PieFedKirsten Dirksen - Tetris founder's family village is collapse-proof, remote offgrid-topia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz0iSxks-Dw
Thought this was interesting. A little gaming history intermixed with a bunch of other things.
High in the hills of Hawaii’s Big Island, Henk Rogers—best known for bringing Tetris to the world—is taking on a new kind of challenge: building a fully off-grid life. On his 32-acre Pu‛uwa‛awa‛a Ranch, he’s growing his own food, producing his own energy, and working to protect Hawaii’s future.
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Yeah, this is the guy who negotiated with the Russian government to get Tetris onto the gameboy. After the Soviet Union disbanded he founded the Tetris Company with Alexey Pajitnov (the original creator).
settlers cozying up in their LARP bunkers while indigenous Hawaiians die from being displaced by said settlers.
he's basically presenting this "solarpunk" image of himself to greenwash all the Lex Luthor Elon Musk-stanning projects he's doing on the side.
Looks interesting. Probably too much on the non-affordable side of things for normal people, I bet. But what bothers me most is the term collapse-proof. I get that they likely address the high level of autonomy. I would still rather focus on having a high level of adaptability and being a solid foundation to enable community-building instead. (*end of optimistic rambling*)
*Distributor of the game tetris outside of the soviet union. - had nothing to do with the making of tetris
While we’re pointing things out, this is also a non-islander owning 32 acres of land on the big island. Cool that a rich guy is going green though I guess.
You're not wrong, but it's also true that Alexej, the developer, didn't have much to do with the distribution.
edit: okay I just realized I need to add "at the beginning". He didn't have to do much with distribution at the beginning. The game distributed itself until Henk came along and they worked together on the distribution.