It is '69 and you have $4.20 ⛳. Pump it exactly.
January 7, 2022 9:58 AM Subscribe
SLTimeWaster: Gas Pump Golf.
I don't own a car, but whenever I rent one or use an auto share car and need to pump gas into it, I always make a game of trying to land on an even dollar amount, so this is weirdly satisfying.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:34 AM on January 7, 2022 [5 favorites]
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:34 AM on January 7, 2022 [5 favorites]
I felt pretty good about my score of 24¢, and then I saw the high scores :|
“I bet you I can make a video game which involves pressing and holding one button and then carefully scrutinizing the screen for a while to see when you stop pressing the button.”
See also Retro Drift (part of Gamesnacks, posted here a couple months ago), and probably others too.
posted by box at 11:05 AM on January 7, 2022
“I bet you I can make a video game which involves pressing and holding one button and then carefully scrutinizing the screen for a while to see when you stop pressing the button.”
See also Retro Drift (part of Gamesnacks, posted here a couple months ago), and probably others too.
posted by box at 11:05 AM on January 7, 2022
I was thinking the other day about that weird American Express ad Seinfeld made, about the "perfect pump". Which was always a weird ad, because I never got the creepy gas station guy who appears overjoyed whenever someone doesn't have a perfect pump...like, what is it to him? And actually, doesn't it make his life harder when you don't have a perfect pump because he has to carry around a mountain of change to deal with you giving him $21.00 for a $20.37 fillup? Or does he expect you'll leave the overage as a tip? What, exactly, does he do to deserve that tip because he appears to just stand around and wait for you to pay? How, exactly, is the Amex card "letting me do more" at the gas station?
These are the questions that still haunt me some nights when I can't sleep. And now I think the sound effects from that commercial should be part of the game.
posted by nubs at 11:29 AM on January 7, 2022 [7 favorites]
These are the questions that still haunt me some nights when I can't sleep. And now I think the sound effects from that commercial should be part of the game.
posted by nubs at 11:29 AM on January 7, 2022 [7 favorites]
Hunh. I got a score of $0.01 but it didn't prompt me for the high score thingy. But then I only had to pump $0.25 of gas in the 1920s so it wasn't all that hard.
It was kinda fun for a second in the exact same way trying to do the same thing in real life is only with less fraughtness in the form of "oh, I fucked up, now I get a pocket full of change"
posted by seanmpuckett at 11:30 AM on January 7, 2022
It was kinda fun for a second in the exact same way trying to do the same thing in real life is only with less fraughtness in the form of "oh, I fucked up, now I get a pocket full of change"
posted by seanmpuckett at 11:30 AM on January 7, 2022
Seanmpuckett, I think just like golf you have to finish the whole course.
posted by muddgirl at 11:48 AM on January 7, 2022
posted by muddgirl at 11:48 AM on January 7, 2022
Canadian pumps for a couple decades now have asked how much you want. Is this not the case in the US?
posted by Mitheral at 12:40 PM on January 7, 2022
posted by Mitheral at 12:40 PM on January 7, 2022
@nubs, every single time I pull out my debit card I make the "ehh uhh? ohhh" sound. Burned into my brain.
posted by tayknight at 12:49 PM on January 7, 2022
posted by tayknight at 12:49 PM on January 7, 2022
No real American is gonna let a goddamn gas pump tell him when to stop pumping. Lock that trigger down and keep it locked.
posted by flabdablet at 1:00 PM on January 7, 2022
posted by flabdablet at 1:00 PM on January 7, 2022
I played a few rounds but then decided that pumping gas isn't fun enough to spend any more time on it.
posted by aubilenon at 1:56 PM on January 7, 2022
posted by aubilenon at 1:56 PM on January 7, 2022
Needs more gasoline smell.
posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 1:58 PM on January 7, 2022 [7 favorites]
posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 1:58 PM on January 7, 2022 [7 favorites]
Oh look, my cousin SL.
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 2:13 PM on January 7, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 2:13 PM on January 7, 2022 [1 favorite]
I always make a game of trying to land on an even dollar amount, so this is weirdly satisfying.
After you master that, try getting even gallons. When they're measured to 3 decimal places, that's where the fun is.
posted by hwyengr at 2:32 PM on January 7, 2022
After you master that, try getting even gallons. When they're measured to 3 decimal places, that's where the fun is.
posted by hwyengr at 2:32 PM on January 7, 2022
"High Scores
There used to be high scores. Then HN hacked. This is why we can't have nice things."
☹
posted by invokeuse at 2:57 PM on January 7, 2022
There used to be high scores. Then HN hacked. This is why we can't have nice things."
☹
posted by invokeuse at 2:57 PM on January 7, 2022
Sometimes a hacked high score can be a nice thing in and of itself.
posted by flabdablet at 3:13 PM on January 7, 2022
posted by flabdablet at 3:13 PM on January 7, 2022
Lots of people had 420 in 1969.
posted by kirkaracha at 7:38 PM on January 7, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by kirkaracha at 7:38 PM on January 7, 2022 [1 favorite]
Sometimes a hacked high score can be a nice thing in and of itself.
Not 100% sure which of the several you are referring to but I note currently three of them contain the character string HutinPuy.
Huy (хуй) is Russian slang for “penis,” so this looks like a malapropesque comment, like marking the score with DrumpTickhead.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 10:11 AM on January 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
Not 100% sure which of the several you are referring to but I note currently three of them contain the character string HutinPuy.
Huy (хуй) is Russian slang for “penis,” so this looks like a malapropesque comment, like marking the score with DrumpTickhead.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 10:11 AM on January 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
Most of the time I aim for a round number when I’m filling up, even though I have literally never paid cash for gas. I guess I learned this from my parents?
posted by madcaptenor at 2:14 PM on January 8, 2022
posted by madcaptenor at 2:14 PM on January 8, 2022
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“I bet you I can make a video game which involves pressing and holding one button and then carefully scrutinizing the screen for a while to see when you stop pressing the button.”
“You’re on.”
posted by ricochet biscuit at 10:23 AM on January 7, 2022 [2 favorites]