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  9. Posted

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    Loved this episode, and all its time-travel. :laugh:

    Really enjoyed the clip in the beginning of Hitler's visit to the Big Apple, since it really defines what alternative history is all about.

    ..And the scenes where the NX-01 battles over New York were simply fantastic! :laugh:

     

    Since this seems like an end to the Temporal Cold War, I guess we'll encounter less t-t, but I'd like to point out that I think that this episode shows how we can make the Temporal Cold War interesting with these alternative timelines...

     

    I'll give it a 9.7, though it seems like the end of the Temporal Cold War, I guess it's a fitting end..

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  14. Posted

    New Obscura

    Samwise Tapestry of Forger's News & iNformation League™.

    The 197th Street Bar

     

    As the trenchcoated figure collapsed right there and then at the very threshold of the rather ancient bar, Samwise got off from his stool and examined him.

     

    From some shrouded wound: blood took the route of gravity, and was spreading much downwards. Since medicine was definitely not his field, he knew not what his next move should be...

    So out of his first leap of desperation, he looked across the barroom frantically to see if there might be a chance an answer is lying out there for him to solve this current problem.

    His swift but jagged view was occupied by a possibly decades old tavern that has gone through too many refits after what should have been its death. With nearly no customers, aside from the woman scribbling something down on her memo book, a fedora-hatted fellow in the corner, and a drink-serving corporation drone, he didn't see a good deal of options..

     

    He had a vague memory of medicinal sciences from his early lessons at the education camps aeons ago... But that seemed quite unreliable, since it seemed too foggy for him to correctly grasp. Despite that fact, he did what he thought was appropriate, and did series of events (that he hope) will treat an injury of this kind with the few supplies from one of the wood-cabinets.

    With optimism: an eventual recovery might be expected, but this wasn't his expertise, and an expert was what he thought was needed at that moment.

     

    But after treating the stranger, he thought, since he was, after-all, a reporter for Mr. Forger, questioning the lady, the fellow, and the automaton may shed some light on this quite clouded mystery...

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    NOTE: Don't restrict yourself to simply the 197th Street Bar, and Tapestry is not the main character. He's just a reporter who reports the news, whether it be real or manufactured.

    New Obscura is a big city, and can be a place of a good number of adventures, misadventures, mishaps or disasters....

    Depends on how this thread goes, and continues. :)

    You can start out another storyline if you'd like to.

    Perfectly fine, and I encourage it.

    You may PM me the details, questions, or comments if you'd feel like doing so. :(

  15. Posted

    Besides, if you want to carry a decent selection you'll never fit them all into a pocket.  :P

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    Yeah, a box is cool, but there's a place where you can keep your pens in your shirt pocket. And keep the rest of your writing instruments elsewhere (like in a neat box). :(

     

    Oh, and some girl said that more high schoolers (of the non-geek and non-nerd parties at my high school) are thinking that pocket-protectors are cool. And there seems rather substantial evidence to support her claim..

     

    ...:)

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  16. Posted

    I think I'll add two...

    The first was by some girl saying that I have created a trend where people really want pocket-protectors...

    And the odd thing is.. I think she's right. :) :(

     

    A day when the mainstream high-school thinks pocket-protectors are cool... :(

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    The second... From some gal at this United Kingdom "teen" message board about my post on my links to what I consider "fun" websites... :P

    That's the CRAZIEST post i have ever seen. EVER.
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  18. Posted

    Sorry, but was that a question, or your addition to the story? If it's a question, the answer is that I'm leaving it up to whomever. (I think a few thing might need to be cleared up. I will, when I figure out what they are.)

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    [ Addition to story ].

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  19. Posted

    [ Though that looks like a very nice place :), I'll continue to dwell in Rod SerlingVille, which is a metropolis I now control via hacking into that city's computer-systems... :hug:]

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  22. Posted

    I'll either be an eccentric intergalactic hitchhiker/adventurer, or in command of some really really big or powerful ship... Let's say a Krenim time-ship... Or the Lexx, but that isn't Star Trek. :angry:

     

    I shall mostly be on my own, and traversing the cosmos for adventure, treasures, discovery, fortune, evading Federation radar, et cetera. :cool1:

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  24. Posted

    I just discovered yet *another* new word...

     

    DrWho42's Word of the moment...:

     

    metrophile.

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    Metrophile

     

    From open-encyclopedia.com - the free encyclopedia.

     

    A metrophile is a person who has as a hobby the study of metro (subway, underground) systems.

     

    Such people may indulge their hobby by:

     

    • travelling and visiting as many metro systems as they can;

     

    • attempting to find out about and/or visit hidden nooks and crannies of a metro system;

     

    • learning about the technology, architecture, and history of various metro systems;

     

    • collecting material related to metro systems, such as maps, plans, transfers, tickets, and the like, often from many cities around the world;

     

    • publicizing their metro systems (some metrophile websites contain more information about the system than the transit companies' own);

     

    • designing expanded metro networks for various cities;

     

    • discussing their findings with others;

     

    • and, in general writing, learning, teaching, photographing, and thinking about metros.

     

    Some metrophiles even manage to attract attention, approval, help, and even employment from transit companies.

     

    New York metrophiles are known as straphangers. Some of them have formed a well-organized lobbying organization.

     

    One metrophile, a mildly autistic New Yorker named Darius McCollum, impersonated a range of New York City subway personnel for some time; he was so technically proficient at driving trains, helping repair crews, fixing trains, and even dealing with emergencies, that he served unpaid with some distinction (and a certain amount of complicity from actual personnel). Unfortunately, this was quite illegal and he was repeatedly arrested and, despite a plea to have him treated for Asperger's syndrome, was finally imprisoned. Harper's Magazine published an article on him in May 2002.

     

    See also

     

    • Trainspotting

     

    External links

     

    • UrbanRail.net

    • Summary of Harper's article on Darius McCollum

    • Complete Harper's article on Darius McCollum

    • Straphangers Campaign

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