>>5653080>>5654302>>5662171>game as a voluntary archive of decision choices and goals>game where you do not choose direct actions, instead choose incidental background tone symbols evocative of feelingsIf you are unfamiliar with Tarkovsky maybe this excerpt can more succinctly illustrate the phenomenon. Take a look at this sentence
>The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on. >The girl looked at the bead curtain, put her hand out and took hold of two of the strings of beads. and then again situated in the context of Hemingway's short story:
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“It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,” the man said. “It’s not really an operation at all.”
>The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on. “I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just to let the air in.”
The girl did not say anything.
“I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it’s all perfectly natural.”
“Then what will we do afterward?”
“We'll be fine afterward. Just like we were before.”
“What makes you think so?”
“That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy.”
>The girl looked at the bead curtain, put her hand out and took hold of two of the strings of beads.“And you think then we’ll be all right and be happy.”
“I know we will. You don’t have to be afraid. I’ve known lots of people that have done it.”
“So have I,” said the girl. “And afterward they were all so happy.”
“Well,” the man said, “if you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple.”
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And in Hemingway's laconic context, the unspoken and unmentioned suggestion from those previous two simple symbolic greentext actions are that this is a story about abortions, and the girl is a Catholic etc. I think it would be very difficult but I wonder if it would be possible to do something like this in a text choice game
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Men_Without_Women/Hills_Like_White_Elephants4chan qst games greentext choice equivalent
>Do you want an abortion?>Yes please>No thank you 