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Friday Fun Thread for December 9, 2022

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Found this the other day (actually in a tweet by @ymeskhout), it's a game where you play as a paperclip maximizer. Apparently it's from like 2017 or something but I only just heard of it.

Anyway, good way to blow like 5 hours.

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

It's just a cookie clicker skin, no?

It's got some interesting plot twists but if you don't like that sort of number-go-up game it's not worth it.

Just half a decade late, no biggy.

xkcd 1053

In the meantime, a racist parody game of the Paperclip Maximizer game was developed that copies the mechanics but replaces the paperclips with the holy cows of the new religion. (I shall not elaborate nor provide links, that'd be CW; if you know you know)