A Lesson in Math. •Updated Oct 30th, 1:45 PM•
"Rob Zombie", of Halifax, Nova Scotia made an interesting point: "How can you maintain your streak if you are offline for 24 hours?"
Easy: I have (almost) 48 hours to play with. Huh? Well, let's simplify that. Let's say one morning I get up and play some Lumines before work, and get an achievement. For the sake of argument, we'll put that at 6:00 AM. After work, I'm really busy with real life and don't get online at all that evening. The next day, I get up go to work, come home and get on after I eat, at 6:00 PM get online and play some Lego Star Wars and get an achievement. That's 36 hours. And yet, I still have played each day and not even pushed the envelope.
If I get an achievement at 12:00:01 AM one morning, and 11:59:59 PM the next day, that's 47 hours, 59 minutes, and 58 seconds apart, and still being on both days. I have no intention of cutting it that close, but have used a similar technique to free up my weekend for trips snowboarding and such.
Hopefully that clears up any confusion, and maybe, God forbid, somebody learned something.
Update:
Later on the morning of the 27th, Rob Zombie returned to say that "A day is comprised of 24 hours, not 48 hours. You are teh wrongz0rz." A scant five minutes later, he posts saying "Nevermind, I get what you're saying now." I guess he figured out that in order to have a consecutive streak, you need to string one day after another. At any point in either day, I need to get an achievement, up to ~48 hours apart from eachother, if I want to push it. "Hello teacher, tell me what's my lesson", indeed. (I just had to use another Mad World quote.)
Easy: I have (almost) 48 hours to play with. Huh? Well, let's simplify that. Let's say one morning I get up and play some Lumines before work, and get an achievement. For the sake of argument, we'll put that at 6:00 AM. After work, I'm really busy with real life and don't get online at all that evening. The next day, I get up go to work, come home and get on after I eat, at 6:00 PM get online and play some Lego Star Wars and get an achievement. That's 36 hours. And yet, I still have played each day and not even pushed the envelope.
If I get an achievement at 12:00:01 AM one morning, and 11:59:59 PM the next day, that's 47 hours, 59 minutes, and 58 seconds apart, and still being on both days. I have no intention of cutting it that close, but have used a similar technique to free up my weekend for trips snowboarding and such.
Hopefully that clears up any confusion, and maybe, God forbid, somebody learned something.
Update:
Later on the morning of the 27th, Rob Zombie returned to say that "A day is comprised of 24 hours, not 48 hours. You are teh wrongz0rz." A scant five minutes later, he posts saying "Nevermind, I get what you're saying now." I guess he figured out that in order to have a consecutive streak, you need to string one day after another. At any point in either day, I need to get an achievement, up to ~48 hours apart from eachother, if I want to push it. "Hello teacher, tell me what's my lesson", indeed. (I just had to use another Mad World quote.)
Comments
HAHAHA, you tell him man, good one, very cleaver though.
nathan
Posted by: Nathan Dreger | October 29, 2006 02:50 PM