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Man Spends 2,200 Hours Defeating Bejeweled 2
An anonymous reader writes "A California steel contractor spent 2,200 total hours over the last three years racking up a high score in Bejeweled 2. He exceeded the 2^31-1 maximum score programmed for the score display, proving that there is, in fact, an end to the game. I suppose congratulations or condolences are in order."
There are a LOT of WoW players who average more than 2 hours a day. When I played I averaged 3 hours a day. This guy enjoyed bejeweled and came home and played Bejeweled after work. A lot of americans watch about that much TV per day and they're not even posting a high score. Healthy? No. Worse than a typical high end raider in WoW? No. Worse than a typical American watching TV? No.
So, he was a QA engineer?
Likely for McAffee.
I, for one, don't consider time playing video games as "wasted." If it made this guy happy, why does it matter so long as he isn't killing and eating your goats or something?
That's funny, we one time hired a guy to help us move in Chicago. He packed the truck like I had never seen before, perfectly floor to ceiling, all in the front half, tied down and perfectly stable. The back was 100% empty. It was certainly more efficient than the horizontal stacking that occurs whenever I pack a moving van.
Turns out the guy was a former Tetris champ making a little side money to pay for grad school.
Thank you for sticking up for people like me who talk to trees. I should caveat that I USED talk to trees until some of the trees started calling me crazy and laughing at me behind my back. Now I am just kind of sad.
During one of my moves we had the a full wall minus one box all set. As my buddy was about to place the last box and complete the wall I called out "Wait! You can't put that box there or all my stuff will disappear." He laughed. Then he thought about it and started a second row saying "Just in case."