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Q: The Quiet Earth movie, did I miss something?

I just finished The Quiet Earth and I'm wondering if I managed to miss something. At the start of the movie, there is quite a bit of imagery showing 6:12 on various clocks. During the movie, the three characters meet and recognize each other, notably the Ari scene. Reading the Wiki article on t...

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Q: Is there a consensus on tagging solved story ID's with the name of the author/story?

There is this meta question, which doesn't have an accepted answer/practice associated with it. I am asking, because this question was edited citing the above example, and promptly re-edited essentially because "I don't agree with that meta". Is there a meta resolving this that I missed in my...

discussion tags story-identification

gee bot you're late

Perhaps a lock is appropriate after all.

not really, see comments

9:10 PM

The comments don't change the fact that there is an ongoing non-constructive war.

well the comments have been deleted anyways ;)

@Jenayah Yeah, at the moment, those aren't really all that reassuring.

@RDFozz well when I posted the message you replied to, there was only a "oh sorry I hadn't seen the new meta" so i thought it was the end

(Or, I guess, befoere they got deleted, they weren't, with Andres F saying he was going to write his own answer to the meta, so you and Valorum could downvote it.

@Jenayah Fair enough.

9:13 PM

@Jenayah In the words of the immortal (but dead) Yogi Berra, "It ain't over 'til it's over."

@RDFozz yeah that irked me a bit tbh

@RDFozz It clearly was over, then.

@AndresF. If I were a user unfamiliar with SE editing practices, and I saw a question tagged #dune asking to identify something which was clearly Dune, I'd probably think it was some sort of troll. Like the ID question we once had about Twilight which was a copy-paste of the Twilight Wikipedia page with the names removed. — Rand al'Thor ♦ 34 secs ago

@Randal'Thor what was that? ahah

@Jenayah I thought it was a logical and well-thought out response, tbl

"to blatantly lie"

oh

took you to the word for a second :p

9:15 PM

@Jenayah scifi.stackexchange.com/q/151587/31394

@Jenayah I'd think you';d know me better than that by now :-)

@Randal'Thor can you undelete it so that I can downvote it and then redelete it?

@RDFozz :p

@Jenayah No. :-P

@RDFozz Unless everything you've said until now was just to establish your cover to be able to make this comment.

@Randal'Thor Only 4,208 rep to go until I can see that :-)

9:17 PM

@Randal'Thor mais euh

It's a pity @Gall lost rep out of that.

But them's the breaks.

@Alex There's nothing I love better than pretending to be a nice guy for months, just to eventually reveal that I'm a stupid jerk.

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@RDFozz I'm guessing I should understand this comment in light of everything I know about you?

@RDFozz What are you waiting for? Get to it :-)

9:21 PM

@Jenayah Merci, mlle.

@Jenayah Holy sh*t, that was nearly 2 years ago?!

How time flies.

@Randal'Thor how'd you find it back?

@RDFozz de rien!

@Jenayah Searched for forks deleted:1.

Mods can search deleted posts :-)

^ not trying to spell mademoiselle on the fly, after making fun of the fact that a typo by Alex looked like Richard Gere's email address earlier today.

6 hours ago, by TheLethalCarrot

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9:23 PM

So, I of course look it up to make fun of myself, after being too lazy to look it up 2 minutes earlier :-)

@Randal'Thor Dude, half the time I can't get LQP submitted before it's closed, much less finish an entire answer. It took me 6 minutes to reply to your comment!

@RDFozz well you do write some long answers :)

@Alex Please include the fact that I am capable of sarcasm (or a reasonable facsimile thereof).

@RDFozz Sorry, my sarcasm detector overloaded a while back and is currently not operational.

and am more likely to direct a fly to leave than kill it (flour moths, though, are an entirely different matter).

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Q: who can defeat darkseid and how?

Since the dawn of justice movie and the relationship between stephenking and darkseid i did some research and found out that darkseid is litterally the most powerfull villian in dc comics So it came up to my mind who can stop him??!

dc stephen-king

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Q: Why did this character die in Bumblebee?

During the final fight the character: I'm wondering how that was possible? Was the item somehow inside some specific weakpoints of the character or how/why did he die there? (naturally in universe explanation sought after....out of universe...rule of cool :) )

9:32 PM

@Alex I'm sorry to hear that.However, you should watch what you say - this is why people think you're a robot, instead of a bathtub or baby elephant.

Except Jenayah.

@RDFozz Jenayah is the main propounder of those theories.

@RDFozz Are you Canadian?

The Most Canadian Way to Get Rid of a Bear

Oh, I think I misread that.

@Marvin I always knew there was a relationship between Stephen King and Darkseid.

@Randal'Thor No, I'm in that place between Canada and Mexico. The big one, with all the people embarassed about who our president is right now? That one.

@RDFozz I heard there was a country over there. Don't know much about it except to avoid.

9:36 PM

@Alex I've never said you were a baby elephant. Your mother being an elephant doesn't forbid you being human, and reverse

@RDFozz You mean wannabe Canada?

@Randal'Thor Much harder to avoid from the inside....

@Jenayah Really?

> "Only an elephant or a whale gives birth to a creature that weighs more than 100 kilograms," said Tweedledumb. "Right?"
"I suppose," said Tweedledim.
"The President weighs 101 kilograms," said Tweedledumb.
"Uh-oh," said Tweedledim. "I can see exactly where you're going and I don't..."
"Therefore," said Tweedledumb...
"The President's mother is either an elephant or a whale!" they yelled in chorus.

@Jenayah True. I was responding within RDFozz's conception.

@Alex Hey, leave my mom out of this!

9:39 PM

@RDFozz My apologies.

@Alex I don't want details about RDFozz's conception, thank you very much.

...

@RDFozz On avait dit pas les mamans!

@Mithrandir Hey, me neither!

@Mithrandir But you're okay with details about my conception?

Argh, another misreading.

I guess I'm having a bad day.

9:42 PM

@Alex I felt bad for not putting a smiley-face at the end - felt better when everyone else got my meaning, though. Don't worry, my friend - we all have our off days.

I've often said, sometimes I see 2 + 2 and think, "Hey, nice two plus two!"

Darkseid, being a "supposedly unstoppable villain", has been defeated by a lot of heroes. Hence, I'm voting to close this as "too broad". — Jenayah 13 mins ago

@jenayah so why he is supposedly unstoppable?! — kingskull 3 mins ago

@kingskull comic books rules. Introduce a villain described as unstoppable, make him defeat your hero in the first place, then have said hero kick his butt. Repeat for 50+ years while varying the hero/team. Kill a good guy sometimes, for good measure, but be sure to resurrect the character later (as it makes $$$). Here, I've resumed the whole comic book industry. :) (don't get me wrong, though: I love comics.) — Jenayah 29 secs ago

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Q: Who is this half Thor, half Iron Man dude in the Spiderman: Far From Home trailer?

In the new Spiderman: Far From Home trailer, Jake Gyllenhaal is introduced as a new character. He seems to play a character who appears to be a hero; Who is this character? Are they traditionally a hero/villain? What are some of their powers?

marvel marvel-cinematic-universe character-identification spider-man-far-from-home

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Q: In "Avatar," Norm Spellman has logged some 400-500 hrs of link time -- W/ WHAT AVATAR?

We're told that the Avatars "got big" on the 6-yr flight to Pandora -- so they were apparently but babies / larvae / w'ev back home. How did Norm manage to link so many hours w/ an infant Avatar body?

@RDFozz ?

@Jenayah Instead of thinking, "4". Like knowing "It's Tuesday", adn that "I have a doctor's appointment on Tuesday", bot not thinking "... so, I need to leave for my doctor's appointment in 10 minutes."

Note - I don't actually have a doctor's appointment today.

So not one worries if they see me post something in 15 minutes :-)

9:58 PM

@RDFozz oh ok

just not processing the info

or... wrongly processing the info

Just like I'm quite confident in my English, but in my head I will always read the numbers in French eheh

"So not one worries if they see me post in quinze minutes"

@Jenayah It's going around:

19 mins ago, by Alex

Argh, another misreading.

Nov 2 '18 at 12:46, by Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot "oh my God it's spreading!"

@Valorum One more thing, and please consider it a genuine question: in the meta question you claim is a duplicate, the argument seems to be "Should we tag [...]", which I think is what Jenayah was arguing (imagine if we had to tag thousands of questions). But one could honestly make the point (which has just occurred to me, if I'm honest) that the question is asking whether we must tag them, i.e. that policy is we should always tag them. If so, a negative vote simply means "no, we're not obligated to tag them" but it doesn't mean "we cannot tag them". <continued> — Andres F. 1 min ago

@Valorum <cont'd> Don't worry, I won't tag it and won't use this argument to tag it. But I wonder if the meta could be more clearly worded: "must" instead of "should", to make it clear it's not the alternative (and also valid) intepretation. I ask this because it never occurred to me that if we tagged this question [dune] we would be forced to tag every id question! — Andres F. 1 min ago

@Rand @Alex pedant friend of yours ^ :P

@Randal'Thor Still can't get over it

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Q: What Sci fi show is it?

Im going crazy trying to find what a show was called waaaay back when i was a kid (80-90s). Its about a boy that has som kind of powers. Its set in the UK i think, in a cabin/lodge. It has a spooky theme where you see a prism slowly making taking position as the center piece. I think it has the r...

story-identification soft-sci-fi

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Q: Do Jedi knights take the lightsabers of enemies they have defeated?

As another answer shows, after Anakin defeats Count Dooku in a lightsaber duel at the beginning of Episode III, he drops Dooku's lightsaber and leaves it there. He doesn't just ignore it, he specifically drops it, as he used it to kill Dooku. Why does he do that? It would have been a proof of wha...

star-wars lightsaber revenge-of-the-sith

@Jenayah My only response to that can be:

@AndresF. we need more people like you on the Internet, then. :) (I'm not being ironic). Unfortunately, not everyone thinks that way... — Jenayah 44 mins ago

10:07 PM

ahah touché

how's this still getting upvotes? I posted it like a week ago and it didn't get bumped or anything

@Jenayah Perhaps it got linked somewhere? In any case, I think it just got another one.

@Alex ah, maybe, hadn't thought of that. That's when you wish you'd have a notification when that happens

Oh hey, indeed, another vote :P

@Jenayah Well if it was, it was on a different site (or Chat) because there are no linked questions on the side.

@Jenayah Ha, I got an upvote at the same time as this comment.

@Alex wasn"t me

@Jenayah Hah - the interrogation master's name is literally "master"

10:14 PM

@Jenayah Well I also got another one as you posted this. Mighty suspicious.

@Gallifreyan that's like having a siren character called Syrena.

@Alex you're just that popular

They were both on the same question.

@Jenayah I like that bit of exposition when the police guy explain's to Lang's daughter why her daddy is under arrest

And I think you had already upvoted earlier, so it couldn't have been you.

uh, well at least you know one of them for sure wasn't mine ;)

10:16 PM

The film is hiding the fact that it's treating the viewers as children

@Jenayah Multiple accounts?

@Alex I don't have those

Suuuuure.

well if you want to be pedant 'til the end, you can be sure Jenayah, user 98028 on SFF, didn't upvote you twice

oh, it was the Meta one - indeed, upvoted when we talked about it earlieer

@Jenayah I think if you upvoted, then removed it, and then upvoted again I would get the notification twice.

10:18 PM

@Alex you don't get the rep twice though

True.

@Alex I honestly don't - though I have no way to prove it, so up to you to think what you want . I don't really care though :P

Oct 31 '18 at 7:41, by Alex

Aug 6 at 14:17, by Alex

@Jenayah Not at all, I'm just messing around.

I don't want to aappear as piling on on the new user but that question scifi.stackexchange.com/q/203505/98028 is still way too broad. Could anyone provide a third-party guidance?

meh. Gotta say this rejected edit scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/139991 is funny ,since the new tag excerpt reads pretty much the same scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/doom-3/info

@Jenayah That looks like it should have been "approve and edit" rather than "reject and edit".

10:33 PM

kind of what I was thinking, yes

@Randal'Thor Finnish way is better:

[FUNNY] Finnish man scares a bear away by shouting PERKELE [2017]

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Q: What happened to Terran Michael Burnham?

What happened to the Terran version of Michael Burnham in Star Trek: Discovery? The emperor seemed to believe that she could be alive.

star-trek star-trek-discovery

^ no need to understand Finnish to watch that :)

It has subtitles.

it's even better without the subs :)

Now show us the French way...

10:46 PM

French way of dealing with bears is not having bears

Ah, so very practical.

Well I think some got reintroduced in the Pyrénées but there's really a few

and the last "true" Pyrenean one is still out there

Cannelito

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Q: Has there been an instance where the Tricorder was used to heal?

I have been reading about the Tricorder on https://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tricorder# and A tricorder was a multifunction hand-held device useful for data sensing, analysis, and recording, with many specialized abilities which made it an asset to crews aboard starships and space st...

"l'ourse Cannelle" (Cannelle female bear) was quite a thing when I was a kid because she was one of the last of her kind, and then a hunter shot her in 2004 :(

Cannellito is her cub

Cannelle (ourse)

Cannelle était la dernière représentante d'une population d'ours des Pyrénées. Elle a été abattue le 1er novembre 2004 par un chasseur, René Marquèze. Son ourson, Cannellito, âgé de huit mois au moment de la mort de sa mère a survécu ; il est le dernier représentant de la lignée pyrénéenne d'Ursus arctos. == Mensurations == Cannelle mesurait 2,28 m sur 0,72 m, pour un poids de 95 kg. == Mort == Le 1er novembre 2004, un groupe de six chasseurs se rend sur les hauteurs d'Urdos, en vallée d'Aspe, pour une battue au sanglier. L'un des chasseurs voit arriver Cannelle et tire au-dessus pour...

@Jenayah That's very helpful.

10:52 PM

@Alex can't help it if the artice exists only in french and Basque

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3975525.stm

@Jenayah That was like... before you were born, almost.

I was born before the year 2000 you know

Really?!

you do know I'm 21 right?

And you can do math :P

@Jenayah Yes, it's been discussed a few times.

10:57 PM

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Q: Why was Peter Parker's passport censored in the Trailer?

In the just released Trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home we get a shot of Peter Parker's passport but the years seem to have been censored. I thought maybe they don't want to spoil when exactly this movie takes place, before or after Avengers: Endgame. However, I was under the impression t...

marvel-cinematic-universe spider-man-far-from-home

@Jenayah I thought we agreed I was infected by JK Rowling?

oh right

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Q: What is Lockdown doing in Transformers 4?

In Michael Bay's BOOM BOOM POW WHOOSH Tranformers 4, I'm confused about what happens near the end. The bounty hunter Lockdown wants to lure Optimus Prime to him, so he opens a large orifice on the bottom of his ship that starts sucking Hong Kong into it. What IS this thing? I'm guessing it's som...

transformers age-of-extinction transformers-live-action-series

> In Michael Bay's ~~BOOM BOOM POW WHOOSH~~ Tranformers 4

ahahahah

@Jenayah 2019 - 21 = 09

@RDFozz She was already 21 in 2018.

@RDFozz syntax error

11:09 PM

Dec 20 '18 at 21:50, by Alex

@Jenayah You must have recently had a birthday, because you were 20 last time.

If you take away the 2 and the 1, then all that's left is the 0 and the 9 :-)

Eh fair point

JKR maths - the official mathematics of SFF.SE!

By the way, blaming Rowling for maths is probably a misnomer. I suspect it's more a lack of thinking things through than a mathematical disability.

Should "JKR", "JK Rowling" and such be added as blacklisted usernames to Mathematics's Smokey?

@Alex didn't she say "oh God, maths" herself?

11:13 PM

@Jenayah Have I ever accepted something because JK Rowling said it?

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Q: Why is JK Rowling considered 'bad at math'?

An often repeated meme about Harry Potter is that JK Rowling is 'bad at math'. I see this all over this site and the saying is probably used elsewhere. The following is said, in the comments for the selected answer for "How had the Potters 'thrice defied him'?" Hasn't it been mentioned befo...

jk-rowling harry-potter

4 mins ago, by Jenayah

Eh fair point

Although well she's not rethinking herself is she? :^)

For instance, I don't think she thinks that 5x2x7x4=1,000. I imagine she just never bothered to think through the implications of showing five students in a dormitory, and so she just said there were 1,000 students.

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Q: Was it just coincidence that "Barad-dûr?" sounds like an English phrase?

The first time I heard someone talk about Barad-dûr, I thought they were talking about a "barred door." The meaning would be more than appropriate. Is there any chance Tolkien happened to realize he could do this, using his own Middle Earth languages, as a bit of an inside joke? Or is it just ...

the-lord-of-the-rings j-r-r-tolkien tolkien-languages

Ah, so it's not a math flaw... It's never having had to share a dorm ;p

Now it could be related to math. I imagine that someone who is very mathematical might unconsciously realize that 1,000 students wouldn't work with the dormitory situation described. So it could be that she is bad at math and that caused her to not realize that there would be a discrepancy.

11:26 PM

So, she's bad at math. :^)

Possibly, but I think that would only be indirectly responsible for the math issues in the books.

@Jenayah No - being British, she's bad at maths :-)

Fair nuff

Or maybe Jenayah's bad at spelling.

11:44 PM

It's not spelling, it's English not being my native tongue, so I don't have UK/US spelling habits

I read English everyday but it's got both UK/US spellings so basically I don't care :P (when I chat; when I hand an essay I generally write it in US spelling)

I was joking. It's perfectly okay to use either one. (Just don't tell Rand.)

Actually I tailor UK/US spelling depending on the teacher. Helps gather some easy points :P

There's got to be a program that automatically converts it.

@Jenayah how's my answer?

both answers are nice; I do happen to remember the first video you linked

On a technical nitpick I'm not so sure about the Google link as we usually prefer to have the answer in the answer (rotting links and all that) but it's on ebig block of text so it's an odd case here

11:56 PM

@Jenayah Which link?

the link you used to host your txt file

But now I'm torn since I have two great answers ahah

@Jenayah I'll archive it

(I upvoted both, by the way)

hmmm does the archive save the file too?

Then, if I delete it, it'll still be up

or just the link?

11:57 PM

@Jenayah About to check

I'd put it on GitHub, but it wouldn't be anonymous (and I have accounts on all my emails which also aren't)

I mean if we check today it probably still works since the file is in the Drive or stuff, but if it happens to be removed what happens to the link?

@Jenayah It should still be there

I think it's like a .mhtml and stores all the files within

@Stormblessed mmmh,I was aabout to suggest Pastebin but it's not great with formatting, last time I checked

(which was years ago, admittedly)

@Jenayah Damn robots.txt

Drive can't be archived

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