• Patches@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Does this even work?

    Every “Choose your own adventure book” I ever read had the correct path, and every wrong choice had a 5 page “And then you died… go back to (page x).”.

    No intertwining anything.

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    the most fun ones were the author basically chastising you for being so stupid to pick the option they put in the book themselves lmao. i miss adventure books they were fun.

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      You begin to slide down the slope. You scrabble for purchase but there’s no way to stop yourself. You eventually die of thirst, sliding down the endless slope

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        I’m not kidding this is literally a death sequence I ran into in one of these books.

        Basically there was an option to go a small distance down an ice slope for some reason.

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    Sometimes when I play a new video game I do the same thing where I figure out how quickly it allows you to die. Very rarely do they let you die in the tutorial.

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      In Elden Ring, one could argue jumping into the tutorial was the first wrong choice altogether.

      (dunno, I skipped it accidentally and came back a short time later. I did not need that roadblock…)

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        I’m playing through it for the first time currently. Tips? I’m not super far. Basically through the tutorial, then I accidentally did the “a woman’s lot” quest and slogged through that for a few hours.

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            Thanks! Yeah I wouldn’t say I didn’t enjoy the writing of the DLC, but, after doing 2 hours of fetch quests, another 2 hours of fetch quests was a bit rough. Though, I don’t think I would have liked Theresa as much as I do without it. So there’s that.

            Glad to hear about the weapon combos.

            combat is difficult until you and Henry know what they’re doing.

            So I shouldn’t be that upset that 1v1 bandits are very hard and anything more is actually impossible for me?

            I’m definitely enjoying it, though, now that I feel that the world has opened up, I don’t feel like I can progress the main story(killing bandits after ginger) so I’m sorta just treading water, not sure how to progress lol

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    Watching some modern shows is like reading these books from first page to last page instead of following the instructions. The only difference is that every ending in the book becomes a dream sequence in the show.

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    Y’all ever read that one about “the worst day of your life?” I think that was the actual title. That one had a bunch of weirdly hardcore shit. It’s like George R. R. Martin wrote that shit, under an alternate name.

    At least half the choices in the book would cause you to die horribly.

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    Did anyone else read those books from start to end? Like a normal book?

    I did it with dictonaries, too…