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ultrafilter posted:Per Wikipedia, Mother's Day 2015 is May 3rd in Hungary, Lithuania, Mozambique, Portugal and Spain. Yeah let's just pretend it's one of those and pretend I'm not a loving idiot when it comes to checking calendars, just as Porkchop Weebottoms is going to pretend he was just joking around about the Ghost King's wife entering into a marriage with his brother. quote:
Porkchop Weebottoms immediately backslides and fesses up to his dumbassery, just as I'm going to. Yep, I got the date wrong. quote:
Porkchop Weebottoms is immediately convinced. All that's left is for him to decide how to word his statement of intent to end a human life. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Can't see any real reason not to be classy.
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# ? May 5, 2015 14:21 |
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I figure we'll get more "Shakespeare was dumb" either way but probably less so if we just say it without being classy
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# ? May 5, 2015 17:09 |
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I would like to point out that I am one of the circlejerk artists that contributed to this book (but I haven't done a webcomic). I just contacted Ryan North and asked if I could do a picture and he said yes.
Chewbot fucked around with this message at 19:45 on May 5, 2015 |
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Rhiodise posted:I figure we'll get more "Shakespeare was dumb" either way but probably less so if we just say it without being classy I give even odds that it gives us a dead end, or just routes us back to the option where we get more soapboxing. School in the summertime
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Chewbot posted:I would like to point out that I am one of the circlejerk artists that contributed to this book (but I haven't done a webcomic). I just contacted Ryan North and asked if I could do a picture and he said yes. I doubt anyone thinks less of the people who only did pictures, no need to fear. Let us know when it's your work though cause I'm not the only one probably who hasn't seen your art or recognizes your real name.
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# ? May 6, 2015 08:11 |
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Let us speak plainly, and without class. I'm a sucker for fully exploring dialogue trees.
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:I doubt anyone thinks less of the people who only did pictures, no need to fear. Let us know when it's your work though cause I'm not the only one probably who hasn't seen your art or recognizes your real name. Agreed on all of this. I'll be looking forward to seeing what you contributed; we've all been really enjoying the illustrations so far. The thread is now deciding whether or not we'll risk running into another of said ending illustrations. We need a tiebreaker vote; is Porkchop Weebottoms going to play it safe and classy, or try to just get his murder promises over with?
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# ? May 7, 2015 00:04 |
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We ain't got no class
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# ? May 7, 2015 00:06 |
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This is the douchiest book I've ever seen.
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alcharagia posted:This is the douchiest book I've ever seen. I'm kinda getting pissed with the useless choices when it's just railroading us along the actual story.
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alcharagia posted:This is the douchiest book I've ever seen. I might just request a thread title change for that. Added Space has the tiebreaker, and so Porkchop Weebottoms is going to be the simple little man that he is. quote:
And so we head back to Horatio, same as what we saw last time: quote:
Murdering Claudius here gives us the same result as before; specifically, he performs 30 actions one after another in the span of one decision and the book ends. This time we're going with the Yorick option. quote:
And here we reach a meaningful decision! Yes, the first option just repeats this page ad infinitum. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Aug 22, 2015 |
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I'm almost certain the second option is just going to give the exact same ending as ever so gently caress it Ophelia it is.
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# ? May 7, 2015 00:50 |
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The first option there I actually found funny. (If you ignore that the book has been beating the "Hamlet - man of inaction" bit to death, it's an amusing thing to throw in a CYOA). Let's go see Ophelia.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:I'm kinda getting pissed with the useless choices when it's just railroading us along the actual story. Based on what we've seen of Ophelia apparently getting a "murder everyone" route, and North's rants on sexism that may or may not actually be in the play, I wonder if all the real CYOA stuff is for her in order to "fix" Shakespeare's mistake of not having a badass female protagonist who don't need no man. So sure, let's go see Ophelia.
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# ? May 7, 2015 01:53 |
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Let's see Ryan North's brand of feminism where the women must be strictly better and more competent than the men and talk to our GF.
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# ? May 7, 2015 06:42 |
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Why does the first thing have a skull too if it's just a repeat? Ophelia I guess.
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Opheila
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dreezy posted:Let's see Ryan North's brand of feminism where the women must be strictly better and more competent than the men and talk to our GF. In time, we'll find out whether Ryan North can write a believable female character or if Ophelia will wind up being some kind of renaissance superhero. quote:
Yorick's not fond of that last option at all, but it's still a Yorick option. Are we going to keep following behind him to the bitter end, or try and get out of here as fast as we can? Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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We need help.
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# ? May 7, 2015 13:46 |
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Porkchop Weebottoms must clearly foul his stockings. Weebottoms by name, Weebottoms by nature.
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I gotta say, I did laugh at: "Listen," you say and then you go murder Claudius. But I have a funny feeling that it will just go to something we've seen before. Let's get her help, since Weebottoms prolly can't do it on his own.
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# ? May 7, 2015 14:48 |
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Get Ophilia in on this, maybe we'll actually get a branching path.
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# ? May 7, 2015 15:09 |
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Get her help
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Hamlet is going to try just talking to her about what's up, rather than whatever the hell that other option is.quote:
As before with Horatio, we don't have a choice. We're heading up to look for this ghost, in accordance with Ophelia's suggestion. quote:
Porkchop Weebottoms just can't control himself. quote:
I've started adding the little statlists that appear at the end of each playthrough. "Choices Made," "Times You Were," and "Times You Were Not" always appear, some stats are triggered to appear by various events, and some appear and disappear at random. I find the word "choices" to be rather broadly defined here, however. Speaking of which, Porkchop Weebottoms has done it again. We got railroaded right into marrying Ophelia, inventing the alcohol thermometer fifty hears early, becoming king, and living happily ever after. We also ran out of 1-Ups, so it's time to spend some time with ol' Yorick! Last time in Poor Yorick, our hero stubbornly refused to die when he was fated to, causing the world to be devoured by a tear in reality some years later. Poor Yorick has 11 more endings that we haven't yet seen, but instead of holding a vote on options this time, we're going to do something different! There's a little secret to how Poor Yorick is structured, and it's your job to find out what that secret is. Once you think you have it, post your guess in the thread, along with which choice (of ALL choices we've seen in Poor Yorick) you want to make. The first person to guess correctly has their choice taken right away! To help you all out, I've gone and set up hyperlinks in all of the previous Poor Yorick posts. Click here to go to page 1, and follow the hyperlinks to see every decision we've made so far! Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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I'm not even going to try and guess it but seriously more railroading? That's kind of boring.
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Well I guess that's an okay ending. Sorta. This book is not really all that keen or good at Shakespeare jokes. This book is not really
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I actually think this was the best ending we've gotten so far. It would have been a fine CYOA ending for Hamlet - it's just way too abrupt in its delivery. Make a pass at the queen, I guess. Is the secret of Poor Yorick's formatting that it's completely terrible?
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# ? May 8, 2015 06:59 |
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I thought the ending was a hot sack of dog poo poo.
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# ? May 8, 2015 07:03 |
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Poor Yorick is the only CYOA where you always die? Let the fool go before you
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# ? May 8, 2015 07:41 |
It's designed around one main path and loads of single choice dead ends just like Hamlet and Hamlet Sr.'s stories? Don't get out of bed.
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:It's designed around one main path and loads of single choice dead ends just like Hamlet and Hamlet Sr.'s stories? That's exactly right! I mentioned there are 11 remaining endings, and it so happens that there are 11 remaining choices total that we have yet to uncover! Every scene in Poor Yorick has 2 or 3 options, and only one of those leads to another option. The rest are instant game overs. Anything that Yorick could have done differently from the path that led him to the ending we previously saw -- be it begging the king not to be left alone with Kid Hamlet, recounting a charming jape instead of making fart sounds, or pushing a different jester forward instead when he's called into the throne room -- is a death sentence for Yorick. The book has no branching paths; it's a straight line where every deviation from the true path sends Yorick straight off a cliff. Armed with this knowledge, Yorick's not even going to bother getting out of bed in the morning. quote:>>Restart<< See, Yorick knows the drill. Every single option you had to choose from was an instant game over. Let's get back to the adventures of Porkchop Weebottoms. Last time, our hero brought Ophelia up with to look for ghosts, and they ended up making out and building fabulous inventions and living happily ever after in an ending that managed to be a lot more boring than the immediately-murdering-Claudius one. This time, we're going to try and steer clear of that. Hamlet has two 1-ups!
Our map has been updated! Watch out, because once again it's absolutely huge. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 14:14 on May 8, 2015 |
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Let's try being somebody who gets real choices for a change. Be Ophelia from the top.
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# ? May 8, 2015 14:37 |
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holy poo poo is literally half of that map made of Ophelia choices? Jesus christ
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# ? May 8, 2015 21:03 |
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I think this time we should wee our bottoms.
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# ? May 8, 2015 21:17 |
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Whatever option leads to the quickest game over
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Stallion Cabana posted:holy poo poo is literally half of that map made of Ophelia choices? Jesus christ About a third of it. Ophelia is a busy lady. Another half of the map is Hamlet, and the rest is Ghost Dad and various weird stuff we haven't yet seen. The map also has an infocard in the iOS app release's art gallery: We haven't seen the aforementioned mistake crop up yet.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Whatever option leads to the quickest game over I'm pretty sure we already did that with Ghost Dad. Lets go with Ophelia, and follow the base story to the letter.
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STRETCH GOAL SPOTLIGHT The To Be or Not To Be Kickstarter project raised $580,000 on a base goal of $20,000, and had stretch goals all the way up to the $525,000 mark. The stretch goals included additional illustrators and illustrations for both books, the Poor Yorick side story, and the To Be or Not To Be audiobook release narrated by Matt Yantha. Other stretch goals were for various goodies to accompany the book when it was shipped to various backers: a four-tined skull bookmark, the flowchart poster, various stickers, and an 11" plush Yorick skull. Additionally, some of the stretch goals were to print additional copies of To Be or Not To Be and ship them to various schools, universities, and libraries. And then, there was one particular stretch goal that read as follows: quote:$200,000 = UNLOCKED: a stage performance where the entire internet votes on what happens next! To accomplish this, Ryan North engaged the Busan English Theatre Association in Busan, South Korea to put on a live performance of To Be or Not To Be. The performance was directed by webcomic artist Ryan Estrada and streamed live over the internet via Google Hangouts, with thousands of viewers watching and voting on what would happen next. The performance took place on March 23, 2013 and lasted 163 minutes. Afterwards, it was saved on Ryan Estrada's Youtube channel, where it remains viewable. There are numerous and sound arguments as to why this kind of performance is a terrible idea. As far as I am concerned, this performance might actually be well-directed and well-performed, but there is also an extremely high likelihood that the entire thing is going to be an unmitigated disaster. That is why I am about to watch the entire video in one sitting, and report to this thread whether the performance is worth watching, not worth watching, or a genuine crime against the humanities. I will keep a log, with minute references, as to what is taking place and my thoughts on the performance, and at the end of the log I will link the video. I will try my best to be open-minded and optimistic, but I have no idea what I am about to experience. Wish me luck. quote:00:00:00: A number of white men are milling around inside what appears to be an apartment living room, trying on various suits of modern-day clothing. A cardboard sign dominates the front of the screen, and reads: "THE PLAY WILL COMMENCE ON THE HOUR." A Youtube annotation indicates that the play will start at the 31-minute mark. There is no sound. VERDICT: The video is here. It's eminently unwatchable. Some of the Shakespeare in Busan actors were decently talented, but for the most part they were bland and mediocre, and couldn't keep up with the narrator. About that, the narrator read from a three-ring binder of the text of To Be or Not To Be and was absolutely hateful. Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 00:11 on May 10, 2015 |
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Pittsburgh Lambic posted:Additionally, some of the stretch goals were to print additional copies of To Be or Not To Be and ship them to various schools, universities, and libraries.
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