You Are a Wizard, You See X I Z There

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A i game called a i dungeon takes text from all different m pieces of fan fictiond et cetera. It creates a text game where it says like, you are a wizard. And that strikes me as and people play this game for hours. They pay for it, you know, they they enjoy it. You can play it like a text adventure. Or you can write, i want to fly away in a flying saucer and go meet donald trump.

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