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Post by GooRoo on Feb 4, 2024 15:04:48 GMT -8
216.52.89.111 (Times Square, New York City) is another certified SPAM/SCAM/Phishing source.
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Post by GooRoo on Feb 4, 2024 14:58:23 GMT -8
205.210.31.18 (Palo Alta Networks) has been reported 18,752 times for abuse! (Must be some sort of record!)
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Post by GooRoo on Feb 4, 2024 13:15:42 GMT -8
I agree, the Gruntz in the pyramids section are unreachable. But enemies killed by the death touch do leave goo. By the way, the fifth Grunt is not actually needed for anything in the level. I only used him to fix my earlier mistake and pick up the invisibility powerup, as I could no longer reach it with my other Gruntz.
Ah! So the fifth Grunt was "MPI Love This Game", not some magical way of sucking up the Goo from two enemy SpongeGun Gruntz.
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Post by GooRoo on Feb 4, 2024 13:12:52 GMT -8
I have no idea why there are so many 'guests' from Amazon, Inc.! What do you people find of interest here? We have little, if anything, 'for sale' ... and even less that we want to buy!
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Post by GooRoo on Feb 4, 2024 11:31:36 GMT -8
I managed to solve the 13 coins version to a "Perfect" score, but I admit it's somewhat difficult. Not because of the bridge at the beginning. The timing is synced perfectly to a Grunt's walking speed, so you can just click on the last bridge tile and get to the other side - what's so hard about that? Definitely the biggest impediment to solving this level is the lack of information given to the solver - lots of different objects are hidden behind trees, with no way of knowing what before walking into the tile. The red warp, which is required to unlock the secret switch, is also in a completely unmarked location. Combine this with the erratic behavior of the silver switches, which are also used to control bridges, and you get a pretty chaotic landscape, where nothing is known for certain until activation. However, this is not entirely a bad thing - it makes the level quite interesting to play. Once you learn all the tricks, it doesn't take long to solve - my final attempt took me a little over 22 minutes. The level's likely to have multiple solutions, as I managed to complete it without using the wings and invisibility powerup. In fact, I did not know of the existence of that powerup before I reached the king's fortress for the first time. The level also has some oddities related to the crumbling bridges, which seem to be caused by modifying default tile attributes - as somebody mentioned earlier, it is possible to walk on water in some places.
How did you manage 5 Gruntz? To me, the 2 SpongeGun Gruntz in the toggling Green Pyramdz with a BOTS and 4 Coins are 'unsuckable' ... not enough time to stand and suck up the Goo before being squishing by a rising GP. Even that, you would need 2 Sword Gruntz' Goo ... and I didn't think Death Touch left any Goo behind. (I will have to pay attention when (if?) I get that far.)
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Post by GooRoo on Feb 3, 2024 17:19:55 GMT -8
This Quest reminds me a bit about my own "Metamorphosis". Switches that do something other than what the MPI designers intended.
This one has Silver Timer Switches operating Bridge Tilez (in two different parts of the puzzle (so far). When I look at the "View the map!" image I think that the STS near the easternmost Blue Warp should have been a Blue Toggle Switch to raise the submerged Bridge Tiles. Not so! Those Bridge Tilez are under the control of the STS! The Grunt can't simply "Point and Click" to cross!
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Post by GooRoo on Feb 3, 2024 14:38:58 GMT -8
I just discovered part of my problem with this Quest: I do not have the same version that was played to achieve the Statz Page image!!!
My version only has 13 Coins and 1 Red Warp, while the Statz Page image shows 15 Coins and 2 Red Warps! In my version that I have been playing, there is no way to get to the area with the Warp Letter ... the other RW must be the way.
So I am going to download the WWD on the Forum's web shot, and see if it is different from what I have been playing.
Edit: No luck! Same 13 Coins and 1 Red Warp.
Help! If anyone has the version with two Red Warps (and 15 Coins), please send it to me.
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Post by GooRoo on Feb 3, 2024 12:43:56 GMT -8
The original posting in this thread now will play representative songs ... and the early radio broadcast about it.
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Post by GooRoo on Feb 3, 2024 8:41:38 GMT -8
On February 3, 1959 the music world was notified of the death of three Pop Music performers:
- Buddy Holly: Charles Hardin Holley (lead singer of The Crickets) 21 years old
- Ritchie Valens: Ricardo Valenzuela (Donna/La Bamba) 17 years old
- The Big Bopper: Jiles Perry Richardson (Chantilly Lace) 28 years old
Buddy chartered the plane, J.P. had a cold and replaced one singer, Ritchie also replaced another singer. The plane crashed, and all three and the pilot died.
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Post by GooRoo on Feb 2, 2024 11:16:34 GMT -8
"I see!" said the blind carpenter, as he picked up his hammer and saw.
This is a case of two interruptions causing two entries in the "By Release Date" indices: 1. February, 2007; I had been diagnosed with prostate cancer (Gleason stage 4) and was beginning 25 days of radiation therapy to get the Big C that got out of the prostate. 2. September, 2010; 'discovering' the dropped ball, distributing it and starting the walk-through (from memory) ... and never truly finishing it.
By now, my ability to use HTML(4) has increased, and my 'standard' walk-through has changed quite a bit. So the first thing I will do is bring the various components up-to-date. Next, replay the Quest in order to determine how to finish (the Quest and the walk-through).
Of course, I will first update the 2010 Release Date index to make it clear that it is a delayed release of the 2007 entry. (And possibly delete the 2007 entry.)
So close! With minimal changes, this one could have been 100% MPI compliant. Move the Warp Letter to where the two Coins are, delete the BOTS and add one BP to be controlled by the BOTS the Straw Grunt activates ... and (maybe) add two Coins to the prize earned via the Question Mark Switch and it is fully compliant. Playable in 'Easy' mode with a result as PERFECT! as possible, acquiring all of the Toolz, Toyz, Coinz, etc.
There are a couple of mismatched Switchez (operating the wrong TileTriggers) that are simple Tile replacements. There are also some 'Glows' in meaningless places; one could be in THE meaningful place at the SecretTeleporterTrigger.
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Post by GooRoo on Jan 31, 2024 12:46:44 GMT -8
"Jumala" seems to translate to "God" in Finnish, so content of the site would make sense. The domain was probably sold and reused by someone else.
I am Finnish (by name, 25% by genes) but only know a (very!) few words, and doubt my spelling of them would be correct. But I recognized the text as Finnish because of the preponderance of double 'a' words.
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Post by GooRoo on Jan 31, 2024 10:51:35 GMT -8
I am prepared to distribute this one today, once the ratings question has been answered and I have had a chance to update the necessary indices.
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