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Re:“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs by joombaga on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @12:19AM (#29722163)
I'm pretty into the idle/incremental game concept, though they're rarely implemented to my taste.

It's difficult to quantify what makes a good one, but my favorite is Universal Paperclips.

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

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Re:“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs by bncy on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:15AM (#29725504)
Man, this is great, I've just wasted 30 minutes playing this.
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Re:“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs by dllthomas on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:00PM (#29732644)
Thankfully it can wrap up in about 5 hours (as you may've discovered), unlike some of them...
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Re:“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs by esoterae on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @05:28AM (#29723568)
The old #idlerpg was fun, in a historic sense (reading the log). I wonder when that got written. Anybody remember? Google doesn't.
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