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Leadthumb: Mar 24, 2006

The Kins posted:

pre:

> open closet

You find a bunch of old clutter left behind by Chet's parents, first from when
they used this as the spare room, then from when it was the nursery for Chet
himself. There's a lot of history in this pile, and also probably a lot of gross
birth fluids or whatever it is that happens.

> examine clutter

You give a cursory, half-hearted browse of the cultural rubble. This room must've
also been the man cave before Chet showed up. Man, if walls could talk...

Of the debris, the two items that catch your eye are a battered Playstation 3
and a clothing catalog.

> examine playstation 3

It appears to be late model. You don't know what firmware it's on, but you're
pretty sure it doesn't have the PS2 backwards compatibility stuff.

> take playstation 3

Taken.

> take playstation 3 games

I don't know what "playstation 3 games" is.

> examine catalog

A catalog for one of the many kids clothing stores that used to litter stripmalls
from coast to coast. "BACK 2 SKOOL!" is printed on the front in enthusiastic
Comic Sans, above a fellow twelve year old dressed in a baggy school uniform
and shades giving the least enthusiastic thumbs up ever.

There but for the grace of God, huh?

> take catalog

Taken.

> place playstation 3 on windowsill

You carefully place the games console on the windowsill, making sure it doesn't
fall off into the yard below. That'd be hard to explain to Chet's parents.

> place catalog on windowsill.

You slip the catalog half-under the PS3 to keep it from blowing away in the
evening breeze.

> south

Bleary-eyed, you take a few steps into the kitchen to grab a quick lemonade
before bed.

Behind you, you suddenly hear a frenzy of activity from the room you just left.
It lasts all of a second, with the slam of a window acting as the dot on an
exclamation point of noise.

> north

You step back into the bedroom, and witness a preculiar sight. The catalog has
vanished completely, and the Playstation 3 has been hooked up to a period-
appropriate CRT television (that wasn't there before) running Bonk's Adventure in
a version of MAME that's older than you are. As the attract mode loops silently
and endlessly, you get the feeling that you've appeased some mysterious entity,
and that it's spared your life in return.

The rest of the night is uneventful. You fall asleep shortly thereafter and your
parents pick you up in the morning. As the neighborhood rushes by your passenger-
seat window, you reflect on the previous night and wonder - did kids REALLY grow
up playing Bonk's Adventure? Because wow, that game kinda blows.

** You Survived **

** You scored 69 points out of a possible 420 **

Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO the last
move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT?

Dude, lmao

# ? Aug 3, 2022 16:50

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# ? Jun 11, 2024 23:38

Plebian Parasite: Oct 12, 2012

The Kins posted:

pre:

> open closet

You find a bunch of old clutter left behind by Chet's parents, first from when
they used this as the spare room, then from when it was the nursery for Chet
himself. There's a lot of history in this pile, and also probably a lot of gross
birth fluids or whatever it is that happens.

> examine clutter

You give a cursory, half-hearted browse of the cultural rubble. This room must've
also been the man cave before Chet showed up. Man, if walls could talk...

Of the debris, the two items that catch your eye are a battered Playstation 3
and a clothing catalog.

> examine playstation 3

It appears to be late model. You don't know what firmware it's on, but you're
pretty sure it doesn't have the PS2 backwards compatibility stuff.

> take playstation 3

Taken.

> take playstation 3 games

I don't know what "playstation 3 games" is.

> examine catalog

A catalog for one of the many kids clothing stores that used to litter stripmalls
from coast to coast. "BACK 2 SKOOL!" is printed on the front in enthusiastic
Comic Sans, above a fellow twelve year old dressed in a baggy school uniform
and shades giving the least enthusiastic thumbs up ever.

There but for the grace of God, huh?

> take catalog

Taken.

> place playstation 3 on windowsill

You carefully place the games console on the windowsill, making sure it doesn't
fall off into the yard below. That'd be hard to explain to Chet's parents.

> place catalog on windowsill.

You slip the catalog half-under the PS3 to keep it from blowing away in the
evening breeze.

> south

Bleary-eyed, you take a few steps into the kitchen to grab a quick lemonade
before bed.

Behind you, you suddenly hear a frenzy of activity from the room you just left.
It lasts all of a second, with the slam of a window acting as the dot on an
exclamation point of noise.

> north

You step back into the bedroom, and witness a preculiar sight. The catalog has
vanished completely, and the Playstation 3 has been hooked up to a period-
appropriate CRT television (that wasn't there before) running Bonk's Adventure in
a version of MAME that's older than you are. As the attract mode loops silently
and endlessly, you get the feeling that you've appeased some mysterious entity,
and that it's spared your life in return.

The rest of the night is uneventful. You fall asleep shortly thereafter and your
parents pick you up in the morning. As the neighborhood rushes by your passenger-
seat window, you reflect on the previous night and wonder - did kids REALLY grow
up playing Bonk's Adventure? Because wow, that game kinda blows.

** You Survived **

** You scored 69 points out of a possible 420 **

Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO the last
move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT?

lmao

# ? Aug 3, 2022 16:54

mbt: Aug 13, 2012

The Kins posted:

pre:

> take playstation 3 games

I don't know what "playstation 3 games" is.

lmao

# ? Aug 3, 2022 17:41

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

The Kins posted:

pre:

> open closet

You find a bunch of old clutter left behind by Chet's parents, first from when
they used this as the spare room, then from when it was the nursery for Chet
himself. There's a lot of history in this pile, and also probably a lot of gross
birth fluids or whatever it is that happens.

> examine clutter

You give a cursory, half-hearted browse of the cultural rubble. This room must've
also been the man cave before Chet showed up. Man, if walls could talk...

Of the debris, the two items that catch your eye are a battered Playstation 3
and a clothing catalog.

> examine playstation 3

It appears to be late model. You don't know what firmware it's on, but you're
pretty sure it doesn't have the PS2 backwards compatibility stuff.

> take playstation 3

Taken.

> take playstation 3 games

I don't know what "playstation 3 games" is.

> examine catalog

A catalog for one of the many kids clothing stores that used to litter stripmalls
from coast to coast. "BACK 2 SKOOL!" is printed on the front in enthusiastic
Comic Sans, above a fellow twelve year old dressed in a baggy school uniform
and shades giving the least enthusiastic thumbs up ever.

There but for the grace of God, huh?

> take catalog

Taken.

> place playstation 3 on windowsill

You carefully place the games console on the windowsill, making sure it doesn't
fall off into the yard below. That'd be hard to explain to Chet's parents.

> place catalog on windowsill.

You slip the catalog half-under the PS3 to keep it from blowing away in the
evening breeze.

> south

Bleary-eyed, you take a few steps into the kitchen to grab a quick lemonade
before bed.

Behind you, you suddenly hear a frenzy of activity from the room you just left.
It lasts all of a second, with the slam of a window acting as the dot on an
exclamation point of noise.

> north

You step back into the bedroom, and witness a preculiar sight. The catalog has
vanished completely, and the Playstation 3 has been hooked up to a period-
appropriate CRT television (that wasn't there before) running Bonk's Adventure in
a version of MAME that's older than you are. As the attract mode loops silently
and endlessly, you get the feeling that you've appeased some mysterious entity,
and that it's spared your life in return.

The rest of the night is uneventful. You fall asleep shortly thereafter and your
parents pick you up in the morning. As the neighborhood rushes by your passenger-
seat window, you reflect on the previous night and wonder - did kids REALLY grow
up playing Bonk's Adventure? Because wow, that game kinda blows.

** You Survived **

** You scored 69 points out of a possible 420 **

Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO the last
move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT?

holy poo poo lmao

# ? Aug 3, 2022 17:51

Arch Nemesis: Mar 27, 2007

The Kins posted:

pre:

> open closet

You find a bunch of old clutter left behind by Chet's parents, first from when
they used this as the spare room, then from when it was the nursery for Chet
himself. There's a lot of history in this pile, and also probably a lot of gross
birth fluids or whatever it is that happens.

> examine clutter

You give a cursory, half-hearted browse of the cultural rubble. This room must've
also been the man cave before Chet showed up. Man, if walls could talk...

Of the debris, the two items that catch your eye are a battered Playstation 3
and a clothing catalog.

> examine playstation 3

It appears to be late model. You don't know what firmware it's on, but you're
pretty sure it doesn't have the PS2 backwards compatibility stuff.

> take playstation 3

Taken.

> take playstation 3 games

I don't know what "playstation 3 games" is.

> examine catalog

A catalog for one of the many kids clothing stores that used to litter stripmalls
from coast to coast. "BACK 2 SKOOL!" is printed on the front in enthusiastic
Comic Sans, above a fellow twelve year old dressed in a baggy school uniform
and shades giving the least enthusiastic thumbs up ever.

There but for the grace of God, huh?

> take catalog

Taken.

> place playstation 3 on windowsill

You carefully place the games console on the windowsill, making sure it doesn't
fall off into the yard below. That'd be hard to explain to Chet's parents.

> place catalog on windowsill.

You slip the catalog half-under the PS3 to keep it from blowing away in the
evening breeze.

> south

Bleary-eyed, you take a few steps into the kitchen to grab a quick lemonade
before bed.

Behind you, you suddenly hear a frenzy of activity from the room you just left.
It lasts all of a second, with the slam of a window acting as the dot on an
exclamation point of noise.

> north

You step back into the bedroom, and witness a preculiar sight. The catalog has
vanished completely, and the Playstation 3 has been hooked up to a period-
appropriate CRT television (that wasn't there before) running Bonk's Adventure in
a version of MAME that's older than you are. As the attract mode loops silently
and endlessly, you get the feeling that you've appeased some mysterious entity,
and that it's spared your life in return.

The rest of the night is uneventful. You fall asleep shortly thereafter and your
parents pick you up in the morning. As the neighborhood rushes by your passenger-
seat window, you reflect on the previous night and wonder - did kids REALLY grow
up playing Bonk's Adventure? Because wow, that game kinda blows.

** You Survived **

** You scored 69 points out of a possible 420 **

Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO the last
move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT?

lmao

# ? Aug 3, 2022 17:56

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Evil Eagle posted:

Done with this week way early, anyone have any other recommendations for text adventures? I enjoyed Superluminal Vagrant Twin and Photopia the most but I'm down to play stuff that's different too

I actually had a lot of trouble narrowing the picks down to the four that I did
some of the ones I almost picked were: The Impossible Bottle, Weird City Interloper, The Magpie Takes the Train, Foo Foo, Lost Pig, and Endless, Nameless

heard good things about but haven't actually gotten around to playing Counterfeit Monkey, Galatea, Blue Lacuna, A Rope of Chalk

if you haven't played 9:05 or Aisle, you don't like need to play them, but they're kinda games that everybody who's into interactive fiction knows. they're not great necessarily but they each do one thing incredibly well

IFDB has an automated Top 100 list that's weighted and slightly better than just browsing by rating, and it's such a small and dedicated community that the group consensus seems to actually be pretty good. the way I found most of these games was either from clicking around IFDB or looking up nominees and winners from The XYZZY Awards and just trying ones that seemed interesting to me

# ? Aug 3, 2022 18:05

I got the tude now: Jul 22, 2007

mbt posted:

lmao

Lmfao

# ? Aug 3, 2022 18:06

welcome: Jun 28, 2002; rail slut

mbt posted:

lmao

Lol

# ? Aug 3, 2022 18:08

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

trying to jack off posted:

beat photopia. im not sure where the puzzle was, i kind of hate text adventures so this was easy to sit back and earn me a free badge

the puzzle was the crystal labyrinth

kinda surprised you beat it without even realizing it was a puzzle lol
you didn't think it was weird that the astronaut you were playing as had wings?

# ? Aug 3, 2022 18:46

tmfc: Sep 28, 2006

Cubone posted:

if you haven't played 9:05 or Aisle, you don't like need to play them, but they're kinda games that everybody who's into interactive fiction knows. they're not great necessarily but they each do one thing incredibly well

these are both pretty cool, 9:05 got me pretty good when i went to the office, signed the form, and tried to hand it back to matthew bowman.. actually had a little chuckle at the ending i got for that.

# ? Aug 3, 2022 18:58

Joan: Mar 28, 2021

: Beat Gun Mute

# ? Aug 3, 2022 19:22

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

tmfc posted:

these are both pretty cool, 9:05 got me pretty good when i went to the office, signed the form, and tried to hand it back to matthew bowman.. actually had a little chuckle at the ending i got for that.

I laughed when I replayed and, based on that ending, tried >look under the bed

# ? Aug 3, 2022 19:36

Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

: Beat Gun Mute

This was a really fun little game, I was stuck on Juanita for a while lol.

# ? Aug 3, 2022 19:40

Punished Chuck: Dec 27, 2010

Pretty neat. Been a long time since I played a game like this.

: Beat any of the text adventures

# ? Aug 3, 2022 20:15

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

played Photopia now, think I might give it a couple of days and play it again. I've had an eye strain headache so some of the colours were a pain to read and probably stopped me absorbing it much lol. It didn't really work for me for whatever reason but I'll give it another go and see what I think after that

# ? Aug 3, 2022 21:06

trying to jack off: Dec 31, 2007

Cubone posted:

the puzzle was the crystal labyrinth

kinda surprised you beat it without even realizing it was a puzzle lol
you didn't think it was weird that the astronaut you were playing as had wings?

it definitely did not seem like a puzzle to me, the wings were curious but they were outright mentioned i immediately typed fly without even thinking about it. i thought maybe the seed and chest was the puzzle, but that seemed crazy to even talk up. but it at least seemed less obvious because i wanted to use them immediately but it made me wait lol. maybe im just too galaxy brained for this baby genre

# ? Aug 4, 2022 00:57

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

trying to jack off posted:

it definitely did not seem like a puzzle to me, the wings were curious but they were outright mentioned i immediately typed fly without even thinking about it. i thought maybe the seed and chest was the puzzle, but that seemed crazy to even talk up. but it at least seemed less obvious because i wanted to use them immediately but it made me wait lol. maybe im just too galaxy brained for this baby genre

*pats u*

# ? Aug 4, 2022 02:29

rodbeard: Jul 21, 2005

I finished and enjoyed Photopia a lot. It was nice of the game to save me when I forgot to take the shovel. It just gave it to me anyways.

# ? Aug 4, 2022 03:45

Leadthumb: Mar 24, 2006

Don't sleep on The Impossible Bottle, I'm stuck right now but it's really charming.

# ? Aug 4, 2022 04:00

elf help book: Aug 5, 2004; Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

thumb stuck in bottle

# ? Aug 4, 2022 04:39

P-Mack: Nov 10, 2007

Finished the last one, Act of Murder, it was nice making little hand written notes and charts to figure it out. I thought the method of actually solving and winning at the end with Inspector Duffy was a little clunky. I initially got a calculator and determined the time of death myself, not knowing that the game expected me to tell duffy about the post and the tide table and have the math done for you, and you can't win if you don't.

Also played 9:05 and lol, I think I'm gonna try a few more before the week is out.

# ? Aug 4, 2022 04:59

Evil Eagle: Nov 5, 2009

I recommend the wizard sniffer.

# ? Aug 4, 2022 05:07

elf help book: Aug 5, 2004; Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

Beat gun mute with 17 points

# ? Aug 4, 2022 08:08

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

played Photopia now, think I might give it a couple of days and play it again. I've had an eye strain headache so some of the colours were a pain to read and probably stopped me absorbing it much lol. It didn't really work for me for whatever reason but I'll give it another go and see what I think after that

The artsy abstract game about how sandcastles represent impermanence or whatever is forgiven, I am far too stupid for Act of Murder

# ? Aug 4, 2022 17:09

tmfc: Sep 28, 2006

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

The artsy abstract game about how sandcastles represent impermanence or whatever is forgiven, I am far too stupid for Act of Murder

worried i'm gonna be too dumb for Act of Murder too lol. going to try the Vagrant Twin game in a bit.

# ? Aug 4, 2022 17:20

elf help book: Aug 5, 2004; Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

The artsy abstract game about how sandcastles represent impermanence or whatever is forgiven, I am far too stupid for Act of Murder

ive had to remember how to read this week

# ? Aug 4, 2022 17:43

Sub-Actuality: Apr 17, 2007

: Beat any of the text adventures

finished Photopia, that was astonishingly good for how short it was. made me feel things. I got stuck on the toughest puzzle, how to walk out of the garage, for an embarrassingly long time lol

# ? Aug 4, 2022 22:01

rodbeard: Jul 21, 2005

I finished up Superluminal Vagrant Twin with 7/12 achievements. I started trying stuff at random afterwards while trying to find stuff I missed and found out you can record and jump to all of the planets in our solar system. I don't know if it's actually hinted at anywhere beyond Szymon saying he can't remember where humans came from.

e:

code:

    *** Your adventures will continue, another day ***
 
 
You gained 12 out of 12 achievements and visited 51 worlds in 123 jumps.

I had a lot of fun and got eaten by a grue

rodbeard fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Aug 5, 2022

# ? Aug 5, 2022 04:42

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Superluminal kicks rear end, it feels overwhelming but in a good way. I if i complete this one I'm going to feel obligated to the murder one to get my completion badge

# ? Aug 5, 2022 10:33

goferchan: Feb 8, 2004; It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.

I've actually never played Photopia before but I remember playing a few other games by the same guy as a kid, and they're pretty cool. Here's his site with the rest of them http://adamcadre.ac/if.html

# ? Aug 6, 2022 01:18

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

what a really fun little game, this is the sort of thing I really look for in interactive fiction - it's all pretty short and digestible but it's just a constant supply of imaginative and weird ideas that would be really difficult to do if it required visuals. Going to try to get the rest of the achievements for sure.

I felt like I somehow cheated towards the ending, I got the route to Haven because I had attached weird stuff to my body and a lady just told me the route so I never had to spend the money on the people that I had spent half of the game looking for, and the lady just gave me like a million credits lol

Am I being stupid or is there nowhere to actually look at the "achievements"? I can't find them anywhere. I've been floating around getting the bounties but I cannot work out how to find more planets, I'm clearly missing something a lot. Szymon just tells me that the military at Storm is a good way to explore the universe and that the ERX controller thing might make a new one but I can't work out how to actually do anything with either

Lunchmeat Larry fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Aug 6, 2022

# ? Aug 6, 2022 13:05

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

disregard, I had a third coffee and forgot some really obvious guesses and also had been spelling the word "Alpha" wrong. All went into place after that. good game

# ? Aug 6, 2022 14:18

rodbeard: Jul 21, 2005

I finished up An Act of Murder. I liked the idea of the game but had some problems with the actual execution. I had more trouble proving to the game that I knew what happened than I did actually figuring out the case. I had the right person, the murder weapon, the motive, and time of death but it did not count because I had not proven every other person did not do it. I ended up reloading and needing to use the in game hints to find out that I had not officially figured out certain details because I was using examine instead of search in a couple of places.

# ? Aug 6, 2022 20:26

P-Mack: Nov 10, 2007

rodbeard posted:

I finished up An Act of Murder. I liked the idea of the game but had some problems with the actual execution. I had more trouble proving to the game that I knew what happened than I did actually figuring out the case. I had the right person, the murder weapon, the motive, and time of death but it did not count because I had not proven every other person did not do it. I ended up reloading and needing to use the in game hints to find out that I had not officially figured out certain details because I was using examine instead of search in a couple of places.

The randomization is neat in theory but is kinda pointless in execution since how you solve the mystery doesn't really change.

# ? Aug 7, 2022 02:44

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

agreed with all of the above, finished it now but I had to bash my head trying to convince the game what I was trying to tell it, largely just because the parser is fussy and I didn't really get the logic sometimes. It was OK but definitely my least favourite of the four.

: Beat all four text adventures

# ? Aug 7, 2022 10:45

mbt: Aug 13, 2012

gun mute owns
photopia was kind of artsy but amazing for 1999

# ? Aug 8, 2022 04:16

Sub-Actuality: Apr 17, 2007

just finished Act of Murder, really cool concept and surprisingly complex for IF. agree with this though and I did exactly the same thing lol

P-Mack posted:

I thought the method of actually solving and winning at the end with Inspector Duffy was a little clunky. I initially got a calculator and determined the time of death myself, not knowing that the game expected me to tell duffy about the post and the tide table and have the math done for you, and you can't win if you don't.

# ? Aug 8, 2022 19:26

That Little Demon: Dec 3, 2020; Ask me about shitposting in SAD to get the attention my parents never gave me

Congrats to Herculon for next weeks pick

please let me know a game and some challenges and we can get to work on the write up for tomorrow.

Thanks!

# ? Aug 8, 2022 20:21

herculon: Sep 7, 2018

god drat it, I mean hell yeah I'll let you know

# ? Aug 8, 2022 20:26

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# ? Jun 11, 2024 23:38

Leadthumb: Mar 24, 2006

herculon posted:

god drat it, I mean hell yeah I'll let you know

lol

# ? Aug 8, 2022 21:53

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