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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 where these patterns all started: Facebook's little red notification bubble

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As far as clickers go, finishing this game without cheating is very easy. Only takes like 20-30 min. But nonetheless, it was enjoyable. Really regretted clicking the subway surfer wormhole button. Luckily that was right at the end.

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

I don't think you can "cheat" at a clicker/experience game.

I wouldn't sweat it.

Even those javascript hacks posted on the page here are fair game.

I finished the game. I don't begrudge anyone for making it go faster.

I think this is considered smart thinking (from my point of view).

Spam DVD logo upgrades as fast as you can. Open your browser as big as it will go. When the DVD logo gets close to the top, start shrinking the browser slowly. I think the DVD positioning is calculated from the bottom of the page, there's a bug where the logo(s) will get stuck near the top as you shrink the page and will constantly re-register a bounce multiple times per second. Eventually all the logos you buy will get clumped at the top, and you can get 1MM Stimulation per "bounce".

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

I gave up when I bought auto hydraulic press.

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.

My phone could not handle it at all, it started dropping widgets after the slime (like subway surfers and hydraulic press disappeared) and then it started to lag before finally my whole phone became unresponsive for a couple minutes even after the tab was closed. On an iPhone 12 mini so not the newest but still a little surprising that it stopped so early in the game.

Same, though I’m on a iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Open browser console, drag over.

excited to see speed runs of this game on tiktok, split screen with an 'easy diy hacks' video playing

So should we all be crypto investing is the lesson :)

It was hard to tell how many points I was getting from crypto. But it went to the top of the list on Screen Time

Yeah the game was fairly slow but once bitcoin daytrading was unlocked the rest took a few minutes

You need 2,000,000 stimulation points for the last item which wins the game. It sounds like a lot, but by that point you’ll be generating an insane amount of points per second and passive consumption is worth more than clicking. It does get overwhelming, at one point I had to mute the sound for a minute or two before resuming.

If you want to know what the last item is, rot13 the next paragraph (https://rot13.com/ is an easy way to do it):

Gur ynfg vgrz vf “tbvat gb gur bprna”. Gur tnzr jneaf lbh gurer vf ab tbvat onpx nsgre gung. Vg fjvgpurf gb n pnyzvat ivqrb bs jnirf ba gur ornpu, jvgu perqvgf.

  tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'

If one is on computer or has access to shell from phone.

Gunaxf!

The last, and most expensive item requires 2M stimulation, but I think you need to buy most of the preceding items to get to it.

you can see the credits by paying 2m points so depending on your definition of winning ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It hung when I had 100k but I guess I will run it on PC next time.

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.

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

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.

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.

> I felt like a frog being slowly boiled

This game is an excellent simulation of what ADHD feels like, especially if you're putting off multiple critical tasks.

if people ask me how my weekend was, i can unironically send them this site; this is my weekend condensed in 30 minutes

MSN Messenger had addicting bubbles way before

I wanted to gouge my eyes out hahaha. The ending cutscene made up for it all.

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