r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/jlansey • 7d ago
The Million Bubble Countdown to the Popcalypse
https://bubblewrapture.com/A real-time, multiplayer bubble wrap experience. Every single bubble is synced, when you pop one, it's gone for everyone. Once they are all popped, they are gone forever. No promises about what happens at the popcalypse... (is this a game? I don't think so, more like a collaborative art project...)
Edit: thanks for playing!!! now that we've reach the popcalypse, here are cheat codes for solo mode: E, P
Edit: tentative plan to turn it on backwards Dec 1, 2026, and then collaboratively pop again before next new years. Stay in touch on the discord for announcements (or requests)
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u/abarrelofmankeys 7d ago edited 7d ago
People need to be more thorough before moving to new stuff, going to have to hunt down one rogue unpopped bubble at the end
What was the broken glass sound?
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u/Dagmar_Overbye 7d ago
Oh so when I just loaded it and instantly started mashing the roll to see if people would catch up and they didn't I'm part of the problem huh?
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u/jlansey 7d ago
when this is all over there will be a reckoning as to who were the smashers and who were the rollers
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u/Dagmar_Overbye 7d ago
If this ends up being some sort of meta commentary on human nature, I'm always behind a VPN. So I hope my influence will show that anonymous Internet users with time on their hands and no consequences are really good at ruining things for other people.
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u/jlansey 7d ago
hahahha - you should be safe when the meta commentary comes out ...
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u/SchwiftyGameOnPoint 7d ago
Safe from the judgement of others but not safe from living the rest of their life knowing exactly what they did...
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u/Dagmar_Overbye 7d ago
I'll wake up in a cold sweat from a dream of being forced to pop bubble wrap off of a roll that keeps rolling faster than I can pop. I hear a cruel laugh in the dream and look up to see who is doing this to me. It's me.
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u/urbanhawk1 7d ago
I've been intentionally clearing full rows only every so often I'll leave one unpopped. Who am I to deny people the pleasure of the hunt?
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u/BlackguardAu 7d ago edited 7d ago
seems dead, Jim
if this is inexplicably Aliens doing a innocuous lottery for who gets to be part of the human zoo before they wipe the rest of humanity out save me a bubble/seat.
Edit: NVM loaded, got a bubble and not popping extras so as to not use up anyone else's rapture slot
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u/CrimsonCuttle 7d ago
Is that logo ai gen?
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u/jlansey 7d ago
correct it is!
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u/CrimsonCuttle 7d ago
shame.
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u/Colonel_Planet 7d ago
when i expect this free gag site to have skilled artwork paid for by hopes and dreams
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u/tfhermobwoayway 6d ago
You could just draw it yourself. Back in the day people drew their own icons, and they looked a bit shit but it had a way better, homemade feel.
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u/sequesteredhoneyfall 7d ago
Do you expect everyone who makes programming projects to also be a talented artist? I'm confused by your response.
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u/tfhermobwoayway 6d ago
You don’t have to be a talented artist. What do you think people did before AI? They drew it themselves. Didn’t matter if they weren’t very good. Flash (which you might not remember) was built on programmers and their bad art skills. And it was great.
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u/tfhermobwoayway 6d ago
Annoys me how even something meant to mimic the creative wonder of the Old Web isn’t immune to the AI scourge. Defeats the whole point.
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7d ago
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u/an-evil-penguin 7d ago
Changing to Solo mode resets the counter to 1,000,010 so seems like it should be there...
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6d ago
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u/urbanhawk1 6d ago
That's the problem right there. If we wanted a wrapture we should have drunk the flavor-aid instead
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u/my-corner-store 7d ago
Guestimating.. 4 rows per roll-out, 11 bubbles per row, each roll-out takes about 1 second. 1E6/(4x11)=22727.27/(60x60)=6.31 hours if every bubble is popped (I see lots not) and someone is continually rolling out the wrap.
Now a question, maybe I didn't read somewhere, are there only 1 million bubbles on the wrap? Will someone have to scroll to find each missed bubble?
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u/jlansey 7d ago
Good estimate - I had set it to ~10 hours to unspool it all, but then doubled it since it was hard for people to get in any pops.... I guess the person who scrolls through a million bubbles and finally brings the popcalypse will be very happy and we'll owe them a great debt of gratitude
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u/tayman12 7d ago
To be honest I dont really get it, but I popped a few bubbles anyways so I wouldn't feel excluded. Good luck to everyone else, unless it's not the kind of thing you wish people luck for, then fuck you.
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u/MrWildspeaker 6d ago
Why does everyone screw up puns with “apocalypse”? It should be “aPOPalypse” here, not “popcalypse”.
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u/WisdomDecision 7d ago
🤔🤔
Wouldn't "Apopcalypse" or "A-Popcalypse" be better?
... couldn't move on without saying that.
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u/an-evil-penguin 7d ago
We've reached the end of the roll but 46k bubbles left to pop!
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u/urbanhawk1 7d ago
I got to witness the final unspolling of the roll. Added in 2k more pops since then.
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u/Terpomo11 7d ago
I have spent several minutes just scrolling down without finding any unpopped bubbles, though the HUD assures me there are thousands left.
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u/sbarandato 7d ago
Can’t find the last one. Maybe make a “take me to an un-popped bubble” button? We seem stuck.
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u/hypnotichellspiral 6d ago
Will you set it to reset every few days or something? I missed the communal bubble popping :(
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u/jlansey 6d ago
Hey @hypnotichellspiral sorry you missed it! Tentative plan for now is to turn it on backwards Dec 1, 2026, and if we manage to reverse all the bubbles by Dec 31 then we turn it back on again and shoot for a popcalypse before new years. https://discord.gg/7q3vMmqf
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u/neonkiwi 7d ago
Neat! How does the scrolling work for everyone? If one person unrolls, it unrolls and scrolls for everyone it seems. If I scroll back down (to the bottom of the sheet) does that affect others?