If you've ever seen Kitchen Nightmares, you've run into the same problem I have. The show is fine, whatever, but certain episodes would have been seriously elevated if Gordon Ramsay had been allowed to just take out some of those restaurant owners. I can't be alone in thinking that, right?

Last year we at CYS brought in the New Year with Wholesome Dog's Birthday Adventure. This year... this.

Disclaimer: This gets a little rancid.

Super Bonus Challenge: See if you can deduce which page of this storygame was written by Sent!

I discovered a thing that JJJ wrote. It told me all about this quiz-making shit. I followed the instructions, even though I disobeyed JJJ's opening lines by starting this WITHOUT a basic knowledge of any of that weird scripty shit he recommended. This was low-effort as all hell, don't ever use the classic editor for anything you care about.

AQIMFTBHOIA DLC: THE UPDATE DESCRIPTION

Since some of my questions contained outdated information and I needed to make sure everything was in working order, I unpublished this thing. Since I understand this to be something that generally fucks with ratings, I'm gonna add 5 more questions so you have more of a reason to rate it again. Also, every question now has a stupid answer. These are the ones that are so blatantly wrong/non-answers that they give you negative points... Some are better hidden than others. Aside from most of the endings being revamped, there are two new endings! One is for people who're spectacularly awful at quizzes, and the other is an ending for people who go off the beaten path... By being really  bad at quizzes.

No, I will not add a thing at the end that shows your score. If you want to know your score, you have to dick-measure in the comments yourself. Drill Sergeant Nasty has always been an accurate barometer for how well you did, in my eyes.

this is a loosely satirical and somewhat more gamey version of the game that isn't really a game. thanks to the creative juices of Bardockwest. The ORIGINAL: http://chooseyourstory.com/story/randomly-walk

In a strange world where World War I hasn't even happened yet, Law and order is the only accepted form of justice. Until NOW.

Enter Mild-Mannered Clifford T. Boot, 2nd class passenger on the world-famous vessel, the Titanic. Haunted by the shadows of his war-torn past, Clifford bought a ticket to the United States of America looking for a new life. But trouble always finds Clifford, and when an innocent widow and her child are kidnapped by a cult dedicated to resurrecting Napoleon, he has no choice but to return to his old ways and save them... Because for some motherfuckers, mass tragedy doesn't come soon enough.

HARM CELICNI? Say less.

You're right! Wheelchairs are such a waste of aluminum and rubber to manufacture when most normal people can just walk by themselves. We really should dismantle all wheelchair factories and make people like you drag yourselves around on wood blocks tied to your hands and knees like they used to do for cripples in medieval times. Or I guess 30 years ago in your time? I don't know how much Serbia has changed.

I would like to know what you believe treatment entails? Because psychologists do not have any kind of sorcerous solution for this that doesn't acknowledge the interiority of the person, which is a different gender than what aligns with the sex of their corpus. Therapy really doesn't make these things go away. For my own reasons, not related to transgenderism, I have studied what therapy is for and even spoken with therapists extensively. Therapy and "treatment" cannot make you want different things in life, and it can't make desires go away. The very best it can do in regards to the punitive way you have suggested applying it, is to try and convince you to reframe how you feel about your goals or dreams being unnacceptable, and show you how to pretend to be normal. If you're very lucky, it can direct your attention to a different desire you have, and you can then focus hard enough on whatever the "Acceptable" thing is that this gender query is less of an objection in your life. But it's never cured, it doesn't go away. If you want something bad enough that you don't care about being "normal", there is frankly no point to going to a psychologist. You may as well be telling the extra-fingered person of your analogy to bite the thing off themselves, which is a solution suggested by 0 doctors worth their salt. As is the case for trans people, there are plenty of people with polydactyly (the multi-fingered condition you've described) who never really needed intervention as the digit did not impede the structure or functional reliability of their hands or feet. Antonio Alfonseco certainly didn't need his additional fingers removed to be a Major League Baseball pitcher, a position where the dexterity of the hands is very important. It's a whole spectrum that depends on the individual person and their needs, but we're getting ahead of ourselves. The point of it all is, if a person's unusual aspirations could simply be removed by a person checking into some anti-woke medical practitioner's office, you wouldn't be hearing about people not being trans or gay anymore-- The real benefit they would provide to society would be for reprobates like Celicni who would finally be able to get their pedophilia removed, but unfortunately people like that respond quite poorly to any treatment we've yet to devise. The human being simply doesn't work like that. You can't eliminate desire, you can only decide not to care about it and focus on something else, and sometimes it will wither in the absence of attention, very often it will not, and frequently this leads to the patient bottling up other emotions until they no longer can, and lash out at themselves or others.

There currently are, and historically have been, plenty of socially accepted examples where someone's desired social role does not match their biology. I should hope that your beliefs are not so stringent as to posit that an adoptive parent is not a real mother or father, just because their genitals aren't the same ones that caused the child to exist. If we want to dig into religions that accept certain aspects of these things, one need look no further than the Dharmic religions of India, which have their own members of society that are recognized as another valid gender. Though in function they are ostracised in many respects, this is true of many social classes in Hindu regions that practice the same roles prescribed to their genitals, and, from a historical perspective, the conditions and treatment of certain castes within Hinduism is not as set in stone as some portray it as. The Hijra are not exactly the same as transgender persons, but their existence, as people who were born one way and wish for a social role more aligned with the opposite, speaks to a common instinct that manifests across cultures and conditions. Though many are discouraged from exploring this aspect of themselves because the Hijra are ostracised and live in poverty, they are still recognized as a gender unto themselves, and a Hijra is never denied being a Hijra except by recent political interest groups who are trying to control the narrative and establish a uniform opinion on how it is acceptable to be. Native American and Asian religions, while this is not universal across all regions, still have notable exceptions for a person whose personal identity and desires for what kind of life they want to live, do not match what is ordained by immediate bioogical circumstance. And I am aware of at least a handful of examples in European history where this is also the case.

In much of medieval pagan Scandinavia, magic and certain forms of worship were considered gendered practices. In Iceland, it was considered a male thing, in the much larger region of the Baltic, it was considered a female thing. Priests of the Norse/Germanic gods were considered begrudgingly necessary queers, because they were men who had learned the magic of women and were entitled to wear feminine clothing or jewelry if they deemed it necessary. This isn't even getting into the Gallae in the region of Anatolia, who were priests and priestesses of the goddess Cybele. They have roots as far back as ancient Greece, and their religious practices became hugely important to the Roman state in that area for a long time. These folks were usually born men, but being allowed to dress and be treated as women, as well as primitive surgical intervention, was normalized.

But everything I just said, that's all non-abrahamic stuff. I'm assuming somebody of your persuasion would cast it out as pagan nonsense. It still refutes your claim that no society or religion has accepted these people. But let's get into examples of gender shenanigans of countries that primarily recognize Christianity and Islam. In Napoly, Italy, there is a traditional gender role called "Femminiello", which is a word that translates about as literally to "Femboy [non-derogatory]" as is possible to do. This gender has coexisted with Christianity even since the height of witch-burnings, the execution of homosexuals, and other institutional hate crimes by the church which controlled the region. They were and sometimes still are recognized as a real thing, and to be one was a decision made by the person themselves regarding what they wanted their gender to be. There were certain social factors regarding who was more likely to be accepted as/taught how to be a femminiello (usually they had to be a younger brother, because due to prevailing family politics at the time the family would have considerable disadvantage from not having a firstborn son) but fundamentally a man still chose to be one or didn't. If someone born under the conditions where they may have been encouraged to be femminiello decided to be a man, there was no pushback. If somebody born under more masculine circumstances decided that they were femminiello, they were still treated as such, the main pushback was in the form of an increase in mistreatment, violence from men, and various sexual wrongs, which women generally face in society, and trans women especially face because they are treated as a part of the same social class as women with none of the protections. As of the 1930s, many femminiello did decide that the newly developed labels of transgender or transsexual did describe them better, but the 1930s was when Fascism had arrived in europe and gave individuals with vested interest in controlling what people were allowed to think and do with their bodies absurd political power, so their perspective has largely been very intentionally censored from history. For an example of things in the opposite direction, in rural parts of Albania as well as several other Balkan states, a person born a woman can swear to remain a virgin all their life, and in exchange for this, be recognized for all intents and purposes as a man. These folks have coexisted with Christianity and Islam since they existed in the area, and only moral busybodies who don't know them but wish to control their bodies have seen any contradiction.

Personally speaking here, I don't believe that a woman who can't bear children for any reason isn't still a woman. A woman is a category we made up to cover a wide variety of things that are not arbitrarily tied to biological functions. Neither do I believe that a man who is celibate or has erectile dysfunction is not a man, or that someone with dwarfism isn't human, simply because they can't do certain things that are expected from someone in that category. I am led to believe Islam has differing opinions on that matter, but that's a different discussion. Nor do I think it's some cosmic binary truth literally written in our genes, because there are all sorts of factors at play there. Many women have a Y chromosome, or only just one X like both sexes have, and will possibly never know it unless it's one of the instances where it causes a medical problem. Most people literally do not know for certain which chromosomes they have, because this is not tested for unless babies are born with an obvious condition. Our assigned sex at birth is based on the doctor's best guess based on what our parts look like. They may be right most of the time, but in cases where the parts are ambiguous, (usually due to hormones caused by any number of factors in the womb, not strictly genetics) the baby is given a cosmetic procedure based on whichever one of the parts the doctor determines is the most structurally sound, and hopefully nothing unusual comes of it. That's not always the case! And really, there isn't anything that physically forces someone with one sex or another to be a certain way, or there wouldn't be men who cry at the end of romantic movies or women who wear pants or drive cars or use tools or-- Nevermind I don't know if women are allowed to do that over there either.

Regardless, I don't believe there is any inherent magical power in wearing clothes or doing certain jobs, I don't think there's any inherent binding rules surrounding names or pronouns or any such thing, or we wouldn't have nicknames or personal names at all. I simply don't care if somebody wants to be a man or woman, that's their fundamental right to decide. To deny that is to deny that person something fundamentally human. Even within the bounds of the gender they are given by tradition, people dress certain ways and act and speak certain ways, not just for practical purposes, but because it expresses important things about where they are in life and how they desire to be treated by others. People get procedures or take medicine to regrow lost hair, or remove unwanted hair, or take hormones so that they may continue to ovulate or maintain erections, and nobody questions it because by coincidence the things these people are doing just happen to align with the pairing of social roles and sex organs that is currently deemed acceptable. I am willing to bet that you clean yourself a little more often than is strictly necessary for survival or keeping up appearances, because your self-image would suffer if you did not. There is no fundamental difference, in mind or in practice, between that and someone who wants to dress and has interest in work or expression of a gender that does not match their organs. I would feel uncomfortable wearing a robe in public, many people feel uncomfortable not wearing one. I was told I was a man since I was born, and luckily they guessed correctly, I would feel very uncomfortable in a dress, but a lot of people being told the same thing would feel just as uncomfortable in my clothes. Why, I would even feel uncomfortable in another man's clothes! And even if you're a true ascetic who would dismiss ALL of that as vanity, people exercise their bodies and develop skills, relationships, and knowledge, not because they inherently know those things or are already strong, but because they identify as a person who needs and deserves health, strength, and wisdom. Every human being is trying to become a different, more ideal version of themselves, the only people who aren't growing and changing are the dead. And if part of someone's journey is to be another gender than what their sex is, that's not mine to question. I only know that I despise to see what could be a sycamore tree bound and clipped because only bonsai trees will fit in the house.

You know it's a kneeslapper when somebody feels the need to repeatedly state how much they're really laughing in real life.

It genuinely seems to be some kind of brain disease. If they didn't comprehend why it was wrong in the first place, they just gormlessly repeat themselves and never give up their stupid toy.

CYS Community: "Please stop eating shit in our public square, it's terrible for you and everyone watching. You should really try food sometime. We only eat food here."

This dude: "Fine, you've had your say! And you clearly don't want me to be here anymore if you take issue with my shit-eating ways (it was actually shit-nibbling, in my opinion. I made the soup myself and only put turds in it after I was done.) but let's give the shit a chance to defend itself!"

The Shit: "Everyone in this conversation seems pretty reasonable. As a shit, I don't see anything wrong with coprophagia as long as you're being honest about it. Plenty of well-qualified chefs eat big heaping piles of shit, and nothing's wrong with that! But clearly, there's no arguing with these troglodytes. They just can't see the brilliant brown light of the future shining down upon them."

Next time try scraping the text of a book, with your eyes, and then prompt your fucking hands to write something based on the data you just downloaded. I recommend prompts like, "What did I like about the writing of this book that I want to emulate?" or "What's a cool turn of phrase that I would like to use?" ya bolt-licking clown.

AI cannot 'critique' because it doesn't have taste, or subjective experience of any kind to inform an opinion. It does not think, it predicts. This makes it ostensibly useful if your main concern is checking your grammar (still, don't give the slop generator data if any kind of you can help it.) but in art criticism it is utterly useless.

At best, it can create the most likely average response a redditor will have to writing vaguely similar to yours. Except that's not even true, because LLMs have also been carefully selected for not to write toxic responses, which makes them swing in the opposite direction and create obsequious, yes-man responses that do not have very meaningful things to say. If your writing has a problem that a human would notice, an LLM cannot point it out. Unless the problem is structural, an LLM cannot perceive it. To even say an LLM does perceive, gives way too much anthropomorphization to what it's doing. The thing you are typing into is not an intelligence. It is a combination of a search engine and a text prediction program like you have on your phone. The results are less an actual creation of the algorithm and more like a very small, distorted snippet of a massive, low-quality snapshot of the entire internet. The perceived originality and differences in tone is more or less entirely from the entropy inherent in saving and then displaying this much information this way, similar to the fuzzy pixels and blurry shapes you get when you zoom in too far to a lossy jpeg.

Writing according to the advice of an AI might not be against the rules, and it might not be as easily detectable as allowing the thing to generate your text in its image, but it will make you visibly retarded at worst, and sound more like the average of all reddiotrs put together at best, and that's a fate I would wish on no man.

MHD is gonna keep trying to adapt TV shows to a CYS format until she has a smashing success, so all of you better do your best because there's only so many plans in the chamber before we get CYS Maury.

...Bro necroing is one thing, ok in some cases, but seriously dude, that's what you had to say?