Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24973829-20140801174251/@comment-5334617-20140801212834

No worries; I didn't think you were sarcastic, and you made a valid point. It was just an isolated piece of information, all lonely, and needed some context and supporting material before it became useful.

Pause functions are in quite a few games. Imagine the Pac-Man ghosts will become mean again in 5 seconds, and you pause the game for 10 seconds... for a deadline-type system, the ghosts will be mean again when you unpause, unless you do more work to delay the deadline. For a countdown-type system, you simply stop counting down, and when you unpause, it will still be 5 seconds before the ghosts become mean.