Dreamboard
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A similar crisis of faith seems to repeat itself across many games. The main table game decades ago was 'carom billiards.' No pockets, the target was hitting a target ball indirectly, bouncing off a rail or another ball first. You try to make such shots as many times in a row as possible.
One great player realized you could nudge all the balls against the wall and repeatedly gently tap the line of balls to score a near endless series of points. The technique was called nursing, and it basically destroyed that game.
There's an amazing skill in pushing the terms of a game to its limits, there's a genius to it. Sadly that's not the skill people are trying to measure at the time, so it makes everyone angry at their records.
There should be a separate list of record holders for people who excel at that, people who have broken games.
Also a key bit that is a little buried: “on roland's vid the board before the dreamboard is the same as the one on matt's 10sec vid. this board has a large significant opening in the top left corner. so i think roland's method or at least a possible method is this: you put the cursor in the top left corner and keep hitting the left mouse and the F2 button until you get that particular opening. pretty dull, but it works! that way you already know that you're getting the dreamboard before you start the board itself.”