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I love projects like this. I wish I had the desire to just do something cool, whether or not its useful or utilitarian. Accomplishment strictly for the sake of accomplishment is pretty admirable.

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I agree it doesn't have to be utilitarian to be admirable. That's called art. But you seem to be saying it's particularly admirable because it's for its own sake? That is a weird POV to me.

That's what I'm saying. I wouldn't call this art, and it certainly has no point, at least not a utilitarian one. You wouldn't make money, and it probably wouldn't even be that fun to play. It's just cool.

It's mastery. Doing something because it's a challenge you find interesting, not because there's something external to be gained. It's pretty zen, really.

I wouldn't call this art

You'd be wrong then.

It's pretty zen, really.

You have a very low bar for calling something "zen". I'm good at flipping bottles of mustard and such behind my back without dropping them. No point really, just fun. Zen?

When you are hungry, eat. When you are tired, sleep. This is exactly Zen.

When you are neither hungry nor tired, hack.

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