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Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)

56 points · 33 comments · peter_d_sherman

krapp · 1790736562 · focus · HN ↗
Oh shit, actual human talent!
1. raldi · 1790738709 · focus · HN ↗
  These are the original illustrations with just the text changed.
  1. krapp · 1790738910 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes and nowadays no one would even bother put in that much effort. They would have an AI generate the box art and the jokes. The jokes wouldn't even be funny, but no one would care because "human jokes aren't usually funny."
    kraquepype · 1790745622 · focus · HN ↗
    I wish we were still in the "haha funny" era of AI, and we could laugh at the absurdity it came up with. Fun times.
    One of my favorites: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/i3kr2z/humor_someone_forced_a_bot_to_watch_over_1000/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/i3kr2z/humor_...
    WithinReason · 1790751973 · focus · HN ↗
    This is obviously human written
    Cpoll · 1790760812 · focus · HN ↗
    Can confirm. I'm pretty sure it's Keaton Patti's writing, "forced a bot to watch 1000 hours of..." is his shtick. It's all hand written to read like an exaggerated, comedic Markov chain output.

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