Rewatching the Striking Vipers episode of Black Mirror and the video game they use as an example of a "boring game" is Tetris Effect. What! Maybe if you got past level 2 you'd like it more, mister - ThreadSky

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annamegill.com • 12 days ago

Rewatching the Striking Vipers episode of Black Mirror and the video game they use as an example of a "boring game" is Tetris Effect. What! Maybe if you got past level 2 you'd like it more, mister

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jisaacgadient.bsky.social•12 days ago

Sick burn

marklacroix.bsky.social•12 days ago

Black Mirror has made a lot of "video game" episodes but proves each time that it doesn't know how they work and has absolutely nothing to say about them.

annamegill.com•12 days ago

Yeah, they mostly use video games as vehicles for other ideas, like in Striking Vipers. Or as props, like in Striking Vipers

angeloslh.bsky.social•12 days ago

The Tetris effect that has me straight up weeping in my VR headset every time I play the first level, that Tetris effect? Pshhhhh

annamegill.com•12 days ago

He was on level 1 when they said it! And all I could think was

I'm yours forever
There is no end in sight for us
Nothing could measure
The kind of strength inside our hearts
It's all connected
We're all together in this love

angeloslh.bsky.social•12 days ago

😭🕯️

samanthacrawford.bsky.social•12 days ago

I think the much bigger videogame issue with that episode is "why would a VR fighting game have fully functional VR sex mechanics in it?"

I do agree that Tetris Effect is fucking amazing though.

annamegill.com•12 days ago

Oh, I wasn't even going to touch the central premise. A lot of the tech in the series is handwavey so I just squint my eyes and try to focus on The Idea

willmcneese.bsky.social•12 days ago

I have not watched Black Mirror, and I had no idea, but:

WHAT?

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