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Re:Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum by bogomipz on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:27PM (#31241859)
>"All of this, over gifs, jpgs and fake land in a theoretically infinite digital universe that was probably procedurally generated anyway."

Sorry if this a naive question but what does "procedurally generated" mean here?

Re:Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum by GalahiSimtam on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:59PM (#31242234)
Implying low quality art-wise, probably. Borrowed from videogames industry, where Elden Ring reviews outperformed No Man's Sky, but not only because the latter had 2^64 different planets, one for each seed value, while the former had the world pretty much handcrafted. In fact there are good games with procedural generation, too.
Re:Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum by Fomite on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:51PM (#31242131)
The "world" is algorithmically generated, rather than being deliberately designed.