Random: This Woman Loves Tetris So Much She's Going To Marry Her Copy

This is wrong on so many levels. I can't even joke about this.

"She prefers to go buy the name Fractal Tetris Huracan"

Has Capitalism Gone Too Far?

Blowing on cartridges just got more intense

Hurry up Nintendo and announce the Direct so I dont have to see this stuff anymore!

Makes sense. I remember when Pee Wee married a fruit salad. This is no different, except it’s real life.

Surely the courts will BLOCK this.

Geddit?

*inanimate objects

But yeah, she definitely gets intimate with them.

@NEStalgia So is this better or worse than an article about a make believe tweet about a make believe Big Holiday game? I'm kind of on the fence.

Fruit cake

I mean to each their own but this is super weird. It makes me wonder what happened to her to make her this way.

I can guess her favourite Tetris shape.

That should fit her slot nicely.

Remember all those people the other day who said addiction to video games could not be a mental disease - you know who you are - well I'm holding you all personally responsible for this article.

Maximum degeneracy achieved...

This doesn't surprise me, I mean right before the big gay marriage March back in 06 or so there was some farmer who married his truck.

I get it's kind of funny and news is slow, but with this sort of nonsense being as rampant as it is in colleges and universities now days, this is just too sad to be funny anymore.

@MrGawain She just wants someone to cart around.

Addiction gone too far. She needs help.

Love knows no bounds 🚔🎲🎮⚓️⏰💕

But surly that means she can't play another version or sequel of Tetris or that would be cheating on her husband...

Seen a guy who tried to marry his cocker spaniel.

10 years from now this will be considered normal. Watch and see.

The "love" of a video game just took on a whole new meaning here....

Intimate objects huh

Okay.....
Last time, there was a Japanese guy who want to marry his NDS Lite due to Date Sim games that he had.
Now, there is a woman want to marry with her Tetris game.

Hey I know this is a weird place to ask but if Nintendo is having a direct on Thursday what day will they let us know and make it official?

There are no words

.....Oh. Okay then.

I wonder if she gets into freaky threesomes with Puyo Puyo and her betrothed...

Where did society go wrong in not trying to seek appropriate treatment for people with mental illnesses instead of coddling the problem and validating it instead like it's normal??

....This isn't news

@tanookisuit because half of these people coattailed on gay rights and we can't get rid of them.

Good for her, who cares if we "don't understand it" ourselves. Curious if this sexual orientation (and I mean this non-offensively) is something along the lines of autism or something totally different like synesthesia (or neither)? Also what is super interesting is, unlike someone being in love with their car or other standard physical object, something like Tetris exists in digital forms, multiple formats, etc. So does that specific love she holds transpose itself upon the experience of "when she plays Tetris online" or is it specific to the cartridge + software inside? Is it like a Plato thing where she is in love the "ideal perfect form", or the specific object?

I hate how mental illness is considered normal or funny nowadays. This girl needs help. She should be connecting with and forming a romantic relationship with an actual human being, not a piece of plastic.

I hope her Tetris cart gets her a new pair of glasses that tape on the corner of her frames don't look like its gonna hold much longer.

And people think I'm weird.

Hey, it's like that dude who legally married his PS2! Also, it should be "inanimate" rather than "intimate" objects.

I keep seeing the words mental illness and normal if you take a college psychology class the first thing you learn is there is no such thing as normal we have preconceived notions as to what we think normal is and means .

Nope, this is weird. Heard of a lady in the UK marrying a chandelier, someone in Japan marrying a pillow and some chick in Seattle gay-marrying a building (her words, not mine). Marriage, what has humanity done to you?

I used to say that "I love Tetris as much as the next guy..." but I now stand corrected... unfortunately.

@Romeo-75
That's exactly right, all normal refers to is a statistical mean. Humans are far too complex to be categorized so neatly like that. An actual person that is statistically average in every conceivable aspect would truly be abnormal, and perhaps even such a notion is impossible.

Love is love

This is so stupid...

sure, why not?

"Woman"

@AlternateButtons - Thank God I am not the only one who has heard that song.

Way to give her what she wants NL; attention .

This is madness - she should marry a younger game that closer her age.

Please be reminded mentally ill people exist everywhere.

My homeland, never change, please

@Yorumi - I actually see a similar polarity on this matter. Previously I mentioned a farmer marrying his truck. It was greatly criticized at the time.

Now this... somehow its... different?

Wait, what? Is it April 1st already?

Always better than marrying her horse, I guess...

But all kidding aside, it sounds like she has some form of autism or something in or related to that spectrum, if she has always been attracted to such things and projects feelings and emotions on them.

Oh well, it's her life and she can decide what to do with it, so if this is what makes her happy and her family is (apparently) okay with it, then who are we to judge?

Stranger things have happened, and surely will happen again in the near or far future.

As for me: never wanted to marry a game, but I have loved some in my day, and I still do...

(or does liking the characters in the Dead or Alive games on the original Xbox a little too much back in the day also count?)

Who are we to stand in the way of love? Be it between man and woman, woman and tetris, or tetris and laundry detergent?

@SimplyCinnamon53 Friday, Probably.

Also what did I just read??

Wonder if they'll be 'throwing shapes' for their first dance? .... 🙊

Slow news day?

....I'll just stick with my anime girlfriends thank you.
_{....and Sanya.}

You have a problem, lady.
But you do you.

Alright. Made an account here just to comment.

1. "Has Capitalism Gone Too Far" Lemme let you know that I'm extremely anti-capitalist.

2. My favorite piece is the T, not the I.

3. I am not diagnosed with autism. I have been screened for various things (I went in for testing for ADHD and they screened me for all sorts of things). I'm bipolar and have ADHD, but I'm not autistic, nor do I have Asperger's. I am not anywhere on the spectrum.

4. Anyone that has a problem with me can say it to my face.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Nah, T-Spins are what get me going

If you are going to marry Tetris at least marry Tengen Tetris, it was the best IMO.

@Ryu_Niiyama Pretty much. That's a problem in various countries, you get a large enough group of people to not only back up some form of insanity, but also justify it, tag it, warp it into some kind of negative word with -ist on it, shame everyone else and then it's fine. People like her need help and I feel sorry for them because those claiming to be helping are causing more harm than good. Anyone getting horny enough over Tetris they want to marry it needs a very long run of psychological help.

So since we're covering this after Paris Hilton, meta let's all say it together now: "That's hot!"

@rjejr worse. Much much worse.

@ThanosReXXX "rent, don't buy" can be both literal and metaphorical all at once!

@KirbyTheVampire or go to Hooters and get both at once!

yawn after the guy who tried to marry his Twilight Sparkle plushie (and some guys in Japan who SUCCESSFULLY marry 2D girls), it'll take more than that to surprise me.

Hopefully it won't be considered adultery if she ever plays Puyo Pyuo.

@Tyranexx poor bayonetta, Samus, even peach. The gates are open now.

@Yorumi That's what I'd like to know.

@CatMarioTime This is perfect.

@NEStalgia So what, we're going to run game-related escort services now?

Lol is this girl nuts or have mental issues? Yup I think both plus she is darn ugly yuck man I don't think anyone would wana marry hearths why she's deciding to marry a Cartridge XD it's too funny sorry guys but I will say this she might need a shrink or two or a counsler I just feel sad for the parents where did they go wrong? All of it I guess

Folks, we have a new sexual orientation: Tetrisexual! 😁

@tamantayoshi Hahaha great gender identity joke! So original and underused- I wish we had more people like you willing to make fun of people’s identities online!

It was only a matter of time since folks have married pets and rocks :/

@TetrisWoman Proof or you’re a troll.

The slope has been slipped.

@JaxonH At least a dog is SOME kind of being. This somehow seems even more depraved.

Of COURSE it would be someone from Florida. lol

...Her condition is puzzling....

These things so rarely work out. It's all bliss at first, but then life's problems emerge and the relationship becomes a lot of trying to fit an L-shaped Tetromino into a T-shaped gap.

@KirbyTheVampire Who are you to decide what is mental illness and what isn't? Love between two humans and not inanimate objects is only a social construct, what you said here is deeply deeply offensive. Why don't you mind your own business and stop telling people how to live their lives when they aren't bothering you? /s

So does she need help or not?

@ThanosReXXX re: DoA

Love<>lust. What happens in DoA stays in DoA.

@NEStalgia worse, much

Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings. Richard Gere tweets - "My obsession with Sonic the Hedgehog drove me to it".

But the Tengen version is better :>

@MisterKorman Long, long, loooooong story short: A lot of the current, "trendy", trans-gender/trans-sexual movement is generated from the humanities in schools these days, especially the likes of gender and women's studies. Same with the socialist/communist movement shared by largely the same crowd.

@JaxonH Was it a boy cocker spaniel or a girl cocker spaniel?

Nice call on the "10 year's from now" line.

We really need that Nintendo Direct.

@NEStalgia: I think those gates have secretly been open for years.

😕

@CatMarioTime created an account just to say... well done! Lol

And yet this is acceptable behavior for people who are now claiming that Trump is unfit for office or mentally ill. Give me a break.

Dat feeling when the trendy gender-fluid liberal millennial communists go too far...

Humanity's future as a whole is unsafe when people like this loom on the horizon, patiently waiting to take the helm.

Bang up job raising your kids, boomers. Real nice.

This sounds more like a disorder than a sexual preference. I like video games too, wow this is just too much.

@ThanosReXXX
While autistic child can have strong fondness for certain objects, there is never any romantic feeling toward the object. And being obsessed with something is not a symptom of autism.

Well, all the comments here make me feel bad to not only be diagnosed as mentally ill with high functioning aspergers, depression, anxiety and PTSD.

Kinda solidifies why I don't talk about it.

@samuelvictor i hope that comes with motion sickness warnings.

@Tyranexx rule 37 i presume.... So far no one but Bowser has tried marrying peach..... So far....

@rjejr nah we're in need of a cardassian...err kardashian wearing a 1up mushroom scarf and a story of a 97 year old former Nazi seeking solace in building in Minecraft on switch. Then our week will be well rounded.

I'm not ruling out the Paul Ruben story just yet either.

I think she's a dude?
Also, first world privileges gone too far. When human don't actually have to work for our survival everyday, we become self-centered and do the weirdest, trivial stuff.

Mental illness at its finest.

Yet our current society would tell her that she's courageous and inspiring.

@bezerker99 Two points. 1) That's rather a stretch. And b) Kindly take that crap somewhere else.

@NEStalgia Nintendo Life exclusive, Trump is a Cardassian sent to Earth in search of the secret of the NX.

That would explain his tweets.

@noobish_hat Wow, kinda feels like you're bringing a lot of extra baggage with you, there.

Sargon is... okay. He's good to keep a pulse on to know where some of current news of this nature is happening, but his style and arrogance can be a bit off-putting.

For what's happening specifically in universities, best to stick with the actual professors: Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Haidt, Bret Weinstein, Camille Pagila, Gaad Sad, to name a few of the more prominent names that have spoken in opposition to the growing trends in education.

As a bonus, I also recently found quillette.com, an online "magazine" which has impressed me with it's high quality articles that touch on these subjects, among others, but admittedly I've only read about three of them so far.

This is getting increasingly off topic, though, so I'll leave it at that.

@tanookisuit yea this here... We the human race need to figure out the line quick before there isn't one left to cross. Curious if she will get tax benefits from this? Surely not....

@TeslaChippie wait to get married don't you both have to consent? I don't see how an animal could let alone a copy of Tetris?

@MisterKorman Forgive me for a rushed reply, as I'm eager to get to bed, but I don't wish to leave you unaddressed.

I'd disagree that the connection is a stretch, as trans-sexual and trans-gender seem neatly wound up in each other as concepts, at least in the modern context in which they are commonly discussed.

I do see how my initial comment seems a bit snide, and I probably intended it that way to an extent, though again, I don't believe that makes it irrelevent to the story.

Okay, so the "trendiness" of the "movement": My characterization of it as such isn't meant as a dismissal of gender dysphoria, itself, in any way. I'm perfectly content with the idea of the condition and those that suffer it. Where the "trendy" part comes in is the trend of non-gender dysphoric students going into universities and then suddenly finding themselves identifying as "whatever". I find that to be a disingenuous trend, and one which shouldn't be accepted and affirmed so readily without addressing the proclivities of young, highly open-minded, identity "eager" kids.

What makes me sad is the painfully ironic "you do you" attitude that leaves people to drown in their own pathologies for the sake of their "happiness", as though any of us really know what genuine happiness is, much less can be expected to manifest it for ourselves.

@Nintendoforlife Being attracted to and falling in love with a piece of plastic to the point of marrying it isn't mentally healthy. Sorry.

Honestly man, I don't mean to be a jerk, but people like you really hurt people with mental health problems. Going up to someone and telling them that falling in love with and marrying a cartridge is okay and mentally healthy, and that attraction to and forming relationships with other actual human beings is just a social construct, is just wrong. She's being deprived of an actual loving relationship here.

What's next? Will people who think that they're actually a brick and not a human being be considered mentally healthy? Get real, man. This whole "love and accept yourself, you're perfect the way you are" movement is going way, way too far.

someone needs to take one for the team and give her a piece before it's too late.

This girl really needs urgent help. She's got really serious metal issues.

Even if this story was real, who cares ? but this story has been doing the rounds for weeks now. The people behind it, have admitted it was a bit of a joke. So move on.

I live in a triforce relationship with an Earthbound cartridge and a Xenoblade X disc. Sometimes I cheat on them and make love to the Wind Waker minidisc.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE It's sad to see so many childish comments here - inferring that she is 'mental', sad or in some way an idiot. As to your comment inferring that she needs an "I" tetris piece in her 'slot', this is an example of the depths of how childish and inane this can get. I like this website and it's disappointing to see this kind of ignorance in it's readership.

As a father of a severely autistic 16 year old, I can tell you that although the girl in this article may or may not be autistic, she may possibly be so, or under another similar spectrum that tend to cover a range of unusual human behaviour. The autism spectrum is a very wide - and obsessive behaviour like this is certainly not atypical.

To me, she's not mental, or an idiot - but just needs a more understanding, accepting and caring attitude from society.

@AlexOlney Hey Alex, hope you don't mind a friendly suggestion? You're one of my favourite 'Nintendo' people on the internet. I have an autistic daughter & from my experience, Noorul might be on the spectrum too.

I would just say - with the greatest respect - that if this story is true and the girl is within the autistic spectrum, promoting jokes that infer a sexual connotation in regards to her may not live up to your usual excellent standards on this site. I'm not wanting to have a go at you in the slightest but I thought I should mention it.

Cheers, Andy

Agreed. And I can't so far find any evidence that it's a joke/prank - the story is spread over a range of some of the larger mainstream media outlets.

Wish her happiness

Gosh, wanting to marry a game console doesn't have anything to do with autism. It's really sad how people always slap "autistic" on everything nowadays without even knowing much about the diagnosis.

I heard a story where a dude married an iphone once.

Obviously the ceremony cannot be legally binding. To each his or her own. I prefer human love...

@TetrisWoman glad you dropped in. As for favorite piece, squares are fun to rotate!

Also is it considered cheating if you play the Tengen version? The black cart variant is my fave.

@G-Boy Of course this type behavior is not always going to indicate a connection with autism. But I can tell you that I probably know a lot more than you about this, having lived with my autistic daughter for the past 16 years. I have done a huge amount of fundraising and research on this - and we are taking part in a number of leading genetic studies on the subject.

As I mentioned, the autistic spectrum is very wide. This kind of obsessive behaviour is certainly an indicator that may possibly be on it - but if you read my comment properly, you would see that I did not definitively say that she was autistic, but that she may well be, or under a similar recognised spectrum that encompases unusual behaviour like this.

When we are talking about things like this, please read comments carefully before posting inane replies.

There is only an age gap of 10 years, so who cares!

@rjejr Indeed... Although, the cat's out of the bag now, and so are the Tetrominos...

@samuelvictor Had I had this knowledge back in 2003, that might have (maybe) changed my mind about them, but alas: the crush is over and we're back in real life again, were characters in computer games, no matter how lovely or hot they might look, are just a bunch of artificial polygons...

To all commenters who say she has a mental illness:
It is important to remember that in order for something to be considered a mental illness it must create "significant impairment" in functioning. At this point we don't really know if this qualifies. It may qualify on the addiction side of things (some of us play games just as much), but just because something is weird doesn't mean that the person has a mental illness.
Just a few decades ago homosexuality was classified as a mental health disorder and there are still people who believe that it can be "cured." They were so wrong about that, so it makes me pause and think about these emerging sexuality forms which may be real.
On the other hand she may just be joking the same way that any of us may say, "I love this so much I think I'm going to marry it."

@ThanosReXXX "no matter how lovely or hot they might look, are just a bunch of artificial polygons... "

You have mighty high standards for a single guy. What if we got you one made out of non-artificial no-GMO organic polygons?

@andykara2003 With all due respect you're projecting your own child's problems on this very unstable individual. I get because you have a kid with autism that you have a personal stake and special feelings you have due to being in your unique situation. Attacking people here in some weird shield to guard her like you would your own seems a bit out of bounds since you don't know about her situation other than this piece. We can only go by what is written here, not what is unwritten. As it stands right now, with what is there, it falls more into the other mental health problem of not autism, but straight up inbred or trained confusion that has twisted her mind to want to be physically and intimately married to a Nintendo cartridge about Tetris or specifically any game branded Tetris. Having more sympathy and definitely not accepting this kind of behavior is going to help one bit, but a lot more caring looking to sort out that problem would.

@rjejr Hm.... (scratches chin and looks ponderously up to the skies)

P.S.

What's no-GMO?

@tanookisuit Why do people here not read and think before they post?

Once more: I did not at any point say that she has autism - I said that she may have autistic tendencies or other tendencies that relate to other spectrums. It has nothing to do with some 'shield' that you're imagining regarding my daughter - this is just an idea that you are projecting - I was merely cautioning against automatically ridiculing someone when things may not be as they seem.

@andykara2003 I read just fine, maybe could have written it better, but my point stands you're projecting and taking it personally. If you wish to continue living in that bubble to feel better in your own life that's fine, but lashing out at others here to make yourself feel better is a bit much. Obviously systematically attacking someone isn't good, but again, we can just go by what is there and that's someone with some kind of severe mental problem or a cry for attention caused by who knows what.

I'll just leave it at that as there's no intent here in trying to change your opinion as it's a strong one.

@KirbyTheVampire Bro you must have noticed the /s at the end of the paragraph, haha, I agree with you don't worry.

@tanookisuit I'm sorry but you don't know me - I can say that I'm in no way tying to protect my daughter - just standing up for what I believe in and in the interest of preventing bigotry.

Either way, if you read the comments, you will notice that I never actually labeled her as being autistic or anything else, just to caution that there is a possibility she is, so to take care.

On the other hand your comment is very odd and extremely questionable when it comes down to the understanding of mental health issues:

"As it stands right now, with what is there, it falls more into the other mental health problem of not autism, but straight up inbred or trained confusion"

Inbred or trained confusion?

@Nintendoforlife I actually didn't see it at all, haha. My bad.

@Robohock Marriage in many cultures for many thousands of years has been performed without one of the parties' willful consent, sadly

Part of why it's not an institution I like much.

@KirbyTheVampire Understandable, understandable

@ThanosReXXX "What's no-GMO?"

Are you asking b/c I typed no-GMO instead on non-GMO? You know typing is not my strong point. 😛

Well in case you didn't know what GMO was...
https://www.nongmoproject.org/

It was a joke about "artificial" polygons. So need a Direct.

@davidmk4 You're kind of thinking is the problem. Making excuses up for Sinful behavior is a ever growing problem in our society.

So if she plays another game would that be considered cheating?

First, we got a guy taking a copy of smash bros melee to prom, and now this?!?

@rjejr No, I wasn't criticizing your typing skills. I generally didn't know what GMO stands for, so thanks for the info.

By the way: In general, I'm certainly against genetic modification, especially with animals, but not to such an extent that I only buy non-GMO consumables.

Much like the whole gluten-free hype, I just found it took me WAY too much time to do my grocery shopping, if I had to read EVERY label of every product I wanted to buy. And the print on the backs of these products also seems to be getting smaller by the year...

@frogopus Of coure doing the good work of God is the only way that faith should be passed among people. I'm just pointing out that she is lusting over an inanimate object which is clearly a Sin, that's all.

@Yorumi There is so much fear inside of you. I feel bad for you and how intolerant it has made you. I hope you get better.

@Darlinfan That's a big assumption you're making there mate. I'm not necessarily saying she's like my daughter or anyone else - I'm merely saying that all may not be as it seems and there might be a more serious underlying issue that would not warrant ridicule.

So to simplify I'm not saying she's one thing or another - but that it might be a good idea not to judge prematurely. That's not too hard to grasp right?

On the other hand your statement is:

"This article is about a silly person doing something silly"

Now you've done exactly that - you've made a judgement on her and assumed she's just 'being silly', based on no actual information. You might be right, you might not be - but you certainly don't have enough information to make that snap judgement do you? This is one of the reasons that there's so much misunderstanding in the world.

When the cartridge dies, this song will play:

To comfort all the people in this post,
no people will be harmed by her desire to marry her cartridge, Marriage is an expression of love to some, not a deal to safeguard family fortune, or a cultural testament of the bond between gods and men.
Love is not always 2 sided if it's for inanimate objects nor is love always sexual even for people or animals.
Love is also highly personal and I am sure many posters have things, habits, people etc. whom they love that causes others to raise their brows.
This raises the age old question...
What is love?

@ThanosReXXX I'm supposed to be grocery shopping right now. But I'm not, I'm having lunch in McDs, heres why. B/c I'm bored, don't feel the need to read it.

Brought my car into the shop yesterday for brake work, it was grinding. Figured $200-$300. Guy tells me $539. Tell him that's alot, need to think about it and call my wife. He keeps talking, pushing me for the repair. "Why did you bring it in if you weren't going to do it. I can get you a better price. Why are you hesitating." I have the phone in my hand, finger on the screen trying to call my wife. He keeps going and going. I finally say "Can you please stop talking so I can call my wife." B/c I wanted to get this done but he just wouldn't stop, and I abhor a hard sell. Well it triggered him. "Who do you think you're talking too!? Who do you think you are?!" I was having flashbacks to my dad, and too many bar fights. Every see Jersey Shore? It was like that. So I tell the guy to just give me my keys and I'll go somewhere else. Another employee tried to talk me into staying but sticking around for the eventual fist fight, well I'm too old for this. So I get the keys and go.

From home call the dealer, who tells me $379 for rotors and pads, but $729 if it needs a caliper b/c that's $280 on its own. So I drive this morning to my 8:45 appointment. I tell him $379 do it and call me when it's done, $729 I'll take it somewhere else. An hour later they still hadn't looked at it. 30 minutes later he tells me it needs the caliper, $735. I ponder it for a few minutes, tell him forget it, I'll go back to the other place for $200 less. He hits a few numbers on the keyboard, miraculously tells me $559. I say fine, if I can get it in writing. So he writes $559.95 and has me initial it. And THEN he tells me they have to order the part, it will be in tomorrow. The part I spoke to him about the day before on the phone and scheduled an appointment to come in and have it installed. So he tells me they can shuttle me home. I'm like fine whatever at this point. Then he makes a call and tells me it's a 20 minute wait. So I call my wife to tell her and realize I don't have my keys. So I go back and tell the guy I need my housekey. And he offers me the after-market part they have in stock for less money. He never said exactly how much less, but $100 or $150. So I told him go ahead, as long as it's less. Then he told me 3 hours. So here I am, wasting time, boring you. 😛

Cars kill me. Hope they announced the ND while I was typing all that.

@rjejr Sjeesh, that's one heck of a day (or was it days?), man. Not jealous, not in the least. But I don't have a car, so I'll never have that problem anyways. Over here, it's so busy and parking your car in your own street is so expensive, that most people just choose to go about their merry business by using public transport.

As for McDonald's: can't even exactly remember the last time I ate there. Must have been right before my last cinema visit, which was the 7th Star Wars movie, so at least two years ago.

@Yorumi I agree with you, for what it's worth.

insert link of Brentalfloss' Tetris W/ Lyrics song here

@MisterKorman I appreciate your humility, though there was no offense on my part for which you need be concerned.

Your perspective prompted me to reflect further on the topic and come to new articulations of my thoughts, so thank you for engaging with me.

@ThanosReXXX Have kids, you'll spend more time at McDonalds, and you'll need a car. Though I can only recommend the kids, not McDonald's or the car. It's been 25 hours now, so sort of 1 day spread over the past 2 days.

Did I tell you this is the same car I drove to Michigan 3 weeks ago? They had 5" of snow, plowed the main roads but not the side road to my hotel, so when I turned onto my hotel road I slid and hit the curb, the car only turned 45' rather than 90'. It was late and dark but everything seemed fine so I drove to the hotel. Next morning I realized the tire was moved back about an1" in the wheel well. Lower control arm bent, $480 to have a new one installed. 2 weeks ago.

Don't get a car.

@ThanosReXXX Most GMO is just plant hybridization that's been done for centuries, not the crazy stuff like injecting cow DNA into tomatoes (yes, they've actually done that)...but you don't know which your'e getting or the actual results of the modifications. However the real problem with GMO, typically, isn't the actual modifications. it's what the modifications are intended to accomplish. Namely the plants ability to absorb tremendous amounts of pesticides without killing the plant, produce their own pesticides, and/or retain them by rendering them insoluble. So when you're eating a GMO plant, it's not about eating a wheat grain that's part cow and part chihuahua. That probably won't harm you as gross as it is. It's the fact that it was modified to ensure that wheat grain contains ridiculous quantities of things worse than Agent Orange and that washing it won't get it off by the time you eat it. Imagine: Agent Orange Mk II that doesn't kill the plants it contacts at all but stays on the plant forever at double quantity and repels everything! You don't need to imagine. You've already eaten lots of it. We all have..... Gotta feed that ever growing world population after all!

@rjejr Half of the women on the West coast are made of artificial "polygons".....I see no problem with Ayane in this context.

@rjejr Wasn't planning on getting one any time soon, so don't worry. And even if I had kids, I still wouldn't need a car. For driving the little ones around, we have these:

And when they're older, they'll get their own bike. I used to go to school on my own bike as well.

This city is completely tailored to having a lot of bike riders driving around and keeping them relatively safe as well, contrary to a lot of other big cities around the world...

And yes, you did already tell me the other car story, but I don't mind. If you need to get it of your chest (again), that's fine by me...

P.S.

You were right about those cars in sea water ice the other day: that was indeed in Boston. Saw a cool drone video about it yesterday, which showed frozen waves and all that. Looked cool, but to live there right now probably isn't so much...

@NEStalgia Aw man, don't get me started, and what's more: don't ruin a man's appetite. If I need to heed all that stuff, I might as well stop eating altogether, since nothing seems to be safe these days.

Well, at least I stopped smoking almost two decades ago, so even with all those dangerous consumables around me, I'm still better of than the part of society that's still smoking a pack a day...

@Darlinfan You carry on judging away mate - doesn't make it true.

Why do I have so many crazy people living in my state? It is bad enough we have zombies but this. How come I never meet these legendary weirdos. Wait I do not want to.

She's gonna cheat on it with Dr. Mario

@NEStalgia Cow DNA into tomatos

Thanks for the explanation of where beefsteak tomatoes come from. 😜

@Darlinfan From my point of view in this case it depends how open minded you are. I think we're never going to agree so perhaps best to leave it there - no hard feelings.

@ThanosReXXX Where are helmets and seatbelts for those kids? 😛

So I'm finally home. Sorry about the repeat on the Michigan story, thought it seemed familiar. Anyway guy get me set up with a no interest credit card for 6 months. I ask him how much it was he says $559. So I get all "What do you mean it's $559, you told me before I was getting the cheaper part and it was going to be cheaper." It's 6 hours later so I was a little bit "oh come on man" by then. He looks and says "oh yeah, I must have done something wrong" and about 100 keystrokes later it was $445. So I got it $290 cheaper than his original offer and about $95 cheaper than yeaterday. Gotta keep at all these guys, they'll take whatever they think they can get. Which is why my wife is banned from bringing any cars into shops, they see a woman, jack up the price, and she says yes.

And still no ND. I need a nap.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE you sir have just won 2018 with that post.

@Deanster101 And just like that the internet imploded...

@rjejr Needs more black and white spots. And hair.

@rjejr Helmets aren't obligated for bikes over here. Like I said: the infrastructure over here is much better geared toward a steady stream of bikers. We even have our own bike paths alongside the roads, that are restricted for anything on four wheels or more.

Sounds like you made a decent deal with the car repairs, so cheers for that.

And no need for sorry's. People always tell me that I'm a good (and above all: patient) listener, so as long as you don't bring anything up ad nauseam, the odd repeat here or there isn't going to bother me in the slightest.

And relax about that incoming Direct as well. After all: it isn't the 11th yet...

What she describes sounds like real love or at least attraction. Is she mentally ill? Of course she is. But that's how you define the field. Someone with suicide tendencies is also mentally ill and someone who thinks the world is going to end with a robot nuclear attack ala Sarah in Terminator is also mentally ill....

The thing is and I don't share this view of course is that it's hard to explain to people why you have to marry only humans. And then why is it wrong under age? Why is it wrong with multiple partners? Animals ? and then you got objects. These are the arguments made against legalizing gay marriage.... and again it's not my belief. But the idea that there is a slippery slope can be a strong argument - is it because it has to be ONE human and human only? Why? Is it sentience? Is it real informed consent (probably a good argument but won't solve everything). It's like where you get insane about genderless bathrooms, then you could say these crazy liberals... The place you draw the line will seem arbitrary to the real crazy ones.

@davidmk4 but that's the question, isn't it? She is going to marry Tetris🎮 in a ceremony. Can a bakery refuse to make her a wedding 🍰 cake? Can the State refuse to give her a Marriage License 📜? Why ?

@NEStalgia "And hair."

Are you talking about the tomatoes or the Tetris blocks? 😛

@ThanosReXXX Is the new ND up yet? 😆

@rjejr tomatoes, tetriminos, what does it matter?

@rjejr Just took a quick peek in my crystal ball, and it said: it's coming, real soon.

Then again: the sticker on the bottom of my crystal ball says "made in Russia"...

@ThanosReXXX Is your crystal ball filled with vodka? I know, low hanging fruit, and insulting at that. Been a long day. #Oprah2020 b/c it's been a whole year since I suffered through 2 years of election nonsense, let's suffer through 3 years this time. In the future every day is both election day and Black Friday.

@NEStalgia It really doesn't matter any more, it really doesn't.

I like how an article about a woman marrying a video game somehow turned the comments section into a thinly-veiled political bashing of advocates of the LGBTQ community and people on the Autism Spectrum.

@Meaty-cheeky This would be the most harmless sin I've seen committed. lol

@rjejr The Russian bit was a reference to Nintendo Russia apparently leaking the Nintendo Direct being imminent, not anything election related.

I could have elaborated, but I thought you'd get it, and explaining it in the previous comment would have spoiled the intended joke...

Oh, well...

@Yorumi Because, the US values mental illness as entertainment and lags severely in treatment compared to the rest of the developed world.

@xaviorq8 Civil Rights and Social movements are trends now? They also are more popular amongst the educated? ooooff!!!!!

@ThanosReXXX Meanwhile in Russia....

@rjejr your cranky irritability has become the highlight of my days. That may indeed be pathetic, but it's something.

@NIN10DOXD I clarified my trendy comment in another comment, so feel free to search for that if you're interested. As for your educated remark... well, let's be honest, there isn't anything real there to reply to.

Ugh, please no. Next are the courts going to legalize beastiality and marriage to animals just because some people claim to be sexually attracted to their pets?

@Zuljaras I guess then the question becomes 'is this a defect.' Psychology, and particularity abnormal psychology is a field that is ever evolving and changing the way 'abnormal' and 'normal' is defined. Life is really fascinating

@Meaty-cheeky Is loving Tetris sinful?

@dumedum Just my point. We need to be asking questions rather than making assumptions. I wonder how the people close to her view her. Do they think that she has a problem?

@frogopus Sometimes you have protect people from their own stupidity. It's why we have seat belt laws, for one thing. Also, drinking is a very poor example, as it wrecks other people's lives just as badly as it does the person actually drinking.

This example isn't a case where the looney bin is actually needed (just some therapy to get her to accept her condition but also the importance of not acting on it), but if someone can't reasonably function in society even with good support, then yes a mandatory commitment to a mental ward is needed whether or not the patient is a danger to others.

@ThanosReXXX "The Russian bit was a reference to Nintendo Russia apparently leaking the Nintendo"

Oh sorry, I did get it, even thought about how it was funny b/c this isn't that thread, it's the Tetris girl thread, b/c NL is just full of freakin' useless threads these days. I honestly wasn't even thinking about the Russia connection AT ALL when I wrote that election stuff, just more of me losing my mind is all.

I'm gonna blame @NEStalgia lengthy explanation of GMO's as being my breaking point, even though it was my fault. Well actually ti was NL's fault for this stupid article. In the future we'll all be "objectum sexual". Has anybody made this reference yet?

I should have made that pic the first post and then they just could have closed the thread, I would have won the day.

@andykara2003
"Of course this type behavior is not always going to indicate a connection with autism."
That may be obvious to us, but not to some other people on the internet.
"But I can tell you that I probably know a lot more than you about this, having lived with my autistic daughter for the past 16 years. I have done a huge amount of fundraising and research on this - and we are taking part in a number of leading genetic studies on the subject."
I do have autism myself, so I also know quite a bit about it.
"As I mentioned, the autistic spectrum is very wide."
Yes, hence I think that people shouldn't generalize about it.
"This kind of obsessive behaviour is certainly an indicator that may possibly be on it - but if you read my comment properly, you would see that I did not definitively say that she was autistic, but that she may well be, or under a similar recognised spectrum that encompases unusual behaviour like this."
I read your comment properly, and when I said "people", I didn't really mean you, just the lot who stereotype autism.
When we are talking about things like this, please read comments carefully before posting inane replies.
Again, I always read comments very carefully before expressing my opinion.
Keep in mind that I'm not trying to offend you and your daughter, and if I do, I apologize.

@rjejr As you were, soldier...
Like I said: I'm not that easy to upset or anger anymore. I'll leave the whole "get off my lawn" routine in your safe hands...

On a side note: that picture you posted did make me think of another Woody Allen movie, with him in a certain white costume with a long tail.

Oh, man. Between you, me and NES, this thread was already derailed before it was even posted...

@ThanosReXXX Don't worry they were hoping we'd derailed it when they posted it, I'm sure. It was either that or they were banking on all the mockery of mental illness, political comments, pro/con LBGTetris comments carrying the NL brand to Kotaku heights.

At least she hasn't discovered TetriNET. I guess that's Tetris for swingers.

@rjejr Oh the avatar......the avatar.....

@NEStalgia @ThanosReXXX Forgot all about that movie.

Yeah, this thread was meant to be derailed from the start. There were really ever only 2 choices, us derailing it, or 500 people screaming "Snowflake" and "SJW" back and forth at each other. No, wait, those may be the same side.

It's ok, now that Ntinedo has announced the next ND is.. no wait, still haven't announced it yet, $#@$%^

@G-Boy No offence taken whatsoever and I also apologise if I caused offence - I appreciate your comments

I think the wider and perhaps a more obvious issue here is that irrespective of what problems this girl does or doesn't have, we have an article about a young lady of just 20 and a comment section where people have been making sexually degrading comments about her - one of which has been applauded by a member of the Nintendo life staff for doing so!

How can this possibly be acceptable?

@rjejr It ain't the 11th yet... tick, tock, tick, tock...

With the way you're upsetting yourself about this, I'm almost imagining you watching your computer screen like Andy McDowell, A Clockwork Orange style:

Take a break every once in a while. Eagle-eyeing websites hoping some announcement will come any sooner than it will is kinda useless, no?

The Direct will come when it will come, ancient oriental wisdom...
Not going to lose any sleep over it personally, and neither should anybody else.

#Mental

@ThanosReXXX Less Clockwork, more red light, green light, 1, 2 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFNvvna6WZw

Yesterday was just me bored out of my mind at the repair shop, today I have stuff to do so I won't be around as much.

Would be nice if they announced it though. W/ 48 hours notice, I like having time to get hyped for it.

Oh, and it's not all my fault, b/c of that stupid Russia article all day yesterday every time I did come to the page I saw that red ND logo. That's NL trolling us big time. Big time troll logo all day long.

OK I'm really checking out now, never did get around to grocery shopping yesterday.

@rjejr This goes beyond snowflakes. Snowflakes are defiantly oblivious to reality believing in their imaginary world where everyone loves everyone and tries to do best by everyone rather than the real world where most people would gladly kill everyone else for a free DVD player...including themselves. They're basically the children of hippies who genuinely believe the things their hippie parents pretended to believe (or believed only while dripping acid, around the same time believed they saw a tiny Elvis marching with fairies across the kitchen table.) I figure most snowflakes will eventually grow up. We'd all be snowflakes if we were 20-something or younger and told every day how special we are in the new future we're building. Eventually they'll be bitter and cranky just like us when they find out they were lied to. The bigger problem may be that it happens while we're still alive and they stage an open live fire revolt

This story is just a whole other level beyond snowflakedom. We're in the post-game levels now...OTOH this is great news for the Marina fandom. First they announce she's consenting age, now we find out you really can marry her.... I sure hope polygamy is legal for same-platform marriages....because there's a few thousand suitors for her. Then again it's only a matter of time before "robo escorts" are legal marriage material in Japan. A little longer elsewhere. But this if Florida, so maybe sooner there... Maybe this article isn't strange at all, but is the new normal.

Now I'm depressed. I need a Yoshi release date to fix that.

Wow you're hyped for the ND. That's bad. Because you're sure to be disappointed when it arrives, now. You're going to go snowflake on us. We're screwed.

@NEStalgia Oh, he's not just going to go snowflake on us: Winter is coming...

P.S.

Man, that was some essay on snowflakes. Don't kill their dreams just yet, man. Let the young'uns have a little bit left to believe in before they finally outgrow their happy-happy stage...

It’s amazing all the Conservatives like @yorumi love to spout the whole “we just have a different opinion” stuff when you know, in all actuality, if Miyamoto were to come out tomorrow in support of a gender fluid society Nintendo Life would likely close down due to lack of traffic. 😂

@ThanosReXXX LOL...hibernation time.

Hey, misery loves company. They'll learn to be miserable sooner or later, why not today? Besides, it's not like I posted it on Instagram. They won't see it anyway

@frogopus You are the first one here that has given a more rational and sensible political opinion. As someone raised Christian myself with a lot of LGBT family members I agree with you 100%. What does it help to paint with a broad brush to simply dismiss everyone with a different orientation as “mental”?

@NEStalgia Won't see it? Have you SEEN the amount of traffic that topics like these generate?

Although, come to think of it, most of them don't read any comments at all, or skip over the wall of text type of comments that we usually generate...

But seeing as you are also getting a bit stressed about this, I'd advise both you and @rjejr a healthy dose of watching The Goldbergs. If you don't know it yet, it's a great comedy show that takes place in the eighties and it involves almost everything that made life so great for us as kids, so it's one giant trip down memory lane.

To stick with the snowflake theme, I'd advise checking out season 4, episode 12, which involves Snow Day. Seems appropriate...

Bit sad really....

The Nes version of Tetris was pretty bad.

if it was the Tengen or the Game Boy version then I could understand...

but really though people gone from marrying machines (Nintendo DS example) to cards of data......

@Yorumi No one said that you condoned suicide that was just your takeaway. I agree with the poster you talk about. You disagree. So what? Neither me nor @frogopus demonized you. You seem overly sensitive about these things. You act like a liberal killed your first born or something. You also have to accept that a lot of people won’t like your opinion which based on your reaction to the poster doesn’t seem like you do. You have to accept that your opinion is an unpopular one even if you don’t mean any harm by it. Heck I’ll go as far to say I think it’s a mental illness as well but it’s still a nasty thing to say on the whole so I wouldn’t go shouting it from the hilltops.

Also I must ask due to my previous analogy: You would stop playing Nintendo games if someone like Miyamoto believed in a gender neutral society you’d stop playing Nintendo games? That seems a bit hypocritical to me if so.

On the topic of insults it worked for Trump why shouldn’t it work for liberals? 😉

@Yorumi Politics and personal opinion go hand in hand my friend.

Also it seems you just validated the argument that homosexuality is NOT a mental illness as you compared it to a case where non-whites were considered genetically inferior. You just pointed to the evolution of medical science. Unless of course you do believe whites are genetically superior...

This is stupid, Lol!

@Yorumi just updated last post, sorry it took so long.

@ThanosReXXX The NL audience is literate, so I'm assuming it doesn't consist of the group in question Pictures have too many words for most of them, thus why Instagram is the tool of choice.

Its really sad to see on here that some of you guys don't mind this poor girl Marring a Tetris cartridge. Tetris can't hold her, talk to her, or support her in times of need.

Supporting her marrying Tetris is simply SICK and ABUSIVE.

@Yorumi Despite your bluster and aggressive starts, you usually have a meaningful and profound summary conclusion

@Yorumi @brandonbwii What's more interesting is I've seen more ACTUAL meaningful debate on society and the universe between people that generally fiercely disagree but can maturely discuss a topic even after argument/debate and stick with the actual discussion before resorting to name calling on this Nintendo video game site than across most of the rest of the entire internet. There's more valuable social contemplation on this forum for adults that still play with toys than all the pundits on TV combined.

@NEStalgia I know that’s why I’m actually a bit hopeful something political would happen here. Discourse is much worse on Facebook. 😄

O_o I...well it don't harm nobody I guess. I'm sure its a joke anyway.

So hey if she plays a different tetris game, would that be considered cheating?

Here's a short piece of fiction for those coming in late:

"Noooooo, my baby, please don't die! Please don't die on me!"
"Hush now, don't worry about a thing. He's alive, you just need to blow on the cartridge contacts like I showed you before."
"I told you I'm fine with my darling being an 'it'!"
"What's the problem nurse?"
"Nothing special, just regular maintenance."
"Good to hear, we just ran out of padded rooms. Anyway, how's the GameGear guy?"
"He's been fine ever since we performed the procedure."
"Procedure? Don't tell me?..."
"Yes, we hooked the device to a nuclear power reactor. It was the only way, doctor. It was the only way."

@Tempestryke I quoted you since you're a late poster yourself. You might be the only one to read this, so hope you enjoyed. Excuses if you didn't. (;

@LemonSlice

Roflol!!!!

It's so nice to know that there are other people, whose sense of humor is as quirky as mine is.