Thinking about one of my all-time favourite news stories, where a guy accidentally found out his wife is a world champion Tetris player and catalogued their trip to a competition to set a record
"It's funny," I told Flewin. "We have an old Nintendo Game Boy floating around the house, and Tetris is the only game we own. My wife will sometimes dig it out to play on airplanes and long car rides. She's weirdly good at it. She can get 500 or 600 lines, no problem."
What Flewin said next I will never forget.
"Oh, my!"
After I hung up the phone, I went to the bedroom and woke my wife, Lori.
this is 100% unironically one of my favorite pieces of culture journalism ever written.
At this year's tournament, I meet a gamer named Brian Kuh who retired at age 30 โ he was a bank comptroller in New York City โ so he could move to Weirs Beach and go to Funspot every day to pursue video game world records full time. [....] At noon on the first day of this competition, he has already broken 10 world records; by 3 p.m., he has broken 17, surpassing his own record for the most video game world records made in a single day. He celebrates by playing more video games.
