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Stimulation Clicker

neal.fun

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Re: Stimulation Clicker

#331

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Banana is used by bots to exploit specific in-Steam tradable items and rewards. It's not a real game.

Can you explain this a bit more? I know there is a lot of shady stuff happening with Steam tradable items, but always fun to learn about new ones.

All this "game" does is generation of different marketable banana items to "players" running it.

Re: Stimulation Clicker

#332

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I think I quit after the DVD sounds

I quit (the first time) after the first three totally unlabeled icons appeared. Not having hovered on them, I had no idea there was anything more. Lesson for designers of scroll bars and other commonly-hidden but important UI elements.

The mobile version places an explicit "upgrades" button to indicate that they're clickable.

perhaps it's another commentary...

Re: Stimulation Clicker

#333
post #297

The real hidden gem here is the hilarious 40 minute mermaid-themed true crime podcast parody that you'll only hear a portion of if you progress quickly. As far as I can tell, it's fully custom-made for this game? Can't find any references to the characters online. https://stimulation-clicker.neal.fun/ sounds/true-crime.mp3 - it's hosted on Cloudflare, but even so I don't want to cost OP significant bandwidth, so join…

Reminds me a bit of The Onion's "A Very Fatal Murder" podcast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Fatal_Murder

Re: Stimulation Clicker

#334
post #91

I finished the game without cheating. I felt like a frog being slowly boiled (and it really does feel like you're boiling at the end). It's quite the journey... I love how everything here isn't even farfetched. It's just standard YouTube and TikTok content. The red notification bubbles were also a nice touch, I felt myself really drawn to those, and if I think back, I guess that's the earliest example I can recall of…

Jonathan Blow had a great (imho) rant about those type of notifications that someone clipped from one of his live streams. (Warning: strong language.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9nmCIrs7HI

Jonathan Blow has good points sometimes, but he comes off as very "old man rants at cloud" most of the time. He's been stewing in his own sauce for far too long.

Re: Stimulation Clicker

#336

oh my god the murder podcast mentions a hydraulic press death. best thing in a while, bravo. EDIT: I really wish the still-locked achievements gave a hover/hint. I simply can't figure out what these missing achievements are, and it looks like the count is wrong. Also, I wish I could revive my chicken. :(

You can inspect element on the achievements to see what their unlock text is.

Re: Stimulation Clicker

#337

I accidentally got addicted to crypto trading and made 34 million stimulation before I realized there was a "win game" button. I guess this game is more representative than we'd like to think.

"I accidentally got addicted" is such a wonderful phrase.

Re: Stimulation Clicker

#338
post #197

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> 2018 Film It was also a great book!

Well, you're half right -- it was a book.

You're downvoted, but I agree. I found it basically a hodgepodge of 80s references over a basic story with one-dimensional characters (the heroes are Very Good and the bad guy is Very Bad). I would have assumed that it's aimed at young children, if the references weren't forty years before their time.

Re: Stimulation Clicker

#339

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Crypto investing is where the points really start to fly, mass clicking buy below $10k selling above $20k. Game finished pretty quick after that. Edit: Just beat it in 19 minutes. Feel like you can't finish it much quicker than that without cheating.

Depending of your definition of cheating, resizing the window is a good passive way, specially after the DVD upgrade

I wonder if this was deliberate, to give more points to mobile users.
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