[HN Gopher] Man discovers that his wife is the best Tetris playe...
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Man discovers that his wife is the best Tetris player (2007)
Author : serverlessmom
Score : 106 points
Date : 2022-03-27 14:55 UTC (8 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (archive.boston.com)
| rendall wrote:
| > _"...detailing how a North Carolina man named Scott Kessler had
| recorded a 5:08... "_
|
| Not to brag, but I did the Kessler run in only 12 parsecs.
| bumblebritches5 wrote:
| op00to wrote:
| Is anyone creeped out by the comments about how the woman is the
| "prettiest" Tetris player, or her "little green number"? This
| article is from 2007, not 1957.
| egypturnash wrote:
| One month later...
|
| _With an amazing line tally of 4,988, and the highest possible
| score of 9,999,999, American gamer Harry Hong was crowned "Tetris
| DX Marathon Champion" on 13 September 2007. The record was made
| at Funspot in New Hampshire, USA, the world's largest arcade
| centre._ - https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-
| records/most-line...
| [deleted]
| EvanAnderson wrote:
| Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8142269
| tromp wrote:
| Story with Globe cover picture:
| https://www.funspotnh.com/-Articles/pc-bizarroworld.htm
| akira2501 wrote:
| Unrelated.. but if you've never witnessed the Classic Tetris
| World Championships, you're missing out on something special.
| 3np wrote:
| One thing that irks me with this era is the conflation of "North-
| America" with "the World". Records, tournaments, and
| championships were only announced, solicited, and held across
| USA+Canada, in English.
|
| The same can be observed in the referenced "King of Kong"
| documentary, the "Nintendo World Championships" (organized only
| in NA by Nintendo of America), and the "Classic Tetris World
| Championship".
|
| They should just call it for what it was: North-American records.
| JimTheMan wrote:
| This happens so often online, that I just assume it is an
| American thing to just entirely forget the entire World outside
| themselves and maybe Canada.
| [deleted]
| DizzyDoo wrote:
| John Cleese had a joke about the Baseball World Series where he
| would quip "I notice you didn't invite Belgium this year."
| naoqj wrote:
| Can't you go to NA and participate in the Nintendo World
| Championships?
| mbrameld wrote:
| I mean, by that logic we really can't call anything a world
| record until we know the results of everyone who has ever done
| the thing. That not feasible, so instead we just call the best
| performance that is known to the public and verifiable the
| world record.
| cinntaile wrote:
| I think he means there are other known records that are
| higher but that are outside of North-America.
| pasquinelli wrote:
| if that's the case then i wish he told us about those.
| saurik wrote:
| But if _that_ argument were sufficient, I could replace
| "North America" with "Santa Barbara" and achieve the same
| result, which I am sure everyone would agree is absurd.
| Somehow--and I realize appreciating the value of nuance can
| be difficult--there is some fuzzy boundary where you actually
| feel like the terms have meaning and the statement isn't
| lying. My maybe-naive assumption is that the original
| statement of having the tournaments be advertised, solicited,
| and maybe even held in various places around the world would
| make that feel comfortable.
| tpoacher wrote:
| I'm pretty sure he's referring to stuff like the "Baseball
| World Series", where in fact the US tends to have a hard time
| beating Japan whenever they're pitched against each other in
| actual international events like the Olympics
| (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58130125)
|
| It seems to be a uniquely American thing, as far as I know.
| I've never seen any other country characterise their
| competitions as "World" instead of "National" competitions.
| (I'd be happy to be given a counterexample if one exists).
| mb7733 wrote:
| A key detail you omitted:
|
| >Major League Baseball chose not to pause the season to
| allow its biggest stars to play in Tokyo, with the
| Americans made up of minor league players.
| tpoacher wrote:
| Yes, in the _last_ Olympics. The article also covers
| dozens of olympics prior, where the US also failed to win
| gold.
|
| And even so, the point still stands. You can't call your
| national competitions "world" competitions as a country,
| and then send sub-par delegations and lose nationally at
| the world stage.
|
| I don't want to give the impression I'm getting any glee
| from this. It's just to point out the whole thing sounds
| so silly to a non-American.
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