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Post number 20451

mathowie — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:01:09 -0800

Hold the button proves the best flash apps are the most simple (and pointlessly stupid). Try it once and you'll quickly understand how nuts the top scores are.

By: ChrisTN

ChrisTN — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:06:17 -0800

Surely there's a catch or a hack involved...that top time's naerly two weeks! Or maybe I just underestimate some people's capacity for obtaining pointless records. Good link.

By: starvingartist

starvingartist — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:07:13 -0800

I'm sure that's the old "tape down the turbo button on the Nintendo controller" trick. Pointlessly stupid, indeed.

By: salmacis

salmacis — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:08:56 -0800

Yeah, like anybody really held the button down for 13 days! Now, if the button moved slowly...

By: mrhappy

mrhappy — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:14:37 -0800

38 seconds! (and already bored out of my mind.)

By: jeblis

jeblis — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:15:58 -0800

0.01..How's my score? I wouldn't suggest putting your email (or your friends) in this spam email harvester though.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:16:54 -0800

I made it about nine seconds. Then my finger cramped up and I had to take myself out of the game and head to the locker room to ice it. I don't want to miss the first game of the playoffs, y'know.

By: Witty

Witty — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:17:35 -0800

I think you're on to something salmacis... a much better idea.

By: jeblis

jeblis — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:18:42 -0800

Surely there's a catch or a hack involved Hold down left mouse button. Then right. release. (brings up menu while keeping button on screen depressed)

By: milnak

milnak — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:25:25 -0800

"Enter your friend's email addresses to send them a link" = "Give us more email addresses for SPAM"

By: brownpau

brownpau — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:25:28 -0800

Twelve minutes. But only because I propped down the mouse button with my Hotsync cradle while I did the laundry.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:34:54 -0800

resizes browser window, causes several popups, one of which causes a download to begin. it's not worth it.

By: pemulis

pemulis — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:56:08 -0800

9 days, 6 hours, 38 minutes and 22 seconds. Beat that!

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:58:38 -0800

Hold down left mouse button. Then right. release. (brings up menu while keeping button on screen depressed) ...and turns it into a game of 'how long can I leave my PC like this'. resizes browser window, causes several popups, one of which causes a download to begin. it's not worth it. Hmm, that's new, it was fairly non-toxic when it did the rounds a couple of weeks ago...

By: HTuttle

HTuttle — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:17:35 -0800

...and turns it into a game of 'how long can I leave my PC like this'. I think you mean a game of " how effin stupid am I to waste valuable moments of my existence doing this idiotic crap". But then I just wasted some of my own by typing all this.

By: jacknose

jacknose — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:49:35 -0800

I don't want to brag, but I'm the Michael Jordan of the HoldTheButton. It just comes natural to me. I'm not sure when I first discovered my talent, but when I hold the button down, it's like I've come home--but to a home I've never known.

By: Danelope

Danelope — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:52:00 -0800

resizes browser window, causes several popups, one of which causes a download to begin. it's not worth it. Ahem... (You can disable unrequested popups. Along with Javascript window moving and resizing. And the raising/lowering of windows.)

By: cyrusdogstar

cyrusdogstar — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 13:06:27 -0800

Amen to that, Danelope :) I have practically forgotten how annoying popups are after switching to Mozilla. Plus IE did its asinine trick of forcing certain pages to jump to the foreground when they finish loading. God that was annoying. *hugs Mozilla.org* As for the site at hand...I spent 3 minutes! Waiting for it to load, anyway o_O Then I gave up.

By: wuakeen

wuakeen — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 15:45:46 -0800

you did laundry in 12 minutes?!?!?! -amazed- I htried to hold the button down with a book and eraser and gave up pretty quick. * sigh*, i have no life

By: boardman

boardman — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 16:04:17 -0800

You're supposed to hold the button down? But it's on my screen!

By: dg

dg — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 18:03:03 -0800

I tried to hold it down, but all I got was fingerprints on my monitor. No matter how hard I push, the button doesn't go down. Maybe someone else is using it and I need to wait my turn?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 03:50:34 -0800

I tried to use The Power of My Mind to depress the button. I failed, miserably.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 05:04:56 -0800

They're very upfront about their email harvesting, have to give them that. Here's their "privacy" policy.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 11:35:36 -0800

Meh. All that button holding takes too much effort. Looks like it's back to Progress Quest for me.