pj
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here
Rough translation of the game rules:
click with the left mouse key on the red square and then drag it around trying not to touch neither blue rectangles nor the walls.
The aim is to survive as long as you can.
They say in the game description it is said that American military
pilots can hold on up to 2 minutes.
I've just done 23.563 seconds (yay!).
P.S. Actually the rectangles always move the same way.
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BTW you should definitely try and take some sort of holiday... good for the soul.
(Donal Gallagher)
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phuck
21.09 seconds...salutations FP.
actually, if you play it a few times, you get used to the first 10 seconds or so. |
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| 22.735 not so easy. are you sure about the pilot stuff??? |
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urnash
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Hey, what do Russians know about American pilots? Probably a lot  |
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I played this a lot last year, got up to 50 seconds, and swore it off. It really gets you with the 'just one more try'. There are other dead spots after the beginning when the pieces all group together for a while. I think if you played this every day for 10 minutes you could get up to the time claimed, but the military pilot anecdote screams urban legend.
On the other hand, this is just as good as any game for practicing hand-eye coordination, it wouldn't surprise me if they used stuff like that for training.
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the only reason it would be easier
to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems
in C, so you don't. -comp.lang.lisp |
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TR,
agreed on every point, except the 50seconds
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nsande
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23.144 s.
Not easy. 2 minutes seems very hard. I don't think I'd be able to get there no matter how much I trained. |
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TheDevil
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26.897s
Phucking awesome game.
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IAmEric
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It's a tournament!! 
Screenshots (undoctored) required for entry  |
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TheDevil
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Then war it is!
It will work as follows:
As we don't want all kinds of images floating around, every time a record is posted the next poster will verify the score on the the screen print in his post and the initial poster should then delete his screen print. If good sprtsmanship will be practiced this will be efficient.
To start off my new record 27.329
Edit: Screen shot edited out. |
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I guess I'm a little rusty. Trust me, you get good at this quite quickly.
[EDIT: I'm not going to post any more of these. I worked hard to get over this addiction. It's worse than smoking. Almost as bad as tetris.]
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the only reason it would be easier
to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems
in C, so you don't. -comp.lang.lisp |
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| I believe they can get 2 minutes. Here's a hint: Find the oldest, slowest computer you can. ;-) |
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IAmEric
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tristanreid,
You're too modest. I think the cast might have something to do with it |
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FYI: It's noticable when it gets faster, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't get any faster after 25-30 seconds or so. Once you get used to that speed, I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of time to rack up any time you want.
[EDIT: The cast came off yesterday! I'm just wearing a wrist brace now. And I mouse right-handed, so it didn't affect my time.]
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the only reason it would be easier
to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems
in C, so you don't. -comp.lang.lisp |
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TR, by 50 seconds, how fast is it going? Surely you can do the minute... 
I'm not getting involved here, 1) i wont win and 2) i need to get some stuff done this decade.
edit: missed yr post, nm
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trip: We x-posted, I was just saying: it doesn't get any faster. I think there must be a speed switch right around the early 20s, based on when most of you bomb out. But there is no further speed up after that. It just continues at that speed.
...and I hereby do NOT take up your challenge to try for a minute. Are you trying to get me fired!?!?!? 
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the only reason it would be easier
to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems
in C, so you don't. -comp.lang.lisp |
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| from the screenshot it looks like a pretty weak way to lose at 48 seconds, too. |
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Yeah. There was a whole right bottom area opened up. I was trying to follow the biggest square and I got too close.
But wait...isn't there some expression about moneys and mouths, and how you should man-up before you start arm-chair square moving?
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the only reason it would be easier
to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems
in C, so you don't. -comp.lang.lisp |
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IAmEric
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As far killing time is concerned, why don't we all sign up for a World of Warcraft account and try to relive the Southpark episode?  |
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An addictive game
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DrTarr
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| how to kill an hour, 31.1 seconds at a time. |
The Delux Electric Monk |
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paul1
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tristanreid, "the military pilot anecdote screams urban legend."
Maybe they were using a trackball rather than a standard mouse--the thought crossed my mind as I can't seem to get much past 30s using the awful trackpad on my laptop.
I even zoomed in to almost full screen using Opera, trying to slow it down a bit, looking for an edge. (Well it didn't give any edge.)
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AndyM
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Geez, I never realised how looooooong 22 seconds really is till I started on this thing... |
Homage to catatonia. |
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fwiw, i can throw the plane 47m on the second game. I guess the only fighter plane i'll ever fly is made of paper.  |
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That is pretty good.
Re fighter-plane/Jet, why not fly one of these instead (an expensive hobby), (an expensive hobby 2) |
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