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plushycat @lemmy.world

2y ago

they're wiping it out fellas.

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Yes, but also no.
At the end of a r/Place event the palette changes, and you can only place white pixels.
So yes, you could use a bot to write it again; but no, in reality you wouldn’t be writing anything.

I can’t stop getting amazed by the amount of free time humans have.
- Isn't that a good thing, though? We're not all being worked to death? (I mean people are in some places, I'm just talking about Lemmy here.)
  
  Yeah, as someone who almost died from covid + pneumonia (and my doc thinks also comorbid RSV) from rampant exposure in various residential care facilities, someone who was over-worked, exploited in a toxic work environment, burned out, and then forced out of a job from long-covid...
  People acting like having free time is a bad thing/that it's admirable having work/productivity consume every waking minute can shut the hell up... That's not healthy or a good thing. I don't get how they think it's bragging to boast about how much of their limited lifespan has been given away to their employer rather than spent on something they have chosen to do out of desire.
  I am proud of the hard work I did and the people I helped as a caseworker for adults with severe mental illness. But if I could go back in time, I would not have been killing myself for all those years. It's given me a new perspective on life, and I intend not to waste the rest of it.
  
  No, it means the matrix isn't running at peak efficiency
  
  Isn't that a good thing, though? We're not all being worked to death?
  No, it's not a good thing. You're making a false dichotomy. Reality should ideally fall somewhere in between.
- Maybe they are all on strike too.

Can someone explain to me that is happening?
- I am not following this year's place, but last year, in the end, they removed all colours but white and so everyone was placing white. I assume this is what's happening here. And it so happened to coincide with the appearance of the huge fuck spez message
  Edit: Just opened Reddit and checked place, it's as I said. Only white colour left.
  
  I don't know whether I'd call that intentional. ~~Mods~~ Admins still retain and already utilized the power to wipe whatever they wish. They left the other renditions before this more or less alone (to my knowledge), to be overwritten by users during the natural course of things.
  If he were that concerned about what was being written, I doubt he would wait to be certain the very last image of the finished r/place was a giant fuck-you billboard. He'd either wipe every fuck or try to end it after this one is gone so he can pretend it ended on a good note.
- only white squares can be placed now.
  
  @rImITywR Oh is that what happened? I thought it was a complete reset. Making it so only white tiles can be placed makes it even worse imo.
  @plushycat @DrWu

Haha, looking forward to the replay… 🍿
- I'm sure they've been spending the last week thinking of a way to recap this without showing the full thing, such as just focusing on specific sections instead of showing a time-lapse of the the entire canvas. Similarly I'd be surprised if they released the pixel placement data set this time without major edits
  
  Some people say the canvas is bigger this year. Idk if that's true (I honestly can't remember what happened in 2022), but if it is that's probably their plan - make the canvas big enough so the details don't show up (or aren't obvious) when showing the entire thing.
  If that's not true, well, please don't shoot me.

It came and went almost as fast as me

Shocking

See those bots next year!

It's sad but that is tradition as far as I know.

Is it possible to use a bot to write it again and again ?

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