Since we're all sharing clicker games, this one by Frank Lantz is a real classic: https://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
Antimatter Dimensions is another conerstone in the genre.
Stimulation Clicker
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#172Wow, that was amazing. This is honestly a better piece of contemporary art (in terms of making you think about modern life and what is happening to our environment, the impact on ourselves, our kids, etc.) than most of what you might see at a fancy art gallery or a contemporary art museum in NYC.
Neal has continually outdone himself with every single release. Everything he makes is a labor of love and is so special and deserving of attention. From the factual stuff like "The Size of Space" and "Deep Sea", to the more amusing "Absurd Trolly Problems", "The Password Game", and so on. It's all so good and feels like a gift to the internet. Stimulation Clicker's social commentary has to the best thus far. I know…
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#173In case you are wondering this actually beats the game:
setInterval(() => Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.main-btn, .upgrade-icon, .press-collect, .press-btn, .collect')).forEach(item => item.click()), 50);
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Fantastic encapsulation and commentary on the modern web and attentionspace. This is why I quit Hearthstone even though I never spent a dime on it. I realized I had been habituated into playing it every day. I started feeling like a lab rat trained to push a button for a reward.
That's one of the things that makes Stimulation Clicker so good, by being exposed to the most extreme version, it helps you identify other engineered attention grabbers in everyday life.
> most extreme version
Well...
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#175Best way I've found to stimulate quickly, resize your window to be as small as possible, and have lots of bouncing DVDs.
I figured like thirty seconds into using the site that resizing it smaller would give me more DVD bounces per second. But then during resizing i kinda cheated myself some points accidentally, and discovered that trick where they're just bouncing on every tick.
Normally I'm a sucker for clicker games, but cheating the progress (even accidentally) always kills the point of it.
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#176Fantastic encapsulation and commentary on the modern web and attentionspace. There's certainly better ways to do this, but here's one way to automate 1000 clicks from the console: for (let i = 0; i Automating this art piece probably also says ... something.
> Automating this art piece probably also says ... something.
if you do that you're not really experiencing it
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#177Crashes on mobile chrome after about 10 minutes probably for the best
Same. iPhone 14 Pro, both safari and chrome. Eventually the sound stops and it gets super laggy.
Almost kind of fitting.
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#178such sites isn't fun anymore since I've discovered after the first click you have to just press enter key and do not release it
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#179This is a fun clicker game whose point seems cynical and self-defeating on multiple levels. Despite the HN comments complaining about it being overwhelming and a dark reflection of how awful and distracting the internet is, clearly enough people enjoyed it to get to the front page. The stimulation torture wasn't really torture, but another level to the game. All the content creators whose inclusion at first seems lik…
These trends wouldn't be trends if they didn't work. The game can be awful and distracting, yet still succeed at garnering engagement. Not just in spite of the stimulation but partially due to the stimulation. It's not self defeating or hypocritical, it's a bad thing, an indictment, and also engaging all at the same time.
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#180I'm going way too hard on this. Help.