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672m 66.8cm

What, you thought I'd post something gross?

Mine's pretty small, I didn't replay that level much.

Mine was like 860<b>+</b>m

The largest I managed to roll was about 827m and I rolled everything in the level.

Well, some things dissapear once the katamari gets to a certain size, and it also depends on how much stuff fell off.
I've got to double-check anyway, but a friend of mine has it right now. =/

I remember I got the ball to a certain large size (large enough to roll over small trees), and then I was like "Hey, I wonder if I can shake it all off", so I visited the round park with a clock in it so I can crash into everything, and I managed to make the katamari naked, but, even though I shook <i>everything</i> off, it was larger than it's original starting size, and there was an invisible larger sphere for collision detection around the smaller katamari ball, and the Prince is completely unseeable (the Prince model is probably taken off at some point).

Spazz wrote:Mine was like 860<b>+</b>m

Ditto.

672? <i>That's it?</i> C'mon, man, you gotta try harder than that. My personal best is 864m 3cm 1mm. <a href="http://s9.invisionfree.com/Katamari_Dam ... 79">People have gotten up to 880.</a>

Hey, I thought that wasn't bad for the second time I played that level.

You've only played the level twice? Well, it's not that bad, in that case.

860 sounds about right.

Decimal points are terrific when combined with the metric system.

That's because decimal points usually revolve around the metric system.

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I'm just saying that 672.868m makes a hell of a lot more sense then 672m86cm8mm. I mean why use the metric system if you aren't going to take advantage of the fact that it is a base ten system?

It's because in the earlier stages the ball doesn't get that big... your goal in stage 1 is 10cm, for example. In some of the later stages, you start extremely small (in cm) and then gradually expand to meters. You get a clearer idea of your progress by looking at each degree of measurement individually.

So there.

I'm glad that something has finally convinced you people to start using the metric system.

I actually just finished a paper on the metric system, and why the traditional American system is inferior in every way. Unfortunately, it is very hard to find the actual plausible reasons we stayed with the inch-pound system, so I literally just finished it, having started at six in the p.m.

Fucking inches... I hate them so much.
But now I hate centimeters too.
That's associative hatred for you.
God I need sleep.

How about some actual plausible reasons why we still observe daylight savings time?

I don't think there are any plausible reasons why we still observe Daylight Savings Time anymore. Generally, people think it's because it helps farmers but from what I've read, they hate it, too.

So, the only real reason is..

Tradition!

I think it's extremely weird that we cock ourselves up so much for the supposed sake of farmers anyway.

I find this a little hard to believe, but apparently it's so that businesses can reduce their operating costs by not having to have their lights on as people work in the dark. It might make sense except that most businesses keep the lights on all day long no matter what it looks like outside.

In one state, Indiana I think, all but one county does not observe daylight savings time for religious reasons, because apparently artificially "changing" the time of day is against god's will. I don't know about any other countries, but they don't have it in Japan either.

I'm pretty sure we're the only nation in the world stupid enough to pretend the earth's rotation speeds up for an hour once every year.

Too bad DST was invented by a <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Willett">Brit</A>.

wikipedia wrote:DST is particularly unpopular among people working in agriculture because the animals do not observe it, and thus the people are placed out of synchronization with the rest of the community, including school times, broadcast schedules, and the like.

Hah, shoulda just gone <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_s ... ">there</a> in the first place.