I recently purchased Tales of Monkey Island, which rewarded me with a coupon code that can be used to get a free episode from the Telltale store. I’ve decided to give this code away in a competition due to the fact that I’m a supposedly nice individual and for no other reason.
Telltale make episodic adventure games such as Sam & Max, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures and the aforementioned Tales of Monkey Island. This code will get you an episode from one of their games for free though Tales of Monkey Island seems to be only available as a bundle at this point so it won’t work there. Sorry.
I’m not as creative as I wish I were and having struggled to come up with a decent competition of my own I shall be using an idea that Wardrox suggested instead. In order to win you must leave a comment below answering the following question:
What would you do with a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle?
Your entry can be a written comment, image or video and the winner will either be the best entry, or randomly selected if we can’t pick a best one. You must be a registered user to enter. The competition will close a week from now on July 17th.
I’d fuck it.
Give it to someone else in return for an item to solve a puzzle so obtuse that a bespoke chicken-pulley system was only necessary as a trading chip.
And for the seven people who’ll get this, I’ll then draw a chicken neck on my own photo ID and stick a moustache on my own face with syrup.
I’d slap Gandy across the face during PAX.
@Brandon “RavenSan”: With the chicken, obviously.
I think I would have to build myself a pulley transport system from the upstairs of my house to downstairs. What’s the point in having a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle if you’re not going to use it?
As an engineering student (truth, fuck you), I have to say that that pulley would most likely be rendered useless due to the fact that 1) the maximum mechanical advantage of a single pulley is 1, and 2) there would be so much chicken matter that the friction between the pulley and the chicken would be too great to use in a transport system. Therefore, the best use for the pulley would be to use it in order to turn the rubber chicken into a Beyblade, somehow make a bit-beast for the chicken where it turns into a giant Chocobo, and then use said Chicken Beyblade to take over the world.
I’d fuse both together in an unholy ritual that would create an abomination so revolting it would challenge the faith of the most steadfast of believers.
id put a squeker in the middle and give it my dog
I’d hook it up to a tiny diesel motor (complete with a tiny turbocharger) via a custom accessory belt. The throttle will be linked to a lie detector, with speed increasing from signs of deception. The centripetal chicken will continuosly slap the “person of interest” in the face for lying.
The motor will be cooled by animal fat. In cases of extreme deception, the “coolant” will become too hot, expanding beyond the confines of the coolant passages. A pressure relief valve will vent excess grease onto the rubber chicken.
The scaldingly lubricated centripetal chicken will burn the subject’s facial region, in addition to flinging scorching droplets of animal fat onto their body.
For the greatest psychological effect, the type of fat chosen should be dictated by the interrogatee’s social, political, or religious beliefs.
There will be a coolant reservoir with enough “coolant” to inflict 3rd degree burns in highly resistive subjects while keeping the engine cooling system fully functional.
The diesel motor can run on traditional diesel fuel, or biodiesel. Under normal conditions, the motor should be run on domestically produced biodiesel, as this will produce less pollutants and have less of an impact on the subject’s health. Also, this will provide increased irony in the case of a vegetarian suspect.
Since the pulley is in the middle of the chicken, two subjects may be processed simultaneously, thereby increasing overall system efficiency. Tandem operation may also have an impact on efficacy. Being responsible for another person’s suffering may induce feelings of guilt,
potentially reducing the tendency to lie.
With the implementation of an ECU to control the process, an array of valves and solenoids, higher capacity coolant pump, and an increased fat reservoir, the system could be expanded by additional rubber chickens with pulleys in the middle to scale processing of “persons of interest.”
The winner will be announced shortly…
Thanks! Now I need suggestions on what to get. I am looking at these series: Bone, Wallace & Gromit, and Strong Bad.
What’s the best episode of each? Thanks for any recommendations.
I’ve actually only played Monkey Island. I’m pretty sure you’ll find reviews for all of them on the bigger sites though. If it were me, I’d go Wallace & Gromit but only because I have no idea what the other two are…