I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by shmageggy on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:15AM (#33907539)

You really think that a poem that people have tattooed on themselves, put onto tee shirts and mugs, inspired emotional emails to the author, and so on has inspired exactly zero excess recommendations to friends, zero dinnertime discussions or social media posts that have led to purchases?

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by thrashh on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:14PM (#33910382)

If it was any other thing, it would have been tattooed or put on t-shirts as well.

People are putting Minecraft’s ending on things because it’s Minecraft and Minecraft left an impact on them. The actual poem was a commodity that was tacked on to make the game complete as a muse.

It sounds harsh but that’s the truth and why OP isn’t entitled to any more than they got, especially with that attitude.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by ascendantlogic on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:29PM (#33910577)

Keep in mind you're arguing with engineering types about this. Over the course of my career I've come to find that a not-insignificant % of engineers value art and artistic contributions very little or not at all.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by peterashford on Friday December 09, 2022 @03:46AM (#33919103)

I was thinking just this as I was reading.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by roperj on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:29AM (#33908865)

Rounded it is still likely 0.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by OOPMan on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:34PM (#33976189)

Tattooed on themselves?

Wow...uh....that's kinda daft

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by kilbuz on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:56AM (#33907888)

Possibly less than 0.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by feet on Thursday December 08, 2022 @09:27AM (#33908186)

Did you read the ending text? It's incredibly long. Are you claiming that people have the entire thing tattooed on themselves? I definitely can't see it fitting on a coffee mug in any readable fashion

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by lantry on Thursday December 08, 2022 @09:59AM (#33908509)

Did you read the article? There's a picture of someone with one of the lines tattooed on their arm. Obviously people aren't putting whole poem on things

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by feet on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:36AM (#33909872)

One line is not "having a poem tattooed"

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by feiri on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:17PM (#33916145)

I think the original point is to say that people felt moved enough by the poem to "permanently" integrate some feature of it into their lives. Critiquing the "whole poem" thing feels incredibly pedantic.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by sipjca on Thursday December 08, 2022 @09:58AM (#33908493)

Yeah he is claiming people have it tattooed. Reading the story shows you one such image. A Google search also validates the claim.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by dsabanin on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:04AM (#33909387)

To be fair, some people make tattoos with all kinds of silly things, the bar is pretty low. One can argue that whatever the ending text was, someone would make a tattoo with it eventually.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by TheCapn on Thursday December 08, 2022 @01:17PM (#33911147)

So then would the artist who created that ending not be entitled to the recognition they deserve for their part in it? If not this author, then another? Would the same story, but from another person change anything?

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by robertlagrant on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:31PM (#33910604)

We need a gofundme for the previous comment to be tattooed on someone.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by orlp on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:07AM (#33906259)

I've never even looked at the poem and have beaten Minecraft many times. I'm probably not the target audience though, I generally skip quest text in games.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:30AM (#33907659)

You should read it. IMO it transforms Minecraft from being just an ordinary game experience into being art, it makes the context of what you've been doing, in playing Minecraft, into something like folklore.

Late at night, having defeated the Ender dragon, having spent months in the game, it turns that moment into an almost spiritual experience.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by tokai on Thursday December 08, 2022 @09:14AM (#33908050)

I thought it is way too much, and not at all in line with the feeling of mc. Cringe is the word the youngsters use AFAIR.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by mrguyorama on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:38AM (#33909909)

I was 14 and it brought the silly little block building game where I farmed trees and made dirt houses and turned it into a meaningful story, something that made me think, something that moved me.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by Firmwarrior on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:49AM (#33910058)

Haha, it's interesting to see that perspective

I think most HN readers reacted to that weird poem the same way the aliens in Blindsight reacted to attempts at communication

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by snowwrestler on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:18AM (#33909605)

The whole point of the post is that there are ways to express value other than dollars.

That’s why the author lets go of the dollars and gives the story away for free at the end.

Maybe the game would have made the same money. But it’s also true that Markus asked for an ending story, selected this one and put it in, and kept it there.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by ineedasername on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:31AM (#33909807)

>The whole point of the post is that there are ways to express value other than dollars

That may be the author's point, but their egotism also then seems to believe that a significant portion of the non-monetary value of Minecraft is a result of their own brief work on an unskippable wall of text that has a nice sentiment but is quickly forgotten by, I'd guess, nearly everyone that plays the game.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by robertlagrant on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:32PM (#33910624)

There'll be a vast number of people who never completed it or only played the non-story mode.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by lukas099 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @03:17PM (#33912738)

No it wouldn't have. The poem brought minecraft into the realm of the spiritual. It might not have had that effect directly on you, but it did for many players which is enough to elevate the game in the zeitgeist of humanity.

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