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[SquareKnight]

[PUZZLE] Random's paintover posts

[WedgeGold]

maybe

[Primal]

To me this

[StreetPreacher]

<Far Fetched>

What if Random is Beth's mystery man? He can't verbally communicate and when he tries to communicate with everyone else it comes out very garbled. Beth's mystery man/program obviously has some corruption in his programming which could explain the odd way Random communicates.

</Far Fetched>

[Worker]

Re: [PUZZLE] Random's paintover posts

[Azathoth666]

You know what... has anyone ever tried doing just that on any of Randoms' other writings? I might have time to have a crack at it over the weekend here, but if we play around with our thesauruses a bit (get those minds out of the gutter... I know what you're thinking...) we might just start to make a bit of sense of the Random...

Yes/No?

[XtRaVa]

[SquareKnight]

Yet still respected in the hacker community, oddly enough. The NOT files suggest that Random is considered trustworthy.

Which leads me to believe that he's only random some of the time. Especially since his paintover posts weren't random.

Maybe he's a little less...frustrating in one-on-one interactions? Otherwise, I don't think the "Ah, just shut up already, Random! " of BIGMCLARGEHUGE would've been so cordial.

-Square Knight

[Azathoth666]

Y'know what? I think I really dig Random now: I like his style. Assuming he's a he.

The lines I'm thinking along now are our hackers are all sort of misfits: Caesar has seizures, he talks bout some kid on Ritalin (for ADHD) in the NOT files... perhpas Random has some variation on dyslexia, or a form of autism or some other condition which has an impact on the way he communicates?

It's a bit campy and a bit cliched I know, but it kinda fits.

[Tobester]

It also fits in with the storyline as in they might be more perceptive to anomalies around them. A bunch of hypersensitive kids like those kids in 'the Beyond' episode of animatrix

[Azathoth666]

oooh, nice link tobester!

I'd forgotten about that!

[Marl64]

[Omnie]

The limerick was partially taken from here, which is also where Random got two previous poems. He obviously changed this one, though. I went through the code (luckily, it's simple enough for me to understand) and picked out the bits that were generated by the script...

There was a young fool from Rome
Who wanted to surmise all alone.
He circled his map,
Almost fell into the trap,
And Random had to come take him home.

The bold words are the ones that can't have been made by the generator, and that Random had to have changed.

However, I have searched all over and can't seem to find anything that produces a poem similar to the "we are mysterious" one. I may have missed it, but I think that at this point I've looked through most of the poetry generators that have found their way onto google. If anyone wants a poetry generator link, I'm the one to call.

[trip]

[Omnie]