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Welcome! Your take is formulated quite respectfully, considering your emotions about the ending. If you keep that up, you do not need to worry about hurting fans About the specific core of your argument, the "coitus interruptus", I feel you! Ron likely knew this ending would not land for everyone, but it seems you did feel the (imo) intended disappointment, but not the (imo) equally intended closure, not about the narrative of the Secret, but about that it's fine to enjoy a fictional world to its fullest even if you're aware of its fictionality. This was definitely risky on the part of Ron, but it's what may have been on his mind since SMI and he wanted to pull through with it. That Thimbleweed Park has a similar ending (and ticks many of the boxes from Ron's blog post) fits with the hypothesis of it being kind of an outlet for Ron's bottled up MI ideas from a time when a Ron-helmed sequel was thought virtually impossible. There is another quite long thread about the whole game with various opinions and reasoning and many others about specific parts of it, that you might want to check out and maybe some other reads of the ending can add to your perspective, or you'd like to contribute yours edit: Looks like you got merged into said thread 😁

👕 I beat #Mojole #261 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 3/6 🖤🖤🖤💛🖤 💛💛💛💚💚 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/ The only reason I got it in three was because most of my attempts weren't in the word list so weren't accepted I don't know if this is the place for feature requests, but is there some way to have the game 'capture' Backspace presses? Because when I mistype I often reflexively press Backspace, but that makes me go back a page and lose my attempts. I can see it also removes the last letter just before the page changes, so it's at least caught. Thanks in advance

👕 I beat #Mojole #261 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 🖤💛💛🖤🖤 💛💚🖤🖤🖤 🖤💚💚🖤🖤 💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

Ron gave us the original "secret". The one that fans have been asking for, for decades: It's all a theme park. We can't blame him for some of us not liking it. It's not necessarily the reveal I would have liked, but it's what he had in mind all these years, and what fans wanted to see... (the most asked question of him). However, the second ending (ie. the actual ending of Return to Monkey Island) is up to you, and made "canon" by what appears after the credits: https://mixnmojo.com/features/sitefeatures/The-Many-Epilogues-of-Return-to-Monkey-Island For me, the wrapper of Guybrush telling stories to his son was effective and poignant, but letting the audience choose their own "ending" (as it were -- is it real, is it fiction) means it's really up to you what happens.

Wasn’t that “In Diana Jones”? 🤔