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Stimulation Clicker
- gordondavidf 2y ago1) wow, what a great piece of art. 2) Buy as many DVDs as possible and shrink the size of your window. Instant win.
- umpalumpaaa 2y agoI would love to play this but the site stops audio playback on mobile because it tries to play click sounds all the time. Are you able to add a mute option? :)
- el3ctron 2y agoI feel like i am on instagram.
- mouse_ 2y agofantastic
- rallyforthesun 2y agoaddictive
- belladoreai 2y agoclassic neal.fun
- correlator 2y agoreminds me of cookie clicker!
- dmazin 2y ago"Another great neal.fun joint. It made me miserable!"
- higgins 2y agobanger
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- odirf 2y agoCan someone explain me the point?
- kidfiji 2y agoIt falls under the category of "incremental games" that are generally simple but addicting due to the dopamine release from watching those numbers go up
- odirf 2y agoFor me, it causes headaches after a while due to the huge amount of animations running in parallel.
- zanderwohl 2y agoYeah, that's on purpose. It's meant to overstimulate you quickly
- 6SixTy 2y agoIt'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
- phire 2y agoIt's a parody. The whole genre of clicker games is a parody to start with, but this is more parody than most.
- CobrastanJorji 2y agoThe 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's kind of the problem with the genre: it's kind of artistically meant as a parody or a joke, but people keep liking them and wanting more, and now it's a real genre, and a few of the games (like Paperclips) have a lot of artistic value far beyond the initial "haha it's not much of a game" joke.
- gabrielcsapo 2y agoI really enjoyed the animation for seeing how much each button press was worth setInterval(() => { document.querySelector('.main-btn-wrapper button').click() }, 10) helped have me save my trackpad
- MR4D 2y agoThis 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.
- xnx 2y agoFantastic encapsulation and commentary on the modern web and attentionspace. There's certainly better ways to do this, but here's one way to automate 1000 clicks from the console: for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { document.querySelector('button.main-btn-pretty').click(); } Automating this art piece probably also says ... something.
- jetbalsa 2y agoa fun way is to resize the window to be super tiny and the DVD Bounce really gets going into the millions
- xnx 2y agoGood one. Sounds like a geiger counter.
- Imustaskforhelp 2y agowoah! great job
- yu3zhou4 2y agoInfinite version: let button = document.getElementsByClassName('main-btn'); let clicker = setInterval(() => button[0].click(), 1); To stop, use this: window.clearInterval(clicker);
- cainxinth 2y ago> 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.
- malux85 2y agoHahaha 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
- magicmicah85 2y agoNice! I’ve been playing Star Trek Fleet Command the past few days and have been wanting to build a silly clicker game to mock/mimic some of the game’s aspects and this has given me inspiration.
- Fraaaank 2y agoI do not like how enjoyable this was.
- notJim 2y agoPretty troubling!
- edm0nd 2y agothe muckbang video, I wish I could get rid of. ended up just muting the entire tab.
- tills13 2y agowell I cheated and was immediately overstimulated
- irs 2y agoWow. Too much fun. My eyes/head hurts. Finally went to the ocean in the game.
- rkagerer 2y agoMy game froze up when I bought that upgrade. Not sure if that's by design or it might have been an internet hiccup. What happens when you go to the ocean?
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- irs 2y agoIt’s just the end credits with a soothing ocean video in the background https://imgur.com/a/eNwfBO6 https://imgur.com/a/eNwfBO6 It was too addictive. My eyes still hurt !!!
- phemartin 2y agoBeware – this is crack! I clicked it and 20-min has passed. https://imgur.com/JJHXccN https://imgur.com/JJHXccN
- tines 2y agoVery sad, well done.
- mikewarot 2y agoI found the ultimate upgrade. If you run it in portrait on a cellphone, there's not enough room for any upgrade button! 8)
- erikerikson 2y agoFor those of you loving this, a classic: https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
- coldfoundry 2y agoCookie 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.
- MatthiasPortzel 2y agoCookie 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.”
- matt3210 2y agoThanks I hate it
- matt3210 2y agoCrashes on mobile chrome after about 10 minutes probably for the best
- GenerocUsername 2y agoSame Lost progress. It was fun and quirky, but Happy it ended though.
- spacemanspiff01 2y agoSame, I can't believe I spent that much time, the guided meditation killed me.
- perryizgr8 2y agoSame on samsung internet. I was happy it crashed.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoSamsung has a browser?
- perryizgr8 2y agohttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sec.android.app.sbrowser https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sec.androi... It's pretty good too.
- bonestamp2 2y agoCrashed on desktop brave as well. I mean, it was still running but I couldn't click on anything.
- cruffle_duffle 2y agoSame. iPhone 14 Pro, both safari and chrome. Eventually the sound stops and it gets super laggy. Almost kind of fitting.
- neuroelectron 2y ago
- ArlenBales 2y agoUnironically, if this was on Steam and monetized through their item shop, it would probably make a fortune. See banana: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2923300/Banana/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2923300/Banana/
- xnx 2y agoThere is a buymeacoffee link. I'm pretty stingy with donations, but thought this was worth 3 coffees.
- lazzlazzlazz 2y agoBanana is used by bots to exploit specific in-Steam tradable items and rewards. It's not a real game.
- bberenberg 2y agoCan 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.
- lxe 2y agoLooks like NFT nonsense but without the blockchain
- chupasaurus 2y agoAll this "game" does is generation of different marketable banana items to "players" running it.
- rahidz 2y agoImpressed with the effort. The fake crime podcast is gold.
- KMnO4 2y agoIt’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”
- sphars 2y agoOh 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.
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y agoThis game has the same old bug of "Left click + Enter key" to get money faster.
- artemonster 2y agobuy couple of dvds and resize your tab to be a single pixel wide - infinite points glitch
- seletskiy 2y agoDon't blame me. setInterval(() => { [...document.querySelectorAll(".upgrade,.loot-box-target,button")].map((e) => e.click()); }, 50)
- davepeck 2y agoCow Clicker 2025, Professional Edition. So good.
- akoboldfrying 2y agoMore people need to know the story of Cow Clicker.
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoRelease the HypnoDrones. Carpel Tunnel here I come. Nice.
- BSVogler 2y agoRan 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.
- sillysaurusx 2y agoDitto. It was also running at about 3 fps on my iPhone 12 on safari. It was a nice shopping trip worth of fun though.
- latexr 2y agoWhen that happened to me, a simple ⌘0 reset the size.
- NooneAtAll3 2y agowhat device has both zoom tapping and apple's ctrl button?
- latexr 2y agoLiterally every Mac with a trackpad, which includes every laptop. It’s not “Apple ctrl button”, it’s the “command” key. Macs have a “control” key too.
- ehsankia 2y agoI also had an issue that restarted my computer and found the hard way it doesn't save. Using localStorage to store the state is simple enough, unfortunate that it doesn't.
- blixt 2y agoLovely 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: https://dmchurch.github.io/omsi-loops/ https://dmchurch.github.io/omsi-loops/ (There are three versions, all open source on GitHub – this one is the third in the chain of forks, with the most updates)
- andybp85 2y agowhelp this is making this meeting go way faster
- tempestn 2y agoHelpful for cold hands too
- thebirk 2y agoHold Enter, click the reward from the hydraulic press, profit!
- hiroprot 2y agoBest way I've found to stimulate quickly, resize your window to be as small as possible, and have lots of bouncing DVDs.
- hiroprot 2y agoLevel 42 was my limit
- AbraKdabra 2y agoThis is the way, two minutes and already at a million.
- behnamoh 2y agoAlso, zoom in the window!
- whereismyacc 2y agoI 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're just bouncing on every tick. Normally I'm a sucker for clicker games, but cheating the progress (even accidentally) always kills the point of it.
- chrisfosterelli 2y agoYou can get a massive amount of money with the stock market plugin once you get the cryptocurrency and leverage upgrades.
- pplonski86 2y agoWhy do you think that stock and crypto plugins will be very profitable? There are no tools to combine finance data in easy way?
- hx8 2y agoDuring my 20 minutes I noticed stocks and crypto seem to always fluctuate within a given range. So if you buy in the low end of the range you're guaranteed to see an opportunity to sell at the higher end of the range. Crypto is just stocks with a wider range and more volatility.
- justlikereddit 2y agoAh, a simulation of hell. 2025 off for a good start in dystopian scinfi tech
- aaroninsf 2y agoTIHI Im lying ILI
- Version467 2y agoI spent an embarrassing amount of time playing this. Eventually it became overwhelming, but for a while it was (un)surprisingly engaging.
- akaike 2y agoSame, the true crime podcast is hilarious :D
- duskwuff 2y agoYep. A+ for effort - the "podcast" 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: https://stimulation-clicker.neal.fun/sounds/true-crime.mp3 https://stimulation-clicker.neal.fun/sounds/true-crime.mp3
- emidoots 2y agoIt has an ending, so play till the end :)
- lbrito 2y agoGenius
- doawoo 2y agoArt
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoI feel like a cat that's chasing a laser pointer and knows it's a toy but doesn't mind
- Galpa 2y agoI already did a speedrun on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTIxBBKNz8g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTIxBBKNz8g
- anais9 2y agoI love it! Here's my stab at an automated speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z8P1F-lyB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z8P1F-lyB8
- cscheid 2y agoSince we're all sharing clicker games, this one by Frank Lantz is a real classic: https://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ https://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
- tibbon 2y agoI wonder if we can get a superintelligent AI to play this one!
- captaincrunch 2y agodon't need it - just click the "click" button and then hold down enter.
- riccardomc 2y agoThat's exactly what a superintelligent AI would say...
- Carrok 2y agoYou haven’t gotten very far if you think that’s all the game requires.
- gms7777 2y agoA Dark Room (https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/) is fantastic as well. It's not only a clicker/idle game, but it incorporates the mechanics in an interesting way. On the whole, I've had to adopt a policy of not even touching clicker games. I find them incredibly addictive, and most of the time I'm not even enjoying the experience or getting anything out of it, I just feel hooked. I'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've had to stop myself from replaycing.
- drivers99 2y agoI'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'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.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoNeeds a URL preview btw
- dschuetz 2y agomy new idle clicker
- daRealDodo 2y agoI accidentally refreshed the screen, fuuuuuck
- vasilzhigilei 2y agoThis is awesome. Subway surfers immediately made my attention span increase for how long I could tap the button.
- mrmuagi 2y agoFor 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] https://www.incrementaldb.com https://www.incrementaldb.com
- bogtog 2y agoThis had a really nice length (~1 hour). I was able to wrap up the game quite quickly once I unlocked crypto trading
- captaincrunch 2y agoBest way - Click "Click Me" then hold down enter.
- oytis 2y agoWhy should it collect data for hundreds of partners?
- hooo 2y agoWhy ... does that feel so good
- landtuna 2y agoI clicked once and closed the page because you can't tell me what to do (more than once).
- attentionmech 2y agoidk what i am doing but i am hooked on it. it's like as if it's directly interacting with dopamine of my brain.
- laurent_du 2y agoWorth every minute, and every cell brain.
- wdfx 2y agoTwice I accidentally pull-refreshed on mobile and lost all my progress :(
- vasilzhigilei 2y agoI pulled down to reload my email for more dopamine out of habit and it refreshed the page.
- zdc1 2y agoI 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
- Petersipoi 2y agoAs 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.
- p0w3n3d 2y agoHow much does it require to finish? I mean how many stimulation points? I gave up when I bought auto hydraulic press.
- SparkyMcUnicorn 2y agoCrypto 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.
- coldfoundry 2y agoIf you are interested in seeing what the depth of the game is and you are on desktop, unlock the hydraulic press by holding "enter" after clicking on the "click" 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.
- eigenvalue 2y agoWow, 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.
- echelon 2y agoNeal 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 "The Size of Space" and "Deep Sea", to the more amusing "Absurd Trolly Problems", "The Password Game", and so on. It's all so good and feels like a gift to the internet. Stimulation Clicker'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're reading HN, you rock. Please know how appreciative we are.
- engineer_22 2y agohttps://buymeacoffee.com/neal https://buymeacoffee.com/neal
- diggan 2y ago> 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's interactive, but it also feels like it can be broader than the other mediums, like on one hand you have Idle/Clicker games like these, and on the other the huge blockbuster AAA games.
- marifjeren 2y agoYou'll never see games at fancy art galleries or contemporary art museums in NYC because games are too accessible
- benbojangles 2y agothey should use this to create jobs
- twohaibei 2y agoEmails are so funny... :)
- emddudley 2y agoI'm embarrassed to admit it but I found out this game has an ending.
- TZubiri 2y agoI feel personally attacked by some of the upgrades.
- raviisoccupied 2y agoI hated that I loved this - great concept.
- yuvalr1 2y agoI really don'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.
- buryat 2y agoIf you want to speed run it let max = 1000000; let btn = $('.main-btn'); function cl() { btn.click(); max--; if (max > 0) { setTimeout(cl, 1) } } cl()
- buryat 2y agoI 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
- Terr_ 2y agoA 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. let max_amt = 2000000000*2; // Twice most expensive item let btn = $('.main-btn'); function cl() { btn.click(); let curr = $(".main-stat-num").innerText.replace(/\D/g, ''); if (curr < max_amt) { setTimeout(cl, 1) } } cl()
- DearNarwhal 2y agoThis site + Neal's other stuff is pretty cool. I wonder if he makes it in vanilla JS.
- Terr_ 2y agoThe skywriter VPN ads are one of the few real links, apparently.
- nsypteras 2y agoReminds me of a modern version of The Entertainment from Infinite Jest.
- dachris 2y agoIt feels like this quote from "Ready Player One" (2018 film) "Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures"
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoOw, My Balls
- otteromkram 2y ago> 2018 Film It was also a great book!
- floren 2y agoWell, you're half right -- it was a book.
- stavros 2y agoYou're downvoted, but I agree. I found it basically a hodgepodge of 80s references over a basic story with one-dimensional characters (the heroes are Very Good and the bad guy is Very Bad). I would have assumed that it's aimed at young children, if the references weren't forty years before their time.
- tempusr 2y agoIt's not just that, but also the main protagonist is written terribly and never given any real faults or challenges to overcome. During the entire book there is never a challenge that is not resolved by the next paragraph. The Japanese friends that he makes are grossly stereotyped and are kept one dimensional during the entire book as well. The main character also strikes me as incredibly creepy, and to a level where he could be classified as an para-social stalker. Just comes off as being a terrible person overall. Spielberg's movie however is fantastic and one of those rare instances where the movie truly does outrank the book.
- simpsond 2y agoI needed the ocean at the end. It's a very good game. The variable reward and quick repeatability captured me... It showcases what we are exposed to in a condensed manner.
- pseudomode 2y ago1 upvote point from me!
- charlieyu1 2y agoI have a lot of fun with incremental games recently
- Eji1700 2y agoReminds me of a story I heard as a kid. Short version, guy can't sleep. Someone tells him get a dog. Dog barks, still can't sleep. Well you'll also need a blah... repeat until the man has a small farm of loud animals going. Then finally "get rid of them" and suddenly it's all so quiet again. It's pretty fascinating how much more calm everything seems when you finish/stop this game
- furyofantares 2y ago"A Squash and a Squeeze" by Julia Donaldson must be a take on that https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/50346/is-julia-donaldsons-a-squash-and-a-squeeze-based-on-a-jewish-source https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/50346/is-julia-d... says it's a take on an old Jewish Polish folk tale
- snarf21 2y agoThere 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 "cured".
- DoingSomeThings 2y agoI felt an immediate, physical relief when I hit the credits screen.
- simonsarris 2y agopossibly the first good website of this decade
- adamtaylor_13 2y agoThe "Meditation" one made me chuckle. "Relax your mind"... As you wage all-out war on your senses.
- duskwuff 2y agoNot to mention the "faster meditation" upgrade, which plays the calming audio at 2x speed. (You know, so that you can relax twice as fast.)
- adamtaylor_13 2y agoIt's all about the destination, not the journey!
- furyofantares 2y agolol - I actually have done guided meditations at 2x, when I was starting out.
- atorodius 2y agoCan't say anything but I FRIGGING LOVED THIS
- danvoell 2y agoMy finger hurts
- hoseja 2y agoI really wanted the pillow.
- bbno4 2y agoI 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.
- booleandilemma 2y agoBut what did you win, really?
- neuroelectron 2y agoinfinity stimulation
- rf15 2y agoA bad taste in my mouth how I spend my time online in general
- booleandilemma 2y ago[flagged]
- ludston 2y agoThe ocean.
- uludag 2y agoThis game is truly a work of art. I literally got a migraine playing this game though and couldn'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.
- devin 2y agoI was doing okay until the wormhole, and then I actually started to feel ill.
- rsyring 2y agoThis.
- aaurelions 2y agoBehind such simplicity at first lies incredible work.
- lxe 2y agoThis slowly increases your blood pressure and heart rate.
- dangoodmanUT 2y agothis is so meta i love it
- Geste 2y agoMaybe I need a dumbphone, after all...
- atum47 2y agoOn mobile I can just touch and drag my thumb around the button and it trigger several clicks.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- easterncalculus 2y agoFor a 20-something guy this is basically what using the internet is like now. Incredible.
- samjanis 2y agoFor a 40-something guy I only had ICQ/Yahoo!/MSN/AOL messager popups during the internet of '99, which would of been a few times per minute. So yeah, I guess we're actually not that different after all.
- zzzzrrrt 2y agoI was about to scoff at this and thought "Ugh, another cookie clicker", but then I started playing it. I'm glad it is quick because my head was going to explode. It is pretty damn brilliant take on today'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.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoIt's not even today'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).
- nixosbestos 2y agooh 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/hint. I simply can't figure out what these missing achievements are, and it looks like the count is wrong. Also, I wish I could revive my chicken. :(
- starshadowx2 2y agoYou can inspect element on the achievements to see what their unlock text is.
- markusw 2y agoMy pulse is still higher than usual. We just spent an hour on this. This is an art game. :D Thank you!
- say_it_as_it_is 2y agoIs this an adderall thing?
- albus0x 2y ago"Impressive. Very nice" 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.
- whalesalad 2y agoI crashed it by giving the button an ID and running this: for (let i = 0; i < 100000; i++) { document.getElementById("foobar").click(); }
- allemagne 2y agoThis 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'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'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'm guessing the average player appreciated for about thirty seconds before clicking away. To me, this whole exercise doesn'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's more human, then: calmly watching the waves crash against the beach, or clicking buttons trying to win and discover what's at the end of a silly game?
- ertgbnm 2y agoThese trends wouldn't be trends if they didn'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's not self defeating or hypocritical, it's a bad thing, an indictment, and also engaging all at the same time.
- allemagne 2y agoIt got me to think and engage, so already I think it succeeds at being a great piece of art. But is "overstimulation" ... "bad", 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
- dachris 2y agoWindows 12 sneak preview
- simpaticoder 2y agoWonderful comment on our noisy world. Highly recommend some sort of warning for users, particularly the subway surfer wormhole. I'm not light sensitive but even I now have a headache.
- ic4l 2y agoIn case you are wondering this actually beats the game: setInterval(() => Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.main-btn, .upgrade-icon, .press-collect, .press-btn, .collect')).forEach(item => item.click()), 50); After around level 40 things get very very slow.
- kkarpkkarp 2y agosuch sites isn't fun anymore since I've discovered after the first click you have to just press enter key and do not release it
- navane 2y agoI'm going way too hard on this. Help.
- itissid 2y agomore fun at https://ncase.me/ https://ncase.me/
- sprokolopolis 2y agoThis is reminding me of an ascii art game called Candy Box. It begins very minimal like this, but unfolds into a wonderfully imaginative RPG game. https://candybox2.github.io/candybox/ https://candybox2.github.io/candybox/
- blueaquilae 2y agoThis is a great piece of art, it has a message and it capture you. When you get the final message you feel dumb. Thanks for this original piece!
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- uptownfunk 2y agoThis is insane. We are wired so strangely.
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- p0w3n3d 2y agoI have a serious question. If I know someone who plays such type of games, should I worry about his health? I mean games that do not require to make any decisions at all or little as possible - similar to this one. Just numbers going up
- tene 2y agoOn its own it's not necessarily an issue, but I'd consider it a warning sign. The times in my life that I've obsessively played games like this have been times when my emotional health was suffering. I felt overwhelmed by life and the world, and games like this gave me a synthetic feeling of progress and accomplishment, gave me something extremely simple to do that I couldn't fail at. Games like this were a symptom of my problems at the time, not the cause, and when my life got more stable, I lost interest in playing them. If they're playing in moderation, just to pass the time during otherwise-boring events, probably not an issue. If they're pretty much always playing, or if it's intruding on their life, or if they're not otherwise engaging with the world, consider worrying about their emotional health.
- p0w3n3d 2y agoThank you! I noticed too I played much more games when in low mood seasons. Especially Minecraft (inb4: yes, I'm 40yo but play Minecraft) has a lot of small quests I could achieve. Also, the old Diablo I play on my phone (DevilutionX) allows me to kill time (and beasts) but I find it repeatable, yet still satisfying.
- NoboruWataya 2y agoWhy does this feel like the most productive thing I've done all day?
- 4b11b4 2y agoThis really drives home the point eh?
- johnneville 2y agoi went into this expecting a quick, shallow, PoC game to make a fast point. i was rewarded as the game continued to add incredible depth, showing real care and thought. if there's one thing i can recommend, it's to read all the emails. they are hilarious and gave me the most joy. i burst out laughing while reading some which took me over my stimulation threshold and allowed me to fully embrace the absurdity of the entire thing (which i was initially playing somewhat competitively).
- OpFour 2y agoHa! Level 32 bitches! Mmmm... I'm now sitting on the beach, enjoying the quiet...
- sharkweek 2y agoNeal.fun keeping weird internet alive, one micro game at a time. Other favorites: * Absurd Trolley Problem: https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/ https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/ * Password game: https://neal.fun/password-game/ https://neal.fun/password-game/
- ewhanley 2y agoThis is a Black Mirror level hellscape. It really does capture the overstimulation of the modern world without filters. I found myself simultaneously anxious and inclined to keep clicking so I can unlock the next tier. It's over the top but not by much.
- utopcell 2y agoOh no. Last time [1] I wasted half a day clicking on buttons. There were some aliens, some AI stuff, then something happened to (this) universe. Never again! Many years back, someone had made a clicker parody game internally at Google (go/swe-simulator-game). You clicked to write CLs, DDs, build a team, get into committees, get promoted. I wish that was made available externally, it was hilarious and painful at the same time. [1] https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
- munchler 2y agoUniversal Paperclips is the clicker game GOAT as far as I'm concerned.
- ayaros 2y agoSee also: Antimatter Dimensions, Universal Paperclips, and Candy Box 1 & 2.
- 31337Logic 2y agoBrilliant!! Thank you!
- CodeWriter23 2y agoAs a 5 Time World Universal Paperclip Champion, I think this game is garbage.
- emidoots 2y agoThis is so toxic, I love it! Great work, love that it has an ending. Donated a bit to you as well.
- wcfrobert 2y agoI had to stop my lofi Spotify playlist and my Pomodoro timer to play this game... This is a work of art!
- Nekorosu 2y agoIt took some effort to escape this trap. :D Great!
- nidnogg 2y agoI was having a pretty bad day at work and this brightened me up. Thanks!
- StefanBatory 2y agoIt is very scary for me because I... actually enjoyed it. I know the point the game was making. And that's why it scares me even more.
- anonyonoor 2y agoI accidentally got addicted to crypto trading and made 34 million stimulation before I realized there was a "win game" button. I guess this game is more representative than we'd like to think.
- stavros 2y ago"I accidentally got addicted" is such a wonderful phrase.
- windowshopping 2y agoWhat is the win game button? I also got up to a pretty high stimulation and never saw any such button.
- noonething 2y agoIt's the icon of water waves.
- spopejoy 2y agoHahaha I thought my mobile browser finally crashed after I clicked that
- 4ggr0 2y agoYeah, mobile devices struggle with this game, mine crashed as well after clicking on this button. normally you would be shown a video of calming waves and the credits of the game, with all the other noise and distractions disappearing.
- navane 2y agoLuckily the first time I finished it on PC and got the ending right. My phone also crashed the browser upon ending button.
- pprunty 2y agodopamineeeee come to meeeeee
- timzaman 2y agofantastic. very interactive and artistic. fun game almost.
- snake42 2y agoI finished the game and immediately went to pick up my phone to check Instagram. Before I started I had just been thinking about how my lack of capacity to focus has been causing me to get nothing done. Not sure how to escape/re-train myself.
- bijant 2y agowindow.$nuxt.$children[1].$children[0].$children[0].stimulation = 999999
- codethief 2y agoUnfortunately, at some point (while I was getting 5-10k SPS), there was this blue droplet(?) (for a lack of a better word) passing down my screen. Tapping it crashed the game for me on Firefox for Android in the sense that pretty much everything turned non-responsive after that. :\ EDIT: Almost crashed Chromium on Android / Vanadium, too.
- cess11 2y agoThat was fun, can't wait for more content! Until then I'm returning to http://trimps.github.io/ http://trimps.github.io/.
- EcommerceFlow 2y agoI think I'd get addicted to a fake crypto trading game
- Aeolun 2y agoMy 6 year old son was entertained for about 2 minutes. Not enough stimulation in this one.
- 4ggr0 2y agoi finished the game in 20mins, got a headache now. very creative, i like it. what happens after you buy the trip to the ocean? the game hung up at this point on my phone, seemed to use a lot of RAM. lots of animations were lagging from quite early on.
- StevenNunez 2y agoThat was delightful.
- mansilladev 2y agoAnyone get to Zombocom level?
- sergiotapia 2y agoThank for the stimulation!
- rwesty 2y agoI was able to find a bug to get lots of clicks. Buy at least one bouncing DVD, open dev tools into responsive mode and make the screen width 52pixels (the lowest allowed). The DVDs will then bounce with each frame, racking up a bunch of points.
- joshchernoff 2y agosetInterval(()=>{$0.click()}, 1); and weeeeeee
- kernelguardian 2y agoconst button = document.querySelector(".main-btn"); if (button) { const clickButtonMultipleTimes = async () => { while (true) { const userInput = prompt("Enter the number of times to click the button (or type 'exit' to stop):"); if (userInput === null || userInput.toLowerCase() === 'exit') { alert("Exiting the click process."); break; } const clicks = parseInt(userInput, 10); if (isNaN(clicks) || clicks < 0) { alert("Please enter a valid non-negative number."); continue; } for (let i = 0; i < clicks; i++) { button.click(); } alert(`Clicked the button ${clicks} time(s)!`); } }; clickButtonMultipleTimes(); } else { alert("The button with class 'main-btn' was not found on this page."); }
- t0wk 2y agoWell done Neal and team. I clicked around and chuckled at the obvious stimulation "memes", but quickly felt a compulsion to "win". Ended up scoring huge with the crypto mini game and unlocked everything. I'd say the biggest surprise was clicking on the ocean without thought (since I was mindlessly clicking at everything), and was left a bit disappointed that it ended. Lesson learned: Read everything carefully before clicking.
- SebastianSosa 2y agoNeal.. screw you. Youve robbed me of 15 mins. So far....
- rsyring 2y agoIt was 50 mins to finish for me. But I had to look at my browser history to tell. I would have guessed 20-30 mins.
- nexoft 2y agoI was sucked in it for 1 hour
- dandigangi 2y agoThis was entertaining as all hell.
- AirMax98 2y agoI’m blown away. Literally laughed out loud when the lo-fi beat kicked in. Neal has outdone himself here.
- klik99 2y agoReally wonderful, worth playing towards the end! I remember cookie clicker taking days to finish when it first released, I like this is a self-contained experience that ends, and really generates the kind of anxiety it's trying to comment on by the end, and then gracefully steps away at the right time.
- fl1pper 2y agothat's very fun! good job!
- dogman123 2y agoDid anyone else get the seemingly _actual_ NordVPN that clicked through to NordVPN? Wondering if they sponsored this.
- itishappy 2y agoWith the affiliate link!
- crubier 2y agoWhat have we done! This is a great piece of art, reflecting on current state of society
- sigmonsays 2y agoxdotool click --repeat 1000 --delay 10 1
- vardump 2y agoFantastic. Such a relief to turn that thing off!
- SaggyDoomSr 2y agoOMG. I wanted to get the end, but I was doing it on mobile. I upswiped once, and leftswiped once, so it took THREE tries. The first two tries were each more than 10 minutes in. When I was finally, done, I realized I had skipped my planned workout. Then it hit me: Point. made. dammit.
- shaneprrlt 2y agoThis was fun lol. There's something calming about being inundated with stimulation.
- aucisson_masque 2y agoI'm surprised it does actually work very well. The whole earn coins to purchase faster ways to earn coins is objectively stupid, I'm not going to do anything with them but I still feel like I need to earn more and feel good when I unlocked new stuff. Is that Pavlov conditioning ? Used to buy new stuff and always make more money.
- tonymet 2y agos/coins/dollars
- randomcatuser 2y agohaha true, the ultimate meta. why do we feel the need to earn more coins? the game prescriptively doesn't say how it should be played - a player could well be content with rain sounds....
- NooneAtAll3 2y ago> I'm surprised it does actually work very well. probably you got lucky with having correct browser or smth...
- aucisson_masque 2y agoFirefox Android. Usually that's the first one to break website, that and safari.
- lilbonaparte 2y agoYall, this was freaking great. I took a break from coding to play it, really scratch the itch. Yes I have ADHD.
- parpfish 2y agowhat? that one egg was twenty eggs?
- alex201 2y agoI don't want to read comments, but I can’t be the only one who wrote a script to click forever and turned the page into a chaotic, laggy nightmare. Pure art honestly
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- btown 2y agoThe real hidden gem here is the hilarious 40 minute mermaid-themed true crime podcast parody that you'll only hear a portion of if you progress quickly. As far as I can tell, it's fully custom-made for this game? Can't find any references to the characters online. https://stimulation-clicker.neal.fun/ https://stimulation-clicker.neal.fun/ sounds/true-crime.mp3 - it's hosted on Cloudflare, but even so I don't want to cost OP significant bandwidth, so join the two strings above for the direct link. "Aww, he was all cat 'n tonic when he first saw her." An absolute classic. I would do anything to know more about how this came to exist.
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- btown 2y agoI say this as someone who's tried all the state-of-the-art voice generation systems: so far, nobody has trained an AI to "chew the scenery" nearly as effectively and effusively as these voice actors having the time of their lives playing southern belles and bean company owners who are blisteringly envious that a dead mermaid is stealing their spotlight by dying from a megalodon attack.
- withinboredom 2y agoHaha, the problem is: we still haven't gotten AI to generate voices! "State of the art" just uses regular TTS engines and then adds extra inflection as "special sauce" or stretches it out, etc. At least, that is how it works for these AI generators that need to do it "at scale." When you can spend more on classic speech models, you can go well beyond that (see Siri, Google, Alexa, etc).
- 383toast 2y agofor people that don't want to click a lot, paste in "setInterval(() => document.querySelector('.main-btn').click(), 20)" into the browser console, clicks 50x per second for you :)
- djhworld 2y agoThis was so much fun and yet so awful at the same time, I was laughing out loud at some of the escalations. At the end I was losing track of my mouse cursor and fatigue was setting in, the final ending scene was such a calming sense of relief!
- re 2y agoCan't seem to get a few of the achievements: * Roaring Kitty (Definitely made over 100k on bitcoin trades) * Polyglot (Duolingo no longer appears -- did I need to never answer any incorrectly? It seemed like incorrectly answered questions re-appeared later)
- Sniffnoy 2y agoYeah Polyglot requires not making any mistakes; mess up and you'll have to restart to get it. I can't seem to get Roaring Kitty either -- and I should note, you can check how much you've made in the stock market with the "Screen Time" button, so I can say I've made over 4 million... probably it's not working...
- dsego 2y agoI love the jab at duolingo sending you threatening e-mails.
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- tyfighter 2y agoI must not be the target audience for this kind of thing, but I really don't get it. The few times I've opened HN today I've seen this at the top, and the number of points has been higher. I've opened it 3 times, and clicked the button, and some other icons showed up below. The first time I didn't open even bother to mouse over the icons, so I didn't know you'd be buying things. I closed before I got to 50 stimulations. The second time, I did hover over the icons showing up, and clicked a couple, and nothing seemed to happen other than spending stimulation, so I closed before 100. I just did this a third time as it's now over 1200 points, and I really just don't understand what is going on. What am I missing?
- risenshinetech 2y agoI think this is a scenario where if you have to ask, you'll never know. Perhaps, ironically, there just wasn't enough immediate stimulation for you to continue...
- tyfighter 2y agoI don't even know what a clicker game is or why one would be stimulating.
- 383toast 2y agofor people that don't want to click a lot, paste in "setInterval(() => document.querySelector('.main-btn').click(), 20)" into the browser console, clicks 50x per second for you :)
- tonymet 2y agothat's just early game strategy. mid game you need apple late game you need crypto
- youtubeuser 2y agoI WENT TO THE OCEAN
- oraphalous 2y agoPro tip - shrink your window to a tiny box and the dvds really bounce like crazy.
- _lnrx 2y agoThe stimulation from this fewer experience was so intense that my phone started to freeze up, lol.
- tdfirth 2y agoThe best strategy is to write a helper function in the console to click for you. Then invest heavily in the DVDs, DVD bounce rate, stimulation per bounce, and general SPS increases. I reached several quintillion stimulation, at which point I was offered to purchase "go to the beach" for 2 million. This ends the game and plays a relaxing beach video. You too can get to the beach in just 5 minutes.
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- BigParm 2y agoHow do I get out of "serene mode"? Booooooo
- radioxoma 2y agoWell, this escalated quickly.
- wizzwizz4 2y ago0 DVD speedrun in 5m42s (using the manual auto hydraulic press glitch), but you can probably get better with good RNG.
- nicetryguy 2y agoMajor Cookie Clicker / Upgrade Complete vibes with this with a touch of social critique, love the descent into absolute chaos. Fun game and incredible artwork!
- defart 2y agoQuit at lvl 30. It was actually very satisfying to enjoy the quiet after the experience.
- phkahler 2y agoI came here after checking in on my Cookie Clicker tab and this was number 1 on HN. It couldn't be.... it is.
- nomilk 2y agoAnyone else find the combination of rain sounds and lofi strangely soothing. I feel less distracted with both playing.
- glitchc 2y agoMagical!
- super_normal 2y agobrah i beat this game in 4.5 seconds yall dont even know about the epic skip i found el oh l
- loeg 2y agoAfter a few minutes it's burning 25% of an M1 core in Chrome, lol.
- Drblessing 2y agoThis is the greatest thing I've seen in a few years. Perfectly encapsulates the simulacrum we find ourselves in the modern world.
- darepublic 2y agoIf you manually decrease window.innerWidth and window.innerHeight to low values (i.e. 50 and 50) then the bouncing dvd gets triggered ceaselessly. I enjoyed this unironically :D
- geuis 2y agoOnly complaint is the sound implementation causes my background audio (audiobook and music) to pause. Maybe Neal could add a mute button?
- Jeremy1026 2y agoThat was an enjoyable half-hour. Well done.
- motohagiography 2y agounbelievable. he's cracked the code in a few areas. what is the one thing that all of these stochastic processes implement? e.g. is there a rhythm or proportion of them to each other, or a shape? It's not a simple bifucation process or fractal, it's something else. I use fractals in music and they are too unstable to produce this ebb and flow of consonance and dissonance the game uses in the evolution of each widget. it's practically a hypnosis method. what is the underlying pattern in these?
- deeviant 2y agoNever felt so attacked yet catered too at the same time. A masterpiece.
- wkjagt 2y agoFirst thought: this is just silly. Then 5 minutes later: let me just get the ASMR slime video for 4000 stimulations before closing this. Now 10 minutes in I added the Listen to a Murder True Crime podcast for 10,000 stimulations, upgraded my hydraulic press, and now waiting for one of my 13 (technicolor upgraded) DVD logos to hit a corner so I can multiply my points by 10.
- uptownhr 2y agothank you for having an end. i think i was going to play forever.
- resonious 2y agoResizing your browser window to be very small with the DVD bouncer is a pretty good cheat.
- danielvaughn 2y agoWhat a unique little site, I love all those little experiments. I feel weirdly proud of my 95.5% perfect circle: https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/ https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
- IanCal 2y agoI know this is a take on the internet but it's a bit on the nose to also have it request to send your data to over a hundred different companies.
- rf15 2y agoI actually thought it very subtle, considering it's usually thousands
- deadbabe 2y agoThe next thing this thing needs is a leaderboard.
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- tangjurine 2y agogive me meaning not dopamine
- ryan-allen 2y agoI enjoyed the humor and the ending, it reminds me of some DOS games I grew up with. Nice work Neal :) Clicker games can be considered banal, but when there is an interesting unexpected story or comedy behind the progressions, they are fun little pieces of art. Two games I have played in the past of this ilk are Spaceplan [0] and Nodebuster [1], both of which only take around an hour or so to progress through. Fun and interesting like Neal's game. [0] http://www.spaceplan.click/ http://www.spaceplan.click/ [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3107330/Nodebuster/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3107330/Nodebuster/
- darod 2y agothat was wild, kudos to you.
- _def 2y agoI got so drawn into it that only an accidental page refresh got me out of it. Well done. Also the banner texts are really funny :D
- matt3210 2y agoI went back to this on a desktop and discovered the bitcoin stims… got to the ocean soon after
- imperialdrive 2y agoVery fun, but also, it froze a couple times when I was doing well :(
- nayuki 2y agoBy un-disabling the stock market buy and sell buttons, I was able to buy even when I didn't have enough money (stimulation), and I was also able to short-sell shares. So funny!
- fastball 2y agoFinally, Universal Paperclips for the brainrot era.
- BohdanPetryshyn 2y agoI not only enjoyed it as a satire on the overstimulation problem but also learned that my compulsive-obsessive syndrome has a high correlation with overstimulation.
- jaykoronivo 2y agoPretty good! Like it
- verelo 2y agoI wish it didn’t reset on refresh lol…
- epigramx 2y agoI reached the end. Not sure that will help me end by stock market addiction. nice game.
- mproud 2y agoThe same person behind the Absurd Trolley Problems: https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/ https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/
- jliptzin 2y agoI found a cool cheat. Get a few DVDs going then resize the window quickly in a bunch of directions. It'll group them all together and you'll get a ton of stim all at once every time you resize the window. It also makes the sound effect sound like a Geiger counter.
- NooneAtAll3 2y agoDVD emblems don't appear for me... the don't appear in stats either
- pks016 2y agoHow do you not kill the Chicken? I was sad when it died :(
- zoklet-enjoyer 2y agoI finished the game. Got to level 32 and bought the upgrade Go to the Ocean for 2,000,000 stimulation. The audio chilled out and it went to the credits.
- HiPHInch 2y agoI find it frustrating that after purchasing an item, the email notifications are endless. They include every minor update, like the delivery person stopping for a bagel. It feels like my phone is constantly bombarded with unnecessary information these days.
- smj-edison 2y agoThis. Just send me one email with a receipt and a link to the tracker. I'll open it if I want to know.
- beachandbytes 2y agoGame of the year so far!
- xivzgrev 2y agoOh man that is wild. As soon as I added subway surfer, it became so much easier to keep clicking the simulation button. I was watching that random video and don’t even notice I keep clicking.
- Tokkemon 2y agoHoly moly that was an incredible experience. Well done! The increasingly-dark Duolingo bird has to be my favorite part. Maybe I didn't get all the easter eggs there, but I almost wish the whole game just turned into an elaborate plot for vengeance for the owls.
- Swannie 2y agoDid you get the Duolingo renewal email? :D
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- m00dy 2y ago'allow pasting' let boom = $ setInterval(() => { boom('#__layout > div > div > div.main-area > div > div.main-btn-wrapper > div > button').click() }, 100);
- LincolnedList 2y agoIts such a contrast between this game and the Doom gallery experience that reached the top earlier.
- shahzaibmushtaq 2y agoThis was my first time visiting the website, and Neal has truly mastered the art of bringing fun to seemingly boring things.
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- crsv 2y agoThis was an incredible piece of art, and I say this unironically. Absolutely incredible.
- fouronnes3 2y agoYou can cheese the start by making the window really small, which makes the dvd logo bounces happen really fast!
- justinl33 2y agowhile(1) document.querySelector('.main-btn').click();
- awanderingmind 2y agoThere is a lesson in here... I can recommend playing to the end. The contrast to the frenetic pace of the game is like an epiphany.
- __mharrison__ 2y agoMy takeaway from this is to get in the right side of interest. Once you start making money with the crypto, it goes fast. One could say this applies to real life (stock market or crypto). But at the start, it is slow.
- patrock 2y agoIt's nice that you can speed up the game by just reducing the viewport to an absolute minimum and have the DVD bouncers do all the work.
- Bulbasaur2015 2y agohaha i love this
- _kidlike 2y agoThere should be a warning for people with ADHD... also for epilepsy... other than that, one of the most creative clickers.
- mandalorianer 2y agoA wonderful mirror for todays society and a great tool for education purposes!
- lovegrenoble 2y agofantastic, interactive and artistic
- cantalopes 2y agoI accidentally refreshed it while checking simulation email and the app doesn't store state in local storage:(
- cantalopes 2y agoI have accidentally refeshed the page while checking simulation email and the app doesn't store state in localstorage:(
- samjanis 2y agoJust did 2+ hours of fascinated clicking as if I found a new part of Wikipedia, mainly because I assumed the "one way trip" to the ocean was a euphemism for what happened to the Titan submersible.
- test21311111 2y agohvbuv
- jamesy0ung 2y agoThis is perfect! Just one request, can we get dual or more subway surfers!
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- maltris 2y agoThe sad but funny part of this is: If I sent this to my computer science class of 12-13 year olds, 50% would not even get the joke and just go and play it like their usual brainrot cookie clicker.
- pikseladam 2y agoIf you like this kind of games, please give https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html a try
- kallistisoft 2y agoFound a weird bug... I've got a 3 monitor setup and the background animations (rain + pinwheel) only appears on 2 of the monitors... If the window straddles two of the monitors the animations only play on one half of the window!
- devonsolomon 2y agoMy favorite part was my iPhone struggling to run this thing once it got busy, and me desperate to not lose the game. Took me back to the old days!
- siraben 2y agoThe crypto prices were so unrealistic. I was able to just keep buying Bitcoin with 2x leverage when it was low and make millions when it subsequently went up after. I barely paid attention to any other ways to make stimulation. Please implement liquidation mechanisms and more volatility.
- panstromek 2y agoThis is so in good in a way that is truly hard to describe
- albert_e 2y agoSomewhat on same lines as this "challenge" and its responses ... https://x.com/hobdaydesign/status/1634525287403728897 https://x.com/hobdaydesign/status/1634525287403728897
- Adachi91 2y agoThis is also a good example of how horrible the web has become and how inefficient JavaScript programmers are. Even if you hit the "end" none of the elements are cleaned up so will continue to use cycles in the background. If it's supposed to be a permanent end, then you should remove all elements besides the serenity media.
- harywilke 2y agoThis reminds me of the early days of Facebook. All silly click games.
- smusamashah 2y agoResize vertically to break all limits.
- milgrim 2y agoIs this Frog Fractions 3?
- ngcazz 2y agoI have ADHD. This is absolutely a health and safety hazard.
- eleveriven 2y agoI thought my head was going to explode by the end... At some point during the game (right at the very end) I couldn’t even find my cursor on the screen anymore hahaha
- febin 2y agoEnjoy let button = document.querySelector('.main-btn'); document.querySelector('.main-btn'); if (button) { let clickCount = 0; const interval = setInterval(() => { button.click(); clickCount++; if (clickCount >= 10000000) { clearInterval(interval); console.log('Clicked 1000 times!'); } }, 10); // Adjust the interval (10ms) if necessary } else { console.log('Button not found!'); }
- agnishom 2y agoI could feel my blood pressure going up...
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- Aissen 2y agoAt first, I thought it was just a clicker; then it reminded me of the game "Don't Move" https://store.steampowered.com/app/334350/Dont_Move/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/334350/Dont_Move/ which is a very short experiment on what is a game. Finally, I realized it's something else entirely, and even more annoying.
- kaues 2y agoThis worked for me to go all the way to the end of the game: setInterval(function() { document.querySelectorAll('button, .upgrade-icon').forEach((button) => button.click()) }, 1)
- siraben 2y agoReplayed it to get a lower time, got 16m 35s.
- Al-Khwarizmi 2y agoWhat browser are you using? This is great but I can't make it work reliably. It crashed both on Android Chrome (a while after buying on-screen banners) and on Opera dekstop (earlier, before reaching crypto).
- aizk 2y agoGreat website!
- vinc 2y agoI feel drained, and sad that I forgot to feed the chicken.
- leleen 2y agofrgthyu
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- Artoooooor 2y agoMy phone became overstimulated and hot :o It is actually addictive even when I know it's totally stupid. Good to know I am not resistant to these "games". Nice experiment, thanks for sharing!
- lupire 2y agoWarning: in Android Firefox, shop UI goes off screen and the game breaks, have to reload to start over.
- detectivestory 2y agoso cool
- matheusmoreira 2y agoSo much stimulation it nearly melted my phone down, it actually froze after a while. What a work of art.
- RandyOrion 2y agoHaha. Nice little idle game. Buy and sell Bitcoin for what win.
- airstrike 2y agoMy most efficient hack without JS: get the hydraulic press, start it, and click once to collect 1,000 stimulation. Then spam the space bar repeatedly to get another 1,000 for every key press
- kinderjaje 2y agoThanks for burning my phone
- bheadmaster 2y agoI had a great run and accidentally reloaded my page :( Feature request: save current state in local storage so I can resume when I open it back again.
- boringg 2y agoWoah that was intense and totally unhinged. At the same time fantastic.
- devmor 2y agoLove the idea, but after a couple minutes this just gave me a headache with all the different videos, sounds and animations going on. I don't think I'm cut out for new age dopamine generation.
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- yoyohello13 2y agoI thought I recognized that name. Neal.Fun made the password game.
- GNOMES 2y agothe whispering/eating guy is so tilting lol
- qwertox 2y agoNoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! I dragged it down and it refreshed the page.
- jcarrano 2y agoI finished the game and my dopamine receptors are cooked.
- amingilani 2y agoThis is like Universal Paperclips.
- croemer 2y agoHas anyone tried a speed run yet? Would be awesome if there was a leaderboard! I've done it twice now, I can see myself watching YouTube videos on people sharing strategies on the best sequence of upgrades to buy.
- croemer 2y agoHas anyone tried a speed run yet? Would be awesome if there was a leaderboard! I've done it twice now, I can see myself watching YouTube videos on people sharing strategies on the best sequence of upgrades to buy. Update: The answer is yes of course! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42613699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42613699
- supersigma 2y agoel skibbidi
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- anoncow 2y agoI feel like a winner. Is there a leaderboard?
- thomasvn 2y agoCame for the Cookie Clicker dopamine hits. Stayed for the masterful work of art. Well done!
- philjw 2y agoLove that "UPGRAYED-D" sound. Inspired by the movie "Idiocracy"?
- guytv 2y agoThis encapsulates the entire psychology behind every game ever created.
- skygazer 2y agoWell, 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.
- skygazer 2y agoOkay, for those similarly unaware of "clicker games", here's Polygon's explanation of this one in particular: https://www.polygon.com/review/504701/stimulation-clicker-free-browser-game https://www.polygon.com/review/504701/stimulation-clicker-fr...
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- adrian-dzieg 2y agoI pass the game manually. It was quite existing and made me super tired at once. Definitely I felt over simulated for the rest of the day.
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- bigddaddy 2y agoI NEED STIMULATION
- cindycindy 2y agoUnit 503
- bigddaddy 2y agoPLEASE
- cindycindy 2y agoFor a good time, call Raydiation.
- ahmadtbk 2y agoGoogle chrome is using significant energy help
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