On my case (firefox), it got most of the machine details wrong. It got it right that the window is maximized, but couldn't even get the corners of the display area correctly.
If you want a replacement you can use `telnet telehack.com` and then run `starwars`. If you want it in a single command you can do something like `zsh -c '{ sleep 1; echo starwars; sleep 10000; } | nc -c telehack.com 23'`.
It makes me think that "web apps" ought to have a distinctive dotted suffix like a file extension, like "example.com/main.app", to set expectations with the user.
Universal Paperclips can be played faster by setting your keyboard autorepeat rate to maximum and using keyboard instead of mouse to press the buttons. I'd argue this is thematically appropriate and better than playing using mouse only, even if you ignore the time saving.
The application is also constructed in a way that lets you call the internals directly. I ended up building a few bookmarklets that:
- Call the "the make a clip button got pressed" function a few thousand times
- Monitored the opacity of the quantum compute section and automatically called the right bits when they'd be most effective and never when they'd be ineffective or counterproductive
- Automatically calls the "entertain" bits when the swarm gets "bored" for maximum AFK-ability
- In the late late late game, allow factory production for only the length of a single setTimeout as to not overproduce factories and throw the entire balance off
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Check out Universal Paperclips if you have 10 hours to spend.
You are vastly superior to any paper clip, universal or not.
- Call the "the make a clip button got pressed" function a few thousand times
- Monitored the opacity of the quantum compute section and automatically called the right bits when they'd be most effective and never when they'd be ineffective or counterproductive
- Automatically calls the "entertain" bits when the swarm gets "bored" for maximum AFK-ability
- In the late late late game, allow factory production for only the length of a single setTimeout as to not overproduce factories and throw the entire balance off
So I'd say "serious" amounts of clicking is ~first few minutes, and then maybe for ~10 minute segment (and only ~30 seconds at a time at most).
Behind the button, it shows a log of data captured like browser type, CPU core count, window size, mouse movements, etc.
A voice pretends to take notes on the "subject" saying things like "The subject is mostly in the bottom-left of the page".
Achievements are unlocked such as "Subject clicked the button 6 times in one second" or "You were away for 10 minutes"
Ah!~