14th November 2007, 10:00 PM
So basically you are saying you want to know ALL the details on how this world is different from the one we know in history so you can understand how it can exist like it is? I see. Basically you are saying without certain details all you have are the storyline they provide plus the history you already know of in the real world, and without certain details there seem to be plot holes between them. I get you now, and actually to a point I agree. Yes, it is a little weird that anyone's still worshipping the greek gods. In these cases, I often take to just inventing my own fiction and inserting it. I try to do so to fix issues I find and so long as what I come up with is fairly parsimonious and reasonable in the terms of the story I'm fine with it. I tend not to get carried away and as I said I tend to go with the simplest explanation I can go with (just out of personal preference and because it's easier to work with). If I have to make too much of a stretch or there's no way I can reconcile it, well I consider it a plothole issue and then I get annoyed.
As for those outfits... don't get me started there... It's gone way past "inefficient as armor" in many cases to "physically impossible for it to actually be worn or stay on the body". But, I know what's up there, and they are at least somewhat "fair" in it with all those no shirt guys. Voldo isn't really much of what I'd call a compromise though...
Oh yes, as for the lack of certain country representatives, well seriously I mean they can't try to add everything and I don't expect them to really do that much there. I don't put much stock in any "hidden meaning" behind how they "handle" certain ethnic groups. Otherwise I'd have to demand an eskimo fighter or something.
As for those outfits... don't get me started there... It's gone way past "inefficient as armor" in many cases to "physically impossible for it to actually be worn or stay on the body". But, I know what's up there, and they are at least somewhat "fair" in it with all those no shirt guys. Voldo isn't really much of what I'd call a compromise though...
Oh yes, as for the lack of certain country representatives, well seriously I mean they can't try to add everything and I don't expect them to really do that much there. I don't put much stock in any "hidden meaning" behind how they "handle" certain ethnic groups. Otherwise I'd have to demand an eskimo fighter or something.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)