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calvisitor wrote 7 min ago:
hey when does this game end?
Tossrock wrote 27 min ago:
In case you're wondering, there are 106 CEOs / companies, and at 107 it
just loops around.
whiteblossom wrote 23 min ago:
PRs to add web-llm welcome ;)
though I would argue the current state is more reflective of
reality...
cheers
imnotyy wrote 41 min ago:
Reminded me of a book called Finite and Infinite Games
RAZKOM wrote 1 hour 15 min ago:
I honestly love the look of the website. It makes me want to play/make
a 2d scroller.
juancn wrote 1 hour 39 min ago:
So that's how you become a galactic civilization!
thegrim33 wrote 1 hour 46 min ago:
What's interesting is the creator of the site has listed on their
linkedin that they're ... wait for it ... a co-founder at some generic
AI startup with the goal of using AI agents to automate away manual
jobs.
root-parent wrote 40 min ago:
I grok that as the author having a sick sense of humor. I like it....
kubb wrote 47 min ago:
Understandig how the hammer falls tells you where to stand to avoid
it.
keybored wrote 1 hour 1 min ago:
Are we the Baddies? Yes, and how interesting. I could vibe a game
about that.
whiteblossom wrote 1 hour 41 min ago:
are we not all slaves to the top hat?
pocksuppet wrote 1 hour 42 min ago:
So he's obviously on the winning side of this transaction. Hopefully
the losing side is someone who isn't you. Maybe it's a VC fund.
ricardobayes wrote 1 hour 53 min ago:
Brilliant
jc4883 wrote 2 hours 11 min ago:
How does it come up with the CEO and business' name? I assume there's
gotta be finite number and the game has to end (?) Anyways, sick game.
Tossrock wrote 26 min ago:
There's a pre-generated list with 106 entries, and when it reaches
the end of that list, it loops around.
nprbst wrote 2 hours 20 min ago:
CAWn't believe how hard this hits
arjie wrote 2 hours 23 min ago:
Fascinating. I was able to escape the suffering by simply not
purchasing a top hat. An interesting lesson that the pursuit of
conspicuous consumption is the root of oneâs own suffering.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
the_af wrote 2 hours 19 min ago:
Your reply reminded me of the free game Oiligarchy by Molleindustria
(which made quite a few indie hits in my opinion).
In that game, if you played "well" you ended up destroying the world.
The only winning move was, indeed, not to play.
shaftway wrote 1 hour 5 min ago:
I think OP is referring to the 80's movie WarGames - [1] At the end
a strategic defense computer is asked to play Tic Tac Toe against
itself and suddenly "learns" about no-win scenarios. Then it does
the same with nuclear launch scenarios, and finds that they're all
no-win. It decides that nuclear war "is a strange game", and "the
only winning move is not to play".
URI [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
xattt wrote 2 hours 22 min ago:
Once I realized I couldnât decline, I left the website and left the
top hat on the table.
ricardobayes wrote 1 hour 52 min ago:
That's easier to do in a video game, but I guess the real life
analogy would be to sell it all and move off-grid to Alaska?
dheera wrote 2 hours 26 min ago:
Yep, this is basically the world today. The only difference in the real
world:
"What if I told you you can buy that $10 hat today using borrowed money
that you don't have, pay $1/year interest for the rest of your life
until you pay it back, but you have to earn $2/year more in order to
have $1/year more to pay, but to earn $2/year more, your company has to
earn $3/year more"
"Oh and you also need to buy insurance for that $10 hat because it's
not yours, and you have to pay us for the insurance we're going to buy
in addition to the insurance you're going to buy to insure us from you,
so that'll be another $1, or you have to make $2 more to have $1, or
your company needs to make $3 more, so now your company needs to make
$6/year more"
"Oh and we're also going to devalue the $ so you actually need to make
$10/year more because a $ won't be worth that much in a couple years"
saaaaaam wrote 2 hours 28 min ago:
Well done! Fun and satirical
Yumat wrote 2 hours 39 min ago:
It never endsâ¦
Super cool concept
aselimov3 wrote 2 hours 39 min ago:
This is quality
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