Pixstar Runner/Fortune Cookies



A half-batch of Pixstar Runner fortune cookies. Click a cookie to read your fortune!

Date: Friday, January 29, 2021

Left cookie

 * The guy next to you hasn't started the project either.
 * Remember all those things you're putting off right now?
 * Be nice to birds, just in case.
 * The rubber bands are heading in the right direction.
 * A bird on the plate is worth two in the grate.
 * You could stand to be a whole lot cooler.
 * Talk to your table for a week to see how it will react.
 * Stop taking advice from little slips of paper.
 * If someone ties your shoelaces together, you're bound to fall down.
 * You might grow up to be a famous magician.

Middle cookie

 * Half a mind is better than nothing.
 * Don't go in there!
 * The only true mistakes are the ones you can't blame on anyone else.
 * The more fortune cookies you eat, the more lucky numbers you have.
 * Spice up your life by taking metaphors literally.
 * Tell everyone all your secrets. Then you won't have secrets anymore.
 * Don't turn the light off - turn the light out.
 * You can't trust everything that you eat.
 * Stop paying attention to anything anyone says.
 * Someday you will get revenge on that guy who laughed at your hat.

Right cookie

 * Fortune favors the fortunate.
 * Bet you can't guess what number I'm thinking of.
 * A very annoying song will become stuck in your head.
 * All your friends are having a good time without you.
 * Lawn tools make terrible gifts.
 * You will second-guess yourself and give up.
 * Don't think about that really embarrassing thing you said last week.
 * Why do something when you can do nothing?
 * They're all lying to you.
 * Try ordering pizza from the next person who calls you.

Trivia

 * All fortunes were written years prior to the making of this game, though some were revised shortly before release.
 * There are 30 fortunes total, about half the number present in the original Homestar Runner Fortune Cookies.
 * "The rubber bands are heading in the right direction" was a real fortune in a fortune cookie opened by 's mom.
 * This is the first Pixstar Runner content released on Scratch in nearly four years.
 * A number of fortunes written in the original text file were not included in the game:
 * Fortune cookies are really overrated.
 * Throw something at your neighbor.
 * How many of these things have you eaten?
 * Don't even think about it.
 * Pinch your arm to make yourself fall asleep.
 * Nobody actually does extra credit.
 * Carry an umbrella indoors in case of the fire alarm.
 * Develop a strong will and a hard head.
 * What if you can fly and you just haven't found the right magic word?
 * Spend weeks preparing for your next argument.
 * Don't throw caution to the wind. It doesn't want it either.
 * And I never like asparagus.
 * Watch out for lava pits.
 * For a moment, just think about mops.
 * You will meet some old friends in awkward places.
 * When life gives you a lemon, squeeze juice in its eye.

Real-World References

 * "Talk to your table for a week to see how it will react" is a reference to the Ruler of the Universe from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
 * "Try ordering pizza from the next person who calls you" is based on a Calvin and Hobbes strip.