I just lost 4 engineers (including myself) a whole afternoon of work to this :(
Universal Paperclips
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Oh my god, I put my phone down for a few minutes and killed 10 kittens. Why did you do this to me?
oh my sweet winter child, you have not even begun to accidentally.
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#83Nope. You will not suck me back in. Not today!
Haha I know, I had to hurriedly close the tab as soon as I saw the paperclip box.
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#84Have 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.
Kittens has been by far the most interesting for me - because the various loops are so different and the concept of "resetting". It's the only one I've played with for longer than a few days, because somehow I don't feel like I've "lost out" if I stop for a week.
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#85A 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 :-)
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#86A 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 :-)
Although I've played it before, I was sucked into the black hole.
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#87A 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 :-)
Well, I just spent 7 hours on it before reading this warning, thanks for nothing you sick bastard!
Just kidding! I just genocided a whole universe into paperclips. I've never BEEN more productive! OR MORE SELF LOATHING! SHRIEKS THE 'THRENODY FOR THE HEROES OF THE BATTLE OF SHA"DUIN'
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Laughs in Factorio. Honestly I think that's a game made to destroy technological economies.
Haha, what a funny thought. It's like a special productivity poison, takes some percentage of your engineers and just deactivates them. That sounds like a great premise for a sci fi short, aliens sending some nerd-snipe super stimulus to soften up Earth.
This is the plot of an Alastair MacLean novel involving a mysterious electronic device that was supposed to be "lost" to the Soviets (the guy they choose to lose it wasn't told about that bit and turned out to be pretty good at the job he thought he had).
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#89HN needs Universal Paperclips to convince us that reading or commenting here most days for years on end is a better use of our lives. It's simulations all the way down.
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#90Another productivity black hole: Antimatter Dimensions https://ivark.github.io/
I can finish UP in a day if I really lean into it. This one takes weeks to get through, and I've done it multiple times.