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I started trying to diagram the story virus<\/a>, but it’s no easy task.<\/p>\n

My main stumbling block at this point is just rendering the relationships via an image I’m creating in Paint Shop Pro 10. It became painfully obvious to me that I need some sort of computer program in which I can input relationships, and have the program sort out how to graphically represent the relationships. I might have the skillset necessary to write such a program, but I’m lazy.<\/p>\n

Even if I had such a program, the image it would generate would likely be incredibly, wackily complicated.<\/p>\n

From the different main threads of the people I have tagged, the one continued by SamuraiFrog<\/a> seemed to be one of the less active ones (mostly due to the fact that only the Chris subbranch seemed to be thriving), so I thought I would try and document it first. As you can see from the diagram, it’s still pretty damned busy.<\/p>\n

Click for a larger image<\/span>
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I could choose to diagram only the people that were successfully infected, but I think it misses some of the point when you aren’t able to see who *didn’t* get infected.<\/p>\n

So, for now, I give up on my graphic representation. If anyone wants to take a whack at it (I saw Tom postulating some possible alternatives to a “tree” representation in a comment on an earlier post), by all means give it a try. But please don’t put a lot of effort into it, as I don’t want to be responsible for anyone’s eyes bleeding or head exploding.<\/p>\n

I’m still trying to follow all the story threads, leaving comments and such, but it’s a crazy, gloriously diseased world out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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