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hello mr. orteil42. did you know that cookie clicker is v popular among the teens here in japan? my chuuni students wont stop playing it on their chromebooks in class! they have exams next week. wish them luck, thank you!

10 years ago the game was apparently really big in japan and we were getting absurd amounts of fanart on pixiv (i still own a copy of the grandma doujin) so i'm very glad to hear it's picking up again over there! best of luck with your students' exams nonetheless!

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What are your thoughts on the current state of spells in the game right now? I like them and the concept but it always feels like there are only 2 - 3 spells worth using imo

the way spells and mana work are absolutely not super great and will def be getting a rework at some point. at the very least there's gotta be more spells that tie in with the other minigames

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I don't mean to be annoying about this + have no idea if this question has been asked before, so no pressure to respond.

I was wondering if these guys have names. I plan to put them on a gender poll blog I run but have no idea what to call them aside from "Cookie Clicker Wrath Cookie Rabbit #2"

The last one seems like an Oculus or Sclera to me for the wrath bunnies.

that's Jibby Joopy Jemmy and Hups. the bottom row is the same guys but fucked-up ie. Fucked-Up Jibby, Fucked-Up Joopy etc

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so my best guess is we're being temporarily a bit overloaded and our CDN is throwing random human checks in the background for some people (which obviously fail to resolve as they're being called on image files)! you may possibly be able to get everything to load properly if you export your save and resume your game on our mirror ( https://cookieclicker.eu/cookieclicker ). in any case this sort of thing tends to resolve itself over a few days. thank you for your feedback and your patience!

some assets in web Cookie Clicker (apparently the garden plants, buildings, and a few others) may not be loading for some people lately, if this bug affects you does it persist through refreshes and hard-refreshes (ctrl-f5) or is it an on-and-off thing?

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some assets in web Cookie Clicker (apparently the garden plants, buildings, and a few others) may not be loading for some people lately, if this bug affects you does it persist through refreshes and hard-refreshes (ctrl-f5) or is it an on-and-off thing?

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kids on roblox are inventing brand new monetization schemes that could kill an EA exec

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Hey, I know you probably get told stuff like this all the time, but I was playing mobile and the Royal Raspberry Chocolate Butter Biscuit for 400 buildings has a small pixel of cyan/blue in the top-right corner of the pink frosting.

This affects literally nothing, just like, figured you'd want to know if you didn't already because it drives me a bit nuts. But it also could be on purpose to drive people like me nuts. If so then fair game.

this remains the most powerful single pixel i've ever placed

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Cookie Clicker on Steam now has proper Mac support! (still a very new addition so do let us know about any bugs or strangeness you may encounter!)

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How many more upgrade/achievement teirs are you planning on adding to CC?

as many as it takes.

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What are you going to do after cookie clicker is complete?

ascend to some kind of heaven or hell after 7 millennia of haunt & toil, my immortal soul's purpose fulfilled at long last

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if you are looking for inspiration for a new factory minigame, please consider 1995 Mac shareware game Factory: The Industrial Devolution, thank you

hey this game was my absolute jam as a kid and i had a prototype for a thing a few years back that was a lot like it... factory minigame will likely be something either in that direction or factorio-ish. in any case it needs to scratch my conveyor belt fixation

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can you add font size setting pls (im v blind :/)

i'm planning on adding a general UI scale option at some point but it's gonna be a bit of work esp since i'd like the pixel art to remain crisp at higher zooms! but it'd be really nice to have not just for accessibility (i believe small font readability is the one thing currently barring us from full Steam Deck compliance) but also because as resolutions get higher over the years the big cookie is starting to look so small and so lonely in its big empty display

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So if I understand correctly the Dungeon minigame will be shared by the Mine, Factory and Portal together?

nah i think that was the plan initially but that'd be half-assing it. the dungeons involve visiting a new world so they'll likely be rethemed as a portal thing, the factory should probably get something more fitting and i already have a Motherload-like planned for the mines minigame

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dutch word for gloves literally translates to "handshoes" idk how much longer i can do this

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days getting so dark got me feeling kinda King's Field IV OST: Dark Reality

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🎂🎂🎂 hey!!! thanks for all the birthday wishes, i wanna say the best present is reading through all the nice messages people send me day to day about Cookie Clicker. the ones that talk about what my game means to them, or how they bonded with someone over it or how it got them out of tough spots when they were doing bad and needed something to distract them. i'm especially fond of the ones telling me how much trouble it caused in their school or workplace. thank you for making it all worth it

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It’s so surreal to me that the guy who made cookie clicker is also just a guy hanging out on tumblr who I can send messages to. Hello clicker man

you are doing some pesterchum shit to me