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[–] aeronmelon 24 points 8 months ago

"Teacher said I had to finish the book."

Speedrun any %

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Thats the point. They are pretty fun

[–] RGB3x3 12 points 8 months ago

OP discovers the "choose" part of "choose your own adventure"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Quicksave immediately after getting a new offensive power so you can try it out ASAP on the NPC that gave it to you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Zoomboingding 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You read bad ones then. I picked up a huge stack at a book fair called Lone Wolf circa 1985 about a psychic warrior monk. Each book has multiple paths that can lead to victory.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds nice. So Lone Wolf is the title of the books?

[–] Zoomboingding 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I found out the books can also be read online, printed out, or downloaded for ereaders through this project with blessings from the author:

https://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah, good stuff. There was an android app that allowed you to read them and automatically kept track of your items and health. I just looked and I think the project is dead now unfortunately, but it got me through some boring days at work.

[–] Zoomboingding 1 points 8 months ago

Notepad app and dice roller for me. Great books for flights since the books themselves were small enough to fit in my pocket

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Many books have a more complex structure than simply an acyclic directed graph; an ending often has multiple ways of being reached.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Go to the 5th comment

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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...)

[–] db2 7 points 8 months ago

Is his thumb on the old page to go back to it quickly?

[–] aesthelete 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] Hule 4 points 8 months ago

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

I did it with dictonaries, too..

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 4 points 8 months ago

I can't do that! I would feel so bad.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is that Shaq? How old is this? I don't remember him ever looking this young and slim.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

V - I sure hope this works for someone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If the bad ends aren't fun what's even the point of it being a CYOA?