Comments on: Mastaba Snoopy: Choose-your-own-adventure based on a horrific alien intelligence that loves Peanuts http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: slida http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1621209 slida Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1621209 This seemed pretty interesting, but it didn't work right. This seemed pretty interesting, but it didn’t work right.

]]> By: Justin Becker http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619719 Justin Becker Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619719 I love this. I love this.

]]> By: jackbird http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619599 jackbird Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619599 Want to be steered to the good IF (or at least read insightful reviews of IF both good and bad)?  Read Emily Short's blog: http://emshort.wordpress.com/.  She also handles IF reviews for Play This Thing, although that's more or less defunct now. Want to be steered to the good IF (or at least read insightful reviews of IF both good and bad)?  Read Emily Short’s blog: http://emshort.wordpress.com/.  She also handles IF reviews for Play This Thing, although that’s more or less defunct now.

]]> By: FoolishOwl http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619522 FoolishOwl Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619522 There wasn't much nonsense in The Stanley Parable, and the choices were meaningless, but in a different sense of meaningless. It was a commentary on computer game narratives. There wasn’t much nonsense in The Stanley Parable, and the choices were meaningless, but in a different sense of meaningless. It was a commentary on computer game narratives.

]]> By: FoolishOwl http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619453 FoolishOwl Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619453 I hate to say this, but it seems a lot like meaningless weirdness. I think I found a "victory" page -- at least "THE END" is followed by something like an author's signature. I hate to say this, but it seems a lot like meaningless weirdness. I think I found a “victory” page — at least “THE END” is followed by something like an author’s signature.

]]> By: Halloween_Jack http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619452 Halloween_Jack Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619452  It's a completely irrelevant and derivative set-up, previously done both as a Star Trek episode ("A Piece of the Action") and a parody of Star Trek (<i>Galaxy Quest</i>). Presenting the thing as-is, without the exposition, would be much funnier.  It’s a completely irrelevant and derivative set-up, previously done both as a Star Trek episode (“A Piece of the Action”) and a parody of Star Trek (Galaxy Quest). Presenting the thing as-is, without the exposition, would be much funnier.

]]> By: signsofrain http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619435 signsofrain Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619435 Are bad text adventures the next 'cool' thing? Found that unintelligible. If I wanted to play a game full of nonsense and ultimately meaningless choices I'd replay <a href="http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-stanley-parable" rel="nofollow">The Stanley Parable</a>. At least there's a pleasant narrator to listen to! Are bad text adventures the next ‘cool’ thing? Found that unintelligible. If I wanted to play a game full of nonsense and ultimately meaningless choices I’d replay The Stanley Parable. At least there’s a pleasant narrator to listen to!

]]> By: bazzargh http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619410 bazzargh Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619410 The character encodings are a bit screwed up, dropbox is serving this as ascii when the doc says it wants to be UTF-8. Save it locally and open it, it'll work. Once you do this, some of the streams of random characters make more sense - they're mostly GOOD GRIEF rendered with random symbols, though the ACQUIRE NICKELS page has some vertical text which only renders correctly for me in Chrome. There's one ending (you'll know it if you see it) featuring a lot of red that looks like it's supposed to be Ascii art, but it just looks like junk to me. The character encodings are a bit screwed up, dropbox is serving this as ascii when the doc says it wants to be UTF-8. Save it locally and open it, it’ll work. Once you do this, some of the streams of random characters make more sense – they’re mostly GOOD GRIEF rendered with random symbols, though the ACQUIRE NICKELS page has some vertical text which only renders correctly for me in Chrome.

There’s one ending (you’ll know it if you see it) featuring a lot of red that looks like it’s supposed to be Ascii art, but it just looks like junk to me.

]]> By: DevinC http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619369 DevinC Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619369 Wah waa, bwahh bah bah, baah buh banh buh. Wah waa, bwahh bah bah, baah buh banh buh.

]]> By: Ben Conley http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619368 Ben Conley Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619368 Just hit back in your browser. #superchill Just hit back in your browser. #superchill

]]> By: Felton / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619356 Felton / Moderator Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619356 Oh my god, what's that horrible thing bursting out of Snoopy's chest!?!? Oh my god, what’s that horrible thing bursting out of Snoopy’s chest!?!?

]]> By: Petzl http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619353 Petzl Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619353 uh, every time you die you have to click-thru the same 30 introductory clicks?  you can't restart without the intro? uh, every time you die you have to click-thru the same 30 introductory clicks?  you can’t restart without the intro?

]]> By: voiceinthedistance http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/mastaba-snoopy-choose-your-ow.html#comment-1619347 voiceinthedistance Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=203549#comment-1619347 It's a terrific (and frightening) premise, but they chose a truly annoying way of presenting it on their website.  Also, a little bit of my enthusiasm for it died when I read this sentence:  "1. An Unknown Alien Being acquires a child's forgotten book and mistakenly beliefs (sic) that it depicts proper protocol for interaction with the human world."   Are my standards too high? It’s a terrific (and frightening) premise, but they chose a truly annoying way of presenting it on their website.  Also, a little bit of my enthusiasm for it died when I read this sentence:  ”1. An Unknown Alien Being acquires a child’s forgotten book and mistakenly beliefs (sic) that it depicts proper protocol for interaction with the human world.”  
Are my standards too high?

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