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Game · Alexey Pajitnov · 1984

Tetris

Tetris

51Watch it awake.

The blocks fall. You make a line. The cleanest game ever made, and still one more line.

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The review

The blocks fall. You make a line. The cleanest game ever made, and still one more line.

Tetris respects your mind. That is rare and worth keeping. It will not make you kind by itself. Finish a puzzle and then feed somebody.

Journal

Keep Tetris in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 2Household
  3. 3Piety
  4. 3Courage
  5. 4Republic
  6. 8Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 6Stewardship

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Braid

63 instead of 51

Braid is still a puzzle game, and it scores 63 instead of 51. What you gain is household: Households in Braid are where the story tells the truth, if it tells it.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    The puzzle in Tetris is the work, and the work is the pleasure.

  2. 2
    Household

    No household required. A quiet room helps.

  3. 3
    Piety

    Attention is the reverence.

  4. 3
    Courage

    Staying with a problem you do not yet see is the courage.

  5. 4
    Republic

    No public but the one you return to when you stand up.

  6. 8
    Temperance

    Tetris does not nag you with a prize. That restraint is a virtue.

  7. 8
    Truth

    A solution either works or it does not. The game will not flatter you.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    You keep the habit of looking. That is what it hands you.

Live historically

Finish one problem. Do not open the next until you have been a person in the house again.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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Game · Firaxis · 2016

Civilization VI

Civilization VI

51Watch it awake.

One more turn, for six thousand years. You can be a builder or a conqueror. The turn is the appetite and the joy.

Pass it on

The review

One more turn, for six thousand years. You can be a builder or a conqueror. The turn is the appetite and the joy.

The pleasure of Civilization VI is getting better at a real task. That is a virtue. It becomes a vice the night you cannot put it down. Decide the stopping point first.

Journal

Keep Civilization VI in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 4Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 5Courage
  5. 3Republic
  6. 6Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 6Stewardship

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

61 instead of 51

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is still a strategy game, and it scores 61 instead of 51. What you gain is piety: Conscience shows up as a choice you cannot fully take back.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    Mastery in Civilization VI is visible. You can watch yourself get better.

  2. 4
    Household

    It will not raise a family. It can sit beside a life if the life stays first.

  3. 2
    Piety

    A real respect for doing the thing right, and no creed beyond that.

  4. 5
    Courage

    The courage is the next attempt after a clean failure.

  5. 3
    Republic

    Little civic claim. A workshop, not a capitol.

  6. 6
    Temperance

    Civilization VI is most honest when the failure is allowed to stand.

  7. 8
    Truth

    The rules do not lie to you. That is a form of truth.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    A skill you can keep is the thing Civilization VI actually hands over.

Live historically

Set a stopping time before you start, and keep it even if the next upgrade is close.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · Civilization VI · 51IMDb

For this house

Keep going

The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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