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Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to Be a Religion (2011)
- programmernews3 11y agoNothing created by an anti-vaxxer is worth discussing.
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- 10098 11y agoThis is the stupidest idea ever. EDIT: I mean the game. It would be cool, if the rules were actually enforceable, but they aren't. No one is actually able to prevent the player from playing and dying as much as he likes, or creating replicas of the flash drive posing as the real thing.
- _kst_ 11y agoPerhaps that's part of the game?
- 10098 11y agoThen it's no different than just putting minecraft on a flash drive. It's the video game world equivalent of selling canned poop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_Shit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_Shit) and calling it art.
- aaron695 11y agoThey're the ones in Wired, not you. He created something people from all over the world have talked about and thought about. Do you think "Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)" is stupid? Do you really think these artists don't know they don't have total control? Whether Jia Ji added value or took it, I'm not sure however.
- breadbox 11y agoExcept of course that that would make it completely boring to play, so why would you do that? This, I can't help feel, is kind of the point. It's the part of the game that's encoded socially rather than algorithmically that make it unique and interesting.
- 10098 11y ago> Except of course that that would make it completely boring to play Yeah. Because that's what it is. > It's the part of the game that's encoded socially rather than algorithmically that make it unique and interesting. For board games maybe. This is a video game, a different medium, and it doesn't work that way. The player can and will do anything the game program allows them to do.
- eru 11y agoIncluding enforcing their own challenges. Hey, there are people playing Mario 64 without using the A button (the jump button).
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- jason_slack 11y agoJason Rohrer is a good game designer. I admire is efforts to be unique. Also, his minimalistic life style is something to admire. I feel like I am far to possession oriented compared to him.
- 10098 11y agoI just feel bad for his kids.
- copsarebastards 11y agoWhy?
- cbd1984 11y agoHe "doesn't believe in" vaccines.
- 10098 11y agoalso, why inflict your "quirkiness" on your kids by naming them random letter combinations
- dfxm12 11y agoAt least names can be changed...
- copsarebastards 11y agoAh, yeah, that sucks, I missed that part. I thought 10098 might have felt sorry for his kids because of the minimalism thing.
- jason_slack 11y agoKids know the life style of how they are brought up and taught. At least until they reach an age where other influences seem more appealing...I wish I had a more unique upbringing than my normal, vanilla, typical upbringing.
- tigeba 11y agoSPOILER: Chain World is a copy of Minecraft on a USB drive.
- stephengillie 11y agoHow does nonsense like this get to HN's front page?
- yzzxy 11y agoIt's a social experiment involving technology. Pretty much directly in the crosshairs of a lot of hacker news readers.
- cbd1984 11y agoIt's also being made by someone who "doesn't believe in" vaccines. Keep that in mind.
- malkia 11y agoNot sure why I thought of singletons, it sounds a bit mouthful: Singleton-Player Game.
- zacharycohn 11y agoI have a bootleg copy 3rd or 4th generation copy of Chainworld (two or three people had it before me). I won't speak about what I've seen though. I LOVE the idea of Chainworld. And the fact that it the chain splintered and forked actually reflects religion - Christianity has many different forks.
- cbd1984 11y agoI feel conflicted about giving publicity to someone who "doesn't believe in" vaccination.
- chc 11y agoWhy? Does this game have something to do with vaccination? Otherwise, he's not really hurting anyone with it and seeking to punish him for his beliefs seems kind of McCarthyist.
- cbd1984 11y ago> Otherwise, he's not really hurting anyone with it It's like not being comfortable about giving publicity to a racist, except racism usually doesn't cause outbreaks of a vaccine-preventable disease at Disneyland. > and seeking to punish him for his beliefs seems kind of McCarthyist. It's only McCarthyist if the government does it. Otherwise, it's people having opinions and not being afraid to voice those opinions even if they get negative feedback from their peers. We both have opinions. We both voice them. The difference is, my opinions aren't the kind that are keeping us from eradicating polio.
- DonHopkins 11y agoPunishing kids for having stupid parents seems kind of Jenny McCarthyist.
- deepnet 11y agoIs there a recent md5 of the current state of chain world ? I would like to see a diary of world events expressed as a blockchain - forks and all. Is this at least within Redstone's capabilities ? In each world a cave where the veil grows thin and it is possible to pass through the network to another world, on a different branch. Easily managable with .git - once you know the way in. Nodes can be distributed, via flashdrive, dead-drop or bitbucket. A entire networked system of planets and moons with mineable blockchains. You can't take my sky from me.
- cbd1984 11y agoHe "doesn't believe in" vaccines. Keep that in mind.
- cbd1984 11y agoHe "doesn't believe in" vaccines. Keep that in mind.
- cbd1984 11y agoFlagged for promoting an anti-vaxxer.