Geezus mate.
I'm lost for words.
I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track
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#12Heyo! I’m the other half of Line Rider Review, the video essay channel David mentions at the start of the article. I’m not quite the historian Bevibel is, but if you have any questions related to Line Rider or its history over the past decade, I’d be happy to provide additional context.
A lot has changed since I started doing Line Rider art in middle school (here’s an old one: https://youtu.be/h__96TEF85g and here’s more what I do these days: https://youtu.be/o2XMFgk3JQQ). Forcing myself to learn editing software in middle school eventually helped me land video editing gigs before I transitioned to software. Line Rider took me on a fun path to get there :)
David’s always been an innovator, and I love seeing his stuff show up in unexpected places (though HN is probably the least shocking place I’d find this article)
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#13I think the ability for humans to build seemingly straight-forward and simple tools or building blocks that other humans then go on to create insanely complex things like this with is what sets us apart from every other species in existence.
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#14This legit brought a big smile to my face. So much passion on display here.
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#15I think the ability for humans to build seemingly straight-forward and simple tools or building blocks that other humans then go on to create insanely complex things like this with is what sets us apart from every other species in existence.
This isn't super meaningful because "complex" is relative to the baseline of your species. What you consider complex is considerably different from what, say, a beaver considers complex—I'd much rather trust a beaver to make a beaver-dam than a human. I conclude from this is that it's the line rider itself that is beyond the capacity of most species, not the composition, which is of incalculable marginal complexity compared to beavers first inventing Line Rider before moving on to make dams. Not a great move, if I do dare to put myself in the flippers of a beaver—you'd have to invent language first, which must be a rather arduous task compared to doing what your parents and instincts teach you.
FWIW I have much greater hopes for humanity than this dedication to a line rider map. One day we'll intelligently compose into stopping global warming, I swear!
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#16Wow, the very final sequence is really something. Awesome.
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#17EMBRACE THE VOID
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#18I think the ability for humans to build seemingly straight-forward and simple tools or building blocks that other humans then go on to create insanely complex things like this with is what sets us apart from every other species in existence.
I really appreciate this line of thought. It can be easy to brush stuff like this off as frivolous, but when you look at it from a more primitive perspective, it really is amazing, and it truly seems to me like art
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#19I think the ability for humans to build seemingly straight-forward and simple tools or building blocks that other humans then go on to create insanely complex things like this with is what sets us apart from every other species in existence.
That, and shark week.
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#20Hi everyone, I made this! I already told my whole story in this article (if you'd rather watch a video essay about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CikpAHiPlmQ) so not much more to add other than I'm still (slowly) working on Line Rider! If you have any questions here I am