Palette fully variable-driven (chips, cards, bars, inputs, toasts,
tutorial) with a cycling theme chip, persisted choice, and per-theme
canvas brightness lift so the scene itself reads better. Hi-Contrast
bumps the most-read font sizes; Paper is a true light mode; CRT is
phosphor green with a glow, because of course it is.
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Nine-step tutorial card that watches sim state and advances itself:
wire the PC, first video, cooling, the ALGO HEAT treadmill, releasing
a model version, the VC deal, building a rig, shipping + hosting, and
a graduation card. Steps the save has already accomplished are skipped
automatically; ❓ chip toggles it off/on (persisted), New Game resets
it. No text dumps — each card is one goal and why it matters.
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Compute is componentized: 11 parody GPU cards (Ex-Mining P106, GFX 1060
Dumpster, Radish VII Furnace, RTX 4090 Gigachonk, H100 'The Vault',
B200 BigChungus...) install into carrier slots — Budget PC takes one,
the milk-crate rig four, the half rack eight with rack-only datacenter
cards. Cards carry tok/watts/VRAM/heat individually; total cluster VRAM
must hold the running model version or all token output starves.
Storage devices (SSD shoebox / NVMe hoard / NAS tower) gate training:
no checkpoint space, no progress. Network grows a switch layer with
per-switch throughput caps between devices and uplinks. Shop grouped
by category. Old saves migrate with equivalent card loadouts.
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Three progression structures, three currencies. Model Lab (training
tokens): generation ladder bought from the bank, modality branch
(voice/image/video/AV — richer slop earns more but costs tokens,
bandwidth, watts), one exclusive fine-tune per generation, and a data
source choice: own slop trains 30% faster with a 35% model-collapse
gamble, scraped draws copyright lawsuits, licensed bills per token.
Corporate R&D (perk points from closed VC rounds + cash): Ops, Growth,
Legal branches with capstones Diesel Backup, THE CONVEYOR (burns 10%
of gross income for +50% views forever), Regulatory Capture. Sockets:
device inspector panel with on/off, sell, and two upgrade slots.
All effects flow through a single computeMods() bundle in research.ts.
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Raise Seed through Series C for cash against views-delta mandates with
deadlines; success advances the round ladder, failure burns 25% of cash
and permanently dilutes income 15%. Four fictional rival archetypes fire
on a seeded timer: Doomsworth congressional panics (ALGO HEAT spikes),
Hypeman fake demos and Poogle algo tweaks (view debuffs), Freeman Weights
clone drops (API price crash) — with a paid 60/40 CLAP BACK gamble.
HUD: mandate progress banner, rival effect badges, total views stat.
Fix: scene texture list now derives from the catalog (new sprites were
rendering as purple placeholders).
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Platforms adapt to your slop (ALGO HEAT): each publish raises spam-filter
wariness which throttles all view rates up to 85%; training a new model
tier slips past the filters. Verified loop: publish -> squeeze -> train ->
relief. New hardware: 20A sub-panel (+1500W), fiber uplink (1Gbps, 8
ports), Cash Furnace (burns $1.50/s for +40% views, breaker-immune).
Fix: New Game wipe no longer clobbered by the beforeunload autosave.
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