[jorl17]

I keep 3 pinned tabs in my browser:

- Reddit (my main source of addiction)

- HackerNews (the second source of addiction)

- Cookie Clicker (a rather recent addition that I'm slightly embarassed of)

At a point in time I also had facebook, but I've since stopped going there (maybe once a week).

[willis936]

Just cheat. It'll break the spell quickly.

Also, check out universal paperclips if you haven't already. it has a definite end. You likely won't play more than maybe 10-20 hours.

[jorl17]

I've played Universal Paperclips from start to finish 4 times! I loved it. In fact, I loved it so much the last time around that I wanted to have another game "somewhat like it" in the background -- that's where the recent Cookie Clicker tab came from.

I always recommend Universal Paperclips to people who don't like cookie clicker games, because I fell in love with it the first time I tried it (heard of it from the Hello Internet podcast)

[StrictDabbler]

Universal Paperclips is the cure for all other clicker games.

Once you've played a fair and truly exponential clicker through a few times you can't tolerate the forced linearity of a pay-to-win clicker app.

[jorl17]

Alas, I am OP, the one with the Cookie Clicker tab, and I came to Cookie Clicker after Universal Paperclips: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469366

I have to say that UP was definitely a much better experience.

[StrictDabbler]

Not only did I not realize you were OP, I also didn't realize the original Cookie Clicker isn't the one I played.

Universal Paperclips cures/inoculates against Cookie Clicker 2 easily. Cookie Clicker Classic looks too addictive for me to let myself try it.

[mikewarot]

I played Universal Paperclips, and converted a HectoVerse (100 Universes) to paperclips.

Long covid sucks.

[SolarNet]

Spaceplan is a pretty fun and slightly comedic play through one as well http://spaceplan.click/

[ethbr0]

Just wait until you find out Reddit and Cookie Clicker have the same endgame...

[wave100]

I'm not sure if this is still a thing, but at one point you could open up a JS console on cookie clicker and run game.ruinTheFun() to unlock everything. :)

[ghgdynb1]

I used HN to quit Reddit and I must say it’s been a change for the better.

[jart]

I kind of feel like we need a "Year Zero" clicker game where once you get up to 1.7m "clicks" you'll see Pol Pot start dancing in the corner. Then as you accumulate more clicks, you'll see Hitler, Stalin, and Mao make appearances as well. Then, finally, once you've overflown the 32-bit integer, the year resets to 1970 and dennis ritchie and brian kernighan start dancing in the corner as well.