03-18-2005, 03:00 PM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
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Play Russian Roulette With Your Pocket PC
"You would like playing hazardous games? You heard about Russian Roulette? This game is famous all over the world. And now you can play this game and see how lucky you are."
8O So here is the story. You play Russian roulette by selecting your preferred level of destruction (soft reset or hard reset) and take your chance that you'll either come out OK or you'll be restoring a backup (For the truly brave: erase your backup files first). With an asking price of $17.99 and no trial, you really have to be masochistic or a bona-fide risk taker to buy this. It just so happens that I'm working heavily with risk & decision making right now at work, so playing this game struck me as a very interesting psychological choice that apparently already one person has made this week. I hope that brave person didn't regret their Handango purchase!
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03-18-2005, 03:37 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Of course, if they provided a demo for this each time your device was hard reset you could just reinstall the program without ever needing to buy it.
But really, this has got to be the dumbest game I have ever seen. I mean - what is the point?!
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03-18-2005, 03:40 PM
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Pupil
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Russian Roulette...nothing new for me!
I once owned a really crappy Casio E-115 that did this on its own. Each startup was either normal, partial grayscreen, or a hard reset! Casio must have sold the technology to a new vendor!
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03-18-2005, 04:01 PM
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Intellectual
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I think I'd rather use a real gun pointed at my head. Still, I can see an image of a musty basement with a bunch of geeks in Star Trek shirts drinking heavily of chocolate milk and playing this game. Apparently D&D can get pretty boring...
(Disclaimer: I probably am a geek by most standards, I love Star Trek, and I'm a little hopped up on chocolate milk at the moment so I may not be thinking clearly)
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03-18-2005, 04:13 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Leaving your pocketpc in work when you go away for a week is risky enough and costs nothing. Been there done that :evil:
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03-18-2005, 04:25 PM
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Thinker
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LMAO this is great! Its nice to see someone not taking things too seriously. lol
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03-18-2005, 04:44 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2002
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I've read about folks playing the real thing, get the bullet, but the angle of the shot didn't do the job effectively enough, leaving the person in a vegetative "limbo" state.
I guess I'd hope this program "does the job" and no software quirks cause a similar situation of a device that's supposed to hard-reset and instead bricks your PDA.
I wonder how often the program gets updated to work out any such bugs.
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03-18-2005, 04:45 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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:huh: :confused totally: 
There are honestly no words to describe this. :|
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03-18-2005, 04:57 PM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
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This is just... WRONG!
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03-18-2005, 04:58 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Darius Wey -> you took the word out of my mouth...
wrong on so many levels!!
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