Failure is Inevitable. What Matters is How You Deal With It.

November 21, 2019 10:52 AM

Play Snake and Tetris on a webpage. Simultaneously.
posted by thatwhichfalls (24 comments total)

Filed under: "Things I will make my enemies do when I am global overlord."
posted by ardgedee at 11:10 AM on November 21, 2019

Snaketris?
posted by Greg_Ace at 11:18 AM on November 21, 2019

Tetrhissssssss.
posted by Fizz at 11:20 AM on November 21, 2019 [12 favorites]

Tetrhissssssss
I imagine this is what global overlord ardgedee would call it.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 11:23 AM on November 21, 2019 [1 favorite]

This is absolutely terrible, thank you for posting it.
posted by cortex at 11:26 AM on November 21, 2019 [9 favorites]

eponystetrisssssscal
posted by Glomar response at 11:32 AM on November 21, 2019 [6 favorites]

This is the worst and I hate you for ruining my life in this manner.
posted by jacquilynne at 11:35 AM on November 21, 2019 [1 favorite]

what if i just lay facedown on the floor and screamed instead.
posted by poffin boffin at 11:56 AM on November 21, 2019 [9 favorites]

Tried it. Gave up as an utter failure after 30 sec. I applaud the sheer sadism of whomever dreamed this up.
posted by sharp pointy objects at 12:01 PM on November 21, 2019 [2 favorites]

eponystetrisssssscal

tha twitch fails...are mine
posted by pykrete jungle at 12:12 PM on November 21, 2019 [1 favorite]

I got on line and one point in snake and then crashed and closed it. That was fantastic, I am going to make so many people play this.
posted by Hactar at 12:32 PM on November 21, 2019 [1 favorite]

Bad place confirmed.
posted by The Bellman at 12:49 PM on November 21, 2019 [3 favorites]

Oh gosh... that´s like being thrown back into childhood double time... it´s painful even.
posted by AmandaB at 1:03 PM on November 21, 2019

Why do you hate us?
posted by It's Never Lurgi at 1:24 PM on November 21, 2019 [1 favorite]

This is so funny, opens up a lot of nefarious coding possibilities for me
posted by yueliang at 1:28 PM on November 21, 2019

I enjoy this, thank you. (I'm today's high score of Tetris 1, snake 3! Now back to work)
posted by LiteS at 1:59 PM on November 21, 2019

This is worse than Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
posted by chavenet at 2:29 PM on November 21, 2019 [1 favorite]

I got 3/3. I like it.
posted by itesser at 2:38 PM on November 21, 2019

There is something liberating about games like Missile Command and Fortnite, where your most reasonable expectation is that you will fail. (Pinball is another example.) You can just focus on doing your best and playing the game, not meeting some standard of success other than "I didn't die as fast this time!"
posted by SPrintF at 3:09 PM on November 21, 2019 [2 favorites]

What the hell, dude(tte).
posted by MiraK at 3:55 PM on November 21, 2019

I worked with a guy who described watch-two-different-things tasks like this as 'Marty Feldman eyes'. This is the most Marty Feldman Eyes thing I've ever seen
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 5:16 PM on November 21, 2019 [1 favorite]

i hate this conceptually and i hate it in execution and i hate how it made my brain think "hey wait I think I figured out some strategy for oh no wait I'm fucking it up worse" about seven thousand times in twenty seconds before I closed the tab
posted by Kybard at 6:12 PM on November 21, 2019 [4 favorites]

Well, this is going in some cognitive scientist's repertoire.
posted by brook horse at 6:29 PM on November 21, 2019 [1 favorite]

I read the comments first and tried to imagine what this thing was. It was both better and worse than described.
posted by Cris E at 9:21 PM on November 21, 2019