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Well, this is delightful. Something interesting I've observed here... for most people this is very claming (like me). However for a small percentage of people i

by idk1 3y ago

Well, this is delightful. Something interesting I've observed here... for most people this is very claming (like me). However for a small percentage of people it seems to induce anxiety because they can't understand why it exists or what it is for.

topnde 3y ago
I am part of the second group. Wouldn't even call it anxiety, but just some sort of "light disgust" feeling. Ok I guess it's cool, but you can't do anything useful with it. You can't even draw something meaningful with it like the domain says.
- ceuk 3y ago
  I totally understand the pseudo-autistic disgust/anger at inaccurate statements. I imagine a lot of us programmers are very sensitive to them in a discipline where small inaccuracies can have big consequences and I myself am easily irked by this type of thing. However, sometimes the inaccuracy stems from poor communication (or deliberate lying) on behalf of the communicator, but sometimes it comes from gaps in our own understanding or perspective. Is this just a silly, shallow little thing, or have you fundamentally missed some key point? I don't have the answer, but I think that's one of the fun parts of engaging with anyone's random creative output like this. There's always a small chance it could teach us something we didn't know before. E.g. it made me re-evaluate what "drawing" really is. Especially in a digital context. Is it a question of fidelity? At what point does altering individual elements (whether pixels on a screen or icons in a grid) in order to represent a larger picture become "drawing". i.e. if the pictures were much smaller and closer together would it feel like drawing? Is it a question of uniformity of media? i.e. would this feel more like drawing if instead of pictures it was just coloured blocks? I could go on but you get the point
  - haliskerbas 3y ago
    Yep if you have a good therapist they’ll help you learn and recognize to try and ignore that feeling in certain contexts like this! Of course it’s super nuanced person to person.
- rambambram 3y ago
  I did something very useful with it. I removed the bugs, the snakes and the lions. You don't want these things in your vegetable garden, do you?
- naavis 3y ago
  > You can't even draw something meaningful with it like the domain says. You can draw a garden, so drawing.garden seems very apt to me.
icoder 3y ago
No anxiety, just wondering if, since it is on HN and highly upvoted, I'm missing something. That's what you get if you go to the website first and only then read the comments :)
- taopai 3y ago
  Curiosity, just look through HTML code and find who create it and why. ;) http://benmoren.com/ http://benmoren.com/
- melenaboija 3y ago
  My upvote is simply because is something that I like. In HN I guess because it is programming.
plastic3169 3y ago
It’s like art generally. Many people go mad about art. Some performance somewhere that is not immediatly about productivity is like the biggest provocation. Not everything makes sense on that axis. People are beyond simple cost/benefit analysis. All of nature really.
hypertele-Xii 3y ago
It's technically a video game. Why do any of them exist?
- ri0t 3y ago
  Aaah, Ludology! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_studies
lo_zamoyski 3y ago
The latter is a weird reaction. Do such people look at a beautiful park and say "How awful! It isn't USEFUL! AHHHHH!!!" Burn all the landscape paintings, why don't you. And why stop there. Burn all the landscapes! What an bizarre and narrow mindset. Maybe the purpose is beauty? Pleasure? Contemplation? Maybe a little fun? It's like this person has some specific end in mind that they happen to care about, and anything that isn't it must be pointless.
- deleted 3y ago
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- lawlessone 3y ago
  >Do such people look at a beautiful park Some do. There is a saying . "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" Oscar Wilde i think.
- persolb 3y ago
  The sound made my mind bounce off this. I don't know why but I found the audio caused an anxiety response. (For me, much better on mute)
  - macintux 3y ago
    Interesting, I almost never have sound on so didn't know there was audio.

by idk1 3y ago

topnde 3y ago

I am part of the second group. Wouldn't even call it anxiety, but just some sort of "light disgust" feeling. Ok I guess it's cool, but you can't do anything useful with it. You can't even draw something meaningful with it like the domain says.

ceuk 3y ago
I totally understand the pseudo-autistic disgust/anger at inaccurate statements. I imagine a lot of us programmers are very sensitive to them in a discipline where small inaccuracies can have big consequences and I myself am easily irked by this type of thing. However, sometimes the inaccuracy stems from poor communication (or deliberate lying) on behalf of the communicator, but sometimes it comes from gaps in our own understanding or perspective. Is this just a silly, shallow little thing, or have you fundamentally missed some key point? I don't have the answer, but I think that's one of the fun parts of engaging with anyone's random creative output like this. There's always a small chance it could teach us something we didn't know before. E.g. it made me re-evaluate what "drawing" really is. Especially in a digital context. Is it a question of fidelity? At what point does altering individual elements (whether pixels on a screen or icons in a grid) in order to represent a larger picture become "drawing". i.e. if the pictures were much smaller and closer together would it feel like drawing? Is it a question of uniformity of media? i.e. would this feel more like drawing if instead of pictures it was just coloured blocks? I could go on but you get the point
- haliskerbas 3y ago
  Yep if you have a good therapist they’ll help you learn and recognize to try and ignore that feeling in certain contexts like this! Of course it’s super nuanced person to person.
rambambram 3y ago
I did something very useful with it. I removed the bugs, the snakes and the lions. You don't want these things in your vegetable garden, do you?
naavis 3y ago
> You can't even draw something meaningful with it like the domain says. You can draw a garden, so drawing.garden seems very apt to me.

icoder 3y ago

No anxiety, just wondering if, since it is on HN and highly upvoted, I'm missing something. That's what you get if you go to the website first and only then read the comments :)

taopai 3y ago
Curiosity, just look through HTML code and find who create it and why. ;) http://benmoren.com/ http://benmoren.com/
melenaboija 3y ago
My upvote is simply because is something that I like. In HN I guess because it is programming.

plastic3169 3y ago

It’s like art generally. Many people go mad about art. Some performance somewhere that is not immediatly about productivity is like the biggest provocation. Not everything makes sense on that axis. People are beyond simple cost/benefit analysis. All of nature really.

hypertele-Xii 3y ago

It's technically a video game. Why do any of them exist?

ri0t 3y ago
Aaah, Ludology! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_studies

lo_zamoyski 3y ago

The latter is a weird reaction. Do such people look at a beautiful park and say "How awful! It isn't USEFUL! AHHHHH!!!" Burn all the landscape paintings, why don't you. And why stop there. Burn all the landscapes! What an bizarre and narrow mindset. Maybe the purpose is beauty? Pleasure? Contemplation? Maybe a little fun? It's like this person has some specific end in mind that they happen to care about, and anything that isn't it must be pointless.

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lawlessone 3y ago
>Do such people look at a beautiful park Some do. There is a saying . "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" Oscar Wilde i think.
persolb 3y ago
The sound made my mind bounce off this. I don't know why but I found the audio caused an anxiety response. (For me, much better on mute)
- macintux 3y ago
  Interesting, I almost never have sound on so didn't know there was audio.