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0108 — Holiday Shorts — Hot Tub Brawls SNAFU (Patreon)

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2025-01-10 18:00:03
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Happy New Year! From 12/30/24 - 1/10/25, I'm running six all-new short strips, like this one, on a M-W-F schedule. The regular strips, if there even is such a thing, will resume on Friday, January 17th. I wish you all a bright-eyed and prosperous start to 2025, and I thank you from my heart for all of your support, without which the return of Achewood would never have been possible.

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Holler Wizard

Doubt he was lying about that one!

Stavro

Being in trouble is a fake idea

Achewood

And these boys will show you how. Tune in next week!

Achewood

Ray just needs to see this as a challenge.

s b

bout to throw that sucker in a guggenheim

Achewood

control-C, control-V, control-Email.Guggenheim

Tyrone Slothrust

"unable to not do this more, I did this more" is poetry.

Josh Egbert

Two honest, nude men. Very natural.

Bungus Bronbo

This explains why Teodor asked if Garfield was power bottoming.

Achewood

It's just a thing in an area. Everybody's cool.

Zachary

Nice Pete's sightline is basically directly at Teodor's jazz hose. I like to imagine that he is perhaps getting angry at what he feels is overly indifferent flaccidity

Achewood

Nice. Nice. You are INSIDE the content, inside the character. Run with this.

Ben Wilinofsky

Teodor is subconsciously making up for the guilt he feels at having yelled at Rod Huggins

Professor Hazard

It's just a little more troubling what with the whole Synod of Canaan of it all

Achewood

I think you've just named their new power-bottoming Oscar short

Achewood

Walk a mile in another man's shoes, etc

Anthony Thompson

C. Brown doesn't like it when Ray is online. It feels neglectful.

Lionstooth

The Philippe Text Adventure, Level 2. Dogg, do not drop the Book of Kells in the hot tub

Achewood

I still want an Achewood text adventure to exist

Achewood

Especially when he can see ray’s screen

Shawn Warren

It has been 18 years since Hot Tub Brawls, have YOU done whatever you wanted in life?

Achewood

The way I’ve lived my life makes me wonder about free will

s b

obligatory don’t kill anyone

Joshua M

I told ChatGPT I wanted to play an Achewood text adventure as Philippe. Result: Your Inventory: • A shiny key. • Philippe’s red boots (he’s wearing them, of course). Start: Philippe picks up the shiny key, holding it tightly in his little otter paw. He looks around the yard. To the north is Ray’s mansion. To the east is the neighborhood park. To the west is Téodor’s workshop. To the south is Lyle’s cluttered garage. What will Philippe do? --- I played for a little while and it's surprisingly internally consistent.

trashd

You creep onstad

Achewood

Oh man if we have a million token training window now I could basically just feed it the entire canon and have a game in like three seconds. I’m feeling faint.

Sedric and Charlie

This is definitely a dream Teodor has had that he tells himself didn't mean anything

Achewood

“Ray’s always sitting in chairs. So am I. My brain just got us mixed up for five amazing minutes.”

Lionstooth

Plenty of humans still out there writing interactive fiction too. (I'm one of them! hi! not super versed in writing parser stuff yet, though)

Achewood

Do you use an App Platform (?) to write these, or paste the adventure into, or…? I know nary a thing.

Lionstooth

A real old-school parser game like this is going to take some coding - Inform and TADS are probably the biggest authoring systems for that, though Adventuron is cute and seems to be tutorial-heavy. Borogove is an online editor for a few different systems: https://borogove.app/

Achewood

Thank you! I’ll be clicking on that. Have you ever looked into Playfic? This was mentioned to me by a separate man.

Lionstooth

I haven't used it, but I've played games made with it and it looks like a pretty nice way to get started with Inform 7 (which I'm only just starting to explore myself; I usually do hypertext/choice-based stuff in e.g. Twine)

Oppido

I mean this very, very earnestly and sincerely: The line "you can do whatever you want in life" has helped me, in the years since I first encountered it, dislodge some of the brain-crud created by my upbringing (where I was frequently made to feel anxious and ashamed about my choices), and helped me, like, live a little more freely. Sorry to get Real -- I guess I don't really have a point here except that I'm glad that sentence exists and that I read it when I did.

Achewood

Well I hope this is just the beginning of a freer and more exciting general baseline. Huzzah!

RaleighTSakers

Some strips back someone mentioned a mind forever voyaging and I plugged/linked Emily shorts counterfeit monkey, as being something I imagine people here would very enjoy. I can link again. Agree an achewood text adventure could be both the bees pajamas and the cats knees

RaleighTSakers

Wow ok attempt #2 thanks so much fat fingers and phone keyboard. I do not have the gumption to do a full interpreter and infocom style achewood txt adventure but I do have extremely strong feelings about what one should contain, I will be breaking this post up for reasons of (ahem), verbosity, do you zzy what I did there? Heh IF nerd flex established

RaleighTSakers

I forgot to get back to this! Thy Achewoode IF extravaganza shalt includeth but not be limited unto the followinge: (Probably a few of these posts I have IDEAS about this) The parser must recognize the verbs hug and pet (you pet the corgi), for any points where you play as Philippe. These should be required to progress and/or earn points as Philippe. There should also be wearable inventory items that may be the solution to a puzzle and/or require puzzle solutions to obtain, items such as 'here comes a special boy's shoes, and possibly a 'walk-around butt' not a requirement, but perhaps getting truly gross stains out of a peter pan costume for some purpose so that it may also be worn. It should also probably be possible and/or necessary for Philippe to call his mother, as a thank you for these or other things would be in order, or perhaps as a 'memory assistant'

RaleighTSakers

It seems like I have IDEAS about playing as each character: Todd will need to find out things like where he left the keys to his now impounded van during a blackout bender, possibly involving Lyle and blister (in heaven even). He also will need to borrow various amounts of money from various characters using a variety of low Todd methods Todd will probably die, more than once, in order to progress the game even. Todd will do 'recipes' to various industrial cleaning solvents and/or obscure foreign possibly hecho'd chemical products not intended for human or animal consumption He also should be solving something and earning points for at least once yelling balls louder than anyone even thought possible and altering reality to progress through some Todd vision quest type things where the game environment is warped through a sticky and opaque lens of squirrel level vision and dangerous inhalents

RaleighTSakers

Nice Pete will have, uh 'van' and surveillance related activities, formerly alive bodies that need proper hiding, chores from Pat's chore-list(tm) to accomplish (muddling soy protein imposters? Thanking mushrooms?) Manifestos to update? Divine justice to be meted out by his own Mortal Hands? I am already worried about how easily Nice Pete priorities seem to be, moving on

RaleighTSakers

Speaking of pat, he will need to make a variety of disgusting appetizers to take to parties that he will be quickly kicked out of for Pat type activities, he should have some kind of rod Huggins interaction or puzzle goals, as well as barber nemesis to overcome and/or report to the proper authorities for antique misdemeanors. Basically every thing he gets points for other characters would lose them for, and he will end up angry and not welcome anywhere I would imagine. He also should have his dad be involved somehow, and dream wheel and the child.

RaleighTSakers

Ok I am way too into this, and starting to worry about how much I am posting in this space, if anyone does have the ambition to do a whole thing just get a hold of me if you actually want this type of input for every other character, I will leave these hoping to inspire someone and also as a monument to my obsession with something I clearly love intersecting with another thing I love

Achewood

Dang, that's basically three games right there. Is there an engine where you can just input all those parameters and make a fanfic game? I will steal the idea of one feature being a phone booth where you have to call Philippe's mom to get clues, that is clutch

RaleighTSakers

I just came back to add that stand needs to be a recognizable verb, because at some point phillippe should need to stand (on it) And there are various tools to help make these things, I'll dig up a link And the vehicle thing got me thinking maybe a ray vehicle themed party means each character needs to unimpound their various vans, escalades, Volvos, brats, whatever pats car is, etc. I have all the ideas but none of the game constructing motivation, but I could be a valuable part of some team doing this

RaleighTSakers

This is the site that will have all the best and most relevant info about how to make these things nowadays, probably the forums are where to start https://ifdb.org/#new-to-if I am getting anxiety about posting way too much, but please steal away or contact me for anything, that's what got this crazy response out of me in the first place, I would love to see this happen and I have half brainstormed ideas about each character, the voice for playing each, since that all seems like extremely achewood to me, having all the very different characters inhabiting the same space but experiencing it so differently, and the interactions therein

RaleighTSakers

Happy to help obviously, TOO happy, clearly, but I really love achewood and 'IF' as the kids say these days, if I can even help inspire this into happening I would be giddy, and I would happily spend time to help make it a thing

Achewood

there's a lot of interest and a lot of mature tech for this, I'm going to mull it over, could be a Thing to trick people into liking Achewood

Doug Kavendek

man is there anyone I'd want *less* to be in the cuck chair at the foot of the bed

Doug Kavendek

do not mistake the heart react, I am making the >:( face