I guess we are supposed to get excited now? ... well, I am.

Oh! He is making Monkey Island 3! Yes! ...Ok, maybe not.

3 WHAT! That is not Guybrush Threpwood!

3 years of the Grumpy Gamer website, it appears.

L. Ron Gilbert, just who do you think you are?

I think he thinks he's a game designer called Ron Gilber.

*Gilbert

Alright, a wobbling number shaped like a three...
please read this comment.

This is almost as exiting as when I thought that you might miss April Fools, last year!!!

(please let it be good news about your rpg-adventure thingie!  squeezing thumbs 'til bones breaks)

Ron, get back to work, now!

That's what I'm trying to say to mr. Ron

This is strange :/

i hope it means something really cool is comming.

It's been more than 3 years hasn't it?

That means that ron finaly admited that Halo 3 has better graphincs than his shitty Monkey Island.

Excuse me, mr. Watermellon or whatever, Monkey Island 2 have the best graphics I've seen... on a VGA game.

Did you play Gears of War?

Gears of War has shitty grafix compared to life,
and by the way:
Monkey Island is art.

Monkey Island IS art

gears is just another high tech game

2...

But the first GrumpGamer post was May 22 2004, so its more than 3 years since then

Ron must be thinking: "when you see it, you will sh*t bricks"

And he's so right.

... will we see 2 tomorrow? I won't be able to sleep now XD

Monkey Island 3?!

Hmmm. What can it mean?

Note to math fans: The first blog on this site was in May 2004, so it's not a happy birthday for the site.

Note to common sense fans: Why would he not just write "Happy Birthday" as the news title if that's what it meant?

Judging by the tame Ron takes to release a new game, or to make a new post, I suppose we will be able to see the post with the "2" in about twenty ears or so.

It could be a countdown to a new comic, possibly?

I mean... it couldn't possibly be his MI could it? It would be like hearing Andy Kaufmann faked his own death. I want to believe it to be true, but I know it's not :(

Yay! I can't wait!!
3 more years before Monkey Island 5!
Oh thank you John! Or Ron, or whatever your first name is Mr. Frillbert
Anyhow, you just made it my life exicting again.
It has been kinda dull since i finished EMI.. ehhh! I mean LeChucks revenge.

how many monkeys does it take to change a light bulb?

M... Monkey Island three?

Ron... you always give April fools day a good bashing, but this is how the real internet rumors get started!

I was like: trois? Wtf? Is he trying to say that he has finally bred :) ? You do seem to like anniversaries. Good luck with the page, Ron. Waiting for more rambelling and possibly even a new game at some point. Your fan since the age of 12 (mine not yours).

It's amazing how a simple '3' from the messiah can make a lot excitement upon us :p

Ahhh, Monkey Island 3? Right ... wouldn't that have been The Curse of Monkey Island? Unless of course, the final two games in the four part weren't considered "real Monkey Island" games without Ron's involvement - similar to how Grand Theft Auto IV is the REAL successor to GTAIII because the other two were just spin-offs.

I don't think so, however, quite willing to be proven wrong! Ron, so ... ahh .. what the hell? Details? Maybe it's the meaning of life? 42 CAN after all be divided by 3 ...

Anniversary Milosz? Am I missing something. Gah .. enough pondering and back to work ...

42 the meaning of life!

42 is the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. As the question and the answer can't be known in the same universe, I guess Ron's entry is unrelated :)

three seconds you use to update the blog today
three... trois... bah, this number is like the secret of monkey island, i dont lose my time (more...) with him xD

This number remind me to the three-headed monkey too... eh, whatever

¡ feliz dia de reyes from spain !

Feliz dia de Reis from Brazil!

Trois??? Oh... So monkey island 3 is going to be made in France after all.

i guess it's some kind of countdown. but i won't be curious what it's about and to prove that i will skip the "2" and continue reading the blog when "1" appears.

Ron is working on a game for Ubisoft and the announcement comes in three days.

Really? That's good news, if true!

Oh yeah. Mysterious trips to France, "Trois", Ubisoft. It can't be more obvious.

That's the second biggest French three I've ever seen!

That could only be Far Cry on Monkey Island!!!!!!!
Yeah!
I knew you would do it!

Maybe a "splintercell adventure Operation: Maniac Mansion"

Ron is going to create the swordfighting system for Red Steel 2!

weird...

Come on, the most obvious thing is that the grumpy gamer comic will be back in two days.



AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I think he might have grown a third nipple.

the address of the image is "http://grumpygamer.com/images/GG3-vrq.gif";

I guess GG stands for grumpy gamer, and the 3 is obious...
however, no clue what vrq means though.
when i googled for it, my first hit was: "Breast reduction".
I don't think/hope that's relevant here :)

Time will tell I guess ;)

Ron reads every comment. He's reading these and he's laughing like hell over these comments. Heck, I am. "MONKEY ISLAND 3?!!!!?" "COMIC?!?!?!?!?" "BIRTHDAY?!?!?!??!!?"

Hilarious. Miny conspiracy right here.

Maybe he's trying out some viral marketing scheme like that 'I Love Bees' ARG used to promote Halo 2.

Have a look at http://www.nlplab.uqam.ca/indexen.htm for example - it's about something called VRQ and it's even got a french title! Look for hidden messages.  :]

Btw, the company that created ILB is called '42 Entertainment' - coincidence?

Just a thought... When someone like Ron Gilbert decides to take time to share something with you on the fabled "internets" and you comment with "GET BACK TO WORK, RON GILBERT!" and "jokingly" repeat yourself in several comments, you're being an asshole. You're not being ironic. You're not "cracking anyone up." You are the sole reason why so many game designers (or people who embody everything that is good, clean, and wholesome in the universe) generally avoid disclosing their opinions on life, universe, and everything on the internet. (The above text is a paraphrase of an impeccable "Pix Plz" comic by Randall Monroe a.k.a. xkcd, so it is written)

I second the "3."

But internet rants aren't good either. Maybe they should have never made the internet.