The History of Tetris World Records
Summoning Salt2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2024-2026
7.3M views · 2 years ago · documentary · evergreen
Summoning Salt's roughly two-hour documentary traces the history of Tetris world records, from early play through the modern competitive scene. It is a long, well-researched narrative about the players and techniques that pushed the records.
HN recommends it as a thorough, well-researched history, and one commenter finds such videos more exhaustive than Wikipedia's sourced articles.
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3 comments from Hacker News
> You lost me here. I mean, yes, there's serious fan community interaction around those subject which is unauthenticated and anonymous. But that's interaction and not research or journalism. Depends on the field. If you're talking about video games, their community (in particular, the associated modding and speedrunning communities) is probably second only to the original developers as a source for information (if not as good as) depending on the topic being discussed. For instance, the Wikipedia article on Tetris has a brief mention of the "kid finally beat Tetris" story from a few years ago. All of the primary information that is referenced by the articles is just reworded versions of research done by the community, some even just being dead links to old tweets (and I would argue that YouTube video about the topic like [1] are far more accurate and exhaustive than the articles referenced by Wikipedia, if Wikipedia really wants to prioritise accuracy). I don't necessarily disagree with the argument that you need to have a strong standard as otherwise you run the risk of accepting crap, but that shouldn't be taken to mean that the current standard actually provides the most accurate information you can get. Also, many articles about such topics feel like a weird kind of "reputation laundering" where the same person provides the same information in a different context (but now filtered through a non-subject-matter-expert) and now it is considered "more reputable". Yes, a third
The youtube channel Summoning Salt made a great video that covers the history of Tetris world records: ▶ this video
Something I notice about text written by LLMs is how painfully obvious they are to identify sometimes. Recently I was watching a very well researched two hour video on Tetris World Records [1], but the sheer amount of text clearly "enhanced" by an LLM really made me uncomfortable. ChatGPT speaks a very specific, novel, dialect of English, which I've come to deeply despise. I'd always guessed it was caused by some kind of human interference, rather than a natural consequence of its training. That seems to be the point of this paper. [1] "Summoning Salt - The History of Tetris World Records" - ▶ this video