Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders playthrough and hints

Anyone knows a better word starting with ‘s’?
Then it could be something like: ‘MARS Area Rapid Shipment’ (I know, “shipping passengers” doesn’t sound nice.)

Sorry about that! :wink:

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MARS Area Railway System?

(Although I hate recursive acronyms.)

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Solar-powered Humanoid Intergalactic Transport

Bidirectional Extraterrestrial Entities Porting

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I don’t understand :man_shrugging:

         ^   What does MARS stand for?

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MARS is for MARS Area Railway System. That’s the recursive acronym :wink:
Same thing with e.g. PHP, which (today) stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

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It stands for MARS: Another Richard Stallman

Or for the less programming/IT-inclined:
MARS: Another Recursive Stupidity

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So, you mean MARS Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System Area Railway System? :thinking:

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MARS.

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Great. Now I got hungry. And no Mars around…

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Look up to the sky!

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Clouds.

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I have a Snicker here at work. He is sitting by his desk few meters from mine.

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Hard worker, is he?

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(To bring it back on-topic):

That Snicker guy sure looks like a kind of hamer-headed alien in disguise!

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His sideburns are actually perforating suction cups. They create a mini-vacuum to better puncture your skin and suck out all the blood.

(long overdue) evidence:
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And finally one which is quite difficult to find:
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turning on the light and quickly using the crystal didn’t help to see her :face_with_raised_eyebrow:
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Btw., “putting her down” also means another thing… which coincidentally happens fairly often when people play this game.

And what do I see in the background? Turns out somebody discovered a “bug” just recently:

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Nah! You can TURN OFF the cat clock to match the real sound. It’s like that toilet paper orientation option.

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So @David has patched that “bug” back then without knowing it? :smile:

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