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08/05/01 07:52:58 AM  
Name: Owen
Comments: Hi all... I think i might start experimenting with non flagging high numbers around the board and leaving alone long stips of mines with 3s around them.... i lost a 70 yesterday on a 50-50 at the end an dmany more low 70s. i feel i could beat my rec soon if i continue playing . i've always lacked speed with the mouse and tried to make up with fluidity and few misclicking... but now i'm going to force myself to go quicker and hopefully it will show positive resluts. Welll done on the 13 dan. good result considering the circumstances of the board beginning and that you didn't recognize it! Matt, i have to say that you are doing brilliantly on int..... i see you have 10, 12, 14, 14, 16s and 17s that's really good. i only have one 17 damn it!

08/05/01 05:15:19 AM  
Name: Marc Schouten
Comments: And Dan: Great job on the 13! Depressing to most of us, but still.. great job.

08/05/01 05:12:51 AM  
Name: Marc Schouten
Comments: David: That's exactly what I've been doing more and more over the past couple of months. Whenever I open up an area with a line of 3's, or a 5 on a corner, I force myself away from it, hoping they will clear themselves when I get to the area from the other side. I was about to post something about that. Funny that you should come up with it. I would have guessed most top players use this technique, but apparently that's not the case. Any other advanced techniques people want to share?

08/04/01 08:40:51 PM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
Best expert: 52
Best intermediate: 13
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Guess what guys, I just got the dream board on intermediate. I finished with a 13. It sucks that I can't look at a video of my game, though. I didn't even realize it was the dream board until I examined it for several seconds after I finished. I didn't open up the two big areas and go through the board clockwise like Matt did, but I'm not sure exactly how I cleared it. Hopefully I can do it faster next time. Also, last night I played beginner for 30 minutes or so and finished a game at 2 seconds. The clock must have started on 2 because it was a 2 click board and I couldn't have taken more than a fraction of a second to finish. The win2k version of winmine fixes the 2 second bug, but I like the duller colors of the 98 version so I'll just have to put up with the bug.
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08/04/01 07:20:31 PM  
Name: David Barry
Comments: I know Sriram marks not a lot of mines. He told me once that on the 3-3-3-3-3's and 4/5's etc. he doesn't bother flagging, and reckons that more often than not, you can work your way around them, without needing the double-click. I think he said that he thought he flagged 70-75 mines on average, but I would guess that on his quickest times, that would decrease somewhat. Having said that, I find it goes against my intuition of what feels safe and fast. Then again, I started to mark fewer and fewer mines towards min-June, so maybe that will change.
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08/04/01 07:01:25 PM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Best expert: argh
Comments: Well I think it's time we had another friendly debate here. I watched a video of Paul Kerry playing expert (no marking, of course) and he finished in a very nice time for his style of play. This provoked me to start trying to play expert without marking. Almost immedaitely, a nice board popped up. I flew through it and lost at 46 seconds on a 4-1 corner. I calculated how much time, roughly, it would have taken me to finish the board and got a 56. I know I have sub-60 potential in me but the fastest boards always slip away from me. Anyway, on with the debate. I was thinking that the "ideal" style of play is to mark mines around 1's, 2's, and most 3's, but as you get to 4's and higher, the empty spaces around those numbers becomes equal to or less than the number of mines in the same eight squares. Thus, not marking any mines around higher numbers, and marking to clear around 1's and 2's is in theory the perfect style of play and would prove to be the fastest (if I can ever play expert without int. tugging at my sleve ;) ) Im not saying I will become the fastest, but I think that this new style of play I have adopted which will keep more than half of the mines on an expert board unmarked per game, will become the ideal way to play. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutttt.....the fastest expert players mark practically all the mines, so Ill have a hard time convincing them
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08/04/01 09:39:05 AM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
Comments: I've really started to notice the "stuck" bug over the last few days, and I've been wondering what the heck was going on with my window.
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08/04/01 08:46:07 AM  
Name: Marc Schouten
Comments: Hmm... I haven't noticed that problem before. At least it's not the case with the win2k version. There's another solution, for those of you who have their desktop set to the maximum size for their graphics card: In winmine.ini, there are two lines: Xpos=... and Ypos=... These are the coordinates of the top left corner of the window. Close minesweeper, change the values in winmine.ini and restart. Presto.

08/04/01 05:19:41 AM  
Name: David Barry
Comments: Not much of a post, this one, but anyway... Not sure when the Stuck? tip went online, but thanks Damien, for it, because a few years back on a different machine I had that problem, and never fixed it. I am prepared now, if that ever happens again. My playing is still non-existent at the moment, I will resume playing in mid-August, till then, good luck everyone, especially you Dan, you were very unlucky with that last miss of yours.
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08/03/01 07:50:53 PM  
Name: Case
Best expert: 79
Best intermediate: 25
Best beginner: 2
Comments: This page is some excellent motivation for me... i went through a dead spell where i didn't play at all because i couldn't beat my personal bests, and then i found this page and saw some of the incredible times and watched a few video clips. Now i've lowered my beginner time from 5 -> 2 and my expert from 82 -> 79 in 3 days. Hope to catch some of you guys soon, maybe hit <100 total for all.
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08/03/01 04:25:25 PM  
Name: Stubbe
Best expert: 60
Best intermediate: 19
Best beginner: 3
Comments: Well, I've reinstalled win98 and winmine again works without slowdown. To my surprise Camtasia also works perfectly -I even captured a 61 game this evening!
I hope to break the 1 min. barrier this weekend.
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08/03/01 12:34:48 PM  
Name: Owen
Comments: CANT' WAIT FOR THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS! AAHHHHHH

08/02/01 10:47:04 PM  
Name: CJ Millisock
Best expert: 157
Best intermediate: 39
Best beginner: 6
Comments: I'm fairly new to this game, but I'm getting better!
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08/02/01 01:45:54 PM  
Name: Georgi Kermekchiev
Best expert: 86 :-)
Best intermediate: 22
Best beginner: 4
Comments: New personal best in expert - 2 secs closer, guys :-)
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08/02/01 01:31:09 PM  
Name: Kimmo
Best expert: 76
Best intermediate: 22
Best beginner: 3
Comments: Great that you are updating the site again, Damien! I have 2 more seconds to go <100...

08/02/01 11:22:27 AM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
Comments: Matt, how close are you to 58?
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08/02/01 11:15:14 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: Hmmmm, your logic seems flawed there Owen. If Eddie takes off 1 sec., how can he overtake two people? I see that if you're counting people that share the same ranking as he does as being faster simply by the fact that they are listed above him, but that could be arranged any way you want; they are all equal in those rankings. Well, that's really trivial in the sense of Im going to be coming close to Eddie's 58 any day now....and thus passing him.......toodles.
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08/02/01 10:52:44 AM  
Name: Owen
Comments: I just noticed that your beg record is 3 eduardo - get it down to 2 and you'll overtake 2 ppl in the world rankings...

08/02/01 10:46:26 AM  
Name: Owen
Best expert: 66
Best intermediate: 17
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Just a quickie to let damien know my new records. i have screenshots too if you wish damien.. glad the page is being updated.

08/02/01 07:50:59 AM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
Comments: BTW, I wasn't able to get a screenshot of the board with the 8. Also my last post read, "...almost close to zero." A bit redundant, me thinks.
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08/02/01 07:32:25 AM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
Comments: I've probably started tens of thousands of expert games over the past few years and something just happened that has never happened before. I began a new game and the very first square I clicked on was an 8. I have only seen a handful of 8's total, so the chance of getting one on the first click of a game has to be almost close to zero.
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08/01/01 12:40:54 PM  
Name: Marc Schouten
Comments: Errmm... Damien: You did know sub-60 was possible. A couple of months ago people posted a few times here on the guestbook and I added my 57/12933 to the list. 1 second better than my minesweeper record ;) Are you getting any sleep, lately, with all your update work? It's coming along nicely. You might want to correct my 19 int, though. It's 16 now. Don't know if I've sent you the screenshot. Let me know if you want it.

08/01/01 11:44:38 AM  
Name: Damien
Comments: Guess what? I just got 60 seconds, 12,331 points on solitaire!! Yehaw. I hadn't really thought sub-60 on solitaire was possible before. I've only played about 4 hours since march, so this is looking good. Now why'd I be playing cheesy solitaire? Taking out the blues for being whipped so badly in intermediate this week.

08/01/01 05:01:46 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: Give it up diFebo
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08/01/01 01:26:29 AM  
Name: The Illinois Enema Bandit
Best expert: 63
Best intermediate: 8
Best beginner: 1
Comments: I'm damn good, and proud of it. Any of you know how I can bring my scores down any? I just started playing... Thanks [Note from Damien: this guy is baloney]

07/31/01 11:13:47 PM  
Name: Georgi Kermekchiev
Comments: This is obviously not a message from Matt. Whoever wrote it, is a coward...
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07/31/01 06:50:36 PM  
Name: Damien
Best expert: 52
Best intermediate: 13
Best beginner: 1
Comments: I finally got a good start on the updates. Now I have to go through my overflow accounts and the guestbook for the last few months....Daniela, can you write me at thefinerminer@hotmail.com with your scores and any pics you wish? thanks.

07/31/01 07:15:51 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: I really dont know when Im going to really pursue a 59...Im addicted to int, and I just cannot keep playing exepert for long periods when int. is calling me. I will be trying more though now.
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07/31/01 06:31:14 AM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
Comments: Matt, when are you going to work on sub-60'ing on expert?
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07/31/01 12:49:21 AM  
Name: Ben Van Calster
Best expert: 67
Best intermediate: 18
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Nice to see someone is visiting Belgium...
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07/30/01 07:25:55 PM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: Ooooh...watch out for that virus everybody. I've been infected with the "funlove" virus lately; nothing too malicious, but it's pain repairing all those files... On a lighter note, I just got a 12, which means that w/o the dream board, I would be tied for the world record. Visit my site for the video.
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07/30/01 10:20:23 AM  
Name: Damien
Comments: VIRUS alert and its FIX The Sircam virus sends you a letter from an infected person's mailing list, and asks you for advice and gives an attachement but no name. It is not too dangerous, but it will delete some of your files on october 16th and it will clog your hard-drive with randomly generated text files. For the fix: www.symantec.com/avcenter The SirCam virus is listed at the top, click on its link: a page appears describing the problem and giving a link to a worm remover download. Download this file (17k) and save wherever you want on your computer, leaving its "download completed" window open. Then disconnect from the net and close the browser window. Open the file now and it will take 15min to scan your computer and it will completely erase the virus.

07/30/01 08:12:35 AM  
Name: Cian and Barbara
Comments: Hi Owen. We are in Belgium now. We are having a great time. There are no conmputers in cybercafes with minesweeper. Any news? I saw in the guestbook that you might be going to Copenhagen. Whats that about? We are going to be home in a few days:( So Ill see you soon. Byeee Barbara says hello.

07/29/01 11:30:38 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: Can I have the screenshots Daniela? My email works...
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07/28/01 04:09:20 AM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: I think this is because you have a Hotmail account. Are there any limits with Hotmail?

07/28/01 03:57:42 AM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: Roelof, is your E-mail address correct? I can't send the screenshot!

07/28/01 12:36:14 AM  
Name: Georgi Kermekchiev
Best expert: 88
Best intermediate: 22 !!!
Best beginner: 4
Comments: Good job Dan ! I've just got on int. board 22 :-) ... I'm coming closer guys ... Yesterday missed some low 80's - I'll crush my expert very soon... Have fun everybody !
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07/27/01 01:39:05 PM  
Name: Owen
Comments: Congrats Dan well deserved I wish i could click so fast while not mis clicking.... visit : www.hotornot.com

07/27/01 01:14:33 PM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
Best expert: 52
Best intermediate: 15
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Just got a 52. As usual, I was unaware I was going at record pace and was a bit shocked when the window popped up. I've been gunning for Damien for several months... feels good to have finally caught him.
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07/27/01 11:18:19 AM  
Name: Owen
Comments: Is that damien moore we are talking about?! gasp I might be going to copenhagen soon in which case i would be in the town of a famous person connected with minesweeper! Today i got 72 and yesterday i got 76

07/27/01 05:47:05 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: If a faster board existed, it probably would have reared it's head by now. I got the board three times damien, you still have hope.
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07/26/01 04:10:04 PM  
Name: Damien
Comments: Guess who just got the dreamboard!! I did five min ago...recognized it after I lost 4secs into it. That's the second time this year I've lost, and both times it was in the same square. (Beside the 4 on the top row). Darn. At least I also got a 15 and 16 today, but I was definately going for an 11 or 12 without even having recognized the board...it has potential. Only thing is, I want ot set a record on a dfiferent board just to show that's it's possible..which it may not be.

07/26/01 12:04:42 PM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: Yeah, Daniela's 85 is certainly a dream... And has anyone had trouble accessing my site lately? Email me if you have, or just to tell me everything's OK.
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07/26/01 10:50:36 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: Thanks Owen, I won't catch your 66 soon, because I'll be out of the game for three weeks. But still, watch out! ;-) I am smart by the way...
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07/26/01 10:31:28 AM  
Name: Owen
Comments: Dan Hard luck on losing that board on a 50-50 Well done Roelof... you're making such good progress on minesweeper! You're catching up on me but i wonder if you'll be able to beat my 66 soon?! ;)

07/26/01 09:30:19 AM  
Name: Khor Eng Tat
Comments: Hey, what a smart way to get a girl's email address! :)

(Don't take that too seriously, I was just kidding)


07/26/01 08:53:28 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: Daniela, One more question before I leave: could you send me the screenshot of your 85? I've been thinking a while about it and because your other expert scores aren't very impressive (sorry for that) it might be an expert-"dreamboard".
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07/26/01 02:33:23 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Best expert: 71
Best intermediate: 21
Best beginner: 3
Comments: Not sub-70, but still, I broke my record!
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07/26/01 02:09:57 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Best expert: 74
Best intermediate: 21
Best beginner: 3
Comments: Hi guys, I'll be leaving to Italy tomorrow morning, which means I can't sweep for three weeks :( That's a shame, but in Italy it's hot and the food is delicious :-) So, today I'm gonna sweep my head of to get below 70 and I'll speak to you in a couple of days. See you, Roelof PS: Dan, it is a very fast screenshot, but I'm not sure if it would have been a new world record. However, it's a shame you didn't finish it. Hope you've sub-50th by the time I get back.
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07/25/01 02:25:55 PM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
Best expert: 53
Best intermediate: 15
Best beginner: 2
Comments: I'll probably be dreaming about getting a world record on expert after a botched game I had yesterday. I messed up on a 50/50 guess, so I'm not kicking myself, but it would have been nice to finish it. The screenshot is on my web page. That was the fastest expert board I've seen and I doubt I'll get another shot at the record.
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07/25/01 02:11:47 PM  
Name: Owen
Comments: Have any of you actually dreamt of getting the dream board?! I haven't but i'd say one or two of you might have. Also, have any of you dreamt of making a world record? I might have. I can't really remember now.....

07/24/01 03:25:04 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: Int. isnt exactly the same as expert. The dream board's highest number is a 4 and there are only two of them.
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07/23/01 11:05:01 PM  
Name: David Barry
Comments: I can certainly say that big numbers are great on Expert, and though I can't speak with much authority on int, I would guess it is the same there as well, as 4/5/6's make non-flagging very simple.
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07/23/01 08:01:48 PM  
Name: David Chan
Comments: I want to ask if certain numbers are better for int or expert. What I mean is, if bigger #'s(4,5,6) or smaller #'s(1,2,3) be better for int, and the same thing for expert games.
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07/23/01 08:15:12 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: Oh man, I just figured out a line or two from minesweeper's programming code. "If player=Matt McGinley and probable time=13 then last square=mine" Yes, I missed another one today, not because of guessing, just an odd mine arrangement and me trying to go too fast at the end of a fast game. This is really irking me now, especially as I have four 14's, two of which were finished at 14.00000000001. *Sigh
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07/22/01 03:11:53 PM  
Name: Lasse Nyholm
Best expert: 44
Best intermediate: 15
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Just something for the rollerball/optical-discussion: I got my record of 44 with a Logitech optical wheelmouse, the best scores I got with a rollerball is 47 a couple of times. Tomorrow I'll start trying to break my inter-score - I haven't played in two weeks. Be nice to eachother - Lanyje
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07/22/01 02:18:38 PM  
Name: Owen
Comments: Thanks Damien!

07/22/01 01:41:27 PM  
Name: Joe Nuss
Comments: how many posts did you delete damien? damn. apparently the site has not gone to hell. my mistake.

07/22/01 11:30:43 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: OK, AJ posted that message while I was typing, so my last sentence can be thought away. He also quite said what I was saying.
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07/22/01 11:29:09 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: Matt (and the others who didn't get me right), I totally agree with you that mental diseases are as serious as cancer. My very own sister is autistic and mentally handiccapped. In a light form, but still. I have to say, it didn't made my youth easier, but that's another story. What I'm trying to say is that I don't believe AJ "hates" or whatever these people. Actually, I don't think anyone does. I know Hitler saw handiccapped people as "less worth" in his "übermensch-theory" but he was mentally ill himself. Everyone knows these people can't help it. And even if they could help it, that they weren't unacceptable (do you get me at this point?) The same goes up for people with a different colour of the skin, homosexuals, etcetera: they can't help it and they aren't a bother. I admit, AJ didn't choose his words very well. People might get hurt by it, I think you can call it rude. I think you should face it with a smile. It was thoughtless, so tell him that. But the tone of Paul's message assumed that AJ was a sort of demon. That's what I'm trying to say: it was thoughtless and I think he's learned his lesson. My last post was about the word "discrimination". I don't think Paul used the word, but I think it's used too quick, which can be dangerous. I wouldn't call AJ's post discrimination. My english might cause further misunderstandings. I've tried to make myself as clear as possible, but I can imagine you can't get my point. If so, take from me that I have nothing against disabled people and that I entirely agree with you guys. Still, I hope you understand a bit of what I'm saying. See you, Roelof PS: AJ, if you do hate disabled people: tell me, because then I don't feel the need of protecting you and then I need to change my image of humanity.
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07/22/01 11:25:43 AM  
Name: AJ
Comments: Apologies to whoever took offence to me using the word schizophrenic so loosely. I don't why I did it, it was only meant to be taken tongue-in-cheek. Anyway I do have knowledge about such disorders and certainly don't feel contempt towards those who suffer from it. Perhaps I do deserve this lashing that I got from Kerry and McGinley esq. but I assure you that it was not done in bad taste deliberately.

07/22/01 10:53:08 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: Roelof, I know your english isn't impecable, but I got the general idea of what you're trying to say and let me tell you that mr. Kerry was totally serious. Idiots who use terms like 'schiziod' in such loose context deserve to have a barrage of verbal insults flung at them. Schizophrenia, mania, and other common disorders held as contemptuous by the general popualtion are no less serious than heart disease or cancer. When I'm strongly defending a point, my english tends to become much too complex and my vocabulary suddenly skyrockets, but I hope that you and everybody can understand that mental disorders are not a joke, and the people who treat them as a joke are no better off than a "schoziod" or a manic depressive, neurologically speaking... Sorry Daniela, but your english seems to have improved magically!
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07/22/01 09:43:54 AM  
Name: TFM
Comments: You can mail screenshots to thefinerminer@hotmail.com to get them posted...what is really needed though, is your country/state and your e-mail (unless you are strongly opposed to the latter) so i can have your info for posting on the lists.

07/22/01 09:39:04 AM  
Name: Daniela
Best expert: 85
Best intermediate: 35
Best beginner: 6
Comments: Here are my real scores. Do you want the screenshots?

07/22/01 09:00:37 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: Well Paul, I don't believe AJ has something against real mental patients. Discrimination is a word that it used very, very, (too) quick. If I say "asshole" to any Turkish boy in Holland, he'll say it's discrimination. Of course there are exceptions, but I say it from experience. AJ was trying to post an humoristic message in which he wanted to slaughter mr. Youki the G. But actually, I think your post was humoristically is this correct?) meant too, please tell me if it wasn't.
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07/22/01 07:06:35 AM  
Name: Paul Kerry
Comments:

With a grimace, I'll try again.

I would guess that AJ is somewhat unaware of what being a schizoid is like, and just what the symptoms are. Massive auditory hallucinations maybe, but idiocy, no.

Like most mental diseases it has a massive stigma attatched to it generated by the extreme cases. AJ's post is quite frankly extremely insulting to a great number of people ::refrains from giving almost silly examples::.

My point is that the insulting tone of his post is, ack, disgusting, for lack of a better word. Its like insulting skin colour, ethnic background, religious beliefs, the physically disabled......

I can't, in good conscience, let his post be on this board unanswered. And until it is removed, or my reply isn't deleted, I'll continue to post (until I'm permanently banned).

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07/22/01 05:55:03 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: I dont see how [Daniela] cannot perform better with an optical mouse than with a roller-ball. Opticals have no new gadgets or anything to work out; they are merely roller-balls, without the balls! That can be taken metaphorically too ;) What are your real scores Daniela D.?
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07/22/01 04:29:30 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: "the sweepers" should be "the best sweepers"
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07/22/01 04:29:03 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: Funny, I must have remembered wrong, if you understand what I mean. I thought the sweepers used optical mice.
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07/22/01 04:15:17 AM  
Name: Kimmo
Comments: I don't even know what optical mouse is...

07/22/01 04:11:32 AM  
Name: Daniela
Best expert: 85
Best intermediate: 35
Best beginner: 6
Comments: I have an optical mouse and I'm not able to go below 160 with it.

07/22/01 04:06:08 AM  
Name: David Barry
Comments: Roelof, I think the best rollerball mouse times would be something like: Lasse 44 Sriram 49 Me 50 etc. It would be more interesting to see the best optical mouse times.
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07/22/01 01:21:00 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Best expert: 74
Best intermediate: 21
Best beginner: 3
Comments: Hey, I know we dropped the subject some time ago, but I'd like to know how many of you play with a rollerball-mouse. I do, and I'm quite interested in the best "rollerball-scores".
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07/22/01 12:51:33 AM  
Name: David Chan
Best expert: 81
Best intermediate: 24
Best beginner: 4
Comments: Well, just want to say, you have me from IL,USA for my beginner time and the right SK, Canada for my int and exp times. Sk, Canada is the correct one though.
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07/22/01 12:41:40 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Best expert: 74
Best intermediate: 21
Best beginner: 3
Comments: :-) :-) :-) Finally!!! Well, my name is still missing, but I'll probably one of the 50 then. Good luck everyone.
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07/21/01 10:26:56 PM  
Name: Damien
Comments: I updated the scorelists (but not the ranked list) to May 31 today, although I haven't added some of the pics from that time. Those who have been watching will have realized that a while back I updated to April 19, and that last month I completely overhauled the downloads page and the links page adding about 20 new links. In the process of coming, expect 5 more videos, half a dozen tips, another 50 people (in addition to the 80 already added), more links, more downloads, some new bios, and a lot in the misc section, but in total that is another 10 hours work, and I have a full time job right now. So, this page is not dead...if you feel upset about delays, realize that I'm worse. (if I had updated earlier, the website was going to be deleted off my dad's space). So, just so you know, I read your letters every day and the guestbook, and yes Matt, I can delete letters.

07/21/01 02:40:40 PM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: Well, Kimmo that was a close one. I reacted to AJ's message. Good luck with getting below 100 ;-)
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07/21/01 02:37:58 PM  
Name: Kimmo
Best expert: 76
Best intermediate: 23
Best beginner: 3
Comments: Just 3 seconds...(to GET <100 total)

07/21/01 08:25:48 AM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: And I got my 35 and my 6 right after my 85.

07/21/01 08:15:04 AM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: I did not have a lucky day. The board was not very friendly and right after my 85 I had a 96. And exactly one month before this I had a 136 on an unfriendly board. But I can't even reach 136 this week.

07/20/01 11:07:12 AM  
Name: Owen
Comments: Hi fellow sweepers That's very Funny about the world records match your shoe size lasse!!! ;) That's more or less all i have to say

07/20/01 10:01:31 AM  
Name: Jaurieke Ton
Best expert: 118
Best intermediate: 34
Best beginner: 3
Comments: Wow I see that the discussion moved from Matt's guestbook to this guestbook. I used to play the older version of minesweeper some years ago. And because there was no cometition, no challenge I quit. Now I started again a few weeks ago on a different computer my new times were 3-34-122 today I went back to my old score list and I saw that my old times were 4-36-118. So my best time were acutally 3-34-118. I was really glad when I found out.
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07/20/01 09:17:58 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: I agree with Matt. I told you to get below 100 again first... i guess it was just a lucky day for you. Good luck :-)
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07/20/01 09:04:52 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: 85 is a good score for someone who cannot get below 160 any given day...
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07/20/01 07:17:49 AM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: I can't get below 160 this week! :-( What the hell is wrong with me after this 85?

07/19/01 12:42:22 PM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: Matt, your page is really cool. I think I'll visit it more often.

07/19/01 11:33:57 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: Hey Daniela, visit my page and read the "1 second theory" essay under the "words" section. I think that is what you're describing.
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07/19/01 07:38:36 AM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: Another bug I have noticed: Sometimes, when I play a 24*30 board with ten mines in it (this is good for speed development), the whole field is popping up and there are no more squares to clear, but the timer isn't stopped (if you don't believe me, I have a screenshot). If this happens to you simply mark a mine and the timer will be stopped. I've heard about people opening a square. Another example of bad English.

07/19/01 07:38:10 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: Hello? Sarcasm might not be that palpable for someone with a weak grasp on English, but I'm sorry Daniela, we firgured that one out years ago.
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07/19/01 05:54:10 AM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: No, I can't, but my grandpa can do this very well.

07/19/01 05:43:31 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: It is true... yes she is a genius. Good lord. By the way Daniela: kanst du "jodelen"???
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07/19/01 05:41:17 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: Amazing... I'm going to try it. will be back later to tell the result.
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07/19/01 05:37:41 AM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: You can try it out: Doubleclick on the clock, then open Minesweeper. If you start a new game just when a new second begins, there is no timer jump.

07/19/01 05:27:59 AM  
Name: Matt McGinley
Comments: She's a genius!
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07/19/01 05:16:59 AM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: The Minesweeper clock gets the time from the computer clock. So if you start a new game at 11 PM and 0.97 seconds, for example, the timer jumps to 2 as soon as the computer clock shows 11:00:02 (I can't explain this in English)!

07/19/01 05:06:17 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: Tell me baby! :-)
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07/19/01 04:34:57 AM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: My sister always gets some lucky boards, but she looks around all the time so she is really slow. And she always cheats. Ever noticed that you hardly ever see the 1 on the timer? I found out why. Wanna know? This is very bad English, I know, but I'm from Austria and cannot speak English very well.

07/19/01 04:00:40 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: Daniela, so your sister is able to finish minesweeper-games, even on intermediate. How did she manage then to get 84 on beginner...
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07/19/01 03:08:59 AM  
Name: Daniela
Comments: My sister guesses more than you all together, her best times are beg 84, int 253 and she never finished expert!

07/19/01 01:19:23 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
Comments: Andrew, Absolutely, the coffeeshops are great (although I don't visit them, don't even know if I'm allowed to). About the int/exp discussion: I think someones expert score tells the most about a player. Since my expert-score is acceptable, I like it also more than intermediate, although that might also be a consequence of me being stuck at intermediate. My English stands in the way of making myself clear and find good arguments, please forgive me. Lasse, shoesize 44 (I think the subject is highly important, you can tell a lot about people if you know their shoesize) sounds right in Dutch terms. As I said, my shoesize is 46 and I'm happy with it. Matt, I think 52-54 is way too big(again, if Europe has the same "numbers" everywhere). If you really have that you might get in the Guiness Book of Records. (in which you can already get with your 10 of course). So, after all this bad-English-rubbish, I'll finish with the communication that I'll be leaving to Italy, Toscana, in about a week. Maybe I'll see some of you guys there... :-) You never know.
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