RinkWorks: Stupid Emails: Stuck In "The Trainer"

89. * Stuck In "The Trainer"

To:  ss1@tank.dreamhost.com
Subject:  problem
Date:  Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:18:15 -0800 (PST)

In "The Trainer", i have gone everywhere and there's no way to open this
locked door inside the cave... you guys sure make the game impossible

From:  sam@rinkworks.com (Samuel Stoddard)
Subject:  Re: problem
Date:  Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:10:02 -0800 (PST)

It's really no big deal.  You just missed something.  Remember that sometimes
you have to select an option more than once to get something to happen.

To:  ss1@tank.dreamhost.com
Subject:  Re: problem
Date:  Fri, 2 Mar 2001 07:44:54 -0800 (PST)

I Did everything in the game.
there's no way to find a key or reach this rope in the tree

From:  sam@rinkworks.com (Samuel Stoddard)
Subject:  Re: problem
Date:  Fri, 2 Mar 2001 08:00:57 -0800 (PST)

Right, so the literally hundreds of people who have beaten the Trainer all
just hacked into it.

There IS a way to reach the rope in the tree.  Sometimes, as the web page says
and as I told you, you have to do things multiple times.  Take the rock.  Do it.

To:  ss1@tank.dreamhost.com
Subject:  Re: problem
Date:  Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:54:52 -0800 (PST)

i threw the rock at the rope. failed.

To:  ss1@tank.dreamhost.com
Subject:  Re: problem
Date:  Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:55:32 -0800 (PST)

where is the game located again?

From:  sam@rinkworks.com (Samuel Stoddard)
Subject:  Re: problem
Date:  Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:00:26 -0800 (PST)

What is your problem?  You ask for hints, and then you don't follow them.
I *know* you tried throwing the rock at the rope.  I can SEE the log of moves
you have made in the game.  And I came out and TOLD you that sometimes you
need to DO THINGS MORE THAN ONCE TO GET SOMETHING TO HAPPEN.

I'm not answering any more of your hint requests, because not only do you
seem unwilling to think about the game first BEFORE asking for hints, but you
even seem unwilling to think about the actual HINTS, too.

To:  ss1@tank.dreamhost.com
Subject:  .......
Date:  Sat, 3 Mar 2001 12:26:14 -0800 (PST)

What hints? clicking on something more than once? then it conclues that
the game is not functioning right.
for something to work, you click on it once.

From:  sam@rinkworks.com (Samuel Stoddard)
Subject:  Re: .......
Date:  Sat, 3 Mar 2001 16:22:51 -0800 (PST)

Use your head.  There's a rope in a tree.  You have a rock.  Imagine this
being real life.  You try to throw the rock at the rope to get it down.
Are you going to hit it exactly right every time?  NO.  You're going to MISS.
Once, twice, three times, something like that.  Then you throw it again and
your aim is right, and you hit it.  Even then it may not fall out of the tree!
Maybe you have to hit it two or three times before it comes loose.

Take a theoretical situation.  You have an axe.  You have a tree.  You want to
cut down the tree.  Do you GIVE UP if ONE SINGLE SWING OF THE AXE DOESN'T
CUT THROUGH IT COMPLETELY?

If you still don't get it, don't even write me back.

To:  ss1@tank.dreamhost.com
Date:  Sat, 3 Mar 2001 16:51:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject:  Re: .......

I got the axe but shows no option of cutting the tree down.

Man. That last line is so great. Of all the theoretical examples I could have picked to illustrate my point, I shortsightedly picked an example about chopping down a tree with an axe, when, in the actual game, there IS an axe, and there IS a tree, but you're not supposed to chop the tree down.