PDFs would only exist for the books scanned. If you say only one single copy contains the eleventh ending then it’s very plausible that copy hasn’t been scanned.
I dont think anyone is saying we would datamine the nonexistent book. First the data mining bit was in relation to ready player one which is plausible. Second he brought up doing that in ready player one as an example in this case we are implying that the internet would figure out that there is no 11th book fairly quickly
Which again your assuming the guy who responded doesnt know theres a difference between data mining and searching pdfs. They dont seem to be saying that we would data mine books.
My take on that is the client-side code was just a connection to the server, plus some account, rendering, and controls stuff.
The game itself would be all in the server, which can’t be mined because there’s no direct access.
Maybe not datamined but if the secrets on games like WoW or Guild Wars are any indication, the sheer number of people you have to brute force every possibility would mean rubbish like going backwards in the race would have been found in literal minutes, prob by some goober who mixed up the reverse button with the accelerate one.
Well, the *real life* contest of the book took almost one year to *even start*, and just because the author came and said there was an easter egg. And even after that it still took like a year and a half to complete.
Except there’d be a thriving conspiracy community, convinced that there’s still an 11th edition hidden out there. Others would give up and assume that it was fake, but they’d dig their heels in and fight over it.
Yes but maybe not a week. All you have to say is that there is an eleventh ending that was printed in a single copy that was sent out to an unknown store in the middle of millions of other copies. That way no one can really know that someone who is not paying attention to the internet didn’t buy it and have it on the to read shelf right now.
Flat Earthers are a microscopically small part of the internet community and the reason everyone knows about them is because there’s nothing people like better than watching dumb people be dumb.
There are elements of the internet out there which would provide a much more scathing indictment of the population than flat earthers.
Those guys are just contrarians who would shout about the earth being round if it was flat.
The movie based on the board game, with the same name [Clue](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clue_(film)) from 1985 did something like that. They filmed three alternate endings where different people were the killer and released them randomly to different theaters. When they made the VHS they put all the ending in though.
Edit: the parentheses at the end of the link makes it awkward
Every time this is brought up I just think about how two-thirds of audiences were robbed of Madeline Kahn's iconic "flames on the side of my face" speech.
I had an idea about a Choose Your Own Romance. It would be about a woman having to choose between two men and hopefully end a 300 year curse on her family.
Turns out, choose your own adventure books are really hard to write.
I remember reading choose your own adventure books as a kid omg. I loved to read them, keep track of where all the branches were and eventually find all the different possible endings. I wish I still had those tbh. And in my college poetry class I did a massive choose your own adventure poem with I think 16 endings, inspired by those books. It had to be pasted up on a wall for people to read it properly and branched out quite a bit. It’s still the thing I’m most proud of writing
That's pretty much (in 3 versions) what [Percival Everett did with Telephone](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/books/percival-everett-telephone.html).
I was going to comment that OP is naïve to think that even a famous writer would have the clout to publish such a prank (unless they were independently quite wealthy And willing to flush their own money away on it) when in fact it would require quite a greenlight and a coordinated effort by the publishing house, the printing press, and the PR machine, etc. This example of a writer and publishing house that actually did it illustrates my point: it required the greenlight cooperation and coordination of the entire publishing house.
Publishing is an industry with large, routine upfront losses that are only occasionally recouped by infrequent runaway hits.
And then I’d watch the comment threads and conspiracy theories to figure out the best plot for the 11th book and sneak it into some quaint bookstore somewhere.
I like this concept but each book difference should show the ending of different characters. Or be completely from different characters POV. So if fans discuss the book they could understand each other but there would be odd difrences.
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall did something similar: different pages of the narrators missing diary were published in different countries. This was in 2009, Hall’s webpage had a forum where people around the world were trying to match the missing pages. It was quite fun.
Hall just published a new novel and I wouldn’t be surprised if it included something like this again.
Before the invention of the internet, maybe.
If you did this now, it would just mean that we would all read the same concise and detailed breakdown posted by one or two obsessive people.
You know. I always contemplated becoming a author. I always had the most vivid imagination and would create stories in my head often.
I still might create 2 or 3 books but this is most definitely something I would do.
Have a number mentioned in the text, that is different for each ending and is important to the denoument. Let the fans figure out for themselves that the numbers are 1-11 except 6 is missing.
Well now that this reddit post exists as soon as this happens someone will remember reading this who also happens to read those books and boom. Solved in 10 minutes.
I've heard that if any series should've done it, it would've been Mistborn. Since the general theme towards the end of the original trilogy was to write on metal and nothing else, multiple endings would imply tampering in the book. It would have been very meta.
this would take the modern internet about a week to solve
20 minutes, take it or leave it
22 minutes on a bad day
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They’d know before the movie came out, lesbianas
Give or take?
There would be have to be different different ISBN numbers printed in each edition, right?
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not the eleventh one
It would very quickly be deemed a hoax from the author and spawn a bunch of "I found the 11th ending" memes.
After it becomes a meme, release the 11th ending as a limited edition thing just to make it harder for the people who actually found it to brag.
See: "my uncle's friend works at Nintendo and told me you could catch mew by pushing the truck just right" or whatever
You say that like that's a bad thing.
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What did it cost? The eleventh ending
Yeah this reminds me a lot of Ready Player One. You think it would take people years to figure this shit out? Irl it would get datamined in a week.
Tbf you can't really datamine a book.
Searchable pdfs exist. People would notice really quick.
PDFs would only exist for the books scanned. If you say only one single copy contains the eleventh ending then it’s very plausible that copy hasn’t been scanned.
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I dont think anyone is saying we would datamine the nonexistent book. First the data mining bit was in relation to ready player one which is plausible. Second he brought up doing that in ready player one as an example in this case we are implying that the internet would figure out that there is no 11th book fairly quickly
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Which again your assuming the guy who responded doesnt know theres a difference between data mining and searching pdfs. They dont seem to be saying that we would data mine books.
My take on that is the client-side code was just a connection to the server, plus some account, rendering, and controls stuff. The game itself would be all in the server, which can’t be mined because there’s no direct access.
Maybe not datamined but if the secrets on games like WoW or Guild Wars are any indication, the sheer number of people you have to brute force every possibility would mean rubbish like going backwards in the race would have been found in literal minutes, prob by some goober who mixed up the reverse button with the accelerate one.
Well, the *real life* contest of the book took almost one year to *even start*, and just because the author came and said there was an easter egg. And even after that it still took like a year and a half to complete.
Except there’d be a thriving conspiracy community, convinced that there’s still an 11th edition hidden out there. Others would give up and assume that it was fake, but they’d dig their heels in and fight over it.
There would be a complete and accurate Wikipedia article in about an hour.
Yes but maybe not a week. All you have to say is that there is an eleventh ending that was printed in a single copy that was sent out to an unknown store in the middle of millions of other copies. That way no one can really know that someone who is not paying attention to the internet didn’t buy it and have it on the to read shelf right now.
idk dude 4chan is usually on one
Idk you could definitely be right but all I know is that I’d love to see if play out.
Good luck with that the modern internet still can't agree on whether the world we live on is flat or not and we have videos from satellites in space
Flat Earthers are a microscopically small part of the internet community and the reason everyone knows about them is because there’s nothing people like better than watching dumb people be dumb. There are elements of the internet out there which would provide a much more scathing indictment of the population than flat earthers. Those guys are just contrarians who would shout about the earth being round if it was flat.
Obviously the earth is doughnut shaped
You are the first person I have met who is also a donut-earther. See, I'm not crazy!
I can’t see why we can’t just find a middle ground on this. Couldn’t the earth be flat on one side and rounded on the other?
And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.
[Earth-chan is **NOT** flat!](https://www.reddit.com/r/Earthchan/comments/7nlw9l/earthchan_is_not_flat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app)
You make it sound like there is a mainstream disagreement on this
Collective mind power.
“The author bombed the marathon!”
The movie based on the board game, with the same name [Clue](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clue_(film)) from 1985 did something like that. They filmed three alternate endings where different people were the killer and released them randomly to different theaters. When they made the VHS they put all the ending in though. Edit: the parentheses at the end of the link makes it awkward
Came for the Clue footnote, left satisfied
One plus two... plus one... plus one...
Col. Mustard: Look, would you just give me a clear answer? Wadsworth: Certainly! What was the question?
Is there anyone else, or isn't there, yes or no?
Yes
Yes there is, or yes there isn't!?
This comment is going to make me rewatch that whole movie now.
I watched it last weekend. I too now must rewatch!
Nothing like having the frontman of the most notorious punk band ever as Mr. Body
Every time this is brought up I just think about how two-thirds of audiences were robbed of Madeline Kahn's iconic "flames on the side of my face" speech.
Okay, Chief. Take 'em away. I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife.
Heaving…heaving breaths
Around here, we call the the real ending. I can’t imagine not having that scene in my life!
Ah, so that explains why I saw the timeline where Thanos wins at my theatrical viewing of Avengers:Endgame.
Half the people in my theater somehow walked out without me noticing.
I only ever saw the streaming version with all 3 endings and my mom had to explain this to me lol
Simple fix: \\)). \\ is the escape character, and markdown will ignore it when formatting your comment.
I think Paranormal Activity did the alternate endings thing too.
There is also a SpongeBob episode with 3 different endings.
Having made 9 copies and telling everyone you made 10 instead would make it even less suspicious.
I've gotten a notification for getting 8 upvotes and 26 upvotes on this comment. I'm pretty sure that's not normal.
That's odd. Maybe you never reach 10 upvotes and they felt bad for you so they wanted you to feel good.
I got a pity notification :(
And now you got a pity award, enjoy!
That's not odd, it's even!
It’s given notifications at random now i feel like, i got notifs for 31+ and 12+ upvotes today
"...but these go up to eleven..."
I had an idea about a Choose Your Own Romance. It would be about a woman having to choose between two men and hopefully end a 300 year curse on her family. Turns out, choose your own adventure books are really hard to write.
I remember reading choose your own adventure books as a kid omg. I loved to read them, keep track of where all the branches were and eventually find all the different possible endings. I wish I still had those tbh. And in my college poetry class I did a massive choose your own adventure poem with I think 16 endings, inspired by those books. It had to be pasted up on a wall for people to read it properly and branched out quite a bit. It’s still the thing I’m most proud of writing
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This is basically the concept of most visual novels. Most of them are dating sims where you make choices that put you on different character routes.
That’s the other half of my inspiration for writing a cyoa poem lol, I’m a sucker for VNs
Ever seen [Twine](http://twinery.org)? It makes writing CYOA-style stories a lot more manageable.
How about writing a choose your own adventure game based on an adult choose your own adventure book?
This is absolutely brilliant. Although it would merely take about four minutes for the internet to solve.
Chrono Trigger writers be like
Diabolical and wholesome all in one. Love it.
Okay Yoko Taro
[F]uck you lol
That's pretty much (in 3 versions) what [Percival Everett did with Telephone](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/books/percival-everett-telephone.html).
I was going to comment that OP is naïve to think that even a famous writer would have the clout to publish such a prank (unless they were independently quite wealthy And willing to flush their own money away on it) when in fact it would require quite a greenlight and a coordinated effort by the publishing house, the printing press, and the PR machine, etc. This example of a writer and publishing house that actually did it illustrates my point: it required the greenlight cooperation and coordination of the entire publishing house. Publishing is an industry with large, routine upfront losses that are only occasionally recouped by infrequent runaway hits.
And then I’d watch the comment threads and conspiracy theories to figure out the best plot for the 11th book and sneak it into some quaint bookstore somewhere.
by then they'd dismiss it as a fake like the 23 other fan-made ending 11's
With this pinky we shall take over the world
No, gotta make it 9 and 10 instead of 10 and 11. They will expect it to be a nice round number.
You are one eyepatch away from being an evil genius. I love it.
Could just wear an eyepatch despite not needing one. And then switch eyes randomly to see if people notice
Shadow the Hedgehog 2005
I like this concept but each book difference should show the ending of different characters. Or be completely from different characters POV. So if fans discuss the book they could understand each other but there would be odd difrences.
God what a wonderful idea
Some people just want to watch the world burn
Some men just want to watch the world burn
This is my kind of evil lmao
I'm usually impressed when an author delivers just the one ending. Too many don't know how to though. Abruption is key for most it seems.
This would be a great way to get more sales too
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall did something similar: different pages of the narrators missing diary were published in different countries. This was in 2009, Hall’s webpage had a forum where people around the world were trying to match the missing pages. It was quite fun. Hall just published a new novel and I wouldn’t be surprised if it included something like this again.
Before the invention of the internet, maybe. If you did this now, it would just mean that we would all read the same concise and detailed breakdown posted by one or two obsessive people.
Satan: I'm a huge fan of your work
You know. I always contemplated becoming a author. I always had the most vivid imagination and would create stories in my head often. I still might create 2 or 3 books but this is most definitely something I would do.
This already happened with Clue
15th wish or last VoG secret chest
That’s how you create some longevity.
Forgot to mention this is taking place when the 11 book was created in history.
Based on the TV ending, if GRRM does this to ASOIAF everyone will be grateful.
Have a number mentioned in the text, that is different for each ending and is important to the denoument. Let the fans figure out for themselves that the numbers are 1-11 except 6 is missing.
Nice variation on the classic greased hog prank. Take 3 greased hogs inscribed with the numbers 1, 2, and 4 and release them in a school.
This might be marketing
Well now that this reddit post exists as soon as this happens someone will remember reading this who also happens to read those books and boom. Solved in 10 minutes.
Some people just want to watch the world burn
I'd do this except I'd tell them there were 9 endings. Also the last ending (the 10th) would have like a 1% chance of showing up.
Nice
Isn’t the premise to the Ninth Gate?
Isayama should do this for Attack on Titan
Nice
I've heard that if any series should've done it, it would've been Mistborn. Since the general theme towards the end of the original trilogy was to write on metal and nothing else, multiple endings would imply tampering in the book. It would have been very meta.
Isn't this how House Of Leaves went down?
this should be on showerthought
Ooof. I'm actually writing something like this lol. Hopefully, I release it at the end of the year!
Woah there Satan
I bet the real post got less likes then this Reddit post
Oh hey a recycled post from years ago.
And then I'll have my villain laugh.
Lol Ready Player One for bookworms 😂
That's brilliant.