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12:25 AM
@Alex I don't (yet) but will take a look
 
Which means you will know the answer in... 2.5 minutes?
 
12:43 AM
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Q: Yet another question about Avengers Infinity War

SPooKYiNeSSI think it's been enough time for this to not be a spoiler about the movie, but if someone disagrees, feel free to alter my post accordingly. So, at the end(ish) Thor takes his mighty axe and slams it into Thanos, deliberately not killing him so he can gloat about it first. At which point Thano...

 
1:11 AM
Gotta love this pedant:
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Q: Why are glasses considered hats?

agcSome hats appear to be tuxedos, martinis, or glasses: Retro Fan ...and yet these are called hats, instead of say some broader category such as "party wear" or "novelty disguise" or something. Why?

 
1:22 AM
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Q: Empire and Sith tattoo

LarryI have a tattoo with the Rebel Alliance and Jedi Knights but I'm trying to do the same with the Galactic Empire and the dark side (Sith) does anyone know of one or have an idea for one?

 
 
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2:54 AM
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Q: Film where clowns are a separate species hunted by humans

FuzzyBootsIn the last few years, I saw a trailer for a film where clowns are a separate species that are hunted by humans (or at least by the people shown in the film). I remember it largely being by guys in pickup trucks, carrying hunting rifles. For some reason, I remember one of them shooting from a lad...

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Q: Fantasy - Harry Potter

Bassam Ismail ‘But if Voldemort used the Killing Curse,’ Harry started again, ‘and nobody died for me this time – how can I be alive?’ ‘I think you know,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Think back. Remember what he did, in his ignorance, in his greed and his cruelty.’ ... ‘He took my blood,’ said Harry. ‘Precise...

 
3:24 AM
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Q: Book where man communicates telepathically with a being

JenI am looking for the name and/or author of a story that goes something like this: A writer(?) Is visited by a being and they communicate telepathically. The being eventually asks if the man has questions and the man asks how we (humans) can fet to the point, technologically, that this being is a...

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Q: Question about Earth 2 TV show suspended animation

Bob516In the show the colonists spent the trip to the new planet in suspended animation. Was there any explanation, or hints about what was the basis for the suspended animation? Was it some sort of cold storage?

 
3:40 AM
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Q: Sci fi book about a planet where they use a dice game instead of wars to settle disputes between countries

GamingWithTalonI read a book years ago, and now I can't remember the author or title. I do remember that it was like the 3rd or 4th in a series, but I don't remember what the series was called. In the book, a pilot for an interplanetary empire crash-lands on a planet that has been deemed unsuitable for habitat...

 
 
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5:28 AM
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Q: Is that Black Panther with Infinity Gauntlet?

Endgame If you jump to 1:30 of this video, you'll find a being fighting with Thanos and both are equipped with Infinity Gauntlet. Who is he? Is he really wearing Infinity Gauntlet? I thought two fully-equipped Infinity Gauntlets can't exist at the same time.

 
5:46 AM
Whoops, accidentally tapped the wrong thing in the review queue for scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/201517/… - it should probably be closed
 
We'll forgive you... this time.
 
5:59 AM
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Q: Can somebody solve this riddle

Prodrgh"I am tall I am heavy, I was not born but made , I was made to fight wars that I didn't want to , but now it is good as I have a name now and now I am lawyer" It's a marvel comics character

 
6:29 AM
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Q: Seeking a novel with the post-apocalyptic remains of the European powers fighting on the Isle of Man

BuzzA friend of mine told me that he remembers reading a science fiction novel when he was kid in the late 1970s or early 1980s, which he has never been able to locate again. It was in English, and he got it from a library in the United States, but based on the content, he thinks the author was prob...

 
 
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7:34 AM
Heh, the review queues are filled with Merlin hats
 
What is this hat business
Why are people wearing weird headdresses on their avatars
 
Winter Bash!
 
8:01 AM
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Q: Trying to find a drarry fanfic where Draco is kept under Harry's care in Hogwarts and Harry abuses him but still loves him

thedrarryloverI don't remember the name of this fanfic and I've been searching for it for weeks. I'd appreciate any help! So the fic, from what I remember, goes this way - It is a Hogwarts fanfic, meaning, Draco, Harry and all others attend Hogwarts but I don't remember if it is an 8th year fic or pre 8th yea...

 
I'm going through a difficult period in my life
But those HP fanfic search titles always cheer me up
 
They seem to be getting more common lately. :/
 
Heh
Expect an influx of Dumblewald fanfics after the next Fantastic Beasts film premiers
Dumblewald? Grindeldore?
I wonder if we already have a tag for those
In all seriousness, that question is well-detailed. It's unfair they receive so many negative votes, I suspect, simply for being fanfic IDs
 
turned up some interesting discussion
Which, of course, isn't enough to warrant its existence on SFF
is no more
 
 
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9:46 AM
after scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49838/… gets deleted, will also be gone
 
 
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10:58 AM
@Gallifreyan anything we can do to help? :/
 
11:35 AM
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Q: Novel (series) with biblical themes and telepaths

user8954I am trying to find a novel (children's or young adult maybe) that I read several years back, possibly around 2010. I believe it was the first in a series of novels, and have been trying to find it for a while now but unfortunately remember very few details. I vaguely recall there being some kin...

 
 
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12:51 PM
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Q: Iron ice build up problem

Calen TudorIs there a scientific explanation for what happens when the mark 2 armour has ice buld up and an explanation on how this is solved?

 
1:35 PM
geez eight months here and it took me an OOTS strip to understand that Hogwarts is Warthog, but flipped
 
@Jenayah Don't worry, it's not that bad
Especially if the fanfic ID titles keep coming
Thank you ^_^
 
Philip K. Dick would have been 90 today
 
2:05 PM
dang
 
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Q: Why did the droplet allow itself to be inspected?

DaveInCazIn The Dark Forest (second part of the Remembrance of Earth's Past series), the Trisolaran 'droplet' probe was briefly examined by humans before it began its systematic and devastating attack on their fleet. What was the reason this examination was allowed? By using the sophons the Trisolarans w...

 
double dang, typo in daily floof
 
2:23 PM
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Q: Why should Anton be useful to the Final watch in this action?

TGarIn the Final Watch (or Last Watch) novel by Sergei Lukyanenko, the Final Watch trio kidnapped Anton because they wanted him to help them to find the Crown of All. But one of the trio members, mentioned several times, that they should instead kidnap Anton's, daughter (because she would be a...

 
2:58 PM
@Gallifreyan A tag? You mean apart from [story-identification] [harry-potter] [short-story] [fan-fiction] [fantastic-beasts-where-to-find-them] (I hate that tag naming btw, I should have spoken up early on the meta question) [crimes-of-grindelwald] [grindelwald] [albus-dumbledore]?
Wait, so what's the tag for the Fantastic Beasts book now?
I'm confused
 
@b_jonas [fantastic-beasts], I think
 
Ah, I see. "I don't think we need a tag for the fictional book; a quick search of questions tagged [fantastic-beasts] from before 2016 yields only 3 questions with only 1 about the fictional book."
Well, no wonder. That and Quidditch aren't the best works of JKR.
 
why is the VLQ review marked as invalidated when it was an unanimous "delete"? scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/201564/timeline
 
@Jenayah Perhaps it got edited before it reached enough votes?
Oh, and one of those three questions are mine. I forgot that. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/166858/4918 "
"How does the new edition of the Fantastic Beasts book differ from the old one?"
 
nope
post is still in original version
 
3:05 PM
@Jenayah Hmm. Maybe a diamond moderator invalidated it then?
 
possibly, but should that appear in the review summary?
Or can mods invalidate reviews from outside?
 
Nor are there many questions mainly about Tales of Beedle the Bard either, it seems. It does get mentioned a lot in answers and questions of course.
 
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Q: Why allow humans to import guns?

BasementJoeAccording to Writing Secure Code: you should not trust data until the data is validated. Failure to do so will render your application vulnerable. Or, put another way: all input is evil until proven otherwise. That’s rule number one. The Zion rebels are hackers and or rogue users that t...

 
 
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5:02 PM
@b_jonas I'm pretty sure you asked a question about Tales of Beedle the Bard.
Indeed:
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Q: What are the objects drawn at the start of The Warlock's Hairy Heart in Tales of Beedle the Bard?

b_jonasThe Tales of Beedle the Bard has a small drawing from J.K. Rowling at the start of each story. I found some of these difficult to interpret. The most puzzling one is the drawing at the start of “The Warlock's Hairy Heart” which shows what looks like an assortment of objects: a stringed instru...

 
5:49 PM
@Alex Yes. I said there aren't many.
 
6:30 PM
@Gallifreyan And they're going to be auto-deleted in two weeks if they don't get an answer.
 
@b_jonas takes a lot of gut to try and browse for the latest fanfic-id one though...
(told myself I wouldn't)
 
@Jenayah That's easy for me, because I haven't started to try to solve story-id questions by searching. I only answer them in the rare case when I think I've already met the fiction they are looking for.
 
@Jenayah You still have to find this one:
18 hours ago, by Jenayah
@Alex I don't (yet) but will take a look
 
some are rather easy to find
some looks like they are... but turn out not to be
 
6:34 PM
 
@Jenayah Yeah, I should probably learn how and where to search for them.
 
Dec 2 at 2:34, by Jenayah
Try to watch out for "I found it by typing whatever"
 
At least the book ones. I'm not likely to be going to search for the anime-identification ones.
@Jenayah Yeah. And I think there's a meta question giving hints.
 
Oct 31 at 18:18, by Jenayah
(I'll be back in five minutes, complaining that there are too many animes with the same tropes and that Googling anime-id is impossible)
@Alex right
 
Plus the top answers often link to a few specific sites that catalogue old sci-fi short stories.
 
6:35 PM
ISFDb?
 
@Jenayah Sure, there are lots of too vague ones, but not only in anime. I've complained about story-id in other genres that give very few clues.
@Jenayah Yes, I think that's one of them
 
lots of short stories catalogued on ISFDb, I think user14111's template answer always links to it
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Q: Can somebody walk me through how to research these Identify this story questions?

sarge_smithIs there any way to research an identify this story question? We have 391 unanswered questions and almost a third of them are story id questions. I wouldn't mind putting in the research effort, but I have no idea where to start short of reading every single short story anthology ever published. S...

 
@Jenayah Yeah, that one is from the early days of the site. "391 unanswered" only.
 
aye
 
@b_jonas Though 93% answered is pretty good.
 
6:57 PM
@Alex Yeah.
 
And I'm about to answer another one.
Though it's already considered "answered" so it won't affect the percentage.
 
@b_jonas No, it's actually your question.
 
Meh, at this point I'm just tossing random wildcards hoping something will come out
 
7:08 PM
@Mithrandir self-note to make it easier to find in the transcript: hey future Jenayah, the SEDE query to find missing alt text/enter description here is right above ^
 
Might pin that in the cleanup room
 
that's also an idea
 
Oof, can't pin without a mouse...
 
starred for now
 
@Jenayah You'll still have to remember this reminder.
 
7:14 PM
that's why I put some keywords in it
 
Gotta remember the keywords.
 
not a big set of possible keywords
Okay, why the duck does harry potter fanfiction "for * years" induced sleep -site:pinterest.* return Counter strike: global offensive results?!
 
It doesn't for me.
 
meh, Google localization
Gemini BECO launcher, typical
 
I got results for War and Peace.
 
7:21 PM
... oO
 
Which is not exactly less strange.
 
that's even worse
 
Apparently Harry Potter fanfiction has infiltrated every corner of the universe.
 
HP/Counter Strike/ War & Peace crossover
 
Heh, might have made War and Peace a little shorter.
 
7:23 PM
true
 
I could probably read the entire Harry Potter series three times in less time than reading War and Peace.
 
7:43 PM
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Q: Why did people enlist in the imperial military?

BooleanApart from the obvious fact that the Empire wanted to replace clone troopers with human troopers, Why would one enlist in the Imperial military? Was the pay good? Did they get good work benefits?

 
8:14 PM
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Q: Book about teenage clones who end up in a compound somewhere?

FlaberdooGirl and a boy - both find out they're clones. She believes she is 'fat', he is described as having olive skin. Turns out his dad is behind it all.. (I think the dad dies at the end?) There's a woman called Tessa or something. Hey are taken to some kind of compound. Its a teen book

 
@Alex That took longer than expected.
 
8:31 PM
@Alex oh wow. That does look comprehensive.
Wow. Just how many names does “Franchise” mention?
 
8:49 PM
@b_jonas 12 first names and 12 last names (if I counted correctly).
 
9:03 PM
Well, I did identify another fanfic
I think
unrelated but looking at other people's avatars with hats is funny
 
*tips hat*
 
9:32 PM
@Jenayah Pretty good clicking skills to post a question and answer one second apart.
 
Aye
Easy since you can both edit Q and write A from the same page
 
Still gotta scroll though.
 
I have an "End" key
 
Oh right; I forgot we’ve been through this a couple of times.
 
eheh
 
9:35 PM
I would find the messages if I wasn’t on my phone.
 
Nov 1 at 16:58, by Jenayah
And before anyone comes in to snark on web history, each time I look for HP fanfic-id (which is to say, once every three months), I use incognito browsing.
^ this figure isn't right anymore I guess
I mean I still do use incognito browsing but the looking part happens more often than once evry three months
And that's how you end up with in your tag tab -_-
 
You have set down a dark path. Next thing you know you’ll be asking them and soon after you may even be writing them.
 
Lol, not a chance
 
10:16 PM
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Q: Why isn’t Alderaan’s destruction referenced in Episodes 5 to 8?

Frank RodriguezWhile the Empire had committed a number of serious atrocities since 19 BBY, Alderaan’s destruction was a major game changer. Why wasn’t that event referenced in Episodes V to VIII?

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Q: Suspected alien life in a black hole

Winchell ChungThis was in a short story I read ten to twenty years ago. A scientific research starship is investigating a black hole. One of the researchers maintains that he is receiving faint intelligent signals from the black hole, apparently emitted by some alien life-form living inside the hole. As I re...

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Q: Identify a comic where Scrooge McDuck or Donald Duck is facing a chess player that never loses

Morgan1erI'm looking for an old comic with Scrooge McDuck I think, or maybe Donald Duck. He is facing a chess player, some kind of gigantic mountain man, with a big beard. This man always wins because he is so scary and intimidating, with his big scary look, that the player in front of him loses all his c...

 
10:32 PM
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Q: The force in leia

Vincent LaRoccaHow come when Vader encountered leia in Star Wars he didn’t feel the force in her or realize something was up? How can a question have a quality standard.

 
10:52 PM
@Jenayah Ah. So you solved a previous Harry Potter fanfic ID question instead.
 
@b_jonas aye
eh, what can I say it makes answers for that shiny silver badge ;p
 
@Alex You know about scifi.stackexchange.com/a/10508/4918 , right? Several answers posted so quickly that they precede the question by years!
 
wtf?
 
@Jenayah That one is from two questions getting merged by diamond mods. It's even funnier when the merge is done in a way that you can't even see a merge in the question history: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/4982/4918
 
oooooh
 
10:59 PM
scifi.stackexchange.com/a/122311/4918 is the fastest that's posted after the question and not by the same user who asked the question
 
We should have a competition where answers are posted without questions, and see if people can come up with the questions.
 
@Alex Oh! 007 hat!
Shiny!
 
@b_jonas Yeah, I like that one.
I don't think it's so easy to get.
At least on sites with lots of participants.
 
That took a good 33 seconds until the part that I recognized.
 
11:04 PM
:P
 
11:43 PM
Just maxed out on votes for my first time on any site. And with 19 minutes to spare. Going through old questions is apparently worthwhile.
 

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