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just finished Alex Hill! If you're looking for a game with old Nancy vibes, I would definitely recommend it. The story was really complex, and since the target age is older they were able to tackle some topics you don't really see in Nancy Drew games, like alcoholism and adultery. I won't spoil anything, but I feel like the game also showed consequences of actions and the effect things have on life in a much more mature way than Nancy games do. There were also tons of Nancy references, I caught some to Bess and George, Mickey Malone, Fox and Geese, and more (go find some others yourself!). A lot of the locations gave me Nancy vibes, the second floor (coupled with the amazing music) made me feel like I was in Aunt Eloise's house. There's also a fun mechanic with old detective comics laying around for you to read, which I loved. You can definitely tell that the creator is a fan of Nancy Drew, and it came out in spades in the game! It is a shorter game, I started last night and finished today, so it's nice to fit into a busy schedule! If you're looking for something to scratch that Nancy itch, give you cozy (and sometimes spooky!) vibes, and allow you to do some good ol' snooping, give it a go!

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not but two minutes in. this is rad!

every so often I play another game and have to re-remember how to take a freaking screenshot...today is the day and this time it's Alex Hill!!

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every so often I play another game and have to re-remember how to take a freaking screenshot...today is the day and this time it's Alex Hill!!

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wooww so Jake Hurley is a nepo baby?? omg he and Lori have so much in common including both getting the train from their rich parents

pulling yourself up by your bootstraps in this county is a myth!

A cut dialogue bit from TRN, where the engineer’s son explains how Jake Hurley was possibly crazy.  He also mentions a rumor that there are “famous people” on board the train (obviously referring to John, Tino, Charleena, and Lori, respectively).

Thank you anon for the request!

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doing my first replay of KEY and had the same thought again. we love consistency unironically this is one of my favorite posts i've ever made so here it is again lol

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who are your favorite clue crew blogs?

I could never choose!! I love the whole clue crew community, I think we're really tight-knit and full of fun people! It would be like choosing a favorite horse on Shadow Ranch, I could never omg If anyone wants to drop their favorite blogs here for the anon, feel free!

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Are you ready to do his Big Island Will?

- the-immersion-excursion

Interesting. Tell me more, blessed orator

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New Theory: Charlotte and Clara are Actually Sisters

okay maybe I'm crazy but I had a thought on Clara's father... the incest theory always bugged me bc a) EW I just don't want it to be true lol and b) I don't think that Charlotte's first reaction to finding that out would be immediately going to write her out of the will. You hear about her compassion throughout the game and I would assume she would first try to offer some help to Clara, maybe counseling or something before immediately thinking of herself and her will. SO what if Clara's father is....Charlotte's (and Harper's) father? You hear at multiple points in the game how in love Charlotte's parents were and how they had the perfect relationship. Maybe Clara's mom refused to say who the father was because she knew she would be completely ostracized from the family for sleeping with her sister's beloved husband. I think this also would explain why Charlotte would be so adamant about changing her will - if Clara was actually her sister, she would have a much more legitimate claim to the Thornton fortune than Harper, and there would be urgency in changing the beneficiary. It would also explain why Clara would be so upset about it - in her mind she is the rightful recipient if Charlotte dies (she may even be older than Charlotte, the family tree lists them both being born in 1968), and Charlotte is undercutting her.

The HeR email giving additional context to the night specifically mentions that Clara was threatened by Charlotte's place in the family and "Charlotte had the family and childhood she wished she had. Her insecurity wasn't just a personal flaw, it was a response to her uneven upbringing." I think the juxtaposition between their childhoods is made even more intense if they actually shared a father. Charlotte got everything Clara wanted, even her own dad, and then tries to write Clara out of her will, alienating her once again.

If this all came out, I think it's a much bigger justification for starting the fire rather than discovering your grandpa is your dad. The latter would leave me absolutely destroyed and disgusted, not at Charlotte, but at Jackson. In this case, Charlotte is the direct beneficiary of the lies and coverups between Clara's parents, and is taking an action to continue that pattern - it makes a lot more sense why Clara would then direct her anger to Charlotte in that moment. I know the incest theory is very popular and has been around since the game came out so I don't think I'll convince everyone, but this makes a lot more sense to me narratively and in the context of what HeR would put in a game meant for younger audiences. What do you think? (also I'm sorry if anyone came to this conclusion before me and this is nothing new lol. If that is the case take this as my two cents in the ongoing conversation!)

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Bravely bringing this back again in honor of CRY day (it’s so hard being a visionary 😔)

guys...I'm about to make my most controversial yet brave take of my posting career lamont is better than henry in both looks and personality im sorry

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Absolutely. Some of them make sense (VEN), some don’t (HAU is “how” to me, I don’t make the rules) and some are sounds I’m pretty sure do not exist in the English language that my brain landed on fifteen years ago and I have been stuck with ever since and do not know how to type out to tell others:

MHM is kiiiind of like muh-hmmm? CLK is not clock or click or cluck but some kind of shortened version of all those three combined? TRN is kind of like tren, TRT is kind of like turrt, except neither of them are those sounds. Etc…

And then STFD and DDI are just acronyms lol. STFD especially sounds like a fire department to me so that’s what it will always be.

does anyone else have a weird way they read the nancy drew game abbreviations? for example, i read GTH (ghost of thornton hall) as 'gith' (like githyanki). i mean, most of the game abbreviations are normal (like DOG, CAP, SAW) but do you guys read the less normal ones as like. a word and not just a few letters thrown together, if that makes sense

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I read the top part wrong and was blast with a hit of inspiration (from BiM Himself surely) for the next item to spend your big island bucks on:

Big Island Micheladas

Then once He sells enough to get His hard liquor license and can sell more than beer and wine, He can introduce to us

Big Island Mike-Tais

Big Island Mike would be a showstopping drag queen. Maybe he'd be Big Island Michaela. But that might not be... BIM enough. Any other ideas for his drag name?

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the dogs ate it. spooky

okay, but where’s Nancy’s car?

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I went into this with hubris, I truly did not think that it was possible for there to be anything about this game that I didn’t know. BAM TOILET PAPER WHAT

Great video!

🎠 ND QUIRKS EPISODE 3: Okay but that Easter egg phone call from past Nancy saying to future Nancy “Say hi to Charlie for me!” IS PROOF THAT CHARLIE AND NED ARE REALLY THE SAME PERSON… I’m just saying 😂😂🤯

Shoutouts:

@djtwingamers for their playthrough footage of the tissue paper!

@hafanforever for their play through footage of the Easter egg scene!

@goobaandjetpack for their toilet paper hack (we had this in the quirks document, but I learned it from them first 😊)

@ndwalkthroughs for the ghost dogs mention on his site that was *not* a part of our quirks document!

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This post has wounded me bc my boyfriend is European and I literally got him a basket of sausages for our anniversary last week

I didn’t see the parallels and now I hate myself just like I hate Colin 😭

Fun Monday activities: asking your partner if she would accept sausages as a courting gift

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A lot of people asked about this lol this was like a very formative experience in my life unfortunately a lot of it is lost to time due to mods and deleted blogs and such but the basic gist is as follows:

Dagny used to be married to a woman

A very large subset of the HeR boards were conservative, homeschooled religious kids and their parents who lost their damn minds over this

Sooooo many posts about not wanting to see it, “keEp PoLitiCs OuT oF tHe GaMes”, “I don’t disagree with it I just don’t like it and hate it”, petitions to not have any more gay ppl, threats to boycott, etc…

Nearly all of these posts had two things in common, they used their religion as the reasoning and also had some variation of “that’s just my opinion!” ie something like “HeR shouldn’t support LGBT people, it goes against the Bible! I don’t have a problem with them but I don’t want to ever see them and I pretend they don’t exist and I hate them, but that’s just my opinion so you can’t be mad at me!”

Sooooo what happened was there were a big group of us who didn’t like this and thought that was all not very nice. So one genius starting pretending to be in a religion that followed Big Island Mike. If they were going to use their religion to be hateful then we could do the same thing!

So a lot of us started doing that! We would say stuff on those homophobic threads like “well BiM is a loving and omniscient god and His word says that you are a jerk and that every character in the Nancy drew games is gay, sorry but that is just my onion” (the onion thing was on purpose we were saying it to make fun of people claiming hate was just an opinion)

It went on a loooooot. We kept making more and more things about the lore of big island Mike, his ponytail was like a sentient god that whispered secrets in his ear, we capitalized He and Him when talking about him, made theories that he was behind every game, everything we could think of. I’m realizing here this doesn’t sound like much but please believe me it was like a weeks long Thing where this was all we did and every post was like this.

This was like an actual coordinated thing, most of us were on tumblr and we would like discuss the best ways to push back against the homophobia, unfortunately I don’t think many of those blogs are active anymore (for myself it was an old blog that I deleted many years ago, and I haven’t seen any of the others around since making this one more recently. If any of you still exist I’m sorry!)

The homophobic people were doing the same thing on twitter and we knew that so we were like one step ahead lol. One time one of the main ones posted a list of the users he hated the most and I was on it and I was very proud of myself!

We would also do non-BiM things, like making petitions for games with only gay characters from here on out, and also talk about other social justice issues, stuff to get under their skin

The mods HATED all of this (most of them fell in the conservative homeschool type parent group if I remember correctly) but we weren’t really breaking any rules. Eventually they started deleting all the posts about BiM and His power and saying that made up stories had to go in the magic library

Then they amended the rules to say that no trolling is allowed and started deleting everything en masse, which they weren’t really doing to the homophobic stuff but they eventually I think did that as well. But that was another proud moment because they literally changed the rules because of us lol.

To circle back to OP’s original point, a big part of the fan base really was homophobic (at the time, I hope that is no longer the case) and their fit after SEA came out really did a number on the fan base and likely the company. Right after this the whole MID thing happened and they got a lot less interactive with the fans and basically killed off the original fan base. And we were all super divided anyway so the message boards just died. I’m really happy that there’s a newer group of fans with the clue crew now but that was like a very stark end of an era for sure!

And, to my knowledge, that is the origin of all the BiM worship. It does my heart good to see that all live on despite the loss of the original meaning or even like that there was a meaning at all lol (something something ancient history, meaningful things living on, I’m old now, blah blah blah)

Anyway I think that about sums it up! Please forgive me if I left anything out, this was like literally ten years ago and like I said nearly everything has been deleted at this point. If you go on the HeR boards and look at the summer of 2015 I think there are still some remnants hanging on but like very heavily edited by the mods. Writing it all out it doesn’t sound all that interesting but it was a truly wild time and one of those you had to be there type things, I hope it was at least mildly entertaining to read, I’m sorry I forgot the actual content of the memes lol

OP sorry to hijack your post!

(takes a long drag of a cigarette) remember when homophobia destroyed her interactive

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This was such a formative experience for me (I was one of the people on the message boards pretending to be a part of a BiM religion to mock them and saw it alllll go down) that I try to tell the story to my real life friends all the time but none of them GET IT bc like it was such a bonkers thing and like I really think it played a role in the whole debacle that we’re in now

As usual homophobes ruin everything

(takes a long drag of a cigarette) remember when homophobia destroyed her interactive

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ICE Senior Detective Glitch Solved!!!

omg I feel so sleuthy right now! There's a glitch in ICE where Elsa never picks up the phone on Senior Detective mode no matter how much you try, which has infuriated me for ages because I'm a 'leave no stone unturned' kind of player. Today I tried to do something about it, and it worked!!

I noticed that regardless of how many times I read her resignation note, her phone number never appeared in Nancy's notebook. It turns out that the Senior Detective glitch is that it never registers that you've read the note, which then never activates her phone number.

So the solution is to go into the developers menu and manually check off the event that you've seen her number! Solution: Press ctrl+shift+tab+C at the same time to bring up the developer's menu. Go to the 'Events' tab and search for 'elsa'. Check off the event "Saw_Elsa_Number". Hit Enter.

Note 1: The resolution of my screen makes the menu dialog stretched and cut off. If this happens to you, you can still do the above! The parts that you need will be on the screen (using search makes it so you don't need to scroll through the events), and hitting Enter will work instead of clicking the OK button that is cut off.

Note 2: Elsa doesn't always answer the phone even when you've seen the number. If you do this and she doesn't immediately answer, try calling again at another time (I'm not sure what her available hours are, but this is what worked for me!)

Sorry for such a long-winded post, but I am so excited to have figured out a solution!!