Path: ...!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 14:42:31 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Forget Mice... are you ready for subscription COMPUTERS? Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:42:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-BD3pmcd6lMUSOksTMLwGmKWPD3wPLit5/FGME59r5pThELneulDTQKEJuEIQRMe05A3/4FByzGnYxzz!HKFjw/S5uUqvScAzSUbXrahej/7VeJ+qS5UNR9ht6H3rU+7KsQnSFOP+Hpschbf2t/IhAagv X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2335 On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 05:30:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote: >Spalls Hurgenson wrote at 16:15 this Wednesday (GMT): >> There have been a lot of business-management sims, but most of them >> play it straight. I wonder if there's ever been an vulture capitalist >> work-place simulator video game. "Buy companies and strip them off >> their assets for your own gain!" >> I can't think of any... but it probably exists. There are workplace >> sims for every profession nowadays. >I kinda feel like Cookie Clicker is sorta like that? Maybe Universal Paperclips* is a better clicker example, since the mid-game goal is to brainwash all your employees (and customers) and turn them into more paperclips? Can't be more of an asset-strip than that! ;-) ----------------- * I love this game, even if it /is/ just a 'clicker'. Play it here: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html