Lauri101
12-23-2008, 02:39 PM
First, a little background- It starts off sad but gets better.
My adorable, artistic, goofy sweet 13 year old niece Nicole was killed by a drunk driver last Tuesday in Houston. She was getting off the school bus, at 3 PM, and was plowed down by a man who was on probation from his last DUI conviction - a conviction that was reduced to a misdemeanor and "time served". (Article in Houston paper (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6170654.html))
Even though she (and my sister/brother-in-law) live in Houston, I've kept up with Nicole through My Space. Nicole (aka Lillyh) would always have comments posted that would include "I lost the game", but I never could figure out what it meant.
I did ask my sister and found out the story. Before you read any further, you should know that once you know about "the game", you are in the game and it never ends and you can never win.
The Game (http://ilostthegame.org/)
Though The Game is very simple, it can be difficult to comprehend initially. A new player usually has to lose The Game once or twice to fully understand it.
Rules
1) When you think of The Game, you lose The Game.
2) When you lose The Game, you announce it to those around you.
Those are the only two rules of The Game.
Game play
The first thing a new player needs to know is that when someone loses The Game (i.e. when someone thinks about The Game), game play temporarily stops for that person and for those around that person (since he must announce his game-loss aloud). The Game then restarts on a person-by-person basis when each person stops thinking about The Game. The Game never actually ends permanently.
No one wins!
No one can ever technically win The Game. It could be argued that when one is not losing The Game (i.e. when someone is not thinking about The Game), they are winning The Game, but it still holds true that no one can ever definitively win The Game.
Example
You have just learned the rules of The Game and how to play. Because you now know this, you are playing The Game, and will be playing The Game for the rest of your life. At this moment in time you are thinking about The Game, so you are losing The Game. Let's say you leave this site, start doing something else, and The Game leaves your mind. But then you start thinking about this site again and therefore you start thinking about The Game... that's a loss of The Game!
Keep in mind that it doesn't matter what makes you think of The Game. Usually it is something completely completely random and unrelated to The Game that all of a sudden reminds you of The Game.
The bottom line
Any time you aren't thinking about The Game and then start thinking about The Game, you lose The Game. It's that simple.
What's fun is when a lot of people are playing. Since a rule is that you have to announce it when you lose, once you do, then everyone who hears you also loses! The website address above states that gameplay could have been going on for over 12 years so far.
(Nicole - I lost the game! :Smiley063)
My adorable, artistic, goofy sweet 13 year old niece Nicole was killed by a drunk driver last Tuesday in Houston. She was getting off the school bus, at 3 PM, and was plowed down by a man who was on probation from his last DUI conviction - a conviction that was reduced to a misdemeanor and "time served". (Article in Houston paper (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6170654.html))
Even though she (and my sister/brother-in-law) live in Houston, I've kept up with Nicole through My Space. Nicole (aka Lillyh) would always have comments posted that would include "I lost the game", but I never could figure out what it meant.
I did ask my sister and found out the story. Before you read any further, you should know that once you know about "the game", you are in the game and it never ends and you can never win.
The Game (http://ilostthegame.org/)
Though The Game is very simple, it can be difficult to comprehend initially. A new player usually has to lose The Game once or twice to fully understand it.
Rules
1) When you think of The Game, you lose The Game.
2) When you lose The Game, you announce it to those around you.
Those are the only two rules of The Game.
Game play
The first thing a new player needs to know is that when someone loses The Game (i.e. when someone thinks about The Game), game play temporarily stops for that person and for those around that person (since he must announce his game-loss aloud). The Game then restarts on a person-by-person basis when each person stops thinking about The Game. The Game never actually ends permanently.
No one wins!
No one can ever technically win The Game. It could be argued that when one is not losing The Game (i.e. when someone is not thinking about The Game), they are winning The Game, but it still holds true that no one can ever definitively win The Game.
Example
You have just learned the rules of The Game and how to play. Because you now know this, you are playing The Game, and will be playing The Game for the rest of your life. At this moment in time you are thinking about The Game, so you are losing The Game. Let's say you leave this site, start doing something else, and The Game leaves your mind. But then you start thinking about this site again and therefore you start thinking about The Game... that's a loss of The Game!
Keep in mind that it doesn't matter what makes you think of The Game. Usually it is something completely completely random and unrelated to The Game that all of a sudden reminds you of The Game.
The bottom line
Any time you aren't thinking about The Game and then start thinking about The Game, you lose The Game. It's that simple.
What's fun is when a lot of people are playing. Since a rule is that you have to announce it when you lose, once you do, then everyone who hears you also loses! The website address above states that gameplay could have been going on for over 12 years so far.
(Nicole - I lost the game! :Smiley063)