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Throw Me: Today's Time Waster

by Todd Ritter on January 31, 2008 at 11:00 AM

Similar to Dangerous Dave and Brutal Bob, the object of Throw Me is to launch a projectile as far and as high as possible. After you click the mouse button to start, you have to swing the ball around (like a hammer toss) to build up momentum. When you're ready to release, you press the spacebar.

As the ball soars through the air, a few things can help it along. If the ball hits clouds, it's pushed up by an updraft. If the ball hits a wrecking ball (near ground level) or special clouds (in the air), you're given a power meter which launches the ball farther based on how well you time the pressing of the spacebar. You can also use the aid of little balloons by pressing the spacebar while the ball is flying (if you have stamina in your stamina meter) to keep your ball floating.

Apparently people have scored distances over 200,000 feet; clearly we didn't score that well.

[Thanks Joel]

Tags: fun, games, throw me, ThrowMe, timewasters

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dknight211Jan 31st 2008 11:27AM

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The game is buggy! When I hit a distance of 186,000 the thing went into free fall .. but on the way down, the height measurement went past 0 and hit negative! It's still counting down negatively as I speak!

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Jordan RunningJan 31st 2008 5:01PM

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Buggy indeed. I've got the game open in another tab, playing itself. I hooked one of those cranes and somehow the meter on the left extended the top of the screen. I let go and it sent me flying at something like 40,000 mph. Right now I'm 425,000 feet up and falling at 500 mph (which appears to be some sort of hard-coded terminal velocity). I'm also falling straight down now (my distance has stopped increasing at 637,350) even though I launched at an angle. So much for parabolae. I'll check back in about ten minutes, which is when I figure I'll hit the ground.

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Oh, what the hell. Instead of the ground appearing when my height hit zero, I'm still falling through blackness at 500mph. My height is now -50,000 and dropping. Get me off this crazy thing!

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