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Mithrandir

9:08 PM

@DForck42 I tried to answer. (if it was you, please un-upvote until tomorrow :P)

Napoleon Wilson

@Mithrandir Why?

Mithrandir

@NapoleonWilson ...Repcap..

I make that request whenever I hit the cap.

Riker

why did I get downvotes on this?

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Q: What order should I read Thomas Pynchon's novels in?

Thomas Pynchon is a writer famous for having dense and hard to read books, but is acclaimed for those books. He wrote V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, and others. What order should I read his other books?

ok valorum is really salty

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Gallifreyan

Does Valorum have a Time Turner which he uses to do research, go back in time, and post answers?

Riker

yes but not for posting answers

for finding answers on other sites and commenting (optionally with a sarcastic or rude or insulting message) and downvoting

Himarm

9:19 PM

dunno why you got downvotes here, but reading orders and lists get downvotes on sff

Riker

yeah but it's on-topic here

Himarm

their ontopic in sff to mostly

Gallifreyan

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Q: What order should I be reading the Discworld books in?

I've read some of the Discworld books, and they were referencing each other in an order different than what I've been reading. If I wanted to maintain chronology, and get all of the back references, which order should I be reading the books in?

Not a single downvote

This one too

Himarm

its hit or miss, but some have tons of downvotes

BESW

@Mithrandir Super pedantic note on the dwarf answer: "dwarves" is a spelling invented by Tolkien. Prior to the ubiquity of Tolkien as a mythic standardbearer, "dwarfs" was the common English plural and that's what Lewis used.

Mithrandir

9:24 PM

I know

I like Dwarves

Gallifreyan

yawn

DForck42

@Mithrandir lol

Gallifreyan

@DForck42 yeah, poor Mithrandir lost his second place in the rep league because of the cap

DForck42

@Gallifreyan lol

Riker

10:00 PM

@Himarm I think this was just salty valorum

@Mithrandir have you hit the cap every day?

lol my "valorum is salty" has 2 stars

ok everything that has "salty" and "valorum" in it gets stars

Mithrandir

@Riker no. There was one day that I didn't I think

Riker

ah ok

I didn't 2 days, 160 total across them iirc

Mithrandir

20th I got 196, 21st 124

Riker

ah nice

Mithrandir

Mhm.

All other days I got over 200.

But you're doing better :P

Riker

10:12 PM

hm I got 101 2 days ago and 194 yesterday and then 245 today

317, 311, 234 before that

@Mithrandir you must not have gotten many accepts?

Mithrandir

@Riker right

Most of my answers are self answers

Riker

ah okay

need more non-self then :P

DForck42

if meta gave us rep, I'd easily have another 400

Mithrandir

Ask Harry Potter or Rick Riordan questions tomorrow :p

Those are my areas of expertise.

DForck42

@Mithrandir why didn't harry potter time turner? dur

;-)

Mithrandir

10:15 PM

... I already answered that :P

DForck42

lol

Mithrandir

This answer took forever, but don't upvote :P:

Gallifreyan

I like popping to the SO review queue once on a value, and thank the relevant deities that I'm not on their moderator team

Mithrandir

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A: In what order should Rick Riordan's mythological series be read to make the most sense, and what is the chronological order?

Warning: This is long. A reminder: Percy Jackson and the Olympians deals with the Greek gods. The Heroes of Olympus deals with the Greek and Roman gods. The Kane Chronicles deals with the Egyptian gods. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard deals with the Norse gods. The Trials of Apollo has Gr...

Gallifreyan

Mithrandir

10:16 PM

That's what I see to l

DForck42

@Gallifreyan lol

@Mithrandir again

Mithrandir

@DForck42 always

Gallifreyan

Mithrandir

Ha

Rabl

DForck42

@Mithrandir I didn't know that percy Jackson had connection to other rick riordan books

Gallifreyan

10:19 PM

@Mithrandir huh?

Mithrandir

(rolling around bed laughing)

DForck42

@Gallifreyan yeah, those close vote numbers are usually that high

Mithrandir

@DForck42 that's in another answer of mine :P

Gallifreyan

@Mithrandir nice one, sir

@DForck42 don't they ever drop? Or do they only increase?

source of the entropy in the Universe found!

DForck42

@Gallifreyan it's hovered around 8.9k for a while

saw in the 9ks at one point

Mithrandir

10:22 PM

I think that the mods worked together and cleared it once

DForck42

it says that 8,882 need reviewed, and 1,570 were reviewed today. so the queue grows roughly 1500-1600 a day. with fluncuations of course

Mithrandir

But then it went back up

Gallifreyan

@Mithrandir First War of the Ring?

DForck42

I think the numbers suffer a bit because the audits kinda suck

Gallifreyan

@Mithrandir the third age?

Mithrandir

10:23 PM

We're in the eleventh age now

@Gallifreyan yes, exactly

DForck42

but yeah, I've gotten several bad audits, and it's disheartening when crap is treated as good cause it got popular

Gallifreyan

Whatever should I do with these edits

Mithrandir

More of a problem in puzzling.stackexchange.com

Gallifreyan

Mithrandir

Reject

No improvement whatsoever

Riker

10:26 PM

@Gallifreyan lol same person?

DForck42

@Gallifreyan ...

Gallifreyan

Someone's been posting a lot of "did Zoom rape Caitlin?" questions lately

Riker

ye

Gallifreyan

3, actually, but it sucks

Anyway, yawn

Mithrandir

Hang on

Gallifreyan

10:28 PM

See you on the third day, at dawn, to the east

G'night!

Mithrandir

I'm the only user to get a Good Answer badge?

@Gallifreyan night

O_o

DForck42

lol

@Mithrandir yup

Mithrandir

That's... Ridiculous.

DForck42

@Mithrandir honestly I haven't seen a lot of stuff that I can personally answer

let alone has a vested interest in the answer

cause the range of what's on here is pretty wide

Mithrandir

I earned it for a self answer...

DForck42

10:32 PM

no one's gotten a gold badge yet, although I'm sure someone's close

@Mithrandir lol

it's a good question with a good answer

Mithrandir

You like lol, don't you? :P

DForck42

and the new season of Sherlock came out this month so everyone's ga ga over it

@Mithrandir yup

Mithrandir

... But you know, don't upvote.

... You were supposed to say lol.

TrojanByAccident

lol

Mithrandir

Hey Emrak

DForck42

10:34 PM

@Mithrandir nah

HDE 226868

Can I get some feedback on this question? My only issue is that it's more about the universe than a specific book.

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Q: Have any Elves explored Rhûn or the lands to the east?

According to The Silmarillion and Tolkien's legendarium as a whole, the Elves first awoke in Cuiviénen, by a gulf in the Sea of Helcar. We learn that in The War of Wrath (Chapter 3, Quenta Silmarillion) and the times afterwards, many parts of the landscape were changed, and it is said that1 t...

j-r-r-tolkien

DForck42

woooow, someone's already got strunk and white

Mithrandir

It's fine

Riker

@DForck42 hde did on meta iirc

@DForck42 yeah bc he clogged up the review queues for 2 days -.-

DForck42

@Riker nice

were they good edits at least?

Riker

10:37 PM

eyyy I got the silver badge for starred messages

@DForck42 >_< not really

things like "I'm" to "I am" and "don't" to "do not".

rand rolled a bunch back bc they were either harmful or just pointless

DForck42

@Riker :(

Riker

holy starz I have 4 stars on the salty val question

@HDE226868 I like it, though did you consider dorwinion is in rhun?

but it's good IMO

HDE 226868

@Riker I actually hadn't. That's an interesting point.

Mithrandir

Bedtime.

Night peeps

Mick

Sweet dreams.

Mithrandir

10:40 PM

Ping me in the morning with hp and rr questions

Riker

night

@Mithrandir tolkien or martin

Mithrandir

.. Harry-potter and Rick-riordan

Riker

ik :P

DForck42

@Mithrandir are the sff passive aggressive "promoting" comments pissing you off as much as me?

Riker

they're pissing me off and I don't even use SFF much

@mods: do we need those pins still?

Napoleon Wilson

11:10 PM

literature.stackexchange.com is dead!

Has the site been canceled?

Or has it gone live? \o/

Mick

It's just having a quiet snooze.

user61230

I'm getting an error trying to access meta.lit. Anyone else?

user61230

A pretty bad one. The default error page isn't even loading.

user61230

There's no HTML or anything. The source code is literally just that one line of text.

Napoleon Wilson

11:15 PM

Too late.

user61230

....w-weird.

Mick

ELL and ELU are quiet too. No new questions for an hour.

Rand al'Thor

@Riker Well, it's not very long or detailed. There are other answers here I'm much prouder of. But thanks! :-)

@BESW Yeah, I saw the answers over on SFF showing that Tolkien did intend a correspondence between dwarves and Jews, designing their language to be Semitic and so on. I just never thought of them that way.

@BESW Great, thanks! Maybe there's something in there you could turn into an answer?

@DForck42 Are there lots of them? I just found this one.

We get lots of comments on SFF saying "this question would be more suitable for Movies & TV" even though it's perfectly on-topic where it is. I imagine M&TV gets a fair number of such comments too. Flag 'em on sight.

Riker

11:48 PM

@Randal'Thor :D

@Randal'Thor can you unpin the 3 pins? or leave the last one but unpin the first two

Rand al'Thor

@Riker I'm reluctant to unpin 'em after Shog pinned 'em.

Riker

oh god you're starting to talk like shog

Rand al'Thor

...

Riker

what