Duke Nukem in Bethlehem (Comedic poem)
Written by Claude 3.5 Sonnet with later revisions by 3.7, and some suggestions by GPT-4 and GPT o1.
The rhythm, meter, and so on still could use some revisions, but it is already a pretty funny and cute piece of doggerel.
'Twas the night before Christmas in Bethlehem's stable, When outside the door there arose a great babel. The cattle were lowing, the donkeys were braying, As a muscle-bound hero came uninvited, saying… "I'm Duke Nukem, tough guy from the future, and buddy, There's no way you're having your kid in this muddy Old stable with animals." Joseph stood stunned. "Now move over, you two, I've got big freaking guns!" Duke kicked in the door of the neighboring inn, "You fellows, make way or you'll face my chagrin!" He grabbed the innkeeper, threatening with a glare, "Make room for this family, and do it with care!" "This bed's now available," the mattress he checked, "Nice and softened for birthing a child most perfect!" Mary looked worried, the baby soon to arrive, "Just breathe steady, ma'am, and your child will thrive!" And with Duke’s encouragement (odd though it was), The Christ-child was born ’mid the stable’s applause. When that baby let out a sweet little cry, Duke grinned and declared, “What a fine little guy!” He looked down and whispered, "You're precious, God's Son... Your journey on Earth has only just begun." Then Duke fired his jetpack with a thunderous roar, "Time to blast off! Got other worlds to explore!" As he rocketed skyward, flames bright in his wake, The jetpack's blue thrust made the stable walls shake! "You've got work to do, kid—go shake up the system! HO HO HO! Merry Christmas! I'm Duke Frickin' Nukem!"
Abstract Styring (Surreal song lyrics)
These song lyrics were generated via the davinci-002 text completion model, available through the OpenAI Playground. Unlike ChatGPT, davinci-002 isn't specifically designed for assistance and question answering, and instead it tries to continue the presented text prompt to the best of its abilities.
Playing around with davinci-002 yielded some cool-sounding phrases, including "Abstract Styring" and "A Sordid Melt". I then proceeded to copy-paste some text from genius.com's lyrics display page, and modified it to insert a new song title (a silly phrase I came up with myself), as well as "Abstract Styring" and "A Sordid Melt" as the artist and album name.
The initial prompt was:
Six of the Brightest Wights in all History Abstract Styring on A Sordid Melt Producer Abstract Styring May. 24, 2024 25 Viewers 328.6K Views 15 Contributors Translations Six of the Brightest Wights in all History Lyrics
And this resulted in some pretty interesting, surreal lyrics. Not much in the way of rhythm or meter, but there are some fancy turns of phrase here.
[Intro] rickroll [Verse 1] The Shoreline is long and cold As the glass sands are carried with The Wind Across the great and mean Algerian Hills of the Novocain Of Somalia In the heat of the Kilimanjaro [Verse 2] Dreams have come and gone In the cities of Vanuatu Canada, Siberia of Vietnam Fans of Traveling lonely Past the Gulf of Finland Far from Vanadiated Places Far from the Dead State Nuclear Power radioactive Cavities Far from Japan of Japan Hilliary Gates melts the Uranium Anarchy at the consistence of Periapts in Ukraine (You said it, bro) [Bridge] China stands at the border of the side This Cold War is one thirtieth Gone Under the umbrella of the Goddess AnCasio The Future! The Distant Horizons Bold Babylon, a Pillar of the Load These lands are ashamed to live through radiation So travels the unwritten line that runs Among all the Soviet Oblasts and Belarus Flame your face in the sky [Intro][Verse 3] Like the face of Mallard Coppice, I seen the World Smoothly and Steadily till Light goes Dark Throughout Your Mountains and Valleys The Shrapnel of Niagara Falls Knows
A second completion of the same prompt yielded an entirely different text:
[Intro] Big night, ya boo. Yoyo big night yet? [Verse 1] It’s only human And it ain’t just me See the light in your eyes, girl? Oh, it makes me wanna see Someone like him Somebody mad enough To stir this old rancid cistern And make it stew and bubble up [Chorus] Where the pain is coming from We’re trying to heal with guns These pools of blood They cry no justice Where the crime is coming from We’re trying to fix it with guns These future warlords They’re waving teenage goddesses Like a circus show Let me see one of you Heavy hitter wights Burn against my will You come and you can do Push up against my brick wall Yeah you come and you can do I call it Spring Let me see you throw it Spring You good for nothing Speak when you are spoken to We're six of the brightest wights in all history (prompt: Genre and instruments:) Genre and instruments: Post-Imperium Electronic Soul Song for Court Ball Location: Outside of the Tower of Baal ?? Find more some tunes from Mahogany Kerman: Traveler! ?? Listen to the song to find out more! Shout @Abstract Styring #Characters #New #Veteran #Artful #Burningbright #3CC15E #MercuryM #PhloxM #PhloxB #PhloxG #AlleygatorM #AlleyGatorB #TripM Comments Previous Post Comments Next Post Da_Spad Joined May 11, 2020 One of the most quintessential travel songs as far as I am concerned, wish it would get played more oft as most defenders and team mates should approach every engagement from a "kill or be killed" state of mind. I won't walk through hell again, but you can follow me if you like... (Haile Selassie I.) ? we believe but not in the face of too much evidence ? In this topic (Subscribe to threads) In this subreddit Flag A Suggestion
"we believe but not in the face of too much evidence", though meaningless, sounds exactly like the kind of clever line you'd see in someone's forum signature.