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After 27 Years, a New High Score For Asteroids
blair1q writes "In a marathon 3-1/2 day session, John McAllister, of Portland, Oregon, has broken the 27-year-old high score for Asteroids, set in 1982 by Scott Safran. The attempt was broadcast via webcam."
That said, it's easy to criticize someone like this. But hey, we all have our hobbies and talents right?
As my sister puts it about me (though - luckily (for me), not about old arcade games; and not meant in a creepy fashion (I hope)):
And somehow I feel, here on slashdot, I am not the only one for whom this statement is true...
if he beat the record set for the Tron arcade game...
First, props to the quality of old time hardware. Do you think you could still play games on contemporary machines, almots 3 decades in the future?
Nope, because the DRM servers will have been shut down 29.5 years earlier...
"Good news, everyone!"
She's a female after all...
:)
If women have a compulsion to wash their hands often, they'd:
a) Be ashamed of it and try to keep it a secret.
b) Go seek help from therapists.
c) Just wash their hands often.
If men have a compulsion to wash their hands often, they'd:
a) Try to find the best soap, water, time and method to do it.
b) See how many times they can do it per minute/hour/day, or how few times they can do it.
c) Brag about it and have long arguments with fellow "hobbyists" about a), b) and other related matters.
Because the game was programmed more than 30 years ago, and its designers probably didn't think anybody would be insane enough to try to rack up a score in the hundred million range?
also called an extra digit?
the 10's place is really a rollover counter for how many times the 1's overflowed.
THL phish sticks
The question is, is his "a life well spent" or "a life, well, spent".
I absolutely hate quotes like this. It stinks of elitism and moral authority. No one knows the purpose of life, so by what right does one person judge another's success or failure in life? If a person led a life they personally are happy with, how can anyone say it was wasted?
I'm not aiming this at you personally, but people that watch/listen to these type of stories and then spend any time to comment that it's a waste of time makes me run in the other direction. Just in case a black hole of hypocrisy swallows them up.