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Make a document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman? (2011) (tex.stackexchange.com)
100 points by segfaultbuserr on May 12, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Reminds me a little bit of the answer to the Stack Overflow question about parsing HTML with Regular Expressions... https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 [Edit: Fixed Link]


The "<center> cannot hold" is a beautiful reference to "The Second Coming" by Yeats

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...


Best subcomment on a stack exchange in a while:

"Googling "crazy latex" did not return what I expected."


This might be a good place to mention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc87uvk8GBc

"Hey there, Cthulhu, down there in your sunken city / seems a billion light years distant / bet the stars look very pretty from R'lyeh ..."

It sounds creepier if you can raise the pitch by 20-25%, e.g. in NewPipe (Android), mpv, or something. (In mpv, use "--audio-pitch-correction=no", and "]" in its window to speed it up.)




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