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."

Signed int

[Eudial]

Ah well, 2,147,483,647 points ought to be enough for anyone.

x64

[sakdoctor]

THE reason to upgrade to x64

(Also, I thought my 5 days continuous freelancer game at university was extreme)

What are the odds

[Nidi62]

So, who wants to bet that most of the time he spent playing Bejeweled he was also billing someone for contract work?

Re:What are the odds

[AnonymousClown]

So, who wants to bet that most of the time he spent playing Bejeweled he was also billing someone for contract work?

So, he was a QA engineer?

We need more people like this guy

[arcite]

You all saw The Last Starfighter right? This guy has skills! Who know when unmatched matching of coloured gems could come in handy. Maybe we'll be invaded by variously Gem shaped aliens who (through a quirk in quantum mechanics no doubt) have a fatal weakness when matched in pairs of three. This guy could someday LITERALLY save the world!

Conversely, he may have a bright future as a stockboy at Walmart (or if you will, Target), which requires speed, precision, and the ability to organize matching products in rows of three, five, up to infinity. Clearly, he is a credit to the species.

Re:Signed int

[danny_lehman]

well shit.. i thought my highest score of 2mill was pretty good.. Why do i even try at these things.

Re:What are the odds

[Voyager529]

So, he was a QA engineer?

Likely for McAffee.

Re:We need more people like this guy

[MrNaz]

This is Slashdot. A certain degree of "semantic leniency" is called for.

P.S., You insensitive clod.

Re:We need more people like this guy

[slamden]

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.

I talk to trees.

[harrytuttle777]

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.

   

Re:We need more people like this guy

[Anonymous Coward]

Just as long as all of your belongings near the cab didn't magically disappear as he stacked them in, you know, because he may have been making even more money on the side, to pay for his cocaine habit.

Re:Why this is sad

[Surt]

The way it is worse is that bejeweled has a very limited repertoire of activity. This guy programmed his brain full of that limited range for 2k hours. At least with tv and wow you get a variety of social inputs.

Re:x64

[Anonymous Coward]

aww, sounds like someone is having an existential crisis...

Re:Condolences?

[LynnwoodRooster]

D'oh!

It is 5 minutes every hour on avg. not in a day.

The keys are right next to each other..

I am SO behind the times... I need to get one of these new keyboards with the "hour" and "day" keys!

Re:Signed int

[Anonymous Coward]

Give him another few years and he'll be denying he ever made those forgettable commercials with Jerry Seinfeld.

Re:We need more people like this guy

[Jurily]

Bad English cry baby Jesus makes.

The Topper

[edunbar93]

Oh that's nothing. I spent more time than that changing my newborn's diapers and/or clothes. Just today.

Re:We need more people like this guy

[Anonymous Coward]

My husband's a printer you insensitive clod.

+1, Insightful

[electrosoccertux]

only on slashdot.

Re:Why this is sad

[McGiraf]

Make them watch tv, that will teach them.

Re:We need more people like this guy

[feardiagh]

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."