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by hombre_fatal 872 days ago

Meh, what would be your great response to Tree + Water?

A human can only generate a small fraction of the combinations and would have a hard time coming up with most combinations which are already nonsensical.

What is your non-disappointing idea for, idk, Tears + Pottery (AI: Bowl) or Money + Salt Lick (AI: Cow) or Skull + Lake (AI: Loch Ness) or Dracula + Pirate (AI: Vampirate) or Curse + Money (AI: Debt)? Now do that thousands of more times.

The infinite aspect is the thing that keeps it interesting, I think. The fun is getting a new, weird result like "Dracula" and "Pot of Gold" and seeing if you can generate new weird results from the existing set.

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baq 872 days ago

I somehow got to Mega Evolution which I got from megalodon and some pokemon, but don’t ask me how to get to Pokémon.

Anyway, once you get that kind of a modifier, anything’s game for megaification.

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ceroxylon 872 days ago

Tree + Water is easy: Mangrove, Bald Cypress, Rhizophora, etc

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hombre_fatal 872 days ago

I wouldn't consider those to be better. You're enhancing the tree side of the equation but gave no examples of the water side.

And why didn't you do the rest of my examples? ;)

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TomK32 872 days ago

Loch Ness? I skipped to the Loch Ness Monster. Got the Lake only later on. And then I got Nessie.

This is a Quagmire

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bpye 872 days ago

Yeah Loch Ness Monster + Water gave me Nessie

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TomK32 872 days ago

Porkosaurus, Soup Nazi, Sphinxie, Sodium Chloride, Abdominable Snowman, Baconator and both Yeti and Godzilla. And Yogazilla which is a "First Discovery".

Found myself: Thomas the locomotive

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CodeMage 871 days ago

Some of my favorite first discoveries:

- Cactus Missile

- Mammoth Marula

- Super Lizard Wizard

- Cheesethorn Bush

- Cheesnado Lizard Wizard

- Cheesnado 2: Cheesnado Strikes Back

- Cheesewolftrap

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