Though, with good design, it'd have to be the want of quite a few nails, and reality is a lot more fuzzy than the neat chains of causality that illustrates, since it depends not just on the nail, since it doesn't cover the times when the horse lost a shoe and the messenger got a ride from a passing farmer, and the reinforcements got there just in time for their Big Damn Heroes moment, or the time when the reinforcements were led by an idiot and got ambushed, or...
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Date: 2009-04-15 03:50 pm (UTC)Though, with good design, it'd have to be the want of quite a few nails, and reality is a lot more fuzzy than the neat chains of causality that illustrates, since it depends not just on the nail, since it doesn't cover the times when the horse lost a shoe and the messenger got a ride from a passing farmer, and the reinforcements got there just in time for their Big Damn Heroes moment, or the time when the reinforcements were led by an idiot and got ambushed, or...