Archive for Tag: Quantum Geek
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Quantum Geek: Episode 26 – Epilogue
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on 
1 A month had passed since Rick had successfully retrieved Tom and Alli’s consciousnesses from I.D.E.A.S., and life was beginning to assume a normal routine again.
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Quantum Geek: Episode 25 – Game Over
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on 1 Alli was waiting for Tom as his forces reached the entrance to the Enemy’s camp. “Yeesh, if I didn’t know any better, I’d say you and Rick were about to make out back there.”
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Quantum Geek: Episode 24 – Sacrifice
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on “We can’t hold out much longer like this!”
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Quantum Geek: Episode 23 – The Calm Before the (Psionic) Storm
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on While Tom, Alli, and Emmi were preparing for their battle, Rick was preparing for his. He knew the attack could come at any time; and when it began he knew he would have to closely monitor the system for his chance to strike.
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Quantum Geek: Episode 22 – Epiphany
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on “So Emmi,” said Tom, “this ‘giant confrontation’ we need to distract the bad guy. What would that entail?”
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Quantum Geek: Episode 21 – Fun With Pronouns
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on “Rick, just what the hell is going on?”
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Quantum Geek: Episode 20 – In Which a Banana Pun Is Very Carefully Avoided
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on 2 Rick was aghast, though not for reasons one would think. Yes, he was extremely worried about his friends stuck in his creation and could do nothing but watch as his they struggled through the games, but that seemed like a distant memory now. Tom was waltzing his way through The Secret of Monkey Island, completely ignoring all of the puzzles, and it was working. As a child Rick had spent days trying to figure out where to use every item and clicking on each and every object on screen just in case it might be important, whereas Tom just reacted as he would in the real world (or at least, a completely fictional real world). Need a ship but Stan the Salesman is in the way? Knock him off the dock and steal it. Need a crew? Promise anyone who comes along they can have the ship when you’re done. Don’t know where you’re going? Just follow the obviously glowing outline of the ghost ship. At this moment, Rick both admired and hated Tom for his ingenuity.
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Quantum Geek: Episode 19 – X Marks the Plot
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on 1 Tom attempts to discover the secret of Monkey Island...or at least, the secret of what he's doing IN Monkey Island.
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Quantum Geek: Episode 18 – Actually, She’s Completely Optional in the First Game
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on The Quantum Leap meets Captain N story of a gamer literally sucked into videogames.
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Quantum Geek: Episode 17 – Hylian Tennis
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on 2 Tom flew high over Hyrule, the entire expanse of the kingdom laid out before him. Were he inclined to look down, the sight would have taken his breath away, but he was only concerned with one area: th