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thecarnivorousmuffinmeta · 7 days

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Thanks to your cursed ship names, all I can imagine is Emmett, in any Carlisle/Aro fic of the day of yours, grinning and asking, "So there was a cleanup in aisle two?" when he finds out.

I both love and hate it.

Anon, I laughed awfully just now. You have validated the people made the correct choice.

#twilight #twilight renaissance #twilight shipping #emmett cullen #carlisle cullen #aro #carlisle cullen/aro #aisle #shipping #meta

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kojiarakiartworks · 9 days

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June 2013 KTM Kathmandu Nepal Swayambhunath

Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe ：）

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rat-at-heart · 2 months

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Russ is channeling Donatella Versace (wearing a blonde wig) in today's spring runway (walking the aisles at the grocery store)

#art #doodle #drawing #ratatheart #rat at heart #walrus #animal drawing #donatella #versace #wig #runway #spring #grocery store #aisle

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aivoluptulicious · 5 days

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An experienced pharmacy clerk, feeling hot in the aisle. Doubling down on medicine?

#pharmacy #medicine #ai photography #ai generated #leonardo ai #large bust #lovely breasts #mature woman #portrait #woman #medication #long hair #aisle #shoppers #cougar

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rienziera · 7 months

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You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometime you'll find

You get what you need

#you can't always get what you want #rolling stones #the rolling stones #lyrics #travel #trip #boarding #aisle #fly #viagem #viaje #viajar #airplane #board

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acvillagerdeathmatch · 1 year

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#acnh #animal crossing #city folk #fandom polls #new horizons #new leaf #wild world #rilla #snooty #Marcy #cherry #biskit #Carrie #bianca #Caroline #bliss #aisle

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her-penetrating-soul · 1 year

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“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.“

~Oprah Winfrey

#her penetrating soul #aisle #wedding aisle #wedding veil #wedding crown #to the alter #i do #feminine touch #feminine grace #soulful #soulful beauty #soulful love #soulful expressions #soulful sentiments #soulful moments #sheer elegance

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manonamora-if-reviews · 11 months

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Aisle by Sam Barlow

============= Links

Play the game

Read walkthrough - ClubFloyd Transcript (players commentary)

See other reviews of the game

See other games by Sam (Wikipedia)

============= Synopsis

"Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle...

============= Other Info

Aisle is an Inform 6 parser game, first published in 1999. It is a beloved short IF game which became a staple in the IF annals, wining Best Medium at the XYZZY awards and making it on multiple best IF games of all times lists. The game was also parodied in Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle and referenced in other IF parsers.

Status: Completed

Genre: Slice-of-life

CW: /

Note: depending on the action picked: violence, assault, mention of death, depression, illnesses, suicide, murder, nudity (those account for about 15% of actions?)

============= Playthrough

First Played: Jan/Feb? 2023*

Last Played: 26-May-2023

Playtime: around 30min (walkthrough)

Rating: - /5

Thoughts: A beautiful and tragic game, a masterpiece of good experimentation.

*technically not played by myself, but during a shared streaming with the French IF Community

============= Review

Aisle started out as a game which would not need the usual meta-verbs... i.e. a game with only one turn. The initial idea was: How do I make a game with only one turn interesting? Give it lots of endings--in fact there are many 'endings' and (hopefully) every sensible action results in an 'ending'. There is no winning action. There is however more going on than just this and the more endings you see the more things should become clear." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Spoilers ahead. It is recommended to play the game first. The review is based on my understanding/reading of the story.

You play an (older?) gentleman doing some late night groceries after a long day. Most of it is pretty mundane and uninteresting, until you see some fresh gnocchi in the pasta aisle. Your mind can only think of the last time you had those, in Rome. Around you, the shelves block your view to the other aisles, and a brunette woman stands a few meters away, filling her trolley with pots of sauce.

And in this aisle you stop your trolley, waiting on what to do next.

Though I never found more than a few dozens by myself/with the French IF peeps, there are over 136 actions producing an ending in this game. 136! Whether you interact with yourself or your environment, there are a lot more you can explore with this very restrained environment.

Even if the experiment of one-action-the-end is truly amusing and insanely entertaining (who doesn't like a treasure hunt for all 136 endings*), it is the writing that shines the most in this piece. The game is humourus, and dark, has bits of lightness, and becomes incredibly sordid, it is sad and genuinely touching... It can say so much with so very little. Truly incredible.

*a Gotta Catch them All! but endings xD

Through the endings, a backstory forms around the PC. Or maybe two or three. He had a wife, went to Rome with her, but something happened (death/illness/something else?), and he was left alone. It is not truly clear what happened to his wife, or the PC's involvement in said disappearance/death*, but what is certain is the pain and the guilt the PC still feels after all this time (has it be years, by now?), making him unable to form new connections with people, leaving him truly and completely alone. What stays is his fond memory of that trip to Rome and those gnocchi he ate there...

*some endings mention the PC killing the wife, others talks of her suicide (assisted/alone, etc...

======== Sidenote

Aisle is the reason The Roads not Taken exists. The OG idea was to recreate the gameplay of Aisle, but in a different setting. While this didn't pan out, TRNT was still heavily influenced by this game.

#aisle #Sam Barlow #complete #interactive fiction #parser #1999 #slice of life #review #inform 6

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ejunkiet · 1 year

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aisle...... it’s aisle..... 😭

#untagged #i love you all #but please #it has been a week #over a week #AISLE #IT'S AISLE #NOT ISLE #NO PENINSULA WALKING PLS

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rossodimarte · 2 years

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Saturnin Swierzynski (1820-1885), View of the Aisle in Wawel Cathedral, Kraków

#saturnin swierzynski #wawel #cathedral #aisle #realism #polish art

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rouge-writes · 8 months

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Aisle

Staring at the aisle of the church

Here I am, thinking of the words you said to me

Said you wanted to have a normal family

A happy marriage

White picket fence

A family

Things I could never give you

Staring at the aisle

Wondering why the Gods made me feel this way towards you

All this pain and suffering

Is it even worth it?

You told me that

Love doesn’t have to be pain, jealousy, and fighting

But why do the Gods let me love

Someone like you?

Staring at the aisle

Wondering if you ever felt something for me

Even just a little bit

Staring at the aisle of the church

I wonder if you have an inkling of your effect on me

#writing #poem #poetry #love #unrequited love #drabble #aisle #church #im not religious #but i wrote this while i was in a church attending a baptism #wlw situationship

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thecarnivorousmuffinmeta · 5 days

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"I don't pick favourites between my ~children~ ships" this made me imagine a hilarious family reunion.

you as the mom cooking up dinner for your kids Tom, his twin Marvolo and their brother Aro (it could be Carlisle instead but I'm thinking Aro would be more likely to survive a childhood with two Toms relatively safely and sanely).

they all promised they're finally bringing their significant others to meet you and Vinelle! you're really looking forward to getting to know Alphard, Lily and Carlisle!

"Wow, you all have a type, huh" - me

#about this blog #shipping #alphalord #motherkiller #aisle

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rockmiyabideusexmachina · 1 year

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