You are abducted by aliens known as the U-Ty Masters to be placed in their …
Content warning An old joke about a Choose Your Own Adventure book
I've read 95% of this book but I'm not sure I can finish it.
Content warning An old joke about a Choose Your Own Adventure book
@futzle ye gods I had this book I think
Content warning Explaining the joke, spoilers
There was an ending (a happy utopian one in a book where most endings were akin to dying in a vacuum) which could not be reached by following the rules of Choose Your Own Adventure books: no other decision in the book pointed to this ending. At the time I considered this a betrayal of the social contract of Choose Your Own Adventure. I was mad! With the benefit of adulthood I've come to accept that this was an in-joke, social commentary of sorts on the consequences of breaking the rules. I still don't think I like it.
Content warning An old joke about a Choose Your Own Adventure book
@futzle@outside.ofa.dog @futzle@old.mermaid.town This book and its unattainable ending were probably many kids’ introduction to existentialist philosophy
Content warning An old joke about a Choose Your Own Adventure book
@acb @futzle@outside.ofa.dog @futzle@old.mermaid.town these types of books for my introduction to indexing reverse pointers
Content warning An old joke about a Choose Your Own Adventure book
@futzle lol, I had that book as a kid.
