Hello,

If you are reading this, then that means that you yourself may also suffer from Cookie
Clicker addiction, or at least have suffered in the past. At the time of writing this,
I have been a recovering clicker of over a month. During this clicker phase, I would
exhibit habits such as:

• Feeling aimless
  
• Clicking cookies in the middle of the night
  
• Watching the screen for golden cookies
  
• Exploiting the baking talents of elderly women

What's even worse is as I was clicking, I was getting those around me hooked on it.
I even knew a few people who had hit rock bottom as they, dare I say it, used auto clickers.


As someone who has been clean for about a month, I wanted to offer a suggestion, an
alternative, if you will. The reality of Cookie Clicker is the fact that it has
no use. The only thing it provides is an ever-increasing number and you tell
yourself that once you hit that one number, you'll be done. But that's the
catch: you'll never be satisfied.

So, without wasting any more of your time, let me offer one potential idling
alternative: "BOINC," or the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.
Despite its stupid name, BOINC is an interesting program that lets you donate
part of your computing power for research projects. While your computer idles,
you can donate part of your computational resources (a percentage of your
CPU and GPU) to projects related to mathematics and the sciences.

Sure, you could keep chasing that big number as you click away on the image
of a cookie, or you could pursue the world's biggest primes, and get
your worthless excuse of a life back on track.

Program Site: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
More Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing