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July 15, 2021 5:20 PM

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posted by Fiasco da Gama (34 comments total)

x89
posted by not_the_water at 5:25 PM on July 15, 2021

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posted by signal at 5:28 PM on July 15, 2021

couple things (spoiler)

1. Enter key works, to save clicking.
2. You get the 1-up noise after a hundred and a new different version of the block graphic. I only went up to 200 so don't know how many there are.

posted by juv3nal at 5:30 PM on July 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

After enough clicking, I got 3 kinds of block, tried to get a 4th, but already at x1068 and no sign of change.
posted by otherchaz at 5:33 PM on July 15, 2021 [5 favorites]

no
posted by Max Power at 5:37 PM on July 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

Well, that was off the chain.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:38 PM on July 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

No upgrade at 2048 either. Still on Box 3.
posted by darkstar at 5:53 PM on July 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

i don't like spoilers but i think you all should know that at 1,008,678 you unlock the "carpal tunnel" achievement
posted by pyramid termite at 6:06 PM on July 15, 2021 [48 favorites]

I'm old and I decided that to continue was a waste of my limited remaining life so I stopped. Did I solve it?
posted by Stanczyk at 6:15 PM on July 15, 2021 [12 favorites]

Has anyone dared to click on Install yet?
posted by mollweide at 6:17 PM on July 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

[🙅]
posted by zamboni at 6:18 PM on July 15, 2021

Block

Yes, I know.
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:23 PM on July 15, 2021

Strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
posted by Sutekh at 6:27 PM on July 15, 2021 [24 favorites]

The traditional dismissal of criticism of movies/TV/books/whatever is, “I’d like to see you do better!”

I am barely a coder at all, and I still feel doing something like this is just about my level of achievement.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:30 PM on July 15, 2021

That early NES coin sound really sounds like garbage, doesn't it?
posted by demiurge at 6:33 PM on July 15, 2021

That early NES coin sound really sounds like garbage, doesn't it?

I don't know about anyone else, but it was so LOUD when I first clicked it that I almost fell out of my chair.
posted by Literaryhero at 6:45 PM on July 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

Did nothing at all when I clicked it. Had to open it in Chromium instead of Firefox to get anything out of it at all. Then I wondered why I'd bothered, despite glowing reviews.
posted by flabdablet at 6:49 PM on July 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

x5016

my keyboard repeat rate is set a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle bit high tho
posted by joeyh at 6:50 PM on July 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

Why am I doing this? I already do this kind of shit for money.

After about 700 clicks I've already recorded a Selenium macro. I just hit 1500 clicks and it's dinging away in the background.

Wait, no 2000. Still on block 3. Help
posted by loquacious at 6:53 PM on July 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

my keyboard repeat rate is set a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle bit high tho

teach me your ways senpaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
posted by loquacious at 6:54 PM on July 15, 2021

So many clicks, but not even one cookie.
posted by metaquarry at 7:00 PM on July 15, 2021 [4 favorites]

This is just what I needed. Kittens Game but without kittens or space ships.

Oh dear, I think I just broke my ctrl and w buttons.
posted by loquacious at 7:00 PM on July 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

x 1e+29

can neither confirm nor deny messing about with the debugger
posted by flabdablet at 7:19 PM on July 15, 2021 [5 favorites]

4th block doesn't show until you enter the 100th value in the Fibonacci sequence using the three different blocks as a trinary code.

Nah, kidding.
posted by BrotherCaine at 8:25 PM on July 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

well, i'm the 3rd follower on twitter.
posted by lapolla at 8:50 PM on July 15, 2021

It’s puzzling…this app isn’t even an incrementer.

I mean, thank Dog it’s not an incrementer. I have things to do this weekend.
posted by darkstar at 9:30 PM on July 15, 2021

/**
* Please capitalism.
*/
add(coins = 1) {
this.coins++
this.toBank(this.coins) // save coins

Sfx.play(this.coin, .1)

if (this.coins % 100 === 0) {
Sfx.play(this.oneUp, .2) // 1-UP 🍄
}

this.display()
this.makeSounds()
}

This is a joke about capitalism? Like I need a fucking reminder.
posted by adept256 at 9:36 PM on July 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

oh btw we're using emojis in code now? I never asked how code could be worse but there it is.
posted by adept256 at 9:38 PM on July 15, 2021 [6 favorites]

It's not just comments. Javascript allows emoji in variable names, if I recall correctly.
posted by flabdablet at 10:36 PM on July 15, 2021

Emoji are letters.
posted by inexorably_forward at 10:51 PM on July 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

lol @ turning on javascript for an untrusted site

This is 2021, folks.
posted by your postings may, in fact, be signed at 11:44 PM on July 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

There's only three blocks, you can tell from reading the code (the "backlog" DOM object is used as the queue of things to display each time it ticks over a multiple of 100 clicks).

This looks like someone's toy/learning project for mucking around with JavaScript/ECMAscript. Cute, but nothing much more than that.
posted by parm at 4:38 AM on July 16, 2021 [3 favorites]

I had to click 100x to see if I got a 1up and I did, so this is a roaring success as far as I'm concerned. 10 year old me got such a rush from that little deedlydeedlydeedii noise.
posted by Wretch729 at 6:46 AM on July 16, 2021 [2 favorites]

The coder is probably wondering how/why in the world his little Saturday afternoon JavaScript-learning homework project somehow has now gone viral.
posted by darkstar at 9:59 AM on July 16, 2021 [1 favorite]