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How ClickHole Crafts the Web's Most Hilarious Adventure Games

WIRED

I was dueling Anthony Bourdain to decide which one of us was more human. I had arrived at this moment via a surreal and silly journey that began with a question: "Can you pass the Turing Test?" I'd found this rabbit hole on ClickHole, the Buzzfeed-parodying offshoot of The Onion that has, however improbably, become a tiny haven for hilarious, often surprisingly complex Choose Your Own Adventure style interactive fiction games. Clickventures, as they're called, are exercises in absurdist escalation. They typically begin modestly, but quickly shift into the unexpected and ridiculous. To pass the Turing Test, I journeyed from a home computer office to an ersatz version of a Pokémon gym on the world stage.