(Q - SRA: This is the first time that I have had you live as well, like the previous friends, and I have listened to a lot of your vocals and you are preparing something very nice for us for the
30 years.)
MB: I admit it’s pretty.
(Q - SRA: and thank you for thinking of us. And I had a question regarding MPs, how many do you currently have left to read?)< br />
MB: I look at my phone app, I see 4000 plus.
(Q - SRA: Regarding that, you answered my question, thank you for that. And the other evening, it was last night, late at night, we discussed this subject- there with a few other nice people, but the number was small and it was planned that we would approach this subject in a more general way, when there were more people. But since you are here, I'm taking advantage of it because I think. that you are the first concerned, do you think that it could be relevant for the owls to give you a gift for the 30th anniversary which arrives in the coming days, namely to clean up the PMs that they transmitted to you, that all the MPs which are no longer relevant because they came across an empty hole, they were verified, they had transmitted their solutions to you, they were verified in the meantime, the hole s appeared empty so in my eyes these MPs are out of date and could be deleted from your reading list and be able to lighten…)
MB: But not at all. But you don't understand. What I like about PMs is the level of confidence, the level of confidence, which means that everyone tells me things that are extremely personal, that are extremely interesting, that are extremely touching.
(Q - SRA: I personally distinguish between messages that have personal notions, stories told, anecdotes, et cetera. And pure technical solutions that turned out to be empty.)
MB: Yeah, but the problem is that the pure technical solutions you talk about reflect a lot of information about the ego of their author. I'm very interested in reading all this so.
(Q - SRA: But as you said earlier, some also overdo it a little and send you a hundred PMs week after week.)
MB: But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. I have enough elements in hand to tell you and to affirm and to be completely formal on this, that, despite the fact that I have not read all the PMs intended for me, I am absolutely certain which no one has yet found. So no worries, no worries about that.
(Q - SRA: It's not on that side, it's not on that side, it's really to make it easier for you, it's really to make it easier for you load, we will say,)
MB: I understand. Others are sensitive to this aspect, but nonetheless, the confidential side, the trust side, the intimate side of most messages remains extremely important for me, so there is no question of throwing them in the trash. Obviously I'm going to read them all. In a time that is mine, and at a time when I could do it but none of this will go in the trash. Well very good, for me, it's very important, we must understand that in the first period of this game where the exchanges were made by Minitel, with someone whose identity we did not know and in comparison with the current period where you know who I am and where you know that at one time or another, anyway I will read these messages, the difference is enormous and for me the the, how would I say, the degree of The implication conveyed by these messages is extremely important.
I realized, I have already read a few thousand since I launched this Discord, I realized to what extent many were, most of you, were involved in this quest, what care, what attention, they gave and to what extent the story had entered into their daily life and was part of. well ultimately, of their family life for many.
And I respect that enormously, so for me, it's out of the question to say well, there are x messages, I haven't read them, I'm going to throw them in the trash and so on. No no, not at all, not at all, it's for me, it remains important, very important. It turns out that circumstances mean that today I have a lot to do on quite a few fronts in relation to many elements of this treasure hunt. However, all messages will be read. I will take the time it takes, I will read them all.
(Q - SRA: Excuse me, excuse me just to finish. Your response, I thank you for it and your response shows that it is not just for the 30 years that you are making nice gestures for all the owls, but it's everyday.)
MB: Honestly, frankly, I don't care about 30 years. The 30 years only underline the fact that, when I started the story, I was 43 years old today I am 73, so it's not necessarily, I'm not necessarily happy, I have not necessarily to be happy about it no, no, I don't really care about 30 years in fact. What really excites me, what motivates me in the actions I undertake today, is the fact that I am connected with a few thousand people who for their part have taken things seriously.
From then on, I stopped myself from laughing. I refrain from taking things lightly and I am keen to respond to everyone.
(Q - Apollo: No but frankly, it's to your credit. Well, just looking at all the MPs, frankly, it's finally me, I find it very, very good. It’s a respect for researchers.)
(Q - Xavier D’Homan: And where are you, Michel des MP? One month, 2 months?)
MB: Who cares where I am, MPs are not the problem. The problem is, don't forget, I explained to you that everything you have, you, as owls, you built Max Valentin. You gave him the elements of what made his short career, but a career nonetheless, in the field, in the field of treasure hunts. All the treasure hunts he created after the Golden Owl are supported, manufactured, concocted from the ideas of the owlers. For me, it's, it's absolutely obvious, it corresponds to the character as I knew him, so an opportunist, a good communicator, that captured everything that needed to be captured. He captured the ideas, he used them afterwards.
It's funny for me to read, well yes but hey, Max Valentin, in the Trésor d'Orval, in machin owl used this, so thing. In fact, after the Golden Owl, he almost always used the ideas that were submitted to him, suggested, proposed by the owls. That's funny to me.
And, from that, I say to myself, around the hunt for the Golden Owl, there was a considerable production, a mobilized, considerable gray matter, which created a corpus of proposals, of ideas, potential solutions. Well Max used them as I just said. I don't use them because it's not my job and I don't want to use them, I see it and I say to myself, it's so enormous what the mass of players have produced today. I have no right to laugh about that. I have to respect that. I must take this into account. I have to answer that.
MB: I admit it’s pretty.
(Q - SRA: and thank you for thinking of us. And I had a question regarding MPs, how many do you currently have left to read?)< br />
MB: I look at my phone app, I see 4000 plus.
(Q - SRA: Regarding that, you answered my question, thank you for that. And the other evening, it was last night, late at night, we discussed this subject- there with a few other nice people, but the number was small and it was planned that we would approach this subject in a more general way, when there were more people. But since you are here, I'm taking advantage of it because I think. that you are the first concerned, do you think that it could be relevant for the owls to give you a gift for the 30th anniversary which arrives in the coming days, namely to clean up the PMs that they transmitted to you, that all the MPs which are no longer relevant because they came across an empty hole, they were verified, they had transmitted their solutions to you, they were verified in the meantime, the hole s appeared empty so in my eyes these MPs are out of date and could be deleted from your reading list and be able to lighten…)
MB: But not at all. But you don't understand. What I like about PMs is the level of confidence, the level of confidence, which means that everyone tells me things that are extremely personal, that are extremely interesting, that are extremely touching.
(Q - SRA: I personally distinguish between messages that have personal notions, stories told, anecdotes, et cetera. And pure technical solutions that turned out to be empty.)
MB: Yeah, but the problem is that the pure technical solutions you talk about reflect a lot of information about the ego of their author. I'm very interested in reading all this so.
(Q - SRA: But as you said earlier, some also overdo it a little and send you a hundred PMs week after week.)
MB: But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. I have enough elements in hand to tell you and to affirm and to be completely formal on this, that, despite the fact that I have not read all the PMs intended for me, I am absolutely certain which no one has yet found. So no worries, no worries about that.
(Q - SRA: It's not on that side, it's not on that side, it's really to make it easier for you, it's really to make it easier for you load, we will say,)
MB: I understand. Others are sensitive to this aspect, but nonetheless, the confidential side, the trust side, the intimate side of most messages remains extremely important for me, so there is no question of throwing them in the trash. Obviously I'm going to read them all. In a time that is mine, and at a time when I could do it but none of this will go in the trash. Well very good, for me, it's very important, we must understand that in the first period of this game where the exchanges were made by Minitel, with someone whose identity we did not know and in comparison with the current period where you know who I am and where you know that at one time or another, anyway I will read these messages, the difference is enormous and for me the the, how would I say, the degree of The implication conveyed by these messages is extremely important.
I realized, I have already read a few thousand since I launched this Discord, I realized to what extent many were, most of you, were involved in this quest, what care, what attention, they gave and to what extent the story had entered into their daily life and was part of. well ultimately, of their family life for many.
And I respect that enormously, so for me, it's out of the question to say well, there are x messages, I haven't read them, I'm going to throw them in the trash and so on. No no, not at all, not at all, it's for me, it remains important, very important. It turns out that circumstances mean that today I have a lot to do on quite a few fronts in relation to many elements of this treasure hunt. However, all messages will be read. I will take the time it takes, I will read them all.
(Q - SRA: Excuse me, excuse me just to finish. Your response, I thank you for it and your response shows that it is not just for the 30 years that you are making nice gestures for all the owls, but it's everyday.)
MB: Honestly, frankly, I don't care about 30 years. The 30 years only underline the fact that, when I started the story, I was 43 years old today I am 73, so it's not necessarily, I'm not necessarily happy, I have not necessarily to be happy about it no, no, I don't really care about 30 years in fact. What really excites me, what motivates me in the actions I undertake today, is the fact that I am connected with a few thousand people who for their part have taken things seriously.
From then on, I stopped myself from laughing. I refrain from taking things lightly and I am keen to respond to everyone.
(Q - Apollo: No but frankly, it's to your credit. Well, just looking at all the MPs, frankly, it's finally me, I find it very, very good. It’s a respect for researchers.)
(Q - Xavier D’Homan: And where are you, Michel des MP? One month, 2 months?)
MB: Who cares where I am, MPs are not the problem. The problem is, don't forget, I explained to you that everything you have, you, as owls, you built Max Valentin. You gave him the elements of what made his short career, but a career nonetheless, in the field, in the field of treasure hunts. All the treasure hunts he created after the Golden Owl are supported, manufactured, concocted from the ideas of the owlers. For me, it's, it's absolutely obvious, it corresponds to the character as I knew him, so an opportunist, a good communicator, that captured everything that needed to be captured. He captured the ideas, he used them afterwards.
It's funny for me to read, well yes but hey, Max Valentin, in the Trésor d'Orval, in machin owl used this, so thing. In fact, after the Golden Owl, he almost always used the ideas that were submitted to him, suggested, proposed by the owls. That's funny to me.
And, from that, I say to myself, around the hunt for the Golden Owl, there was a considerable production, a mobilized, considerable gray matter, which created a corpus of proposals, of ideas, potential solutions. Well Max used them as I just said. I don't use them because it's not my job and I don't want to use them, I see it and I say to myself, it's so enormous what the mass of players have produced today. I have no right to laugh about that. I have to respect that. I must take this into account. I have to answer that.