This week's mailbag topic:

EarthBound in real life.

Welcome to the Mailbag. Topic this week was about things in EB you see in real life. Also some more about scary things in EB, and other random letters. Rune (forum mod, and guy not allowed into #smnet) will be co-responding this batch of letters.

The monkeys! So many monkeys! I still have nightmares about the stupid Desert monkey cave.

Also, I have a question. How come when Ness & Co. went back in time, they had to go back as robots, but Pokey didn't?



He was able to because he used the power of EVIL and had his spider thingy and was fat. Duh.

- EBounding



HELLO MY NAME IS RUNE AND THIS IS MY RESPONSE Because he didn't. You have to learn to stop questioning things. Now give me all your money. And your liver.

- Rune

Hey, am I the only one sick of the terrible flukes sent in for the funfest. I figure if you are going to make something, make it quality. That isn't the case this Funfest. Too many bad flukes.

Oh, and I saw a guy with a mushroom on his head the other day. I think he was toasted.



Yes, but some of the flukes are so odd and derranged, that they could win the scariest award (is that even an award)?

- EBounding



If I actually looked at any of the flukes, I would be absolutely ENRAGED. But I don't.

- Rune

Actually, this is kinda freaky...

I was thinking about real life stuff that reminds me of Earthbound when I glance out the window...

There's a tree sitting there that looks just like those annoying trees that attack you and explode...It's staring at me right now...pardon me, I need to go and get a baseball bat, just in case...-Mr. Bound



I never understood WHY those trees explode. I think if the designers had their way, they'd probably make the Hippies explode.

- EBounding



Get a flamethrower. Those work much better, and you can use it to cause mass destruction later.

- Rune

Cool, a mailbag! Mailbags are cool! Hence the first sentence, "Cool, a mailbag!"

Yah know what freaked me out in EB? When I got to Saturn Valley and I drank the coffee. That is TOO FRIGGIN' WIERD!! At first I thought my computer was flippin' out on me when I saw the battle-like plasma background-y thingy. My computer flips out a lotttsldfasdabdfb

COMPUTER: I AM YOUR CRUEL OVERLORD!! BOW DOWN TO ME!

ME (taking out Gutsy Bat): NO!!!!!!!!!!! (smashes moniter in...)

Whew. Glad I got that over with. So, DON'T MESS WITH ME!! I'M INSANE!! At least thats what my friends told me. Before I ate them. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!



It sounds like you drink too much coffee. Of course, the coffee's also laced with something as well (and we're not talking about cream or sugar).

- EBounding



The first time I saw the coffee thing, I was like "d00d wtf," but I've grown to love it. Mmmmm... sexy coffee...

- Rune

I looked at quite a few screenshots in magazines about earthbound 64 and I was glad to see a sequel to one of my favorite snes games. Now that I have found out that it was cancelled, I can only think why? I hope that APE will make a sequel. I mean, if they arent good with 3-D, I could even help them. After all, I am a computer animation student at Virginia college.



I don't know beans about developing games, or about why exactly they cancelled, but I think they were having trouble implementing and using a 3-D environment. Not necessarily just making the graphics, but how they can use them in the game. Does this make sense? No? Then drink some of that coffee that last guy had.

- EBounding



A sequel is almost guaranteed. The only thing we don't know is WHEN.

- Rune

I once saw this guy who slighty resembled Mr. Everdred. I saw him in this "upper" scale resturante. He walks in with the same hair cut/mustache. Only difference is I swear this guy was in the mafia. Everybody in the resturant was like "WHAT THE FORK!"

...okay that was a dumb story. Time to bring back the "Stupid Box", EBounding.

-Colin



Yeah I probably will bring back something like the "Stupid Box". It's good filler. But as you can see from the lateness of this mailbag, I'm way too lazy to do that right now.

- EBounding



Everdred was obviously part of the hippie mafia. Their plans to spread love and happiness through vicious assassinations and kneecappings must be stopped.

- Rune

on my way to school, i go past this double graveyard (kinda like the one in threed) and realize that when i'm walking to school its pretty early and its still dark so it can be pretty scary, and every time i go past it i think about that part in earthbound where you are talking to the zombies and one of them says "he stares into your soul" and that errie do do dooooo!!! happens.



I also have a large graveyard in my town. Except instead of being haunted by zombies and stuff like that, it's infested with big fat nasty geese that like to poop a lot.

- EBounding



Zombies are simply misunderstood. They mean no harm. Now excuse me while I eat your brains. Delicious brains.

- Rune

Hmmmmm, Well I see Illegal Fire arms Merchants on the way to school everyday? All the time they are like "HEY Kid..Do you want this Assault Rifle" and I am like "No I don't you ask me that everyday and every day I say no!"

-Micheal



Good job, Micheal. McGruff would be proud.

- EBounding



I'd buy something big and menacing from him if I had the money. I always spend it at ye olde anime shoppe.

- Rune

There's this one guy who was rummaging around in garbage bins. And arcades filled with lame peoples. And can I answer one week (bet you thought I'd give up after one week, but no.)

Oh, and there was this movie I saw, with Linda Blair, and she got tied to a bed, rotated her head and threw up like what happened to Ness.

d`Jeu



WOW. I'm REALLY confuzzled. And frightened.
*edit* hey I just noticed I put you in here for the 2nd week in a row. Good Job but you win nothing.

- EBounding



What?

- Rune

Umm... let's see, well, you could find a lost underground cave filed with weird creatures, kinda like the Lost Underworld. You might find a kid with a baseball bat whose beating people up with it. Maybe you'll find a mayor whose last name is Pirkle. IF you're really lucky, you may find you fat next door neighbor in a giant robot mech threatening to enslave the Earth!... Hey! It could happen (I hope Ronald McDonald doesn't sue my... you know)



When I say topical, I don't mean the kind you where you put it on your face....you are talking about this week's topic right?

- EBounding



YOU ARE A BAD PERSON OKAY BYE

- Rune