4th May 2006, 11:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 4th May 2006, 11:24 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
I'm of the impression that most of the jokes in Earthbound were the result of translation. Besides, it's not like a story like that is all that original. The idea is out there, all it takes is a writer to break down the formula to it's basic components and run an algorythm to generate the same thing over and over again. I do it with comedy all the time. Any comedy style can be broken down into it's component parts and turned into a that guy's joke generating engine.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)