Did Einstein play TFC?

TargetDummy · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 3:01 pm Post subject:

So it's 8pm, my 1 year-old son is asleep, my wife tells me she's going to read before bed, and my chores are all done. The coast is clear to feed the monkey on my back.

With a barely heard "Don't stay up too late..." from my wife, I fire up the computer, thinking "In bed by 10:30, wake up at 6, no problem!".

I get into TV IV and get warmed up finishing off Epicenter. I change class to medic and the dirty work of learning a new class begins. I hook up with a decent HW, and we waltz through a couple maps practically indestructible. That guy leaves the game, I switch to engy, and have some really fun battles with a bunch of talented players. Eventually I notice that there are only about 4 people on the server. I start to wonder why no one is playing at 9:30 on a Thurs. night. I look over at the clock: 1:24am!

WTF?

How does that happen? I swear I was only on for 2 hours max!

My wife wants an explanation, but the only thing I can come up with is that fun is incredibly dense. So dense in fact that fun can affect the curvature of space. My enjoyment that night was so dense that I curved space/time and brought the points 8:00pm and 1:24am closer together. Where for me, only 2 hours had passed but for the rest of the dull world, more than 5 hours had gone by.

She didn't buy it. I think her exact words were "You're incredibly dense!"

I got poopy diaper duty for the whole weekend, and NO sympathy for my sorry state on Friday.

You guys beleive me don't you?

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I hate defying the laws of space time. It makes me sluggish in the morning.

CyC0Dad · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 3:07 pm Post subject:

LMAO !!!

I just can't figure out how you managed to stop that early

John Doe · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 3:10 pm Post subject:

TFC Time is not the same as real time. I am not sure it can be explained.

TFC time is much better than real time BTW. Too bad they dont even offer minimum wage for defending the flag so well. I mean you lay your life on the line constantly and what do you get? Nothing! How unfair. Ah well, such is life.

JD

MunkeyEye · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 3:10 pm Post subject:

I believe you. Have you ever seen any of the old foggies that play on this server? They're all in bodies of teenagers I swear! So for TFC gamers, you bend the rules of space/time continuum so while you "age" by the rules of the calender, you still retain your youthful charms and looks. That is why we still have some 20 something year-olds who still can't spell for peanuts!

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 3:29 pm Post subject:

Well Target Dummy I believe Stephen Hawking covered this in "A Brief History of Time". Time is a human made beast. So the "time" that elapsed while you were playing, doesn't really exist. Since he basically proved Einstein was wrong in his statement "Nature does not play dice". In fact it does. Sometimes nature throws them where they can not be seen. Now your wife and your boss would probably laugh them selves into a fit if you told them that. So I would stick with "oops".

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Robert E. Lee · Registered User Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 2904

You just need to break her in more slowly next time. Pretty soon you'll be playing earlier and staying up later, patience Grasshoppa, she too will learn.

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CyC0Dad · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 4:45 pm Post subject:

That can be a dangerous trail ... Eventually my wife wondered what was keeping me up so late at night and started playing at the Ville as well. Next thing I know I'm being awakened at 3:45 am to kick a couple Llamas off the server

PondScum007 · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 5:48 pm Post subject:

oooh my...happens all the time- every weekend my enitre schedule get smessed up from falling asleep almsot while playing TFC...once i marathoned 5pm to 2:30am playing TFC whilst listening to this rave broadcast...i couldnt make the 14 hours..i tried! i really did!...but after that long, one has to at least move a few feet or go mad...

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DukeNukem · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 6:22 pm Post subject:

This effect is known as "TFC time-dilation". Kind of like time dilation in Einsteinian Relativity. When playing TFC the local space-time for the player appears normal, but relative to normal space-time the players clock appears to be running slow, so that while only 1 or 2 hours passes for the user in TFC space-time, 3 to 7 hours have passed in normal space-time.

The magnitude of the dilation is proportional to the fun factor (known as FF). The more fun the player is having the greater the time dilation. This effect is especially severe at The Ville due to the very high FF on these servers.

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thewz · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 6:35 pm Post subject:

You people play way too much tfc. I play on average 30 minutes a day on weekdays, and at the most 4 hours a day on the weekend. Although I have gone on a 7pm-5am marathon before.

(+)ASSASSIN(+) · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 6:49 pm Post subject:

Im usually on for about 3 or 4 hours monday through thursday and sunday on and off, The weekends however, are strictly reserved for Bars, beers, partying hardcore and chasing scantilly clad Women. on saturday ill might get on for about 45 minutes or so to kill time before I go out.

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TargetDummy · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 6:52 pm Post subject:

Joking aside, I am lucky that my wife is as understanding as she is. The other day she was reading an article in one of her magazines. It was a first hand account from a woman who had been married to a heroin addict. She was ticking off the signs of addiction:
The rapid heart rate and sense of euphoria after a "hit"
The use of new vocabulary based on the addiction
New friends with the same habits
Trouble sleeping
Haunted look between "hits"
Shaking
Twitching
etc...

Face it people, we are classic addicts, and we should be grateful that anyone in our lives ( family, friends, neighbors - if you have the computer hooked up to your stereo )puts up with us!

And sadly, CycoDad and I are guilty of the worst sin an addict can commit: getting our spouses hooked on the same drug.

Luckily my wife hasn't gotten hooked on the hard stuff yet (she plays Black and White), especially considering we only have 1 computer, but she's starting to get that haunted look. And I think I saw some shaking and twitching the other day...

SpeCies · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2002 6:52 pm Post subject:

or as Q from the show star Trek Voyager would
say, TFC Time Continuium..