X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,f688f412fc6f8687 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-05 12:13:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!p01!news2.west.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Faux_Pseudo Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 260 References: Reply-To: Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comERCIAL X-PGP-Server: wwwkey.nl.pgp.net X-Why: are you reading this? X-PGP-KeyID: CF4DA06B Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Lines: 63 Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 19:13:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.8.9.87 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.west.cox.net 1028574827 68.8.9.87 (Mon, 05 Aug 2002 15:13:47 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 15:13:47 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:18732 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --<-(Joaquim G�ndara leyos tos loyos emiv apo alt.ascii-art)->-- > Oh lordie! What's going to happen? What's going on? Clearly, this is the > most complicated NB story arc so far. Let's see how long it lasts before > I pull a deus ex machina. Actually, it's quite fun following a thought- > out story arc, because it gives me some direction. I can concentrate more > on the strip itself when I know where in the story arc I am. Side note: is there a reason that the bad guy in his cloke looks a lot like he is wearing the same cloke as Mr Gone from The Maxx? Main point rambleings: Working without a net is a dangousr thing. It tends to encurage the deus ex machina more than discurage it. I wish you luck. One problem I see. Shouldn't Fan Boy *and* NerdBoy be well enough versed in time travel to know that if OldNB comes back to warn NB that time travel is not an option that OldNB would have known the results of the situation before decideing to do it. But still decided to engage in the exorcise in futility in the first place? Thus NB and FB both being able to play the time travel game vis a vis Bill and Ted in the "Remind me to steal my dads keys and put them in that bush" kind of way by instead say something like "Remind me not to come and warn my self that time traval wont work". If OldNB was the real NB then OldNB would vanish in a paradox shift. But when he dosen't then it is clear that something went wrong so ether OldNB is not the real NB or some other thing is out of line. Just an idea. WOW that is convaluted. Well too late for a rewrite. Hope that makes since. The way that Terminator 1&2 should have gone: "I came from the future to protect you" "Well thats nice. You can leave now" "What?" "Well if you came from the future to protect me then the very fact that you are here is proof that you where sucessfull in your task so you can leave now." ==)-> Xataleipw, Faux_Pseudo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Ts02kjt2bc9NoGsRAkZFAJwI5/tSJ67xLO9ZbAxhem1SAMqinwCfdmb3 uoaXGE3bPedaz3xdthGs74w= =nkTQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- .-')) _ UIN= 66618055 _ (('-. | It's a damn poor mind that ' ..- .:" ) ( ":. -.. ' | can only think of one way to ((,,_;'.;' ';. ';_,,)) | spell a word. ((_.;'*Faux_Pseudo*':._)) | - Andrew Jackson