The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

2:37 AM

0

Q: Why does Ishtar insist on being called "Ishtar"?

There are many characters in Gaiman's Sandman stories that have multiple names; Morpheus is one of them. For the most part, they usually don't mind if someone calls them by one name or another. The first that I've seen this happen was with Ishtar. After meeting Ishtar, Morpheus calls her by two ...

Skooba

3:43 AM

@Randal'Thor I don't mind the change... I want more. You did a 1/2, maybe 3/4 measure. Might as well go whole hog.

Zaphod

5:03 AM

14

Q: Who was the enemy of Spider-Man who acquired Spider-Man's powers and said "Where were these powers when I was in High School"?

About a decade ago, I saw in a Marvel encyclopedia-style book a frame from an issue of one of the Spider-Man series. In it, an enemy had pretty much defeated Peter Parker using the same powers as he. He was quoted saying: Where were these powers when I was in High School? Peter responded in...

marvel character-identification spider-man quotes

SQB

5:15 AM

@Randal'Thor congratulations!

Bellatrix

5:41 AM

@Randal'Thor Congratulations! :D Yay Rand! :D

M&TV Feeds

6:59 AM

0

Q: Varys and Vision / Voice from Flames

Possible spoilers for Season 7 Episode 1. Visions from the flames happen to be a very significant part of the Game of Thrones series, it is mysterious and we do not know whether it is the truth or not. In the latest episode (S07E01) we for the first time actually heard someone repeating what t...

game-of-thrones

M&TV Feeds

7:14 AM

2

Q: Would Walder Frey have acted another way if Robb kept his promise?

In S03E09, He says it's because Robb Stark didn't keep his promise of marrying one of his daughter. But seeing how ruthless and cruel the character is, wouldn't he have done what he did anyway? I would prefer to have a answer based on the show, but if only the books answer properly I will acc...

plot-explanation game-of-thrones

0

Q: What gift Euron Greyjoy's is planning to give her?

In Game of Thrones S07E01, during the conversation between Euron & Cercei, Euron promises that he'll get a surprising gift to the queen to impress & marry her. What is the gift he is planning? I'm assuming that it might be Daenery's head but that alone won't stop the rebellion right?

plot-explanation dialogue game-of-thrones

0

Q: Which Three kingdom Jamie referred in this dialogue?

In Game of Thrones S07E01, Cersei and Jamie had a discussion in the start, with this dialogue: I am the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.” – Cersei Well, three at best.” – Jamie What three kingdom did Jamie consider in this dialogue to be still under Cersei's control?

dialogue game-of-thrones

Ankit Sharma

GoT everywhere

Mithrandir

7:44 AM

Did something happen in the GoT universe?

Oh, new season.

Gallifreyan

Daily floof 2017-07-18

^ src

M&TV Feeds

8:59 AM

0

Q: Is Daenerys dragons are the only dragons in the seven kingdoms?

From the begining of Game of Thrones til now, we have only seen 3 dragons, is there a chance to see other and bigger ones?

plot-explanation game-of-thrones

Ankit Sharma

9:25 AM

@Mithrandir one episode out, M&TV feed will be crazy now

Rand al'Thor

10:19 AM

Oh, of course! THAT's why the M&TV feed in here has been busier than usual (cc @Skooba).

Skooba

And we have the GoT feed in the GoT chat room

Feeds

Rand al'Thor has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

SQB

To be (brutally) honest, I don't think the M&TV feed adds much to this room. They're usually low quality questions that need quite a bit of work to make them answerable. They often lack research as well, as exemplified by the one above.

Rand al'Thor

OK, I removed the GoT tag from the M&TV feed.

SQB

Good idea.

Rand al'Thor

10:25 AM

It'll probably be full of spoilers, so people won't want to see it anyway.

Especially given M&TV's policy of avoiding spoilers only in titles and not in the first paragraph of the post.

SQB

Darn, https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?user=-637&room=58631 doesn't work.

Rand al'Thor

@SQB No, but this does.

SQB

User -637 is M&TV Feeds, room 58631 is this room.

Ah, thanks.

Rand al'Thor

(And you can add &page=n to the URL to see less 'recent' messages, I believe.)

SQB

Okay, I have to admit, the questions aren't all that atrocious as I thought they were.

We may want to leave out the [identify-this-X] questions, though.

Rand al'Thor

10:32 AM

Yeah, those are often very bad over at M&TV.

Unfortunately, I think that's what the genre tags science-fiction and fantasy are mostly used on.

SQB

Probably.

Rand al'Thor

Rather like our movies and tv tags, I suppose.

Ankit Sharma

@Randal'Thor M&TV feed hardly work well, it don't even cover all the scifi and fantasy stuff

@Randal'Thor :O

@Randal'Thor YES

Rand al'Thor

@AnkitSharma Yeah, I know. We've settled for adding a bunch of the more popular sci-fi/fantasy tags as well as just science-fiction and fantasy, but of course there isn't room in the feeds for every sci-fi/fantasy film ever made.

Ankit Sharma

@Randal'Thor those two tags are bad

@Randal'Thor still better then what anime.se do, they have anime ID off topic and get feed to post anime ID form M&TV only

Rand al'Thor

10:39 AM

Well, I guess if they can't do anime ID there, might as well point them to somewhere they can?

Ankit Sharma

But there ID were no better

SQB

Perhaps we could split 'em into different feeds. Maybe even different users, so people can ignore the ones they don't like to see.

So we'd have MTV-GoT, MTV-ID, MTV-MCU, MTV-Dr-Who, and so on.

Marvin

0

Q: Why can't I use an in-universe offensive word which has no significance in the real world?

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/108125 What was wrong with me using "mudblood" word?

discussion

Ankit Sharma

@SQB sound fine but make MTV-MCU into MTV-comics stuff and add XCU, MCU,DCAU, DCEU, arrowverse etc

Rand al'Thor

@SQB Sounds like a lot of work.

Mithrandir

10:52 AM

@Marvin D'Arvit. Why only bring it up over a week later?

Ankit Sharma

Who is I am Groot?

SQB

@Randal'Thor Only once.

Mithrandir

@AnkitSharma ss-3.1415962whatever

Ankit Sharma

@Mithrandir ok

SQB

@AnkitSharma A user who changes their name every once in a while, who once wanted to marry Richard, before they found out he does not look like Buffy.

Ankit Sharma

10:53 AM

I can't keep track of changing usernames

@SQB holy moly what O.o

SQB

Hey @Bellatrix, @Slytherincess, did you watch Penny Dreadful yet?

Ankit Sharma

@SQB I tired the first episode but didn't got any interest

SQB

@AnkitSharma You didn't? To each their own, I guess.

Ankit Sharma

@SQB blame Eva Green

SQB

11:08 AM

@AnkitSharma Really?

Ankit Sharma

I can't stand her

A J

What? O.o

Derpy

11:23 AM

@AnkitSharma Be happy. I had the misfortune to walk right in the first episodes of the Shannara Chronicles TV show, miss-leaded by its tittle and thinking I would get something similar to the book series that shares it name....

Ankit Sharma

11:40 AM

@AJ You know that I don't like her

@Derpy lol

I watched Penny Dreadful with lots of expectation and it didn't worked

SQB

12:15 PM

@AnkitSharma they're Sachin Stark now.

Skooba

12:41 PM

I forsee a new meta post titled "Does the Be Nice policy apply to fictional characters....

0

A: Why can't I use the word "mudblood"?

Even though it is a made up word, it does not follow the Be Nice policy. This policy also applies to public figures. In specific I think this hits the nail on the head: Don't be a jerk. These are just a few examples. If you see them, flag them: Name-calling. Focus on the post, not th...

Ankit Sharma

@SQB O.o

Skooba

@AnkitSharma yeah Sachin, SS pi, i love you, ghostbusters, i am groot.... those are the ones i remember anyway

Derpy

I call "username-based movie advertising spam campaign"

Ankit Sharma

1:16 PM

holy moly

maybe time to change the topic

Derpy

@AnkitSharma so the room topic will be changed to "General discussion for scifi.stackexchange.com — both on and off topic, but remember to post ponies"?

Sachin Stark

You know what I can purchase Stack Exchange just to change the name of this chatroom. Don't piss a Stark...

Skooba

@SachinStark Winter has come for the Stack Network?

Derpy

Donald.McLean

Greetings, Earthlings.

Mithrandir

1:32 PM

Is this first contact?

Donald.McLean

LOL

Skooba

@Mithrandir more like 20th contact :-P

Here is a thought too... can Earthlings refer to all living creatures on the planet Earth?

Donald.McLean

@Skooba Probably more like 200th contact. "Member for 5 years, 4 months"

Skooba

@Donald.McLean lol, but this is clean slate. you had to start over

Donald.McLean

Ahh, right - the phoenix chat room.

Skooba

1:39 PM

although... does the chat search function only go back so far?

Mithrandir

chat search is borked

Skooba

yeah just noticing that

when i search for "greetings, earthingling" 3 results... when i just search "greetings" 25 result and i clearly see where more than 3 were "greetings, earthlings"

Ankit Sharma

@Derpy why not

@Skooba where are hats 🙄

Derpy

@AnkitSharma because then @Mithrandir would be sad and we need an happy Mith to work on the review queues

Donald.McLean

I know that I should know this, but what is the significance of "Winter is coming"?

Skooba

1:50 PM

@Donald.McLean Game of Thrones, House Stark words.

Ankit Sharma

@Derpy ohhhh

Donald.McLean

@Skooba Thank you. And that explains why I don't know it. Haven't seen or read any GoT.

Skooba

@Donald.McLean it made a large amount of memes, I think largely in part to Sean Bean being the actor who said it the most

Donald.McLean

@Skooba Somebody taped "is coming" over the bottom part of some kind of winter themed scent from Bath and Body Works.

SQB

2:25 PM

@Donald.McLean I think you might like it, if you ignore the hype and just read the books.

Donald.McLean

@SQB Perhaps. Perhaps not. I suspect it's a bit darker than I would prefer.

Some dark fantasy reads like "This is going to be dark because dark is cool." instead of "This is going to be dark because this story is about dark things."

SQB

Ah. I think GoT is the latter.

Skooba

yeah, more like this is dark because, look at history... it was pretty dang dark.

SQB

It's more like "this is going to be dark, since life in the Middle Ages was hard (except that there's magic and dragons)".

Skooba

GRRM has said almost everything is drawn on real history. he just adds his flair, and obv the fantasy bits.

Donald.McLean

2:41 PM

@SQB Like I said, probably darker than I would prefer.

Marvin

3:01 PM

0

Q: is this question allowed in Sci Fi & Fantasy SE?

I want to ask how many times an anime/sci fi live action which is in pre-production have changed director already. I've read other topics here about making production questions (like behind the scenes) but I dont have it clear. Is it allowed?

discussion

Gallifreyan

4:46 PM

4

Q: Who has the biggest breasts in the Naruto series?

Right now, I think it is Tsunade, but is there anyone else who has bigger breasts than Tsunade? It seems in Leaf village, Hinata is 2nd. From Road to Naruto, Chapter 1, page 11:

naruto

I did not expect that question to be upvoted and still open.

amflare

Why is this even a thing?

Gallifreyan

I could ask the same about a lot of the questions about Naruto.

Skooba

5:04 PM

o good a question like that is not on sff

amflare

5:22 PM

In other news, I just need to spam out 19 more answers for the game-of-thrones tag to get myself one of those sweet, sweet, bronze tag badges xD

Skooba

lol

i think i need about the same for my silver

amflare

I have no earthly clue how an answer about doors got 100 UV... :/

Skooba

@amflare the question is my current bane

the HNQ can be really borked sometimes

Mithrandir

8:05 PM

@amflare HNQ does that. I think almost all of our 100+ posts were HNQs, with the possible exception of the 333 question.

DaaaahWhoosh

8:52 PM

fun fact: 'Kashyyyk' apparently is supposed to have 3 'y's. Which seems excessive. I'm gonna pronounce it 'KaSHEEEEEEEEK' from now on

amflare

9:08 PM

@DaaaahWhoosh But how many seconds will you spend on the "EEEEEEEE"?

DaaaahWhoosh

@amflare in a perfect world, it would be .75x the amount of time I spend on the 'a's in my name. But I think in this case I need to over-emphasize to remind people how crazy it is to have three 'y's

(and I just measured, when I say 'Daaaah Whoosh' the 'aaaa' takes about a second)

2

amflare

10:10 PM

@Randal'Thor - I think you'll know the answer to this, how do we get the future works policy blurb to show on this close reason? scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/164104/…

Is that something only a mod can change?

Gallifreyan

10:25 PM

A custom close reason needs to be added for that. Or some users may choose "other" and then type in the reason they want to close the question - don't know if it'll show up, though.

There's been a suggestion to have a custom "future works" close reason, but I think it was declined.

21

Q: Should we add an off-topic close reason for "future works"?

Current status: we do not have consensus to pursue this under the present system (which only allows custom off-topic close reasons). We may re-visit this if the system is changed to allow a custom close reason for a different type (e.g. "primarily opinion-based"). We have a policy that questio...

feature-request closing-questions

The consensus is, "these questions aren't off-topic, but they're impossible to answer objectively now, and trivially easy to answer after the work in question is released".

amflare

@Gallifreyan I know I've seen it before, I guess they used the "Other" reason for closing.

Catija

Using the "other" reason is great... particularly if the site already uses the three slots already.

That said: "This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the help center." is generally a bit too much of a catch-all in my experience and may be worth replacing.

Rand al'Thor

11:17 PM

@Mithrandir Many of our 100+ posts and Famous Questions predate the introduction of the HNQ system.

@amflare Questions can be closed for one of various reasons: POB, too broad, unclear, duplicate, or off-topic. On many sites, off-topic comes in several flavours because there are a few "custom close reasons" - on SFF, these are "scientific solutions or explanations" and "lists of works or recommendations". The meta post Gall linked above shows what happened when we proposed an off-topic close reason for future works.

The best thing you can do is link to the future works meta post in a comment below the question.

Transcript for

The Restaurant at the End of the Univ…