Troels,

Really sorry to hear you can't do the podcast, mate, but I suppose for good reasons. Sadly, Pete doesn't see it that way. He's convinced that you've "retired".

As such he asked me to upload this. I can only apologise profusely.
 

Pete has an announcement for Troels and for the community.

 

Take care. And sorry. Again.

 

D

Nothing like a flood of lies and slander to start your day.

 

Thanks, Darren.

Yeah, I know. Sorry, man.

 

Listen, are the Two Guys hiring right now? I've had some health issues of late, and wonder if a change of scenery might do me good. I think we've established by now that Pete doesn't read this thing, so I reckon I'm safe.

*flips table*

I believe it's called:

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

 

Here, let me fix that for you:

┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

Yeah, I know. Sorry, man.

 

Listen, are the Two Guys hiring right now? I've had some health issues of late, and wonder if a change of scenery might do me good. I think we've established by now that Pete doesn't read this thing, so I reckon I'm safe.

You'd have to talk to The Pope, man. I'm pretty sure the role of sycophantic sidekick is already taken -- by me. But you never know. I do know Pope would never knowingly or willingly set someone on fire. So that's a bonus either way you look at it.

Aww very sorry to hear that. But happy about your cat!

Aww very sorry to hear that. But happy about your cat!

Thanks! Me, too. ;)

Honestly, hearing Pete Toleman belt out "Always On My Mind" is cringe-inducing in all the right ways. :)

 

 

I'm just imagining Gareth's wife off to the side, going, "Right, he's officially off the deep end. This'll be a hard one to explain to mum."

Firstly, very glad to hear that kitty is safe and sound my friend! :) Will the next podcast be addressing hardest puzzles?

Honestly, hearing Pete Toleman belt out "Always On My Mind" is cringe-inducing in all the right ways. :)

 

 

I'm just imagining Gareth's wife off to the side, going, "Right, he's officially off the deep end. This'll be a hard one to explain to mum."

 

I always wait until she's out of the house. It's for the best.

Mr. China: Yes, when the time comes. Things are much less stressful now. I'll have time to finish setting things up and get back in the "studio" (i.e. my bedroom, in my underpants).

 

Mr. Milliways: My wife doesn't listen to the podcast, either. She gets enough of me giving excited lectures on dull shit on a daily basis.

Studio back up and running. Maybe I should do that country-western album I've always wanted to do before doing a new Historian episode. Thoughts?

Studio back up and running. Maybe I should do that country-western album I've always wanted to do before doing a new Historian episode. Thoughts?

Who are you and how did you log into Troels' account??

Who are you and how did you log into Troels' account??

Thought appreciated. Anyone else? :P

Thought appreciated. Anyone else? :P

If your thinking something to the tune of, oh, I dunno, say, Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist, then by all means. Just shooting from the hip here.

 

HCH

Please...no....

*air-twangs*

*air-twangs*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vW4ooLQrAA&feature=youtu.be&t=1s

Okay, so ... screw the twangy-ness.

 

Here's what's up. I'm going to do one final episode for 2014 for Christmas (or whatever holidays you guys feel most comfortable with), and it's going to be about balls-out hard-as-shit puzzles. 'Cos, you know, what says Christmas more than "I needed a WHAT to get past those cave lasers?!"?

 

Now, to make this extra special, I was hoping I could get a bunch of you to let me know what your favorite HARD, BUT FAIR puzzle of Space Quest was. It can be the official games, or the fan games. I also plan to ask Scott about the origins of some of these puzzles, so the more suggestions, the merrier! (I will, however, cherry-pick. You know how this works.)

 

Note that I said hard, but fair. No Skate-o-Rama's. No running-out-of-oxygen-while-trying-to-save-Cliffy. I mean honest to goodness hard as balls puzzles. Your rock-in-jockstraps, your dropkicking-Arnoid-in-the-gears, your Super Computer laser grids, that sort of thing.

 

If you can get something to me by the end of the week, the episode will come out Thursday next week, just in time for Christmas! (Again, your choice of holiday celebration may vary.)

 

Edit: Of course, the only way this will be really special is if you send it to me as a voice file at troels@pleimert.dk :D

Wow that is a tall order. I can't even pin down a favourite puzzle, let alone difficult yet fair puzzle. Will have to give this some thought.

I have no short orders! But think of it as a tall request. ;)

There's something satisfying about the "monkey see, monkey do" element of copying the pinkun to get across the swamp on SQ2. Took me forever to work out what it was doing as a kid.