Block 22 - There'd have to be some kind of miracle

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]I'm completely confused, so yeah, I'm with what everyone else says.[/colorost_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Hm.. To make it even more complicated, 3b and 3c are almost the same, with the (over the gun) joke and the "Trin," starting line. Together they have 3 votes as well.

I suppose you could choose between block 2 standalone and the --Yank-- joke. Block 2 doesn't work together with block 1a, because Tank would die twice. Block 1a doesn't involve killing Apoc and Switch.

And I placed a subtle variation in block 1a's GAK. It's "!GAK" with the exclamation in front, which means invertion in most programming languages.

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Michiel (still not able to post)[/colorost_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Well, it's clear that 1a as written doesn't work too well with my 2. If you remove Tank's "GAK!", it should be reasonably well, so I don't think that's really a sticking point. (Referred to as 1aMod below.)

The difference between 3b and 3c is pretty much the inclusion of the deaths. Lesse...

We're pretty clear that it's gonna be 1a. This gives us, as possibilities:

1aMod - 2 - 3b OR 3d
1a - 3c OR 3d

3d doesn't work too well with the second constellation, since we're completely leaving out the deaths. I suppose it's doable, since damn near anyone has seen Matrix and knows what happens, but it bugs me, especially since there really hasn't been a fake GAK! from Tank, which makes his line a bit shaky. So if we cut 3d from the second one, we get...

1aMod - 2 - 3b OR 3d
1a - 3c

Also, the pure 3b seems to have only received NAHTMMMs vote...as well as 1b only got mine. If we cut those two (and I'm going to count NAHTMMM with 3c for the sake of the argument), we get:

1aMod - 2 - 3d
1a - 3c

I'm counting Neo, dsbs, Arsozah, and possibly catalina and PHJ for 3d, with myself and Standback additionally in favor of this combination due to the inclusion of Block 2. Michiel, Scooter and NAHTMMM are in favor of 3c.

Please interrupt me if I'm drawing false conclusions or not counting your vote correctly, but I do believe that this leaves the majority with 3d, with the debateable inclusion of 2. I also suppose that if we don't want 2, we can splice the YANK!-ing from 3c into 3d, which I believe would make everyone happy.

Hit?

Gatac[/colorost_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Personally, I don't like 2, because it's not how it happened in the movie. Apoc and Switch died during the conversation, which is why I like Zeke's --Yank-- joke.

[quoteost_uid0]I also suppose that if we don't want 2, we can splice the YANK!-ing from 3c into 3d, which I believe would make everyone happy.[/quoteost_uid0]

But if you do that, Tank wouldn't die. So that would have to go back to 1aMod, thereby transforming it back into 1a. By putting the --Yank-- joke into 3d, you'd transform it into 3c, with the exception of the "looking at my hands" joke (which isn't really nessesary.)

In other words, losing 2 from "1aMod - 2 - 3d" would effectively turn it back into "1a - 3c", which still has my vote, by the way.

So the choice is, I think, between:

1aMod - 2 - 3d
and
1a - 3c

Maybe we should revote, with this in mind?

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Michiel (still not able to post)[/colorost_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]especially since there really hasn't been a fake GAK! from Tank[/quoteost_uid0]
You lost me now.

I tried to get it all, but I think this scene is just too complicated for me.[/colorost_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Too complicated.

So... do we revote? Or does Zeke choose one and close the thread?

Or do we keep it open for another month?[/colorost_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]I would be happy with 3a, 3b, or 3c. So whichever of those is getting the most votes at any particular time... [/colorost_uid0]

[Scooter]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]I think this thread is hopelessly meddled. Zeke should step in and pick one and close it and use the hammer of smiting on every single one of us.[/colorost_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Yes, Zeke pick one please. We will be debating this for a long time if you don't.[/colorost_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]I agree but... Hammer of Smiting?

EEK![/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Eek indeed. I'll bet he's really itching to use it too - the last time he got to properly use ti was when Zuke briefly took over the site in 2002.[/colorost_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]::: looks at the posts full of complicated letter/number codes representing scenes :::

I'm glad we have the smileys back, because if this isn't the time to use :O, I don't know what is.

I'll come back later when I'm psyched for this.[/colorost_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Okay, here's what I propose we go with:

[bost_uid0]Dozer:[/bost_uid0] GAK!
[bost_uid0]Tank:[/bost_uid0] Pseudo-GAK!
[bost_uid0]Switch:[/bost_uid0] GAK!
[bost_uid0]Apoc:[/bost_uid0] GAK!
[bost_uid0]Cypher:[/bost_uid0] Hm, something's wrong here, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

[bost_uid0]Cypher:[/bost_uid0] (over the phone) Trin, how can you prefer that airhead over a hot backstabbing serial killer like me?
[bost_uid0]Neo:[/bost_uid0] (sigh) I get that one a lot, too.
[bost_uid0]Cypher:[/bost_uid0] Y'see, Neo can't be the One unless I'm about to be killed by a convenient plot contri--GAK!
[bost_uid0]Tank:[/bost_uid0] (over the gun) Fake GAK. Gets 'em every time.
[bost_uid0]Neo:[/bost_uid0] Maybe I should try that sometime.[/colorost_uid0]

[Anonymous]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Yes, that works for me. Let's go with it (for the love of Mike, please, go with it!)[/colorost_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Yeah, me too. Let's take this block out back and shoot it, it's been struggling too long.

Gatac[/colorost_uid0]

[Michiel]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Not my first choice, but it's fine with me. Lets try the next block.

[uost_uid0]Edit:[/uost_uid0] Hm.. Wouldn't it be better if it started with

[quoteost_uid0][bost_uid0]Cypher:[/bost_uid0] Great job pulling me back, Tank. Allow me to say "thank you."
[bost_uid0]Tank:[/bost_uid0] Can you say it without the gun?[/quoteost_uid0][/colorost_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Yes, yes it would. Consider that added.[/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]*[iost_uid0]Eye twitches furiously[/iost_uid0]*

That had better be the very last change. Otherwise Mr. Flibble is liable to get [iost_uid0]cranky[/iost_uid0].[/colorost_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000ost_uid14]I vote for this version [/colorost_uid14]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]I vote for the latest version, whatever it shall be[/colorost_uid0]