Apr 16 2008Guy Proposes To Girlfriend Via Hacked Video Game, She Says Yes, My Wife Divorces Me
Bernie Ping is a computer programmer that proposed to his girlfriend Tammy Li by hacking her favorite game, Bejeweled. After she reached a certain score a special screen with the message popped up, and she said yes. PopCap, the maker of the game, was surprisingly unpissed (companies typically discourage hacking their games), and is even flying the couple to Seattle as part of their honeymoon and handing out copies of the game to wedding guests.
Wow, that's so awesome. But not nearly as awesome as the way my girlfriend thought I was proposing to her. I'll tell you about it. You see, my girlfriend and I were really big into those claw machines (crane games) where you try to pick up stuffed animals and dump them down a chute. Well some of the machines in the bars around here have jewelry and other crap stuffed in there. So there we were playing when I noticed there was already something in the prize chute. I told my girlfriend to investigate, and it was a little ring box. She started tearing up as she removed it, thinking I was proposing. You should have seen the look on her face when she opened it up and it was a chintzy key fob -- priceless.
From matching gems to the perfect match [yahoo]
Thanks to Alastair, who no woman could refuse, for the tip
Reader Comments
1. Jeff - April 16, 2008 9:48 AM
...prize chute*...
2. Uncle Eccoli - April 16, 2008 9:49 AM
I hate those games. They're f***ing mindless.
3. Scott - April 16, 2008 11:02 AM
Bernie also convinced his betrothed that if she carried the game around it would be like having hundreds of engagement rings as apposed to one on her finger. She responded by kicking him in the bejewels and he bejello'd to the floor where he bejerked around in pain.
4. SmokingGirl - April 16, 2008 11:32 AM
*snorts* HA.
Scott, you always make me laugh.
I proposed to my husband, by the way, in a WalMart while we were arguing over which toilet paper is the best. Maybe not the most "romantic" story, but it warms me just thinking about.
Any man who would defend Charmin to the death is my kind of man. *sigh* I love that man.
5. Jeff - April 16, 2008 12:34 PM
That's better. ;)
6. Scott - April 16, 2008 1:36 PM
Wait a darn minute SmokingGirl! Here you've been leading me on all these year....days and you've been married all along!?! Tis a cruel, cruel game you play with my heart.....I will now have to cry myself to sleep...*sniff*.....Hey Snooky! Got any more of that beef jerky?
OK, I'm back! Now what was I talking about? I kind of blanked out the last 5 minutes.
7. SmokingGirl - April 16, 2008 1:53 PM
Come here, Scott, let me hold you. No, no...don't cry. It'll be alright. Shhhhhhhh. Rest your head upon my ample breasts, shhhhhhh.
8. Scott - April 16, 2008 2:40 PM
OK, I'll do it but I'm not going to like it.....Oh who am I kidding, I can't resist ample breasts!
I feel something springing to life.....down there....
9. Scott - April 16, 2008 2:54 PM
Can I hit it from the back?
10. Scott - April 16, 2008 3:39 PM
I can see our sophomoric friend is back. Listen waste of time, she knows me better than that.
I thought spring break was over? Shouldn't you be sitting in history class fantasizing about the guy sitting front of you?
11. Kimli - April 16, 2008 3:55 PM
Lame. My husband proposed to me via mad hax0ring my Quake 3 config, so he's got this guy beat by 7 years and a much cooler game.
12. Brandon MVD - April 16, 2008 5:40 PM
I bet she hit the hint button after that.
13. SmokingGirl - April 16, 2008 8:24 PM
You know you're special when you have a clone.
And don't worry, Scott, I can reconise your wit over a latent homosexuals poor attempt at sarcasm anyday. Mwah, dahling.
14. buzz_clik - April 16, 2008 8:55 PM
Is there anything that induces tears of joy more than a story of nerds in lurve? I'm voting 'no'...
But enough about Scott & SmokingGirl! What's this Bejeweled story about, eh?
15. Scott - April 16, 2008 9:34 PM
I know you can SmokingGirl, I know you can....
Now about that ample breast thing.....
16. michael - May 4, 2009 3:41 PM
wow geek faaaag!