I turned on my GCN today after weeks of not doing so. The game I chose to play is Super Mario Sunshine, which I have neither beaten nor played for a long while. When I did so, I remembered this topic because it tells how to get the book in Episode 3 of Noki Bay. So I dug it up from General Mario Chat and refreshed my memory on what I was supposed to do.
Then, in what I might call typical style, I starting trying to get the book BEFORE checking out Luigison's now-infamous-in-my-mind web page at
http://www.geocities.com/dennisshows/SMSbook.htm. After trying a number of times, unable to find the 51st gold coin, I came back here and reread all the posts.
Craziness!!! Luigison, I'd have the right to call you a little punk right now if it weren't my own fault for not going to your web page after you'd already told me to, twice. After I read your page I realized what an idiot I was to say, "??? 'Dirty rotten liar'? What are you talking about?" Now I vaguely remember not really understanding the posts in this topic and scratching my head at Deezer's bringing "Luigi in Mario 64" into it.
All I had to do was to follow your stinking directions! Grrrrr . . . It feels really dumb to be an idiot, you know? Heh, what a thing to say . . .
If someone who is not familiar with this place were to read this topic's posts and skip over Luigison's web page like I did, he would be really confused. I think I understand everything now, and the feeling I get from that is one of happiness to be a part of these forums, even if only a relatively inactive one. Thank you, all of you, for the good times!! And word to the wise: if someone posts a URL to a page he has made, go to it!
. . . well, at least I'm now significantly more practiced with the terrible controls present in the "special" underwater stages, such as that bottle one in Episode 3 . . .
