Re: Human Test Subject
It's absolutely possible, and not very difficult. Since there's a sound that plays when it's time to enter the numbers, you can play it in real time over a weekend by having your speakers up loud enough to hear the sound, and then you can do anything else you want while it's going on, including sleeping if it's loud enough to wake you up. 208 minutes is almost 3 1/2 hours, so while it would be inconvenient to interrupt your sleep twice, it's not like it's going to destroy your night to do it.
With the forward/back glitch you can speed the game up so it takes much less time, and this is what I did to get the medal while at work, by keeping the window open and going to it when it demanded attention. I got it sped up to about 10x normal, and it took 7h10m to finish, of which maybe 3 minutes were spent giving the game attention after the initial setup.
This medal doesn't have anything to do with wasting time, it has to do with constructive use of your time and multitasking. Scrubbing the game's medals just because a few people don't have what it takes to get them is just dumb. If other people are getting them but you are not, the problem does not lie with the game.
Further, it's unreasonable to expect all medals worth a certain amount to be exactly as challenging as each other. Besides being impossible to judge objectively, it just doesn't make sense. Some games offer easy medals for the casual gamer who just wants something to show for their efforts, and some games offer very difficult medals for the serious gamer who absolutely must do everything. There's nothing wrong with that, it just depends how serious you are about getting medals. Pilgrimage is a quick 120pts, while some medals are absolutely torturous for 100pts. That's just the way it is, and if you don't like it then you don't have to participate.
