OFF TOPIC THREAD: Where derailing the thread is impossible!

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StupidBunny wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 20:29 I always wondered the same thing. I'm afraid after I vanished from the community I lost Ptart's contact info somewhere along the way too. That was a long time ago now...

I always somehow guessed it was from a children's book, maybe from the 60s-80s or thereabouts, but it could be from an animation too of similar vintage.
Aw man, so close. That sucks you lost his contact info. He's also since been banned, so I don't think he's coming back.

I didn't realize that it would be so obscure, but I'm still asking around to see if any of my friends know what it is, as well as searching around the web. I had a friend who took the picture and had Google do a search to find any matches, but it just gave him a bunch of pictures of lions for some reason. I was also able to load the image URL and go to the source, and apparently the image is called trollol.jpg
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MoffD! I was just wondering where you were! :D Saw some of your old posts while looking for a mod. Welcome back.

Also congratulations on being the first post in Off-Topic in a year! Quick, everybody post memes or something! There has got to be so much off-topic cereal-eating potato-asking in-joking that has built up over the last year! Let's all give MoffD a warm welcome!
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:garg :garg Hey Moff, welcome back.
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MoffD! so good to have you back!

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Life been busy, just missing old friends. Been working on a lot of random projects, some DOS related

Got a Steam Deck and I have Keen running on it, using it to its full potential of course :dopekeen

Good to see everyone here again
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OK this was written by an AI.
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no it was written by zenimax :p

Where did this come from? Is it some kind of public story that users can add more to? Why does it suggest to write a continuation?
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That's ChatGPT, a very large text-generating AI that is optimized for conversation but surprisingly good at many other things. It was trained on massive amounts of documents including, apparently, some descriptions of the Keen series. The first line (white background) is Roobar's prompt; the rest is ChatGPT's response.
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Oh interesting. I think I've heard of that. Thanks. Wait so this AI has the Keen stories in its database? It just knows what a Shikadi is? :lol Who did that? :p



The "continuation" prompt made me think of this choose-your-own-adventure story that anyone can add a chapter to. Anyone still do anything on here these days? I found some entries that were done in the last couple of years.
http://keenstory.ueuo.com/
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Here's some footage of a prototype NES homebrew port of Dangerous Dave I've been working on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyZMaaNfyX8
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TheBigV wrote: Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:50 Here's some footage of a prototype NES homebrew port of Dangerous Dave I've been working on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyZMaaNfyX8
Oh that's so cool!
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John Carmack resigned from Meta, and is now AGI at Keen Technologies. I find it funny and neat that he choses Keen as the name for his next endeavor :lol
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I just heard about that yesterday. I was planning to post about it but I was too tired. Does this deserve it's own thread?
But yeah, I'd be more suprised if it wasn't intentional. I wonder what Tom Hall has to say.
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Yeah I think any news from the OG id team probably deserves its own thread. It's pretty rare these days anyway.

But can we at least stop putting actual Keen-related stuff in the junk thread? :p Once the page ends you might never see it again. That's what I started the "Mildly Neat" thread for: viewtopic.php?t=11870
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