I’m pretty sure cookie clicker has no victory condition, it just goes on and on. At least it was that way last time I played it. Things might have changed since.

This reminds me of an exhibiton I once saw called “No Pain, No Game”. The idea being that any sort of game has some failure state, some obstacle to overcome, that’s what makes it a game. So of course I started thinking of counter-examples. Your slot machine idea is a good one, what I eventually came up with is Cookie Clicker. That game is nothing but positive reinforcement. There’s no way to lose progress or mess anything up, any action you take makes you “win more”. Not taking an action also makes you “win more”, just more slowly.

This showerthought is an idea adjacent to that all. Interesting stuff, even though it’s not too deep.

Now I’m wondering how you draw a girl with 5 text-to-speech (tts) programs.

Oh, no! Not the rich dickheads!

Nope, this was real.

Source? Some of these were real, but there’s also a ton of fake bullshit floating around.

bill!

Yup. I know a bit of German, but that doesn’t help with the buffalos at all.

Not really, we’re eukaryotes. We share a common (unknown) ancestor, but bacteria split off into their own monophyletic group I’m pretty sure.

Yeah. Fuck 'em.

Humans ARE apes. Also fish. Fuck paraphyletic groups.

I wish it was that simple.

Microraptors, even.

Holy shit!

And started by fighting for it with a gun in his hands.

Ignore him.

With an OTG connector you can just plug a keyboard into your phone. You can do stuff like alt-tab to switch between open apps. And if you plug in a mouse, a giant cursor appears. It’s kinda cursed but it works.

Of course they need help. I’m seeding as best I can!

Chrome devs be like:

Let he who never poured water into a work bag pour the first cup.

Just try to do good when you inevitably get elected, please.