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Robert Rubin, a highly-paid director and senior advisor at Citigroup, paid no financial penalty when Citigroup had to be rescued by U.S. taxpayers due to overreach. [7] Taleb calls this sort of a trade, with upside gain but no or limited downside risk, a "Bob Rubin trade". [9] Baldur’s Gate 3 is the surprise mega-hit of 2023, winning over countless fans who’d never heard the acronym CRPG, aka computer role-playing game. If, like me, adventuring in the Sword Coast has awoken an interest in the classic genre, then I can think of no better book than the aptly titled The CRPG Book from Bitmap. Ferlazzo, Larry (3 May 2009). "The best places to read and write "choose your own adventure" stories" . Retrieved 5 December 2012. Also quite early on, the possibility of having stories branching out into several different paths was suggested by Jorge Luis Borges in his short story " An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" (1941). This story features an author whose novel is a three-part story containing two branch points, and with nine possible endings. [7] [8] Another story by Borges, titled " The Garden of Forking Paths" (1941), also describes a book with a maze-like narrative, which may have inspired the gamebook form. [8] [9] The children's book Treasure Hunt, published in 1945 in Britain under the name of "Alan George" (probably a pseudonym), is another early example of a story with multiple paths for the reader to follow. [10]

The NES/Famicom made sure that whichever console came after it would have mighty big set of pixelated shoes to fill, but the SNES/Super Famicom was more than up to the task. One of the most popular competitors seems to have been TSR, who released several branching-path novels based on their own role-playing games. The most famous TSR series was Endless Quest (1982–). Another strong competitor was Ballantine with their Find Your Fate series, which featured adventures in the Indiana Jones, James Bond and Doctor Who universes. Famous author R. L. Stine wrote several books for this line, including The Badlands of Hark, as well as for other series such as Wizards, Warriors and You. Several Choose your Own Adventure spin-offs and many competing series were translated into other languages. That is for a man who reinvented himself from a living-in-his-parents-basement type of guy, to the cons-insecure-wannabe-starlets-in-LA type of guy.There are several examples of early works of art with branching narratives. The romantic novel Consider the Consequences! by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins was published in the United States in 1930, and boasts "a dozen or more" different endings depending on the "taste of the individual reader". [4] The 1936 play Night of January 16th by Ayn Rand, about a trial, is unusual in that members of the audience are chosen to play the jury and deliver a verdict, which then influences the play's ending: guilty or not guilty. [5] [6]

We’ve partnered with Read Only Memory on two projects because the company makes striking books that dig deep into pillars of the video game world, like oral histories of the early years of the Japanese and British game development scenes. This year, Read Only Memory released two books seemingly created just for me, an obsessive Sega fan. a b Williams, Zoe (22 February 2018). "Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb review – how risk should be shared". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 February 2018. Garrett, Diane (August 23, 2007). "Spyglass nabs 'The Game' rights". Variety . Retrieved October 11, 2022.a b Gapper, John (20 February 2018). "Should risk-takers be required to have 'skin in the game'?". Financial Times . Retrieved 24 February 2018.