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Please complete this.

Special thanks to ChaoSera for helping me with the JavaScript code.

The story bit's short, yes, but the focus of this is really on the generator itself, so I don't want to go burying it in exposition.

basically, this is an XX that does Y generator, designed as a way to play around with not-so-great ideas, sort-of-weird ideas, and hasn't-that-been-done-already? ideas. It might make you laugh, it might cure writer's block. Who knows?

Want to suggest additions?

you can suggest nouns, adjectives, things-that-it-does, and twists.

I especially need twists so if anyone has any idea that would be great

I wanna support the idea but it surely can't hurt to have like, more of a story and a bit more interactivity with the generator (maybe more dialog between the main character and 2020, with the generator idea popping up more than once). Too bare-bones for me to support.

Gotta agree with Decibelles to be honest. It feels like you could do more with this. I like the generator though.

It's gotta be a no vote

''Oh! I got an idea for something we could write about. How about a frozen professor that causes diabetes?''

+1

As a thing in itself, it's a lolrandom thing generator, and after a while "hey random thing" just isn't amusing anymore. Plus we've already got the madlibs -J that covers something of the same ground.

As a commentary on the site, this seems like it would be a "bad articles sure are bad" entry if it were more coherent, which is like shooting fish in a barrel. It also completely misses the point of the original article it's referencing. This isn't even a cliche generator, since it's referencing one site specific cliche (thing what does a thing) exclusively.

I agree with the above comments asking for a bit more of an expansion or something, but honestly when I first clicked on the generator I was pretty amazed. Good job. +1.

Okay, I'm biased here, since SCP-2020 is my baby. It's a cute framing device, but the generator itself could do a lot more, so no vote.

Immediate improvements, beyond expanding the scope of the things being generated, are finding a way to not make that text Times New Roman (what an ugly font, and more importantly it sticks out like a sore thumb) and touching up 2020's dialogue.

When I wrote 2020's monologue, I tried to get across that it is easily distracted, energetic, has no filter, and is stuck in 'elevator pitch' mode. It overuses the words 'guys', 'wait', 'twist', and 'but', and obviously it uses "Cliche, right?". Basically it's pretty distinctive. You're certainly entitled to write your own take on 2020 that better suits your style and/or purposes, but I can tell you that this isn't the 2020 that people enjoyed in the original article. Up to you which of those, if any, to implement.

I can appreciate the existence of this, but I'm agreeing with most of those above that it could have a bit more and some tweaking to make it both an entertaining work and a useful ideas generator. Without that, it's not much different from existing idea generators off-site.

Provisional novote for now, liable to change based on how you choose to improve or not improve this.

EDIT: Having generated a bunch more ideas, this does also suffer from not having enough of the predicate statements. There's only so much difference between a creepy emu that is secretly the grim reaper and a non-anomalous tree that is secretly the grim reaper. The problem is that the predicate is, for the most part, the bit that might allow writers to develop more of a story off the idea, since it defines the main "point" of the idea and not just a physical description.

As for how to fix that, maybe making the predicate section consist of multiple randomized parts? It'd result in more duds, but it'd also have more of a possibility to generate something useful.

I find myself agreeing with the stance that it's a neat idea but a little undercooked. There's just not much to it story-wise… I was hoping for more. A random idea generator is a cool thing to work into a tale, but it's too barebones here.

No vote.