{"id":1107,"date":"2009-04-11T20:43:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2009-04-11T21:08:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T05:08:14","slug":"live-nibbler-world-record-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2009\/04\/live-nibbler-world-record-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Nibbler world record attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim McVey’s world record attempt is currently underway and is being streamed live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He started playing at 8:33am CST on Friday, and needs to score higher than 1,004,328,140 for the record. <\/p>\n

\"Nibbler<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> His final score was 945,939,420. Tim didn’t beat the record, but congratulations are still in order for the grueling attempt.<\/p>\n

It may sound dull, but the stream was absolutely fascinating to watch. In addition to the rapid pace of late game, there was the drama of those in the background (including a tense moment when the dog went nuts), Tim’s curses and sighs of relief, and the comments of the several hundred spectators in chat.<\/p>\n

I’ll be keeping an eye out for more of these record-attempting streams in the future. If you hear of any, please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim McVey’s world record attempt is currently underway and is being streamed live. He started playing at 8:33am CST on Friday, and needs to score higher than 1,004,328,140 for the record. Update: His final score was 945,939,420. Tim didn’t beat the record, but congratulations are still in order for the grueling attempt. It may sound […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,39,54,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcade","category-community","category-nostalgia","category-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}