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Stimulation Clicker

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Re: Stimulation Clicker

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Post by emberfiend »

anais9 wrote: post #393
ccvannorman wrote: post #369

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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 envy your rig - mine glitched a lot to get it in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-J0ppP-H9s

Majestic.

Re: Stimulation Clicker

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Post by emberfiend »

p1necone wrote: post #334
drivers99 wrote: post #148

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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.

Yeah. I mean I agree with the rant but the guy seems so unhappy. I hope he finds a way to spend less time using computers.

Re: Stimulation Clicker

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Post by skygazer »

Well, for the second most popular thing on HN in the last 30 days, I'm sort of struggling to figure out what this is and why people love it. I opened it and clicked like 20 times, got some icons that do nothing, and came back here. I can see from the comments that it's apparently more interesting if you drop into developer tools and automate clicking, but I assume that's not the creator's intention? No normal person is going to click 50,000 times -- what is this? It's a game? For who? Some sort of commentary on our stressful attention seeking age? Spoilers please.

Re: Stimulation Clicker

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Post by kristianp »

MarkSweep wrote: post #350
kristianp wrote: post #260

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Isn't cookie clicker one of the earliest? https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

I feel like Progress Quest from 2002 is the spiritual predecessor of the clicker genre: http://progressquest.com/ In that it distills the game mechanic of “make number go up” into a simplistic form. It just lakes the clicking. PS, whenever I relapse and play too much World of Warcraft, I play some Cookie Clicker as a cleanse to remind myself of the fundamental pointlessness of the whole endeavor. Great game.

Apparently there was something called idlerpg on irc around 2000:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155471

Re: Stimulation Clicker

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Post by myfonj »

myfonj wrote: post #518
r14n wrote: post #514

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I get a reference error when I try this (chrome stable on linux)

Ah, thanks for the heads-up, apparently there is something borked in Chromium wrt $ / $$ encapsulation, as it seems they are nor reachable from the (global) context setInterval so doing `window.$ = $; window.$$ = $$;` fixes that in Chrome. Not sure why. (Yet again embarrassed myself by trying a snippet that "simply must work ® according all documentations ™" in single a browser only before posting. Sigh.)

Filed as https://issues.chromium.org/issues/388437264

Re: Stimulation Clicker

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Post by waltbosz »

munchler wrote: post #571
waltbosz wrote: post #542

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You have to obtain the Item Shop upgrade, then buy the "Sign in with Google" item from shop, then sign in, then you can save your state to your Google Drive by pressing Ctrl+/S.

I can't tell if this is satire or fact, and that is awesome.

Ctrl+/S
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