 draggy1234
Posts: 486
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Jun 30, 2007 16:33 |
I've been using a laptop for my Internet tasks for some time now, and I've grown quite fond of its "hibernate" ability. It is pretty much similar to shutting down the computer, except that I can turn it back on and my progress and windows will still be open. I'm wondering, would this method be a "valid" way of "saving" my progress on END? I'm hoping that this would be an alternative to the multi-hour sessions of Normal mode that I attempt.
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 MintMan
Posts: 4061
Member #1
Jun 30, 2007 19:06 |
Ah-uh-oh. If it works, then I guess it works. Technically, that would just be the same thing as never closing a window or turning your computer off, which I could only assume would be a way to save progress barring some sort of power outage.
So why wouldn't it work? The only problem I see is that you even are able to last that long in END.
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"Search for things you can't see.
"Goin' blind, out of reach
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 MadGoblin
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Jun 30, 2007 21:23 |
If anyone could last that long, I'm sure Dragster'd be the one steppin' up to the plate. Yeee. I dance for joy if I can get past the ten min-o-mark 
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 draggy1234
Posts: 486
Member #97
Jun 30, 2007 22:49 |
Well, my most recent highest score record for Normal mode (without Null/Omni) from last year did take me around the ballpark of a few hours to finish. I'm thinking that this time, I could slow down a little and thus make it less of a risk that I would do something careless and mess up. Also, now times have changed, and I no longer can readily afford several-hour chunks of playtime at once.
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 Lugiatrainer
Posts: 400
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Jul 7, 2007 14:23 |
I just use the method of keeping the window open, as my laptop is almost always on.
* uses Blast on draggy1234 * Draggy must fall!
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draggy1234
Posts: 486
Member #97
Jul 7, 2007 20:24 |
* falls *
In the span of time between the day I made this topic and now, my computer has managed to freeze up and crash twice. Twice I lost my END scores I was working on. First happened when I was up to about the 1600s. Second one came yesterday, when I had made turns into the 3300s (therefore actually surpassing my own record).
I'm too disheartened to try again, at least for a while. 
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 MintMan
Posts: 4061
Member #1
Jul 7, 2007 20:27 |
Your loss is our gain!
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Yeah, I guess that is a downfall to the hibernation tactic. My recommendation: start getting regular, less than thousand scores like the rest of us, jerk! 
"And when I wake up in the morning
"To feel the daybreak on my face,
"There's a blood that's flowin' through the ceiling
"With a knife to open up the sky's vein." ~ Backwater, Meat Puppets
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