I didn’t even know you could put the petal into the stew pot before I saw that “three short arguments” video on youtube.
EDIT trying to correct link: Three Short Arguments on The Secret of Monkey Island - YouTube
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I didn’t know either. That particular scene is at 0:56 btw., but your link points to a later scene.
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I didn’t know that. Nice video, by the way; very well made.
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Okay, then it’s not amazing, but actually just as I had remembered. Guess I shouldn’t have read
as “she gave about 270 unique insults”. Mea culpa.
OHH! Sorry that was so unclear. 
No. I did some dishes and folded laundry while getting an amateur sampling of 270 insults, not unique. Mostly taken from Youtube let’s plays.
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That is unfortunately very true ! (busted…)
I, for one, don’t even pass the SCUMM bar but walk right back up the cliff…
I’m replaying MI2 and there are a bunch of things I did because I knew I had to. But I couldn’t find a reason why.
Why would we want to win the spitting contest? Does it ever say what the prize is? Does the Booty shopkeeper ever say he’d be willing to trade it for 6000 pieces of eight?
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I think Guybrush himself, the character, is a cosmic futzer. Why would he care about winning the Spitting Contest? Because it’s there. He must meddle and win it.
My first playthrough was Jucious Maximus the Third, but I more often default to Captain Loogie. In Curse, I tend to go as Split Pea with Ham Goodsoup.
It’s been at least a decade, but I’m pretty sure he indicated something along those lines.
He mentions that he buys valuable bronze items, but I don’t think there’s any indication that winning the spitting contest will get you a bronze plaque.
I always do that, even if I know that the only meaningful thing that I can accomplish on the island at the point is to learn an insult from the troll.
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You can also pick the illegal flower.
Right, didn’t think about that!
I get that it was difficult at the time to translate a game without any context, but replaying these games as an adult with both knowledge on the game and the English language I find a lot of bad stuff.
I already knew MI1 had some big blunders, but I found a pretty big one in MI2 when you die on LeChuck’s torture machine (no spoiler blurring here because if you don’t know it can happen, well, that’s your fault - it’s been 30 years!)
Elaine calls your lie and says “horse hockey”. In Italian, that’s been translated literally as if it were a hotspot. Which is something I can accept since they probably got a single line and didn’t know what to do. But not only that, they translated “hockey horse”, which is just plain wrong.
“early on the discussion there’s already someone complaining about something
are all forums on the internet synonymous of whining and complaining??
that’s why I left this forum a while back
it’s all nerds crying about something trivial. give a rest, guys”
I’ve been plenty joyful about the games in loads of other posts. I was merely making a minor criticism of one small aspect from the Special Edition of the first game. Being critical of art is not “whining” and “complaining”, nor does it make me a “nerd” who’s “crying”.
“I guess I’m also complaining about something. better join the club, right?!?
”
Well at least you recognise the fact that you’re a total hypocrite, I guess.
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I had the same thought as Eddie on my playthrough; I found the title voiceovers unnecessary. Somehow I doubt either of us got quite as worked up as you are right now, however.
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I’m personally to blame for what other people say on on every other social media platform, because I made one minor critical observation about the Special Edition of the first game on this forum? Not sure how you figure that.
No, I was literally making a critical observation and sharing my subjective opinion about one small aspect of a videogame. That’s not “whining”. The only person whining and being toxic here is you.
Why would I ever do anything to please yourself, you rude person?
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Well… 
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It took a shockingly small amount of time to find a comment from within @dimitreze’s post history, where was being critical of a Monkey Island game (a mere two posts prior to him posting his tirade above, in fact)…
Hoist by his own hypocritical petard.
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I would say the last posts are not really on topic, except if
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