This game requires mental strength and it will be physical requiring as well! But if you want to put yourself to a challenge, here is a suggestion.
Futurama Le Mans is based on a combination of
Futurama marathons and the annual racing event,
Le Mans.
Here is how it works:
Pick a range of episodes you wish to watch (I recommend currently 1 - 72, i.e. original run). Then you meet up with your friends, and then watch these episodes in
one go. No pauses, no breaks, just non-stop watching.
I realise your calculations with soon score up to 25-26 hours rather than 24 of racing.
But this is where the concept of Le Mans comes in; teams.
A team consists of 2 to 3 persons (you may make house rules to change this limit).
As such, the rules (yeah, it's Le Mans, IT'S NOT JUST FOR FUN, IT'S A COMPETITION!):
- If at even given point, all members of a team is not watching Futurama, the team is disqualified.
- Only one person is required to be watching Futurama at any given time.
- The transition between being in pit and watching Futurama should be written down, i.e. note when you left to go to the toilet, etc. and when you came back.
- At the end of the game, the total 'uptime' for each member is calculated, and the average uptime for each team is calculated against each other, and a winner is thus found.
Some technical recommendations:
Don't use DVDs, get all the episodes as files on your computer (you can rip them yourself). DVDs will take too long to switch between
and requires one to be at least 'sanely' awake at any given point.
Once you have the files, you wish to avoid certain issues; such as having to start them yourself and having to watch the credit for each episode.
If you are using a Unix based operating system, I can present you with the following Bash script:
#!/bin/bash
MPLAYER_ARGS=$@
E=( "20:50" "20:57" "20:58" "20:56" "20:57" "20:56" "20:56" "20:58" "20:55"\
"20:55" "20:56" "20:56" "20:55" "20:58" "20:57" "20:58" "21:22" "20:56"\
"20:58" "20:57" "20:58" "20:56" "21:00" "21:00" "21:00" "21:00" "21:02"\
"21:00" "20:59" "21:02" "21:00" "20:52" "21:00" "21:00" "21:01" "21:02"\
"21:01" "20:59" "20:58" "20:59" "20:59" "21:00" "21:01" "20:57" "21:02"\
"21:02" "20:58" "20:50" "21:02" "21:01" "21:02" "20:59" "20:59" "21:02"\
"21:00" "21:01" "21:02" "21:32" "21:00" "21:02" "21:01" "21:02" "21:02"\
"21:02" "21:32" "21:02" "20:59" "21:02" "20:59" "21:02" "21:33" "21:39" )
I=0
for FILE in *.avi;
do /usr/bin/mplayer -fs $FILE $MPLAYER_ARGS -endpos ${E[$I]} || exit;
I=$(($I+1));
done
For the purpose of this script, assume you have
all your episode files stored in the same directory
and in the correct order. This script will cut off the credits, measured individually for each episode. This script, as you can see, uses
mplayer.
For other operating systems; maybe your application has a playlist or something? Maybe you could edit out the credits manually?
And last suggestion; remember to sleep before hand. This is biting back at me right now, because I only slept 3-4 hours before this Le Mans! As of writing, we are into our 20th hour.
Oh and,
FistfulOAwesome, if you are reading this, NO SKIPPING UNPOPULAR EPISODES. This is a challenge, not a walk in the park!
I'll let you know if my team won when we get to that. At last tracking (14 hours in) we were number 3rd (out of 4).
Our setup (for inspiration)
Stereo. Projector. Desktop computer. It's that simple. The desktop computer runs
Ubuntu and runs the script mentioned above. We also had a board where we wrote down our times.
And for the record, even when I feel like I am killing myself, I am still laughing at
Futurama. THIS IS THE BEST FORM OF TORTURE.