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5 Minutes to Kill Yourself - Today's Time-Waster
by Brad Linder Apr 3rd 2007 at 1:00PM
Cartoon Network's Adult Swim has a rather bizarre game on their website called 5 Minutes to Kill Yourself.The premise should make plenty of sense to any cubicle warrior. Our protagonist is sitting at his computer when he declares that he will kill himself if he gets one more meeting request. A moment later, he's informed of a meeting in 5 minutes. That gives you 5 minutes to solve his problem.
Unfortunately there's no guns in the office, so you have to wander around the office insulting people until they hit you, sticking your head in the paper shredder, etc. To be honest, the most difficult part of the game is controlling the character with the arrow keys on your keyboard.
But if cubicle violence is your idea of fun, it's a pleasant way to kill five minutes. Get it? That's a pun. Yeah, we're groaning too.
[Thanks Matt!]
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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dschep said 1:19PM on 4-03-2007
Uhm, [adult swim] is on cartoon network, not comedy central.
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Brad Linder said 1:20PM on 4-03-2007
Thanks, I had a mental typo there. I updated the post.
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Heyya said 7:47AM on 4-18-2007
POOOOO!
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mike said 4:54PM on 5-14-2007
yeah it is hard to control the dude...i had fun with the clown i lmao
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squareness said 7:42AM on 6-21-2007
sup
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