The idea of getting textual advice that's complete bullshit premised on a misunderstanding written by something that sounds like a human and you can chat with forever and doesn't get smarter is not new to me. That's called a tech support forum. I grew up on those.

Maybe that is my vaccine.

For thousands of years, horses were a central part of practically all armies and their campaigns, culminating in WW2, which was the last war in which they saw widespread use. After the horse fell out of use, we've had 80 years of relative peace

They were the problem all along

Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud, Crusader Kings, The Sims, and Rimworld all have patch notes like this and I would like to coin a genre grouping that encompasses them all

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

For Tolkien, good is complex and evil pitiably simple.

One of those growing bits of ahistorical nonsense I see online is 'Games were just optimized better in the old days'.

Like fuck they were. The entire history of videogames is stuff barely running on intended hardware. Why do you think we've had ultra-low graphics options available since hte 90s?