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Lincoln Carpenter

A game was unintentionally listed as 'Sh***y Dungeon' on Steam in Japan thanks to goofed-up machine translation

Two skeletons from The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles. One of them has a silly face. It's silly.

In our current technological moment, when we're being urged by the world's largest companies to trust our lives to the whims of machines that might generously be considered "truth agnostic," it's important to check your work if you're letting a computer do it for you. It's a lesson that was starkly demonstrated this week for the developers of The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles—or, as it was briefly known by Japanese Steam users, "Shitty Dungeon" (via Automaton Media).

The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles is an upcoming pixel art dungeon crawler—one of those throwback titles boldly exploring the question, "What if a fantasy world was, you know, wacky?" It's got references to Skyrim. It's got a player character named "Hero Achille Williams Angelos McDurden." Sometimes the skeletons stick their tongue out all funny. You know the drill.

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