robot unicorn attack

It's midnight. I'm in the computer lab in one of the engineering buildings at U of T. Luckily for my friends and I, this one doesn't get closed at 10:30 like most of the other facilities. Nope, it remains open 24/7 for keeners like us who feel they must study the limit comparison rule for determining whether an infinite series will converge or determining weight percentages of solders when the composition happens to be hypoeutectic... all beyond the closing times of the average school library.

It's pretty funny to look around you when you're in the lab this late at night to see the mood that people are in. Everyone is always in the same mood at this time of night, not that it doesn't change, but if it does, it changes all around. First, when you get here at 10:30, right when every has just migrated from the nearby closing library and everyone is logging onto the computers, Everyone has bags under their eyes. We're all super tired, and what's more, we know it. You can tell by the look on everyone's face as they slowly type their utorid password into the computer that they can't believe they're still here at school at midnight, doing homework. But we are.

After about a half hour of silence and extremely hard work, one person will throw a tantrum. Just one. Everyone is silent when that person stands up, throws up their arms in despair and yells "SCREW IT". They then proceed to slack of for an extended period of time. Little does that person know that they have just triggered a mental Hiroshima for everyone in the room. Two people then realize; "Hey, you know what? I'm going to yell, and slack off too". Have you ever tried working hard, being focused and productive when everyone around you is playing games and checking their facebook? Yeah. You know what if feels like. Those three people who have begun slacking off have paved the road for a boat load of slacking engineers.

It's funny how in the minutes after this occurence, what was once a very silent productive room becomes a dota, starcraft, and msn hive buzzing with gaming jargon and gossip.

As per usual, i fell victim tonight. Some friends have been playing this flash game recently; Robot Unicorn Attack. At first when i was watching them play i thought it looked pretty stupid, but when i was slacking, and had nothing much better to do, i decided to give it a try.

WARNING: Please do not try this game if you have better things to be doing, it can and will consume copius amounts of your time and concentration.

I don't even know how to explain how addicting this game is. The music is just impossibly viral. I think i just played the game for an hour, but i don't even know, seeing as i was in a haze the whole time i was playing. If you try it, you'll understand.

My high score is 58k, beat it, i challenge you :D
EDIT: 71k