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@steelerfan Unless she surprises you by coming in here now when you can't even yell at her IRL ;-)
@Randal'Thor Let's hope not. At least for mine and Napoleon's sake ;)
@NapoleonWilson What? You're leaving? :'(
I came in here to keep myself occupied until my nephew gets here and I'm already being deserted :( Please don't make me resort to going back outside and watching 16 year old boys play frisbee :P
@NapoleonWilson He is arriving soon. I am just restless. I know we have already spoken for a few hours. Maybe that just wasn't enough and you always seem to make me feel better so I want to keep talking with you. But, that's fine...I can take a hint ;)
@Randal'Thor Napoleon suggested that it was a euphemism, not me. I am completely innocent...as usual ;)
@steelerfan I once saw a comedian on TV who identified the word 'frisbee' with a certain swearword that you can't stand :-o (He was British, I should add.)
@steelerfan I asked the community of Alcohol, Tobacco & FireworksBeer, Wine & Spirits if my question would even be on-topic. But there don't seem to be many people around, so I might not get to actually ask it before tomorrow maybe.
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, as each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I sought the morrow: vainly I had hoped to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore.
Not only did Napoleon just insult my Steelers, he actually suggested that when I get Sheena back to repaint her that I repaint her orange with black racing stripes. The nerve! ;)
I also tried to keep it to an exact number of pixels (300 in this case. While I personally prefer 200, that's even a little small sometimes with the new profile page.)
@NapoleonWilson Meh, what do mods have that ability for if they can't use it? It's not as if @steelerfan is some troll who's going to be using a new stupid name every 5 minutes and wasting loads of mod time.
@NapoleonWilson It's all good. Really, no worries :)
@Randal'Thor It's not a big deal. I certainly would not put any of you in that position, especially Napoleon to show me any kind of favoritism. It's completely fine :)
@Randal'Thor But it's also not like she isn't aware of the limitation. She would just get a special treatment to bother moderators to circumvent the rules for her. It's not like I personally wouldn't do that, but it feels very fishy to have users circumvent a limitation they perfectly know about this way.
@Randal'Thor Moderators have that ability for various reasons, first and foremost to fix abusive usernames. But not to be at personal service for users how don't want to abide the existing system limitations.
@NapoleonWilson I guess so. We did have this conversation before at some point, but that was probably about users who made an honest mistake and didn't know about the limitation, which is somewhat different.
@Randal'Thor And I later came to agree with you that this is a reasonable case to circumvent it. But I still stand by the general viewpoint of not abusing this willy nilly.
@steelerfan Have fun!
I even abused it unknowingly on my own account, before I knew we were even able to do this.
@Randal'Thor I don't really know. I know the famous story of Otto Sander being seriously drunk during his whole scene in Das Boot. But I don't know if that is sufficiently famous internationally, let alone more than a myth.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly the stuff where Mr. Cheber can provide some "insightful" chat monologues on.
Indeed. And I fear first would be largely uninteresting.
Maybe one could ask for documented cases of drunk actors (during filming, of course). Since most of the cases seem to be more urban legends than anything else anyway.
@Randal'Thor Well, but of the hidden "are there any" variety, which can work, especially when motivating why the asker thinks there aren't any at all (or only very few).
@Randal'Thor It depends. We certainly don't have something like SciFi's "10 is great, 100 is bullshit" policies. In general they're not that great, but we had some interesting general approach questions in the past, as well as some (less interesting) trivia lists that got through.
There is nothing in our What topics can I ask about? that outlaws list questions. There is nothing in our What types of questions should I avoid asking? that outlaws list questions. In his post Real Questions Have Answers, stackexchange co-founder Jeff Attwood states:
Constructive subjective ...
If anything, I'd favour open list questions that encourage explanations and elaborative answers over stupid trivia lists that you could throw a big CW answer at.
When adapting a written medium (such as a novel or comic book) to an audio-visual one, a common difficulty is presenting what the character is thinking on-screen, as most fiction is presented from the perspective of a character involved with the story. There are some obvious methods of translatin...
I recently watched Deadpool and it was full of references and Easter Eggs. I was able to pick many of them like Green lantern, X-Men Origins, etc., but my friend was not able to understand many of them and it made me doubt if I got them all.
So what are all the references in the Deadpool film?
@NapoleonWilson OK, I'll give it a try. Not now though, since I'm getting too tired to think very carefully about phrasing. Remind me tomorrow if I forget :-)
It might also be approachable from a general method acting angle. Like "Is it an accepted and professionally practiced way to actually get drunk in order to play drunk" (into which the list could be worked in the form of asking for some examples). But I'm not sure in which way this even is still the question you want to ask.
At the end of the day, though, phrasing and question motivation always is key and what distinguishes a useless trivia list from an engaging essay.
Hmm, yes. If the main question was "is it OK to get drunk in order to play drunk?" and then "if so, who was the most famous example / case study?" as a bonus question, it'd be harder to close the whole thing as off-topic, but I'd still get the answer I'm looking for.
Young kids (I believe two, probably around the age of 8) are at home alone and play around, they throw soaked lumps of toilet paper against the ceiling.
They then switch to red lighting in the room and use flashlights to look at the ceiling: it looks like stalactites in a cave. They laugh and hav...