# Once you're in the game...you'll never leave...mwuhahahaha
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 18, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806 "2003-11-18T00:18:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/1 "2003-11-18T00:18:37Z")
About a week ago, I was introduced to **The Game** [sup]TM[/sup], at college, and I’ve not been able to stop playing since.
Right, so now anyone who reads this OP all the way through is ‘in the game’, regardless of whether you want to be or not.
OK, it’s really simple, so this is how **The Game** [sup]TM[/sup] works:
You’re all in **The Game** [sup]TM[/sup] now, and the sole objective of **The Game** [sup]TM[/sup] is to forget that you’re playing it. If you succeed in forgetting that you’re playing it, you’ve won, but you’ll never know. If you suddenly remember that you’re playing **The Game** [sup]TM[/sup], you have to remind everyone around you, and those who have no idea what you’re going on about must be introduced to **The Game** [sup]TM[/sup].
Yeah, so me and my friends are simply trying to get **The Game** [sup]TM[/sup] to become a world-wide…thing. That’d be cool. Or not.
Oh, and another thing. This isn’t my lame attempt at a “let’s play the _(insert boring title/theme)_ game in MPSIMS”, more something to introduce to you and for you to introduce to those around you.
It may not sound that annoying a game to the unenlightened, but it was friday when I last thought about the game, and I was prompted to create this thred upon receipt of an SMS message from a mate; “you’re playing the game…”
Cheers Everyone;
Harry
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/2 "2003-11-18T00:44:50Z")
Hah! I didn’t read the whole OP! So I’m not in! Hah!!
Foiled you!
* * *
She told me she loved me like a brother. She was from Arkansas, hence the Joy!
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### Author:  [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/3 "2003-11-18T00:48:00Z")
Attention: **The Game** [sup]TM[/sup] does not exist.
Neither does the two black suited, average, white, males behind you and that black van with tinted windows across the street.
Please return to your normal behaviour.
Now.
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/4 "2003-11-18T00:50:16Z")
There seems to be a tinfoil shortage going on.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/5 "2003-11-18T01:26:21Z")
Somebody cue Lemmy!!!
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/6 "2003-11-18T03:39:38Z")
I thought Michael Douglas already won this once…
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### Author:  [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/7 "2003-11-18T04:52:11Z")
What game?
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### Author:  [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/8 "2003-11-18T05:34:55Z")
Can we cheat??
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### Author:  [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/9 "2003-11-18T05:43:07Z")
Reminds me of the purple-bear club. To join you had to sit for five minutes and think of anything but purple bears.
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### Author:  [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/10 "2003-11-18T11:59:58Z")
You just landed on my Penn Ave hotel! Victory is mine!
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/11 "2003-11-18T14:12:19Z")
I thought this was going to be an Everquest thread.
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### Author:  [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/12 "2003-11-18T14:27:54Z")
I like pie.
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### Author:  [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/13 "2003-11-18T17:04:29Z")
**mistee** : When come back bring piiiiie (mistee)
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### Author:  [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/14 "2003-11-18T17:05:58Z")
**misstee** : When come back bring piiiiie (misstee)
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### Author:  [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/15 "2003-11-18T17:34:59Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Pretend My Name Is Witty \*
> \*\*… and the sole objective of **The Game** [sup]TM[/sup] is to forget that you’re playing it… \*\*
I guess I shouldn’t have subscribed to the thread, huh? ☹
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### Author:  [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/16 "2003-11-18T18:07:47Z")
I’m in as a game master. You will all forget this, now.
roll a saving throw
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### Author:  [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/17 "2003-11-18T21:44:45Z")
Oh bol\*\*ks (am I allowed that without the asterixes in MPSIMS?)
I had entirely forgotten that I was playing the game, until I checked my mail and saw “reply to Once you’re in the game…” in my inbox, so I guess this thread wasn’t the best way to forget it!
I did just IM one of my fellow gamers from college though, and he’s letting the rest remember that they’re playing the game.
I’m so sad.
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### Author:  [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/18 "2003-11-18T21:51:48Z")
Oh bol\*\*ks (am I allowed that without the asterixes in MPSIMS?)
I had entirely forgotten that I was playing the game, until I checked my mail and saw “reply to Once you’re in the game…” in my inbox, so I guess this thread wasn’t the best way to forget it!
I did just IM one of my fellow gamers from college though, and he’s letting the rest remember that they’re playing the game.
I’m so sad.
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### Author:  [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-youre-in-the-game-youll-never-leave-mwuhahahaha/213806/19 "2003-11-18T21:54:23Z")
Hmm, I sooooooo only pressed reply once.
Oh, and if I have to use the asterixes, I could at least use the right number of them.