r/technology • u/IndicaOatmeal • Sep 04 '26
Society Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade full of parody games
https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/tetris-issues-legal-warning-after-white-house-releases-arcade-full-of-parody-games-3405931/7.6k
u/bwoah07_gp2 Sep 04 '26
Shortly after the arcade went live, the official Tetris account issued a response emphasizing that it had no connection to the project.
“At Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them,” the company said. “To our fans everywhere: we love you, we see you, and we’re grateful to have you in our community.”
It then ended with a pointed legal warning: “We take copyright infringement very seriously.”
Tetris has not announced a lawsuit or confirmed whether it has sent the White House a formal cease-and-desist letter.
Tetris need to sue them. So should Xbox, Nintendo, and all the other gaming AND non-gaming entities the White House has shamelessly parodied on social media. This is just getting ridiculous.
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u/Talk-O-Boy Sep 04 '26
What sucks is that the administration WANTS these companies to give him attention.
It’s the same reason Trump insists on using music by artists who he knows don’t agree with him. He’s goading them for a reaction.
Since Trump doesn’t discern between good press and bad press, he just tries to get it wherever he can.
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u/BackgroundSummer5171 Sep 04 '26
What sucks is that the administration WANTS these companies to give him attention.
Also it doesn't matter to them.
It's not their money they are playing with. It's the tax payer's.
They do all this bullshit at the tax payer's cost. Changing names of things. Making Donald John coins. All of the bullshit he does is at the cost of our taxes.
This is what hard working money has gone to. Waste.
He has been the largest waste of tax payer money, at least the most blatant waste of it. Out in the open. Constantly.
Why even pay taxes if it is going towards making racist video games to be fought in a lawsuit? WTF is this country?
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u/Shark7996 Sep 04 '26
Why even pay taxes if it is going towards
This thought has been relentless in my head lately. I STRONGLY don't approve of what my taxes are being used for but I have no real recourse. Feeling very unrepresented right now.
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u/Mr_Quackums Sep 04 '26
IRS enforcement department is at an all-time low.
If they catch you down the line they almost always offer to let you pay a partial payment instead of what you would have payed if you did your taxes on time.
People who dont pay their taxes are bad people and usually get away with it for a long time and only pay a fraction of what they owe when/if they eventually get caught.
Its a shame, really.
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u/HoodieGalore Sep 05 '26
Ohhhh no the fuck they don’t lol. Why the fuck would the IRS offer you any break whatsoever, outside of maybe a payment plan that still includes every cent you owe them, over a structured payment schedule? There are companies who can finance your debt and there are perhaps some actual tax rules you can work within, but the IRS is not here to help you, they are not here to work with you, they are here for one purpose only, and that is to collect revenue on behalf of the Federal Government, whichever clown it is running the circus, and especially because our government has let lobbyists run the show and essentially force everyone except the very poorest to either a) pay to file taxes, or b) be smart enough to do it themselves. AKA “fuck you, figure it out yourself, even though we could and can because other actually civilized countries already do, but this way we can fuck ya”
If you’ve got a source on “If they catch you down the line they almost always offer to let you pay a partial payment instead of what you would have payed if you did your taxes on time,” we’d all love to see it. Anyone else here get this sweetheart deal from the IRS? Pennies on the dollar or what are we talking about?
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u/roseofjuly Sep 05 '26
I actually found that to be untrue. I made some tax mistakes a few years back and the IRS was very helpful and willing to work with us on it. My cousin also got into some tax stuff and called them so frequently she became acquainted with someone who worked on her case.
They also have an official program to lower your tax bill if you can't pay it. It's called Offer in Compromise. https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc204#
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u/harpers25 Sep 05 '26 edited 11d ago
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u/Zombatico Sep 04 '26
It's even worse than just simply waste. It would be bearable if it was just waste.
It's our taxes paying for genocide, mass surveillance and concentration camps. All out in the open.
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u/King_of_the_Kobolds Sep 04 '26
Horrifying, being outraged about the video game parodies is a position of privilege. Not that it isn't egregious. But there are people in this country suffering far, far worse at the hands of these fascist scumbags.
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u/Mondschatten78 Sep 05 '26
And you don't think these racist games will make things worse? Hell, if anything, it'll give credence to the "video games make people killers" argument.
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u/No-Literature5747 Sep 04 '26
I truly hope once he’s out of office, the government is able to take all of his families’s wealth to replace the dollars he spent on these things
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u/rufud Sep 04 '26
Eh, this comes too close to the 4d chess argument. This isn’t some elaborate scheme to goad video game companies, he just doesn’t give a shit, he does whatever he wants without consequence
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u/Zuwxiv Sep 04 '26
I keep trying to tell people: if Grandpa shits his pants every day for ten years, today's pants-shitting isn't some 4D chess move to distract you from something else.
It's just what he does. Grandpa is a pants shitter.
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u/Brat-Sampson Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
I'll eat my own teeth if Trump himself had anything to do with this concept or execution other then giving it the ok after someone told him they wanted to do it. The entire administration is full of fascist trolls buttering up their puppet narcissist to do whatever they find amusing.
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u/wheresmystache3 Sep 05 '26
What most people don't understand is, his base absolutely loves and foams and the mouth for this kind of hate. They take pride in making others angry and that's what makes them happy, unfortunately.
What a sad, pathetic group of people Orange Mussolini and his fanbase are.
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u/bloodychill Sep 05 '26
This is true but so much of it just gets taken down so quickly after CADs. Someone pointed out any time they try to use a Taylor Swift or Springsteen song, it comes down in a matter of hours. It all seems pointless but “loud and pointless” is the administration’s hallmark I guess.
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u/bingbano Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Pretty sure parody is a protected use. That would be infringing on free speech.. which is ironic as the administration is hostile to free speech. Pretty bad taste propaganda.
Edit: my comment was a response to the the post above saying all those companies should sue over the white house's parodys of games. I have no clue whether it would be considered parody
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u/squirrellysiege Sep 04 '26
I'm not sure if "parody" is accurate in the case of this administration, they just lack any level of creativity and steal anything that they think will get them attention. They have been warned many times by musicians when Trump used music without permission.
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u/Etheo Sep 04 '26
Different apples. They straight up used the music without permission, but here it's not the identical work being used, but a derivative of them.
Obviously not saying it's okay for them to do this, but legally the context is different. I do wish they could just fuck off and starve in a ditch though.
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u/Zombies4EvaDude Sep 04 '26
Yeah facts. The term “parody” only applies when the adapted material is deconstructed in a critical or analytical way. The legacy of Tetris is not analyzed- just set dressing for bigotry. So it shouldn’t count.
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u/Abedeus Sep 04 '26
This is what people miss. It's not a parody if you use something to push your own message. It's parody if you actually reference the source material and criticize, satirize or review it in some exaggerated way.
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u/brienoconan Sep 04 '26
In copyright infringement, parody is an objective test. Judges/juries cannot evaluate the quality of a parody, because both good parody and bad parody are protected as long as it’s indeed parody
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u/Wayist Sep 04 '26
But First Amendment protections for parody and satire don't apply when a reasonable person could be confused about whether the subject of the parody is the creator or not. Basically, FA protections for satire/parody only extend insofar as someone doesn't mistake it for the "real thing." Government-speech doctrine doesn't extend past other constitutional limitations -- namely the White House can't produce a thing that looks like Tetris made it, and then claim Free Speech, especially when it could cause financial harm.
On an individual level, there could be an argument for suing the government for intimidation of a class of people, if the plaintiff could prove that the intent was to intimidate under the Virginia v Black ruling, but I haven't dug deep enough into the case to know whether it could apply here (Virginia v. Black is a case about Virginia being able to prohibit cross-burning because it was used as an intimidation tactic).
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u/acutelychronicpanic Sep 04 '26
I doubt that would hold up if you tried to make "pokemon but funny"
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u/AtomTrapper Sep 04 '26
There's actually quite a few Pokemon parodies, including one made by PETA where the Pokemon brutally maim each other
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u/currentmadman Sep 04 '26
It’s a lot harder to make the parody argument, which is typically protected by free speech laws because it can still have artistic merit, in this case.
This isn’t something funny or creative. This is often footage, images or audio lifted from someone else’s ip by the us government to act as propaganda towards their own ends.
Why shouldn’t the ip holder be able to stop someone from using their intellectual property to explicitly further political goals they don’t want themselves or their brand associated with?
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u/Most_Performer5750 Sep 04 '26
Moreover, this isn't just a random person or group of people putting together a fun little project. This is the White House, an arm of the executive branch of the government. This simultaneously gives them some amount of protection but also open this issue up to be special circumstances that do not adhere to normal parties' assumed rights and responsibilities. The unfortunate reality is that this case could go either way, and that's part of the problem because it's easy to see the harm that can and will be incurred by the IP holders when they released these 'parody' games.
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u/squngy Sep 04 '26
Not if other people did that.
With Trump, he would take it all the way to the supreme court and they already showed they will let him do pretty much whatever he wants.
He also wouldn't care about legal costs, since taxpayers would pay them.80
u/Adalas Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Youtube didn't get the parody memo i think. You want strikes? Make parodies, get flagged (this video contain something that's not even in the video realistically), try to appeal. Boom. Strike.
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u/impy695 Sep 04 '26
Youtubes system is separate from the legal system. YouTubers can absolutely choose to fight the false copyright claims if they wanted, but they don't because while youtubes system is pretty low stakes for them, the legal system could be career ending and will be extremely expensive.
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u/Adalas Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
I understand that but if at least! At least! You couldn't get strikes over things that a claimant says is in a video that is not even there when you look 5 seconds.. i'd be more complacent.
Used to make gaming parodies myself a good decade ago. Claimant (who didn't own the rights to that song when you looked) said i used a celine dion song on a video i clearly did not. Appealed. Bam. Robot answer strike. I never did any video for youtube ever since and it didn't change as i seen.
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u/won_vee_won_skrub Sep 04 '26
Davie504 recently got claimed for the sound of silence and muting the audio while he played bass
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u/Scarsdale_Vibe Sep 04 '26
The First Amendment is a limitation on the government. The government doesn’t have free speech rights (other than perhaps the Speech and Debate clause).
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u/Abedeus Sep 04 '26
It's not parody if you're not actually criticizing, commenting on or doing anything else that counts as parody towards the thing you're parodying.
If someone just straight up lifts your game's logo and puts their shitty political message, not only does it make it look like YOUR PRODUCT that you're backing, but that you endorse it. Just saying "it's parody, it's parody!" isn't enough.
Like someone mentioned PETA parodying Pokemon. That is an actual parody - they take the source material and mock it by portraying it as realistic violence, not cartoonish one. It's a critique of the original thing.
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u/Seenth Sep 04 '26
Is this really parody though?
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u/draconothese Sep 04 '26
No I'm pretty sure it would be considered hate crimes and those are not covered under first amendment
Also could be brand damaging so could be liable for that
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u/Warior4356 Sep 04 '26
For something to be parody, it has to be specifically parodying the media that’s being copied, not copying the media to parody something else. IE you can make a parody cover of a song if it’s parodying that song, but you can’t copy the melody of a popular song for say a political parody of a politician. You’re not actually parodying the song you’re stealing, so it’s not protected.
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u/sircastor Sep 04 '26
That would require the administration describing these as parody - acknowledging that these are a joke and not some genuine expression. Of course, it’s all a bit of a joke anyway, isn’t it?
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u/AceGaimz Sep 04 '26
I don't think this would be considered parody but I do think that it would probably end up being thrown out in a corrupt US court so it doesn't really matter anyway
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u/currentmadman Sep 04 '26
It’s fucking incredible honestly. Like is there a list? Is trump just going down a list of basic things that provide any kind of joy in life and creating something profane and awful in its image? Because how else can anyone antagonize Pokémon, tetris, yugioh, Naruto and whatever known ip he’s typing into Elon’s slop factory right now without a plan?
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u/bwoah07_gp2 Sep 04 '26
is there a list?
The list is long. It includes everything from videos games to even stuff like Sesame Street
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u/turikk Sep 04 '26
Tetris need to sue them.
the ability to sue governments for copyright infringement is not exactly the most favorable territory to navigate. see Allen v. Cooper (a unanimous ruling, btw)
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u/sparkleslothz Sep 04 '26
You can copyright specific creative elements of a game, but you cannot copyright the core game mechanics, rules, or ideas.
And again, parody is protected as fair use.
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u/PoliticalyUnstable Sep 04 '26
And all of the money should come from the people in office. Not taken out of the tax payers money. It's bullshit that government officials and their staffers get to make decisions we have zero control over and then when they are found in the wrong, we pay for it, not them.
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u/OpSecBestSex Sep 05 '26
If these large companies don't protect their IP now, does that mean we can all start using the IP for our own purposes?
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u/Faangdevmanager Sep 05 '26
Parody is protected when we make fun of Trump so parody is also protected when he makes fun of whatever he cooked up the morning. It’s a key exception to copyright and trademark.
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u/GenazaNL Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
Nintendo should pursue their IP uses by the white house
Edit: I was referring to the Pokémon & Animal Crossing themed videos the White House also made. Tetris is not from Nintendo
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u/TroyFerris13 Sep 04 '26
They are to busy going after people making mods in their basement
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u/Atrium41 Sep 04 '26
Also other small game companies for (checks notes) having mounts
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u/Gdigger13 Sep 04 '26
Nintendo is known for picking its battles. This ain’t one of them. Nintendo likes to pick on the little guy.
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u/caninehere Sep 04 '26
The problem is if they sue the White House it will 1) likely go nowhere because the govt will railroad them and 2) Trump and his cronies will absolutely take illegal retribution against Nintendo (or whatever company opposes him) specifically.
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u/acidcrab Sep 04 '26
This is insane. I can barely believe the utter nonsense these people spend their time and our money on.
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u/who_likes_chicken Sep 04 '26
Corporate profits are at an all time high thanks to BS like Trumps tariff refunds being kept by companies and cut regulations.
Why would corporations actually stop the administration of it allows them to print unlimited profits? All they have to do is say "we don't like this" out loud, everyone looks away, and they pocket the money
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u/CarbonWood Sep 05 '26
Nevermind a Tea Party, I'm pretty sure the Founding Fathers would have already done some decisive shit a little while ago if they were alive today.
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u/indoninjah Sep 05 '26
Corporate profits are at an all time high
looks at my small business's numbers
Yeah maybe the massive corporations lol
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u/AnotherNotion Sep 04 '26
The screenshot suggests it's a game that was vibecodes in Google Gemini. I really don't think that much time or money was spent on it. Sure is embarrassing, though.
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u/sacredfool Sep 05 '26
They probably contracted Barron Trump to make it and paid 5 million per game.
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u/k0c- Sep 05 '26
You can't even get a Tetris in it, like completing a line doesn't do anything.
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u/cliko Sep 05 '26
I mean if it's called "build the wall", then clearing lines would be a bad thing, right?
Unless clearing a line from the playing field makes it reappear in the background as part of the border wall... I'm thinking way too much into this
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u/SnazzyStooge Sep 05 '26
What, you didn’t play the school lunch game? Just eat food with no packaging or seed oils, and you’ll be fine! /s
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u/gilbertbenjamington Sep 04 '26
I wish at least one company grows some balls and does anything. They scoff at warnings, they take outrage as a sign of success
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u/dynamiteexplodes Sep 04 '26
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure to successfully sue for copywrite infringement a takedown request has to he sent first. It's something about proving there is intent to violate their copywrite. So its just part of the legal process.
But this is what they do, they do it first and then bitch and moan when they are told they can't by a judge. And then they play the victim game.
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u/cnelsonsic Sep 04 '26
They'd have to actually send a DMCA takedown request, but this is LITERALLY just a tweet on a fascist's website. This is exactly, completely, absolutely NOTHING.
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u/mikeg040 Sep 04 '26
I swear the Whitehouse people are so childish.
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u/FlatwormAway2228 Sep 04 '26
Whitehouse people
I call them Traitors.
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u/therossboss Sep 05 '26
definitely both. It is like the worst people you know from high school are in charge. And worse, 70 million or whatever are down with this... It is definitely a people problem
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u/DarkChiefLonghand Sep 04 '26
How much taxpayer money was spent on developing these "games"?
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u/xSypRo Sep 04 '26
This sentence is not well phrased enough. The White House website uploaded a racist version of Tetris and snake is a better title. Every day the US president finds a new low, we are way beyond embarrassing at this point. No title can do justice to this level of stupidity that is beyond what Black Mirror creators dared to imagine
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u/Lost_Condition_9562 Sep 04 '26
This might be the most cringe administration in American history
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u/ezoobeson_drunk Sep 04 '26
Might be? Which one was worse?
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u/CrazyLegs17 Sep 04 '26
The first Drumpf administration is the only other competitor. The guy has an incredible knack for identifying the least qualified person possible for most of his cabinet positions. I do think the current regime is even worse than the first version, but both are awful.
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u/wretch5150 Sep 04 '26
The first administration tried to overthrow the government on live tv. That was pretty bad. Since they really can't get any worse than that, we laid down and let them rule again. Amazing work, non-voters! All because she laughed funny and Biden was getting older. I'd much rather have old Biden or Harris than this criminal piece of shit.
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u/UnemployedOtter69 Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
from an outsider, i dont remember any administration worst than this ( im near 50 but not american ) or near to this, even the first trump admin was less cringe than this one
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u/RMAPOS Sep 04 '26
The second cringiest I, as a non american, remember (other than Trump) must be George W. Bush. By a long shot (It's like Trump >>>>> Bush >>>> No clue). I remember pictures comparing him to a Chimpanzee, I remember the weird, empty, beady eyed look on his face and his complete nonresponse to being told that 9/11 was in progress, I remember tons of memery about his incompetence, choking on a Pretzel, reading a book upside down (I feel like this was scary movie but I can't find the clip)...
There was that mega hilarious comedy skit (like the comedy skits they show on John Stewart) that was like a fake mockumentary of Bush's campaign manager and they were taking the piss out of Bush so hard. Like he'd explain that to write his revolutionary speeches he just sticks post-its with words to a wall and then throws darts and then it cut to Bush starting to speak completely incoherent nonsense, back to the campaign manager clapping in tears. WHERE IS THAT FUCKING VIDEO I CANNOT FIND IT. So good.
Anyway, I digress. 2001, when 9/11 happened, I was 14. Non american. I couldn't tell you a thing that was going on politically in my own country because at that age I really didn't care too deeply about it. But I have plenty of knowledge on Bush's presidency, albeit most of it through the lense of the world laughing at it. (and Fahrenheit 9/11)
Not saying that Bush is as cringy as Trump, but he's the only one who comes to close. It feels weird but it almost feels like Bush's mockery was more severe than Trump's is. Which cannot really be true - Trump has been dragged through the mud so much, dude has TWO characters in South Park because the first variant didn't quite cut it. Trump is so much worse than Bush was yet nothing sticks to him, it's so weird.
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u/Ryan_e3p Sep 04 '26
I remember when Republicans lost their minds over Obama's use of a selfie stick, saying it was beneath the office of the President.
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u/IronSnail Sep 05 '26
This has been the longest four years of my life.
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u/Darkdragoon324 Sep 05 '26
It hasn't even been two yet. We're not even halfway through.
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u/julias-winston Sep 04 '26
Allowing the blocks to reach the top of the screen triggers a “border breached” message.
That's ass-backward, dummies. From your perspective you want the wall finished, which would not result in a breach.
What a dumb idea. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, considering the source.
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u/vorpal_hare Sep 04 '26
Not surprised. Famously, Nazi Germany produced board games which encouraged children to hate Jews.
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u/DvineINFEKT Sep 05 '26
I actually did not know this at all. Any examples? And were they in wide circulation? I'm somehow neither surprised nor shocked.
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u/vorpal_hare Sep 05 '26
https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/object/obj046/
I remember first seeing it in my American history textbook in 2006. We were like, "Nazi Monopoly!?" While it wasn't "endorsed" by the official patty, it nonetheless circulated.
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u/Fairgoddess5 Sep 05 '26
Now I understand what’s going on. Trump’s administration is just continuing to follow the Nazi playbook.
I hate this fucking timeline so much.
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u/_seeyalater_ Sep 04 '26
How bad do you have to fuck up to be sued by TETRIS
What an embarrassment
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u/EmotionalLettuce8308 Sep 04 '26
Not the first time, they take their IP seriously
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u/JaggedMetalOs Sep 04 '26
One of the games, Build the Wall, borrows heavily from Tetris. Players stack falling blocks to defend the southern border during a “zombie border siege” and “protect the border from the coming horde." Allowing the blocks to reach the top of the screen triggers a “border breached” message.
But... the entire point of Tetris is to not have a wall! If you've built a wall it's game over! It's literally the opposite! Did an idiot come up with that idea?
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u/Significant-Kale-463 Sep 04 '26
Just like when Trump said he has all the cards and put up an AI photo of himself with UNO cards. Zero self-awareness or awareness of anything else really.
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u/Winter_Whole2080 Sep 05 '26
The idiots in the trump administration have time and money to spend on stupid browser-based video games?
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u/More_Hold_5522 Sep 05 '26
Everything this administration does is either immoral or illegal. Or both.
How is this happening?
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u/cyribis Sep 04 '26
Cool, our tax dollars at work. I guess that childish bullshit doesn't count as "waste" or "abuse?" Pathetic wankers. I wish karma worked like we all thought it did growing up lol Because if 'what goes around, comes around' were actually real...hoo boy.
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u/Tuomas90 Sep 04 '26
You know, apart from the insane copyright infringement it's crazy that they seriously thought it's necessary to highlight where exactly each tetris block will land. Like they know their base is even too stupid to play tetris.
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u/mavgeek Sep 04 '26
they don’t care about copyright infringement
look at all the songs he and his landlord have used in various political videos. they never got permission from the artist and in some cases not even from the record label
you could catch them red handed stealing intellectual property and nothing is done. they’ll work they’re way out of going to court, and life goes on for them to steal more
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u/Tuomas90 Sep 04 '26
One of the games, Build the Wall, borrows heavily from Tetris.
More like "is an exact copy of Tetris".
Journalism is dead.
"Alleged rapist"
"Borrows heavily fromTetris"
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u/thesluttyastronauts Sep 05 '26
Not to mention calling bigotry "parody". Bigotry would get them in legal trouble, while parody is legally protected as free speech.
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u/janpaul74 Sep 04 '26
Thinking about making a game where the main character (an orange turd) grabs kids and drops them of in a mansion. Based on Cabbage Patch Kids but named “Epstein Island”.
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u/Sharpiesniffingshark Sep 05 '26
Trillion dollar companies bending the knee but a retro fucking arcade game has the spine to stand up to Trump. What a weird world.
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u/redoctobershtanding Sep 05 '26
Tetris from my past understanding is very protective over their branding and trademark
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u/GeistMD Sep 05 '26
If Sega and Microsoft do nothing I may have to rethink my purchasing habits. I do not support companies that support racism and bigotry.
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u/LilDutchy Sep 04 '26
Your work has to be transformative. You can’t steal Tetris and call it something else and call it parody.
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u/dibsies Sep 04 '26
Super exhausted of this idiot turning our government into the laughing stock of the world.
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u/OldRed91 Sep 04 '26
I'll be watching closely which gaming companies take this copyright infringement seriously and which ones bend the knee.
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u/Effin_C Sep 04 '26
They do it on purpose, no one would talk about their idiotic bullshit otherwise
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u/Nine-LifedEnchanter Sep 05 '26
I need Nintendo to be the entity that brings down the White House. It would still be a bizarre, horrible timeline, but at least it would be funny as hell.
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u/vigbiorn Sep 05 '26
Like the IRS taking down Capone. It's always the least expected enemy that takes you down.
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u/relevant__comment Sep 04 '26
Tetris is right up there with Disney and Nintendo when it comes to anything that remotely looks like their IP. They don’t screw around.
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u/Bocote Sep 04 '26
A supposed leader of the free market economy shows little respect for intellectual property. This would've been funny in fiction.
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u/Salty-Spring7096 Sep 04 '26
I feel like politicians get away with this shit all the time. You always see headlines around election time where some musical artist gets pissed because a candidate they disagree with was using their music at a rally without permission. And there are never any consequences for doing so.
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u/TuringGoneWild Sep 04 '26
I'm sure the most criminal regime in American history is really going to care about a stern letter, when they ignore thousands of felonies.
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u/Srapture Sep 04 '26
I bought Tetris outright to not have ads a few years back. They replaced it and stopped that version working, forcing me to update to a version where the only options were ads or exorbitant ongoing subscription. No refund for my original purchase.
Whoever owns it, I say fuck them over all you want.
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u/IWannaBeTheGuy Sep 05 '26
i just tried the tetris, it doesn't clear full rows it just solidly goes up till you lose probably slop ai coded
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u/canceroustattoo Sep 05 '26
Companies need to stop warning about legal action and just take him to court.
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u/Telescopeinthefuture Sep 05 '26
This is the most obvious distraction they have run yet. This admin’s main play is rage bait. Don’t be fooled, stay focused on getting pro worker candidates elected during the midterms.
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u/AustinSpartan Sep 04 '26
Sega not all over this yet? This admin is a joke, my fucking tax dollars funding low IQ memes
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u/Indraga Sep 04 '26
Wish Microsoft had done the same thing when the white house was posting Halo memes on facebook calling immigrants the "Flood" and how ICE needed to "Finish the fight."
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u/kaas_is_leven Sep 04 '26
They don't fuck around either. Got Apple to remove a clone, got Google to remove 35 clones, when a content creator made an OS that only runs Tetris they managed to remove the entire github repo. Others have received cease and desists and removed their apps/games themselves. The creator worked for a Soviet owned company and didn't receive any royalties until the fall of the Soviet Union and him moving to the US. The game has a fascinating history. Also fun fact, the game Hexic (or Hexic HD on Xbox 360) was made by the same guy.
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u/SoftwareDev401 Sep 04 '26
I just played it... ummm... the lines don't clear when you make a row. You just stack tetris blocks until it reaches the top, and then game over.
They can't even steal correctly.
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u/tonybomdia Sep 04 '26
From someone not living in the USA thankfully I think we should just let him carry on doing what he is doing as he is only appealing to his followers which are getting less and less as time goes on
In the rest of the world he is seen as a fool and each ridiculous thing he does just goes to show what will happen if you let the far right into power
I just feel so sad about what he is doing to the minority groups and seems no one can stop this
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u/TheEpicRedCape Sep 04 '26
I’d like to mention these were the same guys making fun of PETA making similar weird games a couple years ago.
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u/Mugsy_Siegel Sep 04 '26
I don’t know how sega didn’t sue since he used sonic music and the MAGA logo said SEGAAAAAA
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u/Cogent_warrior Sep 04 '26
Damn, I'm glad they're tackling the serious issues that really matter to make america great again.
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u/theLuminescentlion Sep 04 '26
There's at least half a dozen emergency cease and desist orders being written tonight. I doubt SEGA wants their logo imitated either.
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u/AngryCocoa Sep 05 '26
Can these companies actually sue for once instead of issuing meaningless warnings? It’s been clear the legal warnings mean nothing to the US government.
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u/letsseeitmore Sep 05 '26
Can we have affordable anything? Nah but here’s some racist video games you paid for, enjoy.
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u/Elementium Sep 05 '26
Good to see that after causing Gas prices to soar, literally destroying the White House, Historic Cherry Trees and of course the Reflecting Pool, Starting a war with Iran and antagonizing all of our allies, continuing the scheme of our tax dollars paying Israel to bribe our politicians..
They have time to make video games.
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u/Li_liminal_spaces Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
Tetris was developed in the USSR. The Trump clone doesn't even work. They taught that software at computer camp when I was 9.
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u/My_alias_is_too_lon Sep 05 '26
Oh look, they did it illegally, just as I figured they would.
I'm so sick of this bullshit... Over and over again, Trump and his pathetic minions break the law, and nothing happens. "Law and order party," my ass.
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u/_annanicolesmith_ Sep 05 '26
i just don’t understand the need for a government sponsored game website
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u/Ruby5000 Sep 05 '26
Game titles include: Fly a bald eagle down the national mall. Protect the border from the coming horde. Border patrol along the Rio Grande. Sort the school lunch to make America healthy again. Fill your kid’s Trump accounts. This is a fucking nightmare.
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u/CondescendingShitbag Sep 04 '26
Because this is taxpayer money well-spent... What happened to discouraging "waste, fraud, and abuse"? We are being governed by adult-size children.