This post did not contain any content.

[zombiecide@polyglot.city]

@cmconseils "original" USian reference names for a game that was written by a Soviet computer engineer?

[cmconseils@mastodon.social]

@zombiecide ?

[cmconseils@mastodon.social]

@ditol cool story bro

[cmconseils@mastodon.social]

@isocat ohhh no
so sorryyyyyyy

[purrperl@noc.social]

@cmconseils

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

[jakobtougaard@mastodon.online]

@cmconseils And you do - keep on posting 😁

[cmconseils@mastodon.social]

@jakobtougaard thanks

[ceremus@hachyderm.io]

@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?! 😂

[thezorse@hear-me.social]

@cmconseils

You make me laugh very often!

[nelia@mas.to]

@cmconseils

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

Keep it up!

[isocat@tiggi.es]

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

[metalmartijn@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils Hwat

[bstow@beige.party]

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

[ghouston@mamot.fr]

@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?

[steeph@todon.eu]

@isol @cmconseils Yeah, it's not just untrue it's also wrong that if they would have names they would be American. Makes no sense to me.

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@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.

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@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.

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@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.

[ghouston@mamot.fr]

@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.

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@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