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Beating Snake

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If you had a Nokia cell phone back in the late 90s or early 2000s, you no doubt played Snake. In the game, you control a line (the titular snake) and attempt to eat dots (food) while avoiding the walls as well as your own ever-growing tail. It was a fun diversion which has now been turned into a meditation on life, via this mesmerizing animated gif showing it being beaten:

Beating Snake

Be sure to see huznetsov’s comment for an explanation of the Russian text seen at the end.

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jerrygerard
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Romanikque
4291 days ago
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So hypnotic...
Baltimore, MD
BiG_E_DuB
4294 days ago
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Wow
Charlotte, NC, USA
Andi_Mohr
4294 days ago
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Heh remember doing exactly this. On speed 1. Patience required!
copyninja
4295 days ago
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really Amazing!
India
smishra
4295 days ago
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Snake (the game) being beaten
bronzehedwick
4295 days ago
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That's so cool.
Tarrytown, NY
shamgar_bn
4295 days ago
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If you could stop watching it before the end, you're a better person than I am.
Wake Forest, North Carolina
jbloom
4295 days ago
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I was just mesmerized by that gif.
Columbus, Ohio
popular
4295 days ago
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I was just mesmerized by that gif.
erichinojosa
4295 days ago
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Amazing.
Saginaw, Michigan
ryanbrazell
4295 days ago
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WHOA
Richmond, VA
ChrisDL
4295 days ago
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New York
norb
4295 days ago
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This was the old QBASIC standby for me.
clmbs.oh
mgeraci
4295 days ago
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Wow.
Duluth, MN
patrickod
4298 days ago
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So many hours of my youth compiled into a gif.
San Francisco, California
DMack
4295 days ago
It's only 600KB too, I wonder how small it would be without the message at the end