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Penny Arcade - Comic - All Hail The Algorithm
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Penny Arcade - Comic - All Hail The Algorithm
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Um, can we get some more Gabe-illustrated Keyforge deck names? Please?
And he knows it's all accurate.
Whoa now, you're only half right with the cited images. The Emperor that Pays and Titanflayer the Farmer are deservedly off the streets... HOWEVER!
Wang the Suddenly Bruised and General Bonerider Colt both survived the name purge (you can find them as valid registered decks in the app!). Which is good because I think we can all agree that greater Wang-Awareness is a vital service that Keyforge ought to be performing for the public good.
The game is a bit of a new take on the CCG where each "pack" is actually a randomly generated deck that cannot be altered. In order to guarantee that, each deck has a procedurally generated unique back with a random name.
So, yeah! Whatever script is generating names for them really needs its dictionary pruned. I've even seen a deck name reference Camhub.
Also, those owls in panel 1 are on high alert.
Not just Camhub, but The Frauline of Camhub!
There are some rules to the name generator, it's not just chewing on a big list of random words. There are certain words in names which only show up when the deck has this house or that house, for example.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
"Racism" was probably not actually in the word pool. More likely is that the name was created using a root of "Race" and an algorithmic word-splicer which could take various nouns and turn them into an "-ism" (or a "-hold", or an "-ality", or an "-osophy", or various other compound words depending on the structural template of the Archon's name). The algorithm probably thought it had come up with a completely original proper noun (like Pineberg or Queenstown). This is just how computers think right now, and engineering out every. single. edge case. that they will come up with when you set an algorithmic creator loose is a fundamentally impossible proposition.