&quot;Another great neal.fun joint. It made me miserable!&quot;

For me, it causes headaches after a while due to the huge amount of animations running in parallel.

It falls under the category of &quot;incremental games&quot; that are generally simple but addicting due to the dopamine release from watching those numbers go up

It&#x27;s a form of digital art meant to highlight the absurdity of the modern internet. Being overwhelmed by all of the forms of multimedia stimulation to finally escape to the ocean and appreciating simplicity is the point

The genre exists in a weird place. Progress Quest is maybe the start, and then you get Cow Clicker, which was definitely a parody but took off because everyone thought it was funny, and then Wikipedia tells me AdVenture Capitalist started as a parody but then became a popular and profitable game. And that&#x27;s kind of the problem with the genre: it&#x27;s kind of artistically meant as a parody or a joke, but people keep liking them and wanting more, and now it&#x27;s a real genre, and a few of the games (like Paperclips) have a lot of artistic value far beyond the initial &quot;haha it&#x27;s not much of a game&quot; joke.

It&#x27;s a parody.The whole genre of clicker games is a parody to start with, but this is more parody than most.

This is the stupidest thing - why am I so addicted to it?????Neal.fun has clearly hacked my brain. it is too much fun and I don’t know why.

I really enjoyed the animation for seeing how much each button press was worthsetInterval(() =&gt; {
document.querySelector(&#x27;.main-btn-wrapper button&#x27;).click()
}, 10)helped have me save my trackpad

a fun way is to resize the window to be super tiny and the DVD Bounce really gets going into the millions

Infinite version:let button = document.getElementsByClassName(&#x27;main-btn&#x27;);let clicker = setInterval(() =&gt; button[0].click(), 1);To stop, use this:window.clearInterval(clicker);

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

That&#x27;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.

&gt; I realized I had been habituated into playing it every daySo like a hobby?Did you have fun playing it?

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&#x27;t live close to me - but at some point the absurdity of them became too obvious and we stopped. &quot;moved on&quot; - to Call of Duty.

&gt; 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&#x27;s quite fun, a lot more chill, and not nearly as exploitative as Hearthstone)

&gt; Fantastic encapsulation and commentary on the modern web and attentionspace.This is why I quit Hearthstone even though I never spent a dime on it. I realized I had been habituated into playing it every day. I started feeling like a lab rat trained to push a button for a reward.

If you&#x27;re already using setTimeout, why not just use it directly?<pre><code> function clickLoop() {
 document.querySelector(&#x27;.main-btn&#x27;).click(); 
 setTimeout(clickLoop, 50) 
 }</code></pre>

Or use requestAnimationFrame to run infinitely at ~60fps<pre><code> window.requestAnimationFrame(function clickButton() {
 document.querySelector(&quot;.main-btn&quot;).click()
 window.requestAnimationFrame(clickButton)
 })</code></pre>

7i67i76i76i76i798778kiki87778uuuuuuuujjjjjjjkkkkkkkk

Running it async will prevent the main screen from lagging:<pre><code> (async () =&gt; {
 const delay = (ms) =&gt; new Promise(resolve =&gt; setTimeout(resolve, ms));
 for (let i = 0; i &lt; 10000; i++) {
 document.getElementsByClassName(&#x27;main-btn&#x27;)[0].click();
 await delay(5); &#x2F;&#x2F; 5 ms sleep
 }
 })();</code></pre>

You could shorten it by using $(&#x27;.main-btn&#x27;).click()

Automate that bitcoin!```setInterval(() =&gt; {
 let max = 100;
while(max--&gt;0) {
 let price = +document.querySelector(&quot;.last-price&quot;).textContent.trim().slice(1).replace(&quot;,&quot;,&quot;&quot;).split(&quot;\n&quot;)[0];
 if (price &gt; 20000) {
 document.querySelector(&quot;.stock-sell&quot;).click();
 } else if (price &lt; 10000) {
 document.querySelector(&quot;.stock-buy&quot;).click();
 } else {
 break;
 }
}
})```

Automating it is the most fun part of these silly games. Here&#x27;s a bash script to do it on mac (brew install clickclick first)<pre><code> while true; do
 cliclick c:.
 done</code></pre>

&gt; Automating this art piece probably also says ... something.if you do that you&#x27;re not really experiencing it

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

To everyone who is doing this:The only person you are cheating is yourself!!!

Just go into developer mode and just break on a line like so:<pre><code> r.sps &amp;&amp; r.purchased &amp;&amp; this.addStimulation(r.sps \* n, r.id)
</code></pre>
and run<pre><code> this.addStimulation(10000000000,r.id)
</code></pre>
and resume.

I did the same exact thing and then wanted to post it into the groupchat then see this.1000 iterations too!Why are we like this XD

Fantastic encapsulation and commentary on the modern web and attentionspace.There&#x27;s certainly better ways to do this, but here&#x27;s one way to automate 1000 clicks from the console:<pre><code> for (let i = 0; i &lt; 1000; i++) {
 document.querySelector(&#x27;button.main-btn-pretty&#x27;).click();
 }
</code></pre>
Automating this art piece probably also says ... something.

Nice! I’ve been playing Star Trek Fleet Command the past few days and have been wanting to build a silly clicker game to mock&#x2F;mimic some of the game’s aspects and this has given me inspiration.

the muckbang video, I wish I could get rid of. ended up just muting the entire tab.

well I cheated and was immediately overstimulated

It’s just the end credits with a soothing ocean video in the background <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;eNwfBO6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;eNwfBO6</a>It was too addictive. My eyes still hurt !!!

My game froze up when I bought that upgrade.  Not sure if that&#x27;s by design or it might have been an internet hiccup.  What happens when you go to the ocean?

Wow. Too much fun. My eyes&#x2F;head hurts. Finally went to the ocean in the game.

Beware – this is crack! I clicked it and 20-min has passed.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;JJHXccN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;JJHXccN</a>

Cookie Clicker got me into programming back in the day! Super simple structure (back then) and fun way to experiment with coding in an interactive way with visual feedback.

It seems to have been put to rest though, it used to get an update once a year or so for a while now, but as it stands the last update was in May 2023.

Cookie Clicker has received updates almost continuously for the last decade. I don’t have the commitment to ascend but I understand there’s quite a bit of content to be unlocked there even after you’ve maxed out your first “run.”

For those of you loving this, a classic: 
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orteil.dashnet.org&#x2F;cookieclicker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orteil.dashnet.org&#x2F;cookieclicker&#x2F;</a>

I found the ultimate upgrade.If you run it in portrait on a cellphone, there&#x27;s not enough room for any upgrade button! 8)

SameLost progress.It was fun and quirky, but 
Happy it ended though.

Same, I can&#x27;t believe I spent that much time, the guided meditation killed me.

Same on samsung internet. I was happy it crashed.

Crashed on desktop brave as well. I mean, it was still running but I couldn&#x27;t click on anything.

Same. iPhone 14 Pro, both safari and chrome. Eventually the sound stops and it gets super laggy.Almost kind of fitting.

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.

got laggy for me, but I got frustrated by cacophony before that

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

There is a buymeacoffee link. I&#x27;m pretty stingy with donations, but thought this was worth 3 coffees.

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.

Banana is used by bots to exploit specific in-Steam tradable items and rewards. It&#x27;s not a real game.

Unironically, if this was on Steam and monetized through their item shop, it would probably make a fortune. See banana: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;2923300&#x2F;Banana&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;2923300&#x2F;Banana&#x2F;</a>

It’s really well done. At one point the character says something along the lines of “but they would rather do other things, like play on neal.fun instead of going to the amusement park”

Impressed with the effort. The fake crime podcast is gold.

I clicked the audio icon on the tab -- it muted the entire thing :)

Unfortunately you can&#x27;t mute the podcast in the same way -- that&#x27;s what finally forced me to close the tab

Oh gosh, just what I needed, another clicker game. This is excellent!Tip: On Firefox at least, you can right-click the videos (slime, mukbang, etc) and mute them.

This game has the same old bug of &quot;Left click + Enter key&quot; to get money faster.

buy couple of dvds and resize your tab to be a single pixel wide - infinite points glitch

I thought it was insane just hand-clicking but this legitimately made it overwhelming to the point where I had to close the tab.

ah this actually speedruns the game, brilliant

Don&#x27;t blame me.<pre><code> setInterval(() =&gt; { [...document.querySelectorAll(&quot;.upgrade,.loot-box-target,button&quot;)].map((e) =&gt; e.click()); }, 50)</code></pre>

More people need to know the story of Cow Clicker.

Cow Clicker 2025, Professional Edition. So good.

Release the HypnoDrones.Carpel Tunnel here I come.Nice.

Ditto. It was also running at about 3 fps on my iPhone 12 on safari.It was a nice shopping trip worth of fun though.

what device has both zoom tapping and apple&#x27;s ctrl button?

When that happened to me, a simple ⌘0 reset the size.

I also had an issue that restarted my computer and found the hard way it doesn&#x27;t save. Using localStorage to store the state is simple enough, unfortunate that it doesn&#x27;t.

Ran into a bug where a double tap zoomed the page and it broke the game as I could not zoom out again. Unfortunately it does not save the progress in a cookie.

Lovely ending, and I appreciate how short this one is. For me it really does induce some mixed feelings for what we did to the web while at the same time I really enjoyed the nostalgia.Another game I sunk way too much time into to get to the end is Idle Loops which ends up being kind of like programming once you get deeper into it:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dmchurch.github.io&#x2F;omsi-loops&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dmchurch.github.io&#x2F;omsi-loops&#x2F;</a>
(There are three versions, all open source on GitHub – this one is the third in the chain of forks, with the most updates)

whelp this is making this meeting go way faster

Hold Enter, click the reward from the hydraulic press, profit!

This is the way, two minutes and already at a million.

I figured like thirty seconds into using the site that resizing it smaller would give me more DVD bounces per second. But then during resizing i kinda cheated myself some points accidentally, and discovered that trick where they&#x27;re just bouncing on every tick.Normally I&#x27;m a sucker for clicker games, but cheating the progress (even accidentally) always kills the point of it.

I cheated and opened up multiple windows of this game in a tiled window manager so I can get more stimulated, but it wasn&#x27;t enough so I opened up youtube (minecraft parkour videos), netflix (comfort shows) and live streamed it to twitch providing live commentary.

Why do you think that stock and crypto plugins will be very profitable? There are no tools to combine finance data in easy way?

After you get to the cryptocurrency it&#x27;s basically game over, you can earn over a million during a few market cycles, and the speed you can do it it raises (almost) exponentially. Stocks are similar, but much slower.

You can get a massive amount of money with the stock market plugin once you get the cryptocurrency and leverage upgrades.

Best way I&#x27;ve found to stimulate quickly, resize your window to be as small as possible, and have lots of bouncing DVDs.

Ah, a simulation of hell.2025 off for a good start in dystopian scinfi tech

I feel like a cat that&#x27;s chasing a laser pointer and knows it&#x27;s a toy but doesn&#x27;t mind

I love it! Here&#x27;s my stab at an automated speedrun: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4z8P1F-lyB8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4z8P1F-lyB8</a>

I already did a speedrun on it <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CTIxBBKNz8g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CTIxBBKNz8g</a>

don&#x27;t need it - just click the &quot;click&quot; button and then hold down enter.

I wonder if we can get a superintelligent AI to play this one!

I&#x27;ll play Universal Paperclips once a year or so when I remember it exists and have nothing I need to do for the next 3-6 hours. So I&#x27;d add that as a warning to anyone who wants to check it out: make sure your next 6 hours are ok to spend on it, in case you get sucked in.

Not available on mobile (except by installing an app).:(

(Late reply, but) I got to play this over the weekend together with some other suggestions in this thread, and Dark Room was actually pretty good! Thanks for the recommendation.

A Dark Room (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com&#x2F;</a>) is fantastic as well. It&#x27;s not only a clicker&#x2F;idle game, but it incorporates the mechanics in an interesting way.On the whole, I&#x27;ve had to adopt a policy of not even touching clicker games. I find them incredibly addictive, and most of the time I&#x27;m not even enjoying the experience or getting anything out of it, I just feel hooked. I&#x27;d say Universal Paperclips and A Dark Room were exceptions to that, in that they actually had some depth, strategy, discovery, or story. But even those two I&#x27;ve had to stop myself from replaycing.

I have not forgotten it. I have been playing it every since I started at google (long build times, ya know?) 7 years ago...All-Time StatsTotal Years Played 7.951MRun Number 24Total Paragon 23.614KBuildings Constructed 143.148KTotal Clicks 2.411MTranscendence Tier 25Challenges Completed 11I have never cheated in it, or used a script to click things.

Or Swarmsim: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swarmsim.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swarmsim.com</a>

Don&#x27;t forget Kittensgame! - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kittensgame.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;#" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kittensgame.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;#</a>

Don&#x27;t click it, that&#x27;s most of a year I&#x27;ll never get back.

Antimatter Dimensions is another conerstone in the genre.<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ivark.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ivark.github.io&#x2F;</a>

Both in the pretty rare category of clicker games that you can complete and get an ending.

Anti-Idle from 2009 says hi.<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kongregate.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;tukkun&#x2F;anti-idle-the-game" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kongregate.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;tukkun&#x2F;anti-idle-the-game</a>

I feel like Progress Quest from 2002 is the spiritual predecessor of the clicker genre:<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;progressquest.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;progressquest.com&#x2F;</a>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.

Isn&#x27;t cookie clicker one of the earliest?<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orteil.dashnet.org&#x2F;cookieclicker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orteil.dashnet.org&#x2F;cookieclicker&#x2F;</a>

let me save everyone&#x27;s time of writing each recommendation individually - by linking <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.incrementaldb.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.incrementaldb.com&#x2F;</a> where all the games are listed together

For this crowd, there is also bitburner, where you write programs to automate making the numbers go up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitburner-official.github.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitburner-official.github.io</a>Want to make the numbers go up a bit? Write some for loops. Want them to really go up? Time to write a distributed job scheduler.

I&#x27;m sadly into the incremental game genre. Universal Paperclips is still my favourite, and I replay it often. A Dark Room is another really good one with some storytelling and an ending, which is not all that common in incremental games.But if anyone wants to get deep into it, Dodecadragons is probably the best implementation of the incremental mechanics, but it&#x27;s extremely addictive, so be careful with it.

Since we&#x27;re all sharing clicker games, this one by Frank Lantz is a real classic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decisionproblem.com&#x2F;paperclips&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decisionproblem.com&#x2F;paperclips&#x2F;</a>

I accidentally refreshed the screen, fuuuuuck

Yep. A+ for effort - the &quot;podcast&quot; is nearly 40 minutes long, and gets progressively sillier as it goes.In case you want to listen to it without the accompaniment of mukbang, slime ASMR, lofi beats, and hydraulic press noises, the source audio is at:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stimulation-clicker.neal.fun&#x2F;sounds&#x2F;true-crime.mp3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stimulation-clicker.neal.fun&#x2F;sounds&#x2F;true-crime.mp3</a>

Same, the true crime podcast is hilarious :D

It has an ending, so play till the end :)

I spent an embarrassing amount of time playing this. Eventually it became overwhelming, but for a while it was (un)surprisingly engaging.

This is awesome. Subway surfers immediately made my attention span increase for how long I could tap the button.

For fans of clicker games I discovered this site [0] a while back and come back to it every so often to find some great ones.[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.incrementaldb.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.incrementaldb.com</a>

This had a really nice length (~1 hour). I was able to wrap up the game quite quickly once I unlocked crypto trading

Best way - Click &quot;Click Me&quot; then hold down enter.

Why should it collect data for hundreds of partners?

I clicked once and closed the page because you can&#x27;t tell me what to do (more than once).

idk what i am doing but i am hooked on it. it&#x27;s like as if it&#x27;s directly interacting with dopamine of my brain.

Worth every minute, and every cell brain.

Twice I accidentally pull-refreshed on mobile and lost all my progress :(

I pulled down to reload my email for more dopamine out of habit and it refreshed the page.

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&#x27;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 :)

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

Yeah, that game should come with a seizure warning. I&#x27;ve never had a seizure but my brain started to feel pretty uncomfortable during my second completionist playthrough.

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.

Jonathan Blow has good points sometimes, but he comes off as very &quot;old man rants at cloud&quot; most of the time. He&#x27;s been stewing in his own sauce for far too long.

I saw that the Shadow of the Colossus remake has little achievement notifications when you kill colossi and that really burns my biscuit. You&#x27;re watching this slow-motion scene of a colossus dying, sad music plays, you wonder if you&#x27;re doing the right thing, and the PlayStation is like &quot;yayyy!~ You&#x27;re such a good gamer!~&quot;

Jonathan Blow had a great (imho) rant about those type of notifications that someone clipped from one of his live streams. (Warning: strong language.) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=L9nmCIrs7HI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=L9nmCIrs7HI</a>

&gt; I felt like a frog being slowly boiledThis game is an excellent simulation of what ADHD feels like, especially if you&#x27;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.

I finished the game without cheating. I felt like a frog being slowly boiled (and it really does feel like you&#x27;re boiling at the end). It&#x27;s quite the journey...I love how everything here isn&#x27;t even farfetched. It&#x27;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&#x27;s the earliest example I can recall of where these patterns all started: Facebook&#x27;s little red notification bubble

If you are interested in seeing what the depth of the game is and you are on desktop, unlock the hydraulic press by holding &quot;enter&quot; after clicking on the &quot;click&quot; button for easy currency, then after unlocking, do the same by clicking on the +1,000 simulation redemption (holding enter afterward) once you go through one hydraulic press animation. You will gain 100,000 simulation a second!Fun game, love incrementals.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buymeacoffee.com&#x2F;neal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buymeacoffee.com&#x2F;neal</a>

Neal has continually outdone himself with every single release. Everything he makes is a labor of love and is so special and deserving of attention. From the factual stuff like &quot;The Size of Space&quot; and &quot;Deep Sea&quot;, to the more amusing &quot;Absurd Trolly Problems&quot;, &quot;The Password Game&quot;, and so on. It&#x27;s all so good and feels like a gift to the internet.Stimulation Clicker&#x27;s social commentary has to the best thus far. I know click games are a thing, but to combine that mechanic with a parody of the state of the modern attention economy is just pure art.Neal, if you&#x27;re reading HN, you rock. Please know how appreciative we are.

&gt; This is honestly a better piece of contemporary art (in terms of making you think about modern life and what is happening to our environment, the impact on ourselves, our kids, etc.)Zooming out, I think games in general is in a much better position to do this, as a medium, compared to the alternatives TV, movies and music.I guess mainly because it&#x27;s interactive, but it also feels like it can be broader than the other mediums, like on one hand you have Idle&#x2F;Clicker games like these, and on the other the huge blockbuster AAA games.

I&#x27;ve seen and played games at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in NYC. Maybe I got lucky but it&#x27;s one of like three museum visits I&#x27;ve ever done as a tourist in the city.

Except perhaps the most well known contemporary art museum in the world: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moma.org&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;articles&#x2F;798" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moma.org&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;articles&#x2F;798</a>

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&#x27;s not really the same thing (it&#x27;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.

The Smithsonian has a traveling exhibition specifically about Art in Video Games:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanart.si.edu&#x2F;exhibitions&#x2F;games" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanart.si.edu&#x2F;exhibitions&#x2F;games</a>Maybe actually go to an art gallery&#x2F;museum sometime instead of assuming you know what one is

Don&#x27;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. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;movingimage.org&#x2F;collection&#x2F;collection-spotlight_video-games&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;movingimage.org&#x2F;collection&#x2F;collection-spotlight_vide...</a>Hauser &amp; Wirth have had essays on video games in their magazine: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hauserwirth.com&#x2F;ursula&#x2F;too-late-for-earth-too-soon-for-the-stars&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hauserwirth.com&#x2F;ursula&#x2F;too-late-for-earth-too-so...</a>

Not NYC, but in 2002, I saw Quake 3 Arena at the Documenta 11 in Germany: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.documenta11.de&#x2F;data&#x2F;german&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.documenta11.de&#x2F;data&#x2F;german&#x2F;index.html</a>I was surprised to see a video game, especially a Quake game, at an Art exhibition.

You&#x27;ll never see games at fancy art galleries or contemporary art museums in NYC because games are too accessible

&gt; 8 years agoSci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary taleTech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don&#x27;t Create The Torment Nexus(via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;AlexBlechman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1457842724128833538?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;AlexBlechman&#x2F;status&#x2F;1457842724128833538?lang=e...</a> )

For the live-action, logical conclusion of this concept, watch HYPER-REALITY <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs</a>

I haven’t even had a chance to look at the game from that perspective yet. I don’t know why, but this game has me so excited!

Wow, that was amazing. This is honestly a better piece of contemporary art (in terms of making you think about modern life and what is happening to our environment, the impact on ourselves, our kids, etc.) than most of what you might see at a fancy art gallery or a contemporary art museum in NYC.

1) wow, what a great piece of art.2) Buy as many DVDs as possible and shrink the size of your window. Instant win.

I&#x27;m embarrassed to admit it but I found out this game has an ending.

I feel personally attacked by some of the upgrades.

I hated that I loved this - great concept.

I really don&#x27;t know if I could survive nowadays internet without uBlock. The picker functionality just changes the internet for me. I can make most of the noise disappear.

I ended up stopping the execution using max=10 and then removing annoying elements using the web inspector and keep running. I really liked the subway surfers though

A small improvement would be to stop based on the balance, rather than a number of clicks, to avoid going into ludicrous Yes JS Numbers Are All Floats territory.<pre><code> let max_amt = 2000000000*2; &#x2F;&#x2F; Twice most expensive item
 let btn = $(&#x27;.main-btn&#x27;);
 function cl() {
 btn.click();
 let curr = $(&quot;.main-stat-num&quot;).innerText.replace(&#x2F;\D&#x2F;g, &#x27;&#x27;);
 if (curr &lt; max_amt) {
 setTimeout(cl, 1)
 }
 }
 cl()</code></pre>

If you want to speed run it<pre><code> let max = 1000000;
 let btn = $(&#x27;.main-btn&#x27;);
 function cl() {
 btn.click();
 max--;
 if (max &gt; 0) {
 setTimeout(cl, 1)
 }
 }
 cl()</code></pre>

This site + Neal&#x27;s other stuff is pretty cool. I wonder if he makes it in vanilla JS.

The skywriter VPN ads are one of the few real links, apparently.

Reminds me of a modern version of The Entertainment from Infinite Jest.

Well, you&#x27;re half right -- it was a book.

&gt; 2018 FilmIt was also a great book!

It feels like this quote from &quot;Ready Player One&quot; (2018 film)&quot;Once we can roll back some of Halliday&#x27;s ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual&#x27;s visual field before inducing seizures&quot;

I needed the ocean at the end. It&#x27;s a very good game. The variable reward and quick repeatability captured me... It showcases what we are exposed to in a condensed manner.

I have a lot of fun with incremental games recently

&quot;A Squash and a Squeeze&quot; by Julia Donaldson must be a take on that<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;judaism.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;50346&#x2F;is-julia-donaldsons-a-squash-and-a-squeeze-based-on-a-jewish-source" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;judaism.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;50346&#x2F;is-julia-d...</a> says it&#x27;s a take on an old Jewish Polish folk tale

There is a different version where a person takes drug A to solve problem X. But that has a side effect so they take drug B to solve that problem. And so on and so on and so on. Eventually, they decide to stop taking all the medicines and are finally &quot;cured&quot;.

I felt an immediate, physical relief when I hit the credits screen.

Reminds me of a story I heard as a kid.Short version, guy can&#x27;t sleep. Someone tells him get a dog. Dog barks, still can&#x27;t sleep. Well you&#x27;ll also need a blah... repeat until the man has a small farm of loud animals going. Then finally &quot;get rid of them&quot; and suddenly it&#x27;s all so quiet again.It&#x27;s pretty fascinating how much more calm everything seems when you finish&#x2F;stop this game

possibly the first good website of this decade

It&#x27;s all about the destination, not the journey!

lol - I actually have done guided meditations at 2x, when I was starting out.

Not to mention the &quot;faster meditation&quot; upgrade, which plays the calming audio at 2x speed. (You know, so that you can relax twice as fast.)

The &quot;Meditation&quot; one made me chuckle. &quot;Relax your mind&quot;...As you wage all-out war on your senses.

Can&#x27;t say anything but I FRIGGING LOVED THIS

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

I managed to cheat this by buying a bunch of DVDs and making my window as small as possible, meaning they hit the edges much more often and gained me infinity stimulation.

This game is truly a work of art. I literally got a migraine playing this game though and couldn&#x27;t finish it unfortunately. This is the second piece of media to do this to me behind Koyaanisqatsi... now that I think of it, this seems like a modern interpretation of the film Koyaanisqatsi.

I was doing okay until the wormhole, and then I actually started to feel ill.

Behind such simplicity at first lies incredible work.

This slowly increases your blood pressure and heart rate.

On mobile I can just touch and drag my thumb around the button and it trigger several clicks.

For a 40-something guy I only had ICQ&#x2F;Yahoo!&#x2F;MSN&#x2F;AOL messager popups during the internet of &#x27;99, which would of been a few times per minute.So yeah, I guess we&#x27;re actually not that different after all.

For a 20-something guy this is basically what using the internet is like now. Incredible.

It&#x27;s not even today&#x27;s stimuli overload; the original Cookie Clicker has a billion things going on as well if you advance far enough (and leave all the graphics settings on).

I was about to scoff at this and thought &quot;Ugh, another cookie clicker&quot;, but then I started playing it. I&#x27;m glad it is quick because my head was going to explode. It is pretty damn brilliant take on today&#x27;s stimuli overload. I think it is more a piece of art than a game. I was able to win quickly once I got crypto because it was bouncing from $400 to $50,000, but I almost barfed because there was SO much going on. Well done.

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

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&#x2F;hint. I simply can&#x27;t figure out what these missing achievements are, and it looks like the count is wrong. Also, I wish I could revive my chicken. :(

&quot;Impressive. Very nice&quot;
Finished without cheating. But halfway disabled sounds. It is too much.
You can easily finish the game by buying stocks, especially bitcoin. No cheating needed, was super simple. But great nonetheless.

I crashed it by giving the button an ID and running this:<pre><code> for (let i = 0; i &lt; 100000; i++) {
 document.getElementById(&quot;foobar&quot;).click();
 }</code></pre>

My pulse is still higher than usual. We just spent an hour on this. This is an art game. :D Thank you!

It got me to think and engage, so already I think it succeeds at being a great piece of art.But is &quot;overstimulation&quot; ... &quot;bad&quot;, according to the overall message? Is this game, livestreamer Ludwig, and all the achievements part of the problem being highlighted? (Not to mention the mean-spirited Mindspace parody) If you get enough stimulation here, it just seems like you get to cash it in so that you can advance to a state of higher enlightenment

These trends wouldn&#x27;t be trends if they didn&#x27;t work. The game can be awful and distracting, yet still succeed at garnering engagement. Not just in spite of the stimulation but partially due to the stimulation. It&#x27;s not self defeating or hypocritical, it&#x27;s a bad thing, an indictment, and also engaging all at the same time.

I think it&#x27;s great that you didn&#x27;t really have a stomach for the absurd level of noise and flashing lights, but I just don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a moral victory that people should necessarily strive for.

You lasted 10 minutes? I lasted about 30 seconds. Life is too short.

It&#x27;s not self-defeating, it&#x27;s a commentary.I&#x27;ve built up a reflex to leave any sort of overstimulatory atmosphere. I don&#x27;t watch short form videos and leave any page that causes high levels of stimulation (Temu&#x27;s spinner stops me from shopping there, for example).I quit this game after about 10 minutes when it hit a comical level of stimulation and still upvoted this. I loved the commentary because the game seemed to follow the natural &quot;evolution&quot; of the web, straight to the point where every app has attached mini games and multiple in-game currencies. Listening to the man popping his beer can and pouring it at the same time as a live police scanner was truly dystopian but also feels like a daily occurrence in modern society.

I do believe there&#x27;s an intended interpretation or &quot;point&quot;, and that&#x27;s what I&#x27;m commenting on. Do you disagree with this?

you&#x27;re looking at it from a framework that there&#x27;s a &quot;right&quot; way to interpret a given piece of art, or that a given piece of art has &quot;a point&quot; instead of &quot;a set of ways in which people interpret it&quot;. You&#x27;re describing one way of interpreting it and then leveling a charge against the piece when, in reality, that charge should be leveled at that interpretation.

I think work that contemplates a social phenomenon without driving home any particular opinion or moral can still be interesting.

&gt; at any point during this game we could just open a new tab and watch the ocean on a YouTube livestream.That&#x27;s a great observation.I&#x27;m not sure how to phrase this exactly, but there&#x27;s something going on for at least some people - definitely for me - that the thing we&#x27;re seeking refuge in are given meaning by the things we&#x27;re seeking refuge from. Like you said, at any point during the game - or before, or after - I could open a new tab and watch the ocean on YouTube, or even watch the same thing that was the ending of the game. Except, obviously, I wouldn&#x27;t, because why would I? It would be totally random and arbitrary, a kind of plot non sequitur you&#x27;d complain about if it was a piece of fiction. This ocean scene only makes sense as an ending of this game, as a refuge, a contrast, a punchline. It&#x27;s the stimulation game preceding it, that gives meaning to the ending.I&#x27;ve noticed I often feel similarly about many hobbies, interests, tasks, - heck, even people - they rapidly stop being interesting once I don&#x27;t have any stressing obligation I should be working on instead.(My HN comment history, too, is strongly and positively correlated with amount of stuff I should be doing instead in my life, but not necessarily want to.)

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.

&gt;&gt; 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.&gt; Is this like a massive HN wooosh -- how can this be the top-voted comment?100% agree. I had to read that sentence and surrounding parts like 5 times to check if I was missing a satirical nod somewhere. It&#x27;s like writing a review of Franz Kafka&#x27;s books and saying &quot;Despite what we may say about bureaucracy, clearly lots of people enjoy it because his books were best sellers!&quot;Lots of art is there to make you think, not to &quot;enjoy&quot; it.

&gt; 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&#x27;s 1985 &quot;Amusing Ourselves to Death&quot;:&gt; “With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.”&gt; “Spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face.”It&#x27;s less about whether we &quot;enjoy&quot; the stimulation, more about what kind of people we become when we lose ourselves in this bizarre sea of superstimuli. We&#x27;re like reinforcement agents creating adversarial examples for each other, drawing ourselves further out of any sort of meaningful life, into a fever dream where the most desirable job for the next generation is to be famous for being famous [1] rather than do anything for any kind of deeper purpose.[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.entrepreneur.com&#x2F;business-news&#x2F;what-is-gen-zs-no-1-career-choice-social-media-influencer&#x2F;459387" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.entrepreneur.com&#x2F;business-news&#x2F;what-is-gen-zs-no...</a>

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&#x27;t really torture, but another level to the game.All the content creators whose inclusion at first seems like an indictment of the kinds of internet videos that lead to addiction or overstimulation also all get a pleasant shout-out which seems silly. Are these supposed to represent what&#x27;s awful about the internet?EDIT: To hammer the dissonance home, at the end of the game we are met with a calming ocean scene that I&#x27;m guessing the average player appreciated for about thirty seconds before clicking away.To me, this whole exercise doesn&#x27;t reflect how distorted humanity has become because of technology, but of how humans refuse to look themselves in the mirror.We want to be the kind of people who buck the mold and escape systems of control, so that we can properly enjoy things like waves of the ocean, but at any point during this game we could just open a new tab and watch the ocean on a YouTube livestream. Instead we spend an hour clicking and advancing this manic stream of chaos.What&#x27;s more human, then: calmly watching the waves crash against the beach, or clicking buttons trying to win and discover what&#x27;s at the end of a silly game?