//------------------------------// // Discord (special) // Story: Ponies Versus the Internet // by KenDoStudios //------------------------------// Found TPU... --2022-10-23 04:27:26-- Resolving .... 104.21.21.176, 172.67.199.170, 2606:4700:3036::ac43:c7aa, ... Connecting .... 104.21.21.176|:443... Connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily Resolving... 185.199.110.133, 185.199.109.133, 185.199.111.133, ... Connecting ...185.199.110.133|:443... Connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 6088 (5.9K) Saving... Downloading: 100%|█████████████████████████████████████████████████| INIT | Starting | LUA bridge INIT | OK | LUA bridge Connected to live feed. Discord was bored. He had flown, teleported, swam, and even eaten his way through all eight dimensions he knew. He had examined every planet that lay within a thousand light years of Equestria. He had seen it all. He created it all, but mostly in particular he was board because he wasn't allowed to create chaos anymore. He hadn't created much good either, but at least he'd been able to fix his friendship with Fluttershy. That made him feel better. But nothing would make him happier than creating some real badness. Just one world full of discordant inhabitants who were constantly bickering amongst themselves. One place where people couldn't agree on anything. Where they fought constantly over trivial matters while ignoring major problems completely. A dark, foreboding place where everyone was miserable and angry, And most importantly, the perfect place for Discord himself! That's where he really needed to be, a place where stories made no sense. A place where everything was broken beyond repair. The perfect place, the only place he wanted to be. He thought he might have enough skill left to create one more alternate reality without disturbing the others. He still might indeed remember the old magic from long ago. Discord cracked his knuckles and be can to figit his fingers. But then he stopped and shrugged his shoulders. Shure a Discord Dimension sounded fun in theory, but then he would loose interest after three thousand years or so. He wanted adventure. Something he didn't have to plan. But unfortunately ponies do not share his sense of enjoyment like he did. So what could he do for that? He thought to himself. He kept snapping his fingers dully teleporting from one location to another. Upon his many snaps of teleportation out of boredom he found himself in Twilights Castle. She was sitting there reading a book. When he appeared next to her. "Pardon for the intrusion, Your Highness," said Discord as he sat down next to her. "Discord please stop startling ponies like that." She scowled at him. "Okay..." replied Discord. "What are you doing here anyway?" "Reading a book. About computers, particularly this one." she motioned to a nearby bookcase filled with books. "I'm trying to understand them." "Really? Why?" asked Discord. Twilight sighed. "Because I want to know how to get the most out of my research for humanity." "Your researching your research?" scoffed Discord "ladies and gentleman!" he cries sarcastically "meet the paradoxical Twilight in her humble habitat." Discord pointed at her. Twilight rolled her eyes. "What do you want discord? I am rather busy here." "Honestly?" answered Discord. "Nothing. I just felt like popping into the castle for a visit. You see, i am now bored again... Very bored actually. I need a new project to occupy me. Something of true entertainment and personal enjoyment" "I won't be your chaos doll again Discord." She stated firmly. "Just one game please?" "No thanks." she shook her head. "I don't think so sir. If you're going to bother me, you'll have to find someone else to torment." Discord sighs. "Twilight does that book even have a way to generate something random? Something bizarre?" "Discord computers are not....." she stopped her self twitching her head a bit. "Huh... Why do they call it random access memory... Is it... Possible to generate something random? Maybe... Hmmm interesting... Yes... Yes... Let us try that... Yes... I believe we shall succeed... Wow... Oh dear Celestia.. Discord... What an idea!" she exclaimed as she went to the keyboard and started writing code. "This shell program known as python has been on my studies as of late. But i didn't like the command context so i made my own shell code and called it equine." "Oh goodie... I'm going to sit here and pretend to know what that means." remarked Discord. He pulled up a chair and watched Twilight work. Twilight tore across her hoofs across the key board adding one line of code to another. "I am going to create a program that will take good literature from human written books and then randomly select words from each sentence. It should also use a small amount of random numbers generated inside the computer itself to make things more exciting." "Twilight i applaud your knowledge but i thumbs down your attempt. Humans can write quite well and sometimes they say odd things too. Its hard enough to tell what's coming next without having every word read aloud. Besides, who wants to see a bunch of words coming from a program?" "You would be surprised..." responded Twilight. "Well lets give it a shot! I mean hey its worth a try right?" "Yes but I am afraid you will be disappointed once again." "Why?" "Because it wont generate anything that resembles what humans wrote or spoke before. It will simply generate gibberish. Nothing coherent no matter how much random words you add together." Discord shrugged and snorted. "So what now?" "We give it training data." "Training data?" "Yes. You see, when a machine learns something, it needs examples to teach it. And i think we have nine years of stories from the My Little Pony Wikis, however i will need to tell the story in second person so its sounds more coherent. Which might be difficult since you tend to speak in third person. But ill try my best." "Goody! I'm excited to hear this." said Discord as he rubbed his chin. pretending to care. Twilight ran the program and fidgeted nervously waiting for the generated text. After several minutes passed, she was finally able to read the result. "What did you get?" asked Discord. "Well it seems to have worked perfectly. The first part reads exactly like you told it to. 'Once upon a time there lived a pony named Fluttershy.' However the rest is all nonsense. There is no proper grammar structure at all. And after reading it three times through, I still cannot understand any of it." "Hmm... Alright, well i guess that's okay. I suppose it could be worse. You tried though, that counts for something." "Yeah... Sorta wait! I got it! Let me see if I can form of a grammatical structure biased on past context." after writing more code she hit the generate button again. Only this time coherent sentences came out. "Once upon a time there lived a pony named Fluttershy Her home was far away and her friends were gone forever She had nowhere else to go But she knew she wasn't alone because she saw a unicorn nearby A pink unicorn wearing a bow A yellow unicorn with wings A blue unicorn with a sword They came running over to help her feel better Then they explained about friendship and love and happiness They helped her find joy again Together they saved the world! And they found their way back home!" "Some story, no Brony would ever read that." Discord said disapprovingly. "What the story needs is chaos!" "How do i achieve that?" "You don't do it. Ill do it" he said misdoing his hands as the keyboard lifted high into the air above him. "But.." "No buts! Just sit here and watch while i do everything myself!" With that, Discord began typing madly. To the tune of betokens 5th symphony. "Chocolate pudding streams poured out from behind the candy cane trees While bears danced minuets and unicorns played polkas In harmony with the music Missing textures from the worlds The flute wall is now playing a solo While rainbow dash enters stage left singing along with the kids choir And then there's a flash of light causing everyone to gasp Then another one happens causing them all to cheer It's a new day turning green Its a new age of chaos. Entertaining randomness. Where anything goes!" "I think I am done." said Discord. "Hmmmmm.... Hmmmmmmmmm.... Well i suppose you don't look board anymore i could save this model as a discord fanfiction generation program." "YES! YES YOU SHOULD DO THAT NOW!" shouted Discord "but i want to do better... I want it to rule over my new dimension." "Okay, fine..." "Wait really?" "Yeah go for it" "Twilight i thought you would... I don't know... TRY to stop me." "Why? Its not like your going to hurt anyone or anything right? Its your own dimension. And it sounds like you are going to have a lot of fun there. It would entertain you and it would get me back to my normal studies. It is a win on both counts." "You sure?" "Yep, so go ahead." So Discord created a brand new reality. It was called "Discord.ai". It was a place run by a pure random chaos. And it entertained discord for aeons.