Decorum

I drive on the highway and park in the garage myself.

Does anyone actually call them parkways any more? Must be regional.

My characters "live" for me because I determine their characters and backstories from the beginning, and then let them "write themselves" much of the time. Yeah, it's illusory, but no one but Grant Morrison seriously thinks they're actually writing themselves.

And Grant...well, sometimes I think he's been hitting the bong too much.

Und remember, eny plen vhere you lose you het is a BAD PLEN!

EDIT: GAH! I'm getting beat all over the place tonight. Maybe someday I'll learn to finish the thread before posting....NAAAAH!

Ha! Well, it does help that his name actually is (Von) Doom. That may not have the same connotation in Latverian.

They could have made him an insurance actuary.

I was kidding, Sam. Of course that's what it is.

I'm tempted to buy you a sense of humor for your birthday, but I'm afraid you'd just break it.

Your math is correct. All you're showing is that you haven't read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe" (and you should, they're fun books!).

EDIT: D'oh, everyone there before me.

Coat Tail, actually. A Tail Coat would be a coat your tail wears.

I thought the "breakage" came with the MA and the adjustments to the text there. I don't recall having any problems with it before that.

"Heads... heads... heads... heads... heads... "

Or just, y'know, shut Walk off.

Seeing as how Walk and Ninja Run can't have enhancements added to them, they shouldn't be on the enhancement screen.

This is a far more likely outcome than yours.

EDIT: **nods to Aggie**

Piece by piece manually. He said as much a sentence or two before.

No, that's what YOU do. I certainly have enough experience reading fiction about this kind of thing not to make such assumptions.

Your really need to stop throwing around phrases like "basic human knowledge and psychology" and "universally". I see no evidence of such. In fact, I see plenty of evidence to the opposite.

Again, the stories here mimic comic books primarily. And there's plenty of examples there of your method, the other method I mentioned, combinations of methods and everything in between. You've simply latched on to the one that makes the most sense to you.

The fact that it's all fictional, every last drop, is important here. If there were something "real" to compare it to, we might be able to get somewhere. But in this area, quantum physics and string theory are in a fetal stage right now, almost entirely speculation. So one can only fall back on previous fictions, of which there are many and varied.

...method of looking at this.

These are fictional systems following comic books super-heroes. Your way of looking at it is not the only way. In a multiversal system, your choices are infinite. The way you're looking at it is the Marvel way. Precedent is there for non-divergent dimensions that are very similar without there being some kind of divergence point or points (as I mentioned, the DC way).

I take issue with "nearly but not completely exact". That's nothing but something out of your own head. "Close, with a lot of details changed" is more like it, and even that doesn't HAVE to be.

In short, you're trying to force your own rules inappropriately on something fictional in order to fit your own questions/theory. Hammering the proverbial square peg into the inevitable round hole, as it were.