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Subject: Re: BUREAUCRACY?????
Message-ID: <1995Oct12.125224.1@scsud.ctstateu.edu>
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 17:52:24 GMT

In article <451s3j$g23@crl4.crl.com>, rad@crl.com (Robert A. DeLisle) writes:
> Avrom Faderman (avrom@Csli.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
> 
> : Which I never really understood, even from within the twisted logic of
> : the game universe.  How was the Nerd supposed to know in which order
> : you'd find the mail?  Why would he care, and set up the cartridge
> : accordingly?  Just to make it easier for you to get in?  Now, if you
> : had to remember the order the mail stickers were arranged, say, north
> : to south, I'd understand (after all, the Nerd controls the Post
> : Office), but I just never got it the way it's written.
> 
> When you watch movies or tv long enough, you come to the conclusion
> that x happens to y because 'the scriptwriter wrote it that way'.  
> 

If I remember correctly -- and it's been a while since I lasted played this
game on my then brand new top-of-the-line AppleIIGS -- isn't there something
somewhere in the game about people with computers (read the Nerd) controlling 
the world?

JD

