uses the initial uppercase T. Each tetromino has a letter name and several alternative names...

Tetris Wiki

Gary Houston Feb 7

@ireneista @cmconseils yes, it has reached the point where any photo, video, recording, document, quotation etc., needs to be linked back to a verifiable reliable source before it can be taken seriously.

@ghouston @cmconseils well, like, that's honestly going too far in the direction of nihilism.... a lot of the purpose of disinformation is to cause people to just give up on the idea of truth, and we do think the typical situation is not nearly that bad

Pavel A. Samsonov Feb 7

@ghouston @ireneista @cmconseils This is an ancient meme, not an actual scan of the manual. The tetrominoes do not have names in either English or Russian.

Gary Houston Feb 7

@PavelASamsonov @ireneista @cmconseils Tetrominoes! Who needs names when you have a term like that.

@ghouston @PavelASamsonov @cmconseils okay, now this is one we have personal feelings about. back in our day they were called "tetrads"! :D

@ghouston @PavelASamsonov @cmconseils (though to be fair, both names have been around a while)

Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.Feb 7

@ireneista @cmconseils
Could it be from the prototype? 🤔

Mojarrison LeRat 🐀 ⁂Feb 6

@cmconseils say what!?

isol Feb 6

If the blocks were named, wouldn't Alexey Pazhitnov, the Russian who wrote Tetris in Russia, have named them "Dmitri", or "Boris and Natasha" etc.?

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Feb 6

the Cleveland Z sounds like a sex position

and don't take too many Blue Rickies before attempting the Cleveland Z

Gareth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Feb 7

@benroyce
Otherwise you’ll lose your Hero to a Teewee
@cmconseils

europlus

Feb 6

@cmconseils @mhoye ah, the seven genders.

disorderlyf Feb 6

@cmconseils smashboy uwu

Wayne Werner Feb 7

@disorderlyf @cmconseils how I knew it was definitely fake 😭

Sibshops Feb 6

@cmconseils This is an April fools joke. Sorry to spoil it.

Isocat Feb 6

@cmconseils I wanted to believe, but »sigh« Nope. Fake, it is.

Feb 7

@isocat ohhh no
so sorryyyyyyy

Isocat Feb 7

@cmconseils I'm still gonna call them by those names, tho. 🤓

Óscar Feb 6

@cmconseils
“Hero”. The most fitting and well-deserved name in the history of branding.

Chao-c'Feb 6

@cmconseils Anyway, this is what named Tetris blocks will do in 21st century, anyway:

https://www.gravelix.cz/

Gravelix - Arkádová logická hra

Gravelix - arkádová logická hra s padajícími kostkami, které se rozpadají na štěrk. Propoj barvy, získej body!

Ditol Feb 6

@cmconseils
"Someone on the internet" - haha, at that point it became funny.

Feb 7

@ditol cool story bro

@cmconseils Hwat

@cmconseils Tell me you've never actually known a software developer without telling me you've never actually known a software developer.

Mat Feb 7

@cmconseils me stacking while praying for a Hero tetromino 😄️

Metamere Feb 7

@cmconseils
Okay, now I'm actually a bit proud of myself for quickly questioning the validity and then zooming in to see that it's definitely a manipulated image. It did make me laugh a bit, though.