The Quill and Tankard

5:49 AM

@TheLethalCarrot Hah sorry, most people are too lazy to scroll down and have their answers sorted by votes anyways. I thought adding the link would help you in that regard.

Edlothiad

6:11 AM

Does anyone know what the Varys mermaid theory is and where I could read it?

Jarko Dubbeldam

@Edlothiad reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/1gvbr7/… ?

Edlothiad

6:50 AM

@JarkoDubbeldam Cool thanks! Also on an unrelated not, do you ever sleep?

Aegon

@Edlothiad Maybe he is sleeping. How presumptuous of you to accuse him of insomnia!

Edlothiad

Well that was the worst theory I've ever read

Jarko Dubbeldam

7:25 AM

@Edlothiad As a matter of fact, I do

Pretty consistently between 23:00 and 6:30

Edlothiad

Oh we seem to keep the exact same sleep schedule

And I'm almost certain we're in the same timezone, that's pretty interesting

Aegon

So it looks like facebook have lost the plot

They are implementing a new "Clear selfie" policy, just found out. Haven't been on FB in weeks

Guess it's time to end the 8 years long relation with fb

Jarko Dubbeldam

clear selfie?

what

Aegon

As if their "Send government id pls" wasn't enough

@JarkoDubbeldam Show your face to FB

Jarko Dubbeldam

ah

Aegon

7:30 AM

Which our friend Mark Zuckerberg will use to snitch on political activists in our parts of the world

Jarko Dubbeldam

Guess they wanna try autotagging in photos

Aegon

No, they say they will use it to determine "Authenticity" of the account

Jarko Dubbeldam

that's what they say

Edlothiad

Pfft just don't upload anything. Use it to tag friends in crappy memes that litters everyone's front page

Aegon

Good thing I just stopped doing political stuff on fb after they asked me for my government id

Edlothiad

7:31 AM

Also if you think the government doesn't know you're you, you're either spending too much money on VPNs or living in the Seychelles

Aegon

@Edlothiad For some it's a matter of life and death

Which FB does not care about

For example, there were few political activists who criticized the hegemony of military here

They created a huge following on FB pages

Government could not find them

And then they contacted FB who provided them with details of the page owners

Who ironically had to surrender their government ids to FB

And they all got busted. Their pages were destroyed and they were released after a few nice days in military jails.

Edlothiad

If you're using FB as a staging ground for political activity you're not the brightest activist group.. Did they learn nothing from China?

Aegon

Funny thing is, there are terrorist pages who are doing really dangerous work on FB but when we report them, neither FB nor the Gov cares

Edlothiad

I think the funny thing is the reason China blocked facebook is because Facebook wouldn't give them information on users

Aegon

@Edlothiad It's not really a choice. The masses use FB here. Only a part of the population uses twitter or other networks.

Edlothiad

7:35 AM

But from there it should've been clear the possibility exists...

Aegon

@Edlothiad Because China asked without any reason. FB maintains they comply with regional laws. So when our government said they suspected those page owners of certain crimes punishable in our country, FB had to comply.

Edlothiad

Well I mean as much as I'm for rising up against oppressive regimes, you really need to outsmart the system if you plan on staying safe

Or creating code words

The whole anti-government movement in China is hyper-dynamic. Language used, sites, accounts change weekly and it always stays a step ahead, route network through several US points so it looks like an American is slandering etc.

Aegon

That's the nature of public work really. Some risks you have to brave

Edlothiad

Also everything is a broken law in China, lol

Aegon

If you want to reach the people, you need to use popular channels.

Edlothiad

7:38 AM

Doesn't mean you can't do it well anonymously

Edlothiad

9:03 AM

Where's Carrot?

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon Haha I know I wasn't complaining though just noticed it when I went to have a look haha

Reading the transcript :P

Edlothiad

Looks like I made someone delete their answer :/ well that wasn't my intention :////

TheLethalCarrot

Ah can't see it yet

That Varys theory, I'm only part way through it but this point is brilliant

Edlothiad

:D HAHA!!

TheLethalCarrot

Varys likely is not a Eunuch, as there is a point where he is parlaying with Tyrion where Tyrion notes that his voice seemed deeper than usual.

Edlothiad

9:08 AM

That whole thing is crackpot

TheLethalCarrot

Only 97 to go

Edlothiad

Go answer something

Here's a bit of research to an answer: starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Coruscant_Air_Traffic_Control

TheLethalCarrot

Shall I just do what I did yesterday answer with the wiki quote and wait for someone to add the book quote in? :P

Edlothiad

Did you do that yesterday?

That wiki is legends btw. So it wouldn't be legit

Lol just found the answer, that's hilarious

TheLethalCarrot

Aye got no rep for it though cos I was capped already haha

Also I love that the theory contains this sentence This is more speculative

That's a lie I got 2 upvotes today

And to be fair I did say he should add his own answer with the quotes, I was ready to delete mine

Edlothiad

9:13 AM

Hmm I have one of the books for the sources on my iPad at work

TheLethalCarrot

I don't have any, I think I have TFA and R1 at home though

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Well that's the same with the story-id answers where it starts at 50 characters and I edit them up to 680 or something

Books or films?

TheLethalCarrot

Both

Edlothiad

Ah, I think I have the books on my iPad, definitely on my laptop

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Yeah just I didn't do the editing haha

I only have them paperback though so y'know

Edlothiad

9:15 AM

Well he did, I could answer all those story-ids, stealing the info from the user and upping them with details and I'd be within policy, but I don't see the point.

TheLethalCarrot

Aye I know

Also have you seen the use of spoilers in this question?

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Q: What happened to Alderaan after its destruction by the Death Star?

In Episode 4: A New Hope, the Death Star: After its destruction, I assume there was still some debris left from it being destroyed. So what happened to this left-over rock and other debris of Alderaan after its destruction by the Death Star? was it left alone? Was the remains of Alderaan reinh...

star-wars

Jarko Dubbeldam

I think the title kind of defeats the purpose of the spoiler in the body

TheLethalCarrot

And the body also refers to it outside the spoiler haha

Jarko Dubbeldam

lol

TheLethalCarrot

Also this question

Who is Supreme Leader Snoke?
Errr he's Snoke :P

Jarko Dubbeldam

9:19 AM

He's the surpreme leader

Edlothiad

Jar Jar Binks? Obvs...

Jarko Dubbeldam

Or at least calls himself that

TheLethalCarrot

Oh yeah definitely Jar Jar

I love the Jar Jar is a sith theory

TheLethalCarrot

9:54 AM

Jorah was a spy for the council on Dany and he managed to get close to her before finding out about the attempt to kill her. Why didn't they just have Jorah assassinate Dany in the first place instead of the merchant?

Jarko Dubbeldam

Because that would reveal him as a spy in case the assassination failed

which would lose them 2 things, instead of just one

TheLethalCarrot

Good call

Though Jorah was close to Dany, had plenty of 1 on 1s with her, I'm sure the council knew that. It seems unlikely he'd fail in my opinion

Jarko Dubbeldam

He might, if he'd second guess himself

TheLethalCarrot

Oh yeah but I'm sure the council had every faith in him to do the deed

Jarko Dubbeldam

Would be insult to injury against Ned though. We're not only ignoring what you say and still getting her assassinated, but we'll let Mormont do it

gotta go

TheLethalCarrot

10:00 AM

Well I mean they were already using and trusting Jorah before Ned and obviously the very idea annoyed Ned so I don't think that was part of it

Rightho

Edlothiad

10:57 AM

TLC is at it again

TheLethalCarrot

Fun though

Though I doubt they'll get much attention

I'm going through a couple of old pages each week

I was going to add some "informed" speculation to the Old Nan answer but left it out haha

Has this Id question been asked before? I seem to remember reading it a week or 2 ago but can't find it now

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Q: Short story about "the monster under her bed", where the monster protects the girl from abusive parents

I remember reading a short story on the internet, maybe a year or two ago, that was about a monster under the bed of a little girl. The story took about 10 minutes to read I think. Can you help me remember what the name of this story was and where I can find it? The story was written from the mo...

story-identification short-stories

Edlothiad

11:25 AM

Dunno, don't really care ;P

TheLethalCarrot

Fair enough haha

I was just going to dupe close it if I could find it was all

But it does seem to have vanished

Edlothiad

I don't want to give it more views

TheLethalCarrot

Why?

Edlothiad

Well I'm just about to DV the question anyways, that is awful research effort...

Typing monster under the bed short story gives the answer

TheLethalCarrot

Well you could say that about a certain bum question :P

Edlothiad

11:29 AM

Well sure, and there were downvotes. but you didn't put the title into your question...

Also you may be thinking of this: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/175294/…

TheLethalCarrot

No I know it's not that one

I'm thinking of an exact dupe but the question had more detail in it

Edlothiad

ah ok

TheLethalCarrot

BTW I don't usually like web comics like that one but I read that and it's alright

Edlothiad

The only mention to that author is in that answer.

TheLethalCarrot

I know I searched the author, some keywords, the title and couldn't find it

I'm pretty sure I'm not imagining it as I knew I'd read it from the title and reading the body confirmed it. It just seems to have vanished

Edlothiad

11:32 AM

no bueno

TheLethalCarrot

Oh well I think Miths answer is better than the "original" anyway

@Hennes Hello, what brings you our way?

Is Old Nan magic? She's incredibly old, seems to permanently old and Hodor is descended from her who "has giants blood in him"

Edlothiad

Nah she's just old man

It's Tanselle anyways

Hodor is said to have giants blood in him

TheLethalCarrot

I know it's only said I just wanted to throw some random speculation around

Edlothiad

Nah don't think she is.

TheLethalCarrot

11:47 AM

Super old though haha

Edlothiad

Well we don't really know how old she is

She could be 100 or she could be 50 or she could be 87

Hodor may be like 45 or so

She good be like 70

TheLethalCarrot

I know just that she seems permanently old as she was Old Nan with Ned and she's Hodor's grandmother or older

+91 on the Id so close to a gold

Edlothiad

Now you're getting ridiculous upvotes to low effort answers =.=

What can a man do to reach 100 upvotes around here. (Go see Star Wars on opening day and acquire all the ebooks early, that's what

TheLethalCarrot

Apparently that's the only way to get upvotes

My two low effort answers recently are +91 and +10

The two most recent ones I've put effort into from today are both still unvoted

And before that its 0, 5, 6, 7, 2, 2, 43, 2, 0, 1, 2

So low effort answers usually score more than high effort ones though it could also be an effect of late answers and off season GoT

Edlothiad

Well yes most of your answers are definitely the latter

TheLethalCarrot

11:59 AM

Just making the point that low effort usually means more upvotes

Edlothiad

True!

TheLethalCarrot

I mean I don't think the ones from today are bad, someone's even commented on one but not voted :(

Oh well

I'll just have to answer some more, or edit them to get them back to the top of the homepage after your edit spree haha

Edlothiad

One could say I "terminated" the front page ;)

They're necessary edits to standardising our tagging system

Might see if I can squeeze in 100 edits on sunday without anyone noticing

TheLethalCarrot

For a Sunday? Should be fine

Are you doing it manually or running a bot to do it?

Edlothiad

Manually, man's not clever enough for bots.

Also need to check that the other tags are valid, I don't just add the universe tag

TheLethalCarrot

12:05 PM

Thought so was just wondering

How many do you have to go through?

Edlothiad

And obviously any question edits and sometimes answer edits (to minimise bumps)

Mostly because organising tags puts me on top

TheLethalCarrot

haha fair enough

I'm determined to hit 10k today, don't think I'll do it at this rate though

I'll need an easy, new Id or SW question to answer

Edlothiad

12:21 PM

God nothing is happening

I also can't be bothered to work. Guess duolingo, or read ;P

I could go down to the test room and just read

I do have a test I need to complete for the weekend, I'll just finish it tomorrow.

TheLethalCarrot

I'm in the same boat a bit bored, I have some work to do but I'm waiting on my boss to finish something which means anything I do now could end up changing anyway so can't be bothered

There's nothing happening on SFF and I'm not in the mood to answer some old GoT questions considering the lack of attention they get

Edlothiad

Just read some xkcd

I'm trying to read ~100 a day to read them all, don't think I finished yesterday

TheLethalCarrot

Lol I think I've read a lot of them over the years

TheLethalCarrot

12:37 PM

Guess I'll just play some game on steam over lunch :P

Edlothiad

Ah man it's all blocked here :(

TheLethalCarrot

As far as I know nothing is blocked here and we have full control over our own machines

But we are a really small company

Edlothiad

Well there's the risk that someone hides something naughty in a piece of software and the competitors get there hands on it

TheLethalCarrot

Aye I get ya

Edlothiad

1:26 PM

Well if this isn't an awful joke

TheLethalCarrot

It is funny in family guy when you watch it though

Edlothiad

Sure but it's not funny when someone has a genuine question

Get 1k and you can see that it was deleted in 4 minutes, lol

TheLethalCarrot

Hahaha but no not funny as an answer

I only need 57 rep but I don't think I'll get it today now

Edlothiad

10k*

So you're telling me I'm <2.4k behind. I'm back in the race boys!

TheLethalCarrot

I just got +25 and then realised it was on a SO answer from January

@Edlothiad For your 3x? haha

Edlothiad

1:35 PM

@TheLethalCarrot crievrythyme

TheLethalCarrot

Yup

Edlothiad

This is why I don't answer on other sites, can't risk the confusing +10s

TheLethalCarrot

Lol I haven't used SO in months for answering or asking

Edlothiad

Well that and because I don't know anything anywhere else

Except those entirely opinion based sites

TheLethalCarrot

Haha

Hennes

1:39 PM

@TheLethalCarrot Accasionally reading wold building and deciding to look at this room.

Then got idle because i was browing for a US military bunker which was sold to private parties

It looked like a regular house. Except for the lift which went really deep and opened in a bunker.

Edlothiad

I have a nuclear grade bunker under the flat I'm living in

Hennes

So camoflaged as regular

Edlothiad

And the entire basement here is probably one too, and the school down the road's, and the neighbours', and actually almost every house's

Oh well

TheLethalCarrot

We don't have any that I know of haha

Edlothiad

Wow that sounds way cool though, mines just a walk in with a big door

No lift here

27 left, if I do 9 a day I'll be done in 3 days

:/

TheLethalCarrot

1:51 PM

For your reviews?

Edlothiad

Nah, everything there is at least 100 away from anything interesting

Duolingo "modules" I've not finished yet

TheLethalCarrot

Ah right

Edlothiad

My closest is Suggested edits which is 108 away, maybe you could start creating some tags and filling in their wikis and excerpts

Or Close votes, 156, but man can only do 20 of those a day

TheLethalCarrot

Are you wanting the grrm-verse tag now? :P

Edlothiad

Nah, create like asoiaf-cities asoiaf-castles

asoiaf-dragons

ceresi-lannister

tyrion-lannister/[tag:*-lannister]

There's like many able suggested edits there!

TheLethalCarrot

1:56 PM

Lol

Ooooh create gates for amf

NO!

Hahaha

2:23 PM

@Edlothiad Osha says that. And Osha's a gosh darn wildling idiot isn't she?

The giant might be Duncan the Tall given Bran's visions

But Old Nan does not have to be Tanselle

Edlothiad

@Aegon And yer a wizard harry!

I forgot how the whole theory works

I hope it's Tanselle!

Aegon

Old Nan is not said to have Dornish features IIRC

If she was Dornish, someone would have mentioned that

Or commented on her appearence

A Dornish woman in heart of the North is something unusual

Edlothiad

Hmm but maybe they've withered away with age

Like how Michael Jackson turned white :O

TheLethalCarrot

Haha

TheLethalCarrot

2:43 PM

Right I've done answering for the day now :P

Unless I find a particuarly juicy question haha

Edlothiad

I can technically make 5 more terminator edits!

TheLethalCarrot

You would wait until I have answers back at the top of the home page haha

amflare

I like cold as much as the next guy, but with this rain, it is just miserable.

TheLethalCarrot

It's actually quite clear in my part of the UK for once

Edlothiad

@amflare When did you move to the UK?

@TheLethalCarrot It's not my fault your posts were 2 of the 10 I need for my buffer?

amflare

2:47 PM

Last night apparently

Edlothiad

@amflare Also not ready for you yet, go away for a few more hours.

amflare

:/

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad hahaha

Edlothiad

Or just work really diligently or something

I'll just find something to edit to bump them up.

First snack time

TheLethalCarrot

Well you know me and typos

C'mon 17 to go :P

Edlothiad

2:54 PM

till?

amflare

guys

GUYS

LOOK AT THIS!

@TheLethalCarrot we could do this!

Edlothiad

I think you might mean this

amflare

I probably do

Good call Ed

Edlothiad

Only 11 actual questions. NOOOOOOOOOOOOPE

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad 10k

Edlothiad

3:04 PM

Nice try TLC, but I can't upvote any more answers, don't wanna be triggering no scripts per chance

TheLethalCarrot

When I comment about rep I'm not trying to get upvotes just so you know

Though with my 4 answers today you may be close haha

(assuming you're the one that's upvoted them that is)

amflare

This might be a dumb question, but have these white parts always been here? I feel like my UI is broken, but I'm not quite sure it hasn't always been like this.

Jarko Dubbeldam

looks about right

TheLethalCarrot

An Q/A appears to have white at the side but my monitor isn't widescreen so can't tell

On the homepage it should be the starry background

Edlothiad

Damn I was busy arguing couldn't nick that FP off amflare...

@amflare Go to meta you lazy sod

TheLethalCarrot

3:09 PM

And oooh look at that nice question :P

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Who else...

TheLethalCarrot

I know

amflare

@Edlothiad I don't need to check with all of meta to do a sanity check

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Oh wait we've done this one about a dozen times

@amflare I wouldn't know, I use SO-ify, I much prefer it, the legibility is so much better

TheLethalCarrot

Something like that by now

amflare

3:10 PM

@Edlothiad oooh

forgot about that

amflare

3:26 PM

okay, I fixed it for myself. It was definitely broken.

Edlothiad

They're going to fix it... Look at meta...

Science Fiction & Fantasy Meta

4

A: White background covering up the stars background when viewing a question

Thanks for reporting. We've already fixed that in our development environment so this should be live in next couple hours.

TheLethalCarrot

I mustn't be able to tell cos of my crappy small monitors haha

Edlothiad

God you are a hawk...

TheLethalCarrot

Who is? haha

And yay finally 10k

Now to use my new ability to view some deleted answers :P

It's now all about score, answer count and that race for gold GoT :P

Edlothiad

3:49 PM

Lol

Amf is a hawk

TheLethalCarrot

Oh FP hawk

amflare

Lucky for you, it would take far too much effort to try and pass your stupid 2k.

TheLethalCarrot

4:07 PM

Ooooh I'm now joint second place on the road to gold. I only have a chance of winning if Egg keeps his current status and isn't answering haha

@amflare That's true, especially with him still active in reviewing haha

@TheLethalCarrot Oh and if Skooba keeps out my way :P

Edlothiad

Well soon to be 2.3k, then maybe 3

TheLethalCarrot

You're so close to that ovetake

TheLethalCarrot

5:23 PM

@Skooba That's a bit cheeky copy and pasting an answer into a dupe and not closing :/

amflare

Its a bit cheeky to answer a dup then VTC.

TheLethalCarrot

That aimed at me or Skooba? :P

If me I only did that once but after a conversation with Ed I retracted my vote anyway

amflare

5:44 PM

@TheLethalCarrot It was more of a general statement to explain why he might have not closed.

Edlothiad

5:57 PM

He should've VTC'd

TheLethalCarrot

Actually looking into it he answered, it was dupe closed (maybe he didn't know it was dupe) then copy pasted his answer to the target

Oh well :P

It's done now

amflare

ohi @Skooba, could you un-modpin the poll form the sidebar please?

@Edl will tell you a good joke if you do

Edlothiad

Ye we voted and I won.

Skooba

@TheLethalCarrot i think i was trying to get the dupe to go the other way?

i dont remember now

Edlothiad

Against Aegon's answer? Good luck.

Skooba

6:04 PM

or maybe once it had been closed i put my answer on the not closed one

that seems likely

i posted the answer on the one that was closed first

day later i copied it

I've done that before

answer a question that later gets marked as dupe, so copy answer cover to question that is still open

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