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Mike Lynch @mikelynch

I've added a few notes on my entry this year, a parody of abstract descriptive writing which I hacked up on my home-backed Haskell text generator github.com/spikelynch/formatio

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This would be super useful to add to existing generators, if it could have the environments swapped out. Generally speaking, plot-oriented generators have a problem with being long enough because they have no flavor text, and style-oriented generators tend to be totally plotless, but paragraphs like these could be injected inbetween plot-driven scenes and result in something that looks a lot more human!

@enkiv2 cheers, thanks. With a bit of polishing it would be easy to tune the 'environment' by picking appropriate vocabularies of nouns and verbs. The original plan was to have lines of gnomic dialogue in between descriptive paras, but I ran out of time,

@mikelynch oh my god I love this so much. which I say as a fan of both the nouveau roman AND abstract science fiction

@aparrish @mikelynch This is wonderful. I've been reading it for the past 20 minutes. It passes my hallmark of procgen text; I can tell how it was made, but I don't care.

@aparrish Thanks very much, glad you like it!