If you shrink the window down as small as possible the DVD logos collide super fast and earn a ton of stimulation.

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!

Or for people who want to make money as a trader.

const lastPriceElement = document.querySelector('.last-price'); const buyButton = document.querySelector('.stock-btn.stock-buy'); const sellButton = document.querySelector('.stock-btn.stock-sell');

const buyPrice = 280; const sellPrice = 320;

function checkPriceAndTrade() {

    if (lastPriceElement && buyButton && sellButton) {
        // Get the price text and convert to number
        const priceText = lastPriceElement.firstChild.textContent.trim();
        const price = Number(priceText.replace(/[$,]/g, ''));

        // Execute trade based on price
        if (price < buyPrice) {
            console.log(`Price ${price} is below $` + buyPrice ` - Executing buy`);
            buyButton.click();
        } else if (price > sellPrice) {
            console.log(`Price ${price} is above $` + sellPrice ` - Executing sell`);
            sellButton.click();
        } else {
            console.log(`Price ${price} is between thresholds - No action taken`);
        }
    }

}

// Run the check every 20 milliseconds setInterval(checkPriceAndTrade, 20);

The real answer to the web 2.0 appified social media hell hole is automation :D

thanks, u saved me few clicks ^^

The podcast makes a couple of winking references to other bits of the game, including a mention of "that time that poor boy was pushed into that hydraulic press".

Yes, the actor has a credit at the end.

Loads of other stuff is custom made... All those emails for example.

Maybe someone made the podcast for some other reason and never released it?

Less jokey?

This great packaging has a critical social media tone for me. Absolutely amazing fun and addictive showing almost dark patterns. For a deep dive: "Ethics of the attention economy: The problem of social media addiction", [1]

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

Is shrinking the window down to make the DVD logos hit the edge more often considered cheating?

How much does it require to finish? I mean how many stimulation points?

I gave up when I bought auto hydraulic press.

I had to restart because I unwittingly clicked the mukbang guy too early: can't handle him unless he is drowned out by everything else. By contrast I enjoyed the wormhole button. Kind of the whole point of the experience, liked it way better than certain noises :)

Yeah, that game should come with a seizure warning. I've never had a seizure but my brain started to feel pretty uncomfortable during my second completionist playthrough.

I saw that the Shadow of the Colossus remake has little achievement notifications when you kill colossi and that really burns my biscuit. You're watching this slow-motion scene of a colossus dying, sad music plays, you wonder if you're doing the right thing, and the PlayStation is like "yayyy!~ You're such a good gamer!~"

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.

> 8 years ago

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

(via https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=e... )

Rather, I think they are not accessible enough. A picture on a wall, a movie or music can be experienced by hundreds or thousands of people all at once. Games in an art gallery have a much lower natural limit to the number of people who can interact with them simultaneously (at least in the same physical space). Sure, you can watch others do it, but that's not really the same thing (it's more like watching performance art than playing a game).

I have in fact been to art galleries which had interactive game-like exhibits. I basically never got to interact with them because, lo and behold, there was a long queue.

Except perhaps the most well known contemporary art museum in the world: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798

The Smithsonian has a traveling exhibition specifically about Art in Video Games: https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/games

Maybe actually go to an art gallery/museum sometime instead of assuming you know what one is

Don't most art museums have free days for city residents, etc.?

Almost every game requires an expensive hardware purchase and often a separate $60-$70 for the game itself

The Museum of the Moving Image has had video games in its collection since the 1980s. https://movingimage.org/collection/collection-spotlight_vide...

Hauser & Wirth have had essays on video games in their magazine: https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/too-late-for-earth-too-so...

I've seen and played games at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in NYC. Maybe I got lucky but it's one of like three museum visits I've ever done as a tourist in the city.

Not NYC, but in 2002, I saw Quake 3 Arena at the Documenta 11 in Germany: https://www.documenta11.de/data/german/index.html

I was surprised to see a video game, especially a Quake game, at an Art exhibition.

It's the icon of water waves.

A bad taste in my mouth how I spend my time online in general

The ocean.

infinity stimulation

Cookie Clicker taught me this about Destiny and Destiny 2 as well.

I got a lot of enjoyment out of those games - and they were partly the backdrop to socialising online with IRL friends who didn't live close to me - but at some point the absurdity of them became too obvious and we stopped.

"moved on" - to Call of Duty.

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.

> This is why I quit Hearthstone even though I never spent a dime on it.

Good news, you now have time to pick up The Bazaar instead! (joke aside, it's quite fun, a lot more chill, and not nearly as exploitative as Hearthstone)

> I realized I had been habituated into playing it every day

So like a hobby?

Did you have fun playing it?

Hahaha yeah! Me too! Good thing I escaped that!

Now back to my coding job, I really have to focus and push enough of these buttons or I’ll get fired and won’t get my pay

Good one. Sounds like a geiger counter.

woah! great job

Or use requestAnimationFrame to run infinitely at ~60fps

    window.requestAnimationFrame(function clickButton() {
        document.querySelector(".main-btn").click()
        window.requestAnimationFrame(clickButton)
    })

If you're already using setTimeout, why not just use it directly?

    function clickLoop() {
        document.querySelector('.main-btn').click(); 
        setTimeout(clickLoop, 50) 
    }

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Short-circuiting a clicker game (and all other forms of nullifying Skinner boxes) is self-care.

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