Do Murray next!
BWAHAHA
If Ron doesnât put Hernando in the new game I rather suggest we riot.
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I donât think heâd want to be THAT controversial and divisive.
Hernando is a central character and will 100% be in the game.
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If RtMI wasnât at the end of its development, I would do that for real. I mean, asking Ron to read that chat with Guybrush and put Hernando somewhere in the game. Even only in the final credits.
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Although itâs funny, it scares me! I donât know what to say.
I can understand that. 
Iâve grown up reading/watching a lot of sci-fi and particularly Star Trek The Next Generation, so my opinions about artificial intelligent âbeingsâ are shaped by episodes like âThe measure of a manâ, in which a judge has to decide if the android Data is just a machine or a person who has rights:
Right, I forgot that. 
Also, itâs interesting to remind that the name of the voodoo lady has never been revealed.
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Itâll turn out eventually she is called Hernando, indeed. So weâll understand the AI knew.
After all, itâs a machine. It knows, or it does not. It canât be in error.
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Why waiting for Ron to give her a name when we could simply ask Ron to name her Hernando?
I donât use Twitter, but somebody should definitely ask him if he can do it.
Right.
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He could later add a patch to the game with an âHernando on-offâ option, which adds or removes people referring to her as Hernando.
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At this point I think we should demand that Return be renamed The Secret of Hernando Island and the graphics should be redone to be pixel-3d and the whole cast voiced by Dominic Armato.
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I canât sleep, so letâs see if GPT-3 is good at âthree emoji to describe a gameâ.
These are some of the creations found in that thread, given to the AI to train it:
Monkey Island 2: 
Grim Fandango: 
The Longest Journey: 
Sam & Max Hit The Road: 
Cruise for a Corpse: 
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The Dig: 
Full Throttle: 
And this is how GPT-3 completed each game:
The Secret of Monkey Island: 
Thimbleweed Park: 
Loom: 
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: 
Day of the Tentacle: 
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders: 
Was it good?
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Not bad. Iâm very impressed with Thimbleweed Park.
Iâm surprised it only used two images for Loom, and that it replicated an image on Day of the Tentacle.
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A friend of mine asked another openAI, âDALL¡Eâ, to âdraw the Secret Of Monkey Islandâ.
Hereâs the drawing:
An island, some monkeys, and an indecipherable sentence: thatâs the secret!
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âŚwhich explains what the secret is, but you have to discover which cypher was used to obfuscate the text.
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The âderelict houseâ impressed me as well.
During other attempts at generating emojis, some option values led to a radio, but never to a telephone.
(yeah, I badly messed up with the repliesâŚ)
I tried interviewing him but I gave up.
Human: Hi, Guybrush!
Guybrush: Hello! Thanks for having me!
Human: To those who donât know you, can you tell who you are and in which games you were the main protagonist?
Guybrush: I am Guybrush Threepwood, the mighty pirate! I was the star of the Monkey Island adventure game series.
Human:So, what can you tell us about the new game?
Guybrush: The new game is called âReturn to Monkey Islandâ and itâs being developed by original creator Ron Gilbert. Itâs going to be an amazing adventure, full of pirates, humor and strong female characters! I canât wait to get my hands on it!
Human: will you be the only returning character?
Guybrush: No, there are plenty of other returning characters! Elaine, LeChuck, Carla, Wally, Otis, Stan, Cobb, the Lookout, the SCUMM Bar cook, Murray and the voodoo lady Hernando will all be making appearances in the new game.
Human: Iâm sorry⌠The voodoo lady who?
Guybrush: Hernando, the voodoo lady from Monkey Island 2: Le Chuckâs Revenge. Sheâs going to be a big part of the new game.
Human: Are you joking, right?
Guybrush: No, Iâm not joking! Hernando is a very important character in the Monkey Island universe. Sheâs going to be a key player in the new game.
Human: No, I mean about her name. Sheâs not really called âHernandoâ, right?
Guybrush: Of course she is! What else would she be called?
Human: So you are telling me that the name of the voodoo lady has always been âHernandoâ?
Guybrush: Thatâs right!
Human: Why does she have a male name?
Guybrush: I have no idea. Perhaps Ron Gilbert will explain it in the new game.
Human: Is that her first name or her last name?
Guybrush: Iâm not sure. I think it might be her first name.
Human: And your mind has reached that conclusion as the most probable outcome, I guess.
Guybrush: Of course! What other conclusion could there be?
Human: Well, it could be her last name?
Guybrush: I donât think so.Ron Gilbert would never give a character such a silly last name.
Human: Do you realize that your last name is âThreepwoodâ, donât you?
Guybrush: Yes, but thatâs different. My last name is cool.
Human: And âHernandoâ is not?
Guybrush: No, âHernandoâ is not cool.
Human: Beside, you are saying that âHernandoâ would be a silly last name but not a silly first name?
Guybrush: Thatâs right. âHernandoâ would definitely not be a good last name.
Human: So, to sum up, you think that the voodoo ladyâs first name is probably âHernandoâ because Ron Gilbert wouldnât give a character such a silly last name?
Guybrush: Exactly!
Human: OK, âThreepwoodâ.
Guybrush: What about it?
Human: Never mind.
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I feel like heâs channelling Beavis and Butthead here.
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Not to mention a helmless Darth Vader next to his Space Cadillac on top of the rock there!
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