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What 'Network Games' Could Have Looked Like
An anonymous reader writes "A game for children modified for geeks: The austrian art (or something like that) group monochrom has made the worlds probably first massive multiplayer thumbwrestling performance in the viennese Museumsquartier. They've got some photos and explanation of several network structures (even includes a Death Star Reactor - i wonder how many things like that could be done - new kind of simple origami?). A network game in the 50s? Beware: requires real social interaction!"
no one really cares.
500 thumbs, all orange, gathered in one place at one time. That's gotta be a record or something.
This was so obviously just a ploy for geeks to hold hands with girls. And guys too, I guess.
I'm sorry, but this is incredibly stupid. Not to mention, there are missing logistics. Like, can the person "pinned" keep playing for the rest of the match or once you're pinned you're out? If you pin someone can you continue pinning others? How do you keep score? Who does it?
Furthermore, who the FUCK plays thumbwrestling? I have never as a child or adult thumbwrestled. I've never known anyone to thumbwrestled. I've never seen anyone do it. This is about as interesting as playing the card game "war".
Actually, the card game "war" is more interesting.. and even it sucks ass.
for the speed hacks and bots to come out for this one.
Does thumbwrestling actually hold the attention of any non-retarded person for more than three seconds? This is just idiotic. Figures it'd be done by Australians.
By the way, stop harassing and attacking americans you dipshits.
A teenage boy was sentenced in a British court on Friday for assuming false personas in an Internet chat room in order to induce an online friend to try to kill him. The boy who was convicted, 14 at the time of the events in question, fooled his friend, then 15, with an "elaborate matrix" of fictional identities, including that of a spy, in the chat room, the court was told.
Acting on the "spy's" orders, the older boy tried to kill the younger one, stabbing him in the chest and stomach in June of last year, leaving wounds that required hospitalization.
The court, which identified the older boy only as "Boy A" and the younger one as "Boy B," sentenced them both on Friday.
Boy A, who had pleaded guilty to attempted murder, was sentenced to two years of supervision to be overseen by probation officers, police and social workers.
Boy B, who had pleaded guilty to obstructing the course of justice and incitement to murder, was given three years of supervision, was barred from chat rooms and was told he could only have access to Internet under adult supervision.
"It's staggering to be dealing with a case that arises out of a boy's invention of false personalities, false relationships and events arranged for his own killing at the hands of a boy who he had met via an Internet chat room," Judge David Maddison said while sentencing the teens in Manchester Crown Court.
Belinda Sproston, an Internet expert, said the case showed how confused children can become in conversations on Internet chat rooms about the difference between fantasy and reality.
According to testimony, Boy B persuaded the older boy to carry out the attack by pretending to be a middle-age female spy who would reward him with sex and money and help him become a spy himself.
Detective Chief Inspector Julian Ross, who led the investigation for the Manchester police, said he believed that Boy B had launched the scam in an effort to commit suicide.
But then, the average person wouldn't be playing massive multiplayer thumbwrestling.
And true ambidexterity is rare.
just image a DOS attack on any of that networks
If you want to assure that you will win every thumbwrestling match, stick your hand in your pants and poke your thumb up your ass in full view of your oponents. You will win their immediate submission or forfieture, ensuring your advancement to the next round of competition.
Great, now i have another thing i can do whilst i drunk on parties.
Also, another tactic is to piss on your hand prior to competition, in view of your opponents. This will service the purpose of shaking their confidence and coat your thumb with a slickening layer of urine enabling you to escape from otherwise finishing blows.
Third-Reich Thumb Wrestling???
Jeremy Logan's Website.
If you look at their rules i am surprised they don't include "wash hands before and after games" anywhere.
With those sweaty hands and thumbs i'm sure it wouldn't hurt
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The mere thought of invading ones personal bubble, let alone touching another persons hands is unacceptable. Dear God, think of the germs! It's no coinsidence they named one of the games the "death star"!
Fully inverted muli-touching acts should be made illegal!
i'm meeting some of my friends this afternoon. i think we'll first try the token ring battle!
could have been 'stuff that matters' as advertised?
butt know, just more&more whoreabull attempts buy corepirate nazi stock markup FraUD felons, to clone themselves/their phonIE hostage ransom scams.
tell 'em robbIE?
all is not lost.
consult with/trust in yOUR creators...... liking looking at us, since forever, with options on eternity.
So, a few pointy-hair bosses and some evil project managers are in a meeting.
"This project is going to take 1 year with 5 developers."
"Then, quadruple the size of the team and finish in 1 quarter!"
"You can't get that many geeks to work together on a single horribly retarded objective!!"
"Oh yes you can... here are some pictures to prove it..."
I think these networks are very vunerable to viruses.
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This is really the most worthless thing Ive ever seen.
She might be reading this!
I usually don't hang out with the slashdot trolls, but wt_F_?
This really is the dumbest story I've ever seen posted.
In war, the point is that some times you come up with the same card as your opponent. You each then put three cards face down before you. Then you choose one of these cards as the one to battle the others new card with.
Then again, this is a complex variation of the rules...
That's just cos the Brits couldn't wrap their heads around the word "Österreich". It has an umlaut and stuff.
(Hint: Check your mom's mouth.)
There needs to be a filter for this sort of stuff... like "-5 frivolous." "Frivolous" would filter out things like lifesize models of Luke Skywalker made of mashed potatoes and Testor's enamel. This stuff hurts me.
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
Exactly the same, only with pocket protectors and elbow patches. Come to think of it.. an elbow patch would be handy...
click-clack, front and back. I'm not moving this car otherwise.
Two players take each others right hand and entangle their fingers - except the thumbs - forming a fist.
This is insane
Didn't anyone teach them that fingers are meant only to pounce on your keyboard
(and may be occasionally to tap on your cute little mouse)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Wait...
Ewwww!
Long live the Speaker Bracelet
Rolo D. Monkey
I understand that you post as an AC, cos I wouldn't wanna be known as a swede, either ;)
:p ;)
Jeg er trods alt fra jeres gamle herrefolk
I må bare lære at bruge de rigtige bogstaver igen - hvad er det, I bruger ikke ø og æ, men ö og ä? Puha...
Would this obvious advantage disqualify me from multiplayer thumb wrestling tournaments?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."