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Why Windows Solitaire Eats So Much Time
An anonymous reader writes "This article suggests that Windows Solitaire may be the most-often played computer game. It's not so much an article about Solitaire, but rather an article about Windows and human nature and socialization. If you play FreeCell, there's a interesting paragraph about its inventor." Can Solitaire really eat up more hours than have been sacrificed to Tetris?
Actually, I think I'll wait until tomorrow...when I have work to do.
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... and could only have one thing, it would be a deck of cards. I would start to play solitaire and eventually somebody inevitably would come along to tell me to place that red eight on the black nine and I'd be rescued.
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It was often said in days of yore that Windows was the best $80 Solitaire game one could buy. However, I believe that Sid Meir games such as Civilization dwarf Solitaire have consumed far more time. Civilization IV is epic and can take days to finish a single game.
I won't even touch the MMORPG's like Evercrack and WOW.
Can anyone get me a pre-release demo of StarCraft II ? That is the one I really want to waste a lot of time on.
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Do you think GWB has admin rights on his PC? As a system administrator, would you have the guts to remove sol.exe? If you did, would it be a unilateral decision?
Just imagine, sol.exe could be the only thing to stop GWB from getting bored enough to push the Big Red Button.
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Well, as they say, Emacs is a perfectly good operating system, it just lacks a decent text editor.
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You evil bastard!
Linux solitaire(AisleRiot) has everything from Agnes to Zebra! not 'just' spider, Klondike, and free cell... which windows implements through three separate executables?!? for simple card games?!? you need 3 game engines to play cards?!?! crazy man crazy...
And the inverse to that is:
Several small, individual, standalone files that do one thing each and do it well, vs one bloated monolithic pile o crap that tries to do everything.
Finally, a reason to upgrade!
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I'm not kidding. Well, I was finishing my engineering degree, and had a frisky girlfriend, so it didn't consume all my time, but I swear every remaining waking moment was spent playing it. On my tricked out zero-wait-state 12 MHz 286. And it was the original Russian DOS-mode game, none of this crappy flash knockoff shite. I will bury you.
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Funny, I always thought that the reason so many people played solitaire was because it's the only game that doesn't crash in Windows.
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Don't worry, i'll get him back. with this.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
I'm playing a game right now, so I'm really getting a kick out of these repli...Err umm... sorry, wrong site.
In Soviet Russia, games play YOU!
That's better.
Dude, you're taking this way too seriously..... seriously....
Just grab GNU chess Windows port.
Funny story about GNU chess.
Back when I was in college I had two friends that were sharing an apartment. One worked in the day, the other at night. Their only communication was a chessboard on top of the TV. Each person would take a move before going to bed.
One friend cheated. He compiled GNU chess on his Linux box, inputted the board, cranked it up to nearly maximum, and left it to calculate the next move. It would take about 10 hours or so to calculate its next move.
He'd come home from work, make a sandwich, login and get his move, and go to bed. Needless to say he was kicking much ass, and his friend was mightily puzzled at his ability to do so.
He finally came clean though - it was a pretty funny scene when he did. =)
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rediculous.
I thought BSOD was the most-played game on Windows; it's even an exclusive that only Microsoft is able to include.
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seriously How is Microsoft getting their numbers?!? Bug reports!
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