(Q - ??: And on this subject Michel if I may say, you find that your efforts are bearing fruit, that is to say all the advice that you have so kindly distilled, do you
do you have the impression that people are taking them into account and that we are getting back in the right direction?)
MB : Overall there is an atmosphere which is evolving around the certainties which had been made, which had been established as being definitive, I think that indeed there is a change which is taking place, there a few taboos are falling and I think that's how the game can start again. But it's much more complicated than you imagine, because it's true that it's so easy to say things but I don't want to betray the game and I don't want to betray the players. There are people who have been looking for a very long time, there are new people who I don't want to disadvantage.
Absolutely no one benefits. When I listen to you I arrive with a big handicap, that is to say that I arrive after someone whose word is never questioned and I arrive, a priori my word is questioned c This is how it works, it makes perfect sense given the situation. I'm someone everyone suspects, so it's the truth, I have no illusions. So, from there I know and it doesn't bother me any more than that, I know exactly what I'm doing since the moment I got the solutions each of my actions was calculated, wanted and I think that I I left nothing to chance, that will be known when the time comes. Everything I did I did it for a very specific reason the deadlines whatever it was everything was everything everything had a good reason and I left absolutely nothing to chance. That said in relation to the progress of the game I am realizing that many things that have been said or written are not gospel, that does not mean some have asked me if they had lies in the mad, I always said that there was no lie, Max never lied, it was something completely different that happened. It's much more much more pernicious as a mechanic, I've been saying for some time and I'm realizing more and more that both the players and Max have been influenced by the role they've had, one and the other. at the time of Minitel and that caused a situation which is what it is today with vocabulary linked to hunting.
It comes from the exchanges, max was cooked well it was by minitel, it was a little more or a little less comfortable than me when it falls on me.
But he got cooked, he made more than a hundred thousand responses, it’s obvious that it had an effect on him, on Max Valentin’s character. He acquired behaviors, a vocabulary and who sometimes took refuge behind certain concepts to facilitate answers that he gave endlessly. I see clearly, we always find the same questions, it's always the same ones that come back so I realize that after a while the answers are forgotten and that the question comes back and he has created a character for himself , he created a vocabulary, he exchanged the vocabulary already adopted by the group. It's simple, that's why there was a certain time when I used the term sect, that is to say that around him, there were players from the very beginning, he there were comments, there were these curses which became gospel and all that causes a blockage, because no one dares to question that, no one manages to really free themselves from that and it is what I am seeing. I say to myself, how can I unblock this situation a little, without betraying the game.
(Q - ??: so for me, as far as I'm concerned, all these concepts that you mentioned Mega tip, Super Solution I put a lot of water in my wine, I take them with a lot more decline than before)
MB : I would like to lead you towards much more fluid reasoning and to completely forget these concepts. You can always go take a look inside but it's not gospel Some people think that I have scores to settle with max valentin, max valentin is no longer I don't settle scores with the dead this would be stupid I have no score to settle with him I had some at one time he is no longer here today so it's over let's not talk about it anymore. But I realize very well that in all of this there is a matter which is completely human and therefore it cannot be it is not gospel so there are errors, there are uncertainties, there are approximations, there are hasty answers, there are lots of things like that.
That's why I say we can always go and take a look but never forgetting the character of Max Valentin who I kill myself to define as having been a man, I always say it when we want to watch him in front of you it's at eye level, don't look up, it's not the commander, it's not someone taller than you, it's someone like us and he had the same the same reactions as everyone else he reacted so there you go. I think it's clear and I think that in order to rediscover pleasure in this treasure hunt, you have to start it again while forgetting…
You have to have enough mental strength to say to yourself, I'm skipping it, I'm eliminating a certain number of things that I pose as preconceptions and we'll see what emerges from my journey, from my solutions. But it's not an obstacle course, it's not as strict and the rules are not as established as what the remainders could mean, are they there, we don't care about the remainders, the leftovers they will jump out at you when you are finished, you don't even need to worry about them. Now in the way in which the solutions are approached, we say to ourselves there must be something left, I don't know who told me that earlier, but we must not think about that, we must be much more flexible than that . We must let things and deductions go, we must not focus on a procedure to follow or on an obligation to achieve a result of a piece of leftover something that we kill ourselves looking for the leftovers they will appear at the end.
(Q – BlackCorbac: discussion on backorders)
MB : my wish would be to be able to free the minds of the players a little by saying stop sticking to a straitjacket of concepts, of vocabulary which did not exist at the time of the conception of the hunt and which only results from exchanges with max valentin therefore only from the Minitel era.
MB : Overall there is an atmosphere which is evolving around the certainties which had been made, which had been established as being definitive, I think that indeed there is a change which is taking place, there a few taboos are falling and I think that's how the game can start again. But it's much more complicated than you imagine, because it's true that it's so easy to say things but I don't want to betray the game and I don't want to betray the players. There are people who have been looking for a very long time, there are new people who I don't want to disadvantage.
Absolutely no one benefits. When I listen to you I arrive with a big handicap, that is to say that I arrive after someone whose word is never questioned and I arrive, a priori my word is questioned c This is how it works, it makes perfect sense given the situation. I'm someone everyone suspects, so it's the truth, I have no illusions. So, from there I know and it doesn't bother me any more than that, I know exactly what I'm doing since the moment I got the solutions each of my actions was calculated, wanted and I think that I I left nothing to chance, that will be known when the time comes. Everything I did I did it for a very specific reason the deadlines whatever it was everything was everything everything had a good reason and I left absolutely nothing to chance. That said in relation to the progress of the game I am realizing that many things that have been said or written are not gospel, that does not mean some have asked me if they had lies in the mad, I always said that there was no lie, Max never lied, it was something completely different that happened. It's much more much more pernicious as a mechanic, I've been saying for some time and I'm realizing more and more that both the players and Max have been influenced by the role they've had, one and the other. at the time of Minitel and that caused a situation which is what it is today with vocabulary linked to hunting.
It comes from the exchanges, max was cooked well it was by minitel, it was a little more or a little less comfortable than me when it falls on me.
But he got cooked, he made more than a hundred thousand responses, it’s obvious that it had an effect on him, on Max Valentin’s character. He acquired behaviors, a vocabulary and who sometimes took refuge behind certain concepts to facilitate answers that he gave endlessly. I see clearly, we always find the same questions, it's always the same ones that come back so I realize that after a while the answers are forgotten and that the question comes back and he has created a character for himself , he created a vocabulary, he exchanged the vocabulary already adopted by the group. It's simple, that's why there was a certain time when I used the term sect, that is to say that around him, there were players from the very beginning, he there were comments, there were these curses which became gospel and all that causes a blockage, because no one dares to question that, no one manages to really free themselves from that and it is what I am seeing. I say to myself, how can I unblock this situation a little, without betraying the game.
(Q - ??: so for me, as far as I'm concerned, all these concepts that you mentioned Mega tip, Super Solution I put a lot of water in my wine, I take them with a lot more decline than before)
MB : I would like to lead you towards much more fluid reasoning and to completely forget these concepts. You can always go take a look inside but it's not gospel Some people think that I have scores to settle with max valentin, max valentin is no longer I don't settle scores with the dead this would be stupid I have no score to settle with him I had some at one time he is no longer here today so it's over let's not talk about it anymore. But I realize very well that in all of this there is a matter which is completely human and therefore it cannot be it is not gospel so there are errors, there are uncertainties, there are approximations, there are hasty answers, there are lots of things like that.
That's why I say we can always go and take a look but never forgetting the character of Max Valentin who I kill myself to define as having been a man, I always say it when we want to watch him in front of you it's at eye level, don't look up, it's not the commander, it's not someone taller than you, it's someone like us and he had the same the same reactions as everyone else he reacted so there you go. I think it's clear and I think that in order to rediscover pleasure in this treasure hunt, you have to start it again while forgetting…
You have to have enough mental strength to say to yourself, I'm skipping it, I'm eliminating a certain number of things that I pose as preconceptions and we'll see what emerges from my journey, from my solutions. But it's not an obstacle course, it's not as strict and the rules are not as established as what the remainders could mean, are they there, we don't care about the remainders, the leftovers they will jump out at you when you are finished, you don't even need to worry about them. Now in the way in which the solutions are approached, we say to ourselves there must be something left, I don't know who told me that earlier, but we must not think about that, we must be much more flexible than that . We must let things and deductions go, we must not focus on a procedure to follow or on an obligation to achieve a result of a piece of leftover something that we kill ourselves looking for the leftovers they will appear at the end.
(Q – BlackCorbac: discussion on backorders)
MB : my wish would be to be able to free the minds of the players a little by saying stop sticking to a straitjacket of concepts, of vocabulary which did not exist at the time of the conception of the hunt and which only results from exchanges with max valentin therefore only from the Minitel era.