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AeroTheZealousOne

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Damn. Just...damn. Where to start? Well, Dan Schneider withdrawing from children's television is going to have quite the butterfly effect. For starters, if they haven't already been butterflied, there is no iCarly and no Victorious, to name a few.

Michael Vick got what he deserved ITTL, and despite my enthusiasm earlier...it's sad, all of it. If anything, I'm glad the Browns got screwed here. (I guess some things don't change.)

And the moment of truth. The shooting that we have all been wondering about for half a real-life decade (since it was foreshadowed back in the early stages of Player Two Start) has finally occurred ITTL, and the unexpected twist on top of it: I-35 crumbling into the Mississippi even worse than OTL.

This, I believe, makes April of 2002 look pretty darn nice in comparison. Sometimes tragedies like this have to happen, they're difficult to avoid and once one thing changes, so does everything.

Excellent update overall. Sad, but excellent regardless.
 
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RyderWest

RySenkari said:
Correct, it's still in effect ITTL.
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Thank god. The Australia NFA probably saves Australia from a ever increasing number of school and mass shootings.

I assume the two Firearms Amendment Acts 1997 that de facto banned private ownership of handguns in the UK still apply if Dunblane was not butterflied away, IIRC.
 

Unknown

Talk about a horrible, no-good, very bad day...

That bridge collapse was more than a little reminiscent of the Sunshine Skyway bridge collapse in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1980, especially with the bus getting caught up in the collapse (although it was a Greyhound bus that got caught in the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse, not a bus filled with kids; everyone in the Greyhound died, sadly, IIRC)...

NC State is now known for something sadder than the 1983 NCAA title run (I'm surprised a movie hasn't been made about that IOTL and ITTL; the closest is the documentary Survive and Advance); BTW, the 1983 NCAA title run was NC State basketball's Crowning Moment of Awesome, IMO, especially since they had to win every game in the tournament at the last minute. A shame Jim Valvano died (IOTL, he died of cancer on April 28, 1993; ITTL, I don't see anything to change that); he'd be heartbroken over this, IMO. Hope the 1983 and 1974 NC State championship teams do something (like, say, a charity basketball game) to help the victims...

Yeah, I'm glad the Browns got screwed here (maybe any reforms to the Cleveland PD help avoid events like the Tamir Rice shooting; BTW, if the Cleveland PD screwed up the Anthony Sowell case like OTL, that'll make the backlash even worse)...

BTW, to quote Johnny Ringo in Tombstone, "Well, Bye." to Dan Schneider; while iCarly, Victorious, and Sam and Cat are butterflied away, Victoria Justice, Liz Gillies, Miranda Cosgrove, Ariana Grande, and Jeanette McCurdy are too talented not to be in something ITTL...
 

RySenkari

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Talk about a horrible, no-good, very bad day...

That bridge collapse was more than a little reminiscent of the Sunshine Skyway bridge collapse in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1980, especially with the bus getting caught up in the collapse (although it was a Greyhound bus that got caught in the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse, not a bus filled with kids; everyone in the Greyhound died, sadly, IIRC)...

NC State is now known for something sadder than the 1983 NCAA title run (I'm surprised a movie hasn't been made about that IOTL and ITTL; the closest is the documentary Survive and Advance); BTW, the 1983 NCAA title run was NC State basketball's Crowning Moment of Awesome, IMO, especially since they had to win every game in the tournament at the last minute. A shame Jim Valvano died (IOTL, he died of cancer on April 28, 1993; ITTL, I don't see anything to change that); he'd be heartbroken over this, IMO. Hope the 1983 and 1974 NC State championship teams do something (like, say, a charity basketball game) to help the victims...

Yeah, I'm glad the Browns got screwed here (maybe any reforms to the Cleveland PD help avoid events like the Tamir Rice shooting; BTW, if the Cleveland PD screwed up the Anthony Sowell case like OTL, that'll make the backlash even worse)...

BTW, to quote Johnny Ringo in Tombstone, "Well, Bye." to Dan Schneider; while iCarly, Victorious, and Sam and Cat are butterflied away, Victoria Justice, Liz Gillies, Miranda Cosgrove, Ariana Grande, and Jeanette McCurdy are too talented not to be in something ITTL...
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Victoria Justice was on Biznezz, so she'll be looking for work. The show was doing quite well, so I imagine she'd land on her feet sooner or later.

As for Elizabeth Gillies, I have plans for her to be on another show coming up quite soon...I may have briefly mentioned it in a recent update....
 

thekingsguard

Glad to see Vick got put down like the animal he was.

Was that story about the therapy dog OTL or made up? Because way to twist the damned knife.

Either way, Diamond says thank you.

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RySenkari

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That was screwed up. Am I right in saying that the next news update will have something on the WGA strike?
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We may wait to cover that until the 2008 TV update. However, there is something TV related planned for the next news update. It's not necessarily a "huge" story but it is what I would consider a very sad story. It's not directly related to the stuff we've recently covered but there is an element of it that's related. Also, I haven't 100% decided if I want to do it or not but it will be in the next news update if I do.

I'll give one hint: it causes a certain episode of the Thrillseekers animated series to be very slightly altered when it appears on TV for the next couple years or so. The incident itself has nothing to do with the Thrillseekers animated series, but there's a line in it that will be considered insensitive for a time in the aftermath of the incident in question.
 

RySenkari

ANARCHY_4_ALL said:
Me too so I am happy. Could we possibly get some short snippets on Polly Klaas, Kurt Cobain, Brandon Lee, Chris Farley, etc. you know people you saved?
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Honestly, I'm probably not going to write about any of them until inspiration comes to me. If I can't come up with something good for them, it's best for me not to write about them.
 

Clorox23

RySenkari said:
We may wait to cover that until the 2008 TV update. However, there is something TV related planned for the next news update. It's not necessarily a "huge" story but it is what I would consider a very sad story. It's not directly related to the stuff we've recently covered but there is an element of it that's related. Also, I haven't 100% decided if I want to do it or not but it will be in the next news update if I do.

I'll give one hint: it causes a certain episode of the Thrillseekers animated series to be very slightly altered when it appears on TV for the next couple years or so. The incident itself has nothing to do with the Thrillseekers animated series, but there's a line in it that will be considered insensitive for a time in the aftermath of the incident in question.
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...you said this timeline was going to go on hiatus after the Sapphire update, right?

Would it be possible for it to go on hiatus earlier? Please?

Because, this, and that fucking goddamn punch to the gut post that happened... ... ...please say this is about to go on hiatus?
 

HonestAbe1809

Could we get Verne Troyer some work ITTL? I just found out that he apparently committed suicide last Saturday. It's a shame that his most famous role is of a mute since I really like his voice.
 

RyderWest

Any more additional information on Richard Ronson, the NC State shooter? Trying to create the infobox articles for him and the NC State shooting.
 

RySenkari

RyderWest said:
Any more additional information on Richard Ronson, the NC State shooter? Trying to create the infobox articles for him and the NC State shooting.
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He was born January 11, 1988, in Siler City, North Carolina, his family moved to Raleigh the year before he entered eighth grade. He never had many disciplinary problems in school, he had a few friends but most people saw him as kind of a jerk. He was of fairly average intelligence, maybe slightly above average. He actually had a fairly strong work ethic, though he didn't really like to work, he just realized it was necessary for him, however, when things started to not pan out for him after he turned 18 (he had to move out of his parents' house and into a crappy apartment, he didn't get into NC State like he wanted, most of his "friends" didn't want to have anything to do with him), it combined with his narcissism and depression to give him a "perfect storm" of rage, so to speak.

Could we get Verne Troyer some work ITTL? I just found out that he apparently committed suicide last Saturday. It's a shame that his most famous role is of a mute since I really like his voice.
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Hmmm....maybe!
 
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