I've been seeding local Little Free Libraries with vintage Choose Your Own Adventure titles I bought from eBay. Did we make good choices today? How do we know? https://blog.codinghorror.com/choosing-your-own-adventure/

this is also AMAZING https://web.archive.org/web/20100227182819/http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/

@codinghorror oh man, I remember when this was published! So cool!

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@codinghorror Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?

@codinghorror the lost jewels of nabooti sounds like a porno

@codinghorror I remember these type of books from when I was a kid! They were one of my absolute favourites! I think you chose extremely well!!

@FritzAdalis @codinghorror it took me a second, then I genually laughed out loud

@codinghorror Wow... The lost jewels of Nabooti. I feel young again.
So many books from that collection I wish I could find in my country.
What a great collection.

@FritzAdalis @codinghorror I stay on the page I’m on and kick him in the nards

@lo_fye @FritzAdalis

Time to make some choices, people. Show us who you really are.

@codinghorror Dude, you might wanna stop making grants until you settle up those library overdue fees and F9 your financial planning sheet

@codinghorror Perhaps I should thank this series for preparing me for adult life. So far, I have avoided “The End” in a labor camp or at the bottom of a well.

@com they are kind of grim. If you look closely at the personalities and actions of the key players of the CYOA company founders you might get some ideas as to why that is cc @textfiles

@codinghorror Post a picture of the first page and put up a poll on which action to take?

@codinghorror am I the only one who understands the assignment around here? Make friends, turn to page 85.

@codinghorror @com @textfiles tried searching for a source for this but couldn't find anything. Do you have a link?

@seanny123 @com @textfiles Jason Is On It™️

Are we making good choices today? https://www.netflix.com/title/80988062

@codinghorror ah. A Frumious day

https://blog.codinghorror.com/choosing-your-own-adventure/

@codinghorror Cave of Time and Supercomputer were great ones. In reality, I really loved all four I had.

@FritzAdalis @codinghorror Is they also an old man teaching recursion in that book?

@FritzAdalis @codinghorror I put the book down and simply be.

@FritzAdalis @codinghorror What if I believe in the excluded middle?

@FritzAdalis @codinghorror @AdeptVeritatis
Spot on!

The irrelevance of the question. The question of free will is irrelevant and the perfect illustration of free will is exactly equal to free will. So we can regard ourselves as having free will regardless of actual reality.

The more important question is ‘are you happy?’

@codinghorror I used to read these with all ten fingers, just to keep my options open.

@FritzAdalis @codinghorror

Sometimes a different journey just gets you to the same place.

@FritzAdalis @codinghorror

It's almost perfect.

Problem 1. The Free Will Absolutist will simply burn the book because God preordained that they would do so.

@taatm @FritzAdalis @codinghorror

The initial post was about local Little Free Libraries and the choices of books:
"Did we make good choices today? How do we know?"

An answer with a page of one book from the Choosing Your Own Adventure series was next. About free will.

Third post asks: "The more important question is ‘are you happy?’"

Which closes the circle.

Nice!

@taatm @FritzAdalis @codinghorror

By the way, even if I turn to page 59 instead, trying to be extra clever, it is predetermined.

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CYOA #98, "You are a Millionaire", was a very tough one for me to place in a Little Free Library... so here's what I did. I picked a slightly off the beaten path one, and quietly placed a secretly internally modified (upgraded?) version of this book, mixed in with all the others. See for yourself. NOTE: I confirmed the book was organically taken about a week ago, so it's safe to talk about now without spoilers.