it is so fucking weird that guideline tetris players say T, J, L, S, Z, I and O, and classic tetris players say T, J, L, S, Z, long bar, and square
@monorail Potentially stupid question, but what's guideline tetris-slash-what's a guideline tetris player?
@witchfynder_finder the tetris guideline is a document that's existed since like 2002-ish i believe (but has had a few updates) listing rules that you have to follow if you want to use the "tetris" name. it's why they all use the same colours for the pieces, the same rotation system, etc etc etc
these games are called "guideline games", and if you play them you're a guideline player
@monorail Ahhhh that makes sense, I never thought about it before but of course there would be a codified document to make sure all Tetris games play p much the same
@monorail Anyway while it does make more sense to have the naming be consistent for all pieces, that's not an O, that's a damn square
@witchfynder_finder the piece names aren't a codified thing it's just a community convention, it's just weird that the classic players use a weird convention
they're all letters just call it fucking O like an adult
@monorail @witchfynder_finder potentially foolish question, but why would you play classic tetris instead of guideline tetris
@monorail @witchfynder_finder so what i’m gathering is they are wrong about piece names, but really, they are wrong about a lot of things
uncaptioned slides from a presentation about tetris i've been working on anyway
@witchfynder_finder @Lady it's even wilder in games that support 180 degree rotations
@witchfynder_finder @Lady "This is an extremely lenient system that lets you get away with a lot of bullshit."
@witchfynder_finder @Lady there is also this aspect of guideline games which isn't bullshit at all and is, in fact, one of the primary reasons i don't like classic tetris
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@witchfynder_finder @Lady yeah there's some like, speaking that i'm supposed to do over that slide to explain it better but i didn't in the vibeo lmao
it just gives you all seven pieces in some order, then it gives you all seven pieces in some order, then it gives you all seven pieces in some order...
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@witchfynder_finder @Lady so if you know that your first 14 pieces will contain every piece twice, you can practice doing certain things. like this!
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@witchfynder_finder @Lady or this, but it only has a 74% chance of being possible to get a perfect clear out of it and you may have to fall back on just trying to squeeze out a t-spin or something
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@witchfynder_finder @Lady tgm is WILD
in my presentation i split the tetris games into three broad categories
@monorail @witchfynder_finder yeah when i first learned this i was like hmmmm 
but now that i have thought about it i am more like mmmm 
@Lady @witchfynder_finder i couldn't tell you, i can't stand classic tetris
like the ctwc is cool in theory but i don't watch it because i just can't bring myself to give a fuck about classic tetris