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* Add more non-kitten items to Robot Finds Kitten

Including:

- More items from the official GPL Robot Finds Kitten game
- Moose from #27985, plus many new original CDDA-themed items
- Items suggested by Discord users
- Some robot-generated items

* Add items from I-am-Erk

Co-authored-by: I-am-Erk <[email protected]>
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wapcaplet and I-am-Erk authored Dec 4, 2020
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{
"//": "Original items from 1997 DOS version of robotfindskitten",
"type": "snippet",
"category": "non_kitten_items",
"text": [
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"Seven 1/4\" screws and a piece of plastic.",
"An 80286 machine.",
"One of those stupid \"Homes of the Stars\" maps.",
"A signpost saying \"TO KITTEN\". It points in no particular direction.",
"A signpost saying \"TO KITTEN\". It points in no particular direction.",
"A hammock stretched between a tree and a volleyball pole.",
"A Texas Instruments of Destruction calculator.",
"It's a dark, amorphous blob of matter.",
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"…thingy???",
"It's 1000 secrets the government doesn't want you to know!",
"The letters O and R.",
"A magical… magic thing.",
"That is a moose, a thing of pure evil. You should \"RUN!\""
"A magical… magic thing."
]
},
{
"//": "Additional items from current official robotfindskitten game, GPL licensed",
"type": "snippet",
"category": "non_kitten_items",
"text": [
"\"201 Kitten Verbs, Fully Conjugated\". You look for \"find\".",
"\"50 Years Among the Non-Kitten Items\", by Ann Droyd.",
"\"Address Allocation for Private Internets\" by Yakov Rekhter et al.",
"\"Dear robot, you may have already won our 10 MILLION DOLLAR prize…\"",
"\"Go back to Libraria!\", says Pat Schroeder.",
"\"Mail Routing and the Domain System\" by Craig Partridge.",
"\"Move along! Nothing to see here!\"",
"\"No!\" says the bit.",
"\"Robot may not injure kitten, or, through inaction, …\"",
"\"The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism\" by Emmanuel Goldstein.\",",
"\"Yes!\" says the bit.",
"A bag of groceries taken off the shelf before the expiration date.",
"A bitchin' homemade tesla coil.",
"A book with \"Don't Panic\" in large friendly letters across the cover.",
"A book: Feng Shui, Zen: the art of randomly arranging items that are not kitten.",
"A broken metronome sits here, it's needle off to one side.",
"A caboodle.",
"A canister of pressurized whipped cream, sans whipped cream.",
"A card shark sits here, practicing his Faro shuffle. He ignores you.",
"A chain hanging from two posts reminds you of the Gateway Arch.",
"A compendium of haiku about metals.",
"A copy of DeCSS. They're a dime a dozen these days.",
"A coupon for one free steak-fish at your local family diner.",
"A crowd of people, and at the center, a popular misconception.",
"A demonic voice proclaims \"There is no kitten, only Zuul\". You flee.",
"A discredited cosmology, relic of a bygone era.",
"A dodecahedron bars your way.",
"A frosted pink party-cake, half eaten.",
"A gravestone stands here. \"Izchak Miller, ascended.\"",
"A grin.",
"A hedgehog. It looks like it knows something important.",
"A hollow voice says \"Plugh\".",
"A kitten sink, for washing kitten (if only kitten liked water).",
"A kitten source (to match the kitten sink).",
"A knight who says \"Either I am an insane knave, or you will find kitten.\"\",",
"A large blue eye floats in midair.",
"A lotus. You make an interesting pair.",
"A mason jar lies here open. It's label reads: \"do not open!\".",
"A mathematician calculates the halting probability of a Turing machine.",
"A milk carton, with a black and white picture of kitten on the side.",
"A neural net -- maybe it's trying to recognize kitten.",
"A non-descript box of crackers.",
"A number of short theatrical productions are indexed 1, 2, 3, … n.",
"A pile of coaxial plumbing lies here.",
"A screwdriver.",
"A set of keys to a 2001 Rolls Royce. Worthless.",
"A sign reads: \"Go home!\"",
"A sign reads: \"No robots allowed!\"",
"A statue of a girl holding a goose like the one in Gottingen, Germany.",
"A stegosaurus, escaped from the stegosaurusfindsrobot game. It finds you.",
"A technical university in Australia.",
"A tetradrachm dated \"42 B.C.\"",
"A train of thought chugs through here.",
"A voice booms out \"Onward, kitten soldiers…\"",
"A wireframe model of a hot dog rotates in space here.",
"A wondrous and intricate golden amulet. Too bad you have no neck.",
"Air Guitar!!! NA na NA na!!",
"An animate blob of acid. Being metallic, you keep well away.",
"An aromatherapy candle burns with healing light.",
"An eminently forgettable zahir.",
"An old bootable business card, unfortunately cracked down the middle.",
"Any ordinary robot could see from a mile away that this wasn't kitten.",
"Apparently, it's Edmund Burke.",
"Approaching. One car. J. Followed by. Two car. M, M. In five. Minutes.",
"Baling wire and chewing gum.",
"Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Color, Phosphoric Acid, Flavors, Caffeine.",
"Chewing gum and baling wire.",
"Conan O'Brian, sans jawbone.",
"Ed Witten sits here, pondering string theory.",
"Fonzie sits here, mumbling incoherently about a shark and a pair of waterskis.",
"For a moment, you feel something in your hands, but it disappears!",
"Free Dmitry Sklyarov!",
"Free Jon Johansen!",
"Here is a book about Robert Kennedy.",
"Here is no kitten but only rock, rock and no kitten and the sandy road.",
"Hey, I bet you thought this was kitten.",
"Hey, robot, leave those lists alone.",
"Ho hum. Another synthetic a posteriori.",
"If it's not one thing, it's another.",
"If it's one thing, it's not another.",
"It is -- I just feel something wonderful is about to happen.",
"It is a cloud shaped like an ox.",
"It is a marzipan dreadnought that appears to have melted and stuck.",
"It is a set of wind-up chatter teeth.",
"It is an ancient mariner, and he stoppeth one of three.",
"It pleases you to be kind to what appears to be kitten -- but it's not!",
"It seems to be a copy of \"A Tail of Two Kitties\".",
"It's \"Chicken Soup for the Kitten-seeking Soulless Robot.\"",
"It's Asimov's Laws of Robotics. You feel a strange affinity for them.",
"It's Bach's Mass in B-minor!",
"It's Death.",
"It's Emporer Shaddam the 4th's planet!",
"It's Kieran Hervold. Damn dyslexia!",
"It's Roya Naini.",
"It's Sirhan-Sirhan, looking guilty.",
"It's a Cat 5 cable.",
"It's a DVD of \"Crouching Monkey, Hidden Kitten\", region encoded for the moon.",
"It's a Dvorak keyboard.",
"It's a U.S. president.",
"It's a big block of ice. Something seems to be frozen inside it.",
"It's a big smoking fish.",
"It's a blatant plug for Ogg Vorbis, http://www.vorbis.com/",
"It's a blind man. When you touch, he exclaims \"It's a kitten prospecting robot!\"",
"It's a bottle of nail polish remover.",
"It's a bug.",
"It's a business plan for a new startup, kitten.net.",
"It's a cardboard box full of 8-tracks.",
"It's a copy of \"Zen and The Art of Robot Maintenance\".",
"It's a copy of Knuth with the chapter on kitten-search algorithms torn out.",
"It's a copy of the robotfindskitten EULA.",
"It's a free Dmitry Sklyarov!",
"It's a free Jon Johansen!",
"It's a hundred-dollar bill.",
"It's a lost wallet. It's owner didn't have pets, so you discard it.",
"It's a moment of silence.",
"It's a mousetrap, baited with soap.",
"It's a piece of cloth used to cover a stage in between performances.",
"It's a revised business plan for a new startup, my.kitten.net.",
"It's a rotten old shoe.",
"It's a squad of Keystone Kops.",
"It's a square.",
"It's a synthetic a priori truth! Immanuel would be so pleased!",
"It's an Internet chain letter about sodium laureth sulfate.",
"It's an autographed copy of \"Secondary Colors,\" by Bob Ross.",
"It's an inverted billiard ball!",
"It's either a mirror, or another soulless kitten-seeking robot.",
"It's the ASCII Floating Head of Seth David Schoen!",
"It's the Donation of Constantine!",
"It's the Tiki Room.",
"It's the author of \"Randomness and Mathematical Proof\".",
"It's the crusty exoskeleton of an arthropod!",
"It's the embalmed corpse of Vladimir Lenin.",
"It's the handheld robotfindskitten game, by Tiger.",
"It's the phrase \"and her\", written in ancient Greek.",
"It's the triangle leg adjacent to an angle divided by the leg opposite it.",
"It's this message, nothing more.",
"It's your favorite game -- robotfindscatan!",
"Judith Platt insults librarians.",
"Just a broken hard drive containg the archives of Nerth Pork.",
"Just a man selling an albatross.",
"Just a monitor with the blue element burnt out.",
"Just some old play by a Czech playwright, and you can't read Czech.",
"Just the empty husk of a locust.",
"Kitten is the letter 'Q'. Oh, wait, maybe not.",
"Lysine, an essential amino acid. Well, maybe not for robots.",
"Mr. Hooper is here, surfing.",
"No kitten here.",
"One person shouts \"What do we want?\" The crowd answers \"Free Dmitry!\"",
"Preoccupation with finding kitten prevents you from investigating further.",
"Quidquid Latine dictum sit, kitten non est.",
"Robot should not be touching that.",
"Run away! Run away!",
"Someone has written \"ad aerarium\" on the ground here.",
"Someone's identity disk lies here.",
"Something is written here in the dust. You read: \"rJbotf ndQkttten\".",
"Stimutacs.",
"Sutro Tower is visible at some distance through the fog.",
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.",
"The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.",
"The ghost of your dance instructor, his face a paper-white mask of evil.",
"The intermission from a 1930s silent movie.",
"The ionosphere seems charged with meaning.",
"The non-kitten item bites!",
"The non-kitten item like this but with \"false\" and \"true\" switched is true.\",",
"The non-kitten item like this but with \"true\" and \"false\" switched is false.",
"The rothe hits! The rothe hits!",
"The score for a Czech composer's \"Kitten-Finding Symphony in C\".",
"The spectre of Sherlock Holmes wills you onwards.",
"The swampy ground around you seems to stink with disease.",
"There is an opulent throne here.",
"This appears to be a statue of Perseus.",
"This copy of \"Steal This Book\" has been stolen from a bookstore.",
"This invisible box contains a pantomime horse.",
"This is a porcelain kitten-counter. 0, 0, 0, 0, 0…",
"This is a tasty-looking banana creme pie.",
"This is the chapter called \"A Map of the Cat?\" from Feynman's autobiography.\",",
"This is the forest primeval.",
"This is the tenth key you've found so far.",
"This jar of pickles expired in 1957.",
"This kit is the fourteenth in a series of kits named with Roman letters.",
"This looks like Bradley's \"Appearance and Reality\", but it's really not.",
"This map is not the territory.",
"This might be the fountain of youth, but you'll never know.",
"This non-kitten item no verb.",
"This particular monstrosity appears to be ENIAC.",
"This place is called Antarctica. There is no kitten here.",
"This seems to be junk mail addressed to the finder of the Eye of Larn.",
"This tomography is like, hella axial, man!",
"Tigerbot Hesh.",
"Vladimir Lenin's casket rests here.",
"We wish you a merry kitten, and a happy New Year!",
"Werner's \"Pocket Field Guide to Things That Are Not Kitten\".",
"You can see right through this copy of Brin's \"Transparent Society\".",
"You disturb a murder of crows.",
"You feel strangely unfulfilled.",
"You find a bright shiny penny.",
"You find a fraud scheme in which loans are used as security for other loans.",
"You found netkit! Way to go, robot!",
"You found nettik, but that's backwards.",
"You have found some zinc, but you must not stop here, for you must find kitten.\",",
"You have new mail in /var/spool/robot",
"You hit the non-kitten item. The non-kitten item fails to yowl.",
"You see a snowflake here, melting slowly.",
"You suddenly yearn for your distant homeland.",
"You've found the snows of yesteryear! So that's where they all went to.",
"You've found… Oh wait, that's just a cat."
]
},
{
"//": "Extra CDDA-themed items or memes",
"type": "snippet",
"category": "non_kitten_items",
"text": [
"That is a moose, a thing of pure evil. You should \"RUN!\"",
"It's a half-drunk 200-liter tank of pine needle tea.",
"Here is a cargo space containing a six-month supply of pemmican.",
"This is a cardboard box, tragically uninhabited by any felines.",
"Watch your step! There is a board with a bunch of nails sticking up.",
"You count sixteen fire axes in this crate.",
"An assortment of high-caliber rifles in a body bag.",
"A muskellunge dives into the flowing deep water!",
"A duck flies over the flowing deep water!",
"The corpse is thoroughly pulped.",
"Jackpot! It's a toolbox, and a copy of \"Under the Hood\".",
"Looks like a fully-functional deathmobile.",
"A glass flask of Troglobite mutagen.",
"Just an ordinary pair of rollerblades.",
"Some harmless-looking mushrooms.",
"A nest full of containers! Or is it a container full of nests?",
"These socks have storage pouches sewn into them.",
"Whatever this is, it would take an extremely long time to wield.",
"Camouflaged in the underbrush here is the entrance to an LMOE shelter.",
"A box of delicious toast-ems! Sadly, you are a robot and cannot eat them.",
"Enough ordnance to scrub the entirety of New England off the face of the earth.",
"Oooh look! A mininuke (active). Best not touch that…",
"Not a kitten, but what appears to be a ferret eating a plate of lasagne."
]
},
{
"//": "Generated by robot - items here were created by AI algorithm from other items",
"type": "snippet",
"category": "non_kitten_items",
"text": [
"A bunch of pies! In a plastic box, of course.",
"It's the Skeleton Costume Design Committee.",
"This is the end of the world.",
"This is a model of Yugo car from 1984.",
"A wooden barrel of water.",
"A box of sunflowers.",
"A book on what animal to eat.",
"A bucket of poisonous gas.",
"A diary that proves your wife is never home.",
"A jar full of Earthworms.",
"A CD of Little Richard.",
"A jar of fingerprints."
]
},
{
"//": "Other miscellaneous items",
"type": "snippet",
"category": "non_kitten_items",
"text": [
"A lifetime supply of beef.",
"A pen that still has some ink in it.",
"The Golden Fleece.",
"Exactly 37 hot dogs.",
"The Panama Papers",
"A copy of Don Quixote, slightly eaten.",
"A solid gold rocket car.",
"Your long lost twin's roommate.",
"A pile of very sharp cherry tree petals.",
"Some brass laundry tokens.",
"A plastic bin containing an assortment of spatulas.",
"A power dongle belonging to a long-lost electronic gadget.",
"A potato clock that someone forgot to change for Daylight Saving Time.",
"Ninety-nine red balloons.",
"A bobble-head statue of Genghis Khan winking at you.",
"Your sense of dignity.",
"The One Paperclip, forged in the fires of Mount Doom.",
"That one screw you were missing to finish building an Ikea desk three years ago.",
"A kitten! No… wait, it's a turkey."
]
}
]

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