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by amiga3862 hours ago |
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upvoteby INTPenis1 hours ago|
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I'm sure if they had a bunch of LLM puffery back in 2014 they would have used it.

Most giant Minecraft map projects are automated as much as possible. It would be a real labor of love on the spectrum otherwise, and who can maintain that?

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upvoteby skrebbel32 minutes ago|
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The puffery is the webpage copy, not the automation to produce the map.
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upvoteby pluc36 minutes ago|
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That feels so weird. Isn't the whole premisce of these things "this is a game where each block must be placed with purpose", and so using anything automated literally takes out most of that sentence and it just becomes "this is a game". I don't get the appeal or the expectation of triumph.
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upvoteby spicyusername29 minutes ago|
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Don't overcomplicate it. There is no one true way, for Minecraft or for anything.

    I don't get it
Because it looks cool to see the real world in blocks. And if it looks cool, it is cool, as they say.
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upvoteby YeahThisIsMe20 minutes ago|
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You're actually allowed to play video games the way you want to.
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upvoteby INTPenis13 minutes ago|
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"this is a game where each block must be placed with purpose"

You lack the hacker mindset if you think you "must" do anything the way it was designed.

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upvoteby ecto9 minutes ago|
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How would you feel if someone described your work as LLM puffery?

The world changing - no need to be rude about it.

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upvoteby stavros1 hours ago|
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It's interesting to me how people say "someone did this before it was cheap!" as if it's a slight. I mean, yes, it's much more impressive when it was expensive, but it's good that things are cheaper.
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upvoteby stymaar1 hours ago|
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Interestingly enough the “before it was cheap” version was distributed for free when this one is for sale for half the price of the game this is supposed to run on.
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upvoteby well_ackshually1 hours ago|
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Denmark did it 10 years ago with existing open source tools and open data.

This reuses the same open source tools, the same open data, and has the gall to put up a slop website and ask for 15CHF (or worse, 48) to pay for a Claude subscription that's doing it all behind.

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upvoteby cadamsdotcom11 minutes ago|
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Doing something and charging money for it is how a lot of things that cost money got started.
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upvoteby stavros1 hours ago|
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Yeah but that's different from "LLM puffery".
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upvoteby hypfer58 minutes ago|
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I think the point that might've been lost here is that Art (and this is Art) is not supposed to be about the destination but about the journey.

The whole magic of someone doing this is someone doing this.

No one did this.

And there is no utility in it either. No one needs a 1:1 scale Minecraft map of Switzerland for anything.

So the whole thing is just an empty husk of an idea implemented in a way that shows lack of understanding why this niche of content existed in the first place.

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upvoteby convict1 hours ago|
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The LLM puffery referring to the website and the texts on it, i guess
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upvoteby epihelix47 minutes ago|
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To be fair, Denmark is very flat and could probably be represented by a single block :)

Anyway, if "LLM puffery" makes this easier, why is that bad? And given that your quote indicates that the Danish equivalent got pulled, maybe LLMs can easily bring it back. Wouldn't that be a good thing?

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