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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Gaming Prophecy?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:24:30 -0400
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On 8/30/24 4:19 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
> On 30/08/2024 14.54, Tony Nance wrote:
>> 2a) In guruneelcbggrefrevrf, the Big Bad Guy tries to kill his 
>> prophesied nemesis, not realizing that the nemesis didn't actually 
>> didn't become his nemesis until the moment Big Bad tried to kill him.
> 
> Yeah, that was a choice of two situation, wasn't it? 

Yep. Not clear what would have happened if he kinda did nothing at all, 
but maybe I'm forgetting something.



> Good catch.
> 
> Does "No living man may hinder me" count for this? Mebbe not.
> 

That was indeed the first, second, and third example that came to mind, 
but I don't know if they were trying to outfox the prophecy or just 
merely stup...um...underinformed about it.

Tony