I was watching my Twitter stream this morning and someone posted a link to the view they did on this website called iminlikewithyou.com and on this website, it seems to be a social network of sorts completely build in flash. So it all renders in the browser. There is nothing to install. You just sign up for a free account and give it some information about yourself. And when you do, it will give you targeted data.
For instance, since I said that I am in Seattle, it has got the weather down here close to the bottom of my web browser. You cannot really see it because I have got the camera zoomed all the way in. I could go in and customize my background right now. There is a sun with some purple going on. And what you see right here is a Netris game or a net Tetris game. I was playing against six other people, so seven of us total. I just pasted the invitation link into the chat room and I have been playing Tetris pretty much all day.
I have been doing okay. I have been losing and I have been winning. And yes, I’m talking because I failed. I failed this game. This guy over here in Mexico is doing an amazing job, and then you have chat over here.
And if you have never played Netris, it is really kind of cool. It is more than just Tetris. As you stack lines, these little I guess—I don’t know what you would call them—bonus blocks appear and when you clear a line with that bonus block, you can stack them up and then play them against your opponent.
So like here, what is highlighted on, it says plus 2 lines and the icon is orange. I could send plus 2 lines to any one of these opponents just by just pressing that key on the keyboard, so I could send plus 2 lines to number six to number five, if of course I was active. It looks like Cubs0110 won this game, so now I could play against these same people, which I am going to do just to kind of illustrate it. It’s kind of loud though so I am going to turn down the volume just a tiny bit.
Now since this is all playing in flash, there is just to kind of illustrate it. It’s kind of loud though so I am going to turn down the volume just a tiny bit.
Now since this is all playing in flash, there is some bit of well, I guess delay. Sometimes with key strokes, so I can drop my pieces but sometimes, I overcompensate. Standard Tetris controls using the keyboard, nothing too difficult. I mean, as long you know how to play Tetris, then you can play Netris.
And here we go, I cleared a couple of lines. I’m starting to build my—I don’t know what you would call them, bonus block? Someone is listening in on vent. There we go.
So now I’ve got minus four lines here, so I can minus four lines anybody. Anybody who I’m playing against, if I am trying to support their cause or them beating an opponent who I happen to be playing against, then I can send them back. What just happened to me is someone just sent me a scramble. So it scrambled all of my Tetris blocks down below. You can’t really see it again, the camera is kind of zoomed in a little way.
So what I’m going to do now is I’m going to minus four lines, drop my Tetris blocks down by one line, or actually four lines, sorry. It is a little difficult to commentate and play at the same time. But now I can add two lines to anybody over here, so I’m going to nail three pike because it looks like he’s almost out of the race, so I’m going to push him over the edge and at the same time drop me by two lines.
Now if you want to play against me, I have a feeling I’m going to be trying this regularly. Don’t ask if I’m going to be playing it at any given time. If I send out an invite, that means yes, I want to play people in the chat room.
So if you have ever been to this website before, cool. If you know of a website that works much like iminlikewithyou which I’m sure does more than what I’m showing here, I would be interested in seeing what you’ve been playing with. I can pretty much guarantee I’m going to be hanging out here on a regular basis, at least in the background. I don’t know, I think I’ve got to get some work done today as I continue to play this game
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