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DVK-in-Florida

19:00

@M.A.R. If you have specifics, probably worth asking on Meta?

M.A.R.

I saw it twice. If it happens again, I'm going to meta

Rand al'Thor

@DVK-in-Florida Heh, I'd almost forgotten about that.

M.A.R.

Twice in 21 questions is a lot.

Rand al'Thor

@M.A.R. Linky?

ArtOfCode

@M.A.R. o/

M.A.R.

19:01

\o

HDE 226868

Recommended reading, courtesy of Shog9.

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DJMcMayhem

Hmm. This is an interesting question. Should questions about tropes be on-topic?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

yes IMO

DJMcMayhem

As if I don't already ~~spend~~ waste enough time on TV tropes.

ArtOfCode

A new answer has just popped up on the ID meta question... and just by reading the first sentence I'm 99% sure it's Shog

JNat

19:04

@HDE226868 And some more here

M.A.R.

@HDE226868 The highest-voted answer there seems to imply that the site will either not work or not work

Mithrandir

@ArtOfCode yep

DVK-in-Florida

@NapoleonWilson Yeah, I'm abstaining from that as well. I already know how that will turn out, and intend to save myself the heartache and effort.

HDE 226868

@JNat Already reading it.

DVK-in-Florida

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Shame on you! Evryone knows that Blue+weird hat means you're one of the two Wizards who accompanied @Mithrandir but whose GPS malfuntioned.

Rand al'Thor

19:06

@ArtOfCode His style is quite identifiable, isn't it?

Hey @Emrakul! :-)

user61230

Hey @Randal'Thor! :]

user61230

I've got a class, will be back in a hour-ish!

HDE 226868

@ArtOfCode It's got an analogy. Of course it's Shog.

M.A.R.

@ArtOfCode Does it also contain ''y'all''?

Mithrandir

@DVK-in-Florida They got fired after that.

M.A.R.

19:07

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A: What order should I read the "Ender's game" series in?

I found the following chart online several years ago and saved it for personal use because I found it interesting. Unfortunately I don't remember exactly where I got it from but I'll share it here since it is relevant. It outlines the entire Ender Wiggin saga including in-universe chronology and ...

ArtOfCode

@HDE226868 No, it's not that. Analogies are pretty common, I use them a fair bit. The identifiable bit is the completely unrelated analogy that you wouldn't think of in a million years. I mean, identification questions, sushi and carrots?

M.A.R.

The image seems to be from pinterest

ArtOfCode

@M.A.R. Of course it does

M.A.R.

I expected it to at least be a blog about the Ender's Game.

Rand al'Thor

@ArtOfCode Almost like ... answers and apples.

M.A.R.

19:08

What should I do?

DForck42

@Catija lol, we basically posted the same answer for spoilers

M.A.R.

Devalue the chart by adding the source which values the graph visuals rather than graph content?

ArtOfCode

@Randal'Thor Exactly. How does he manage to pick relevant, useful, yet completely unrelated analogies all the time? You could get paid for that skill!

HDE 226868

@ArtOfCode Well, true.

Catija

@DForck42 Because it's the only sensible policy... though I can't ever get spoiler markup to work.

M.A.R.

19:10

@ArtOfCode And the fact that the answer ends just when you're about to enjoy it the most

DForck42

@Catija lol

Napoleon Wilson

@DForck42 Heh! And all 3 downvoted. ;-)

M.A.R.

Aw come on, who flags a bot?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

lel

Catija

@NapoleonWilson Mine's not downvoted... yet.

DVK-in-Florida

19:12

@Mithrandir "fired" as in Orodruin?

ArtOfCode

@M.A.R. understandable, for the content of the message. Edited out.

Napoleon Wilson

@ArtOfCode Well, to be honest. Sometimes I don't really get them and they rather tend to distract from the matter at hand. It's a bit of a way to avoid directly discussing the problem.

M.A.R.

Anyway, what should I do about the image attribution?

DForck42

@NapoleonWilson lol

Mithrandir

@DVK-in-Florida ha

DJMcMayhem

19:13

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Just saw your last answer. Aaargh! Spoilers! You weren't supposed to know that! :P

BTW, did you finish it yet?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

too late

Helmar

That is a clickbaity title

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Q: Is this hypothesis about the significance of the name "Denna" in the Kingkiller Chronicle supported by the text?

There's a somewhat popular theory about The Kingkiller Chronicle, which is that the name "Denna" derives from the use of denner resin, and its addictive properties. The theory branches two directions: the first speculates that the name is supposed to be symbolic, rather than textual. Denna is a...

Is that valid to avoid spoilering the hypothesis?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@DJMcMayhem a friend spoiled me :/

DVK-in-Florida

@ArtOfCode Despite agreeing with the answer 100%, the analogy is a failure. I'm aware of several parental stories, independently, where the kids were taken to a fancy restaurant, only to admit tat their favorite food of the whole meal was things like "nice radish pieces" and "cucumbers from salad"

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

and no, still farming gold for temmie armor

and now sans is that much creepier

DJMcMayhem

19:14

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ tell your friend "DJ says you're lame"

ArtOfCode

@DVK-in-Florida Ah, but that's not a failure of analogy, but of observation. Assuming that Shog's observations are correct (i.e. nobody cares about the carrot), the analogy itself is solid.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@DJMcMayhem this is what spoiled me fwiw, good song/animation and he didn't know i hadn't finished it apparently (he claims...)

@DJMcMayhem just did ;)

he responded with "who the f*** is dj"

DJMcMayhem

Lol

DVK-in-Florida

@DJMcMayhem New proposal. Ban ANY AND ALL TVTrope links.

M.A.R.

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ That means he knows DJ

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

19:16

?

Catija

Spoiler markup hates me. Seriously. Never have managed to make it work.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

lel

Mithrandir

??

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

where? i might be able to fix it

DJMcMayhem

@Catija I think it's cause you put it in quotes

Mithrandir

19:16

don't press enter

that's always the problem

M.A.R.

@Catija Did you forget a space after the exclamation mark?

Or did you use tag markup?

Mithrandir

@M.A.R. that's unnecessary

M.A.R.

@Mithrandir But helps stop it from breaking itself sometimes

Mithrandir

@M.A.R. And tags don't kill spoilers

M.A.R.

@Mithrandir But their markup breaks spoiler markup

BTW @Cat how is the little guy doing? Haven't seen a pic in a while

And your avatar is too small

Catija

19:19

3

He's getting big!

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

very nice babby

M.A.R.

@Catija And fast

Catija

@ArtOfCode helped me fix it. :D

Rand al'Thor

@Catija Awww.

DForck42

@Catija baby!

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

19:20

*babby

Rand al'Thor

How many sites is he going to be the mascot of now? :-P

ArtOfCode

yes this is a good baby

DForck42

@Randal'Thor lol

Catija

@DForck42 I made it! He has a happy cork in his pocket.

DForck42

@Catija lol

Catija

19:21

It's the only thing that fit in the pocket... that's not so small he'd him to kill himself with it.

DForck42

so, my fiancé has this running joke now that, whenever I tell stories about when I was younger, she just imagines me as tall as I am now (6'3)

so she pictures me as a 6'3 baby being carried around by my mom

Rand al'Thor

in The Screening Room, Aug 26 '16 at 22:59, by Catija

I'm not a big fan of babies in general, but I do like this one quite a bit. He's very good.

Catija

@DForck42 HA HA HA HA

@Randal'Thor Hey, that's like a day after he was born :D

@Randal'Thor ALL OF THE SITES!!!!

Progressive Insurance ´´Tuesday Tie´´ Babyman Commercial

►

Mithrandir

Owo, I've been getting lost of meta downvotes :/

Catija

We actually did the casting for this set of commercials. ^

DForck42

19:24

@Catija neat

@Mithrandir it happens

Catija

vimeo.com/115278257

@Mithrandir Be happy there's no rep involved.

DForck42

one nice thing is that we can pull a lot of good meta answers from movies and sff to help this site

we didn't have that as readily available for the first lit site

and SE as a whole has matured quite a bit

Rand al'Thor

Damn, how much rep do we need to be able to edit on meta?

Mithrandir

same as on main

DForck42

@Randal'Thor 500

Rand al'Thor

19:27

@DForck42 So if I repcap again tomorrow ...

DForck42

@Randal'Thor yup

which honestly won't be hard

votes get thrown out like candy in private betas

Mithrandir

@DForck42 I want candy votes

DForck42

@Mithrandir lol

Mithrandir

I want votes on (1) (2) (3) :P

HDE 226868

I love seeing the broken Area51 private beta stats.

@Randal'Thor I'm still looking for the origin of the 'Too radical' quote we both found here.

There's got to be someone who said it first. But it's just propagating across the Internet.

Rand al'Thor

19:30

@HDE226868 Ca-ching!

@HDE226868 I was wondering what on earth "too radial" meant ... you missed a C :-)

HDE 226868

Ahhh. . .

DForck42

@HDE226868 lol

@Randal'Thor it rotates too much ;-)

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Randal'Thor WoT isn't that long in terms of time apparently, but it's up there

Rand al'Thor

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ The Riftwar cycle isn't really a single series.

It's more like a collection of 15-20 trilogies and quartets.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

it's the same universe

> Can be different story lines but must be in the same "universe"

Rand al'Thor

19:37

Set in the same world(s), but not all part of the same story.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

yeah, they don't have to be though

Rand al'Thor

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Oh OK. Well, in that case, I nominate "the real world" :-P

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

lol

DForck42

@Randal'Thor lol, this is why I don't like "first of" or "longest" questions

i feel that they don't really add appreciation to the works, and are merely trivia

but, alas, not many agree with me

Mithrandir

(4) :P

I need 6 more rep to pass 200...

DForck42

19:40

@Mithrandir upboated, good question

Rand al'Thor

@DForck42 I think they can be good.

But sometimes on SFF they're used as a way to get around the ban on list/recommendation questions.

DJMcMayhem

:O I have the highest voted Meta question right now. :)

Mithrandir

I have another 39 Clues question now...

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@DJMcMayhem nice!

Rand al'Thor

"What are all the works satisfying XYZ?" - close, too broad
"What was the FIRST work satisfying XYZ?" - reopen

even if they have essentially the same motivation

@DJMcMayhem Which one was that?

DForck42

19:44

@Randal'Thor heh

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Randal'Thor are graphic novels on topic

DJMcMayhem

^

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Randal'Thor coming up on the rep cap, I'll soon join you :D

@Mithrandir nice edits, thanks for that

Mithrandir

welcome

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

I approved them both

Mithrandir

19:47

I see :)

That gave me 4 rep from that answer

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

yep

... .I got 17 rep from 2 upvotes on that?

wat

no downvotes but lol

Mithrandir

repcap

Didja forget about that cap? ;)

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

holy squirrel I hit the cap

ninja'ed

lel

havne't gotten the badge yet, that's why I was confused

done

@Mithrandir do I get the accept now? ;)

Skooba

so can anyone review the suggested edits, and first posts yet? lol

Mithrandir

Possibly

@Skooba nope

Skooba

19:52

and they won't be able to until tomrrow due to rep cap?

Rand al'Thor

Meta dupe!

@Skooba Suggested edits can always be reviewed by the OP.

At present I think it's only CMs who can review first posts.

Skooba

@Randal'Thor yes, but i meant in the review queue

@Randal'Thor ah yes, the overlords

So what is the timeline to graduate out of private beta?

Mithrandir

20 days

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Randal'Thor I only need 32 more rep, I'll probably hit that soon

Mithrandir

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ repcap...

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

19:54

@Randal'Thor just repcapped also! I'm joining you and art

@Mithrandir edits/accepts don't count for repcap

Mithrandir

edits do i think

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

nope

Mithrandir

accepts don't

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

example: I just got more rep from your accept

Napoleon Wilson

I got 2 rep today. \o/

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

19:54

and i have a couple more answers anyway so

Napoleon Wilson

Oh crap, it seems I lost them already on downvotes. :'(

I forgot that they actually cost rep.

Rand al'Thor

@Skooba I think they can do that too?

Or maybe not. I dunno.

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Art repcapped on meta, not main. But congrats! :-D

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

ah okay

thanks!

Rand al'Thor

@Skooba Dunno. At least a couple of weeks, I think?

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ You can still earn 2 rep from edits without having to worry about the repcap?

Mithrandir

@Randal'Thor 20 days at least acoording to logged out

@Randal'Thor wrong, i tell you

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

19:56

@Randal'Thor I think so

I might be wrong then

Mithrandir

check my sep 14 rep on SFF

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

not sure

DForck42

lol, just saw @Shog9 pop in then pop out

Rand al'Thor

Shog just dropped in and out.

Jinx :-P

Shog9

I have too many tabs open

DForck42

19:58

@Shog9 common dev problem

a friend of mine wouldn't never close his browser and would end up with 50+ tabs open

Mithrandir

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I got 200 rep then, mostly on suggested edits. The last one was only +1 because of repcap.

DForck42

always got mad if his computer shut down for some reason

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

ah okay

TIL

Shog9

I should say, I have too many tabs open in this one window; makes it hard to find stuff I'm working on

so I'm trying to separate my chatrooms

...anyway...

read any good books lately?

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