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Another Giant xkcd Comics Experiment (xkcd.com)
Dave Knott writes: XKCD creator Randall Munroe has decided to celebrate the release of his new book, Thing Explainer, by creating a "small game" called Hoverboard. In actuality, it is a gigantic scrolling comic in the same style as his previous Click And Drag. However, this time there is a game element as one navigates the comic. Explore giant starships and volcanoes, or search for hidden lairs, all in the name of finding as many hidden gold coins as possible.
... the game becomes "unwinnable" because there are certain places you should be able to pass through (like the dialog texts), but Safari turns them into hard surfaces, making it impossible to reach some coins. The problem is that the game gives no previous warning and seems to work ok... until it becomes an exercise in frustration. Firefox works perfectly, other browsers should work ok too.
If I clone myself, can I call it a thread?
If a girl winks to us, can I call it a race condition?
Spoilers
look at http://xkcd.com/1608/tigl.min.js
search for var t=...
use the javascript console
paste :
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The funny thing is that there are people charging $5-10 for games that are worse than this on Steam.