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Stimulation Clicker

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Re: Stimulation Clicker

#403
post #269

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I like your description. I sometimes wonder if the final equilibrium state will be most people working on addictive products and the rest working on addiction treatment.

I'd say with the current state of things it's more like two singularities in which either: - A landian-stephensian accelerationist timeline occurs where the majority of the urban population becomes some flavor of AGI-tuned VR junkie - An extreme naturalistic counterculture movement occurs that causes majority of the civilized world to willingly roll themselves back 1 or 2 centuries technologically in order to feel so…

"Dune: Prophecy"

https://youtu.be/CzVHWNosS2o?si=NtT7P8SX3LebjIuf

Re: Stimulation Clicker

#406

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for people that don't want to click a lot, paste in "setInterval(() => document.querySelector('.main-btn').click(), 20)" into the browser console, clicks 50x per second for you :)

Speed-ran the game using this (well, I injected jquery first to select the element using $() because I'm an absolute Baboon) in about 45 seconds, spam clicking all the upgrades, and clicks stopped going up after hitting "342,044,125,797,992,850,000,000,000,000 stimulation" with 10k clicks per second. What a ride. Love the implied commentary on our over-stimulated lives!

I wonder what the limiting factor is here; I'm currently at

332,446,225,163,762,970,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stimulation

131,903,042,042,866,960,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stimulation per second

And there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.

Re: Stimulation Clicker

#407

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.

What is the win game button? I also got up to a pretty high stimulation and never saw any such button.

Re: Stimulation Clicker

#408
post #265

This 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…

> 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. Is this like a massive HN wooosh -- how can this be the top-voted comment? From Neil Postman's 1985 "Amusing Ourselves to Death": > “With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.” > “Spiritual devas…

If HNer's were as enlightened as they think they are, this would have been flagged and buried.

Re: Stimulation Clicker

#410

Crashes on mobile chrome after about 10 minutes probably for the best

Firefox on MacOS seems fine. I minimized the window size and made some soup. The GUI was a little bit laggy though. When I got back I had ~10million or so and bought all the upgrades which ended the game.
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