January 20, 2004

The ESP Game is oddly addictive. Registration required but just a username and password. Via MeFi.
posted by Sooooz 20 years ago
  • I've been playing the hell outta this since i found it in the nytimes. You'd be surprised how angry you can get at a total stranger. Cmon! Blue! It's a blue circle and you can't say circle! So say Blue! Goddam! I hate you! I hate you!
  • The ESP Game is oddly addictive That's an understatement. Jeebus, I didn't get any work done today. Thanks, Sooooz!
  • EVIL, EVIL I SAY
  • Forks, you are too right. I've found that sometimes I'm playing and it seems like the person isn't entering ANYTHING, then they quit the game, so I wonder if they're playing at work or something. But it's frustrating! I hate you! I hate you! *snort*
  • I just forced myself to quit after about fifty games in a row, and I don't think we made it through every single picture in the time limit once. Is it me? Am I inadequate? *sniffs*
  • Just what I need... something to elevate my blood pressure. Gah!
  • What makes this game worth it is when you click with someone and you scoot right through all of them in seconds. It's happened to me twice. It gets eerie. Like the episode of Haunted Password..."Things that are brown..." "Kuala Lampur?" CORRECT! At that point, you know you have a soul mate somewhere out there. I think that if you finish before the buzzer, a little chat window should open up. Carnegie Mellon could outperform Match.com... /i'm ON match.com. so humiliating. so lonely...
  • Damn, and I had so many things to do this year.
  • Incidentally? If you play? Be a good monkey. Type (in this order): Any color on the picture. Any legible word in the picture. Descriptive or intuitive words. Then "picture""photograph""photo""image""graph""map" etc. as is appropos. Then (tricky one, here) rectangle, square, etc. to match the shape the image is in. Then large or tiny, as above. Then random curse words. I figure the first time I get a mutual "fuck" on one of these, i'll pee myself with joy. Please. Be that special someone for me.
  • oh god, I just got a mutual on "ass" though. Too cool.
  • yes, forky cleaving tofu guy, but when you get that elusive virtual "fuck", how will you know who it is? Wouldn't that be worse, having that special moment and not being able to find that person? /derail/ I find myself repeated muttering "oh, for fuck's sake, blue! water! sea!" like a crazed person. (when "ocean" is prohibited.) ack!
  • Hooray! I *finally* made it through before running out of time... good luck, Tracicle!
  • when "ocean" is prohibited. I hate it when ocean is prohibited. Whoops, did I say "ocean?" I meant to say, "whaling."