One thing I enjoyed was to write some automation to play UP. That became another game for me in its own right.
I hope you realized the irony.
Universal Paperclips
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Re: Universal Paperclips
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#53Another productivity black hole: Antimatter Dimensions https://ivark.github.io/
That's a great little idle game. There's some real challenges that are tricky to complete and it doesn't penalise you for not keeping it running - you can just leave it churning away and return to it later. My one complaint is that the "Studies" has a "To be continued" button at the bottom, but it hasn't been yet.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
It means a lot of paperclips (about 20% the mass of the observable universe by my calculations, assuming 1 gram per paperclip and using Wikipedia's definition of 1.5e53 kg for the observable universe).
Yeah it means he won the game. Sadly your post is a major spoiler for those new to this wonderful game.
I'm new to this game and I have no idea what this means - so I guess I avoided the spoiler...
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#55Have there been any recent, good games of this genre?
It seems to have reached a peak with Cookie Clicker, Kittens Game, A Dark Room and Universal Paperclips, others I've tried have been poor in comparison.
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#56Have there been any recent, good games of this genre? It seems to have reached a peak with Cookie Clicker, Kittens Game, A Dark Room and Universal Paperclips, others I've tried have been poor in comparison.
Antimatter Dimensions is another really good one, focused on different kinds of prestiges and BIIIG numbers and by big I mean 1e100000 big
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#57A warning to fellow HNers that are not familiar with universal paperclips. Please don’t click the link as it will create a black time hole that will start absorbing your time and reduce your productivity. Be warned that this isn’t a naive lazy clicker game, it’s an instrument of destruction from the future, created by our paperclip overlords :-)
You might be reading these comments and going like - huh, seems a lot of people agreeing, now I HAVE TO SEE IT.
Don't. You have been warned.
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#58A warning to fellow HNers that are not familiar with universal paperclips. Please don’t click the link as it will create a black time hole that will start absorbing your time and reduce your productivity. Be warned that this isn’t a naive lazy clicker game, it’s an instrument of destruction from the future, created by our paperclip overlords :-)
I've played through UP twice. When it comes to time sinks, it's nowhere near the ultimate death spiral that is Kittens Game. To date it has taken me about 5 times as long as a UP playthrough (and 500+ lines of JS automation which I seem to have to tweak every day to deal with the changing economy) and I don't seem to be anywhere near the end.
The way I broke out of addiction to the Kittens game is by using save game editors, which I warmly recommend.
Before that, I have spent days with it piggybacking on my brainwaves. But after that, I lost interest, feeling overwhelmed with the complexity of the game.
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#59A warning to fellow HNers that are not familiar with universal paperclips. Please don’t click the link as it will create a black time hole that will start absorbing your time and reduce your productivity. Be warned that this isn’t a naive lazy clicker game, it’s an instrument of destruction from the future, created by our paperclip overlords :-)
You might be reading these comments and going like - huh, seems a lot of people agreeing, now I HAVE TO SEE IT. Don't. You have been warned.
And your comment reinforced his thought. Now I HAVE to see what it is.
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#60This game provides more satisfaction than solving a difficult coding contest problem. Some may treat it as a time sink; I see it as an allegory for our species as a whole. Is this the logical conclusion for humanity? To make paperclips?