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Post by stanzicApparati on Jul 18, 2012 23:01:33 GMT -5
Okay, so we were talking about video games in the chat earlier and Reader Rabbit/Reader Hopbeast came up. Just about everyone in the chat remembers it as a thing they played when they were little, before the game started...and not a one of us can remember a damn thing about that game besides "it had a hopbeast that taught you how to spell".
And searching the remains of the internet turned up nothing. Like, nothing-nothing - not "this page cannot be found", but just blankness or the search refusing to finish loading. The closest we got to actually figuring anything out about this was whisperedTyphoon turning up a page on kids' games that had a lot of blank spots that seemed like they'd been [V ]ed out.
So we seem to have a universal constant that no one can remember.
If you remember anything about Reader Hopbeast (or your universe's equivalent!), post about it here. If you've got theories about why the V V i Aspect that redacts all information about itself is so interested in what appears to be edutainment, please share.
Seriously, this is weird and kind of creepy and I'd like to figure out wtf is going on here.
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jul 19, 2012 9:00:48 GMT -5
Oh, dang. I half-remember this- uh, I think the rabbit wore a sweater? And some of the games had a little pink blob in them, that... acted as a menu, maybe? I'm also faintly recalling a beaver, and a couple of bears, but... not much else. I'm really pretty shocked how little I remember about it given how much time I spent on those games as a kid.
like seriously why would Void c re about Re der Rabbit anyway
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Post by musicalDecay on Jul 19, 2012 11:24:43 GMT -5
Where is this chat everyone seems to be talking about?
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Post by stanzicApparati on Jul 19, 2012 11:35:59 GMT -5
We don't know. That's part of why this is so weird.
Additionally, tenthe seems to have clear memories of the thing (or clearer than anyone else, anyways) and found a Wikipedia page about it...except that none of the rest of us in the chat could actually see it; huge chunks of it were blank, for me, and whisperedTyphoon couldn't get it to load at all.
But he's Doom, not V od, so the heck is going on there? Is it some kind of zombie-only immunity?
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Post by fabulousFreelooter on Jul 19, 2012 13:25:21 GMT -5
Where is this chat everyone seems to be talking about?
this is an exceptionally odd thing, isn*t it~*** i have the vaguest of memories of reader hopbeast existing when i was a wiggler, but nothing beyond that~***
what knowledge could the vo d be hiding about it, i wonder~*** |
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Post by musicalDecay on Jul 19, 2012 14:24:36 GMT -5
thanks
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Post by crystallineLullaby on Jul 20, 2012 0:44:05 GMT -5
That. Is. So. WEIRD. I played Reader Rabbit when I was a kid! I know how to spell 'automatically' because of that game!
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Post by mislaidLullaby on Jul 20, 2012 8:57:17 GMT -5
This is gonna drive me up the wall. I mean, I KNOW I played that game- I used to love it! But I cannot remember a single thing that it actually involved.
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Post by genesisArtificer on Jul 20, 2012 9:06:24 GMT -5
Do you think that could be some sort of Null retcon? Cause I have never HEARD of this game, and I am here much longer than most of you B\
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Post by casualUcalegon on Jul 20, 2012 12:00:45 GMT -5
[R-r-r-rangoon]
Reader Hopbeast, Reader Hopbeast... I know I've heard that name somewhere. It had a lot of other beasts, too, right? And pirate plagUebeasts? It was jUst a wriggler game, thoUgh. Why woUld the NUll want to erase something like that?
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Post by genesisArtificer on Jul 22, 2012 6:42:14 GMT -5
Since when does the Null behave logically.
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Post by everlastingSnow on Jul 15, 2013 12:30:00 GMT -5
Sorry to resurrect a long dead thread but I remember the game too. I think I still have that thing somewhere. I remember my spelling used to suck (So did my typing skills. Curse you fine motor delay D:<) so my parents got it for me. I got bored with it instantly and never played it. I don't remember where I put the thing (and even then I don't want to play) but future me (The one in the medium who's in her 8th session and missing) probably does.
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