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  1. There's a point at the start of every Alice's Adventures in Wonderland adaptation that feels so much like a text adventure. ">Drink the bottle. You drink from the bottle and find yourself shrunken to the size of a dormouse. Now you can fit through that door! >Go through door. You can't go through; you left the key on the table! >Eat cake. You grow to five times your regular size, banging your head on the ceiling." etc. etc.

    Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:28:50 UTC from web
    1. @thelastgherkin i love text adventure games

      Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:33:48 UTC from web
    2. @thelastgherkin I never undestood how a story can suck so hard and yet have countless adaptations.

      Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:35:45 UTC from web
      1. @nerthos the twilight series?

        Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:37:08 UTC from web
        1. @chemicalbrony No, that one is carfully crafted to meet the expectations of a specific demographic.

          Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:38:32 UTC from web
      2. @nerthos Schoolteachers decided to torture kids with them and some kids took it the wrong way and thought they were legitimately good. I think that's why my school made us read Jane Eyre as sophomores.

        Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:37:35 UTC from web
        1. @redenchilada Good point. Schoolteachers choose their books with sadism in mind.

          Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:39:32 UTC from web
          1. @nerthos @redenchilada I think that's the reason many kids don't read nowadays. They have no experience with literature, and at school the teachers make them read legitimatey awful works, leaving a bad impression on them.

            Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:41:26 UTC from web
            1. @nerthos i like to read...

              Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:42:56 UTC from web
              1. @chemicalbrony Some people do, yeah, but sadly most don't. Shame on thm, really. Plebeians.

                Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:45:44 UTC from web
                1. @nerthos we should send the daleks to deal with them

                  Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:46:37 UTC from web
                  1. @chemicalbrony Im not a fan of daleks.

                    Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:48:17 UTC from web
                    1. @nerthos robot men?

                      Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:48:54 UTC from web
                      1. @chemicalbrony I don't know enough about Dr. Who.

                        Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:49:34 UTC from web
                        1. @nerthos neither do i but it seems as tho most people on here do so i usually just assume

                          Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:50:28 UTC from web
                          1. @chemicalbrony Yeah, there are many fans of that showhere. I just saw season 6 or something like that, and didn't pay much attention to it.

                            Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:51:26 UTC from web
                          2. @chemicalbrony i never watched doctor who...

                            Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:53:50 UTC from web
                            1. @mushi i havent watched a comlpete episode yet

                              Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:56:09 UTC from web
            2. @nerthos maybe that is why onlynow i'm trying to get started with reading :|

              Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:45:53 UTC from web
      3. @nerthos I enjoy the story terribly much, it's just that without living in the nineteenth century, all the context of the satire and nonsense is completely shot. Which is, ironically, its enduring popularity: vivid images, literal (and literary) nonsense, and just enough comprehension as a story to make a sort of sense. It's like how Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff will keeps hapening on long after Homestuck is finished.

        Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:45:49 UTC from web
        1. @thelastgherkin I think that's why I don't like it. Nineteenth century UK wasn't one of the most appealing historical contexts IMO, and I dislike nonsense and ridiculousness at that level, when it looks like the whole story is an acid trip. In short, things I dislike ambientated in a culture I'm not fond of.

          Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:59:36 UTC from web
    3. @datponygotvtec Alice in Wonderland. 50 shades has no adaptations, only parodies.

      Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:37:34 UTC from web
    4. @datponygotvtec Thanks.

      Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:38:47 UTC from web
    5. @datponygotvtec If you're into conspiracy theories, or at least social engineering, that's called adoctrinating. Deliberately sending forward bad examples and banning the good ones to discourage people, so they don't read and therefore keeping them from learning things that could make them harder to control.

      Tuesday, 01-Jan-13 21:47:52 UTC from web