air hockey is very different because you can imagine putting your face on the table and it's all blowy but with pong the sharp corners of the so-called "ball" are gonna be hella pointy all over your mind face when you put it on the table
When I was like 25 I worked the night shift in an involuntary psych unit. Some people took naps on their 30 minute lunch breaks, but I sat on the computer in the staff destim room and played minesweeper
HIGHLY recommend ones with no-guess that guarantee solvability, and custom number of mines for any difficulty. Best ratio is one mine per 3 spaces of the board as that gets very cluttered but doesn't bunch them too much ✨💖✨
There was a ~9 month period my freshman year of high school where we couldn’t afford internet so I would use my turn on the family computer to play minesweeper and listen to music we’d burned onto windows media player
Mine was in high school! I got caught by my teacher once and the only thing they were mad about is that I had no idea what I was doing and was just kinda playing randomly, so they taught me how to play. I got a lot better from that, though I never stuck with it long enough to win consistently on the
minesweeper is great for preparing you for a life of balancing calculated risk and justified paranoia. it’s training for our moment, not piddling escapism
I learned how to play it from a clip of a vtuber named Jovilly a year ago and now it’s my default time waster to dissociate to when I run out of things to do at work.
Me and my dad used to leave minesweeper open on the family cpu whenever we beat each other's score and it might be like 25 years ago but I was the reigning champ.
A friend of mine explained how it worked and on the same date I was already playing it every time she would go to the toilet. Don't know if I've given more hours of my life to Mine Sweeper or Snake though.
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The best part was one of the other students just blurting out "YOU CAN WIN MINESWEEPER?!" right as the title hit the screen
this is what happened to me
it will happen to you
it's all right
just wait until the pong period, that one's rough
on account o' it's just pong
that period sucks
frigck the pong peroid. tbh ..
Anyway I almost killed myself right around then
i literally just spend like 2 hours playing minesweeper instead of working lmao
It was Elder Scrolls Online.
I even paid for a lifetime sub on minesweeperonline