Looking for some ideas for a game based off events from ATOT

QueBert

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So I've been here for a long damn time, and there have been some pretty fucking memorable threads. I've been thinking about stories from here and writing down what I remember, but I know I'm forgetting some doozies. My idea is to make a text adventure that incorporates the goings on from here. So basically it would be a very niche game seeing how only the old schoolers from here would understand what the hell's going on. I'm thinking of a mixture of threads here that are a part of the quest, like you have to steal TridenT's expensive trash can. And others that are just random in the game and don't have anything to do with the quest part. The trash can was just something that popped in my head to try and explain. It might end up being you stealing his Froot Loops.

Basically, this will be a stupid ass game that won't have any appeal. But in my head, a game that documents some of the more unusual shit that's gone down here could possibly make for a weird and enjoyable adventure. I played a ton of Zork and other text adventures growing up so they have a soft spot in my heart. I don't even have a draft of what the actual point of the game will be. I feel all that will come together when I have a list of content to use and can figure out what can be tied together and make some sort of LOTR travel to Mordor level adventure. I do want to flesh it out and make it a real text adventure with a story, puzzles, combat and all that.

All I'm asking for is some reminders of some of the better stuff from here. I wrote the shit that came to mind down, but I'm failing to come up with a lot. My memory of details sucks, and my searching skills are bad. So links to the threads would be awesome. Or at least a summary of the thread and who started it if the name is important to the thread. Little easter eggs would especially be nice here. Like the dude who saw the UPS driver taking a piss in his bushes.

I still need to read the Inform 7 manual and learn how to use it, so I'm good way off from starting. I know this is a pretty pointless idea but in my mind, with all the wild shit that's been posted here, it could shape into a fun lil something.

so off of my head:

TridenT - there's a ton of shit he's posted that would make for quality content here. He'll definitely be a character in the game. What comes to mind is the Froot Loops pic, him bragging about the elite trash can he bought and him talking about the females who weren't super hot but were hit it and quit it able.
The UPS man whizzing in dudes bushes - this always makes me laugh when I think about it.
The infamous alternator sized chunk of beef.
 

Motostu

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The quest for bulk beef.

Sounds like something you could implement in a MUD to give a multi-player experience.
 

BoomerD

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How about something based on the “Better Nate than Lever” story line?
 

nakedfrog

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Mission to find the scrolls of Jerboy?
Side quest to rescue a comely maiden from a spider
A possum/racoon (I forget) that you defeat by feeding it sleeping pills
Homosexual hot coffee mission in order to upgrade your video card
 

yottabit

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Maybe something about implausible things in a garage/shed, such as a GPU factory or Twitter datacenter
 

[DHT]Osiris

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R themed game where you have to find olds' basement, or the bottom of it maybe (labyrinthine of course), where the lever is that destroys the universe? Alternator beef for health naturally.
 
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Whatever the game ends up being it MUST end with escaping from danger on a plane but that plane is on a massive treadmill.

Also peruse L&R for even more ideas.
 
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BoomerD

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How about the Loke takeover a few years ago...or the Mosquerade break-in that resulted in a huge member purge?
 
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This is a worse idea than you spending hours just prepping french fries.

There should be several of the pwnage of the year threads that provide source material.

Which, you apparently haven't been here long enough. There was someone pretending to be and then murder a woman. There was also Pabst or whatever that one dipshit that stole his dad's credit card to buy a literal truckload of some price mistake item (back in early wounded monitor children days when retailers would honor such fuckups) to resell. There was also the guy that claimed to work as a gigolo so he could buy 2 6800 Ultras for SLI. Alkemyst alone would make a better game source than all of the things originally listed in the OP.

Fucking Fleabag's bullshit would make a better game than half of that shit. He helped his dad warm up a car once, at Lake Tahoe, don'tchaknow.

eits antics (claiming to be official chiro for Slurs, then when called on that claimed he slipped up/autocorrect/got hacked and really is just the official chiro for the Slur's cheerleaders, so either he's such a terrible "doctor" - his claim by the way, also claimed to be more of a doctor than medical doctors - that can't tell the difference between female cheerleaders and male professional football players, or he was full of shit; spoiler, he was full of shit as wasn't official chiro of the cheerleaders either; also I believe he had a bunch of L&R stuff but I never use/used that forum but seem to recall people laughing at him cause he made a thread whining that women wouldn't have sex with him because his dick was too big)

Someone (Dari?) I think claimed to have helped a friend poison a woman the friend had impregnated to cause a miscarriage/abortion, and also was going to shootup a Post Office after getting into a yelling argument with one of the employees - including detail about how he reached for his gun but he'd left it in his car. Which there's been several gun nutter moments, from arguing about how they totally could've taken down the Aurora shooter (with them jumping to ever more ridiculous claims about how they'd have gotten into perfect position to shoot from between the seats and hit the guy in the neck, all of this while the chaos of the shooting going on no less), to suing over the mental anguish from Dick's not selling a gun thereby ruining baby Jesus celebration, and the scummy payday loan guy being upset about a judge having the guns taken away from a horse rapist that was being institutionalized cause he raped a horse (among other things the guy was doing, it just happened to be that he ended up in court after being caught raping a horse). Still not sure why he was so upset (because he too is a horse rapist and worried about the obviously clear violation of the 2nd Amendment for the government to take guns away from simple innocent horse rapists?). But then multiple other surrogate penish worshippers have remarked they're more concerned about loss of money from their "investments" in guns than they are about victims of say mass shootings, so could be that?

In the vein of simple/silly stuff, there was the Google interview guy and then the thread about who would win (Terminator or Predator, I think?). Some admin's wife getting breast implants (which seemed to be a significant source of the drama that happened both with mosh/eits and the "dossier" but also when they removed all the permabans and people came back which pretty much immediately devolved into the same old drama; think there was a third similar ultra mega melodrama "change in culture" I believe?).

Think we've had a few people admit to (real) crimes. I believe one of them even led to the mods alerting local police? Was someone that tried bragging about stealing a bunch of stuff (cell phones at parties, DVDs from friends, computers at school). Oh and Perk bragging about driving drunk then, I assume still drunk, arguing with people about it.

Lastly, be sure to include an omnipotent (but often disinterested in the goings on) deity, that would occasionally "Thanks care, Anand"
 

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lxskllr

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A button masher where you have to keep the hamster running so the server stays up. The [Run] button moves around, and sometimes becomes transparent. Also, ads sometimes popup over the button and you have to close them before you keep the hamster running. You lose when latency exceeds 4 seconds.
 
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zinfamous

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What, no chili cook-off?

The currency in this game will be beef. The goal is to achieve bulk, though no one ever wins (but many miatas will be stolen and chopped along the way)
 

sdifox

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It's easy just put together a bunch of triggers on screen and when you hit one it goes into a long delay then hang.
 
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