A relevant project in a sense that it's an always expanding collaborative pixel infinite (sort of) canvas is https://ourworldofpixels.com/ it's similar in being a very detailed and huge.
Reddit /r/place might have been inspired by this or this by /r/place. On here you will find some special worlds, e.g. there is one with so many ships drawn, one with flags, one with a huge fantasy world map. There may be more interesting ones but these are the ones I discovered.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wimmelbilder/ is probably the only big collection of very detailed art like floor796. No animations here though. This sub is restrictive in what and how you post and has therefore kept its quality over the years.
FYI, but lots of elements in there are interactive. There are some screens you can click and they will change there animations. Some things trigger sounds. There is even a game if I remember correctly.
"This suitcase contains secret information where mafia treasures are hidden. Try to unravel the mystery of this suitcase and find the treasure! Use the clues on the yellow stickers, they point to various objects on the floor"
If you look at (click) a suitcase in the mafia room
This site showed me a popup telling me that I had less than 10% battery life left and that this site could accelerate the drain, which I thought was hilarious.
The battery API was rolled out by all the major browsers between 2012 and 2014 as a way to let web pages avoid doing compute-intensive stuff on low battery, but it was pretty much immediately used for fingerprinting as the battery level number was so precise that if you hit two web pages at the same time, the battery level was as good as a cookie. Firefox and Safari/Webkit disabled it in 2016 but Chrome just capped the precision at two digits.
I’ve always wanted a coding project like this, that has a lot of breadth rather than depth.
By that I mean it would take a day or two to set up the basics and then I could keep adding to it, an hour here or there, for years.
The problem is that when I tried this a few times with various games, the breadth ended up having nothing to do with coding. Perhaps there just isn’t a kind of coding task/problem/toy/gadget that works this way.
Belorussian vs Russian has little to no difference in terms of contemporary cultural background. The references we see in this demo clearly are what the whole Soviet Russian (Russia+Ukraine+Belarus+Kazakhstan etc) cultural space has been exposed to during the recent decades: American + Some European + domestic Soviet Russian retro + some Japanese (anime). This already looks extremely cool (a masterpiece of art!) yet it can be made even cooler (more interesting, also potentially a work of cultural science) by expanding to include more ethnically niche memes from other cultures.
This is like saying that American or Canadian has little to no difference in terms of contemporary cultural background. Technically true, but it's still a bit rude to confuse both nationalities.
Belorussian, Ukrainian and Russian people are ethnically and historically almost indistinguishable. Their main qualms are with cultural distinctions and relatively recent history (which is totally fair, and does not give the right for any of them to forcefully integrate/annex the others).
WASPs and Native Americans are ethnically, culturally and historically completely distinct peoples.
The American/Canadian example is almost a perfect 1:1 example.
It's a moot point anyways, no one was discussing war. You decided to bring that up as some sort of virtue signal. It has nothing to do with cultural similarities.
Yes, it matters a lot with regard to the colonial history where Russian, Soviet, and Tsarist governments have tried many times to eliminate the local cultures and identities of both indigenous peoples and other Slavic neighbors like Belarusians and Ukrainians.
You have to be quite delusional or historically ignorant to think that current "civilized" Western nations didn't do the same in the Age of Sail or British India or colonizing Africa.
For some reason I don't see your posts condemning that in every other thread?
Government != people. Russia has a population of >140 million and not a democracy, you can’t accurately assume anything about a random civilian’s stance on Ukraine.
I love this project. I'll often put it on "wandering" mode on my large monitor while I work on my laptop. There's a few interactive components as well.
Found an interview with him from November 2023 (https://runet.news/interview/50112). His name is Pavel Sannikov, is in his 30s, from Belarus. He's been working on it since 2018, entirely solo. Apparently spends 3-4 hours a day on it after work, and 8-10 hours a day on weekends! Not a commercial venture, just doing it for fun.
I have put it up in a VR browser full size and close up so its amose all field of view and its amazing would love to see this get nerfed/gaussian splatted or otherwise add depth parallelex or one day get the full immersive walk through treatment.
this reminds me of some of the collaborative pixel art sites in the late 90s/early 00s, where you’d reserve some blocks and a bunch of us would contribute. any internet historians out there with some archive links? can’t remember at all…
Given that this meme, while distasteful, was quite popular, the reason it was included may just that: its popularity. There is more edgy content on the station (like the 'bear' wanted poster in the police station); some of that might be explained by the author's cultural sphere (Belarus), but I doubt it was intended as explicit anti-trans messaging (at least, I wouldn't draw that conclusion without any other context beyond its inclusion).
That gave me a chuckle when I saw it, it's such an iconic meme. The original video never stops being amusing, I mean really the whole scenario is so ridiculous.
i don't find the "people behaving badly" video genre a classy form of entertainment, but that's all it is.
i suspect the meme status of it is especially relevant due to the global social context of this art - it may be a statement along the lines of "the best reality show is americans".
The most viral "people behaving badly" videos tend to be people that are already disliked by a large portion of society. Fat people, black people, and women. People like them, in part, because they confirm their biases and bigotry.
A recent one is XKCD's "Machine", which is a collaborative crowdsourced physics sculpture/art project: https://xkcd.com/2916 (click "View Machine" in the corner to browse the machine).
FYI they have an english description. Just select english in the top right (which it defaulted to, for me), then click About. There are some mistranslations above.
Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510067 (April 10, 2023 — 1066 points, 118 comments)
Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612401 (November 15, 2022 — 776 points, 88 comments)