by Daba 18049 Posts
Ready to get things pooping 10 months ago |
3 years ago
Too funny. It is a pretty fun game though. ... Like those pages in Highlights magazine, Photo Hunt and its half-naked counterpart, Erotic Photo Hunt, are bar-top (and now iPhone app) video games that match up two stock images and award points for identifying the five differences in as little time as drunkenly possible. Just, an astronomy Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona, has hit a top score of 2,904,742, nearly a million points higher than his closest known competition. (There is, inexplicably, no official Photo Hunt leader board.) Just was always the best photo hunter among his friends, but it wasn't until his college girlfriend broke up with him that he became the best among just about everyone. "I never took it seriously until I got dumped," he said by phone last week. "Normal guys go to the gym. I played Photo Hunt." His trick is what people earning Ph.D.s call "free fusing," and what the rest of us call "crossing your eyes." Just stares at the screen, drink in hand, and shoves his eyeballs together until the two images overlap. With the scenes on top of one another, it's easy to see what distinguishes them. ....
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/best-photo-hunt-player-020509 |