Do you ever play any silly games by yourself (I mean the clean kind) when you're bored at the computer? Or anywhere?
For example, sometimes without even realising it, I'll place my cursor somewhere between the lines on the AGS forum page (or any forum page), and see how many times I can move the mouse wheel and still have the cursor stay out of the lines.
'Course, that's cause I spend all day and night at the computer, I'm sure you guys cancome up with something more interesting ^_^
All the damned time, especially when I've already surfed my usual trails for the evening and am killing time (T1 at work + wifi broadcast all over makes for lots of unproductive time).
I end up doing stupid maintenance more often than note, deleting all the .Trashes and .DS_Store files Macs seem so fond of placing everywhere, or deleting all the Windows temp files, sorting through old applications, and other tedium. I'll have to give the between-the-lines-nutty-Kinoko game a try.
I do it ALL the time. Not just with lines, but with text too. I just did it with your post. Just finding the best position so I can go up a few turns of the wheel without getting the cursor on any text or lines.
Yup.... I'll name a few.
Playing world of warcraft - waiting for a group etc...
- I'll repeatedly jump on the same spot or in circles, or try to jump onto a wall and balance myself somewhere.
back at schhol we had "THE GAME" (damn it)
- The whole idea of "THE GAME" is to not think about "THE GAME". If you are thinking about it you lose, so you mention "THE GAME" to everyone else so that they are thinking of "THE GAME" and also lose.
CS:S
- If I'm bored i'll either knife the wall or ground to make a smilie face or just shoot the scenery to see the different surface effects.
Web-Browsing
- Try to count the pixels on screen :P (J/K)
- Do random google image searches for the most errenuous items and see what page number displays the first porn image. Like "ketchup".... sometimes if you choose something abscure enough you get some funny images anyway.
Quote from: TheYak on Thu 02/03/2006 10:44:25
I end up doing stupid maintenance
I do that a lot too. But usually I conclude everything on my computer is important so I end up deleting 3 pictures or something.
I also like to make up games in actual games too. Like in Hitman Contracts I pretend I'm a guest in the hotel. And when I'm bored with that I see how many people I can shoot and get away with it. Chasing people around town (Thief 3) is fun too.
(http://www.gamersport.net/largo/DeusEx0019.jpg)
Or collecting guards...
Quote from: Kinoko on Thu 02/03/2006 10:22:01
For example, sometimes without even realising it, I'll place my cursor somewhere between the lines on the AGS forum page (or any forum page), and see how many times I can move the mouse wheel and still have the cursor stay out of the lines.
I do exactly like that all the time O_o
Because I'm bored all the time... -_-
I like to put my cursor up to pictures and lines, pretty much whatever I can, and try to get one of the angles on the arrow to line up so that it looks like the edge of the arrow is part of the line. It brings me some strange satisfaction when I achieve this, and will sit and look at my discovery with pride for longer than I probably should, and if I'm unable to find any lines that match up, I get really sort of dissapointed.
Typing it all out, I've just realized for the first time how weird that is.
It's satisfying, but not nearly as much as when you've got an icon on your desktop that enables the roughly 30-degree arrow of the cursor to fit snugly against two of its lines. That is ultimate satisfaction. Of course, being a mature adult and delighting in more developed pursuits, I prefer to use the hand cursor to pick the noses of the AGS banner egos.
The mouse cursor fits perfectly in the opening formed under the letter k in this font used on these forums. It's quite amazing.
Gaah! Not fair! How can you tell if it does that, Ghormak, as the cursor keeps changing to the text editing "I" thing when you put it near text?
Quote from: TheYak on Thu 02/03/2006 13:01:16
It's satisfying, but not nearly as much as when you've got an icon on your desktop that enables the roughly 30-degree arrow of the cursor to fit snugly against two of its lines.Ã, That is ultimate satisfaction.Ã, Of course, being a mature adult and delighting in more developed pursuits, I prefer to use the hand cursor to pick the noses of the AGS banner egos.
That reminds me that I do that with the cursors in Sierra games. And, for example, I get joy from putting the dragon face waiting cursor over the hero's head in QFG1 to make it look like he has a big ol' dragon head! And then I try it out on all the npcs to see who looks best with which cursors. And I'll put the talk cursor over the characters' mouths to make them look like they're wearing big wax lips.
All that is mentioned above fits my behaviour as well. Then I have this habit of reloading the forums page like every second minute. And when there's nothing new, I often try painting some paragraph with a click. I noticed that clicking once paints the selected word, clicking twice paints the sentence and clicking three times paints the whole paragraph or something like that. Then I always try to get a bigger area painted.
Quote from: Babar on Thu 02/03/2006 14:31:15
Gaah! Not fair! How can you tell if it does that, Ghormak, as the cursor keeps changing to the text editing "I" thing when you put it near text?
Not for me it does! Check out the perfect harmony you're missing out on:
(http://www.achtungfranz.com/harmony.png)
The mouse cursor is my soul source of fun sometimes... All the mouse related activities mentioned in this thread fit me well...
When I'm ever on IRC I like scrolling up and down to see how many times I can scroll and have the last line be my name. I think I got it up to 4 scrolls once... PMs don't count...
And just now I put the mouse cursor tip in the exact center of the 'o' in Post and usually leave the cursor on the edge of the blue reply box or butted up against the post button's black outline.
We're like little mini-Rainmen, if we combined we'd form a huge mentally handicapped giga-bot!
edit: Oh, and it annoys me greatly that the text cursor doesn't fit in between double lower-case L's!
I am so obsessed with the Firefox zoom plugin, that I do stuff with it when I'm bored.
It works like this: You right-click on any image on a website. While holding the right-mouse button and turning the mousewheel either up and down, you can zoom in or out. It will basically resize the image. So I either make all images super-small, so that they are almost gone on a page (once you reload its all back to normal) or I'll turn the mousewheel in rhythm with the music I am listening, so that the image gets bigger and then smaller again in rhythm with whatever I am currently listening to. That's quite hilarious at times (depending on music and image)...
Why not just...do...anything except for that?
That's a rather depressing and not very constructive way to waste your time.
To wax pseudo-philosophic: In an age of nearly-instant gratification when education, entertainment, and communication can be had nearly any time one desires, perhaps there's become a newly neglected portion of the psyche. It used to take phenomenal amounts of time devoted to ones interests in order to net any result. Maybe these little activities are filling a need in people to simply waste time for waste's sake. Once it's constructive, it's somehow less relaxing and more closely resembles work. Some of us hone our sleep schedule to a razor's edge to fit as much as possible into a day, maybe the brain just needs some down time with activities that would keep even an obtuse orangutan content.
Waste of time?
Pfft, go write a dissertation, Efficiency Boy.
If that is your real name.
I do play with the cursor, but I also play with the windows.
For example, I might have a lot of windows and I resize them all and move them in a way so that they'll perfectly touch the other.
Or I might resize two windows so that they have the same dimensions and location, and then I hit alt+tab and behold the magnitude of my success.
Also, I might play with one window to resize it to match the edges of the screen or resize+move it in such a way so that when I maximize it it will stay on the exact same place.
I like to highlight things on my desktop. Make perfect ant-trail highlights around icons, move my icons into shapes, those sorts of things. But I do play the cursor in between the lines of text game a lot too. Sometimes I scroll fast over parts I know won't work.
Quote from: Pesty on Thu 02/03/2006 12:49:50
I like to put my cursor up to pictures and lines, pretty much whatever I can, and try to get one of the angles on the arrow to line up so that it looks like the edge of the arrow is part of the line. It brings me some strange satisfaction when I achieve this, and will sit and look at my discovery with pride for longer than I probably should, and if I'm unable to find any lines that match up, I get really sort of dissapointed.
Typing it all out, I've just realized for the first time how weird that is.
I do this a lot too.
Yeah, I arrange things pointlessly on the desktop too.
I also count the flickering lights on my modem, trying to discover a secret pattern that will unlock THE VERY MYSTERY OF TIME ITSELF!!!
*cough*
I also position the cursor arrow as a fake comedy nose on pictures of famous people on the internet.
You haven't lived until you've seen Dennis Hopper with a cursor conk.
That QFG dragon head one brought back memories!
I used to do that ALLLL the time. It would be a challenge to always do the coolest thing with the dragon head everytime it popped up.
I also do the "fitting" of various cursors into pictures or words thing.
If I'm at my desktop with nothing to do, or I'm on the phone, I will tend to play with the selection tool.
I'll either try to click in the exact middle of the screen and then move the mouse to select each quadrant rapidly. A variance off of this one is when selecting, ill move the selection ants back to the center point and continue through without making any small squares in the 2 perpendicular quadrants.
This is nerdier to talk about it.
I have other variances that I play with, using the selection tool, but I've geeked out enough, plus its hard enough to actually write out what I do to amuse myself. And I won't be uploading a video.
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I do remember once I rightclicked on a friend of mines desktop and re-arranged his icons by name, or whatever, and lets just say he had over 50 icons on his desktop that were all in appropriate places. He wasn't too happy with me, and I can understand. I wasn't doing it to be a jerk, but I don't recall having a good reason to do it.
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A random, but good topic by the way! ;)
I have dice (http://www.widgetgallery.com/view.php?widget=37594) on my desktop.
Yep.
I move my cursor to the top corner of the screen, then across to the other corner, then I go up the top left corner, and across to the bottom right corner-then I do it over and over again, making an X, to see how many times I can do it before my cursor gets all disoriented.
It's kinda weird.
When somethings loading, such as an online game in starcraft, I'll run my cursor around the box as many times as I can before battle.net signs me in.
QuoteIt's satisfying, but not nearly as much as when you've got an icon on your desktop that enables the roughly 30-degree arrow of the cursor to fit snugly against two of its lines. That is ultimate satisfaction. Of course, being a mature adult and delighting in more developed pursuits, I prefer to use the hand cursor to pick the noses of the AGS banner egos.
I do that all the time!
Errr... that is, put the cursor on an icon.
Woah, epidemic restlessness.
It's not that my life is full of entertaining and important things that crave my attention, it's just that....I'd rather just pick up a book, go for a walk, anything really except sitting in front of a monitor and play with the cursor.
I should all give you assignments.
Until next time I come by, I demand that you have all read Rosetti's "Goblin market" and tell me what you think.
This has no special purpose, but I have an analysis of this poem due Monday, and I intend to plagiarise whatever you say about it.
Hahaha, I'm such a pretentious prick.
Good luck ya'll :)
If I am really bored I go to dwdrums.com/kitbuilder (http://dwdrums.com/kitbuilder) and I build my dream drumset. Even though my current kit is pretty big (well cymbal intensive).
Quote from: Andail on Fri 03/03/2006 11:39:22
Woah, epidemic restlessness.
It's not that my life is full of entertaining and important things that crave my attention, it's just that....I'd rather just pick up a book, go for a walk, anything really except sitting in front of a monitor and play with the cursor.
I should all give you assignments.
Until next time I come by, I demand that you have all read Rosetti's "Goblin market" and tell me what you think.
This has no special purpose, but I have an analysis of this poem due Monday, and I intend to plagiarise whatever you say about it.
Hahaha, I'm such a pretentious prick.
Good luck ya'll :)
Dude, stop with the boasting already.
Quote from: Helm on Sat 04/03/2006 03:10:55
Dude, stop with the boasting already.
It's nice to see you've taken the mature high ground here.
It's only Andail .. lol .. its all fun and games
Quote from: modgeulator on Sat 04/03/2006 03:17:34
Quote from: Helm on Sat 04/03/2006 03:10:55
Dude, stop with the boasting already.
It's nice to see you've taken the mature high ground here.
It's nice to stop following me around.
Quote from: Helm on Sat 04/03/2006 03:21:39
Quote from: modgeulator on Sat 04/03/2006 03:17:34
Quote from: Helm on Sat 04/03/2006 03:10:55
Dude, stop with the boasting already.
It's nice to see you've taken the mature high ground here.
It's nice to stop following me around.
It's nice to shut your stupid hairy Greek face, Greekface.
It would be nice to read unrelated threads without coming across someone with a chip on their shoulder trying to drag it out.
Anyway change of subject, another game I enjoy is sitting at the computer desk tapping out rhythms till my housemates hit me because of the vibration through the house.
Sure modgeulator, have it your way. I'm sorry I did this huge interthread crossover, it was ment as a joke. I hold no grudge, in fact I am quite emotionless as to your recent streak of ill-concieved posts, I guess 'cause I've been online enough time to see much worse. I won't try to make any more jokes like this one since it upsets you and we can go our seperate ways without more discussion.
Pesty: we will discuss this after class.
You've all got detention for 2 months .. lol
Quote from: Helm on Sat 04/03/2006 03:28:16
and we can go our seperate ways without more discussion.
That part sounds like a fantastic idea to me and I'll leave it at that. In fact, I had thought we had already come to the arrangement.
I got a mirror in my room, and when I am sitting in front of the computer, I sometimes do electric boogie when listening to the right type of music (it usually begins with trying to do smooth armwaves via the mirror sitting down in the chair) but it quickly progresses to retarded dancing while standing or jumping around and dies as quickly.
I also do the robot and variations when I am bored and listening to appropriate music ( usually Autechre, COH, SND, that sort of thing)
Quote from: Helm on Sat 04/03/2006 03:28:16
Sure modgeulator, have it your way. I'm sorry I did this huge interthread crossover, it was ment as a joke. I hold no grudge, in fact I am quite emotionless as to your recentÃ, streak of ill-concieved posts, I guess 'cause I've been online enough time to see much worse. I won't try to make any more jokes like this one since it upsets you and we can go our seperate ways without more discussion.
Pesty: we will discuss this after class.
No, we will discuss this now. With fists.
No more please?!?
Me and a friend once invented this door-opening-dance, where you first unlock a imaginary door and turn the handle, stepping into a room where really cool dance music plays and start dancing like from a prodigy video from 94.
When I walk over sidewalks, I sometimes only try to step on the white stripes on the road, also if I am walking on a floor of different colored tiles I only step on one color. I used to skateboard a shitload, so I also sometimes do stupid stuff like jump on park benches when I am walking past them and jump off them 180 or something. There were also shitloads of stuff I used to imagine when I was a kid and rode with my parents in the backseat of our car, like every telephone pole we passed was a nuclear missile or rocket and I'd pick them up and stack them on the car roof so there was like a battey of rockets that I could launch any moment at a car in front of us.
Edit: just put on Autechre, and it goes actuaclly very well with robot (C/pach), but Unit One - My Sound will always be my #1 break song.