Jane Rohrer, author of Life after Death (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002), is featured in the Jan/Feb 2013 issue of The American Poetry Revew. A special supplement of twelve poems appears in this issue.
A poem by Todd Davis also appears in this issue of APR.
Congratulations to two fine Mennonite poets.
Lynn
Excuse me, but this is a load of bull. I presume that game designers are able to figure out the consequences of rule systems they design. Yet I wonder whether you realize what system you are setting up by grafting these rules onto Jason’s game/religion thing? You are doing two things:1. Selling the right to play the game to the highest bidder2. Somehow reserving the right for famous people to play the gameThis is insane. You’re basically saying that the way to participate Jason’s project is to have expendable cash, or be famous. There is absolutely nothing reverent about that. It is completely counter to the tone of the talk that Jason gave at GDC.The fact that the money goes to charity is irrelevant: if you are trying to say that you want the game to go to the person who does the most ‘good’ by donating money, that is such a myopic view of goodness that it makes me quake with anger. Have you considered that there are people who should play this game who maybe don’t have a bucket of expendable cash they are sitting on?I understand that when you get something powerful in your hands, your next thought is “how can I put this toward some form of social good?” But you are subverting the intent of the original project, and doing it in a way that makes it an exclusionary thing, rather than a thing of beauty and grace that travels from hand to hand, building a rich lore that goes along with it.Instead, you would like someone to say, “I won it in an auction so I could meet Will Wright.” This is maybe the worst thing that could’ve happened to Chain World.
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Ranessa
I have to go with Darius. This is just utter bull crap.I mean. You took someone else’s game, thought of a concept where you could fit in your pseudo-philosophy, and sell it to the highest bidder.No, sorry, but I won’t be part of this. I have nothing against anyone (as a matter of fact, I don’t know any of you guys), but this seems like the wrongest thing to do.First, Notch clearly stated in his tweets that he don’t wants his game to have any link with any or all religions curently in practice. So you using his game in that state of mind is real bad hypocrisy.Add to that that you intend to sell for quite a high price (not everyone has 500$+ to spend on such a trivial matter) a game that you can buy for almost nothing. I’m not sure I’d like to pay 500$ to play minecraft with only one life when I can get it for lest than 20$. The more I say it, the more I realise it sounds like a good, old fashionned rip-off.Lastly, I haven’t checked or searched for it, but I’m pretty sure someone probably already came up with the same concept of “play a world, die, pass it on” but on a free basis and who doesn’t include all the religious (may I say propaganda?) stuff in it.So yeah, good luck with that.
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Keyaan
I have to go with Darius. This is just utter bull crap.I mean. You took someone else’s game, thought of a concept where you could fit in your pseudo-philosophy, and sell it to the highest bidder.No, sorry, but I won’t be part of this. I have nothing against anyone (as a matter of fact, I don’t know any of you guys), but this seems like the wrongest thing to do.First, Notch clearly stated in his tweets that he don’t wants his game to have any link with any or all religions curently in practice. So you using his game in that state of mind is real bad hypocrisy.Add to that that you intend to sell for quite a high price (not everyone has 500$+ to spend on such a trivial matter) a game that you can buy for almost nothing. I’m not sure I’d like to pay 500$ to play minecraft with only one life when I can get it for lest than 20$. The more I say it, the more I realise it sounds like a good, old fashionned rip-off.Lastly, I haven’t checked or searched for it, but I’m pretty sure someone probably already came up with the same concept of “play a world, die, pass it on” but on a free basis and who doesn’t include all the religious (may I say propaganda?) stuff in it.So yeah, good luck with that.
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Baiq
On the one hand, I can appreciate the cnareotmmy on religion going on here, how many will pay out the ass for salvation, and by that same standard many will pay out the ass to get their hands on this Minecraft map. However, I personally believe you may only form the rules for passing it on while it is in YOUR possession. Realistically, how are you going to control who passes it onto the next person after it’s out of your hands? And how will you know if someone improves the world since they cannot talk about Chain World?I believe it is best to let Chain World move along as intended, and nobody should be allowed to call dibs just because of their stature in the industry. However, I also believe it is up to the current possessor of Chain World whom and how to choose to pass Chain World onto. That means it could just as easily go to someone on the street as it could to the highest bidder.The reality is this: within the first ten people, Chain World WILL be lost. It is currently on Hawaii, and at some point will end up in a box in someone’s garage because someone’s mom cleaned it up not knowing what it was. In essence, Chain World will become a Holy Grail, never to be seen again. It is, after all, just a Flash Drive. At that point, you will see many an eBay auction go up claiming that they have the one true Chain World. Bidding wars will be fought to determine the victor! Someone else will create the same exact mod and claim that THEIRS is the one, true Chain World! And lo shall they be DOWNVOTED and cast into the depths of hell, never to be seen by the eyes of the development community again! And there shall be pestilence, and floods, and Creepers who hiss and explode in thine face!Meanwhile, Notch and Rohrer will giggle, have a beer, and just observe the same old cycle humanity has gone through with anything labeled as religious time and time again. This is not The Wheel of Fate. It’s just Minecraft.
Rita
isn’t most of life just fickle circumstances?@Christian It’s against Jason’s own rules to return the game back to him. We’ll probably all donate at least $500 to charity regardless, I hope you do the same. And aren’t most religions PR nightmares?@NordicNinja After working in the nonprofit sector for a bit, I’ve realized a good amount of charity is celebrity fueled and there’s nothing wrong with that. It brings more attention to a cause (cue tsunami relief specials) and arguably the most popular gamer charity Child’s Play is due to the fame of Gabe and Tycho. On a less related side note, after watching “Exit Through the Gift Shop”, I think Banksy would love the idea of people giving guided tours of his works. He’s like a modern-day Warhol and I believe his construction of Mr. Brainwash is a commentary about the inherent absurdity of commercializing art.Finally, I’ve temporary removed the moderation queue since comments are moving too fast for me to moderate, but can people please try to centralize the discussion at Thanks.
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Keylon
isn’t most of life just fickle circumstances?@Christian It’s against Jason’s own rules to return the game back to him. We’ll probably all donate at least $500 to charity regardless, I hope you do the same. And aren’t most religions PR nightmares?@NordicNinja After working in the nonprofit sector for a bit, I’ve realized a good amount of charity is celebrity fueled and there’s nothing wrong with that. It brings more attention to a cause (cue tsunami relief specials) and arguably the most popular gamer charity Child’s Play is due to the fame of Gabe and Tycho. On a less related side note, after watching “Exit Through the Gift Shop”, I think Banksy would love the idea of people giving guided tours of his works. He’s like a modern-day Warhol and I believe his construction of Mr. Brainwash is a commentary about the inherent absurdity of commercializing art.Finally, I’ve temporary removed the moderation queue since comments are moving too fast for me to moderate, but can people please try to centralize the discussion at Thanks.
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