Comments | magratpudifoot: "Okay, I guess this is the only treasure I'm gonna get... Stupid cursed whispery parrot..."

magratpudifoot

"Okay, I guess this is the only treasure I'm gonna get... Stupid cursed whispery parrot..."

Jun 07, 2011 00:13

Alright, my darlings, it's time for the results and prize selection for the Pirate contest thingummy!

( Ever-so-slightly-dirty-ish lucre! )

win stuff, aaaargh!, my friends=awesome

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bizarreoptimism June 7 2011, 11:38:00 UTC

2) FN - AK and DM: Finding Neverland by Allan Knee and David MageeExcuse me, I have to go toss myself off my balcony for failing to recognize this, one of my all-time favorite movies. (And also maybe for not recognizing the Seinfeld one, as "But-I-don't WANNA be a pirate!" is one of those lines that I'll just pop out with, randomly, without any context, for no reason at all other than because it deeply amuses me ( ... )

magratpudifoot June 10 2011, 03:36:34 UTC

I have to admit, once Peter Pan and Hook were on the board, I kinda wondered what was UP...but then, I also don't understand how y'all got some of the ones you did, so I am overall much more impressed than puzzled ^_ ( ... )

captainchaotica June 8 2011, 03:03:47 UTC

HOW did I not get Count Duckula? HOW?! That's like..._my_ show! The one I wanted to introduce to you for years and then finally did! How...what...how ( ... )

captainchaotica June 8 2011, 03:06:46 UTC

P.S. I also TOTALLY should've gotten Blackadder, considering that's also the episiode that has Arthur Dent _and_ the Fourth Doctor in it! (As a pirate!) But, you know...I think that's another one of those shows that I tend to just automatically think of as _two_ initals when technically it's just one. Anything that's like, two actual words but run together. Darkwing and Discworld are BOTH not actually DW, Blackadder is NOT BA...but it seems like it should be, so my eye just blipped right over it.

Whatever.

...Notorious

magratpudifoot June 10 2011, 00:52:39 UTC

HA! Okay, so, I have to make a confession - when I went to see OST the first time, I realized that of all the millions (okay, _dozen_) buttons and pins I have on my purse, the only piratey one I have is the "Trial of the Century-y-y-y-y-y!" one that came with my copy of ToMI. Since I had this handful of pirate buttons sitting around, I grabbed a couple, pinned them to my purse for the night, and took them back off after the movie. Would you like to guess which two I picked out?

3 and 4SO, I apologize profusely for pre-using your buttons. If you'd like to pick a couple that _haven't_ already been used (if very briefly, and they show no signs of wear at all), I will absolutely understand. Otherwise, I will get them in the mail to you this weekend ( ... )

captainchaotica June 11 2011, 02:03:15 UTC

Oh, that's okay. I'm sure they're not too beat up. And remember, you're speaking (okay, typing) to the person who shops at thrift stores all the time--I'm _used_ to the stuff I have being previously used. :P ( ... )

bizarreoptimism June 9 2011, 01:31:56 UTC

I choose Button #12, because the sight of Jack Sparrow having a Bad Day always makes my *own* bad days just a little more sympathetically bearable, somehow. XD

ALSO: My Black-Pearl-in-a-Bottle arrived, and it is easily one of the coolest things I own or have ever owned or will ever own in my entire life, ever. I am just saying.

magratpudifoot June 10 2011, 00:58:17 UTC

I LOVE IT ^_^ If the Real World had user icons, that button would have been mine all week. ("Would have been"? I still have to make it through another day...)

ALSO: Mine, too! When I do finally redecorate my room/move elsewhere and decorate my new room, it is so going to be done entirely around my Trio of NECA Awesomeness ^___^

(Is it Saturday, yet???)

magpieinthesky June 9 2011, 03:34:11 UTC

WOOP WOOP! I am so excited to finally get to play ToMI. Of course, it might help if I ever found/finished Escape, but the whole issue of the games being too old for the newer Windows systems poses a bit of a problem... :P

Anywho! I have a question: is #9 Stan? Because if so, that's obviously got to be my choice. Otherwise, I'll need to mull it over a bit. :D

bizarreoptimism June 9 2011, 11:30:24 UTC

Apparently there's this thing called ScummVM that lets you play some vague selection of older computer games (including the MI games) on newer Windows systems. I haven't the faintest, foggiest concept of how it WORKS, but I did put it on my laptop yesterday and it did therefore allow me to play CoMI.

(Erm ... sort of. I haven't yet figured out how to pause and save a game, if that's a possibility with ScummVM at all, so at the moment it appears that I'd just have to leave my laptop on and the game up and running until I had actually played my way all the way through it -- but at least I can play it at ALL, I guess. :))

Hope that helps a bit. And I would like to say that I feel all computer OS should be backwards compatible when it comes to computer games, a la PlayStation.* I'm going to be very upset when my Oregon Trail stops working, for instance ... :P

* In theory.

magpieinthesky June 9 2011, 12:14:58 UTC

Yeah, the last time I tried that was maybe 2 1/2 years ago, so maybe I'm mixing it up with the time I tried to play Logical Journey of the Zoombinis (yeah, I'm that cool), even with the precautions I took it messed up the system. But maybe it wasn't with CoMI? *sigh* Maybe I should dig out the media in my still-unpacked boxes from college to check anyway...

I'm so with you on making all computer OS backwards compatible. It would make our lives so much easier, and it would make nostalgia that much more accessible! :P

... you have an Oregon Trail game that works? I've been afraid to try to play any Windows 95 games (I'm assuming you're using that version rather than the floppy disc one... but if not, color me impressed) on any new computer, but if there were a way around it, oh the joy that would ensue!

captainchaotica June 10 2011, 00:39:20 UTC

Oh man, I am ALL FOR the idea of computer backwards compatibility. I have _so_ many old DOS games that I really wish I could just, ya know, _start_, by double-clicking them...or that DOSBox at least worked like other emulators. Where you start it up, pick which game you want off a list and _it plays it_. None of this mounting imaginary Z drives and trying to remember syntax nonsense ( ... )

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