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What's so good about earth, anyway? The deer don't even have floppy tentacles shooting out of their faces.

This is abstract body horror, maximized, and it just looks silly. Knowing we’re all made of stardust is not a comfort. MEAT CUBE is a dark mirror held up to procedural generation, a warning against what we’re capable of when we play God or make complex Excel spreadsheets. I don’t feel wonder looking at MEAT CUBE, only disgust. The tubes and cubes can function as weird alien landmarks in moderation, but spread across an entire planet (and MEAT CUBE is far from alone) they look artificial and overdone. MEAT CUBE highlights the jarring byproducts of procedural generation. I imagine jagged mountain ranges and harsh, arid environments home to only the most austere life forms-but flying closer unveils a landscape that looks like a super volcano immolated a colossal mess of Chef Boyardee. From a distance its red crust appears a celestial menace, a Kinder egg that contains hell. Murder your eyes on the worst planet in all of No Man’s Sky.