News anchor slammed for telling 13-year-old Tetris master to \u201cgo outside\u201d Sky News\/Twitch: bluescutiA news anchor has come under fire for comments made about a 13-year-old boy who achieved something long considered unattainable, after he literally completed Tetris. Tetris is a game that has been around for decades, and while millions of players have attempted to get higher scores than their peers, there are very few who can say that they actually beat the game. That was until January 2024, when 13-year-old Willis \u2018Blue Scuti\u2019 Gibson made headlines for breaking several NES Tetris records and managing to \u201cbeat\u201d the game for the first time ever. Playing until the game crashed, Gibson grinded through rows of blocks to near-perfection, with the \u201ckill screen\u201d crash being the ending of the game, a sign that he had, for lack of a better term, beat the game. This is something many players have tried and failed to do, an almost impossible feat that requires the utmost concentration and perfect Tetris play to achieve \u2014 but that wasn\u2019t enough to impress Sky News presenter Jayne Secker, who didn\u2019t hide her feelings on the matter. Sky News presenter tells Tetris player to \u201cgo outside\u201d \u201cTetris has long been touted as a video game that just can\u2019t be beaten, because it just goes on and on\u201d Secker started. \u201cWell, 13\u2013year-old American Willis Gibson has technically proven that wrong. He beat the original Nintendo version of the game by reaching such a high level that the coding froze, and left the programme unable to generate any more falling blocks.\u201d Secker was quick to add on some advice \u201cas a mother\u201d though, saying: \u201cStep away from the screen. Go outside. Get some fresh air. Beating Tetris is not a life goal.\u201d Many online have called out the anchor for her \u201csmugness\u201d and \u201cembarrassing\u201d comments, praising Gibson for his unique achievement. Squidapple said: \u201cLiterally history was made, by a kid no less, and she throws that stupid ass comment in there, just embarrassing, would slot right in with 80\u2019s reporters talking about \u2018Those Nintendo\u2019s\u2019.\u201d Literally history was made, by a kid no less, and she throws that stupid ass comment in there, just embarrassing, would slot right in with 80’s reporters talking about “”Those Nintendo’s”” \u2014 Squidapple\ud83d\udd1e\ud83c\udf54\ud83c\udf5f (@Squidapple) January 4, 2024 Another user, obkatiekat, called her \u201ccondescending.\u201d W for the kid \u2014 obkatiekat\ud83d\udc3e (@obkatiekat) January 4, 2024 L for this boomer reporter What a condescending prick \ud83d\ude43 Others questioned why she wouldn\u2019t believe this to be an achievement, especially considering how long the game has been around and the fact that nobody else had done it. Needless to say, Gibson shouldn\u2019t let these kinds of comments overshadow his achievement, and we\u2019ve no doubt he will be hopping on Tetris once again to try to beat it even faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
News anchor slammed for telling 13-year-old Tetris master to \u201cgo outside\u201d Sky News\/Twitch: bluescutiA news anchor has come under fire for comments made about a 13-year-old boy who achieved something long considered unattainable, after he literally completed Tetris. Tetris is a game that has been around for decades, and while millions of players have attempted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}