[HN Gopher] A self-generating story that gets longer the more st...
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       A self-generating story that gets longer the more stars it gets
        
       Author : kevlened
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2022-11-25 14:11 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | humanistbot wrote:
       | I can see the novelty in this, but it also seems like a very
       | gimmicky way to get a bunch of stars in your repo.
        
         | humanistbot wrote:
         | And looking at the story [1], I see even less novelty. Seems
         | like for each person who stars it, it generates a single
         | madlibs-style sentence in the form of:
         | 
         | "In a [geographical feature] along the [path], a [profession]
         | observed [number of existing stars] new stars in the sky and
         | decided to follow the [adjective] path. They set out on a
         | [adjective] morning."
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         | [1] https://lizadaly.github.io/there-are-stars/
        
       | ShamelessC wrote:
       | Ah yes, even more proof that no one clicks on anything that makes
       | it to the front page.
        
       | xigoi wrote:
       | This is... starbait.
        
       | bil7 wrote:
       | i had a glimmer in my eye and a sparkle of hope reading the
       | readme; it fizzled out with no supernova upon reading the story.
        
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