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"Do you make it to the cloud district very often? Oh, what am I saying? Of course you don't."
You keep treating this like some kind of game... do you know something the rest of us don’t?
The full text of the AGPL with no line breaks.
"The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software..."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"
I like to imagine myself standing by the main road, away from any important game stuff, but somewhere the player must pass through to get to the game stuff. And I'm just screaming at the top of my lungs. No reason, and it's never even addressed; it's just something the game implemented to annoy the player character.
"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX."
"I've got plenty of things to say!"
The only war is class war.
I used to be an adventurer like you, but I took an arrow to my knee...
"I just want to go hug my cat right now"
"My potions are TOO strong for you, traveller!"
"I don't know you, and I don't care to know you."
"I'm too tired for this."
I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!
Hey, you're not wearing shorts!
"On your left."
rides by on a bicycle
Welcome to , I love you
It's what plants crave!
"You know where your towel is?"
"Wake up. None of this is real."
Or
(Covered in claw marks and cat fur, clutching a warning poster about a wild catlike beast) "if... If not friend... Why friend shaped??"
“The treasure was insane. I saw it myself. You just have to brave the mumble and it’s all yours.”
"Leave me alone!"
"Did you know that according to our definition of rocks, ice counts? I've just been thinki- oh, you did? Well, next time you meet me, I'll have come up with a new, incredible fact! Like: "
Hello! (Deep in my eyes you could read that I had something very exciting to tell you at some point, but it was part of something that got cut due to cost reduction.)
I AM ERROR.
They digitised my mind and stuck me in here. Get help, please.
"I open up my wallet, and it's full of blood."
To make sure my creator got sued for copyright infringement ... "Shake it, baby" or "Damn, I look good" or "I'm too old for this shit"
"Wash day tomorrow. Nothing clean, right?"
Remember the crazy hermit in Ravenholm in HL2 who won't help you until you complete some tasks? He speaks at you over a loudspeaker and then through a slit in a door IIRC. It's a beautifully designed level.
Anyway, I'd like to tip my hat to that crochety character by being an NPC who recites the Gettysburg Address during an epic onslaught.
I wanna be like that very annoying NPC in the Pokemon Bizzare fangame that just rambles on forever about such a meaningless story. But with my own nonsensical story that has negative a million plot relevance.
Otherwise, if we're talking like a single sentence of dialogue:
Hokus pocus, joker's ride, come take a spin on a carnie ride
Bonus points if it's in a medieval set game and deeply confuses the player character.
"Get out of here, Stalker! Release the Epstein Files!"
I am an NPC in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Shadow of Chornobyl (2026 Remaster -- (All we did in the remaster was fix the bugs, it is the same game you know and love except for this one NPC now reminds you of the Epstein class criminals!))
"Come on Frank"
Frank is my dog and we're going somewhere
"Want some rye? 'Course ya do."
"This is my one line of dialogue."
"It's dangerous to go alone. Take this."
But I give a random, weird, (seemingly?) useless item each game.
“Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie!”
"mmhmm."
"Did you get all that?"
Yes
No <
Hornswoop me bungo pony.
I don't quite know exactly, but I'd love to be the NPCs that eludes to an Easter egg that isn't actually in the game.
Alternatively, dressed slutty in a random bar:
"You need to get your combat multiplier HIGHER before I swing ajar."
Ah, interesting, that's... What? Wait, I'm doing five things at once. I just, ah, kind of zoned out for a minute... Hang on.
And I just restart whatever animation loop I'm in.
"I know I put it here somewhere."
How many donuts can you stack on it?
...
There was some NPC Golem in WoW which would say "I do not enjoy conversation." when you talked to it.
That one!
I used to be a virgin like you, but then I took a vagina to the penis.