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>"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?



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.


The "world" is algorithmically generated, rather than being deliberately designed.




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