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Q: A weapon burns a bus of nuns?

5:45 AM

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I know this will sound sadistic, but when I was a kid, I saw a scene of a movie or show that I cannot forget. Descriptions may be vague. It took place on a beach with near-by cliffs at daytime. It might have been a spy movie. A bus load of nuns or religious sisters sell a weapon to some "bad guy...

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6:23 AM

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Q: What was Thor doing?

After Scarlet Witch messed everyone and they ended up at Hawkeye's place, Thor took off to find some answers for what he saw. He ended up contacting the scientists played by Stellen Skarsgard. They ended up at some pool of water where Thor goes all lightning and stuff, but I didn't really follo...

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Q: What do we know about Strucker?

6:33 AM

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Strucker was a HYDRA agent that was at the facility with Loki's scepter. It seemed that the Avengers knew who he was, but I was at a complete loss as to who he was. What was actually known about Strucker?

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Q: Spider-Man & Iron-Man Comparrison

8:49 AM

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In both the above mentioned movies, how do the scene exteriors and interiors serve to emphasize aspects of the two main characters (Spider-Man & Iron-Man)?

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Q: Iron-Man and Spider-Man comparison

What are the similarities and differences in the way each director presents Iron-Man and Super-Man?

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12:10 PM

('o')

MattD

12:39 PM

@NapoleonWilson Yeah, wow, that's just pathetic.

In other news, John Wick 2 is going to be made.

Q: How does Iron Man's costume serve to emphasize the aspects of his character?

@MattD Are you calling me pathetic?

Or are you talking about those supposed homework questions (though, I didn't know we were talking about those)? If this is the case, then I don't really share the attitude expressed in your recent comment. I already observed how the community seemed to take a grudge specifically at the "homework" aspect of those questions, which I can in no way understand. But seeing your recent comment, I probably will have to put that idea of a respective meta post into action.

It's simply none of our business to care about why someone asks those questions and what he's going to do with that information. If the question is great, I'm glad for it and it brings the site and the internet further. Sure, those specific questions aren't particularly great and maybe this is a consequence of the "homework" aspect, but then that's only an indirect consequence...

...The questions are bad because they're broad, not because the asker wants us to do his work, every asker wants that. Close them for being too broad at the one extreme or downvote for no research effort/trivia on the other extreme, but not because it's homework right away.

This is IMHO a valid and quite interesting question and I feel it's primarily the "homework" by-taste that gave it the IMHO unwarranted downvotes:

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How does Iron Man's costume serve to emphasize the aspects of his character?

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MattD

1:06 PM

@NapoleonWilson The questions themselves. I feel they're pathetic because it shows that the person asking the question(s) is making no attempt to actually learn anything, and simply wants the opinions of others to make themselves look smart. It's lazy, dishonest, and I feel it abuses the site in some way in addition to simply being too broad.

@MattD They may be too broad or might not show any research effort. But afterall we're doing somebody else's research work the whole day when we answer questions. There is absolutely no dishonesty here, we don't care, and if we hadn't asked wouldn't even know, what the asker is about to do with that information he gained here. If he had asked them for his own genuine interest, would we have the same reservations? Sure, they'd still be broad, but lazy and dishonest?

That are attributes based on a context that is beyond our site's responsibilities.

That's the same as those piracy discussion. Can I ask about the pirated and not yet released episodes of Game of Thrones? Of course you can and it doesn't make you a bad person, what do I know how you watched those episodes, it just doesn't matter for the question, as long as it's a good question.

And as long as those homework questions are good questions, I don't have a problem with doing somebody else's work, because it's a great question and I love answering great questions. Afterall a "homework" question could be said to be of actual real-world use compared to many of our other questions (but I'm exaggerating here, of course).

But I see I probably have to word this into a proper meta ~~rant~~ discussion, to which others can then contribute, too.

Q: How did Ultron come to be in the Sceptre?

1:37 PM

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Once The Avengers bring back the Sceptre from Strucker's facility, Tony (and JARVIS) start running some diagnostics on it. Eventually, they find some kind of AI (Artificial Intelligence) residing within the gem. This AI turns out to be Ultron which suppresses JARVIS and starts uploading it's cons...

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@MovieReel For a moment I wondered if Ultron is going to be the new Bond villain in Spectre. ;-)

Q: Isnt the Quicksilver from Avengers 2 same as the Quicksilver from X-Men: Days of Future Past?

2:46 PM

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According to the Xmen series he is a mutant. But in the Avengers2 he is depicted as the guy who has received his powers through a Hydra experiment. There are talks in the XMen about how he is the son of Magneto, but in avengers he is orphan whose parents were killed by Stark missiles.

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3:02 PM

@MovieReel Uh, no, he isn't... <sigh> ...he friggin' isn't, man.

3:34 PM

@NapoleonWilson nice edit ;)

@NapoleonWilson LOL.

@AnkitSharma Which edit?

Added link to movies and TV question

Duh, well, to each his own.

in Mos Eisley, 37 mins ago, by Keen

That policy was one of the reasons I stopped going there. Having to avoid the site and chat every single time a film I wanted to see was out got old.

@AnkitSharma Oh indeed, there was far too much advertising for Comics.SE recently. ;-)

LOL......

in Mos Eisley, 45 mins ago, by Michael Edenfield

maybe that's our new community ad! "M&TV spoil everything for you? Come see us!"

It's funny to me.

But we always never cared about spoiler until its in question title.

@AnkitSharma Yeah, because he hasn't advertised their site enough, yet. ;-) But well, it might even be better than that Mass Effect ad. ;-)

3:46 PM

And i think its readers responsibility if he checking a question about a film which he didn't have seen yet.

@NapoleonWilson hahahhahaha....

@AnkitSharma Bingo. Really if you read some of their AoU questions, it's like "In Age of Ultron <big empty rectangle> which lead to <big empty rectangle> and <big empty rectangle> so my question is <big empty rectangle>". That's just great. But ok, they also have improved this a little recently, I think.

Agree on that

But well, to each his own. Different sites, different attitudes, I guess.

That's why i love M&TV more and some don't :D

@AnkitSharma Okay. Then, I suggest you to transfer this question to SFF.SE. I bet you can get better answer there. — SS-3.1415926535897932384626433 2 days ago

^ Feels like a loud promotion to me

Urgh, I can't take that SS guy too serious anyway. Funny thing is, he finally achieved to get a half-year suspension on SciFi. ;-) Maybe he thinks differently about migration, now (which I'm not sure I should be glad or afraid of ;-))

3:52 PM

@NapoleonWilson if i am not wrong then he is already chat banned 6-7 times.

His jokes are bit weird which bring chat ban to him.

Well, it's not so much the jokes, but the inability or unwillingness to understand that/why they're not that funny to others and the unwillingness to just stop it when people tell him it's enough.

@NapoleonWilson how did i missed this question and it didn't deserve downvote for sure

@ChristianRau Sure, I'll look into it perhaps this week. I'm a little hesitant because Heroku (where I'm hosting my webapp) has removed the free tier and I'm not sure if restarting my dyno will bump me up to the paid tier. This is just a simple webapp that looks at where the request originated, uses the api to pull the unanswered count and then makes a composite png file. Adding an additional site is very easy with the template you've provided. I'll do one of two things: If I can stay in the free tier, I'll simply add in. If not, I'll just open source the code so that any site can set it up. — The Toad ♦ Apr 26 at 3:11

Ahhh.....good that he responded and willingly want to help.

Well, maybe it's just my distaste for this utterly oversensitive internet spoiler fan crowd that makes me more hardened against stupid minor spoilers nobody really cares about.

@AnkitSharma I also looked into possibilities for dynamic ads myself, primarily for a different project, though. But I know effectively nothing about web development.

I have less to no knowledge of web development and designing both.

6:17 PM

Ohhh....somebody is now 20k user ;)

Q: Identify the Movie where a teen kid is a serial killer

6:41 PM

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I see this movie on one of the TV channels ( HBO ) or star movies where its a teenage kid who is on the run, kills people on the way randomly. His mother also acknowledges that this kid has some issues... the scene i vividly remember is this kid gets off the train and hitch rides with another ki...

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