After 27 Years, a New High Score For Asteroids 193
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."
Sudden persepective. (Score:5, Funny)
I have a whole new appreciation for the awesome, interesting things I do with my life.
Thanks.
Re:Score (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe in 2039, someone can score 41,339,486.
Re:NOT THREE DAYS (Score:5, Funny)
If you read the summary properly, it said 3-1/2 days, i.e. 3 minus a half day.
Aw, no rematch. (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps he has a son to avenge him.
Hmm. Or given his geek credentials, more likely not.
Re:where's the virgin tag? (Score:5, Funny)
Duly tagged.
Re:I can beat that ... (Score:5, Funny)
I spent 75 aud on a robot arm kit from Jaycar. 20 aud on an atmel atmega8 and about 20 aud on transistors, etc. That and about a weeks work got me a robot which can feed my fish when I am away from home.
Staying with the atmel idea I could build an eye to detect spots of light with a mechanically scanning photodiode. Then the robot arm just has to push a lever left and right.
The main limitation is that the plastic gears in the robot arm are not good for continuous operation. I have considered squirting lubricant into them but I expect their life is limited.
Maybe this could be an offshoot of my sexbot construction project.
So... (Score:5, Funny)
fight the chicks off (Score:5, Funny)
I bet he has to fight the chicks off with a shitty stick.
Re:NOT THREE DAYS (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NOT THREE DAYS (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Score (Score:5, Funny)
Making it the new longest gaming record in history. Win-win.
Re:Sudden persepective. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)
Only on Slashdot would that be moderated "interesting" and not "funny".
National Lampoons Vacation (Score:4, Funny)
Cousin Dale: "Ya' got Asteroids?"
Rusty: "Naw, but my Dad does."
Re:Sudden persepective. (Score:4, Funny)
The question is, is his "a life well spent" or "a life, well, spent".
Re:Sudden persepective. (Score:1, Funny)
(Don't (use so many) parentheses) you moron.
Re:Aw, no rematch. (Score:5, Funny)
[Previous record holder Scott Safran] died in 1989, due to injuries sustained when he fell from the roof of his Los Angeles apartment.
That's what Centauri wanted everyone to think. Good cover story!
SB
Re:Aw, no rematch. (Score:5, Funny)
Sadly he was on his last life when it happened.
Re:Uh... what? (Score:3, Funny)
Not all Sysadmins. But many for sure. But Crack smoking is for the weekend,since you'll be really tripping balls. The week is coke time!
My record of coke-induced unix-fixing rampage was 3 years ago, when a 12-machine asterisk system failed spectacularly after some douchebag that was administrating that system screwed up the mysql circular replication and ended up with 12 corrupt copies of a 2TB database, and a backup that didn't work (They had hired me a year and a half prior to that incident to setup that system as an external contractor, and they were going to administrate the system themselves). 106 Hours and 25 grams later, they had a working system again :)
His next challenge? (Score:3, Funny)