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Help, An Immortal Snail Is Chasing My Mouse Cursor While I Work

Kotaku·Rebekah Valentine·3 days ago
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There’s a famous…I guess we’ll call it thought experiment, posited by Rooster Teeth and memed incessantly since that asks: Would you accept $10 million and immortality if, for the rest of eternity, you were chased by a similarly immortal snail that, if it touched you, would kill you instantly? The original video is mostly a lot of riffing on how much anxiety that snail’s existence would constantly give you, even if you went to other continents or other planets to escape it. It’s all fun and games of course… …until someone makes a video game out of it. I played Don’t Touch the Snail a month ago. It’s a desktop overlay game in which a snail, moving at a snail’s pace, crawls across your screen toward your cursor. If it touches your cursor, you die, and the game’s over. Forever. You can never play it again. Don’t Touch the Snail has leaderboards for the longest time spent without touching the snail, and even has collectibles.…

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