And to answer its question - the game was set in the 1910s, just before the sinking of the titanic, and the holes carved into the earth were releasing a great and terrible magik into the world
I wanted to give it benefit of the doubt but the same poster has an identical AI “Interesting point about X” comment in a different thread. This checks out.
It's unfortunate that I have interacted with real humans (face-to-face) who sound like that, long before AI existed.
I really want HN mods to do something about this infestation.
Click on the timestamp of the post and then click the "flag" link. Mods investigate accounts with patterns of flagged comments. Or if you see an offending account that is especially prolific, send an email reporting it to hn@ycombinator.com.