Figured I'd start a new thread, to give people more places to spread posts out in. There isn't, really, awhole lot I can say, since I'm awed beyond the capacity for rational thought :)

what a ride, what a ride....well worth the wait.

what else can I say, really? there's were aprts that made me laugh, or cry, or want do do a victory dance...or reach through the screen and KILL something :)

This is, I'd have to say, the best thing I've read (physical or electronic print) in...oh, several months, at least.

what a ride, what a ride...

I agree on all points, a very satisfying ride. I have but one question:

So what happened to Dan?

>So what happened to Dan?

He's walking the earth like Caine from Kung Fu, wandering from place to place righting wrongs, doing good, you know the drill. Either that, or Durandal "recruited" him for whatever weird scheme he's up to now that he's free of the X-COM mainframe.

Seriously? Sometimes it's best just to let some things remain mysterious.

--
Mr. Fnord

>>So what happened to Dan?
>
>He's walking the earth like Caine from Kung Fu, wandering from
>place to place righting wrongs, doing good, you know the drill. Either
>that, or Durandal "recruited" him for whatever weird scheme he's up to
>now that he's free of the X-COM mainframe.
>
>Seriously? Sometimes it's best just to let some things remain
>mysterious.
>
It was just the first thing that popped into my head. I think the second was a better thought, but you'll have to read that post to judge.

>Seriously? Sometimes it's best just to let some things remain
>mysterious.

I thought NXE:TMP was supposed to wrap up loose ends, not create more. Ah, well.

It hasn't struck me until now, ninety minutes after finishing the story, exactly how freaking cool San is. Makes me wonder if Shinji really knows what he's getting himself into; also makes wonder if he'll care.

Everything begins on April 1, doesn't it? Very nice touch.

--Firefly

>It hasn't struck me until now, ninety minutes after finishing the
>story, exactly how freaking cool San is. Makes me wonder if
>Shinji really knows what he's getting himself into; also makes wonder
>if he'll care.
>
Yes, San is very cool, and Shinji has no clue what he's in for, but they're a good match. I think that of all the original characters in NXE, San is the one I'd like to meet, just because she would never be boring :)

Offsides

I have looked into the abyss, and the abyss looked also back into me.
Neither of us liked what we saw.
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

>I think that of all the original characters in
>NXE, San is the one I'd like to meet, just because she would never be
>boring :)

When you have a girlfriend like San and a father like Gendou, I suspect that Shinji would want boring every once in a while.

--Firefly

Hell, I think all of them are drop-dead awesome. Makes me wish I could go there just to meet those fine folks, but I guess we have to settle for congratulating all the authors who worked on this sucker.

-NeoRaven

>>So what happened to Dan?
>
>He's walking the earth like Caine from Kung Fu, wandering from
>place to place righting wrongs, doing good, you know the drill. Either
>that, or Durandal "recruited" him for whatever weird scheme he's up to
>now that he's free of the X-COM mainframe.
>
>Seriously? Sometimes it's best just to let some things remain
>mysterious.

*grin*

He's dating Amy.

>
>--
>Mr. Fnord

Am starting to read now, and hopefully I'll be done sometime before the new year :)

Jinya

Y'know, there's something very satisfying about throwing a nuclear weapon in a demon's face. I can just picture the image of the missile falling picturesquely from the sky, and anihilating evil. Oh, and Xerxes's comments to Natla in the command center were perfect. I must admit breaking at the mental image of the thousands of waffles in the commisary though...

>Y'know, there's something very satisfying about throwing a nuclear
>weapon in a demon's face. I can just picture the image of the missile
>falling picturesquely from the sky, and anihilating evil. Oh, and
>Xerxes's comments to Natla in the command center were perfect. I must
>admit breaking at the mental image of the thousands of waffles in the
>commisary though...

I thought it was really appropriate, not to mention cool, that humanities most horrifying weapon helped save mankind.

------
Jon Helscher

"At this point, it's not even about trying to make money. I just don't want to be totally humiliated."

>>Y'know, there's something very satisfying about throwing a nuclear
>>weapon in a demon's face. I can just picture the image of the missile
>>falling picturesquely from the sky, and anihilating evil. Oh, and
>>Xerxes's comments to Natla in the command center were perfect. I must
>>admit breaking at the mental image of the thousands of waffles in the
>>commisary though...
>
>I thought it was really appropriate, not to mention cool, that
>humanities most horrifying weapon helped save mankind.
>

Saving lives... isnt that what all weapons are ultimately
used for?

>>I thought it was really appropriate, not to mention cool, that
>>humanities most horrifying weapon helped save mankind.
>>
>
>Saving lives... isnt that what all weapons are ultimately
>used for?

No. Weapons are ultimately used to harm others, and end lives. The end result might be that lives are saved, but *never* think that they're used for any purpose more glorious then harming things.

--
-Pasha
"In the end, I had your life, and her life in my hands.
That's what it means the be a Chooser of the Slain."

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>>Saving lives... isnt that what all weapons are ultimately
>>used for?
>
>No. Weapons are ultimately used to harm others, and end lives.

Actually, you're both right. Or wrong.

Satsujinken, katsujinken.

Look it up.

--G.
-><-
Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

>No. Weapons are ultimately used to harm others, and end lives. The
>end result might be that lives are saved, but *never* think that
>they're used for any purpose more glorious then harming things.

Vimes turned the thing over and over in his hands. It looked vaguely like a long-handled hammer, or perhaps a strangely made telescope. What it was, basically, was a spring. That's all a crossbow was, after all.

"It's a devil to load," he said. "I nearly ruptured myself cocking it against a rock. You'd only get one shot."

"But it's the shot no one expects, mhm, mhm."

Vimes nodded. You could even conceal this thing down your pants, although the thought of all that coiled power that close would require nerves of steel and other parts of steel, too, if it came to it.

"This is not a weapon. This is for killing people," he said.

"Uh . . . most weapons are," said Inigo.

"No, they're not. They're so you don't have to kill people. They're for . . . for having. For being seen. For warning. This isn't one of those. It's for hiding away until you bring it out and kill people in the dark. . . ."

--- from The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett, which I can say with certainty was not an influence on NXE but which, nontheless, I was reminded of by the statement above

Redneck

Kris Overstreet, aka Redneck Gaijin
http://www.wlpcomics.com
White Lightning Productions - huge tracts of land for sale

I read that book like one and a half months ago? Very interesting.
I think I am becoming addicted to reading Prattchet :)

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>Y'know, there's something very satisfying about throwing a nuclear
>weapon in a demon's face.

There are some dispute that only a nuke in the ass can settle.

J

edit: just remembered, she also managed to VAPERIZE a cupple of eva's.

(dam english, never a dictonary round when you need it)

You and me both. I have an incredibly visual mind and I have a bad habbit of visualizing everything a person says to me, especially the expletives.

*Now imagining the wafles... flinging from the ports like frisbees, bursting and cascading through the kitchen doors... And laughs at the insanity.*

-NeoRaven

Okay I just got NXE: AN about, hmmm, 8 hours ago, and I re-red NXE and NXE:AN in one marathon sitting, Dammmmnnnnnn! I sat there for 10 minutes thinking, if only there was more, (Scene of the NXE team screaming "No, No more NXE!") Anyways Kudos to every one, and I thought it was touching, Immortalising Rachel that way. May those who have passed on live forever in our memories.

Shadowcat
Interesting, I seem to have lost a couple of days somewhere.