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Deporting all the refugees and attempting to replace them with robots? That’s science fiction.
When I first wrote that Maida was into “Mega-Tetris,” I didn’t have a clear concept of what that looked like. But I think this is pretty cool. And it turns out, there IS a real version of Tetris that’s a little bit like this. It’s not 3D, but it does have the player VS player component to it. I can’t find it now, but if I can get the link to it again, I’ll post it here.
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Panel 1: In an online video, Arthur Weiss, a beardy thumb in a checked shirt, interviews an angry guy in a hat. Angry guy: "I can't find nobody to clean my building. Maybe this ain't a Co'erence Crisis, but it's a crisis for my business! Arthur Weiss: "Have you heard of robots? There's seventeen billion people on Earth who belong here, innit! Hire one of them! Man up!"
Panel 2: Maida angrily closes her screen. Narrator: "I just had to make it to Zhongshan and then I'd be protected, right?"
Panel 3: Narrator: "I played a lot of video games. Video games were nice and safe." Maida, Zaynab, and Khadija all sit on the couch with their glasses on, in the midst of playing a game we can't see. Fatima has a pair of glasses too, so she can watch.
Panel 4: Maida sits with a holographic bust of an older woman with short hair. Narrator: "The Yongki family had one mallquis, Zaynab's grandmother. I got to know her really well."
Panel 5: Narrator: "She was surprised anyone my age even knew Mega-Tetris. I never beat her even once." Maida sits across from Zaynab's grandmother with a big hologram of their game between them. A 3D rectangular prism fills up with Tetris blocks from both ends, competing for space in the middle.
Panel 6: Maida sits with a hologram of Ibrahim. Narrator: "I talked to my mum, my aunt, or my brother every day. My life revolved around these calls."
Panel 2: Maida angrily closes her screen. Narrator: "I just had to make it to Zhongshan and then I'd be protected, right?"
Panel 3: Narrator: "I played a lot of video games. Video games were nice and safe." Maida, Zaynab, and Khadija all sit on the couch with their glasses on, in the midst of playing a game we can't see. Fatima has a pair of glasses too, so she can watch.
Panel 4: Maida sits with a holographic bust of an older woman with short hair. Narrator: "The Yongki family had one mallquis, Zaynab's grandmother. I got to know her really well."
Panel 5: Narrator: "She was surprised anyone my age even knew Mega-Tetris. I never beat her even once." Maida sits across from Zaynab's grandmother with a big hologram of their game between them. A 3D rectangular prism fills up with Tetris blocks from both ends, competing for space in the middle.
Panel 6: Maida sits with a hologram of Ibrahim. Narrator: "I talked to my mum, my aunt, or my brother every day. My life revolved around these calls."
OMG I love the look of mega-tetris!