tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post4593902078015917498..comments2024-03-29T05:52:53.051+11:00Comments on The Adventurers Guild: Missed Classic: Leather Goddesses of Phobos - The Sultan of SchwingThe Tricksterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01419316208187255801noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-447800647452018562018-06-28T04:03:56.180+10:002018-06-28T04:03:56.180+10:00It's just occurred to me that a mitred corner ...It's just occurred to me that a mitred corner is 45 degrees, so it must be a joke that goes with his name, and having a wide variety of angles wouldn't parallel (ha) that so well. (I don't suppose King Midas created various karat alloys of gold, did he?)arcanetriviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02033767865654085177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-58740004657140902662018-06-28T02:12:43.342+10:002018-06-28T02:12:43.342+10:00My thinking there was that if length of touch matt...My thinking there was that if length of touch matters, the throne room wouldn't be full of 45 degree angles, but various angles of all degrees, even if most of them are 45. He would have brushed by other things as well, surely. <br /><br />Good call on the $CATACOMB cheat. I vaguely remember reading about it and if I was playing the game just for fun rather than writing about it, I probably would have used it after the third or fourth frustrating death.<br /><br />It's good to see people reading and commenting on old posts. Thanks for contributing.TBDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07010934567583163570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-88330076416615572752018-06-27T08:28:13.798+10:002018-06-27T08:28:13.798+10:00The King was overjoyed, and gave me an 82 degree a...<em>The King was overjoyed, and gave me an 82 degree angle he'd made earlier because he just brushed against it (This makes no sense</em><br /><br />Whatever it was turned into a less acute angle than all the other ones he presumably touched more firmly.<br /><br /><em>After numerous tries and not really wanting to be bothered with tedious mapping and forgetting to KWEEPA at the right time anymore, I gave up and looked up a walkthrough.</em><br /><br />Apparently aware of how amazingly frustrating this is to play through even when you know the exact answer, in the Solid Gold version, they introduced a feature "$CATACOMB" which bypasses the whole sorry mess and just teleports you out with the phone book.arcanetriviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02033767865654085177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-2454432009458094972017-07-08T02:42:05.640+10:002017-07-08T02:42:05.640+10:00No way! That was a great gag! Perfectly fitting fo...No way! That was a great gag! Perfectly fitting for a game like this.<br /><br />I'm always in awe as to the patience you and others here have for mapping these text adventures. Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16946742995687817751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-82627285218079656532017-07-08T01:49:17.324+10:002017-07-08T01:49:17.324+10:00I was very close to including a picture of great t...I was very close to including a picture of great tits from here...<br /><br />http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/09/130920-shy-bird-great-tit-science-animal-personality/<br /><br />But eventually decided the 'image not found' would be funnier. I may have been wrong.TBDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13815382857422719383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-87311392874094998292017-07-08T00:58:19.049+10:002017-07-08T00:58:19.049+10:00But there is a bird called a titmouse. But there is a bird called a titmouse. Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16946742995687817751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-85338538678191756682017-07-07T23:15:15.855+10:002017-07-07T23:15:15.855+10:00I feel an opportunity was lost by the game not usi...I feel an opportunity was lost by the game not using "boobies" so that you could post a picture of some birds.Raifieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08478524519453417677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-52824116406227190862017-07-07T13:37:31.918+10:002017-07-07T13:37:31.918+10:00What a strange game! I can only imagine some of th...What a strange game! I can only imagine some of these puzzles if they were made into a graphical adventure...<br /><br />And that "tits" gag--legendary.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16946742995687817751noreply@blogger.com