“The Garden of Forking Paths”:While reading this story, I cannot help but feel ‘complete’ in the simplicity that the story holds. The subjects I felt were highlighted are themes such as existence, time, and space. Universes parallel and time creates discrepancies.
In “CYOA”, I was at first taken to the “oh well here is another data visualization of how this is supposed to matter” kind of reaction. After completing the entire reading, however I ended up taking much more out of the breakdown of decision making. Many games, RPG and the like, take influence or follow the core set of rules and paradigms that the article shows.
