Comment by idk1
1 year 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.
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.
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 :)
Curiosity, just look through HTML code and find who create it and why. ;)
http://benmoren.com/
My upvote is simply because is something that I like. In HN I guess because it is programming.
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.
>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.
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)
Interesting, I almost never have sound on so didn't know there was audio.
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.
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?
> 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.
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
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.
It's technically a video game.
Why do any of them exist?
Aaah, Ludology! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_studies