Visualizing a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book
Here's a neat little data-visualization of the possible outcomes in an old Choose-Your-Own-Adventure message, in which life was nasty, brutish and short.
Michael Niggel took a look at Journey Under the Sea, and mapped out all possible paths. It turns out that death and unfavorable endings are in fact much more likely than the rest.Choose Your Own Adventure - Most Likely You'll Die
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