Universal Paperclips

omg, "A filmmaker thinks he can turn Universal Paperclips into a movie (2019)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405682 I would rent that movie for sure. Sounds like a wonderful sci-fi B movie to watch.

Re: Universal Paperclips

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Post by gms7777 » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 4:33 PM UTC

jon-wood wrote: post #2

RIP to the productivity all the people discovering this for the first time today.

I played it first a few years ago and was totally engrossed. A few months ago, I remembered it and thought "well maybe I'll find it again and play for a few minutes"... and then I did nothing else for the rest of the day.

Re: Universal Paperclips

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Post by Cerium » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 4:34 PM UTC

gms7777 wrote: post #5

jon-wood wrote: post #2

RIP to the productivity all the people discovering this for the first time today.

I played it first a few years ago and was totally engrossed. A few months ago, I remembered it and thought "well maybe I'll find it again and play for a few minutes"... and then I did nothing else for the rest of the day.

It has excellent replay value.

Re: Universal Paperclips

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Post by faefox » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

For the impatient: the game stores much of its state in global variables which may easily be manipulated in the console.

Re: Universal Paperclips

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Post by MiguelHudnandez » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

jon-wood wrote: post #2

RIP to the productivity all the people discovering this for the first time today.

I think I still have javascript commandlets to auto-play phases of this game. That brought a whole other level of enjoyment to it.

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Post by cpach » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 4:36 PM UTC

I played this for the first time a few months ago. Oh my! What an addictive game. Very funny too. The humour reminded me of Portal.

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Post by LegitShady » Wed, Aug 02, 2023, 4:41 PM UTC

I remember playing this a while ago. I got to the point where I had converted all the mass in the universe to paperclips but it didn't really seem like there was a way to move forward from there, or if there was I couldn't figure it out.