Thread Necromancy Game

Inspired by the touching story of a 9-year old necropost, let us play... the Thread Necromancy Game!

Anyone can post at any time. Whenever you make a post, you accumulate a number of points equal to the number of seconds that have elapsed since the last post. After submitting your post, calculate the elapsed time according to the posts' timestamps, and then edit your post to indicate your new score.

Here are some tools to help calculate times:

http://www.scottseverance.us/html/time_calculator.htm

http://www.csgnetwork.com/timeconv.html

http://www.onlineconversion.com/advanced_time_calculator.htm

I will post an example in a few seconds.

30 ⇒ 30

First I posted this text, and then I edited the post to indicate the number of points I gained and my new score (in bold).

Also note: if you get more than 60 points, you can start using hour:minute:second notation for your score.

edited 31st Jul '09 3:37:57 PM by Eio

So, either everyone is waiting for the time lapse to be large, or they don't want to play.

Either way, I now have 2040 (00:34:00) points.

edited 31st Jul '09 4:09:03 PM by colin

0:30 ⇒ 07:32:00

Lot's of points to be had...

We should decide on when the round should end, but first let's see how many people want to play.

Also, I forgot to mention: You cannot post twice or more in a row. If you post, you must wait for someone else to post before you post again. (Otherwise, people would just keep continually posting and accumulating small amounts of points.)

edited 31st Jul '09 11:41:32 PM by Eio

I'm not sure how many points I'll get for this, but...

Oh yeah, I posted. *short pause*

I think points should be for minutes, not seconds, just so we can keep track of them easier. Besides, if it's measured in seconds it's not a necropost.

1:22:54:33 ⇒ 2:6:26:33

The current scores are (days:hours:minutes:seconds):

• Eio - 2:6:26:33
• colin - 0:0:34:00
• Eriksson - 2:13:38:22
• Reecer 6 - 0:2:38:49
• Brickman - 0:1:18:44

@Brickman: The seconds might come in handy for tiebreaking. And the calculators handle it all anyway, so it's not that much trouble.

edited 5th Aug '09 4:13:48 PM by Eio

Does this put me in the lead?

edit: No. That post is worth 1:19:22:33, giving me a total of 1:20:41:17. But hey, third place gets a medal.

edited 7th Aug '09 11:36:09 AM by Brickman

Maybe I'l grab some points.

69775 seconds, or 19:22:55

edited 8th Aug '09 7:06:00 AM by Tangent128

4:6:11:3 ⇒ 6:12:37:36

Eio takes the lead! And the crowd goes wild!

*crickets*

How about we have the first round end when someone accumulates 30 days?

edited 12th Aug '09 1:11:31 PM by Eio

This post was thumped by the Codfish in a Derby Hat

I find the game's much more fun when you only score points if the thread's been dead for a week or so. In the end, it's rare for someone to get a point because people keep remembering to bump the thread every 6 days 23 hours and 55 minutes.

But then the game will never end!

Either way, I just scored 7:00:57:56, bringing my total to 13:13:35:32.

edited 20th Aug '09 7:51:36 AM by Eio

edited 24th Aug '09 11:24:18 AM by Zudak

I'm going to try to retain some dignity by not being in last place here.

I think I'll enter.

You know what would suck? Being ninja'd.

2:23:53:40

edited 31st Aug '09 5:40:55 PM by DanielLC

I just happened to BUMP into this thread again...

4:21:38:59 ⇒ 18:11:14:31

edited 11th Sep '09 12:57:04 PM by Eio

4:21:38:59 ⇒ 18:11:14:31

6th Sep '09 3:14:24 PM

11th Sep '09 12:53:23 PM

Your math is highly suspect.

I redid it and got the same answer... what did you get?

11 minus 6 equals 5, not 14, you see.

But I'm guessing you just typo'd and had more days than that.

Hopefully there's no rule against double posting.

Let's have a looksy...