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I hear he's going to star in a historical documentary on the life of a famous composer. He'll be Bach.

Good point. According to wikipedia, developement of Wonder Woman started 1996 and Captain Marvel 2013. Didn't though it's THAT long.
And looking at category .... hmmm ... Æon Flux wasn't good, Electra wasn't good, Catwoman (2004) wasn't good, Supergirl (1984) wasn't good, Ultraviolet wasn't good ... and Witchblade was for TV. Wikipedia sometimes miss stuff but I don't think they would miss major motion picture, so ...

No need to apologize. Something being joke rarely stops me from answering sort-of-seriously.
(Maybe I should've added smiley as well. Sorry. Like, sorry I forgot about you, smiley )

Exactly.
My original idea was for him to lose someone less important than Lois, but this would be even better.

Speaking of typos. Once the bear mails you, you had best start to exercise some thought about what you are doing. Superintelligent bears which can manage envelopes, paper, writing utensils and stamps are bound to be more dangerous than the common kind. Or even if they are just using a computer and an e-mail system.

Although, 'd rather be mailed by a bear than mauled by a bear.

That is a good point. The former option is at least less overbearing.

My friend has a t shirt with a picture of a Dalek, the text says, "I loved R2D2 in Star Trek."

Also because he has just ONE General Shade Tail but those Goo nuclei could be mass-produced.
That doesn't mean the objective is to kill Tedd. Perhaps the outcome Lord Tedd wanted was that the Goo will be destroyed BY TEDD and he was disappointed Ellen did it.
 

Unfortunately there is no escape from the bad science of Voyager.

To be fair, the child losing interest is part of the problem as well. I managed to protect all my collectables. I think. Ok, I didn't saw some of them for some time ... and was definitely glad when I found some (actually, most, probably) comics I was collecting on internet so I can have them stored digitally.
Meanwhile, considerable part of Mom's collection of comics was damaged by water, and THOSE are hard to find online - even the ones I cared about.
I wonder how many parents later realized they thrown away something with price in thousands of dollars.

I think Dan is using the tension between Sarah being tempted and resisting temptation as a way to make her almost believably  imperfect without adding the extra plot complications of her actually doing bad things.

Well, just because it's not useful as ability doesn't mean it's abstract. Obviously, what DOES transfer is the soul. (Not the music.)
Now, if you don't believe in existence of soul, or more specifically if you believe there is no part of you which wouldn't be encoded in physical connection of neurons, then you can't even describe what reincarnation IS.
"What's worse: ignorance or apathy?" -  "I don't know and I don't care."
 

Well, just because it's not useful as ability doesn't mean it's abstract. Obviously, what DOES transfer is the soul. (Not the music.)
Now, if you don't believe in existence of soul, or more specifically if you believe there is no part of you which wouldn't be encoded in physical connection of neurons, then you can't even describe what reincarnation IS.
"What's worse: ignorance or apathy?" -  "I don't know and I don't care."
 

The idea is that you will be forced to buy more to get the effect you want. Videogames are full of stuff like this. Greedy? Yes. But it seems to work.
However, Hexen is sequel to Heretic, which has item turning enemies to chickens.
Chickens have quite a long history in games ...
... although, true, not THIS long.

Wait, what?
I meant relatively to the cartoons. Note that there are plenty of stuff which fly for other reasons than aerodynamic - in case you probably refer to, the reason is obviously magic.
(Hovering is easy. There is nonzero probability you will hover just due to random Brownian motion. Ok, it's VERY small probability but it's nonzero .)

Heh, that reminds me of one I read where the DM decided that his players were over-reliant on magic. So he created a monster who was immune to all forms of magic damage, both direct and indirect... and had ONE hit point. He nearly managed a TPK before someone hit the monster with something non-magical... accidentally.

I created a pirate who was imaginatively named "Jolly Roger" for my superhero game. One of his best and most successful superpowers was that he had a stuffed parrot with a built in radio transmitter sitting on his shoulder. But the radio wasn't the point. The point was to tempt any enemy he faced into spending an attack on it to knock it off his shoulder.
And it worked. Every time. EVERY. TIME.
That consarned parrot had one purpose and one purpose only. Ablative armor. And it didn't once fail him. My players didn't catch on to it until after the campaign ended and I actually told them. That resulted in a lot of laughs, facepalming and even kudos to the guy. He was really low powered in general but worked mainly on smarts, and the players applauded him for pulling such a simple yet irresistible trick on them.

Yes, that too. Also, as already mentioned, I think Diane doesn't have enough experience with Tedd to realize she will likely be girl.
(And if she did, she was essentially giving her possibility to transform to boy and keep the gender-fluidity secret by calling in advance.)
Yes, certainly.
Possibly both?
But I'm sure Ashley would have more fun without Diane coming.

Hilbert's Hotel gets a lousy rating on ALL review sites, because the staff will wake you up an infinite number of times every night and force you to change rooms.

That depends on your definition of "fit" and how sturdy the roof is.
... actually, certain definitions of "fit" make sturdiness of roof irrelevant (I don't think the whale was 20 feet long, but if it would be it wouldn't present any problem for it. ... or them?)
... you say it as if it would be bad thing ...

If I remember correctly, in that movie the same would be true for EVERYONE, it's just that the mentioned villain actually tried that. Of course the science behind this idea is so bad I would be disappointed if it showed in EGS ... so I hope Dan revisited that or found some interesting way how to make it work for Tedd specifically.
I don't think at that point we would be able to figure how many times it changed, unless there will be some bonus speaking about it like it was after Painted Black, or it would be mentioned in commentary like with the Dewitchery Diamond ...
The problem is that if it's finite number, then WHY exactly that number? Say the number is 1234567. Why not 1234568? Physical laws just don't work that way. Sure, it doesn't need to be just 1 or infinity, but the explanation for specific number tends to get more complicated the higher number it is.
Meanwhile, there is no problem with having just finite number in reach. Especially if it's limit of device, not the theory behind it. In fact, any specific device is likely to only be capable of reaching finite number of universes, because either it can address them somehow (in finite way) or it's completely random but will eventually break.
Note that in last explanation, the number of universes was not specified, but the provided examples of "where lost socks go" and "steven universe" would suggest there is enough of them to cover even very nonsensical things.
... is usually more or less just as big. In fact, you would need a VERY exotic definition of "fraction" to make it smaller. Normal "fraction" will end up just a variation of Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel.
The number is actually rather small - astronomers think it's about 250 billion ± 150 billion. There are more of them in Andromeda Galaxy.
Well if you "notate" in something as obsolete and primitive as arabic numerals ...
For big numbers, you need Knuth's up-arrow notation. And if you somehow happen to need even bigger finite numbers, you can find inspiration about how to write them in Graham's number. Of course, there are also functions you CANT compute growing asymptotically faster than any functions you CAN compute. Which I would say answers the question about how good handle mathematicians have on really big finite numbers.
 

I think we have a better handle on the notion of infinities than we do on finite, but very large numbers that we can't even notate.

I think they knew she will survive. At least in SOME of those cases.
... aaaand might even know about this perfect reason why to not wait with killing her too long.
You are not the same you you was YESTERDAY, actually. Which is the other extreme of how to answer the question of identity.
And stupid. How often do I say "person writing this was stupid" then realize it was me some time ago ... (speaking about code ; posts on internet age better ... usually).

... yeah, he would likely accept in such case. But maybe not. He did NOT accept despite being so hungry anyone else would die of it.
And, probably, big amount of luck. Wasn't he in multiple wars?
Those question are not really hard to answer, just hard to accept those answers.
However, people who actually have such option tend to create belief which allows them to use those options. It's too tempting. Or rather, better than the alternative.
Whole Federation accepted that you can "move" yourself using the transporter, despite occasional accidents proving that transporter is closer to "copy & destroy one  copy" than actual moving.
One way to look at it is used and explored in Schlock: when you make backup, then die, then gets restored, it's the same you which made the backup, but not the same as the one which died.
... recently, they got copied and now the author reached new meaning of "splitting the party" by having two copies of same people at different place doing different part of moving the story forward.