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The Calm Before The Storm 17 Oct, 2002 / Comments: 29

By Jake


There seem to be a lot of slow days, but none are more slow than Thursdays. The day before LucasArts graces us with new screenshots from Gladius and the like, we usually just sit around. Recently, downtime notwithstanding, we've been trying to make threads like "we're bored, what's going on with you?" asking about community news we may have missed, or just something entertaining to reduce my boredom at work.

Well, it's Thursday again. Anyone with anything interesting, fun, stupid, what have you, please leave a comment so everyone else can have something to do. Would be nice if it was LucasArts related, but it doesn't really matter.

For instance, me, I'm very sleepy. Now its your turn.
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29 Comments

  • Gabez on 17 Oct, 2002, 13:44…
    I'm giving up sleep, and instead focusing on listening to Trapezoid's I know your name. It's so much like what happened to me last week.
  • Jake on 17 Oct, 2002, 10:52…
    Marek pointed me to this really interesting if a bit silly article on the pre-production of Curse of Monkey Island. Another long read, but it has some interesting parts.
  • Remi O on 17 Oct, 2002, 11:43…
    Dude, we reported on that ages ago, man.
  • Jake on 17 Oct, 2002, 12:19…
    Screw the SCUMM Bar!11
  • Kingzjester on 17 Oct, 2002, 14:36…
    HEAR, HEAR!
  • Remi O on 17 Oct, 2002, 12:58…
    If it only had a neat-o-riffic Rivenesque 3D monkey-coaster video :~
  • Jake on 17 Oct, 2002, 16:34…
    you tool. i'll kill you
  • twifkak on 17 Oct, 2002, 20:50…
    inside jokes are funny even when i don't get them.
  • Marek on 17 Oct, 2002, 11:03…
    Yeah! Read it folks, it's cool.
  • Bobo Donkey? on 17 Oct, 2002, 10:32…
    I just downloaded the Night of the Hermit? fan game and now im downloading the unofficial VGA remake of Kings Quest?.(its taking fucking ages) Apologies to all you people who thought I was through with mentioning something Sierra? related but I just thought i'd let you know what I was doing (besides, Kings Quest? was like the Monkey Island? of its time. It sold lots of copies, it was very popular, etc etc. However, Monkey Island? had more humor and the puzzles werent based on fairy tales either. And lots of Kings Quest? fans think that either Kings Quest 3 or 4 is the best of the series.)

    Now i'll shut up about Sierra? ("its about time too" I hear you say.) and give you an interesting website.

    www.stupidvideos.com
    This site is full of funny videos (well duh). Check out the ones called "Star Wars Episode XII" and "Christmas Lightsabre". You'll like it.
  • Bobo Donkey? on 18 Oct, 2002, 08:57…
    Just finished downloading Kings Quest 1 VGA (thank god) now i'm putting it on floppy disks to take up to my house. And I just found a yo-yo so now i'm playing with it. Wheee
  • Marek on 17 Oct, 2002, 10:15…
    I found this old and uninteresting press release today! Wheeeeee
    http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2001/lucasarts.html
  • BooJaka on 17 Oct, 2002, 09:42…
    I'm doing Work Experience at Virgin Megastores in Portsmouth. It's pretty sweet considering what I should be doing and I get to listen to music all day. The girl I know who's working in Thornton's has got it better though. I've also edited this post 3 times now which is kind of a record. It's all because I tried to do the ? ? thing but the two "?"s kept going on different lines no matter what I do.
  • JBRAA on 17 Oct, 2002, 09:08…
    I just found this: Amiga box for Monkey Island, and is says 'Ron Gilbert' on it with large letters. I dont know if his name is shown like that on the other boxes. Any way, kinda neat. :)





    Image from the ExoticA site.
  • Jake on 17 Oct, 2002, 10:55…
    Parts of that look pretty photoshopped.
  • bgbennyboy on 17 Oct, 2002, 12:41…
    Yeah thats the amiga box allright but im pretty sure that 'Ron Gilbert' wasnt on there like that
  • Remi O on 17 Oct, 2002, 10:39…
    Kind of strange. The PC box looks like this. Oh, and all the poor Sega owners got was this.
  • Kingzjester on 17 Oct, 2002, 07:01…
    I think I will sit down and spank my monkey... I'm talking about Black and White, OF COURSELY... Is there a way to teach my ape not to eat people while I'm doing something else somewhere else?
  • matt on 18 Oct, 2002, 01:08…
    Well, I bought that game and played it for some days and then i lend it to a friend who still plays it today - BUT i know an answer for you ... simply give him some cute human fellow (maybe a kid from the kindergarten) and he'll eat him/her and THEN ... BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIM! that'll teach him a lesson - the same thing works with his own poo - you should teach him to place it onto the fields and not onto the kindergarten, because that makes the children sick and screaming ... and when he eats his own excrements he'll get sick too.

    ... whatever. i have never played it long enough because it's too time-consuming.
  • Gabez on 17 Oct, 2002, 13:41…
    You're playing God? Blasphemy!
  • spaff on 17 Oct, 2002, 06:38…
    http://www.lemonbovril.co.uk/bushspeech/

    is the most useful tool in our society today
  • Bobo Donkey? on 17 Oct, 2002, 10:48…
    Spaff, you should put up a page full of misellanious links that you (or someone else) have come across.
  • spaff on 17 Oct, 2002, 16:27…
    this is what the next episode of "calm before the storm" will contain :)
  • spaff on 17 Oct, 2002, 06:36…
    i'm at work today.. first time ion 2 weeks.. argh.
    Testing games on mobile phones! how demeaning!

    just glanced across the room to se what else we are testing... and..woah! hey! cool....may i just say that the intro to sonic CD is so damn good :) I miss that game.
  • bgbennyboy on 17 Oct, 2002, 07:40…
    Yeah I seem to recall a particulary good intro theme.
  • Bobo Donkey? on 17 Oct, 2002, 07:34…
    Yeah I liked that game as well when I played it on my PC (cheesy lyrics though)
  • bgbennyboy on 17 Oct, 2002, 06:24…
    I have a whole week off for university 'half-term' cunningly disguised as 'reading-week'.
    I plan to read Mojo, that should do it.
  • mmanning on 17 Oct, 2002, 04:51…
    I just woke up. I'm looking at porn right now. I've been addicted ever since Tim Schafer sent me those nude ladies. After that I'm going to work.
  • Jake on 17 Oct, 2002, 03:32…
    Sort of silly if you don't like reading or aren't a fiend, but anyone who hasn't at least glanced at this article on LucasArts's very old project, Habitat is seriously missing out. It predates most any massively-multiplayer game by years and years and still managed to run on home computers.