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• Sean Eric Fagan commented on Three wishes
  Once time stops, how do you see? Hear? Breathe? Does gravity effect you? How? Why? How do you move through the now-still air?...
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on Three wishes
  No, OGH seems to be trying to think about the unintended consequences of the wishes. (See, for example, what happens when you change the speed of light.) I can't help asking those questions when I read about someone altering time somehow, and it's all due to Daniel Keys Moran....
• Charlie Stross commented on Three wishes
  I think you misunderstood my three wishes. (They work best if expressed in symbolic logic; they're intended to stack and selectively prevent certain effects. In other words, I'd rather see fewer but positive outcomes than more outcomes (including some negative ones). A situation where no wishable outcomes are ultimately forthcoming is therefore entirely acceptable.)...
• Moderator Alan commented on Three wishes
  Oh come on, Jack Russell puppies are destructive, I grant you, but not that bad....
• brucecohenpdx commented on Three wishes
  I have an adult Rat Terrier (a rescue), that's kind of like a Jack Russel on a mission. When he takes up his Aspect and shows his Attribute he's the nearest thing to perpetual motion we're ever likely to see. Destruction's just a side effect....