S4doll

After reading that concentrate of nonsense that is comment 8, I feel that responding would be a pointless effort.

If having 2 pieces of historical knowledge makes one a know-it-all, then the world is full of know-it-alls.

It’s somewhat bold to compare slow food to radical-chic... and I actually like radical-chic people :P

Did you even create a fake account to help yourself with the answers? The funny thing is, not once did you respond to the critiques with arguments, just jokes and insults. After all, I wasn't expecting anything different, eh. And that last comment of yours as a cornered animal is just beautiful; I would have even included an insult to my mother while you were at it xD

"The only historical fact that emerges from the review is that Tetris is of Soviet origin." The only thing that comes across from this piece is "thank you USSR, screw you USA." And the fact that the way things went down is ignored is historical revisionism. It's a bit like when discussing the telephone, giving all the credit to Alexander Bell, prominently displaying his name in the title, and writing "thank you Bell" every two lines. Meucci would find his mention relegated to a quote in the middle of the review. The same.

"In order to fight for my rights for the rest of my life, I decided to give it up for a while and make it happen." He doesn’t even seem like someone who enjoyed it that much.

"Tetris was developed by personnel from the USSR with technology from the USSR, and that is a fact." The way you write it seems to suggest that "the personnel from the USSR developed it for the USSR," and that is still false. Pajitnov conceived and created the game while working at the academy, but he did not develop the game for anyone or at anyone's request: it was his own invention, but one day they told him that it was no longer his, and that the money they would raise from it would not be his either.

"he didn't receive royalties but I don't know his bank account any more than S4doll does." spare me your petty demagogy, please, the story of Pajitnov is available to everyone, it's a fact that he made money only with the boom of mobile games, of which Tetris and its derivatives represent a nice slice of the market. Obviously after moving to the US, which this review disparages so much. If the reviewer wanted to write a nice essay against capitalism and in favor of communism, he chose one of the worst subjects possible, since in this story the US fully embodies the cliché of the land of opportunity, opposed to the oppression of the communist regime. There was nothing to say about Tetris, neither on the gameplay nor on the technology: the only interesting part was indeed the story, and here it was treated in the worst possible way.

You, instead of chatting, answer the question: did you write this stuff because you're ignorant or because you're an idiot? Or both?

Oh yes, reporting the reality of the facts is the work of a "know-it-all and pretentious person giving lessons in banality." I'm sorry, but I don't see any ironic tone in praising the filth of a regime, and the applause that "revisionists" like Hugo receive for such disgusting writings irritates me. In fact, I despise historical revisionism in general, and this page is tainted from the very title.