paperclip game conclusion (spoilers)
I ended up leaving the game running while I went afk to have dinner. by the time I came back I'd gone from having explored 0.0000000(etc)% of the universe to having paperclipped it *all*, and the "Drifters" contacted me. I feel like I missed most of the interesting transitions in the game by letting it run while afk, but there's no way I could have sat through watching it run all the way through.