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Space Quest Historian
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Adventure game aficionado with a foul mouth.

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Rednex's publisher has decided that me playing their game, which included 10 seconds of their music in-game, was not "fair use." Even though it quite clearly is. Another case of YouTube's copyright system being absolutely broken as fuck. I have no choice but to relinquish monetization of that video.
Hi Space Quest Historian, After reviewing your appeal, Lucille AB has confirmed that your video contains copyrighted material that hasn't been approved for use in your video. Video title: Gedagedigedagedao - the adventure game | In-Bred with Rednex Copyrighted content: Old Pop in an Oak Claimed by: Lucille AB Lucille AB wants to give you an opportunity to cancel your appeal within the next 7 days. Canceling your appeal will return your video to the state it was in before you began this dispute. If no action is taken, your video will be taken down from YouTube on Nov 20, 2025, and a copyright strike will be applied to your account. If you still believe you have the rights to use this material, you can file a counter-notification after that date.
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Are we absolutely sure this song is about dentistry?
Excerpt from Dr. Alban's song "Go See the Dentist." A highlighted line reads: "He fills your hole so you can it feel very nice."
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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MAN-BRUTE!
Close-up portrait of Man-Brute, a lumpy face with horns.
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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My latest addition to the adventure game vinyl collection is a 4xLP box set of the Monkey Island 2 soundtrack, released under somewhat shady circumstances by German vinyl rebels DNB Records. Look at the fancy colors!

Photos from Discogs. www.discogs.com/release/3433...
Yellow marbled vinyl. Green marbled vinyl. Brown marbled vinyl. Grey marbled vinyl.
October 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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On the plane to the Portland Retro Game Expo. Wish us luck...

#prge #nerds
Me and Fred looking like dumb-dumbs in plane seats.
October 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Underrated comment by @delbertgseasons.bsky.social.
Delbert Grady Seasons replies: "His butt is a biblically-accurate angel."
October 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Casual shoutout to this mutant girl losing her shit over Jones in the Fast Lane on the cover of the 1990 Sierra fall catalogue.
A drawn image of a young girl excitedly holding a game box with her mouth unnaturally agape.
October 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Fucking grifters.
A suspicious looking guy opens his coat and points to the inside. He is labeled "Adobe." He says, "Okay, but... how about half price, then?"
October 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Well, it's not as repulsive as the Talk icon in Simon the Sorcerer 2, but you're getting there. 😁
A hideous pixel icon of an open mouth with yellow teeth and the upper lip curled in a sort of Elvis snarl.
October 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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YouTube leaning down and pinching the cheeks of (relatively) new channels and saying, in a coochie-coochie-coo voice, "We spoke to ALL your friends and they think you should make us more money, too! Yes, they did! They really did!" Then a soft slap on the cheek. "Go get 'em, tiger."
A YouTube Studio pop-up that reads: "Start earning with Shorts Feed Ads! We've analyzed how your audience interacts with your channel, the type of content you create, and similar channels to you and think Shorts Feed Ads would be a great fit for you." A YouTube Studio pop-up that reads: "Start earning with Memberships! We've analyzed how your audience interacts with your channel, the type of content you create, and similar channels to you and think Memberships would be a great fit for you."
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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I'll be going live with Universe, the second and final adventure game from Core Design, in a few minutes. I'm playing the original Amiga version.

Come watch:
Twitch: twitch.tv/spacequesthi...
YouTube: youtube.com/spacequesthi...
The front box cover of Universe depicting the lead protagonist being electrocuted in front of a giant, circular sci-fi structure.
September 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Fuck off, Twitch.
A nagging, unhelpful pop-up box on Twitch's dashboard that says: "Hi there! Your community would love to see you go live. Ease back into it with a weekly stream." At the bottom right is a button that says: "Schedule a stream." At the bottom left is an annoyingly cheerful anime character waving.
September 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Got this in my email today: a re-release of a pretty batshit Myst clone, Drowned God. Had a look at the Steam reviews to see what I might be in for. Every review mentions unfixed bugs, despite devs' claims to the contrary, and a game guide plagiarized from Balmoral's walkthrough. Pretty scummy.
Promo email for Drowned God with a large button that says "Claim your key." "One extra in particular, the game guide, was blatantly plagiarized from an old walkthrough of DG from the website Balmoral Software, and I was hoping the Steam version would remove it, but they didn't. I didn't even see an acknowledgement of Balmoral in the guide itself or in the readme document. If only Epic Games Store would let you review games, then I would've mentioned it on that page. I think it's pretty scummy to plagiarize something so much, and the funny thing is one of the biggest changes the "new" guide makes besides the presentation is removing any instances of the guy who wrote the Balmoral walkthrough insulting DG."
September 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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YouTube: Fucking things up for everyone since 2005.
Post from creator YourFavoriteSon explaining how to turn off Restricted Mode on YouTube. Post from creator Pixelmusement explaining how to turn off Restricted Mode on YouTube. Post from creator Whang! explaining how to turn off Restricted Mode on YouTube. Post from creator Larry Bundy Jr. explaining how to turn off Restricted Mode on YouTube.
September 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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My son: "Dad, can I play Minecraft on your computer?"
Me, proud that my son is taking his first steps into learning WASD movement and mouselook: "Of course, my boy!"
My son: Immediately spawns a dozen creatures and sets them all on fire.
A 5 year old boy with curly hair playing Minecraft. On screen is a lone surviving Creeper next to a blazing inferno comprised almost entirely of his friends.
September 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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My friend and composer of my favorite game soundtrack (Space Quest IV), Ken Allen, has a little something to say about a certain campaign you may have heard of.

We're about half-way funded, so please support the campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sea...

#adventuregames #livemusic
August 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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George Sanger, composer of The 7th Guest and about a million other classic game soundtracks, has a message for you.

We've hit the typical midway slump so please, now more than ever, please share our Kickstarter and support if you can: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sea...

❤️❤️❤️
August 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Today I was reminded of this comment on my King's Quest V video about just how big of an idiot Cedric is. (And me for saying that eating snake venom would be poisonous.)
Except that venom is usually not poisonous (it needs a different bunch of chemicals to cause problems when it's ingested VS when it's injected into the bloodstream, because digestion needs a whole bunch of different chemical stuff and it's basically better at being an isolated system until the intestines start transferring stuff to the blood stream, so poison has to make it through a very strong acid bath without losing its ability to do poisony stuff). Us humans can actually drink venom (if we do that too much we get stomachaches but then we also get it from eating too much clay or other non-food things) and cobra venom is reported as tasting "slightly sweet". We can't drink venom with impunity if there's a way for it to get to the blood stream though, like cuts or sores anywhere before the stomach acid bath point. Also owls eat poisonous snakes all the time and some specialize in ONLY eating venomous and poisonous snakes... Like the great horned owl. So not only is Cedric an idiot for not knowing the difference between venomous and poisonous, but going by his traits and colors, he's likely supposed to be a great horned owl or an eastern screech-owl... who both SPECIALIZE in hunting venomous snakes! So he's a lazy bastard to boot, you should have an option to sic him on that snake! Source: I had to learn what venom tastes like and if it's poisonous and if it's edible because of writing research.
August 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Ever wondered what was actually upstairs in Sam & Max: Hit the Road? Thanks to @changis.bsky.social, now we know, and it's... disturbing.

#SamAndMax #adventuregames
August 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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My band Error 47 is putting on a live gig in Portland in October in memory of our friend Roberta Vaughan. We need your help to get across the finish line so please take a moment to look at our crowdfunding effort and PLEASE SHARE. ❤️🤘

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sea...
August 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Join me tonight @ 9PM CEST for the live premiere of my Fair & Balanced Retrospective of The Pandora Directive on YouTube (youtu.be/wwhXmIx3I84).

Then tomorrow @ 9PM CEST, I'll be playing the game on "hard mode" with writer Aaron Conners on Twitch (twitch.tv/spacequesthi...).

#adventuregames
Tuesday (August 19) at 9 PM CEST: "Fair & Balanced" Premiere. Wednesday (August 20) at 9 PM CEST: "Gamer Mode" Playthrough with Aaron Conners.
August 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Got one of my favorite records of all time on vinyl yesterday. But, uh... can we please stop shipping records in these plain paper sleeves? Surely anti-static poly-sleeves can't impact production costs *that* much?
A plain paper record sleeve being held open to fully demonstrate its record-scratching properties.
August 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Happy birthday, my friend. Wish you were here to see it for yourself.
A picture of Roberta Vaughan smiling.
July 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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On Aug. 2 at 9 PM CEST (12 PM PST / 3 PM EST), @oneshorteye.bsky.social and Anna ( @cggpodcast.bsky.social ) will hold a memorial livestream for Roberta Vaughan. Laura Bow II was one of her favorite games so we'll play that. It will be simulcast on my Twitch/YT and OSE's Twitch. Links in comment.
July 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Pictured: a collection of people who don't understand the concept of "accountability."

(Don't worry, I deleted them on sight.)
A comment on my Police Quest IV video: "He was not responsible for rampaging animals that destroyed their own hoods." A comment on my Police Quest IV video: "Bro says the police guy caused the riots as if it wasnt thousands of independent adults choosing to break the law. They had agenvy not to, yknow." A comment on my Police Quest IV video: "So wait Did you just try to absolve the actual rioters of the 1992 LA riots of any wrongdoing" A comment on my Police Quest IV video: "i'm pretty sure the rioters were responsible for the riots."
July 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM