Escapa! -- Victory thru questionable, yet productive, scruples....

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As I referenced below, this is an incredibly addicting little game. Basically, you maneuver your icon as other shapes try to run into you. The longer you survive without running into a wall or colliding with something else, the better.

Making it 18 seconds is supposed to be great. I've gotten to around 26.

And I've also gotten to 130.

How?

Basically, I cheated.

A cyclist try to go fast seeks a tail wind. A runner would rather be going downhill. And someone competing against a ticking clock and a fast computer can't slow time, so they slow the computer.

My laptop slows drastically as I download pictures from a digital photo disk -- as the machine sucks hundreds of megabytes off the camera card its "brain" is overworked, and other programs slow down drastically. Including Escapa....

So as the timer merrily ticks away, those lightning fast, malicious little blocks I have to dodge slow to a manageable rate. When I get bored I just ram my icon into something to close the game and give myself an incredible, not exactly kosher, score.

At least I'm honest.

Eventually.