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Choose Your Own Adventure – Most Likely You’ll Die

20 points by kqr2 17y ago

teilo 17y ago
Now there is a complete waste of time that I can really dig! Very cool. Brings back lots of memories.
WilliamLP 17y ago
In life, too, most choices lead to death.
- biohacker42 17y ago
  If you find a series of decisions that DON'T ultimately lead to death, please share it with us.
  - Devilboy 17y ago
    Kurzweil has some theories about this...
    - biohacker42 17y ago
      He also takes a staggering amount of pills despite the latest science: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/8/842 http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/8/842
- redherring 17y ago
  Life is a bitch after all.
  - ovi256 17y ago
    And then you die.
    - kingkawn 17y ago
      that's why we get high / cause you never know when you're gonna go
- zandorg 17y ago
  Unless the choice is to live forever?
zach 17y ago
As a child, I was mystified by this CYOA, where I once reached an lavishly favorable ending and on further readings was unable to determine how to get to it again... Great hack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40#Plot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40#Plot
nfriedly 17y ago
I would always fold the corners down so I could "undo" if I ended up dying. This usually got confusing after a while..
wallflower 17y ago
I remember using all of my fingers to "cheat" and do a forward-path seek.
witten 17y ago
There was at least one CYOA "competitor" series of books in which there was only a single ending in a book. And if you got to that ending, you won. Punishment for making a wrong choice involved simply being sent back to a page you had already seen. This was done in such a way that it made sense within the plot (such as going back to jail). This always struck me as a much better way to implement a CYOA-style book: An implicit acknowledgement that you would just go back and try again if you made a wrong turn.
- listic 17y ago
  Can someone please dig its name? Coming from different country, I hadn't been exposed to such kind of books at all.
  - zandorg 17y ago
    Fighting Fantasy (very vivid, huge fantasy world) or Interplanetary Spy (a classic for the most silly ways to die, like getting trapped in a prison bubble on the outside of a ship for the rest of your life...).
kingkawn 17y ago
When I was 7 I read a choose your own adventure where you had to try to get to Utopia. I read through it 4 times without success, so I flipped the pages to find the picture of Utopia in the middle. Scanning through page by page, I realized there was no way to get there. Fuckers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40 Edit: Just saw that this enraged and educated other kids just the same.
ZeroGravitas 17y ago
A choose your own adventure book for adults: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lifes-Lottery-Kim-Newman/dp/0671015974 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lifes-Lottery-Kim-Newman/dp/06710159...
jknupp 17y ago
Two especially interesting nodes (95, 91). On one you either win or you die on the next page. On the other you win no matter what.
unperson 17y ago
Reminds me of the Lone Wolf series. In case anyone is interested, most of the series is available to download/read (play?) in browser: http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

20 points by kqr2 17y ago

teilo 17y ago

Now there is a complete waste of time that I can really dig! Very cool. Brings back lots of memories.

WilliamLP 17y ago

In life, too, most choices lead to death.

biohacker42 17y ago
If you find a series of decisions that DON'T ultimately lead to death, please share it with us.
- Devilboy 17y ago
  Kurzweil has some theories about this...
  - biohacker42 17y ago
    He also takes a staggering amount of pills despite the latest science: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/8/842 http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/8/842
redherring 17y ago
Life is a bitch after all.
- ovi256 17y ago
  And then you die.
  - kingkawn 17y ago
    that's why we get high / cause you never know when you're gonna go
zandorg 17y ago
Unless the choice is to live forever?

zach 17y ago

As a child, I was mystified by this CYOA, where I once reached an lavishly favorable ending and on further readings was unable to determine how to get to it again... Great hack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40#Plot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40#Plot

nfriedly 17y ago

I would always fold the corners down so I could "undo" if I ended up dying. This usually got confusing after a while..

wallflower 17y ago

I remember using all of my fingers to "cheat" and do a forward-path seek.

witten 17y ago

There was at least one CYOA "competitor" series of books in which there was only a single ending in a book. And if you got to that ending, you won. Punishment for making a wrong choice involved simply being sent back to a page you had already seen. This was done in such a way that it made sense within the plot (such as going back to jail). This always struck me as a much better way to implement a CYOA-style book: An implicit acknowledgement that you would just go back and try again if you made a wrong turn.

listic 17y ago
Can someone please dig its name? Coming from different country, I hadn't been exposed to such kind of books at all.
- zandorg 17y ago
  Fighting Fantasy (very vivid, huge fantasy world) or Interplanetary Spy (a classic for the most silly ways to die, like getting trapped in a prison bubble on the outside of a ship for the rest of your life...).

kingkawn 17y ago

When I was 7 I read a choose your own adventure where you had to try to get to Utopia. I read through it 4 times without success, so I flipped the pages to find the picture of Utopia in the middle. Scanning through page by page, I realized there was no way to get there. Fuckers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40 Edit: Just saw that this enraged and educated other kids just the same.

ZeroGravitas 17y ago

A choose your own adventure book for adults: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lifes-Lottery-Kim-Newman/dp/0671015974 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lifes-Lottery-Kim-Newman/dp/06710159...

jknupp 17y ago

Two especially interesting nodes (95, 91). On one you either win or you die on the next page. On the other you win no matter what.

unperson 17y ago

Reminds me of the Lone Wolf series. In case anyone is interested, most of the series is available to download/read (play?) in browser: http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books