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Yesterday (or better: in the last night) I have heard a song about a really classical russian computer game: Tetris

As I heard the lyrics I must think inevitable about erpublik:

To Moscow I came seeking fortune
But they’re making me work til I’m dead
The bourgeoisie have it so easy
The Tsar’s putting gold on his bread
The people of Moscow are hungry
But think what a feast there could be
If we could create a socialist state
That cared for the people like me:

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That descend upon me from up above.
They come down and I spin them around
Til they fit in the ground like hand in glove.
Sometimes it seems that to move blocks is fine
And the lines will be formed as they fall -
Then I see that I have misjudged it!
I should not have nudged it after all.
Can I have a long one please?
Why must these infernal blocks tease?

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
Come Muscovite! Let the workers unite!
A collective regime of peace and love.
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But the landlord and taxman bleed me dry
But the workers will rise! We will not compromise
For we know that the old regime must die.
Long live Lenin, kill the tsar!
We salute the sickle and star!

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
The food on your plate now belongs to the state
A collective regime of peace and love.
I have no choice in arranging the blocks
Under Bolshevik rule, what they say goes.
The rule of the game is we all are the same
And my blocks must create unbroken rows.
Long live Stalin! He loves you!
Sing these words, or you know what he’ll do…

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are made by the men in Kazakhstan.
They come two weeks late and they don’t tessellate
But we’re working to Stalin’s five year plan.
I am the man who arranges the tanks
That will make all the Nazis keep away
The Fuhrer is dead, and Europe is Red!
Let us point all our guns at the USA.
We shall live forever more!
We can start a nuclear war!

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are building a highly secret base.
Hip hip hurrah for the USSR!
We are sending our men to outer space.
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But each night I go home to my wife in tears -
What’s the point of it all, when you’re building a wall
And in front of your eyes it disappears?
Pointless work for pointless pay
This is one game I shall not play.

I am the man who arranges the blocks!
But tomorrow I think I’ll stay in bed.
The winter is cold, I’ve got plenty of gold
And I’m standing in line for a loaf of bread
Maybe we’d be better off
If we brought down Gorbachev

I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
Peace and love, peace and love!

And now the wall is down, the Marxists frown
There’s foreign shops all over town
When in Red Square, well don’t despair
There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there
The US gave us crystal meth
And Yeltsin drank himself to death
But now that Putin’s put the boot in,
Who’ll get in our way?

So we reject free enterprise
And once again the left will rise.
Prepare the flags to be unfurled
For we’re seceding from the worl😛
We shall regain the Georgian soil
We shall obtain the Arctic oil
We shall arrange the blocks and toil
Forever and a day.

Game over.

(Source of lyrics)

The graphics in Tetris was stable, the sound (Wait! Which sounds gives in erepublik?) was simple but nice (for more about listen this song).

Some parts of this lyrics let me think about of some parts of this game playing.

"I am the man who arranges the tanks
That will make all the Nazis keep away
The Führer is dead, and Europe is Red!
Let us point all our guns at the USA.
We shall live forever more!
We can start a nuclear war!"

Of course, if we would trust in the words of some slovenian players, all Germans are still Nazis! For now eEurope is red, under polish supremacy. Let me call it Nazi-Poland!

The last changes of this game (erepublik, not Tetris) have inspired some more players to leave this game. The source of the reason lay in the hands of Plato:

"The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?"

The new order of this game is known as "buy * or die".
* means gold (for real currencies, of course)

Sure! The admins invested time and money to create this game. But the prices for the gold packages are standing in no relation to the more and more sinking fun factor.

As a sample: the health building. As older the player, as higher this building. New players who joined the game in the last fiew weaks/days haven't a health building. No chance to buy, no upgrades implemented! Should this be FAIR? This can be called as "polish solution".

It is not my interest to left this game. But some changes should be undone by the admins to make this game fair for all.

For the moment I go to play Tetris again. 😃

At least: Sorry for my (maybe) bad english grammar! I am German and never had the chance to learn this language in a school. But I've tried my best. 🙂

German

Ich bin (die Uhrzeit beachtend) schon etwas müde, die Gedanken nochmals auf Deutsch zu wiederholen und bitte um Verständnis.

Aufgeklärt wie wir aber sind, insbesondere dem Medium Internet gegenüber, sollte jeder mit ausreichendem Interesse auch bei mangelnder Fremdsprachenkenntnis in der Lage sein, den Text zu übersetzen.