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Gamer Wins $1M For Pitching Virtual "Perfect Game"
A few months ago, 2K Sports announced a unique contest to promote a new game they were working on, Major League Baseball 2K10. They said whichever gamer was the first to pitch a perfect game and provide proof would win $1 million, with the contest running for two months. Reader yukk tips news that the two months have now passed, and 2K Sports has announced a winner. It turns out the prize was won on the very first day, by a player who had put less than an hour and a half of effort into it.
Fastest baseball game ever, that wasn't called due to weather.
the definition of 1337.
Posting about reading about watching someone play a video game of baseball - I will invent a time machine and kill your father before you were conceived. It's the only way to be sure.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
One word.
Cricket.
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"We're very happy to give the money away," said Jason Argent, vice president of marketing for 2K Sports.
Because insurance companies couldn't possibly come up with the odds of throwing a perfect game, 2K Sports didn't take out insurance and now will pay McGilberry a lump sum of $1 million out of its own pocket.
They're happy to pay out a million bucks? That's really going to affect some bonuses I bet.
I believe they'd probably be happier driving nails through their balls than having to fork over that kind of cash.
The most boring possible video game genre.
Playing baseball - boring.
Watching baseball - very boring.
Playing a video game of baseball - even more boring.
Watching someone play a video game of baseball - kill me now.
It depends about the video of someone playing a baseball computer game. Does it have that mullet forever hair, 80's throwback Billy Mitchell in it?
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
Umm, wouldn't killing mirix's _mother_ be the only way to be sure?
Better do both to be on the safe side.
One word.
Cricket.
Baseball.
Proof that Americans never had an attention span.
Wait! Whats a sig?
If he's killing before conception, and he's sure it's before conception, killing either parent would make him sure.
Unless you take into account sperm donations...hmm. But then you'd have to take into account possible egg donations too.
So either he has to kill the father and mother before puberty, or kill them *both* (or possibly just one!) before conception then torch all possible donor/storage sites. If he only kills one parent, he'd have to torch that parent's potential storage location of baby ingredients. Otherwise there would remain a slim possible chance of the same child being born.
Oh, gotta take into account identical twins too due to genetics. But if he were conceived later would he still be the same person...?
Anyway, time travel proactive murder for existence negation is a difficult act.
There was.
You were trying to win a million dollars.
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And then discover he's adopted.
See? See what the Terminator had to go throug?
No one gets to first base. Surprised more Slashdotters didn't submit entries...
(ducks and cover)
Americans have a lot to learn about sitting about and drinking.
With cricket you also get the excuse to visit exotic countries and then sit about and drink for 5 days in a row. Clearly cricket is by far a superior game.