AD: cheats

This is a bit embarrassing; same topic as last two posts? Hmm...

I wrote this yesterday

* ip buyer

try { clearInterval(ipupgrades) } catch {} // if already set

ipupgrades = setInterval( () => {

  if (gainedInfinityPoints().exponent - player.infinityPoints.exponent > 33

       && ! EternityChallenge?.current?.config?.id === 4) {

    bigCrunchReset();

  }

  if ( ! ( EternityChallenge?.current?.config?.id === 8 && EternityChallenge?.current?.isRunning )  ) {

    while(ReplicantiUpgrade.galaxies.canBeBought) ReplicantiUpgrade.galaxies.purchase();

    while(ReplicantiUpgrade.chance.canBeBought) ReplicantiUpgrade.chance.purchase();

    while(ReplicantiUpgrade.interval.canBeBought) ReplicantiUpgrade.interval.purchase();

  }

  replicantiGalaxy()

  InfinityDimensions.buyMax() ; InfinityUpgrade.ipMult.buyMax()

  player.lastUpdate -= 900e3

} , 60000); // clearInterval(ipupgrades)

Okay, I definitely got carried away!

I hardly have the words to describe why... game 21 (vanilla AD)? And I'm cheating my way through?

Why?

Waste of time... right?

But there's still a sort of challenge I make to myself that drives me at times.

Just stop it, right? I think so. This year, I need to find more productive and rewariding activities. (And catch up with client work, of course! Or get a full-time job...)

Although, at least I learned the ?. operator in Javascript....

What is it that drives me?

Okay so I probably started with a question, like, 

What if?

"What if I play just one more AD game? How long would it take?"

And I decide to do it mostly without cheats (or without "egregious" cheats), at first.

But I quickly decide to automate some stuff, as grinding infinities quickly becomes tiresome. So it's back to the JS debugger console...

And sure, I got to reality in what? A few days, maybe? I don't know exactly, 3 or 4 I guess, but it was wayyy too intense, especially yesterday.

Because, unlike a *normal* idle game player, my own frustration and self-deprecation combine to drive me to complete it as fast as reasonably possible, so my OCD turns it into a huge time and energy sink and I get nothing done for 4 days.....

Agh...

I should be writing Rust (maybe, or just Python if I can write it cleanly), rewriting all of my client's software using better patterns, or something productive...

Can't explain myself fully... Just, hope I'm almost done finally.

Okay if I were to try to explain, it's probably something to do with a sort of perfectionism, combined with a sort of frustration related to feeling my brain doesn't work quite right, and I keep making mistakes and forgetting stuff. So I play AD 20 to 30 times (vanilla; half of those were largely cheated-thru but about the first 6+ were probably without cheats), and a "fasterer" fork several dozen times (or so.) To debug my brain. Like, why did I forget this part? Why do I still need a guide for this? Why don't I learn?? Etc... (It's largely to do with a problem I have with lack of attention to detail...)

I probably should find an equivalent type of challenge, but with more potential reward. Hackatons. Kaggle. HackerRank. CodinGame. Etc... Or write my own game engine, or contribute to one (Bevy?). Or write a game using Bevy or some other open-source engine.

Or just do the work and responsibilities I have, but "gamify" them or somehow make them into an interesting challenge.