A Tribune to Thomas Ekstrm

Corrosive · 14 Mar 2009

This is Thomas Ekstrm aka "spindizzy" of clan HELLFIRE, who originates from Sweden. When you look into this eyes you are seeing not just the eyes of a bad ass sexy motherfucker, but of someone who truly understands the art of tetris. Just take a moment with me and meditate in remembrance of our most-honored TetriNET ancestor.

Three of his articles can be read on this forum posted previously. Read them if you wish to gain wisdom and learn how to become a great player like myself:

The Multiplayer Strategy of Thomas Ekstrm, "How to win"
http://www.tetrisconcept.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1387

The Multiplayer Strategy of Thomas Ekstrm, "How to kill"
http://www.tetrisconcept.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1380

The Multiplayer Strategy of Thomas Ekstrm, "Give Me Speed"
http://www.tetrisconcept.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1381

K · 15 Mar 2009

i know that i should not, so people please excuse me in advance...

i tried to find something about this "basm" as you name him, and mostly only find this on a self called "ass end of forums" :

spindizzy said:

We all loved TetriNET. For me, it was even a case of first love. I never cared about Tetris before TetriNET. But we have to realise facts - TetriNET is dying.

TetriNET is a slow, messy and buggy game. It was written by an amateur programmer in 1997, completely coded in Delphi, and it hasn't been updated since. This isn't meant as a rude personal attack on someone who's given me more hours of Tetris enjoyment than any other man I know, it's just the way it is. Stormcat is currently working on his new client named TetriNET 2, which is a pretty piece of software, but it's still written in Delphi, it's still slow, it's still buggy and the master TetriNET 2 server hasn't been up for half a year. Some self-designated elite players found a friend in T2net, which, while an interesting and entertaining game in itself, is unknown by almost everyone, abandoned by its author since over two years and even more buggy than TetriNET. The latest craze in the TetriNET world is TetriFAST. While this was a major breakthru for many people, me included, it is still nothing but a simple patch which ultimately doesn't solve the major problems of the TetriNET world, the problems that are killing TetriNET - non-standard applications, buggy servers, stupid, power-crazed ops, lame, unfriendly players and incessant cheating.

This is the truth. But there is a way out of this, and it's Quadra.

I first heard of Quadra from a ladder player maybe one year ago. I tried it out, and while I found it impressive, I found that playing it destroyed my regular TetriNET stacking since Quadra works with recursive line-clearing. Also, when I tried it out first, the game had not yet got a drop key - you had to pull every piece down with the down key, which could be accelerated, much like the classic arcade machines. Since I had still not given up hope on the regular Tetris scene, and, well, since I was too lazy to give the game a real chance, I forgot about it. I returned to the game two weeks ago. Since then, I have been playing every day, maybe two, three hours a day, always learning and having a great deal of fun.

Quadra is a recursive Tetris game. This is the thing ordinary Tetris players will have a problem getting used to since it puts many concepts of traditional Tetris stacking upside down - for one thing, Z's should almost always be placed vertically, and greed is actually most of the time the way to win. What it gives, however, is far more than it demands.

There are people who say Quadra suck. These are invariably the people who have never truly given the game a chance, who have maybe played once in a ffa and got slaughtered - the "great TetriNET players" who are too conceited to recognize their own ineptitude in the field and try to do something about it. These are the people who have never felt the sensation of stacking a recursive line-add and sending every other player in the game into oblivion with a 14-liner-add. Does this sound impossible? It is not, it is in some instances not even particularily hard. It just takes practice.

The Great Skills are at Quadra now. You won't find them hanging around in slow, lagged, cheated and bored-to-death regular TetriNET servers. You won't even find them among the speed demons at plibble.com and - dare I say it - hellfire.darktech.org. Make no mistake, though, Quadra can be an incessantly fast game. That's just part of the charm about it. The others are, in no particular order, great design, no noticable bugs, civilized players and furious action. It should be the choice of any newbie entering the pure Tetris scene. Come play and try it out with us, but be warned. After playing it, you will lose all respect for the regular Tetris games.

spindizzy/HELLFIRE, 10/00
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i must agree with him on some particular points...

Muf · 15 Mar 2009

A "Tribune"? Is this guy dead or something? Or did he just get a life and move on from this shit.

Corrosive · 15 Mar 2009

he died from drug overdose.

Attention: the above is completely false. -MOD March 16 2009

jujube · 15 Mar 2009

kids: tetris is the only drug you need. R.I.P. Thomas.

caffeine · 15 Mar 2009

I remember him saying one day that he used to play for hours on end while using amphetamines. I didn't know he died. Are you positive? When did that happen?

Blink · 16 Mar 2009

he's not dead..... he still plays guildwars under the character name "Moloch Vein". Corrosive is lying.

herc · 16 Mar 2009

if this is really a lie, i would suggest banning corrosive. it is NOT a funny thing to spread rumors that someone died because of drug overdose.
in fact this is something that should bring you, corrosive, behind jails. ok, maybe it would be enough to let you do some social hours in a retirement home.
all i want to say that this is very bad defamation. the internet is no other place than real live, and not your sandpit. besides - are you sure you are allowed to post his portrait ?

caffeine · 16 Mar 2009

I agree with herc, especially that corrosive needs to spend some time volunteering in a retirement home!

Rosti LFC · 16 Mar 2009

herc said:

it is NOT a funny thing to spread rumors that someone died because of drug overdose.
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I wouldn't call a single throwaway comment "spreading rumours". I at least didn't take his comment to be true.

PetitPrince · 16 Mar 2009

A little Google-fu on "moloch vein" lead me into this page with a suspeciously similar looking personnal photo (same or nearly same thick eyebrows anyway). Last activity is noted as today.

... was that drug allusion a metaphorical one ?

tepples · 16 Mar 2009

"He quit tetromino games after one too many rounds of TOD made him feel sick." Better?

Muf · 16 Mar 2009

So he got a life and moved on.. well sort of. Just traded in one no-life for another I suppose.

Corrosive · 16 Mar 2009

yea i totally made that shit up and knew blink would come and say what pc game he currently plays, i just couldnt think of the name of it. ive never even talked to spindizzy online he turned his back on tetris years ago I guess.

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