The Second Great Monkey Island Race of 2010

December is always host to a number of traditions. Since last year, however, a new one has been added to December's traditions: The Second Great Monkey Island Race (The First one is in the summer). It all started last year when some cool people on TellTale Games' forums decided to celebrate the release of Tales of Monkey Island chapter 5: Rise of the Pirate God by playing a marathon of all 5 Monkey Island games, streaming it on livestream, and see who would be faster. Loads of people (Myself included) watched it on livestream and had lots of fun in the chatbox, but neither of the participants managed to finish the race, as the ~20 hours of straight gameplay meant gamers fell asleep on their keyboards and internet connections exploded.

However, a second and third race where done over the past year, spread out over multiple days these times, which I participated in too (Finishing exactly in the middle in both races). And now, a fourth race has started. The thread for it is here, and my own livestream, where I will stream each game as I play them (times can be found at the bottom of this post), is found here.

If you like Monkey Island, you should definitely try participating or watching a few streams. The chatbox really makes it a fun experience, and sometimes times can be thrillingly close.

The times on which I will stream are:
The Secret of Monkey Island, Special Edition: 27 December, 19:00 GMT
Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge, Special Edition: 27 December, 23:00 GMT
The Curse of Monkey Island: 28 December, 19:00 GMT
Escape from Monkey Island: 29 December, 19:00 GMT
Tales of Monkey Island: 30 December, 19:00 GMT

I've been missing out on retirement money

Here is an interesting website called URLAI, which analyses the text on a given URL and provides statistics of who the writer most likely is. Of course, I couldn't resist it, so I tested this blog:

"platypuspancakes.blogspot.com is probably written by a male somewhere between 66-100 years old. The writing style is personal and happy most of the time."


I'm actually 19 years old, so that's way off the mark. The actual statistics show that my scores for each age group were pretty close together, though, so they didn't mess it up as bad as it seems from the statement.

A historic occasion

Welcome, everybody, to a historic occasion, as you will today read several phrases that, according to Google, have never been spoken on the internet before!

"there are actually intelligent people on the internet"

"their curtains were eaten"

"no mr potato heads were harmed in the making"

"set a platypus on fire"

"is there a faith healer in the room"

"jar jar binks rocks your socks off"

"i would die for my twitter account"

"twilight is not awful at all"

"strangled with an old sock"

"lived on a diet of giraffe meat"

"had his eyes poked out with commas"

"noses fighting crime"

"gandhi wielding a chainsaw"

"got eaten by a garden gnome"

"luxembourgers and witches"

It's a bit of a surprise to me that none of these were used before. Several of them would be quite amusing incidents. "gandhi wielding a chansaw" and "luxembourgers and witches" could make for great villains for some story. (The Luxembourgers hate the fact that their country is so small, so they team up with witches to turn every foreigner into the world into a frog) Others, like the ones about Jar Jar Binks and Twilight are of course not surprising at all.