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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 169414, member: 3864"] Looks like another classic CCC, Charming Cephalopod Choose-Your-Own-Adventures. I'm strapped in, random notes! [LIST] [*]So on the cover I'm seeing those crossed straps that most fantasy heroes were required to have once upon a time. Genuinely asking, is John Carter the reason that's a thing? It's not really how people carried swords and weapons (not counting ammo bandoliers), and Carter is the oldest character I can think of that's depicted with that style of chest harness. I've always assumed it's just to better show off the profile of slammin' pecs. [*]I tried one of those vigor testers to measure my luckiness, but all it did was dispense a tamp-Oh you know what, I see what the problem was. [*]Honestly, praise be that Lucas could only copyright the *word* lightsaber, but not the concept. Fiction would be so much poorer for the loss. [*]You're fucking killing it with these intros, and Cool Tony just has allergies! [*]This book sounds fascinating, that's an impressive amount of forethought for the puzzles and the way the setting informs the solutions. My eyes start to gloss over when fantasy novels start pitching me lore like Proper Noun Goulash ("Thus came the Fortieth Year of the Age of Vendrome, Lord High Moderator of Mega New Jersey and bearer of the Zamboni of Kings"), but the differences between species and planets in sci-fi? Drip-feed me more, I'll stay in the hamster cage so long as that bottle is full. [*]Damn, but you were lacking in luckiness this with this book. [*]Not to be a nerd, but Street Fighter could be a reference to the Sonny Chiba film franchise. (It's actually where Capcom got the name, and Tarantino loving those movies is why Chiba shows up as Hattori Hanzo in [I]Kill Bill[/I]). Oh, there's also Walter Hill movie where Charles Bronson plays a bare-knuckle boxer during the Great Depression; the title was [I]Hard Times[/I], but apparently in the U.K. (where these books were written, am I remembering that right?) it was changed to [I]The Streetfighter[/I]. [*]Also, not to double down on useless trivia, but the instant-kill mechanic sounds like a thing Sonny Chiba does in The Street Fighter, a special punch that just puts a motherfucker in a coma. (Which is probably any throat punch, provided you shout a technique name while collapse their windpipe). [*]Some fantastic use of shadows in that artwork. [*]What would be a better title, I wonder? Stellar Rebellion, Cry Freedom on the Winds of Space, Adventures in the Overthrown Galaxy? [*]"Fission Chips", [I]excellent[/I]. [*]Cool Tony, here to eat nuts and kick butts. [/LIST] Difficulty aside, these are so much more fun than the CYOA's I read as a kid. (With the possible exception of Goosebumps, I adored those). Eight attempts though, you really suffered for your art this go-round! [/QUOTE]

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