[10098]

This 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.

[breadbox]

Except 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]

> 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]

Including enforcing their own challenges. Hey, there are people playing Mario 64 without using the A button (the jump button).

[_kst_]

Perhaps that's part of the game?

[10098]

Then 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) and calling it art.

[aaron695]

They'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.