[ArmstedFragg]

Clock-ruled games which permit ties are not positive metaphors for life.

I don't know... in the end we all up dead, that's pretty much the ultimate clock-ruled game.

[Philo-Junius]

The clock doesn’t rule the life of anyone not trapped in a film-noir remake:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.O.A._(1950_film)

Most of us die when we give up, not the other way around.