I found a bunch of old blog posts I wrote from years ago on a site I haven't logged into in a very very long time. Thought I'd reprise them for this blog. Disclamer: They're not Flash related.

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Brain Age is a cheater. Yes it is. Well, maybe it's not a cheater, but it certainly was wrong and cost me 16 extra minutes on my score for Triangle Math on hard. How, you ask? I'll show you.

8   6   2   9
  +   +    -
 ( ) ( ) ( )
    +   -
   ( ) ( )
      -
     [ ]

The answer I came up with 7, but Brain Age wouldn't accept the correct answer. So, I did the problem over and over again trying to figure out how I was wrong. I eventually put it into Notepad to try and figure it out there. No dice. I got 7 every single time. I know, right? It apparently wanted a two digit number, and I didn't want to give it the satisfaction of just writing every number from 10 to whatever lie it was trying to tell me so I just wrote 7 after 16 minutes and let it tell me I was wrong. In retrospect, I should have ran through the numbers so it would tell me what it thought was right, but no matter what it might have said, it would be wrong.

If I missed something, my sincerest apologies to Dr. Kawashima, but I really don't think I did, and neither did two of my friends.

Here's my proof:

8   6   2   9
  +   +   -
(14) (8) (-7)
    +   -
  (22) (15)
      -
    [ 7 ]

I win but I also lose because now my worst score is 18 minutes. Being tenacious is a double edged sword. Look, you're not right when you argue with people, even if you are, so winning arguments against machines is all a civil man has left, and Brain Age on Nintendo DS is trying to take that away.

In the end, I win anyway because three days post, I score the best possible Brain Age of 20 years old. That's right. I'm apparently just as smart as I was when I was 20, which means I'm an idiot. Thanks again, Nintendo.

"Sometimes, when you win, you really lose." – Rosie Perez in White Men Can't Jump