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.
People acting like having free time is a bad thing
I can’t speak for other nations, but the US has a puritanical hangover we just can’t shake. Work - and only certain kinds of work - are directly tied to morality. The hour you wake up is tied to morality (we aren’t farmers dammit let me sleep until 8 or 9am!)
It’s very difficult to make meaningful change to things that are intertwined with morality. You have to exert an enormous amount of effort disentangling them before you even get to work. Because you simply can’t convince people to do a thing they inherently think is immoral, at least not nationwide.
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.
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.
@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.
This is how /r/place always ends. Reddit takes a snapshot of the final canvas, then switches everyone over to placing only white tiles.
Can we DDOS Reddit now?
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.
