Thing is, the logistics company sent a semi. At the receiving airport, a logistics company picked it up and drove it straight to the office in need. The soonest flight was a passenger flight, not a cargo flight, so they bought the box a ticket and sent it on its way. The manufacturer was in Texas, the switch was in Michigan.
THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND SPECIAL EDITION LINUX UPDATE
A bad software update had hosed up the primary card in such a way that it also made the standby unable to function, and they were capital-D Down for hours. It took a lot of chores to pay my mom back for that.Ī friend of mine had this happen with a processor card for a telephone switch. Of course a few years later I racked up $30 in hint line charges while making my way through Sam and Max Hit the Road. I actually ended up sending two or three letters to finally complete the game. A few weeks later, I received a response with Lucasarts letterhead with the solution to the puzzle. Rather than giving up, I sent a physical letter through the USPS to Lucasarts explaining where I was stuck and asking for help. This was defeated by the office photocopier.Įventually I got stuck on a puzzle that I just couldn't figure out. The game had a copy protection feature where there was a spinning wheel and you had to input some text that was revealed when you combined the top of a pirate's head with the bottom of a different pirate's head (IIRC). To make it bearable, my dad somehow got me a pirated copy of the secret of monkey island from a coworker (he worked at a PR company so I still find that mildly surprising today). When I was 9, in 1993, I hurt my eye and couldn't go to school for a week while it was healing. Eventually you have a big bucket of techniques you can use whenever! After a while of seeing the same technique applied by different people for slightly different reasons, you can start using it yourself.
Similarly, I've found it quite effective to watch how other people use techniques to illicit specific reactions from people. As you gain experience sword fighting, you pick up new phrases and you eventually learn the situations in which you yourself can apply those phrases appropriately to defeat the other swordsmen. Interestingly, I think about Monkey Island a lot because I often tell people (only half jokingly) that the way that I think about learning conversational skills is by using the same mechanics as the sword fighting challenge in The Three Trials. Eventually our cousins lent us the game and we beat it over the course of a few months. They had a copy of Monkey Island and each summer we would tell ourselves, "This is the year we're going to beat Monkey Island." Each year we never made it much further than the first Island. When I was growing up my brother and I used to spend a week each summer at our cousins' house.