Photo: The Kid Who Beat Tetris

Willis Gibson, 13, became the first Tetris player to trigger a "kill screen."

Since 1989, every single game of Nintendo's Tetris eventually ended the same way: failure. No one had ever "beaten" the game and gotten the bricks to stop falling—until December 21, 2023, when 13-year-old Willis Gibson triggered a "kill screen" on level 157, crashing the game after 38 minutes of play. Another (minor) victory for the indomitable human spirit.

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[Longtobefree]

There is no truth to the rumor he has been hired by Dominion Voting Machines.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Dominion voting machines have already been hacked. No need for him

[Don't look at me!]

No widespread kill screens.

[JesseAz]

Kill screens 100% safe and effective.

[SQRLSY One]

If Willis Gibson cab trigger a "kill screen" on level 157, then SURELY there is SOMEONE somewhere, who can get The Donald to admit that, in His old age, He lost His erection?

Maybe some day He will give a concession speech, kind like this...

STOP THE PRESSES!!! INSERT HOTTEST NEWS FLASH!!! BREAKING NEWS!!!
Trump finally (Sort of) concedes the erections!!!!

My most-senior inside contact at the Shadow White House has surreptitiously slipped me an advance copy of the ex-lame-duck POTUS’s concession speech. Without further ado, here it is:

Friends, non-foreigner-type True Americans, and all who Make America Great Again, lend me your ears! I come to bury Biden, not to praise him. Biden and his minions stole the erections, and we must dishonor that! To Make America Great Again, we must invent the most fantastic, fabulous, YUUUGEST BIGNESS EVAH SEEN, in the ways of truly factually fictitious, but Spiritually and Metaphorically True, NEW Republican ballots! Because I have directed My Generals and My Scientists to research the current and past performance, efficacy, and patriotism of one-party states, versus multi-party states. As I have directed them to, My impartial, unbiased, data-driven council of My Generals and My Scientists have determined that yea verily, one-party states work better! Therefore, we must all strive for the Glorious Day, when America becomes a one-party state, under the One True Party, the Republican Party!

But for now, the courts have sided with Biden and his camel-toe, and Antifa, BLM, and all the Marxist terrorists. We must let the courts have it their way, with mayo on the side. I mean, with Mao Tse Tung on the side, but without the Proud Boys standing back and standing by. Thank you, Proud Boys, for having stood by me. Also, thank you, Steve Bannon, Vladimir Putin, Kim Ill Dung, and Pepe the Stolen-Intellectual-Property Frog. Pepe, watch out for Miss Piggy, she and her “pre-nuptial contracts” will clean your clock, just like Melania is set to clean mine soon! But I digest.

So we can’t disrepute what the nasty courts have said, or there might be civil war. Sad! The courts aren’t very American these days! And if you don’t like what I just said? Well, I’m sorry that you feel that way!

So congratulations to Biden for having stolen the erections! This is America, so we must properly honor the decisions of the courts, in a dishonorable way! Biden can come and live with us in the White House, per the wishes of the courts. He can pour our covfefe for us, for Steve Bannon, Pepe the Frog, and I, and Jill can make sandwiches for us. We promise to call him POTUS, and her, First Lady! POTUS of covfefe, and First Lady of sandwiches, that is! Hey Biden! Get yer butt over here! Pepe needs some covfefe!

That setup will get us by for a little while! Meanwhile, we can schedule the NEW run-off erections, this time without any fraudulent so-called “Democratic” votes being allowed, and we can do this RIGHT the next time!

Meanwhile, congratulations to Joe Stalin-Biden, on being erected POTUS of pouring covfefe for Pepe!

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

I wonder how many people actually read all this gorp. Or ANY of it.

[JesseAz]

Read what?

[Stuck in California]

I read it all the way through:

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Like that.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

I'll admit, I didn't read it. I just saw the grey box and moved past.

[Mother's Lament]

Zero read all, but I do scan for triggers.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Only thing I'm reading is "comment hidden because this user is muted"

[Nobartium]

Copypasta gets very boring very quickly.

[MoreFreedom]

I read it, and celebrate young Willis Gibson’s achievement! True, it’s just an enjoyable diversion for many, that many others consider a waste of their precious time. But when I was playing video games, I always hoped to achieve something like this, but I wasn’t good enough.

Willis placed third in the Classic Tetris World Championship. They didn’t have world championships for video games when I took the time to play them.

I choose to celebrate the achievements of my fellow man, even if they are just for fun. I was very impressed watching youngsters compete in drone races on TV: amazing control at high speeds. Those who can win video game championships (or just be competitive in them), often have the smarts to produce real value in the world. They figured out the game – they can figure out problems that make us more prosperous.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What does Skynet think?

[SQRLSY One]

Skynet is running scared of 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who just might kick Skynet’s ass!!!

I told Skynet to watch out for the likes of Willis Gibson, and NOT waste it’s time writing STUPID papers about “rat dcks”!!! Did Skynet listen?!??! NOOOOOO…

Here’s some news copy about Skynet’s paper about “rat dcks”… https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/

AI GONE WILD —
Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article
It’s unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review.
BETH MOLE –

WATCH OUT, Biggus Dickus Rattus; Beth Mole is ON to ya!!!!

[diver64]

Biggus Dickus was one of the funnier scenes in that movie along with "But why do you want to be Loretta, Stan"?

[sarcasmic]

What the fuck is that a picture of? Last time I played Tetris it was black and white on an ancient Gameboy. Think I still have that thing somewhere...

[Don't look at me!]

Ok, pops.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

What? Corn Pop is here?!

[BillyG]

The even more ancient NES.