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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Top Ten Study Tips (alternate title: How I Optimized Cookie Clicker)

Hello literate, sighted people and potentially those being read to,


I'm The Noah
First name The,
Last name Noah,

And THIS is Noahbody Cares. Sorry for accidentally making a post I cared about last time, we should be back to your regularly scheduled RUBBISH now.

So I'm a sophomore at [university], and it can be stressful to sit and do homework alone. Sometimes I combat this by doing homework with others, though I've yet to find a group that doesn't get distracted every .5 seconds (Yes, I'm aware the common denominator in all these groups is the fact they contain exactly 1 The Noah). When I really need to focus I find somewhere quiet and promise myself I'll work hard for at least an hour or two. 

It was around the 2 hr mark on one of these solo missions that I decided to revisit an old passive game Cookie Clicker http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ (one of those "clicker" games where you watch a number increase and you can leave and come back every few hours or days and buy things to make the number increase faster.) I figured I'd play for a few minutes and get back to work... And I did... For a while...