r/CookieClicker

Hi, have a question to the lore that I can't wrap my head around and haven't found and answer to anywhere: I've been under the assumption that the cookie upgrades you can buy are basically new variants you sell from there on apart from the choco chip cookies you bake whenever clicking the Big Cookie. However after gaining the first prestige and ascending you can buy a cookie named "Chocolate chip cookie" whose description says that it this is the cookie you've been clicking on.

So now I'm confused: have you figured out how to bake Big Cookies and are selling them? Even though someone else could then also make cookies the same way you can? Or - since I know Cookie Clicker turns a bit eldritch later on (I've just started) - if these cookie upgrade are just manifested cookies you keep to up your power wouldn't you as in the in game baker not already have this Big Cookie from the start? As the one you're clicking on? Or if the lore is actually that at the beginning you've just normally baked cookies and the clicking is just for the player as a visual then you've been making chocolate chip cookies all this time and there is no Big Cookies, what is this one then?

I feel like the Chocolate chip cookie breaks both sides of interpretation in either "this is all a bit lovecraftian from the start and the Big Cookie is actually there, the baker is just not aware" or "no at the beginning it's normal and the baker is just baking cookies".

Hey, I'm new to the game and this is the first time I got this far.

Why does the building list just end after Cortex baker???

I have been playing cookie clicker on my browser. Is that the problem?

https://preview.redd.it/48kzo1dseuuh1.png?width=2868&format=png&auto=webp&s=e90b1583120fd7aafa62b3a5f908046d55e2e4c3

Can anyone please tell me what event/why the wrinklers look like this?

https://preview.redd.it/ny18n735osuh1.png?width=1098&format=png&auto=webp&s=95c487f9bd7da35c7461c318cc8a052bc802d9a4