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Actually, some people probably would like that. As such, I'll have to disappoint them (yet again, no doubt) by instead explaining the real inspiration behind this quote. As some of you may be aware, I just finished taking a course on Computer Graphics. NPR served both as one of the topics covered in the class and the subject of one student's presentation. NPR actually stands for non-photorealistic rendering, although the guy giving the presentation didn't seem to know that. Or much else. He seemed to be under the impression that NPR instead signified something about apples, and that he could get a good mark on said presentation despite clearly having done no work on it. Maybe that was supposed to be the beautiful thing about NPR? This guy seemed to be just as confused as his own blackboard diagram, which made almost no sense at all. All in all, the opening paragraph of this story is a fair approximation of this presentation, in about the same way that certain movies claim to be based on real life stories. The only way NPR guy could top this presentation was by skipping the final. Which he promptly did, while likely declaring that the beautiful thing about NPR was that it could allow you to skip the final and still pass the course. Like I said before, he really didn't seem to know what NPR actually was, except as it applied to putting apples in boxes. Maybe to hide them from U.S. Customs? Because it sounds like they would really have a problem with this whole NPR business.
On a completely different, cash-grabbing note, I should mention that my team put together a great project for this class entitled Stick Fighter 2. Yes, it was yet another in a long line of fighting games to use 2 in its title. Unfortunately, it has yet to make a big splash on the international market, although one guy did offer us a quarter to play the game. Which is, I must admit, a good start. But hardly the definition of a blockbuster hit. Despite this, I am already planning several exciting sequels to this game. They include Stick Fighter 2: Turbo, which allows you to change the speed of the game, and Stick Fighter 2: Championship Edition, which allows you to play as the villain instead of the hero. Of course, the two are identical aside from their colors, but the beautiful thing about consumers is that hopefully they won't care. Hey, it worked for Capcom!
Okay, so I decided to do this week's quote on NPR. And the beautiful thing about NPR is that I can do no preparation and still end up with a great quote story. Rather than explaining what NPR actually is, I've decided instead to draw some crude drawings on a nearby blackboard. Of course, none of my readers will be able to see this blackboard, but my drawings aren't very good anyway, so that's just as well. Instead, I'll simply describe them to you. Okay, so you've got this box. Then you've got an apple. So if you're hungry, you would probably just eat the apple. But since the main topic of this story is NPR, I cannot let you do that. So instead you put the apple in the box. And then you have NPR! I'm sure you're all perfectly satisfied with this quote, and I have no doubts that I can enjoy your continued goodwill even if I never bother to show up and udate this site again.