Mr. Gregorium's Number Emporium

[brilokuloj]

I wanna be Gregular!

This is Greg and it wants to make NUMBER GOUP. It's our job to make that real for him!

With every donation I will add a new stat to track. The importance of them might be proportional to your donation amount.

Stats

As of Jun 17

Money: $306 (DONATE!)

Money Report: NZ 1Q GDP RISES 0.8% Q/Q; EST. +0.8%

Tier: 0.5 (Steam)

NUMBER: 666,000,000,000

Kittens: 32

Adoptables: 19

Cleaned tabs: 713

Patches identified: 845

Words written: 3933

Library tasks done: 7

Unique emojis: 42

Unique Wiki cards: 80

Days left: 14

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What is this?

You already know the story because everyone in your life is living it: I am broke and disabled. My local support networks have been financially gutted. My friends are exhausted, and they only have so much to give. I've had to decline help that I otherwise need because I refuse to let my friendships become financial -- even then, they don't have much else left to give, and neither do I.

Things are a little more bearable for me right now than they were the past few months. Everyone helped a lot with Dunkin's surgery, which we're at 47% coverage on. I've been sleeping OK at night. That's why I've decided to return to selling my art online. But my carpal tunnel syndrome has been worsening over the years, and I don't know if art will always be in my future.

You know what I can always do? Write about video games. But writing about video games doesn't get me money.

Or does it?

This is a vent piece. It's performance art! It's a fundraiser for my credit card debts! It's a number going up! It's a boot stamping on my face, forever

Ok. What is Greg

GregTech: New Horizons is the name of a notoriously time-consuming Minecraft modpack. I'm giving myself a month to see how far I can get in it. I'm also playing some other incremental games.

The "Greg" in GregTech is for the mod's creator, Gregorius Techneticies. His parents must have had big plans for him! But "Greg" has become shorthand for the mod itself, and the idea of this mythical Greg figure has evolved long past the man himself. (I will never again use "Greg" in this thread to refer to the mod author; I don't want this mistaken for RPF.) So I thought Greg would be a funny name for a character playing GregTech. I decided the character would be one of my Computer Mouse characters because I thought it fit the Thaumcraft goggles. Then I named the thread "Mr. Gregorium's Number Emporium" as a reference to the film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. His tail is a Reddit upvote and a mouse cursor.

What's some things I can donate to make you do?

• Download my entire Spotify catalogue
• Count words for my essay on the Reddit semen retention community
• Count words for my read-along of communist theory
• Count Caines in my review of all Caine Miis on TomodachiShare
• Count lines of code for my current game dev project
• Count tabs as I clean them out
• Play Emoji Gacha
• Play Wikigacha
• Play AdVenture Capitalist
• Identify unlabeled MIDIs in my MIDI collection
• Make a list of Tomodachi Life creation ideas

Feel free to request one of these (or an idea of your own!) when you donate.

Can I draw Mr. Greg?

Yes, but only if you accept Greg is a sexual being in his private time.

[palabomeno]

Upvote rat

[thunderzizi]

3???????????

[brilokuloj]

Greg is Scared

[brilokuloj]

Cheet has given $6 to the cause!

We are now tracking NUMBER BY TYLER GLAIEL.

Money: $6
NUMBER: 6.9

Greg is learning how to make tools.

[cheet]

>1h until the next storm

:modcheck:

[cheet]

that might just be normal minecraft rain actually nvm

[brilokuloj]

Greg opened 1 LootBag and it contained 32 Jelt, 32 Fort, 32 Kryp, 32 Cray, 32 Korp, 32 Agon, 32 Bitt, and 5 Cinnamon Sugar Donuts.

[palabomeno]

Can I have 1 of those dounuts

[brilokuloj]

Greg forgot to go out of his house on the first day, so he missed half the day.

He opened a LootBag and got 7 Potatoes and 3 Split Pea Soups. He made 1 Mallet and collected 14 Apples. Then he was attacked by a spider.

Greg found a village and got an Iron Pickaxe!

NUMBER: 6,978,834,498

Can I have 1 of those dounuts

He'll set one aside for you.

[brilokuloj]

Greg died 5 times and learned his Iron Pickaxe is unusable in this modpack.

[brilokuloj]

Greg opened a LootBag and got 10 Obsidian and 2 Hot Wings.

He decided he was sick of his house not having a door, so he stole one from a villager. Greg did feel a pang of guilt about this, because the villagers would hardly survive the zombies let alone the baby zombies that gave the plague, but other neighbors were missing doors already so he figured maybe they wouldn't notice.

Greg made his first bed.

Greg opened another LootBag and got 64 Wood Screws and a Creeper Head.

He slept in his bed and received a terrible vision!

NUMBER: 349,982,931,590,667,344

MONEY REPORT: TRUMP: TALKS ARE CONTINUING WITH IRAN AT 'RAPID PACE'

[cheet]

ok maybe it’s not normal minecraft rain wtf is an armored creeper

[palabomeno]

Creeper with armor on it

[brilokuloj]

Browser crashed.

NUMBER: 0.5

[palabomeno]

THE NUMBER

[brilokuloj]

Greg opened 3 LootBags:

• 16 White Dye, 16 Light Grey Dye, 16 Grey Dye, 16 Black Dye, 16 Red Dye, 16 Orange Dye, 16 Yellow Dye, 16 Green Dye, 16 Lime Green Dye, 16 Light Blue Dye, 16 Cyan Dye, 16 Blue Dye, 16 Purple Dye, 16 Magenta Dye, 16 Pink Dye, 16 Brown Dye
• 3 Chocolate Milkshake and 2 Beef Jerky
• 8 of Coal

NUMBER: 353,840,859,288,492

MONEY REPORT: NUBANK APPOINTS ROB LIVINGSTON AS CFO

[brilokuloj]

Mortis donated $20!

We are now tracking KITTENS GAME.

Greg is so grateful and wants you all to see his home so far:

Money: 26
NUMBER: 336,000,000,000,000,000
Money Report: NUBANK APPOINTS ROB LIVINGSTON AS CFO
Kittens: 1

[brilokuloj]

Forgot the kittens could starve.

A kitten has joined your village
A kitten has joined your village
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
1 kitten starved to death.
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
A kitten has joined your village
A kitten has joined your village
A kitten has joined your village

Kittens: 4

[thunderzizi]

Forgot the kittens could starve.

A kitten has joined your village
A kitten has joined your village
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
1 kitten starved to death.
1 kitten starved to death.
1 kitten starved to death.
A kitten has joined your village
A kitten has joined your village
A kitten has joined your village
A kitten has joined your village

Kittens: 4

yeah i played kitten game a bit. they dont call it the dark souls of incremental games for nothin

(...i mean it wasn't That hard but. good luck with winter lol)

[starsystemerror]

the first winter of any given kittens game is always so brutal

[skinstealer]

did not expect 20 USD to go to kitten survival horror but i think thats pretty apt for me all things considered

[brilokuloj]

Good morning everybody!

Money: $26 (DONATE!)
Money Report: EURO AREA PRELIM MAY CONSUMER PRICES RISE 3.2% Y/Y; EST. +3.2%
Tier: 0
NUMBER: 30,000,000,000,000,000,000
Kittens: 4
Days left: 29

[brilokuloj]

Today Greg learned that batteries can be charged and discharged in the same slot, which would be great news for him if he knew what a battery is.

Greg opened two LootBags:

• 3 Hot Wings and 10 Clay
• 16 White Dye, 16 Light Grey Dye, 16 Grey Dye, 16 Black Dye, 16 Red Dye, 16 Orange Dye, 16 Yellow Dye, 16 Green Dye, 16 Lime Green Dye, 16 Light Blue Dye, 16 Cyan Dye, 16 Blue Dye, 16 Purple Dye, 16 Magenta Dye, 16 Pink Dye, 16 Brown Dye

He watched the kittens and found himself oddly jealous. Making food seems to come naturally to them. Greg is still surviving off of apples - he's lucky to get hot wings from a LootBag. But then, Greg cannot eat catnip, so it's a wash.

NUMBER: 15,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

[brilokuloj]

Glubby appeared one day with a deal. Greg has taken to selling adoptables online in order to afford his LootBag fund. Will this make number goup?

Adoptables Designed: 4
Kittens: 8
NUMBER: 12,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

The kittens have learned Mathematics.

[thunderzizi]

The kittens have learned Mathematics.

im so proud of them

[skinstealer]

can the kittens calculate why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch

[thunderzizi]

can the kittens calculate why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch

5

[brilokuloj]

The kittens have discovered a unicorn.

Unicorns: 1

[brilokuloj]

I have added an About section to the first post!

Greg's day has been uneventful, but he just learned how to harvest ore and now has 72 iron ingots. Other than that, it's been mostly chores. Greg also went to his Glubby state insurance-sponsored therapy program and got a little less scared of seeing his body in the shower.

NUMBER: 33,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Kittens: 10