Hacked Game to Propose to Girlfriend

Heh. And they say romance is dead.

 

What if she sucked at the game and never hit the required score? How would he know? He'd either have to say "hey, do you play that game much anymore?" or something similar.

I'm glad it worked for the guy, though!

 

Now that would be awkward.

 

Sad git. What happened to getting down on a knee with a tear in the eye?

 

It took him a month to reprogram the game ... imagine if she just got bored of the game and stopped playing. Now that would be a real waste.

 

And imagine if she had said no.

 

I think it's amusing that Popcap is planning to fly the couple to their home base of Seattle as part of the honeymoon, and give them copies of the game to hand out as favors.

A refreshing change from companies that sue...

 

Awesome... that man is almost a god

 

Sweet. Imagine how she felt when the message popped up...

Still, as plans go, this one was a bit shaky... What if the game simply crashed?
And technically, nothing guarantied that he would be there when she read the message, so he's effectively missed his own proposal?
I'd rather like that a guy be there when he proposes to me, to hear the answer.

However, it was romantic, a lot of effort went into it, and she said yes. Mission accomplished. All that remains is the happily ever after part...

 

That is the epitome of GEEK.

Always good to hear that a geek got the girl.

 

It's relatively simple e.g. to fire an alert window once her IP pays a visit to your site. "Become Mrs Nerd. [OK] [Cancel]"

In fact, the Cancel button could keep escaping the mouse cursor.

Or it could work as a one-time scheduled event in Windows. Or screensaver. Whatever

Not like I care.

[Marry me] [Format C:]

 

Does that really happen? I have never heard of a guy asking a woman to marry him and have the answer be a no. I, like so many other men, have heard a fair share of "no" when asking someone out on a date, but I would like to think that most guys would not go through all of the trouble of buying a ring, and thinking of a romantic way of proposing, unless there was a near certain chance that the response would be "yes".

 

Believe it or not, it actually happened to a friend of mine. Dude, the guy was not a happy camper, I can tell you that.

 

I know a guy who surprised his girlfriend at work (she's a waitress) with a wedding proposal and not only did she say no but went on to inform him that she had been seeing someone else.

Aldeth, The calculation of the certainty that she will say yes can be skewed by things like desperation, denial or delusion.

 

Has happened to me. Twice.

I'm not a happy camper.

 

It was twice? Curse me and my shoddy memory, then. It also happened to another of my buddies, though the circumstances were different -- it's a rather complicated story.

 

I just hope that he used proper english and not 1337 or some other crap geek language. Would be a fine way to dull down a romantic moment.

wi11z u m4rry m3? lolzorz

 

@DoTW: Different girls, different girls. One fairly recently, last year, one about three years ago.

I wonder if this guy'd be turned down by this specific girl, would he have the guts or the bloodymindedness not to learn from his mistakes to pull off this particular stunt with another girl ...and if that would've failed, then yet with another one...ad infinitum.

Would this be a good pickup technique?

 

I don't know. I'll just grab a statement of claim template and fill in the personals.