UrAvgAzn's wish:
"
I wish I had neater handwriting, though not stolen by any copyrighted fonts."
When the Jin suggests that you look at your prepositions, you should really listen. You probably meant to say "
not stolen
from any copyrighted fonts."
Though it doesn't really matter, as hand-writing which resembles a copyrighted font can't be punished, only making a FONT that resembles a copyrighted font (too closely).
Anyway, this is rather easy to fulfill: you now have cripplingly painful arthritis. Since you must take great effort to make each stroke with a pen, you are naturally much more careful and conservative with your penmanship, resulting in a very neat handwriting.
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eytanz' wish:
"
I wish I were talented enough to produce pixel-art drawings of sufficient quality to be used as DROD (2.0 or later) tiles. These tiles should be original drawings of my own, not copies of other people's work."
Fraid I'm going to have to count starting a new sentence as use of a conjunction.
Anyway, minor point. I just re-watched Bedazzled (2000. Harold Ramis is a genius, incidentally) so this has a little of that flair to it.
You are now a talented artist - an incredibly very super talented artist. Complete with the usual set of idiosyncracies that go with the talent - an inability to appreciate your own work; a feeling that you're never "
finished"
with a piece; a desire to keep your ugly, unfinished efforts out of the eyes of others. You can make the art, but you can never submit it, because you can see just how much better it could be with a little more tweaking... this is all made worse by digital media, because you can't even reach a point where erasure threatens to damage the paper, or another layer of paint wouldn't stick... you toil endlessly over these lovely tiles which the rest of us will have to see only if your harddrive is stolen or found in your place after your demise. It's no wonder artists are usually so depressed. It's no wonder you are so depressed.
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Jason's wish:
"
I wish that while the nice man was demanding the refund, his cellphone rang and his wife (who the man likes a lot) was on the telephone to tell him that the product works after all and that he should come back."
One thing to note here: I (nor the man) never said the product did not work, just that he was unhappy with it. So what his wife is telling him is redundant. Though there's a clear implication of your wish I think you're missing. I won't tell it to you immediately, just what you observe, though:
He seems agitated, like he's trying to cover up his end of the conversation so you can't tell what he's talking about. He finally tells her "
yah, I'll back. As soon as I'm done with what I'm doing."
He hangs up and then looks at you, "
about that refund?"
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Lst6's wish:
"
I wish that every active member would get 10 rank points and 10 mod points."
You know, you never said of what group these people should be an active member. I considered briefly having you giving out forum bonuses to all the active members of Al-Qaeda or somesuch, but there's an easier action I can take to fulfill your wish:
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You're wondering what that smoke is?
Oh, that's just the facility containing the forums. All the computers and backups at the facility were destroyed when a gas-transportation truck on its way to the nearest service station swerved into it and exploded. And it seems I misplaced the off-site backups while perusing the old forum code looking for a place to insert a mod-point bug.
After he gets the forums back up (with no data), Schik gives everyone who registers in the first few days 10 mod points to re-seed the modding system (since everyone is back to roachling - when they re-registered they were given the usual default 10 rank points).
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Chaco's wish:
"
I wish that a non-suicidal and non-masochistic person came down with an ailment treatable by one of the items in my first
aid kit, and that I was the closest person available to treat them."
Taking stock of your heavily vandalized first-aid kit, I see you have one item remaining - smelling salts.
A man is approaching you, running very rapidly. He faints before you for no immediately apparent reason.
There, your wish is fulfilled. The die is cast, as it were. Would you like to treat the man with your smelling salts?
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current queue: 4 of 5 spots used.
1) Chaco, 1 at a time mode. 2 wishes and 42 words and 2 conjunctions used. Situation mildly bad (nosebleed), in interactive mode to study the consequences of the latest wish.
2) UrAvgAzn, 1 at a time mode. 2 wishes and 22 words and 0 conjunctions used. Situation painful.
3) eytanz, 1 at a time mode. 2 wishes and 46 words and 1 conjunction used. Situation depressed.
4) Jason, 1 at a time mode. 2 wishes and 65 words and 4 conjunctions used. Situation remains neutral, with a potentially mildly bad undercurrent.
Most recently off the list: Lst6 with his first 2 wishes negated and his third having wiped out all the forum data.
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[Last edited by silver at 09-13-2006 09:58 AM]
