Writers were turning sentences into full articles long before LLMs, though

I mean, he says more than just the single phrase.

He narrates the entire intro and outro, all of its possible variants, various lines for ways you can die, etc, for the original Fallout.

Here's the actual whole intro:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VvRW46pyKCY

(Pearlman's part starts at about 1:35)

War. War never changes.

The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth.

Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory.

Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower.

But war never changes.

In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: petroleum and uranium. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth.

In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.

A few were able to reach the relative safety of the large underground Vaults. Your family was part of that group that entered Vault Thirteen. Imprisoned safely behind the large Vault door, under a mountain of stone, a generation has lived without knowledge of the outside world.

Life in the Vault is about to change.

I’m quite sure the “writer” of this article earned less than $40 + a sandwich for it.