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Here's a joke:
"I met Tentaculon today but we got off on the wrong foot."
The joke is only for people who know that the game Tentaculon contains squid-related material and that squid have eight tentacles, like octopuses.
I had to look up all of the following in order to make the joke:
Because of the quality of the resulting joke (low) I feel in retrospect that I put too much time and effort into its creation, and then into writing about it. I apologise to the author of Tentaculon, whose game this is supposed to be a review of.
Tentaculon is a link-driven Twine game that initially appears to be an eat-or-be-eaten squid simulator. Its prose is keen, a bit gooey and very slightly uncomfortable-making as one cruises around trying to kill and eat stuff while not being subject to sudden spasmodic jerks at the same time. I admit I feared some kind of cheap game-ending blow to the back of my head was iminent, for instance a message saying 'HA! You killed to live! You lose!' – but this was unfair misapprehension on my part based on some past negative experiences.
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"I met Tentaculon today but we got off on the wrong foot."
The joke is only for people who know that the game Tentaculon contains squid-related material and that squid have eight tentacles, like octopuses.
I had to look up all of the following in order to make the joke:
- The number of tentacles a squid has.
- What's the plural of octopus?
- What's the plural of squid?
Because of the quality of the resulting joke (low) I feel in retrospect that I put too much time and effort into its creation, and then into writing about it. I apologise to the author of Tentaculon, whose game this is supposed to be a review of.
Tentaculon is a link-driven Twine game that initially appears to be an eat-or-be-eaten squid simulator. Its prose is keen, a bit gooey and very slightly uncomfortable-making as one cruises around trying to kill and eat stuff while not being subject to sudden spasmodic jerks at the same time. I admit I feared some kind of cheap game-ending blow to the back of my head was iminent, for instance a message saying 'HA! You killed to live! You lose!' – but this was unfair misapprehension on my part based on some past negative experiences.
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October 16, 2016 at 08:27AM
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