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A game of tag that’s been going for 20+ years
- tptacek 9y agoUnfortunately, it looks like they really Hollywooded the shit out of the story.
- dang 9y agoThe WSJ article about this was discussed in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5165809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5165809. olalonde gets a point for predicting the movie.
- neonate 9y agoThat article can be read here: http://archive.is/Kb2zY http://archive.is/Kb2zY. Archived two years ago.
- ec109685 9y agoIn that same thread, this was mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5173655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5173655 What was that game?
- jamiek88 9y agoHere I am 26 hours later and I've JUST finished that. If anyone likes sci-fi they will enjoy this - don't let the football bit put you off if you aren't into sports. THIS is what the web is for. Unique stuff designed for and in the medium. Fantastic.
- matthberg 9y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/20/played-tag-23-years-experience https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/20/played-... is an article by one of the actual players detailing some of the workings of the game.
- repiret 9y agoReminds me of the “football” games in 17776 https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
- jMyles 9y agoWow, that's one of the strangest and most wonderful things I've seen in a while.
- stuartd 9y agoOh, and here I go all over again with 17776. I remember the journey from eagerly anticipating new updates to saving them up so I didn't reach the end too quickly.
- an_ko 9y agoIs it just me, or does the font-size of the main body of the article enlarge automatically, quickly, and slightly terrifyingly, until the screen is some very long story on a black background seemingly completely unrelated to football? I may be missing the point. Edit: OK, I scrolled far, and further. Oh wow.
- letslightafire 9y agoYeah, I thought he mistyped something and was trying to put 1776. Sidenote: This website design is pretty good at conveying uneasiness. Edit: Alright, this is a great story.
- scott_s 9y agoKinda reminds of the game of "football" played in 17776: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
- Cofike 9y agoThat page loads and the text all grows until it fills the whole screen and freezes the tab. Whats that about?
- wutbrodo 9y agoIt shouldn't be freezing the tab: the words expand until the screen is black and then some interactive media comes up.
- rockybullwinkle 9y agoi think that i found that more entertaining than however entertaining i wouldve found the football game
- bgun 9y agoKeep scrolling.
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- amitheonlyone 9y agoThis was very entertaining. I had to stop after a while but had to bookmark it to check out in the future
- NinoScript 9y agoThat was really interesting
- Agentlien 9y agoThank you so much for this. I thought "I don't care about football, but I can skim through it." A few hours later I'd finished it and it was definitely an unexpected positive experience.
- 6nf 9y agoI just lost the game
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- justintoon 9y agoHa, I was telling my wife about this article and read her this comment, knowing that she would get it. Right on cue, she replied, “ugh, me too.”
- kemiller 9y agoGod damn you. I’ve been winning for years and now not even HN is safe.
- Sohcahtoa82 9y agoIt's been about a year, but I just lost the game.
- cfadvan 9y agoNow we are grown men, we don’t run like Usain Bolt, so subterfuge and collusion have become our weapons. Eleven months of the year are spent planning. Collaborating with a friend is where the fun is — we can spend hours discussing approaches. I love that, and unrelated to tag it brings to mind my experience or multiplayer games. When I was a a late teen I was terrifyingly good at shooters, my reflexes were very quick and I got into a some that was hard to beat. As I got older that reflexive edge, while not gone, isn’t a match for today’s teens. What I have however is a kind sense of game flow, likely patterns of behavior, and how maps work. I’ve become old and sneakh and mean in other words. Where I sort of brute-forced wins before, now I finesse them. Getting older isn’t all fun, but the ability to be conniving with more experience is a real pleasure. Strategy takes the place of force, and it can often be more effective.
- nicholasjon 9y agoAs the saying goes, "old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill." (I tried to find a citation, but the googles were less than helpful.)
- wxuan 9y agoduckduckgo the way to flow? https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/david_mamet_478663 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/david_mamet_478663 David Mamet's your person.
- zaarn 9y agoExperience beats skills any time. I've somewhat had this feeling in some ArmA games (casual modes though) where I would watch some newer players jump around like they're playing Call of Duty through my sniper rifle or over an LMG. It's quite fun to watch and I usually put them out of their misery once it gets boring. On the other hand, when breaching a room the same players will murder entire squads without loosing a shred of health (atleast until a nearby player obtains a tank with HE rounds)
- HillaryClinton 9y agoI saw the trailer for the movie before A Quiet Place. It looks well produced but still garbage.
- starpilot 9y agoI just despise the genre of white collar/white people culture quirkiness. So bland and confusing. Quiet Place was okay but basically a dinosaur movie in a big field.
- sjclemmy 9y agoSimilar scenario that me and my family had with some of our friends and their children. The parents of my friends had bought an annoying toy for the children of my friends - a duck that sang an annoying tune. At a New Year’s Eve party at their house our friend gave the duck to one of our children. I promptly hid it behind the TV. A few months later they found it. As they are friends we only see once or twice a year, there followed a few years of hiding it with each other when we got together for holidays etc. For example I hid it in their car one camping trip, they left it on our doorstep after they had visited one time.
- rimliu 9y agoThis reminds me of the short story "The Monkey" by S. King. They had less fun in that story though.
- Mister_X 9y agoNot a game of "tag", but I told a stupid joke to a friend on a family vacation and variations of it have been going back and forth between us regularly for 49 years now. It's actually in poor taste these days, so I won't post it, but we were 14 years old and thought it funny as can be!