I'm not sure what the run it back button is doing, but it consistently manages to cause a graphical bug where all of my open firefox windows fully grey out until I refocus on them. Never seen that before.

I love how mind said “the offer says it’s the beginning of a journey but it’s actually a wheel”

Really fun project, but doesn't take ageism into account, it gets easier the further you get whereas it should get be getting harder in certain ways

RAT RACE #1 · DECEASED* *dead at 25 · $164k unspent · the on-call rotation already updated

I won by just grinding and touching grass

Game seems to be heavily weighted towards building side projects. If only you could build a single side project without raising any funds and get acquired for 10M with an 80% cut...

RAT RACE · ACQUIRED sold the company at 30 · walked away with $14.98M · peak burnout 94%

did i win???

Neat, but font choice makes it extremely hard to read the text on mobile. Even harder when it's under the CRT style screen effect.

No option for the rat to bite you, you get rabiz, sue and cash out?

RAT RACE · ACQUIRED sold the company at 25 · walked away with $7.36M · peak burnout 71%

That was fun. Side-projected spam, touched grass once, YC, Side-project one more time, launch, acquired.

9.6 mil acquisition cash out we are so back

Nice! Had a burnout, a kidney stone and was laid off before even hitting 25! Sounds about right.

only did grinding and side project. got acquired. if it were that simple..

On the end screen, it shows "Shareholder value created" with some huge number.

I find this terrifying because it suggests that the people who built this game are more naive than I am... And this is a game about a cynical topic.

It reminds me of conspiracy theory narratives "No matter how bad you think it is, reality is worse."

The idea that the engineer is creating "shareholder value" is part of the conditioning. They're creating complexity. They are lucky to have this job where you can get away with performative engineering...

Working for a bootstrapped startup; that's real value creation because there is enormous risk involved and no engineer wants to take that risk.

Working for FAANG is more like being appointed to the king's court. There's no value creation happening... And the line to be chosen is long. Being chosen is not based on skill or talent. Talent is abundant. It's a kind of lottery.

My vesting cliff somehow hit after getting fired lol

RAT RACE #1 · ACQUIRED sold the company at 28 · walked away with $10.17M · peak burnout 100%

too realistic

Now make it 10x more difficult for those not born in the US.