are you any good at tetris?

i went out on a date with a 21-year-old (yeah once i found out she was 21 that was the end of that) a couple weeks ago who's super into the tetris speedrunning community. retro gaming in particular seems to hold a strong appeal for young speedrunners, especially the queer autistic ones.

(re: queer speedrunners, it sure can't hurt that the classic tetris world championship is hosted here in PDX - it's the highlight of the portland retro gaming festival.)

― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, January 3, 2024 10:45 AM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If you ever watch that speedrun charity event AGDQ it's FULL of trans speedrunners. Seems to be a really good community.

I play tetris to relax, the thought of speedrunning stresses me out.

If you ever watch that speedrun charity event AGDQ it's FULL of trans speedrunners. Seems to be a really good community.

― Evan

yeah it took me seeing a lot of people transition before i was able to figure shit out, one of them was narcissa wright

it's been awesome seeing the community evolve, i started following TASes when morimoto's SMB3 video came out around '03 and since then we've all just gotten gayer and gayer

showed my 9 year old son the video of the kid beating it (well, the last 4 minutes of it) and he now has a new hero, it's great

we play this version of Tetris on the Switch called "Tetris 99"...its a battle style game that imo is way too complicated, kinda underscores what a perfect game Tetris is, it commands your full attention at all times