TIME Makes Everybody Lose "The Game"

[TheFacelessOne]

Wow..thats...fu-THE GAME-nny.

 

[insanelich]

#marblecake is a 4chan-related channel.

"Also the game" is a common thing inserted into posts on /b/, referring to The Game, which has simple rules. Rule 1 is you lose every time you think about the game. Rule 2 is you have to announce it whenever you lose the game.

Also, this was hardly "hacking". Hundreds of /b/tards used applications repeatedly voting for the poll. Time shut the original app down, so some /b/tard merely disassembled the voting software and re-engineered the automatic voter to skip the captcha.

It doesn't even come close to hacking, it's just /b/tards using their numbers to overwhelm Time's efforts to have a reliable poll.

 

[NeoDeath90]

It seems that the machines are finally rebelling against us. Quick, everyone watch every terminator movie and use it as a training video.

 

[sky14kemea]

i could have spotted that... eventually
i figured it was something to do with the first letters, all i saw was CAKE, LOST and GAME

damn ive lost the game XD

ah well, i'll reset after i go to sleep

 

[ninjapuma42]

im about to be evil right now you all lost "the game"

 

[Cowabungaa]

Considering 4chan's obvious involvement in the whole thing, it feels a bit fishy. Also, it feels kind of hilarious: Has TIME - and consequently its international reader base - been pranked?

Mythnomer [http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/] for the link.)

I love the internet, I love anarchism and chaos. This is just fantastic. It says so much about the state of the world we live in, especially this comment on that page:

f a poll run by a large media company (that should know how to run a poll) is so easily hacked, and with such finesse, by a loose collective, for fun, imagine what an organized group, motivated by money could do to a social music recommender. The next time you get a recommendation that says something like ?people who like XXX also like Coldplay? think hard about how that recommendation came about.

We're all royally fucked so much, isn't it just awesome?

 

[Sanaj]

Didn't that Hitler guy do a story on this weeks ago? Also, what does "Marble cake also the game" mean exactly?

"Marble cake also the game"

It sounds like nonsensical rambling to me.

It makes about as much sense as most of the content found on the internet.

 

[yeah_so_no]

/b/ is amazing.

I mean that in both a good and a bad way.

I still remember when Rain beat Stephen Colbert in a Time poll--you'd think they'd have learned after that (but that did get us Stephen Colbert singing a parody of a Rain song in Korean on his show, so hey).

 

[JanatUrlich]

I JUST LOST THE FUCKING GAME DAMNIT

I'd been going so long D=

 

[a stranger]

dammit i lost!
yay i won!

The 4Chan creator got voted number one and manipulated the votes using brainwashing. I am outraged not because i care but because everybody else on escapist seems to hate 4Chan to death and as a sheep i shall follow that motherfucking heard. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

also BAAAAAAAA!

 

[Panzer_God]

Further proof that moot is actually the worlds most influential person. And not because he won the poll but because his followers completely destroyed all barriers of decency and restraint to make him win. Gotta love 4chan

 

[AWC Viper]

finally a game i cannot beat

 

[Joshimodo]

Damn.



Guess the phrase "The Geeks will inherit the Earth" isn't far off now.


Somewhat frightening, 4Chan and Anon seem to have become like the Illuminati, a world-controlling secret society, only more childish and full of hate.


Also, I lost The Game.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

Damn.



Guess the phrase "The Geeks will inherit the Earth" isn't far off now.


Somewhat frightening, 4Chan and Anon seem to have become like the Illuminati, a world-controlling secret society, only more childish and full of hate.


Also, I lost The Game.

And porn, don't forget about the porn.

 

[Zallest]

Aaaa the game... the only winning move is to not play.. but you can't not play so you just lost...

I found this bit of news to be hilarious, also if you've been to 4chan in the past you might suspect that Marble Cake doesn't actually mean anything and could just be something random put in to make it funny. Oh hey! Marble Cake also The Game! you just lost

 

[jboking]

(For the record, I've been enjoying playing The Contest lately. If you think about The Contest, you win!)

HELL YEAH! I've only been playing for a few minutes and I'm already awesome at this game!

OT: For some reason, I'm not really surprised at all. The internet is their domain after all.

 

[CLEVERSLEAZOID]

This "The Game" thing is the most pointless, retarded thing I have ever had the displeasure to hear of.

This.

A few of my friends play the game, and the minute one of them cries OHNOES I LOST THE GAEM, I just shake my head in disappointment. I get told I can't not play the game because I know the rules, but I just respond with 'Watch me not play the game'. Someone I know actually made a point of arguing with me in the pub for 45 minutes over this. [Yes, the pub. Yes, my social group are over the age of 21. Yes, some of them haven't matured that far mentally yet.]

It seriously is one of the most brutally 'tarded things I have ever heard.

 

[MadeinHell]

But why is it marble?

 

[Do4600]

"So why do they do it? Why do they write code, build complex applications, publish graphs ? why do they organize a team that is more effective than most startup companies? Says Zombocom: ?For the lulz?.

For the lulz indeed. I remember seeing this issue of Time in a dentist's office, so much win.