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From: braind@cix.compulink.co.uk ("David Brain")
Subject: Re: Randomness in Games
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 22:40:11 GMT
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"Andrew C. Plotkin" <ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote, in 
<QiU7kt_00gpIQJYIxi@andrew.cmu.edu>

{lots missing - slight Hitch-Hiker spoiler though...}

> It can easily slip your mind that you
> saw the damn dog at all. Slipped mine, anyhow.
> 
There's another nice bit right at the end of HHTTG.  Taking the 
screwdriver in the bedroom at the beginning (I think), you are told that 
a tree falls over in the garden, but there is no causal relationship 
between these two events.  At the end of the game you are told that there 
was.  My problem was that it took me around two years (on at least three 
different makes of computer...) to get to the end of the wretched game, 
so the message was a complete mystery to me until I replayed it again.

David
