... Well, much has changed, but I can't say I'd answer that one any differently now, anyway. :)

Mind you, that assumes I was in it as an adult. As one of the Children, I like to think that I'd have filled the Musashi/Benkei/Tiny Harper indestructible-comedy-big-dude role. The NXE team didn't really have one of those. Bit of an oversight on my part.

>You know, I owe you an apology for that. My only explanation is that,
>well, I was young and very, very stupid, and you guys were an
>enormously tempting target.

Well, heck, I'm hardly in a position to get after people for young-and-stupid.

>This may be a bad time to admit that I was -also- part of the
>Evangelion Fanfic Review Syndicate, which I believe now survives
>online only in that you guys made fun of us once in one of the NXE
>Bonus Theaters.

... yeah, not in any way surprising, actually. :)

>Also, everything is formatted in plaintext and has a hard line-wrap
>and orients to the left side of the screen. The way God INTENDED.

Well, not everything - the Forum stories and their HTML "omnibus edition" compilations aren't - but a lot still comes out that way, yeah. I've made the odd attempt to move to more modern formats, but not much has come of it so far. Too set in my ways, I suppose, like those people who didn't change to the Gregorian calendar until the 1700s.

Last year, after the experimentally-formatted Weapon of Choice came out, a couple of users took very creditable stabs at coming up with a stylesheet that would preserve something of the properly-justified, tabbed-paragraphs thing while allowing for modern font scaling, italics and whatnot, but I could never really get my head into the game. So, for example, the next part of Symphony No. 5 will still be a .txt file (although it does have a few Unicode characters in it - so I guess I've at least joined the 1990s :).

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