Life is Calvin Ball[1]. Any rules we may identify are subject to abrupt, arbitrary, and often incomprehensible, change. Best to just enjoy the insanity.
Your Life Is Tetris. Stop Playing It Like Chess
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#32Yeah, I've already heard something like: "Life is just like Tetris: there's no way to win, you can just stay alive for longer or shorter time" I enjoyed the read, thank you.
Depending on the Tetris, you can win it. These guys for example do so (with invisible pieces near the end, no less): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwDUiCzPVU
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#33A short, elegant piece of writing with some real insight.
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#34Life is totalistic. It depends only on the total value of you and your neighbors. [1]
[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TotalisticCellularAutomaton.htm...
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#35This is the second time I am seeing and since the time I saw it first, I have begun thinking that life is an analogy to whatever game you make it, whether that be candy crush, bejeweled, chess, hearts, poker, ... tetris, etc. My own view on chess and life is that you shouldn't play it by planning 10 steps to hit just one target, but as one of 10 targets. Transform that concept to whatever game you wish. These stateme…
> This is the second time I am seeing and since the time I saw it first, I have begun thinking that life is an analogy to whatever game you make it, whether that be candy crush, bejeweled, chess, hearts, poker, ... tetris, etc. Metaphors are like books, they can be about anything®
Even when they are similes :-)
Re: Your Life Is Tetris. Stop Playing It Like Chess
#36Your life is neither Tetris nor Chess. It's Go.
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#37> 1. In life, your only opponent is yourself. Or, you know, people who actually want to kill you. Or a state that wants to disenfranchise you. Or abusive peers and parents. Or... > In life, things don’t get harder — they just get faster. Until you reach middle age - and your back starts going, your hearing fades, your glasses prescription gets stronger... > In life, you can’t control the board. Unless you look at lik…
> Until you reach middle age - and your back starts going, your hearing fades, your glasses prescription gets stronger...
Maybe that's also what the author meant? As you get older, life continues accelerating past you.
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#38It's neither. Life is like poker, combining skill, random chance, and the need to understand and anticipate the behavior of other human beings while they do the same with you. Each of the games mentioned has only two of these three elements. Also in poker people start with different amounts of money and that matters.
Yep, but you also need to sit down with a certain amount of money, otherwise you'll be playing a different game and at different stakes.
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#39was posted 3 weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10890548
10890548 didn't get enough attention to make this repost a dupe (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) but 10958399 definitely did.
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#40Really enjoyed this article (most of it). Especially the part about life not being a zero sum game & a mindset like that being a disadvantage and life being essentially a race against time knowing that "losing" is inevitable.