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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
12:02 AM
@Bookworm Well, that was fun.
closes a dozen tabs
Are you aware that The Philosophy of Composition is sometimes considered to be unreliable, more of a post-facto rationalisation than an accurate description of the author's thought processes in writing? I think this answer should at least acknowledge that, if you're going to use it as a source. — Rand al'Thor 3 mins ago
@BESW And so the wheel of learning goes around :-)
 
BESW
BESW
1:03 AM
@Randal'Thor Wait, you close tabs?
 
Bookworm
Bookworm
1:43 AM
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Q: Who was the old man in Platonia?

RikerIn The Shadow Dragons, the party that sets off from The Flying Dragon via trump gets stuck in an "endless expanse of whiteness": It was an endless expanse of whiteness. There was no distance, no perspective. Just infinite space. Except for the old man. The old man is dismissive of the group...

imaginarium-geographica james-a-owen
 
Bookworm
Bookworm
1:55 AM
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Q: What of the knight of the Empty Helmet, and how does he comport himself at Castle Rhack?

Rand al'ThorThe epilogue of Suldrun's Garden, the first book of Jack Vance's Lyonesse series, is a sort of literary equivalent of a "next time" teaser in a TV series. More than summarising the events so far and describing the current state of affairs, it asks rhetorical questions about what will happen next....

jack-vance lyonesse-trilogy
 
 
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Mithrandir
Mithrandir
7:18 AM
@Randal'Thor Heh. Thanks ;)
 
BESW
BESW
7:37 AM
> "I merely make you read it because you will have to meet people who do that kind of thing, and you must on no account be all dewy and awed when you do meet them. You can, if you like, secretly despise them."
- Stella Gibbons, "Cold Comfort Farm"
 
 
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Himarm
Himarm
12:11 PM
yawn
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
@Randal'Thor I guess I'll go and post that announcement in Russian SO chat
 
BESW
BESW
...someday I'm going to post a question somewhere about what happened to the allegory in Story of Your Life on its way to the big screen.
But first I think I need to figure out how to express what I think Story of Your Life is about more clearly to people who don't share my experience or training in cultural contact zones and multicultural immersion.
There's a certain irony in Heisserer misinterpreting Chiang's story by indulging in exactly the thought patterns Chiang's story is meant to expose.
 
Himarm
Himarm
12:28 PM
tor.com/2017/03/24/… < how many times does braid tugging happen in wheel of time
 
BESW
BESW
@Himarm They missed sniffing.
...ah, they call it out at the bottom. Yes.
I believe there's also braid-chewing, which is totally different. Yes.
 
 
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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
5:19 PM
@Gallifreyan Congrats on 2k rep!
That's the big privilege level on beta sites.
For a moment there, I thought @BESW was talking about sniffing bottoms ...
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
@Randal'Thor Cheers! I looked for something to delete and otherwise abuse my new powers, but there is nothing wrong with this site :'(
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@Gallifreyan Look on the bright side - you can now see deleted posts, and detailed review history.
Being able to delete questions isn't the funnest part of 10k/2k powers, except on sites that get loads of terrible questions.
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
@Randal'Thor True that. Still no chat flags though - I hoped suspected there'd be some flags from the Russian SO due to recent demonstrations in Russia
 
Beastly Gerbil
Beastly Gerbil
congrats @Gallifreyan!
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@Gallifreyan There have been plenty of flags from Russian SO chat in the last few weeks.
I even asked you about one or two of them to work out if they were really offensive.
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
5:33 PM
@Randal'Thor those are not out of normal; the protests happened yesterday, so I guess the wave is yet to crest flag-wise
@BeastlyGerbil Thanks!
 
 
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Beastly Gerbil
Beastly Gerbil
7:48 PM
@Randal'Thor I updated the facts on Wolf Hall, I added things such as 'he and he, which were discounted at first to the numbers
Makes the facts even more staggering
heh @Gallifreyan you just need 1 more rep.... :P
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
@BeastlyGerbil haha :D I guess I could un-downvote something, but I couldn't be bothered
 
Beastly Gerbil
Beastly Gerbil
8:05 PM
lol, biology SE is having an election, but there are only 3 nominees
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
I've went over the protected questions page - is it time to unprotect those? If memory serves protection is only supposed to be temporary.
 
Beastly Gerbil
Beastly Gerbil
It is?
I've never removed my protection or anyone elses
And I've seen questions years old having been protected for years
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
Well, that second condition might render two of our protected questions ineligible, but the other two may be fine
 
Beastly Gerbil
Beastly Gerbil
I'm not sure if anyone actually bothers unprotecting :P
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
8:21 PM
@Randal'Thor Oops. I see that the comment is gone. Did it self-destruct, or did someone flag it? Just curious.
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Q: What does Dream's ruby represent?

ShokhetIn Volume One of The Sandman (Preludes and Nocturnes), Dream is held captive for 70 years. After escaping and taking vengeance on his (only surviving) captor, he returns home, to the Dreamworld. Finding it in disarray, he realizes that he needs to recover his "tools," his totems of power, so that...

symbolism comics neil-gaiman the-sandman
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
@Shokhet right when I was about to go to bed :(
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@Gallifreyan Time zone issues :/
Go to bed. I doubt anyone will beat you to FGITW by morning
...I put some effort into Googling, and couldn't find anything
That article that I found about "'Being'" Decentered in Sandman" did not mention "ruby" or "gem" once
And that was pretty much the best thing I found
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
@Shokhet Just to be clear, which issue/volume are you on?
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@Gallifreyan Finished volume 1, going to pick up volumes 2 and 3 from the library today
...I'm not concerned about spoilers in the answer, because the ruby is destroyed in Volume 1. (...or was it?)
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
@Shokhet Hmm. I'l keep spoilers away then, since I'm probably going to need to reference volume 10
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
8:32 PM
@Gallifreyan Volume 10 is a long way away. ...if it seriously cramps your ability to answer, then I don't mind spoilers that much.
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
@Shokhet not really, no. I think I can isolate the panels I need
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
You could protect information with spoiler tags (or I could skip reading the answer until after reading Vol 10)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@BeastlyGerbil stays quiet there are sekritz there ;) (or I could be messing with you)
 
Beastly Gerbil
Beastly Gerbil
Hmm?
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
I'm not very good at symbolism though (let alone mythology), so don't expect miracles
And I'm gone
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
8:38 PM
Also, @Gallifreyan, I would really appreciate it if you could replace my panels as you've done previously; my question here has some smudged words in it :/
@Gallifreyan Okay, thanks :)
@Gallifreyan Gnite :)
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
Will type it up tomorrow ^_^ And bring some panels too
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@Gallifreyan afios
*d
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@Gallifreyan Thank you! Hope your answer can boost your score enough :)
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
Buenos noches, amigos!
(Is this how you say it?) </Hans Landa>
 
Bookworm
Bookworm
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Q: What does Dream's ruby represent?

ShokhetIn Volume One of The Sandman (Preludes and Nocturnes), Dream is held captive for 70 years. After escaping and taking vengeance on his (only surviving) captor, he returns home, to the Dreamworld. Finding it in disarray, he realizes that he needs to recover his "tools," his totems of power, so that...

symbolism comics neil-gaiman the-sandman
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
8:40 PM
@Bookworm Hello. You're late to the party.
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@Shokhet party? Ooh!
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@Shokhet Oh, I see my question is late. You made it already :p
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
Also, if I say something weird, blame it on the fact that's it a quarter to midnight.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@Mithrandir Yep! Feel free to upvote that post*
* (assuming, of course, that you feel that it satisfies your criteria for a good question. We don't need rep)
:)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
Lots of text, lots of images, well written, not easily Googled =+1.
Also, @BeastlyGerbil, ping me for a bounty in a couple days for Hedwig.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
8:46 PM
@Mithrandir Thank you :)
(Lots of alt-text as well ;-) )
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
Oigle, another HNQ Harry Potter question.
I hit 10k today though, so. The problem :recapped for another 3 hours.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@Mithrandir You mean on SFF, right? ...I saw your answer. Well done :)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
Thanks. I know you saw it, you edited it ;)
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
Yep. I wasn't sure if you had seen that yet :)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
I got a notification. And improved the edit.
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
8:52 PM
@Mithrandir Right. You were in chat, though, and I don't always see main notifications right away when I'm in chat.
Right, I saw you improved the edit. I wasn't sure if you wanted to link the answer you'd gotten the reference from in your answer, so I left it out. If you want to, you probably still have time to edit without bumping again
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
Eh, it's in a comment. I've left it in a comment before, like... Hang in
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A: What is the incantation of the apparition spell?

MithrandirThere isn't a spell. We see the complete instructions, and it doesn't have a spell: He waved his wand. Old-fashioned wooden hoops instantly appeared on the floor in from of every student. “The important things to remember when Apparating are the three D’s!” said Twycross. “Destination, D...

 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@Mithrandir Leaving things in comments doesn't work well on SE...I've already flagged that comment as obsolete (because the main point, that it was on page 82, had been incorporated into the answer)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
There's also that it's actually from the book, so I only need to quote from the book...
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
Then again, that isn't a thing that your answer really needs. You know the book and the page number; where @Mithrandir saw the quote first isn't really important IMO
What if someone wants to see the quote in situ, either because they don't trust your reference, or because they want to see further discussion of how wands work?
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
...what? You just said the exact same thing.
2 mins ago, by Shokhet
Then again, that isn't a thing that your answer really needs. You know the book and the page number; where @Mithrandir saw the quote first isn't really important IMO
That's what I meant o_o
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
8:58 PM
@Mithrandir Did I misunderstand? ...I thought you meant that you had the book and didn't need the pagenumber; did you mean you had the page number and didn't need @Mithrandir?
@Mithrandir Okay. My fault ^^^
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
I meant I don't need to say that I took the quote from another answer o_o
I actually don't have the book, u unfortunately...
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
Ah, I see. Then perhaps you should cite the other answer; if your quote is wrong in some way, you can always place the blame with the other answerer ;-)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
I have an unopened copy of the original Fantastic Beasts that I'm trying to keep in collector's item condition.
I can blame them anyway ;)
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
I have the original at home, certainly not in mint condition
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
The only problem is that now I can't actually read it :/
I think I'll head to sleep. The problem is that I will probably be back :P
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
9:07 PM
@Mithrandir לילה טוב and TZT :)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
הזמן זה חצות בלילה. אני הולך. שלום כולם! לילה טוב!
 
Shokhet
Shokhet
@Mithrandir שלום, לילה טוב. תפסיק לדבר ותלך לישון!!
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
Zzzz... הלכתי
 
Beastly Gerbil
Beastly Gerbil
@Mithrandir really? Yay me :P
Well on that happy note, night all!
 
 
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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
10:28 PM
@BeastlyGerbil Nice!
It's good to see the facts laid out clearly - helps to make the point even more clearly than I've made it in the question.
@BeastlyGerbil Why "lol"? Lots of 1-seat elections have three or even two nominees - there's nothing so odd about that.
@Gallifreyan 1) Wow, I never knew that page existed! Nice find!! 2) Most protected questions shouldn't be unprotected for exactly the same reason they were protected originally: they attracted low-quality answers before and would be likely to attract them again (e.g. this question with 10 deleted answers over the course of three years). [cont]
[cont] There are rare cases of questions protected because they're the target of concentrated troll attack (like this question with 11 near-identical answers in one day), and those can be unprotected once the attack is over. But in most cases, it's protected because it's the kind of question that attracts bad answers, and more time passing won't change that.
@Shokhet I flagged it. Was hoping it'd be edited rather than deleted, since there was some useful feedback in there as well as the LMGTFY link, but oh well.
@Gallifreyan I unprotected the one with no deleted answers (since it doesn't even have any bad answers, I suspect that was just @Mithrandir testing stuff [smacks Mithrandir :-P ]), and left the others protected.
 

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