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Practice on high speeds. There's usually a high speed server up online, but you can also start a local game by using the -level switch. See the server commands section for more information. -Mutt/roncli
Build up! Build up for 9 liners, and once you get better, build up for 13 liners!! -Mutt
Think and look ahead. Use the gravity feature whenever you can. Remember that clearing 2 cascading lines using gravity is worth more than clearing 2 lines that doesn't cascade. -Mutt
Learn to build up on the high speeds. It is very scary to do, but it gives you a whole heap of points. Learn to get 5+ liners on levels 10 and above. A clean canvas will also give you a lot of points on higher levels! -Mutt/roncli
Use all rotate buttons!! There is no way on higher levels that you will be able to hit the rotate button 3 times, or even 2 times. It is necessary that you use all three. I recommend the 3 bottom arrow keys for guidance, and the A, D, and S keys for rotate buttons. -Mutt/roncli
In California, truck license plates are 7 characters, all numbers except for one letter in either the second or the sixth position. Whenever that letter is an X, I get nerd snipped into treating it as a multiplication problem and solving it in my head.
we should have paid more attention to the cats who, for decades, put their bodies on the line to walk on keyboards and sit on laptops and prevent us from programming
Former 2 time world champion DogPlayingTetris becomes the first player to ever rollover the level counter in NES Tetris, performing what's known in the community as "Rebirth". Final score: 29,486,164, 4216 lines, level 347 (256 + 91)... all huge world records. #tetris
I'd also love a 6 hour layover overnight instead of taking the red eye I was going to take and be 7 hours later getting into Cleveland than I wanted, why do you ask? #airporthell
Why yes, I'd love to leave at 4:40 to get to the airport at 6:20 for an 8:20 flight that got delayed to 9:05 which is too late for my connection so now I'm on a 10:20 flight instead. Why do you ask? #airporthell
@shanselman Who at Microsoft do I have to bribe to fix ADO so that those of us on dark mode who copy/paste text from one task to another can do so without our friends on light mode seeing dark text on a dark background?
I updated the blog post with a statement from Revival. While I'm not particularly happy with Revival's decision, I understand their motives. It's just a shame that it was someone from Interplay that had to go and do this. "By games for gamers" my ass.
Damn, got another Tetris world record! This time in the arcade variant developed by Atari. 6,008,005 points, 5,386 lines, round 363. Be warned, it's nearly FIVE HOURS. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2131759212