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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