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I think it'd be neat to take an old text only terminal game, and just auto generate the pictures based off responses.

Then I might try Zork....

Honestly, I probably wouldn't, I don't want my mental vagaries of what a Grue looks like to be set by some random image.

But how about making lovecraftian horrors come into being!

I tried making a grue with CLIP+FFT and got 1. a lot of construction cranes 2. some kind of bat thing.

https://imgur.com/a/UkPzcXZ

An interesting thing about CLIP is that when it doesn't know what something looks like, it instead generates pictures with the search text in them. That's why it confuses "an iPod" with "a piece of paper with iPod written on it".

I ran some Lovecraft through Story2Hallucination[1] which uses Big Sleep to make videos from text.

The results were quite something - https://m.imgur.com/tfWLsSR

[1] https://github.com/lots-of-things/Story2Hallucination

This is not really related but if you want to play Zork over Gemini I set up a whole gemini server and domain just for that. gemini://zork.club

.club was on sale for $1.17

Domain registrars will often make the initial registration of a domain cheaper than the renewal costs. Beware the renewal costs, or be prepared to rename to a new domain.

Maybe I should try hooking it up to Nethack!

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