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Will you drown?

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Re: Will you drown?

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Post by jffry »

caio1982 wrote: post #7
jffry wrote: post #4

Play automatically: setInterval(function(){ $("a").click() }, 100) (Edit: Yes, this leads you through a very fast, very bad life. Play manually and have a better life.)

I think you missed the point here, but nice trick :-)

I got the point, curiosity just got the better of me

Re: Will you drown?

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Post by kbaker »

caio1982 wrote: post #7
jffry wrote: post #4

Play automatically: setInterval(function(){ $("a").click() }, 100) (Edit: Yes, this leads you through a very fast, very bad life. Play manually and have a better life.)

I think you missed the point here, but nice trick :-)

I don't know, if you use this hack to get through life, you end up dying after a bitter, troubled life, having never created anything - you are always hitting 'buy more stuff' instead.

Hmm...

Re: Will you drown?

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Post by shawnz »

jffry wrote: post #4

Play automatically: setInterval(function(){ $("a").click() }, 100) (Edit: Yes, this leads you through a very fast, very bad life. Play manually and have a better life.)

Hilariously, this gets stuck buying "Stuff" over and over and doesn't seem to ever complete the game

Re: Will you drown?

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Post by jffry »

shawnz wrote: post #13
jffry wrote: post #4

Play automatically: setInterval(function(){ $("a").click() }, 100) (Edit: Yes, this leads you through a very fast, very bad life. Play manually and have a better life.)

Hilariously, this gets stuck buying "Stuff" over and over and doesn't seem to ever complete the game

For me it ended in my death, with no hope left. It might be a slight timing problem (e.g. play around with the interval and see what happens)

Re: Will you drown?

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Post by noobermin »

Depressing, but interesting. I find it interesting that even before you have a life, you start out with hope. What does that mean, I wonder? Hope of your parents? Society (for that "someone" who will make a difference)?

Re: Will you drown?

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

shawnz wrote: post #13
jffry wrote: post #4

Play automatically: setInterval(function(){ $("a").click() }, 100) (Edit: Yes, this leads you through a very fast, very bad life. Play manually and have a better life.)

Hilariously, this gets stuck buying "Stuff" over and over and doesn't seem to ever complete the game

It is appropriate that relying on a static heuristic to point one's path leaves you unfulfilled, bitter, and dead.

Re: Will you drown?

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Post by wingerlang »

parasight wrote: post #8
jffry wrote: post #4

Play automatically: setInterval(function(){ $("a").click() }, 100) (Edit: Yes, this leads you through a very fast, very bad life. Play manually and have a better life.)

Drowning in problems? Automation is the solution ;)

And now you have N+1 problem.

Re: Will you drown?

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Post by elinchrome »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #16
shawnz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hilariously, this gets stuck buying "Stuff" over and over and doesn't seem to ever complete the game

It is appropriate that relying on a static heuristic to point one's path leaves you unfulfilled, bitter, and dead.

I wasn't aware that clicking different things in different orders affected the outcome. I have just been clicking solve every time it comes up and not reading the captions.
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