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Old 03-22-2016, 11:03 AM   #27466
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Well, I can't imagine why anyone would choose Bleen.
Grue is clearly the only possible choice for any self-respecting person.
If you want to be eaten, sure.
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Old 03-22-2016, 11:15 AM   #27467
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If you want to be eaten, sure.
What???

Surely the point is that you get to eat...
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Old 03-22-2016, 03:10 PM   #27468
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Or to get sliced and diced ..... Oh, wait. I'm thinking of Groo.

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Old 03-22-2016, 03:55 PM   #27469
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When I have grue, I get the fever and chills, not to mention body aches.

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Old 03-22-2016, 04:08 PM   #27470
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Old 03-22-2016, 04:58 PM   #27471
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If you want to be eaten, sure.
What???

Surely the point is that you get to eat...
You haven't played Adventure?

If you're in the dungeon, and you don't have your lantern lit, the grue gets to eat.
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Old 03-22-2016, 05:09 PM   #27472
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Old 03-22-2016, 06:00 PM   #27473
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You haven't played Adventure?

If you're in the dungeon, and you don't have your lantern lit, the grue gets to eat.
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Didn't you choose to be the grue?

I would never choose to be the eatee -- the eater is generally preferable.
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Old 03-22-2016, 07:11 PM   #27474
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Didn't you choose to be the grue?

I would never choose to be the eatee -- the eater is generally preferable.
I see you haven't played classic Adventure. You don't get to choose.

You're a frail human being, crunchy and good with ketchup, and you must start with next to nothing, explore the dungeon, accumulate skills and weapons, get treasures, and avoid getting killed by monsters.

Adventure is also a pure text game, where you give commands at a prompt to perform actions. You very quickly learn to draw maps to keep track of where you are and how you got there. "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different."

The next step beyond Adventure and siblings like Dungeon was a character mode game that used ASCII characters to render maps of the dungeon and things in the various rooms/levels. The earliest I'm aware of was Rogue, and other entrants were Larn and Nethack. Nethack, in particular, gave you a choice of what character you were, like human, or elf, dwarf, but you were an adventurer, not a monster. I'm not aware of any game like that where you can choose to be a monster.

I still play Larn a lot, and have a game in progress at the moment. It has amusing things you learn by experience. For example, one monster is a Rust Monster, who degrades your armor and weapons if it hits you. If you wield a sparkling Sapphire as a weapon when you fight one, when you reach a bank to sell the gem, you discover that instead of the 300 gold pieces default value, it's worth 25,000.
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Old 03-22-2016, 08:35 PM   #27475
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Okay, let's just back up here.

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Well, I can't imagine why anyone would choose Bleen.
Grue is clearly the only possible choice for any self-respecting person.
Now, grue we know -- it's a type of monster.
But I am not aware of any monster called the bleen. So it stands to reason that is the adventurer's name.

We are asked to choose between the two.

So what is the case?
  1. Are we choosing which one we'd rather face? (That doesn't make sense if bleen is the adventurer...)
  2. Are we choosing which one we'd rather be?

It seems fairly obvious to ME why pdurrant favors the grue (according to #2). But Nate appears to be unconvinced -- he must believe #1:
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If you want to be eaten, sure.
...

Does it automatically follow that this is a choice the player makes? I thought it was philosophical...
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Old 03-22-2016, 09:51 PM   #27476
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Not for nothin, but getting eaten by a grue in the dark is from Zork, not Adventure.
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Old 03-22-2016, 10:54 PM   #27477
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Just sayin'....
OK. Killjoy that I am, I've never played any of these. I'm going to confess a dark secret: I don't get it. I never understood these, nor the RPGs or MMPG or...whatever. Poker, I get. This, I don't.

(Until today, I thought the grue was being sick.)

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Old 03-22-2016, 11:30 PM   #27478
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OK. Killjoy that I am, I've never played any of these. I'm going to confess a dark secret: I don't get it. I never understood these, nor the RPGs or MMPG or...whatever. Poker, I get. This, I don't.

(Until today, I thought the grue was being sick.)

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Old 03-23-2016, 12:19 AM   #27479
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