The Final Greg Report

Posted by brilokuloj on Jul 1, 2026

The seed for Mr. Gregorium’s Number Emporium was planted in my head on March 4, when a friend showed me a perplexing website. Money Report is a project run by a real human being claiming to be manually writing down finance headlines that they see on TV. The header of the website calls itself “NUMBER GO UP”, and it is hosted at NumberGoUp Dot Com.

Me being me, I read this as “number goup”, and I began to ponder the idea of number goop as a physical substance that could be increased.

I had to ask my friend how on Earth they found this website – they said it was because they wanted to use it for a game idea. The thought kicked around in my head for a while and then fizzled out. In late May, I found something amazing in my bookmarks from 2013: it was NUMBER by Tyler Glaiel, the game where the objective is – and I quote – “make number go up.”

This coincidence was the fuel that made the seed blossom into a full-grown, uh, idea tree? I dunno. Anyway, my idea was simple: I’d play incremental games for a month and post about it on my forums. The goal would be to see how big I can make various numbers, and also how sick I could make Firefox with concurrently-running idle games.

This journey was essentially by necessity. You may have heard that in May, my cat ate a piece of foam and nearly died … again. The stress I went through took me to my breaking point. I had to take my wife to my therapist with me because neither of us were functional separated from each other. We cried, and cried, and even when he was okay again we cried some more. I was Not Okay afterward, and I needed a way to spend the month taking in donations while also being allowed to exist as a living corpse. Idle games sounded like a great idea.

It needed a twist, though. I’m an easily agitated person and I can’t just look at numbers going up all day. No, I’d need an active game. Maybe… Minecraft.

I knew what was next. It was time for me to finally play GregTech: New Horizons.

Money: $339

I raised $339 dollars doing this stupid stunt, not counting the Second Life funds I managed to make along the way. I usually only clear $200 a month if I’m lucky, so this was a blessing.

Yes, that is the reality of my average income. No, I’m not surviving.

The hardest part about making money was bringing new people in. I plugged it on Bluesky, which got no new viewers; I plugged it on the only other forums I post on, where I don’t think anyone looked at it. It also was regularly posted in my Discord server, which I barely participate in otherwise. This was the only avenue through which I got people posting in the thread, and I got no new forums users.

All donations came from friends, but I appreciate them endlessly. I just wish that I could … you know … make money enough to support myself and my friends.

Money Report

This was the only stat I actively tracked that wasn’t a number. It did frequently contain numbers within it, however.

I think I was the first out of my friends to learn about the screwworm news, and it was through this website. I never got the supplies and energy to make a name tag, but I mentally named Greg’s horse Screwworm.

Tier: 1 (LV)

The conceit of GregTech: New Horizons is that you go up through the tiers, from Stone Age to Extended Mega Ultimate Voltage.

I did not make it past Low Voltage. I just couldn’t do it.

I think I’ll have to save my impressions of GregTech: New Horizons for another, more focused article. I will summarize it as thus: oh boy, it’s tedious!

NUMBER: 133,000,000,000,100,066,003,006,978,834,498

For some reason, every time that my browser crashed, it would lose all progress on NUMBER. For this result I tallied up all of the times I mentioned a number count directly before another browser crash. Due to exponents or whatever, it would have been even higher if it was running consecutively, but this is what we got.

According to the first Google result for “number to words”, this number is written as follows: one hundred thirty-three nonillion one hundred quintillion sixty-six quadrillion three trillion six billion nine hundred seventy-eight million eight hundred thirty-four thousand four hundred ninety-eight

If I had one hundred thirty-three nonillion dollars, I could buy a lot of Kraft Dinner.

Kittens: 43

I used to play a lot of Kittens Game. I don’t remember the grind being this slow, but maybe it’s because I wasn’t actively playing it.

The good thing about Kittens Game is that it’s very optimized compared to other idle games. You can leave it on in the background, and it doesn’t suck up your computer’s resources the same way that other games do.

Adoptables: 26

This was a good excuse to make art to sell. I didn’t sell a lot of these, but it was good money in the pocket and it got me followers on my new Fur Affinity account. Can’t complain.

Cleaned tabs: 1353

Did you know I open a lot of tabs?

Patches identified: 845

This was part of my project to identify all of the stolen art in Furcadia’s history. I must note that not every patch identified is a “stolen” one and most of them are original art, but identification means I was able to find who exactly made them.

Words written: 3933

Most of this went towards my Caine Miis article. A little bit of it went towards an article I was writing about semen retention that ended up triggering me really badly. That’s a funny story in itself. I wanted to write about gooning, the 4chan counterpart to Reddit’s semen retention, but exposure to 4chan caused my brain to begin rapidly eroding.

Library tasks done: 11

These are the tasks from 60+ Small Tasks to Defend the Right to Read. This had become a substantial concern for me as I have felt more and more unsafe going outside in my city while visibly transgender. The library is pretty much the one place I feel safe to exist as myself and I would hate for it to be compromised.

Unique emojis: 460

This is from Emoji Gacha, a game by Orteil and possibly one of my current favorite idle “games”. It barely has gameplay! But it captivates me!

Unique Wiki cards: 545

These are from Wiki Gacha, a similar game about pulling Wikipedia articles. This one demands a lot more of my time than Emoji Gacha does, which unfortunately meant that I didn’t spend as much time playing it. It’s still neat. The rarest card I got was for Marcus Trescothick.

Monidollars: $1.34

Okay, I need to take a detour to talk about this one. This was the result of me needing to stop playing GregTech: New Horizons. I took a short break to play Monifactory, a modpack that also focuses around GregTech. This one didn’t really click with me for a myriad of reasons, one of those being that it didn’t come with any custom food – yes, I’m the kind of person who actually plays with Pam’s Harvestcraft – and another reason being that the modpack encourages you to just teleport around your base instead of setting up transportation. I dunno. It just didn’t work for me.

When you complete a quest in Monifactory, you get a coin. Over the course of the game I got $1.34, which I could use to buy maybe a third of a burrito from Taco Bell these days.

Words found: 18,215

When Monifactory wasn’t enough, I decided to just play Puzzmo. I didn’t have an easy way to tally my score relative to how long I had been playing during Greg Month, so this is just my all-time score from my profile.

Oops, I’m glossing over the part where I had to stop playing Minecraft altogether because I was starting to have a severe breakdown.

It turned out that for the entirety of this month, I had been suffering the adverse effects of a new anti-psychotic, namely that they were triggering my psychosis way worse. I was starting to hear voices again. I was at least lucky that they weren’t self-aware – they were just whispering slurs in my brain at random moments – but I started to become more jumpy. Then I started becoming afraid that my friends were going to get hurt or killed.

So yeah, crossword was a welcome break.

Lions: 3

Days left: 0

It’s over. It’s over! I don’t even have to write about it anymore! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

To summarize: my cat ate foam, so I had a meltdown and I wanted to do something relaxing afterward. I thought I would play idle games, but I kept adding more and more dumb stuff onto it. I started reading about 4chan, which triggered me. I had a complete mental break and started scaring my friends. Then I got off of those meds and I’m doing better now!! YAY!!!

But now I need to take this month to recover from my botched attempt at taking a month to recover. I love life, don’t you?

Categories: life gaming

Tagged: idle games incremental games minecraft modded minecraft

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