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Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by istorical »

theyeenzbeanz wrote: post #50

I participated and constantly had to fight against flags that keep severing and overriding our artwork and coordinators threatening to erase it entirely. We managed to make do, but the white only pixel at the end felt like a slap in the face after all the effort.

I mean, the entire dataset should become available so you can look at any particular instance of the map, if you want, just create a snapshot of the map right before the white erasure started. Or find a high quality recording of a timelapse and screenshot your preferred moment.

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by _jesseb »

zeven7 wrote: post #31
treesknees wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was divisive everywhere. I saw so many posts from folks arguing why X or Y shouldn't be on the board, or shouldn't use up so much space, or how flags were too boring. I stopped playing after the first day because of all the anger around it.

I saw a lot of people having fun and didn't see people getting really angry. Though I'm sure there were people actually getting angry, that happens with every game. Maybe those people should relax more, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I was part of a community maintaining a small logo that got attacked a few times, and we repaired it - part of the fun. I agree with the people who think a canvas full of flags is kind of boring and wis…

Yeah I was part of a community that coordinated several logos/art pieces and it was a lot of fun. Almost all of the communities in the area we were in banded together into an alliance and we beat off a bunch of attacks, mainly streamers who thought we looked like easy pickings.

Agreed on the flags though, they're just so boring. At least a lot of the flags ended up with artwork on them this time though. Some of the big streamers were pretty irritating too, they just seemed like they wanted to ruin peoples fun. I don't mind chaos but it's more interesting if it's a swarm like the void and not just some guy screaming into a mic to attack a random spot.

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by colordrops »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #29
treesknees wrote: post #20

I didn't care for /r/place this time around. It felt like a lazy and uninspired move by Reddit to just copy the exact same idea from 5 years ago. As pointless as their other events were, like /r/the_button, at least they were unique. Not only that, it spoiled the treasured memory and experience of 2017. This year was so full of hate and fighting over flags, stream raids, bot scripts floating around, none of it felt g…

Not to mention the reddit admin who was constantly overwriting squares with no cooldown. They were doing it so much that it was clear they weren't just abusing their admin power but using a bot as well.

why was an admin overwriting squares?

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by colordrops »

nsilvestri wrote: post #13
unsupp0rted wrote: post #11

I don't like /r/place - I spend time in several regional subreddits, and they've transferred their nationalistic identity wars to Reddit. They're constantly fighting to build and rebuild their flags. Now those regional subs are littered with one post after another of "come on, we need your help to defend our flag" nonsense. It's all pointless and divisive.

It's a game. Games can have competition. Sometimes that's what makes them fun.

it's a game that overtakes many subreddits for a significant period of time.

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by distances »

_jesseb wrote: post #72
zeven7 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw a lot of people having fun and didn't see people getting really angry. Though I'm sure there were people actually getting angry, that happens with every game. Maybe those people should relax more, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I was part of a community maintaining a small logo that got attacked a few times, and we repaired it - part of the fun. I agree with the people who think a canvas full of flags is kind of boring and wis…

Yeah I was part of a community that coordinated several logos/art pieces and it was a lot of fun. Almost all of the communities in the area we were in banded together into an alliance and we beat off a bunch of attacks, mainly streamers who thought we looked like easy pickings. Agreed on the flags though, they're just so boring. At least a lot of the flags ended up with artwork on them this time though. Some of the b…

I think the flags with artwork were brilliant. People coming together and deciding plus coordinating what should be the cultural piece they wanted to be immortalised in the limited space. I didn't participate in placing the pixels but spent some good time just browsing the flags and deciphering the references placed on them.

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by sushid »

mirceal wrote: post #66
sushid wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you talking about a specific blockchain or categorically condemning all L1s? Solana could definitely handle the level of tps for something like this. A cache could handle the observability issues and you can just keep the old pixel until the transaction goes through.

i was thinking bitcoin. really exciting if Solana could do it

Other L1s can also probably handle it. Not at the latency that Solana could but I see a lot of other low cost high tps L1s handling something like this easily.

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by lovehashbrowns »

This is exactly the kind of content that I really love. A lot of people are decrying the streamers but I feel like they added a lot more fun to the project. There was a giant 1v8 that "France" fought for in the bottom left corner and they ended up winning and keeping their flag. The bronies got attacked consistently over the course of 3+ days and ended up with more space than they started with.

It's fun reading over the different arguments. Flag haters, bot haters, territorial arguments, etc. This is the best kind of art! It's also kinda funny watching people complain about bots when the first iteration had just as much botting. I wouldn't be surprised if the exact same scripts were used now that existed then. I think the only big difference this time around was streamers using overlays to 50K+ viewers.

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by snarkerson »

colordrops wrote: post #73
KennyBlanken wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention the reddit admin who was constantly overwriting squares with no cooldown. They were doing it so much that it was clear they weren't just abusing their admin power but using a bot as well.

why was an admin overwriting squares?

Some images were not permitted. Like the American flag linked above. They rebuilt it but the original was wiped out by an admin user.

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by jeromegv »

blamazon wrote: post #14

Highlight of /r/place this year for me was Canada narrative. Initially that community struggled to decide on cannabis leaf or maple leaf, just like 5 years ago, leading to inevitable griefing campaigns taking advantage of the internal volatility to successfully turn it into "Bananas" with a yellow flag and a banana in place of the leaf for a short time. But then the Canadians prevailed in the last hour, with Canada s…

Even more interesting, Quebec got their shit together in a better way than Canada and had a larger physical presence on the board.

Re: How We Built r/Place (2017)

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Post by nemothekid »

snarkerson wrote: post #78
colordrops wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why was an admin overwriting squares?

Some images were not permitted. Like the American flag linked above. They rebuilt it but the original was wiped out by an admin user.

>original was wiped out by an admin user

This isn't true at all. As I was following it, the original American flag was just being griefed.

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