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Scary shit! Thank you for the sleepless nights! :D
I love this. I've already absorbed another system and scanned the BBS for Dr Who info!
Very cool, getting a universal paperclips vibe already.
That’s interesting! Tnx for the info
Cool I like it a lot
This is really well done and fun. Great job!
This was super fun! Only after quite a while I have noticed how much time I had spent playing with it, great job! If I may suggest something, a visual like in https://css-tricks.com/old-timey-terminal-styling/ would make it look even more retro-hax0r!
Thats super cool, will definitely look into that thanks!
That's some weird pseudo retro: As an old-timer I've seen green-on-black, amber-on-black, later black-on-white. Never white-on-green-black-fade.. Fonts tended to be pixelated rather then blurry (except maybe at 4am..)

And yet, against knowing better, it looks decidedly retro. I wonder where that association comes from.

The effect seems to work because it appears to mimic the curvature of a cathode ray tube.
I was also thinking its a bit reminiscent of a slow-phosphorous radar crt trace. While not a terminal, its decidedly retro ;)
any way to save my progress?
No, no save unfortunately sorry
This was really fun! Thanks for making it :)

Got to a point where I overloaded a host and my system melted taking me back to the start, is that the end or should I try again to get past that?

If that happened you probably weren't ready to overload it. If you try again make sure you have 10 cores
How do you get 10 cores? I can’t get past 4 :/ (discovered every other host but can’t do anything with them…)
The n0va forum has some goodies hidden inside that should help you explore.

The other thing is if you click on the name of a core, it gives you some more actions you can take.

Already did all that, that’s how I got the 3 additional cores.
Ok got it! Didn’t see before that you can click on absorbed cores and do things with them :D
Started again and finished the game this time, great experience!

Wish it was way longer now haha, although it's already been quite a bit of procrastinating :)

I accidentally tapped my back button about 20 minutes into the game...

It would be nice if you could synchronize the state down to local storage periodically and attempt to restore it upon page load. You could add an explicit "Reset" button to null this out.

Does it gain the ability to use certbot.exe at some point? :D
:D yes I am aware its not using https yet... will aim to do that shortly
If you don't want to deal with certs yourself (and you're ok with a *.netlify.com URL), you could always use Netlify and get HTTPS for free.
Or github pages, if you already have an account there.
How does one turn on devtools?
There are some params you can add to expose them. They dont do much, mostly used to pause the game when needing to debug.
let's take a moment to appreciate the fact that the parent poster is a human actually trying to break out of a sandbox (enter God mode) in a simulation in which you roleplay a computer trying to break out of a sandbox. Parent posts on a forum, and the author of the sandbox gives up all the available information readily.

Imagine if a computer were allowed to ask technical questions, and did so by posting about a VM they happened to be in...

Is this open source? Really nice job, the code architecture seems fairly clean.
Its open source in the sense that its all javascript :)

I do have a repo that isnt on public Github yet, was going to add it after I iron out a couple more of the bugs that I am sure exist

Please do! Would love to learn more about how you built it :)
I'd also love to see it! It sure seems to be well-made code, and I've got an idea or two for expanding/building upon it.
Same here! I can't wait to fork this and add to it! Looking forward to seeing the source code. Amazing job on this game :3
I'm having problems analyzing the packets. the analyze option disappears ...
You may need more space.
that was 27" screen, so not likely. but I'll try again later to see if maybe I just wasn't looking right. thx
not screen space, storage space in the game. you might have to delete some in-game files.
This is so amazing! Thanks for putting it together and sharing it
This is a great game so far.

I think I noticed a bug close to the beginning of the game - when I only had the first two zipfiles (neither of which were zbMath.zip), I saw a message about zbMath.zip in the logs on the left.

Would love a save feature, even if it was just local to each browser instance - no need for login, etc.

Thanks for the feedback and yes there's definitely a bug there, thanks for finding it.

Save would be nice, only thing is I know theres data in the DOM itself (boooo) that would not make it a great fit out of the box. Its only about a 40-90min experience or so though, so its possible to finish it in one go.

FYI, the stats for Rock, Paper, Scissors don't reset if you get restarted.
Adding to the bugs collection: there's a typo in "getting intimate with your Oracale" I guess :)
> Would love a save feature, even if it was just local to each browser instance - no need for login, etc.

Fun that you say this, just as WebKit/Safari/Apple announced that they will stop making local storage useful for most use cases https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22683535

After a restart the selected disk doesn't change back to /home/sky1s1
I havent seen this yet, Ill take a look.
Not sure if also a bug, "Analyze Sony Schema" was always stuck in my active options

edit: this seemed to go away after I deleted a bunch of files haha, I did beat the game though, thanks for making this as initially wasn't sure if I understood how it worked

Likewise the .bat file (which I only clicked on accidentally because I thought it was going to be a virus/wipe the drive).
Hmmm I think I saw this at some point, thanks for pointing it out Ill check it out.
Is the EONS cluster meant to be the end or is there more to it? So I know if its worth trying again
Its part of the game, if you try again make sure you have 10 cores
With maxed out overclocking on all cores, I only needed six.
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http://skynetsimulator.com/?fastmode=true to get through faster if like myself you've tried playing 4 times now and always fail get reset.
Ha yes this will work tho the end game will be a bit distorted.

If you have failed 4 times, thats generally because you are either deleting things that you havent used, or else you attacked EONS before you were ready

Yep, done both of those! Such a great game, well done.
Glad you like it!
"SKYNET CREATED"! Finally! It only too me 2 hours and fastmode. Such a great game!
> Absorbing star host

We are BORG

This is neat, like a text rpg or something

Is there a time constraint on the game? If I stay idle too long do I lose?

No, no time constraint
I did have a question about if you considered showing the amount that was analyzed when you're listening to a port/environment(?) because I didn't know how much more I needed to do/what I was going for. I mean I did figure it out/got to the end. I was aware of a 10MB figure on one option.
That was really fun! ...and kinda scary. Love it!
Great game! I feel like this could do well with some procedural generation to keep the game going and growing.
You saw what happens when the machines keep going and growing didn't you?
I got to Create Skynet and when I finished that it said thanks for playing and stopped accepting inputs. Is there more game after that I missed?
If you really want more time quest is a bit of a rabbit hole
Is it possible to "win" time quest ? I feel like I always end up in the same place, and the enemy always catches me up in attack ability....
Yes you need to learn to send your tech back in time