HOLY SHIT LMAO

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Boyne should get together with Naomi Wolf and write something. Maybe call it "Death Recorded With Hylian Shrooms"

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Thats what you get when you trust Bing

@tallgirlvanessa Impressive! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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maybe he just used chatgpt
@therealkuu @tallgirlvanessa this is from a couple years before ChatGPT.

@tallgirlvanessa Someone should let Nintendo's legal team know

They’ll be super happy about this and will happily promote this book, they're not known to be super protective of their IP and hyper litigious at the faintest scent of someone using their IP at all… 🙄

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Maybe he should've asked ChatGPT...

Well, then we'd also laugh about him.
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@momo @tallgirlvanessa @selea possibly that is exactly what happened!
@tallgirlvanessa never struggled so hard to hold my tears and cries of laughter here, my kids are supposed to sleep darn it
@tallgirlvanessa I love this one because if you read the rest of the paragraph, it's not just the red dye, it's basically everything
@tallgirlvanessa holy crap, the part that’s not underlined even mentions KEESE WING.
@tallgirlvanessa i ugly laughed when i got to the underlined part in the last pic

@tallgirlvanessa @chartier I mean, I got to the end thinking “What an ass, but I guess if you really don’t know about dye mak—Lizalfos?!?! And yep, Hylian shrooms!”

Holy cats. 🤦‍♂️

and schools across the UK thought one of his past stories was good enough to teach kids. It was only this year or so when I learned about the inaccuracies of TBITSP. 😐
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@tallgirlvanessa this will never not be funny
@tallgirlvanessa This will never not be funny.
@tallgirlvanessa #ProTip When you are writing fiction, you can make things up. There is no need to plagiarize.
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Good take away. ☺️
@tallgirlvanessa it always happens that I think I know nothing, but then I see somebody who knows even less and I think "wow, at least I'm not that stupid"
@tallgirlvanessa oh yeah I remember that

he got kinda laughed at in New Scientist
@tallgirlvanessa Holy crap, I'd be SO MUCH embarrassed if I had done such a thing, LOOOOOL.
@tallgirlvanessa I’m white male and mediocre and I gotta say, we’re not all this terrible! 😂
@tallgirlvanessa just HOW did he think no one was going to notice
@tallgirlvanessa How many editors saw this and not even one of them is a gamer? XD
@tallgirlvanessa Well, give the poor bastard the benefit of the doubt: maybe he was just high as a kite on Hylian shrooms.

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oh, isn't that an old story already ?

still a good one though

@tallgirlvanessa not the Hylian mushrooms lmaooooo

@tallgirlvanessa it’s either weapons grade idiocy or his ghostwriter decided to quit with a bang.

Or both, can always be both.

@tallgirlvanessa Oh it's better (by which I mean so so much worse) than that! The /r/HobbyDrama post is a fascinating dive. https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/yhtk49/books_the_boyne_in_the_striped_pajamas_how_a/

Warnings for a lot of discussion of the Holocaust, and of very very bad education about the Holocaust.

[Books] The Boyne in the Striped Pajamas: How a bestselling author got into a Twitter slapfight with the Auschwitz Museum and put Legend of Zelda monsters in his serious historical novel because he thought they were real animals

This is the story of John Boyne, a beloved author of historical novels who has sold millions of books and whose research methods seem to be...

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@tallgirlvanessa This is both embarrassing, depressing and unbelievably silly to the point of becoming pure gold comedy.

Makes me go through all stages of grief at blazing speed.

@tallgirlvanessa And here I was thinking it'd be hilarious to troll people with a video game called "real life" that has a ton of nonsense recipes...

Guess it's not necessary at this point.

@tallgirlvanessa They must think Red Lizalfos and Hylian Shrooms are real. xD