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July 6, 2015 6:59 PM

Win a Date with Channing Tatum: a Twine game by Mefi's own nerdfish [via mefi projects; also mentioned in MetaFilter Podcast 106]

From the Projects page:

"My first experiment with the Twine platform, inspired by Channing Tatum's recent AMA. Guess how many jellybeans are in a jar to win. Tell Channing about all your problems and Channing will make it better.

"My first Twine game and my first MeFi project, but hopefully not my last!"

posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome (23 comments total)

(See also FanFare: Magic Mike XXL.)

This was unexpectedly fun, and the text was pretty funny no matter what route you chose. Well done!
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 7:00 PM on July 6, 2015

Reading the name "Channing Tatum" never fails to trigger in my mind a game of Guess Who? in which the faces of Carol Channing and Tatum O'Neal have to get flipped down before I can figure out who that name belongs to.
posted by Sys Rq at 7:07 PM on July 6, 2015 [17 favorites]

That was delightful.
posted by leesh at 7:08 PM on July 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

This is dreamy. nerdfish, you are a good person. you did a good thing.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 7:10 PM on July 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

Now I want one with Tom Hardy, but our date is walking dogs in the park.
posted by Windigo at 7:20 PM on July 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

I do not believe that there were (spoiler) 420 jellybeans in that jar. I do not believe it.

Worst game ever.
posted by maryr at 7:49 PM on July 6, 2015

I want one with Joe Manganiello! Someone said Channing looks like a thumb and I can't unsee it.
posted by discopolo at 7:59 PM on July 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

Channing is clearly from the same race as DS9's Odo. I've never seen someone with fewer facial features. People seem to think he's handsome but I think it's really more the absence of ugly they are responding to.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 8:10 PM on July 6, 2015 [5 favorites]

I do not believe that there were (spoiler) 420 jellybeans in that jar. I do not believe it.

There are approximately six jellybeans across, six down, and six back. That's 216. I suppose there's some more at the top, and then you might have to account for staggering, but even then, yeah, no.

420 is certainly the closest available choice, however.
posted by Sys Rq at 8:13 PM on July 6, 2015 [6 favorites]

I am still not entirely sure who Channing Tatum is but +1 Would Play Again (and already did several times...)
posted by motty at 8:38 PM on July 6, 2015

this should be the game of the year
posted by NoraReed at 10:10 PM on July 6, 2015

if it gets game of the year you should add dress with pockets dlc
posted by NoraReed at 10:11 PM on July 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

Oh wow, this really made my day! Thanks for the support, everyone!
posted by nerdfish at 2:13 AM on July 7, 2015 [2 favorites]

The Toast: If Channing Tatum Were Your Boyfriend

1. If Channing Tatum were your boyfriend, he would NEVER try to tell you about Slavoj Žižek.
posted by dismas at 6:01 AM on July 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

Count me as a woman who doesn't find Channing Potatum attractive but I really dig his ability to be charming and his sense of humour. His AMA was hilarious. You go on with your bad self, Potatum.
posted by Kitteh at 6:10 AM on July 7, 2015 [4 favorites]

When I played, it said it had been played 626 times, which is my birthday. Clearly, this is a sign.
posted by wakannai at 7:52 AM on July 7, 2015

Someone said Channing looks like a thumb and I can't unsee it.

He looks like a very attractive russet potato and so I call him POTATUM.
posted by poffin boffin at 8:45 AM on July 7, 2015 [3 favorites]

Not only the best question asked in Channing Tatum's AMA, the best question asked in any AMA:

"If you had a love child with Peyton Manning, would he be named Peyton Tatum or Channing Manning?"
posted by Solon and Thanks at 8:49 AM on July 7, 2015 [4 favorites]

Channing Tatum seems like a great guy, for someone whose neck is thicker than his head.
posted by pxe2000 at 8:56 AM on July 7, 2015

I did not get a date with my future ex husband why
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 9:32 AM on July 7, 2015

and you stop being mean to him you potato people

he's very sensitive
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 9:33 AM on July 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

All men should hope to be as wonderful and versatile and delectable as the mighty potato, tuber of the gods.
posted by poffin boffin at 9:56 AM on July 7, 2015 [3 favorites]

...Peyton Tatum or Channing Manning?
posted by ostranenie at 10:37 AM on July 7, 2015