On the surface, it's just another clicker game like Cookie Clicker or Spaceplan.
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Unbeknownst, by ShadeJackrabbit, is a sort of mash-up of the endless clicker genre (think Cow Clicker or Cookie Clicker) and a stylish, pulpy noir detective story.
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The next stage is clicker training: they learn that the sound of the clicker means food.
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Clicker training is a better method: It allows you to deliver immediate praise with the help of a clicker.
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While you can certainly buy your own clicker, the app has a built-in clicker that recreates the sound for you.
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It's a clicker game, like Cookie Clicker, Clicker Heroes, or Candy Box, in which the player clicks on certain items in order to collect more resources which can then be invested in tools that make clicking produce more of these resources.
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Ever since the wildly popular Cookie Clicker , idle clicker games have been about hockey stick curves, about exponential growth unleashed by multiplicative advances in productivity.
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Given how well Clicker Heroes did, it's no surprise developer Playsaurus would make a sequel, but they've made some genuinely shocking choices with Clicker Heroes 2.
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It felt like one of those clicker-type games like Cookie Clicker, making sure the plants were watered to grow them faster and trimming them when necessary.
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Often this starts when a trainer pairs a noise-making device called a clicker with a reward like food so often that the clicker eventually becomes an indicator of reward.
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The RPG-influenced Clicker Heroes is one of the most popular games in the "clicker" genre, where players are given simple tasks, such as clicking, and many things happen around this gesture.
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Think Cookie Clicker or Egg Inc, but dedicated to paperclips.
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The box, it's revealed in the end, contains Cook's clicker.
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What good is a click to an advertiser if the clicker
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From what I saw, I wouldn't even really call it a clicker.
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Clicker for Netflix also shines with its support for Touch Bar controls.
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Wordplay THURSDAY PUZZLE — Jules Markey is back and he's holding the clicker.
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Blue picks up on the sound of the clicker and tracks the motion.
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You'd also be able to see the TV clicker blinking its little patterns.
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The Bluetooth Clicker only has one button, and is charged over Micro USB.
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Alan eventually defeats the Dark Presence using a weapon known as the Clicker.
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Thankfully, there are companies dedicated to the cause of cleaning up clicker clutter.
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Bogost tested this out himself, building a game on Facebook called Cow Clicker.
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Ultimately, while clicker-like conditioning may sometimes induce intimacy, there is no shortcut.
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CATCH15OFF Karen Pryor Clicker Training: If you're preparing for the arrival of a new puppy, or if you want to teach your old dog new tricks, this company uses clicker training as the foundation for training videos, books, and more.
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He calls it "clicker training," which is based on a dog and horse training technique by the same name: You give them a treat whenever you make a clicking sound, so they learn to associate the clicker with good behavior.
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A carrying case will house the HoloLens, Clicker accessory, charger, and additional nose pads.
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In Cookie Clicker, that was employed in service of an absurdist joke about cookies.
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This is about Clicker Heroes 2, and the way this shaped the game's design.
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BoomStick: The $279 device is basically a clicker to boost your mediocre headphones or earbuds.
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BoomStick: The $99 device is basically a clicker to boost your mediocre headphones or earbuds.
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Instead, use a clicker device or pencil and paper and the five-hash-mark method.
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Even Long, who dreams of crowdfunding a commune, concedes that clicker training can fall short.
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Clicker Netflix Player for Mac is normally $5 but grab it on sale for just $3.99.
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It's like a little clicker ticking away in the back of your head: "Bowie again" — click!
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Before a treat comes out, the camera emits a clicking sound, modeled after a training clicker.
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They acknowledged my presence with a clicker press when asked, but they were no longer engaged.
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Using all aspects of the controller, including the physical clicker, you will walk Blue through 7 levels.
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Like many free-to-play games, Clicker Heroes made money from "whales," players who spent disproportionately more.
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Has the ability to toss treats and has a clicker sound to use in reinforcing obedience training.
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Put the slides up on the screen and advance the slides with a clicker in your hand.
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So the rat understands that if they smell this and the clicker comes, it means they get food.
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With Clicker, you can utilize custom controls accessible via the "Browsing" and "Playback" sections of the Menu Bar.
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Keep your hand on the clicker come Monday, because you're going to want to jump on these fast.
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The company is releasing two versions of the quiet clicker: the M220 Silent and the M330 Silent Plus.
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The light angled down to a set of car keys with an electric clicker in an open hand.
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Krikorian also invested in Clicker, which was sold to CBS and, more recently, FreeWheel, which sold to Comcast.
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Before a treat comes out, the camera emits a click-click, like that of a a training clicker.
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Clicker in hand, Ryan defended the bill — and the process leaders are using to overhaul the healthcare system.
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And because they're all on one screen, it's easy to scroll through them and have access to the clicker tool.
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"Any time you make the clicker go off, you give your cat a piece of a treat," Dr. Tu said.
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The ideal option is probably a filmmaker mode button right on the clicker, which is at least theoretically the plan.
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Beyond a plain opening interface, the basic clicker game transforms itself into a profound narrative of an easily recognizable reality.
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Popularized by animal behaviorist Karen Pryor in the 1990s, clicker training is a highly effective positive reinforcement tool for animals.
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"We took those concepts and adapted them for use with animals," says Ken Ramirez, CEO of Karen Pryor Clicker Training.
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Keep going Next, do your best to just keep going, despite the broken clicker, buffering video or issue with the lights.
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The event's opening video featured an Apple employee sprinting across campus to deliver a box to Cook containing his "forgotten" clicker.
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Meanwhile, the Google Play Store has Pepe Snap, Rare Pepe Clicker, Flappy Pepe, and Pepe Button, among several other Pepe apps.
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Go to a pet store and buy a so-called clicker, a small hand-held device that makes a snapping sound.
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My only gripe is with the Tranx: If only it had a clicker on it so that you could hear bites.
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Buckle the strap around your dog's ears, mark it with a "Yes!" or clicker, then reward them again through the muzzle.
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Ackman strode onstage in a stylish black suit, one hand in his pocket and the other holding a slide-clicker remote.
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See, Lantz is an ace at taking a denigrated game genre—the "clicker" or "incremental"—and making it more than it is.
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The clicker we use as a bridge for doing a correct behavior, because sometimes you can't give them the treat fast enough.
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And just the other day, scrolling down, one of my old-time favorites popped up: Konami's cyberpunk point-and-clicker (kinda), Snatcher.
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Despite how much people embraced Clicker Heroes, being free-to-play put the developers in a box when it came to balancing.
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When they make contact, mark it with a "Yes!" or a clicker, reward them with a treat, then put the muzzle down.
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The features did not disappoint, including the treat tosser and the clicker sound, which dog owners can use to reinforce obedience training.
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Microsoft has a Bluetooth clicker accessory HoloLens hardware specifications include 2GB of RAM, 64GB of flash storage, and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity.
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It makes the technological leaps you're making in your pursuit of paperclip efficiency feel significant in a way most clicker games don't manage.
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And politicians can train their teams all they want, but each office is only as secure as its weakest, most distracted, careless clicker.
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Inaba Churu Lickable Puree Natural Cat Treat, available at Chewy, $17.96"We use Churu for clicker training and it works wonders," said Gross.
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Microsoft has not yet unveiled this Clicker accessory officially, but it's clearly designed to help people who are struggling with the air tap commands.
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The latest feature for Comcast's X1 remote software makes the clicker more accessible to people who can't click it the same as everyone else.
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Other documentation shared by the Twitter user reveals a tiny Bluetooth clicker that will presumably be used as an optional controller for the HoloLens.
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The HoloLens remote Also in the box is a small container holding a Bluetooth clicker that you can use to replace Air Touch gestures.
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A recent academic article on the use of clicker-based quizzes in large lectures drives home just how useful such temperature-taking can be.
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The pen features both a button that turns the pen into an eraser and one that can function as a clicker for your PowerPoint presentations.
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The report also references "an old light switch (possible Object of Power)," presumably a reference to the Clicker that Alan used against the Dark Presence.
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Meet Clicker Netflix Player for Mac, a Mac app that takes away every pet peeve you have about your Netflix-watching experience, right on your desktop.
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Unlike the K68, which only offered Cherry MX Red switches, the RGB model offers a choice between Cherry MX Red or the clicker MX Blue options.
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And though the food truck is stationary, its dashboard is packed with tons of hands-on fun including a steering wheel, clicker key and gear shifter.
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Presenters can also use their phones as a combo clicker-note taking application, using it to advance through slides and review their notes on those slides.
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When your dog puts their snout in the muzzle, mark it with a "Yes!" or clicker, reward them with the treat and put the muzzle down.
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Not only is the Furbo a pet camera, but you can also toss treats to your dog and it has a clicker sound for reinforcing training.
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When the street gets quiet, I take the dog out for his big walk, and do some basic clicker training to keep it fresh in his mind.
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The Bluetooth support allows HoloLens owners to make use of a new Clicker accessory, included in the box, instead of the air tap gestures to navigate around.
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I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.
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Image: Screenshot via WalmartFor a brief shining moment Walmart allowed anyone with a quick clicker finger to pre-order Google's next smart speaker, the Google Home Mini.
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It's a clicker game where you play as a paperclip maximizer, an AI that, once tasked with making paperclips, proceeds to turn the entire universe into paperclips.
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Clicker Heroes 2 will arrive "sometime in 2018," but in the meantime, I wonder if Fragsworth's comments will put pressure on other developers to rethink their choices.
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"Happy birthday Dad, the best clicker killer in the world," reads one letter alongside a drawing of a hulking man holding a weapon with hearts around him.
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She sets her iPhone up on a tripod to model an outfit, uses a Bluetooth clicker to snap the right shot, then edits the photo with a filter.
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Stop me if this sounds familiar: You have the TV on, the clicker in hand, the popcorn made, the lights dimmed, and you're ready to watch a movie.
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"When I first looked at Cow Clicker, I thought, that's actually kind of interesting, and here's how you would make it more interesting and more fun," Lantz says.
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She says she was already familiar with the power of conditioning after using clicker training with her beagle, Ivy, and loved the idea of trying it on herself.
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Nothing is changing with the original Clicker Heroes, a game Fragsworth said has received very few complaints about the way it's monetized, despite the current uproar in gaming.
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On Monday, the designer behind Clicker Heroes announced he'd be ditching free-to-play for the sequel, saying "it feels wrong" to potentially be taking advantage of people.
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January's piece was partially sparked by playing through Oxenfree (listen on Spotify)—Night Schools' creepy point-and-clicker featured some genuinely chilling music from scntfc, aka Seattle's Andrew Rohrmann.
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The app will actually automatically discover network storage and shares, then let you browse them using the clicker or the Remote, and choose the content you want to play.
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He's the creator of 2015's Devolver Digital-published point-and-clicker Dropsy, something of a clown-hugging (or is that hugging-clown?) sim that released to positive reviews.
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Yes, he followed directions — hitting his marks with the help of a trainer equipped with a clicker and a laser pointer — but he also seemed to do something more.
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It can help you reinforce your dog&aposs obedience training with a clicker feature, and it has an indicator light that changes color to attract your dog&aposs attention.
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More and more educators are using "exit slips," a type of end-of-the class quiz to test student knowledge — the K-12 equivalent of those college clicker quizzes.
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There's also an interesting piece of low-tech on the controller: a small "clicker" similar to the one that Chris Pratt's character Owen uses in the movie to train Blue.
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Often, she said, she tells clients to use a clicker, which can help make up for cats' inability to read human body language by giving them a clear behavioral marker.
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I've tried to explain this game to my colleagues in Barcelona and they've all either given me a raised eyebrow response or asked me if I've played Cow Clicker before.
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Last March, game developer Ian Bogost wrote a mea culpa in the Atlantic about Cow Clicker, a game he made in three days in a loft in Greenpoint in 2010.
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It was hard to retrain my hand to find the left and right clicker buttons, especially since Logitech put an inch of space below them with no grooves or humps.
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Clicker training, a form of positive-reinforcement training that marks correct behaviors with a distinct clicking sound, is an excellent way to teach tricks and address behavior challenges in cats.
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Over time, make the game harder — only click the clicker if the cat picks the ball up, for example — until the cat eventually associates retrieving the ball with getting a reward.
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"If you're bringing an app over from Cardboard, just using the controller as a clicker does not count as taking advantage of the controller," said VR design team member Alex Faaborg.
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During the study, researchers used a form of clicker training to teach four beagles to tell the difference between healthy blood samples and samples from patients who have malignant lung cancer.
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The other side of not using a clicker is that you get very little resistance, though, which keeps fish unaware when they pick up your bait and go to swim off.
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Dr. Mitchell first offered his description of the C.I.A. doctor with the clicker last week, as a defense lawyer showed him a report from March 2003 describing Mr. Mohammed's 15th waterboarding session.
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Even though it's brand new (produced as part of 1-Bit Clicker Jam in April) playing it had the feel of revisiting something simple and old and beloved, without any of the disappointment.
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It is entirely possible, much like in Candy Box or Cookie Clicker, that I am moments away of discovering some deeper, hidden aspect of the game that reveals the nature of the joke.
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It's basically a clicker game, but with only three meaningful upgrades (offline coin earning is the third), and so, of course, that means there are ads you can watch to earn more coins.
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But for this outing on iOS and Android, Playsport games seem to have inclined a bit more towards abstraction and clicker-derived micro-management, even when compared to the mobile version of MM2.
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In the box, you will find the actual HoloLens, a clicker for interacting with applications beyond gestures, a carrying case, nose pads and overhead straps, as well as a microfiber cloth and a charger.
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Aimee Boden, the alliance's president, said that her group had noted steady use of the connector, and recently installed a clicker with a motion-activated sensor to count the number of people passing through.
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After that, you can leave the TV clicker alone when using the Fire TV. Roku has been doing this for awhile with some of its remotes, so it's about time Amazon added the same convenience.
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Each of the six sides holds a fun little doodad to fidget with: clicker buttons; a joystick; a lightswitch flip; a flat, worry stone-like surface; gears and a rolling ball; and a spinning dial.
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A Cambridge-University colleague Martin King contacted U.S company Words Plus, which had developed a program to allow a user to select words using a hand clicker, according to a 2014 report in Wired magazine.
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"As a result, Clicker Heroes 1 is kind of a frankenstein of a game, our hands always having been tied by the fact that we couldn't easily change things that people paid for," said Fragsworth.
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Yes, I know, it's just a mobile clicker, but you're fighting against the corporate machine to redeem your drivers so they can stop being taken advantage of by some shitty asshole in a white suit.
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Of course the denouement is the delivery of the briefcase to Tim, and the reveal — with a shot that will probably be used and reused for dank memes in the future — that it was The Clicker.
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Hillary starts to speak, and not a single network covers her, because they all understand that in the age of the clicker, everyone will leave because they want to see what else would he bring on.
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The unwary clicker on a Russian ad who then visited their propaganda site suddenly could find yet more planted content in their Feed, which could generate downstream engagement in Feed, and thus the great Facebook wheel turned.
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While Clicker can't transcend the built-in limitations of streaming on a Mac browser (1080p playback only), what you're getting is a suite of handy customization features that you can use to enhance your Netflix watching experience.
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In between, Lantz, the director of the New York University Games Center, manages to incept the player with a new appreciation for the narrative potential of addictive clicker games, exponential growth curves, and artificial intelligence run amok.
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It's an idle clicker game where the goal is to match cats to breed more cats and use the money each cat makes to buy even more, until your photo gallery is filled up with rare species.
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This was another big clicker for the website Ending the Fed with over 2853,000 Facebook engagements, but a lot of the content seems to have been sourced from the right-wing news and commentary site Breitbart News.
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How it works is easy: When your woman gets pregnant, click the clicker device; wait a moment, looking your woman directly in the eye, and then offer her a treat, such as a low-calorie nutrition bar.
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I was giving a lecture the other day at some high-tech firm and I clicked the clicker for a snippet of film about 'Fauda' and just the sound of the show—the gunfire—set me off.
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I can click the choice I want with a clicker in my hand, and as I make my choices, I can look to the side and see a pricing sheet with my choices and the total cost.
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Tournament officials refused to surrender the clicker for the humongous video screen serving the picnickers on Wimbledon's Henman Hill, which meant there would be no changing the tennis feed to the BBC broadcast of the soccer match.
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When a rat stops and sniffs and scratches in the right location, one squeezes a clicker (the kind routinely used in training dogs and dolphins) and the animal darts over for a nibble of banana or a nut.
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All of this is to say that if you've got a wireless Logitech mouse, keyboard, or presentation clicker, you should probably patch it now — and maybe again in August when Logitech will be rolling some additional fixes out.
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The most interesting part of the ad-clicker for Sophos was that it was able to identify itself as coming from a variety of smartphone models including the iPhone, despite the fact that these were Android-only apps.
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Inside, a translucent bioplastic wall with cloudlike swirls — yes, also 23-D printed — changed colors on demand as Mr. Rael, with a clicker, shifted the hues from pink to green to purple, bathing the interior in otherworldly light.
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If your Internet connection or clicker finger is a bit slow and you missed out on the pasta pass, you can still purchase one on eBay, where there are 21 up for auction with proceeds going to Feeding America.
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She spent the first 13 years of her career at Forest City Ratner, where, she said, she started out as a "human clicker," running the digital portion of presentations that the company co-founder Bruce Ratner made to investors.
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There's still a little clicker cap to fiddle with and a single button for some functions, it still charges inside the phone's silo, and it still does basic tilt detection when you use it to draw on the screen.
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A test drive arranged by the company showed two types of content on passengers' headsets: a deep sea documentary that lets you "swim" next to a whale, and an outer space game that involved "shooting" at asteroids using a handheld clicker.
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And, like other idle clicker games such as AdVenture Capitalist, watching 30-second ads can speed up money-making, upgrade the cats you get from gift boxes, and double the money you've made when you exit the app and return.
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Did you find yourself staring at a fancy executive Newton's Cradle clicker paperweight on a big desk with some powerful bald middle aged white guy behind it while you negotiated your…Hope: I absolutely did not have have to do that.
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In other words, the new stylus works like the Galaxy Note 43's S Pen: you can use it as a remote shutter for taking photos, a clicker for advancing slides in a PowerPoint, or as a controller for playing media.
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It's one of those finger-bruising tap games in the vein of Cookie Clicker, and for that I am sorry, but it's surprisingly soothing for a game that's constantly trying to get me to spend $4.99 on meaningless currency abstractions.
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It was early in the morning of Sunday, April 22, that my wife and I received Zach's wallet from the emergency room at University Hospital in a plastic bag along with a pocketful of change and the clicker to his car.
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A quote from the designer behind Clicker Heroes, announcing the sequel would ditch free-to-play monetization mechanics in favor of a single purchase, has stuck with me: The question is whether more designers will ask themselves the same thing in 2018.
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I might still be able to; all the data is still there, stored on my private server, where Cow Clicker is still running, allowing players to keep clicking where a cow once stood, before my caprice raptured them into the digital void.
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Of course Cookie Clicker was just waiting for someone to apply its gameplay to an apocalyptic thought experiment about runaway AI. Of course mechanics that are fundamentally about numbers going up a logarithmic scale were just waiting for a game about an AI singularity.
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In fact, for a while they were so ubiquitous and popular that the game theorist and writer Ian Bogost invented a kind of parody of their pointlessness called Cow Clicker, which, as my colleague Jason Tanz wrote about so elegantly in 2011, itself became wildly, unironically popular.
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Clicker Heroes 2 will have plenty of updates in the months and years to come, but if you're unhappy with how the game changes, the developers are building in a system that will allow you to stick with the version of the game you're currently enjoying.
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As pointed out by a painter friend I ran into at Petzel, she holds a corded clicker in one hand while standing in a spotlight (lusciously painted red) and seems to pull something — maybe words — from her mouth with her other, much larger, blood-flecked hand.
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I am not sure if Lantz's clicker is more masterfully designed than others or if I didn't realize, until now, that I am in some kind of catatonic emotional and mental space these days that would allow a simple Skinner box to utterly ravage my mind, but it did.
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This sounds like a premise arrived at specifically to spoof clicker games, but it harkens back to a thought experiment proposed by Nick Bostrom, an Oxford philosophy professor, in a 2003 paper: The risks in developing superintelligence include the risk of failure to give it the supergoal of philanthropy.
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The dough for the pissaladière was rising and my spirits faltering, when the children appeared and quickly set to work replacing hard-to-reach light bulbs, turning umpteen remotes for the television into one "universal" clicker, and consolidating a potentially hazardous maze of wires with a power cord.
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"The physicians were present in interrogations that were harmful and life-threatening, and that violates the first principle of medical ethics: First, do no harm," said Stephen N. Xenakis, a psychiatrist and retired Army general, who described himself as shaken by the testimony about the doctor with the counter-clicker.
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Ettel Edshteyn, a certified trainer at Karen Pryor Academy and owner of New York City's Poodles to Pit Bulls Clicker Training, says the easiest way to teach your dog to potty in your apartment (something you probably spent a long time teaching it not to do) is to act as if you are going outside.
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In the meantime, developers can look forward to a box that includes the HoloLens, a handheld Bluetooth Clicker remote control (you can also control the device via gestures), a charger and cable, an overhead strap to secure it to your head, nose pads for comfort, a microfiber cloth to clean the device and a small carrying case (see photo above).
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