AI game moment: Robespierre offers a 17-year-old command of 50,000 bayonets
lfschiavo · x · 2026-10-26
A dialogue-driven game scene set in the French Revolution went viral: the player's 17-year-old pamphleteer gets a flirty recruiting pitch from Maximilien Robespierre — "despite your being 17 years old, syphilitic, bisexual, and a terrorist, I take a funny sort of likin to ya" — complete with a prompt to "press [X] to take command of 50,000 bayonets." The absurd tonal whiplash made it widely shared.
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