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You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind
- 0xbadf00d 12y agoI feel like I have taken the red pill while watching Inception.
- tehaugmenter 12y agoFuck my head is so broken right now. NEVER AGAIN.
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- ominous 12y agoSaid it before, but: if you hold shift, you can navigate the 'map'.
- Shazamm 12y agocool
- n0body 12y agoit's evil. i like it
- danielweber 12y agoIt's been HackerNews'd.
- B5geek 12y agoHonestly, I still prefer the 'verb' Slashdotted. So much warmer then DDOS'd.
- ozh 12y agothan.
- B5geek 12y agoI'm going to assume you are a grammar Nazi of the American variety. thEn is a correct and acceptable spelling in Canada. ########### As I was typing this up I was looking for references to back up statement. BUT I was wrong. (damn my 4rd grade english teacher!) I was taught that the two words were grammatically the same it was just a difference in US vs 'British/Canadian' spelling. (i.e. grey vs gray) So, please ignore my indignant reply. (Which I left in for reference.) For future versions of myself who will make this mistake again: THAN = a comparison Golf balls are smaller THAN bowling balls. THEN = a statement relating to time. I went golfing THEN bowling. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/than http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/than http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/then http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/then
- skj 12y agoI would never trust a 4th grade English teacher for any advice on grammar or spelling.
- B5geek 12y agoWell, I must admit to the possibility that I just wasn't paying attention and this 'wrong' rule was just shit I made up. /me has disgraced the entire Canadian education system, or has just highlighted his own ignorance.
- mikeash 12y agoAmusingly, "so much warmer then DDOS'd" could be used to describe what happened to this server.
- klipt 12y agoHahaha, oh wow, that's hilarious! Glad you learned something today :-) http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/
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- gdg92989 12y agoAccurate description.
- greenail 12y agoa thing of beauty, love the potential for team work.
- deaconblues 12y agoI played for a minute or two, said "Huh," and closed the tab. Sure feels like I won.
- fnordsensei 12y agoIndeed! Only losers need a machine to tell them that they are winners.
- EliRivers 12y agoWhat did you win?
- digsmahler 12y agoDid he win not losing? I played this for 6-7 minutes and can no longer do anything but cower in the horribly glorious splendor of the God of recursion. I can feel my mind draining out through my tear ducts.
- rsahai91 12y agoi fell into an abyss. I consider that a win.
- miningold 12y agoYeah, I just left the game
- scottcanoni 12y agoI also was able to "escape" the maze and fall into an abyss. I agree, that is winning :)
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- ultrafez 12y agoIt's hard to win the game when you can't determine what the goal is.
- danielweber 12y agoThe goal is right in the title of this page.
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- acconrad 12y agoYou can never win the game[1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)
- staffordrj 12y agoIncorrect http://xkcd.com/391/ http://xkcd.com/391/
- popasmurf 12y agoI feel like a burden in my life has been lifted, thank you!
- burke 12y agoI've been winning that game for over a year now. Damn it.
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- acconrad 12y agoYou weren't winning, you were just not losing.
- alexg0 12y agoDamn you. Life was much better before we knew about "The Game".
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- zipwitch 12y agoGod damn it. Please warn people before posting cognitive hazards.
- sharkweek 12y agoActually I did win the game - we all won the game. It only exists to benefit your mind.
- ndespres 12y agoThis made me feel quite nauseated!
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- bradleypowers 12y agoA strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
- dalke 12y ago"The only winning move is not to play." - WOPR
- goblin89 12y ago“Freedom to keep playing is a Bombadil-like equilibrium of worthlessness: the un-valued here-and-now.” — RF
- at-fates-hands 12y ago"How about a nice game of chess?" I thought the computer went by Joshua, since that's what Dr, Falkan referred to it in the last scene of the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s93KC4AGKnY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s93KC4AGKnY
- dalke 12y agoI don't think we can conclude any name. Falken saw the computer as a surrogate for his dead son. In that scene he said "Hello, Joshua" but the screen only shows "Hello". Lightman and Mack never knew the name WOPR, at least not before the military got involved, so the only name they had to go on was the password. I don't think the computer ever mentioned a name for itself.
- bradleypowers 12y agoA strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
- Springtime 12y agoLooks like we killed it. Site's down. Edit: back up.
- torkable 12y agoPlayed for 30 seconds, shrugged, closed tab.
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- utopiah 12y agoWhere is the Occulus Rift version?
- hosh 12y agoThat would be awesome, though I wonder what you can do with a third dimension and additional freedom of movement?
- sphericalgames 12y agoWin vs Beat A lot of people fall into this trap. When someone beats me at a game, they most likely say "I've won you." as oppose to "I've beaten you." The former implies I'm the prize. I've fallen into this trap myself plenty of times and do wonder if messages like "You win ...." enforces this mistake.
- maaarghk 12y agoNot only do I fail to see the relevance to this link, but I've never heard anyone say "I've won you" in my life, and I doubt I ever will, because that is a stupid thing to say.
- erikb 12y agoI just suppose English is not his native language. There might be languages where someone says "I've won you"
- codyb 12y agoLike when they auction off dates with fire fighters.
- lotharbot 12y agomy fourth grade students said it all last year. (Most of them were not native English speakers.)
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- pbhjpbhj 12y agoIt seems like the gaming equivalent of an anti-joke. Anti-jokes can be funny because they're not funny in the way you expect. The self-similarity and the structure of the map make it seem like you can achieve something but there's really no goal .. maybe that's really a lot more like most video games than one cares to consider. All it needs is some soothing bloops and beeps to make it that but more of a non-goal oriented Skinner box - akin to Tetris without the scoring.
- jonifico 12y agoNow this is a vicious one! I love how you can group the blocks one after the other and be all WTF is going on heeeere? Is it me or loops are becoming quite a trend? Yes, Silent Hills teaser, I'm talking about you.
- _lce0 12y agoactually there's a YouWin[1] function. [1] http://entire.spacebar.org/entire.js http://entire.spacebar.org/entire.js
- hereonbusiness 12y agoIt's not much of a win screen :) https://i.imgur.com/m62RePh.png https://i.imgur.com/m62RePh.png
- splatcollision 12y agoI almost won but there are other players that keep getting in my way!
- jwise0 12y agoTom7 (the author) has done quite a lot of great stuff; his game "T in Y world" [1] is pretty good, and you may also remember him from his programs Learnfun & Playfun, which taught themselves to play Super Mario (and various other NES games) [2]. Do check out more of his work! [1] http://tinyworld.spacebar.org/ http://tinyworld.spacebar.org/ [2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/
- RyanMcGreal 12y agoWeird stuff starts happening when you try to stack all the squares up against the left wall. http://i.imgur.com/kc51uSQ.png http://i.imgur.com/kc51uSQ.png
- hosh 12y agoThis is pretty trippy, kinda like playing a psychedelic version of Sisyphus.
- weatherlight 12y agoSO trippy.
- abandonliberty 12y agoKeep going left and jump. Freedom.