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[james_davis_nicoll]

This RPG plug went in an unexpected direction.

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[alexxkay]

Me, two paragraphs in: The most cyberpunk thing about this is that it reads like a rogue AI composed it.

Three paragraphs in: ...and not a recent AI, either, the grasp of syntax is totally non-existent.

Several replies into the comment thread: The OP is still not passing the Turing test.

Two pages into the comments: Apparently this nonsense is linked to similar shenanigans going back 20 years? I still think it's a rogue AI, just a very old one..l

[brooksmoses]

Wow, yes. Reading the original post, I couldn't figure out what it was doing enough to figure out what an expected direction might be, other than "some sort of train wreck".

I still don't know what direction of train wreck one might have expected from that, but the direction things went was certainly not it.

It's like one had a county fair full of steam locomotives being released on intersecting tracks so it was clear that some sort of collisions were going to occur but it was not at all clear what the parameters would be. And once we've taken that in and are starting to see the impending collisions, we pan back and find out that the whole thing is a scale model on a table sitting on a railroad track, just in time for a full-size real train to plow through and obliterate it into splinters.

[elusis]

OK, I literally LOL'ed. Well done.

[kate_schaefer]

This comment makes the time I spent scrolling down that path worth having followed.

[theresawright]

From the first paragraph I knew this was headed to odd places. Then I saw the second paragraph and thought I knew where it was going. I was wrong.

[glaurung]

The moderators seem to have taken out all the links from the post, and I find myself morbidly curious to learn more but Google is not forthcoming. Where is the twitter/patreon of the game developer/word salad generator AI who posted this writeup?

[(Anonymous)]

The twitter is not hard to find and... it's not worth it. It's 99% retweets of Japanese cheesecake pix (to which the twitter also ineptly tries to hit on).

(The only slightly amusing tweet is one where they whine about getting banned at rpg.net, which has a bunch of replies to the tune of "they banned you for being a thief, thief". It's not amusing enough to be worth the brain bleach.)

[petrea_mitchell]

I had a lot of thoughts about this proposed game by the time I got to "It's going to be big in France!" but I will admit that none of them specifically anticipated the paragraph that followed it.

[bunsen_h]

I'm kind of wondering if it's a matter of "I own the art! See, I have my copy right here!"

[elusis]

Isn't that how NFTs work?

[(Anonymous)]

Except without having an energy consumption footprint larger than Belgium's.

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4qcaVehCyY&t=40s

Garth : It was written by an Earthman named Shakespeare a long time ago!
Marta : Which does not alter the fact that I wrote it again yesterday!

[ffutures]

Wow.... that is an impressive level of stupid.