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Now you've made me wonder: those hours I spent mesmerised by watching the colourful display of Windows 95 defragging the disc, would I have paid a monthly subsc
by thombat 5y ago
Now you've made me wonder: those hours I spent mesmerised by watching the colourful display of Windows 95 defragging the disc, would I have paid a monthly subscription for it? What if they'd added achievements, or leveling up? "Congratulations! Your wizard can now restructure directory chains!"
- Lammy 5y agohttp://progressquest.com/ http://progressquest.com/
- musicale 5y agoApparently the original idle game (according to wikipedia at least) although modern idle games are probably influenced by Cookie Clicker and others as well. I've occasionally been tempted to play Idle Champions which seems similar.
- joombaga 5y agoI'm pretty into the idle/incremental game concept, though they're rarely implemented to my taste. It's difficult to quantify what makes a good one, but my favorite is Universal Paperclips. https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
- esoterae 5y agoThe old #idlerpg was fun, in a historic sense (reading the log). I wonder when that got written. Anybody remember? Google doesn't.
- bncy 5y agoMan, this is great, I've just wasted 30 minutes playing this.
- dllthomas 5y agoThankfully it can wrap up in about 5 hours (as you may've discovered), unlike some of them...
- tomc1985 5y agoIdle Champions is fun but the numerical scaling on that game is whacky. It only takes like a month before you're doing 1 googol (1^100) damage and little dwarves or gnolls or rats or whatever drop a similar amount of gold. They say it's to differentiate effectively between linear and exponential scaling, but the end result is just whacky. It's the only game I've ever played where your damage output is most effectively measured by the size of its exponent
- nradov 5y agoI've seen people watching mesmerized as a Roomba vacuumed the floor. A time saving device indeed!
- darkwater 5y agoOne guilty individual here o/
- alchemism 5y agoDon’t forget to prep the floors before every run!
- oblio 5y agoPrep the floors?
- varsketiz 5y agoFloors need to be tidy for the robots to do their work (no clothes on the ground). There might be places that are difficult for the robot to clean without help - chairs might need to be put out of their way. In my home I put a plank to make a step smaller, if I don't, it can't go to the bathroom.
- animal531 5y agoI once defragged a drive multiple times, which promptly killed it, so I'm not sure how turning it into a game would have turned out.
- exikyut 5y agoHmm, that's a pretty powerful proof-of-work mechanic you've got there. "DefragCoin", anyone? Now we just need a way to achieve unilateral consensus about whether a given HDD is dead... (/s)