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10:06 PM
@MovieReel Yeah, upvote privilege revoked.
 
10:17 PM
@NapoleonWilson ??
That user can't ever have had 15 rep.
 
Yeah, I was talking about the users who got the question to +2. Seems "fixed", now, though.
 
Sounds like a very generic story. I flagged for closure.
@NapoleonWilson I assume you don't want this question? ;-)
(I like how when I type @N in here now, Nevermore comes up as one of the options)
 
@Randal'Thor You assume correctly.
 
@Randal'Thor Oh, God.
My sister is with my brother in law this week. I am pretty sure that coming around here is the last thing on her mind right now.
Thank God.
@NapoleonWilson It's really hot here today, so I did my shower trick and I am laying in my bed soaking wet. Hehe :)
 
@NapoleonWilson I hope this comment is OK:
Questions about movies that aren't sci-fi or fantasy can be asked at Movies & TV; however, this question with the current level of detail would not be considered acceptable there. If you do post it there instead, please first read their guidance under the "Identify-this-X" section on this page and try to follow it by fleshing out your question with any more details you can remember. — Rand al'Thor ♦ 1 min ago
@steelerfan Unless she surprises you by coming in here now when you can't even yell at her IRL ;-)
 
10:26 PM
@Randal'Thor Sure, sounds fine.
Anyway, looking forward to Due volte Giuda now.
 
@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
 
@steelerfan Maybe there'll be some people in Mos to keep you occupied ...
 
@Randal'Thor :)
 
@steelerfan No, I'll still be hanging around here. Doesn't mean I can't watch an interesting Spaghetti Western meanwhile, though.
So, no need to feel deserted or leave.
@steelerfan I thought your nephew was supposed to arrive soon. It's not like we haven't talked for 1.5 hours just now.
 
@steelerfan I hope 'frisbee' isn't a euphemism here ;-)
 
10:37 PM
@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.)
Also, what happened to your halo?
 
@Randal'Thor Haha! OMG!
You're right. I should have added my halo to the end of that sentence 0:)
 
@steelerfan Awww, don't worry, you can bother talk to me as much as you want. ;-)
 
I walk around with a constant halo over my head, you just can't see it unless you really look for it.
@NapoleonWilson I see :'(
 
@steelerfan Awww. :'(
 
10:43 PM
@NapoleonWilson I'm just messing with you, silly!
 
@steelerfan Good. ;-)
 
@steelerfan I'm sure @ Nevermore would disagree with that ;-)
 
@Randal'Thor Yeah. She wouldn't know. She has horns coming out of her head rather than a halo ;)
 
@steelerfan The Horns and Halo sisters?
But ravens don't have horns!
 
@Randal'Thor That's how it works! I always have the halo ;) She is dead to me for her avatar pic.
 
10:53 PM
@steelerfan She's impressed me with her avatar pic.
 
@steelerfan I asked the community of Alcohol, Tobacco & Fireworks Beer, 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.
 
@Randal'Thor I already told you like 5 thousand times before that she's into Poe, though.
 
@Randal'Thor Apparently that frigging poem is more important to her than the Steelers. My niece is named "Lenore" you know.
 
@NapoleonWilson You already told me? @steelerfan told me!
 
10:55 PM
@Randal'Thor I said it often enough even before she joined the site.
 
@NapoleonWilson Oh, I see. So, you are seriously stealing my question idea :P
 
@steelerfan That is such an awesome thing to name one's daughter.
 
@steelerfan You could ask it as well if you want.
 
Of course The Raven is more important than the Steelers! One is a literary masterpiece, the other is a bunch of people who can kick a ball.
People have been kicking balls for centuries. Nobody will ever write The Raven again.
waits for steelerfan to declare me dead to her
 
They can't even kick it that well. ;-P
But at least they can throw it and catch it sufficiently well.
 
10:57 PM
@Randal'Thor I agree. It's a beautiful and unique name. This is why I shall never have children. I just don't know if I could ever top that name ;)
 
@steelerfan You could with "Clive", though.
 
@Randal'Thor DEAD TO ME! ;)
@NapoleonWilson Uhuh
@NapoleonWilson Yeah, right. You knew that I would say that. I have no desire to ask that question ;)
 
@NapoleonWilson What question?
@NapoleonWilson OMG. @steelerfan are you hearing this?!
 
@Randal'Thor One about the existence of a drink or cocktail with a specific ingredient.
 
@steelerfan Fine :'( goes back to Mos :-P
 
11:00 PM
@Randal'Thor I AM HEARING THIS!!
 
(Shall I call the beginning of the season into your minds.) ;-P
 
@steelerfan Is Napoleon going to be dead to you too?
 
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! ;)
 
grabs popcorn
 
@NapoleonWilson No. I have already had a trying enough day today ;)
 
11:02 PM
@steelerfan They insulted themselves with that kicker, don't blame me for that!
 
@NapoleonWilson Nope. I have decided that you are solely to blame for that ;)
 
Hmm, ok. :'(
 
@NapoleonWilson Awww. You're too easy :P
Oh, yay! My favorite nephew is here!!
Shark Week has officially begun!
See you guys later :)
 
Have fun! ;-*
 
Awww. Have a good night. Don't stay up too late ;-*
 
11:10 PM
@steelerfan Have fun with STEELERSHARK!
:-D
 
@Randal'Thor OH.MY.GOD. That is awesome. I want to use that as my new avatar for shark week!
 
@steelerfan Be sure to cut it a little, to concentrate on the fin itself, though.
 
@steelerfan Do it! You're not distinguishable enough at the moment:
 
@NapoleonWilson Uhm, yeah right. I have no clue how to do that. I will have my nephew do it for me when he gets a chance.
 
@steelerfan Maybe this way:
 
11:17 PM
@steelerfan How about this?
 
Jun 23 at 17:32, by Napoleon Wilson
(Even if the new avatar reminds me a little of a rather unpleaseant fellow. But I'll get used to it.)
 
@NapoleonWilson Drat, ninja'd ;-)
 
@Randal'Thor Not a square.
 
@NapoleonWilson What? Who does it remind you of?
 
@NapoleonWilson Oh, did you make it an exact square? Good job then.
 
11:18 PM
@steelerfan Hehe, don't worry, someone from Rand's picture. ;-)
@Randal'Thor Of course, how can it not be a square? It's supposed to be a profile image.
 
Woot! Profile pic changed!
 
@NapoleonWilson :-(
@steelerfan And refreshed.
 
Awww. Poor Rand :(
 
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.)
 
@steelerfan ?
 
11:21 PM
@Randal'Thor Napoleon said that someone from your picture reminded him of someone that was unpleasant.
Yay! I am now Steeler Shark!
 
@steelerfan Yes :-(
 
@steelerfan You could even name yourself "steelershark" (but would have to go for 30 days this way).
 
@NapoleonWilson Dammit! I would totally do that, too! 300 days? OMG!
 
@steelerfan No, in fact I said your previous Shark Week avatar reminded me of someone unpleaseant from Rand's picture, to be precise.
@steelerfan Fixed.
 
@NapoleonWilson Oh, sorry.
 
11:23 PM
@steelerfan Don't worry. ;-)
 
@NapoleonWilson You mean that you guys wouldn't change it back for me?
 
@steelerfan Ankit would.
 
@steelerfan We're not actually supposed to do that really. We're not realy supposed to abuse that ability willy nilly.
 
I would, but then you'd have to change your parent user to SFF, and Napoleon might declare you dead to him ;-)
 
@NapoleonWilson No worries. I understand :)
I honestly think that Ankit did it before because I seriously was not aware that it was 30 days. I don't know.
 
11:26 PM
@steelerfan That is a reasonable case where the moderators can help to fix it. But now you are ware of the limitation.
 
@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.
 
Okay. I really have to go now. See you guys :)
 
11:30 PM
@steelerfan Have fun! :-D
 
@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.
 
@NapoleonWilson Yeah, fair enough. We're human exception handlers, not a valet service :-P
On-topic question for you: who is/was the most famous actor to be drunk on set?
 
@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.
 
Would that be an OK question for the site, or would it be primarily opinion-based because "most famous" isn't clearly defined?
 
@Randal'Thor Hmm, likely the latter. Without some reasonable criterium it sounds quite list-oriented.
 
11:36 PM
Yep, s'what I thought.
 
(And even with an objective criterium, we'd at least have to seriously police the answers, I guess.)
Which is not to say it (or the deeper question buried in it) isn't an interesting question about acting in general.
 
And I suppose the same would apply to asking about the actor who was most drunk on set?
The reason I'm interested is because I'm trying to come up with someone to play Himarm in the screen adaptation of the Mos Eisley Chronicles ;-)
 
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.
 
Wouldn't that be deep into list-question territory?
Or are you OK with list questions over here? Sometimes I'm not sure what's an SFF policy and what's an SE-wide policy.
 
@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.
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Q: Policy for list questions

MJ6There 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.
The former kind:
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Q: What are the methods of including a character's thoughts in an audiovisual medium?

Crow T RobotWhen 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...

The latter kind:
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Q: What were all the references in Deadpool?

Ankit SharmaI 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?

Both open, though.
Your previous question already scratches the boundary of list-closure.
 
11:46 PM
@NapoleonWilson I'll defer to your judgement. If you think that question would be OK here, I'll post it.
@NapoleonWilson The Poe one? Yeah, I saw it was picking up some close-votes.
 
@Randal'Thor I seriously don't know. It highly depends on how it's written, I guess.
 
@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 :-)
 
Good idea.
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.
 
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Q: Scene with young kids throwing soaked toilet paper on ceiling

Ben PhilippYoung 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...

 
11:57 PM
@MovieReel And would probably be more interesting than that. ;-)
 
@MovieReel Well, to your credit at least you've tried, but that still doesn't look like enough detail to be properly answerable.
 
Well, the question certainly shows more effort and quality than normal, though.
 
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