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Don't worry, it'll all be over soon, I promise.

Now then...

"On the other side, Chaos followed my example."

--Memoirs of Bobbin Threadbare: Loom-Child (AKA the walkthrough in the LOOM hint book)

"Things fall apart, the center cannot hold,

Mere anarchy is loose upon the world."

--"The Second Coming," poem by William Butler Yeats

"Speak."

--The Creator, The DIG

"I don't need any more green."

--Ludger Brink, The DIG novelization, by Alan Dean Foster

How about some red crystals then?

(See above screenshot.)

Nothing up my sleeve...

Here goes!

"Long after the passing of the Second Shadow, when dragons ruled the twilight sky and the stars were bright and numerous, came the age of the Great Guilds."

--marketing copy on the back of the box, LOOM (by Brian Moriarty)

"A great shadow has departed."

--Gandalf the White, The Lord of the Rings, Book VI, chapter four: "The Field of Cormallen"

All prams lead to the Kensington Gardens.

--finale of TRINITY, by Brian Moriarty

"What rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"

--Gabriel Knight 1 demo, quotation opening for Day 1

"I don't know. We'll find out!"

--Henry Jones, Sr. (Sean Connery), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (directed by Steven Spielberg)

Meanwhile, back in Space Quest IV...

"She was very beautiful, wasn't she?"

--Roger Wilco, Jr.

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

--The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in The Wizard of Oz (one of the original inspirations for the Doctor on Doctor Who)

Wait a minute... are those hair buns?

BEHOLD!

"I have a very bad feeling about this."

--Bobbin Threadbare, LOOM

(Bobbin, the Red Bear?)

"Exit, pursued by a bear."

--William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

Screenshot from an early version of Space Quest III, with "the Empire sucks!" graffiti on the side of a TIE fighter...

...and a green bear following Roger Wilco around.

Screenshot from an early version of Brian Moriarty's The DIG, showing two different types of crystals: green and red. (Source: Joystick magazine #40, July 1993)

Screenshot from the same magazine, representing Noah Falstein's version of The DIG, with two astronauts.

Chaos out of Order. Order out of Chaos.

Opening Lucasfilm Games logo, The Secret of Monkey Island (EGA version)

Opening Lucasfilm Games logo, The Secret of Monkey Island (VGA version)

Screenshot, Monkey Island II

Bronze version of the Lucasfilm Games logo, used only in the Amiga port of The Secret of Monkey Island

Title screen, EGA version of The Secret of Monkey Island

Starting screen of the EGA version of Monkey Island 1, showing a sunset which was removed in the VGA version, to match the title screen.

Original title screen, The Secret of Monkey Island

Lucasfilm Games logo from the January 1990 Winter CES demo of LOOM (not used in the actual game)

Unused LucasArts logo, found in the resource files of the talkie CD version of LOOM

Blank space left for a logo in room 001 of the resource files of Sean Clark's The DIG.

"An early version of the museum in Sean Clark's Dig, with six alcoves containing visual records of events instead of four."

--quoted from ATMachine's House of LucasArts and Sierra Oddities

Final version of the museum background in Sean Clark's The DIG, showing only four TV-style alcoves.

Background for the first museum room--or, perhaps, the library--in Brian Moriarty's The DIG.

The same museum background, with the crystal pyramid (probably a recording device of some sort) inserted into the computer.

Screenshot representing the five different gameplay paths (and six different choosable characters, including Ken Borden and Cora Miles) in Brian Moriarty's The DIG

"We're gonna need a bigger boat."

--Quint (Robert Shaw), JAWS, 1975 (directed by Steven Spielberg)

Chaos: Obtained!

Continuity: Preserved!

Time Rip: Opened!

Recalled to Life: The DIG!

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"Take me home to."

--The talking Dangling Participle (incorrectly named), King's Quest VI

"Go back now, human. Take me home."

--The DIG

...

"Thanks for playing Space Quest IV."

--Ending of Space Quest IV (CD version)

 "Thanks for playing Space Quest IV. We hope it's been as entertaining as you have."

--Ending of Space Quest IV (disk version with better graphics and the missing-points bug fixed)

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"You're just in time to witness the dawn of a new era."

--PenUltimate Apostle of the Antisecular Conclave of Clerics, LOOM

I'm truly sorry that TotalBiscuit is ill. I wish him a swift recovery.

On a much more farcical note: you know what DOES have colon cancer?

Star Wars: Episode: The Phantom Menace. ;)

The comic was all right, but it didn't follow the original script closely enough for my money.

(i.e., why was Annikin's hair blond instead of dark, and where was the nudity?!)

Tobar said:

They've now made Grand Vizier canon.

 But I already defeated him, because I gave the dagger to Cassima!

Whoever wants the domain can buy it... but they risk losing it, and having their hands burned, if Disney's lawyers come calling.

Personally, I don't want it badly enough to spend $99 on.

Maybe if I had a spare $20, I might do it, though.

Like the stroke of a scythe?

Or a stroke of good fortune?

Or like the stroking of a cat's ears?

"All of them at once," said Bilbo.

I suppose so.

Regular programming will resume in 6 hours.

The Last True Secret of Brian Moriarty's THE DIG

“Rule One: The Doctor lies.”

Doctor (dok*tor) n.

Definitions:

1. English:

Physician; healer; medicus.

2. Latin

Doctor.

“Traduttore, traditore.”

--Italian proverb

traduce (tra*doose) v.

Definition: slander; defame; insult publicly.

traduire v.

Traduction en anglais: Translation.

"The ship is almost ready.”

--Cocytan Leader

"Go home and tell your people what has been accomplished here."

--Cocytan Creator

"Thank you, Boston."
--Cocytan Inventor 

invenio v.

Definition:

1. Latin:

Present active inveni?, present infinitive inven?re, perfect active inv?n?, supine inventum

I find; I discover; I come upon.

‘Yé! utúvienyes! I have found it! Lo! here is a scion of the Eldest of Trees!.’

--Aragorn Elessar, The Return of the King

Oh, I've almost finished testing one of the video games I was working on earlier.

It should be ready for release in a day or two... the hour of its release looms before us.

"The final hour is now at hand! The Age of the Clerics is upon us!"

--Bishop Mandible, LOOM

So too might these two other threads.

Prepare yourselves!

Did you see the Ralph McQuarrie sketch on the wall while you were there?

I did, when I visited a few years back. I photographed it even.

By the way, this thread on another forum might shed some further light on the matter at hand.

Exit, pursued by a bear?

I always thought that ending was a bit silly.

"Somebody has to save our skins!"

--Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan

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"The universe is not only stranger than we suppose, it is stranger than we can suppose."

Common mis-remembering of a quote by biologist J.B.S. Haldane

~

"Thus, I give up the spear!"

--Moby Dick

...

Wer meines Speeres

Spitze fürchtet,

durchschreite das Feuer nie!

--Richard Wagner, Die Walküre

...

Notung! Notung!

Neidliches Schwert!

Zum Leben weckt' ich dich wieder,

tot lagst du

in Trümmern dort,

jetzt leuchtest du trotzig und hehr.

--Richard Wagner, Die Walkuere

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"The opera might have been Siegfried."

--Dr. John Hamish Watson (with Nicholas Meyer acting as his executor and literary agent), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

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"I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality."

I Timothy 5:21, King James Bible

"I discharge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality."

I Timothy 5:21, King James Bible (erratum version)

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"Very well discharged."

--A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare (probably)

Zeroth: You must play the game.

First: You can't win.

Second: You can't break even.

Third: You can't quit the game.

--Common variant of the Three Laws of Thermodynamics (as formulated with a little help from Isaac Asimov)

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The Doctor: I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the Constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old and I'm the man who is gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?

Rickston Slade: No.

The Doctor: In that case, allons-y.

--Doctor Who, Starship Titanic

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THE DIG: Shared!

"It is accomplished!"

God (sometimes played by Max von Sydow)

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (probably)

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"Another galaxy, another time."

--Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, by Alan Dean Foster and George Lucas (1976)

"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes."

--Princess Leia Aquilae of Organa Major

"So You Want To Be A Hero"

--subtitle of Hero's Quest (as published by Sierra On-Line, 1989)

Or you could just, you know, ban Boston Regis instead.

"Kill him! He's the one!"

Yep, it was me. I admit it freely.

Do as you will. I hope you can forgive me, though. It's what I'd do.

After all, in this particular instance, I think my actions were, in the long run, mostly harmless.

Well, I'm sorry if I violated the rules. It just seemed somehow... fitting... to do so. I thought the story would be the better for it.

I shall accept the consequences of my actions.

But honestly... I'd rather that this entire forum no longer had a rationale for existence... beyond simply being a fun place to hang out.

Why, that's me! You've guessed my secret:

I always thought sock monkeys were cute.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave this thread to its own devices.

You see, I have to go now. My planet needs me.

/steps into the crystal tetrahedron

Ah, the world is full of Boris Karloff knockoffs.

Not that I'm complaining, mind you.

Increasingly I've come to believe that the OOT will indeed be released on Blu-Ray at some point in the near future.

After all, it would be almost certain to make a whole pile of cash with which to line Disney's coffers.

Plus... maybe, somewhere deep down, George Lucas really does have a conscience. He's only human, after all.

I wish... to come into my own again, and to enjoy it... and to weave, and fold, and forge, and dig, and other things besides... and to enjoy the fruits of my labors... and to let them tell their own story.

The easiest way to tell which version of The Wrath of Khan you're watching is by listening to the dialogue in the scene early on where "midshipman first class Peter Preston" shows up.

If Scotty says, "My sister's youngest, Admiral. Crazy to get to space," then it's the director's cut.

If that line is absent, then it's the theatrical cut.

If midshipman Preston doesn't show up at all... strange things are afoot.

"Well done, good and faithful servant."

"No more shall the Dead envy the Living!"

"I feel... I feel fine. What happened? I remember digging. And the ground gave way under me..."

"Dark have been my dreams of late, but I feel as one new-awakened."