On my case (firefox), it got most of the machine details wrong. It got it right that the window is maximized, but couldn't even get the corners of the display area correctly.
Universal Paperclips can be played faster by setting your keyboard autorepeat rate to maximum and using keyboard instead of mouse to press the buttons. I'd argue this is thematically appropriate and better than playing using mouse only, even if you ignore the time saving.
The application is also constructed in a way that lets you call the internals directly. I ended up building a few bookmarklets that:
- Call the "the make a clip button got pressed" function a few thousand times
- Monitored the opacity of the quantum compute section and automatically called the right bits when they'd be most effective and never when they'd be ineffective or counterproductive
- Automatically calls the "entertain" bits when the swarm gets "bored" for maximum AFK-ability
- In the late late late game, allow factory production for only the length of a single setTimeout as to not overproduce factories and throw the entire balance off
If you want a replacement you can use `telnet telehack.com` and then run `starwars`. If you want it in a single command you can do something like `zsh -c '{ sleep 1; echo starwars; sleep 10000; } | nc -c telehack.com 23'`.
It makes me think that "web apps" ought to have a distinctive dotted suffix like a file extension, like "example.com/main.app", to set expectations with the user.
