On December 6th, 2023, Day 15 of Season 99 of LearnedLeague, we learned of a massively popular video game, created by Alexei Pajitnov while he worked for the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
I Later Learned how Tetris, a game about finding order in a deluge of descending debris, might be able to keep your mind from falling apart in its toughest moments.
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