12 Terrific Time-Wasters!
Posted 05/02/07 at 02:42:08 PM by The Maximum PC Staff
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You’ve filed your last TPS report, delivered integrated solutions to actionable items, and thought outside the box to encapsulate synergistic value enhancement, and yet, somehow the clock is pegged at 4:50—immobile, mocking you as you try to find a way to spend the final 10 minutes of your day before you can strip off the yoke of your middle-management overlords. You consider ducking out but know that to avoid the next round of right-sizing, you should remain chained to your desk until 5:01. But just what should you do as you watch the clock tick away?
To make the end of the day a bit easier on you, we’ve scoured the Internet to find 12 fantastic games that will run in your browser—no downloads, no spyware, nothing to raise the suspicions of the IT department. Go ahead, devote some time to refining your zombie-fragging techniques, consulting tarot cards for guidance on future employment opportunities, or increasing your self-esteem by trouncing a coworker in a paper-airplane-flying contest. Remember, the man can keep you chained to your desk, but he can never take your spirit during those final soul-crushing minutes of the workday!
Paper Pilot
Screw the eye of the tiger, you need to thread a needle’s eye to succeed in this game
First, you build your plane using nothing more than virtual paper. Second, you throw your plane using a virtual you. Third, you challenge your friends to a winner-takes-all, email-based, single-throw deathmatch to see whose nerves are steeliest and who can huck his paper airplane the farthest. Do you have what it takes to out-toss your buddies? There’s only one way to find out!
Flash Element TD
Flash meets Zerging in this Warcraft-themed strategy game
The best part of Flash Element TD isn’t the endless waves of enemies that run through your little labyrinth, imploring you to kill them with automated, tower-themed weaponry. It’s not the witty sound effects that precede each mob, nor the strategic design of the baddies, which truly forces you to rethink your grand scheme as the levels progress. Flash Element TD rocks because you can set your defense, click Play, and get work done while the game chugs along.
Love the Mag, but miss the old days
Submitted by scorn4society on Fri, 06/08/2007 - 4:37pm
I have been a long time reader of MaxPC, and i never regret buying the mag, but I do miss the days of old, when you guys not only stepped outside of the box, but crushed it, redesigned it and made it into a computer capable of sending people to Mars. There was an old mag a few years back where you turned a couple of decent (at the time) computers into a Cluster (the 9ghz machine). I read that mag about a hundred times, but haven't seen its like since. Don't get me wrong, still love the mag, still buy it every month, but now everything focuses on the same things. Keep up the work, but destroy the mold the way only you guys are capable of. Show me what a tri-linked cluster with 12gb of ram, and 3x motherboards with dual quadcore is capable of.
Submitted by AeroAtom on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 9:28pm
I just wanted to thank you guys for doing such fantastic work. I love the subjects you choose to address, aswell as the instructional articles you do. I particularly liked the ripping and encoding information you provideed, I have yet to use any of them, but am excited, and plan on using them first thing in the morning. Also, the free web based games were great time wasters, and could only be improoved upon if you were to list more(hint...). Well, I suppose that is enough ass kissing, youo guys rule, take care.
Submitted by ssj4crono on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 9:21am
I have been a Maximum PC reader since the times of boot. Not a subscriber since then, mind you. I was merely in middle school during those days... My father was subscribed to boot. Your magazine was enjoyed by my dad, my older bro, and myself. After the years went by my older bro went off to the Air Force and he subscribed to Maximum PC. Now I am a Marine, and married, and subscribed to Maximum PC. I have always enjoyed reading your magazine because even though its published and it takes time to get home, I still enjoy reading your content with the Maximum PC attitude.
I won't lie, I do surf the web in search for news and hardware reviews, but those sites will never replace the Maximum PC magazine experience. Websites are like "dirty woman". You know, quick and fast. Maximum PC reading is more formal and classy. I like the information presented to me in paper, and having time to read MY magazine...
It broke my heart when I got my JUNE 2007 issue and discovered that I had already read a good 4 pages of the magazine Online...
Why??? :-(
Submitted by ssj4crono on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 9:33am
make that 12 including your fantastic Linux article.....
You mean 13? xD
Submitted by Aeshir on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 6:15pm
You mean 13? xD
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