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Holy cow! The Butterball Turkey Hotline is actually the secret communications network of the DGB!
...don't look at me like that. I am training for the Conclusion Jumping Olympics.

There is one non-magic way.  If Susan and Diane were a result of in vitro fertilization, then it's possible to grow the embryo for a few cell divisions, and then split the little clump of cells into two little clumps of cells.  They could then implant one embryo in one mother, and the other in another.  Not saying that's what happened, mind you, I seriously doubt that it was, but it's possible.

On another tack, as we learn more about how Magic itself can be an active character, there could be way for Susan and Diane to be totally unrelated: Magic might insist that Potential Vampire Hunters be born in pairs (or more) because of horrifying attrition rates. There could be a lot of Susan look-alikes throughout the world (this generation).  In another generation, Van Helsing might have lasted as long as he did because there was always another one to take over for him...

12 years actually.
And this is how I hoped Nanase would get to it with Susan, it's how she explained it to Elliot and Edward, can't see her beating around the bush considering how determined she's been to talk to Susan about Diane. Ellen's still pretty nervous about how Susan will react, and so far we've got a stunned Susan, it could either become shocked or outraged (cus Nanase is likely going to drop the cheating father bomb next) or Susan would be like "I should have expected that the bimbo I caught him with years ago wasn't the first one."
I'm still hoping that knowing that Diane was given up for adoption would get some sympathy from Susan rather that Susan despising Diane for being the product of a cheating father.
What I really want to see happen, is Susan and Diane either hug or shake hands, then both immediately pull out the hand sanitizer.

Several years ago, The Animal Planet cable channel came up with the idea of offering counterprogramming during the Super Bowl, in the form of letting a bunch of puppies loose to play in a room decorated to look like a football field.  The only human to appear on-camera was a guy dressed as a referee whose job was to clean up any Oopses from the puppies.  At half-time, they switched from puppies to kittens for a few minutes.  I believe it was one of the highest-rated competitors for the first few years. :-D
Unfortunately, someone decided to start messing with a good thing.  Instead of just watching puppies play, now we get biographies and stats for the puppies, and the view jumps around from camera to camera instead of just holding still and letting us watch the damn puppies.

A good comparison is perhaps another Cage's piece: As Slow As Possible. The composition is only eight notepages long, and can be performed in 20 minutes. But as the name implies, you can play it slow. Very slow, in fact. 24 hours is the longest performance by a single person so far.
And a machine can play it even slower and longer. So after Cage's death some interesting people have rigged an organ in a German church to play the piece for 639 years, starting in 2001.  Let that sink in: 639 years. Organs are durable instruments, and can last that long with maintenance. The bellows are driven with electricity. Each single chord sounds for years. You can listen to the present chord on the official site of the project( which is all in german). It's the player on the right, under the words "aktueller klang".
Again, this is a case of art where the idea and the very existence of the work is more important than experiencing the work itself. And personally I love the idea, it's delightfully insane and awe-inspiring in scope.  Also, the sheer belief in the future the project represents warms my otherwise rather pessimistic heart.
Well, I've gone really off-topic now, haven't I?

 

In theory they can. It depends on which version of Civilization you are playing.

Her biggest obstacle towards killing him horribly is the fact that He can hide from her. It's going to take a while before she knows exactly what Voltaire is doing, and then she'll have to find him. If he's smart, he'll put a great deal of effort into not being found. I hope he's stupid, and I hope we get to watch.

Would be really neat if Pandora/Box was watching this play out.  Feel like she would be heartbroken and empathetic to Tedd.

I agree absolutely, but remember, the 'more dakka' line is used by friggin' WH40K Orks. For Orks, there is NEVER any such thing as 'enuf dakka.'
Mind you, I do like the quad Vulcan proposal. Combine the proposal in question with a good computer and targeting system, and whatever it shoots at had better have entirely unreasonable amounts of armour or it will be a flying cheese grater. That won't be flying for much longer. (The TWB has a fan forum, right? Who is with me in making a fan suggestion that we have Doc and Roger create a quad Vulcan paintball gun?)

Dang it! There you sank my theory that she'd been practicing extensively with enlarging cupcakes to the max and shrinking herself to the min just so she could dive into the cream filling... Which wouldn't have been the least bit hard to explain if someone walked in on her...
 

The gender you identify as need not have anything to do with what you are attracted to.

All of a sudden his reluctance to leave becomes perfectly comprehensible. Who knows what might happen the next time? Cheerleadra gets snatched by a dragon looking for a virgin and then has to fight her way free past an army of Puritan clothiers?

My shrink tells me that talking to yourself, to include answering yourself, isn't a bad thing, as long as you know you are doing that.  It's when you talk to yourself and you think you are talking to someone else that life gets, as he puts, "somewhere between not real good and very very bad".

You don't write much fiction, do you?
I get into conversations with my fictional characters quite often. And I've lost several arguments with them.

/me takes names.
mlooney is peckish.  And I thought to myself, 'a little fermented curd will do the trick', so, I curtailed my Walpoling activites, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles!
In this case, that means I raided the fridge.

Ever dressed a manikin - or a fourmonth-old who didn't want to get dressed? Dressing (or undressing) another human figure that isn't actively cooperating is NOT easy. Dressing yourself is much easier.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools.

I have a fair number of friends who stash their cell, room key, money, etc there as the situation warrants, or even when they could have used a purse instead.  At least some of the blame falls on clothing manufacturers who insist on making clothing for women with no damn pockets.....although I suspect at least one friend of liking the Iron Man look she gets from storing a still-glowing cell phone.....
I also know of at least one case of a girl's phone getting ruined by moisture accumulation on a very hot day. :-/

So an even better way to make that determination is to watch via a remote camera while someone else applies said test.

I believe this supports my belief that the summon spell is just one spell, but what you can summon is determined by a number of variables person to person, the fairy is common because it's the least complex before added all the bells and whistles, seriously, Nanase's fairy avatar is really a summon: fairy on spice from Dune.

The differences aren't that big really.  It's all a matter of implementation.  You have a "fairydoll" class.  It flies and is controlled subconsciously with a method call to determine exact appearance.
Dex' version pretty much instantiates the default class. 
Nanase's version instantiates a heavily-edited child class.  A lot of bells and whistles have been added to the base class, like conscious control, some form of permanent, reusable body, and a personal spell, "fae punch"
Because Susan instantiates her version as a copy/paste code-duplicate without access to the class or class history, hers is wonky version of Nanase's where some default features havereappeared. which keep the code from crashing messily, which still happens when Susan uses the "unsummon" method.