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Q: Looking for a name of science fiction book similar to John Carter of Mars

Bobrokladlooking for a long lost book very similar to John Carter of Mars. Details are a bit hazy but the story is as follows. Man/soldier finds ancient ruins in i think Vietnamese jungle when hiding from enemy troops. In those ruins he falls into nephrite jade well which transports him to Mars where he d...

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Q: Did the remaining Death Eaters fight back after Voldemort's death?

I N T E R E S T I N GAfter Voldemort died, shouldn't the remaining Death Eaters still fight back? We know that they don't need a leader to organize their attacks: Loud jeering, roars of laughter, and drunken yells were drifting toward them; then came a burst of strong green light, which illuminated the scene. A c...

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Q: Why didn't Queen Amidala reveal herself to the Jedi knights earlier in The Phantom Menace?

Hunter BatleyIf the Queen really trusted the two Jedi knights, why not reveal herself?

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Q: i need help with finding a apparently very not-well-known cartoon show that was about magic stones and fighting with monsters

droid2356okay, so what I remember was that it had (its really vague but its all I got): -three or four main characters, one of them a girl, two of them guys, then there was like a dad of grandpa helping them. they have magic stones they use to capture creatures, or they like live inside the gemstone t...

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A: And the Best New User of 2018 is

I N T E R E S T I N GGo Jenayah! Congratulations for your exceptional work and immense contributions to our Stack Exchange community!

Wait why’d that not grade period? Weird... — Stormblessed 1 min ago
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I think grace period only applies to the original posting, not the edits.
If I'm making edits in review, I used to save after one action, say fixing tags, then again for title or body edits to reduce the chance of losing edits to someone who is faster. And they showed up as individual edits, not merged.
(Now I just wait until after reviewing to fix things because there are some people here who jump on everything immediately, and it's not worth trying to race them. :)
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@Stormblessed oh yeah it’s because of the comments. See meta.stackoverflow.com/q/321430/6083675. — Laurel 42 mins ago
It's because I have comments on the edits
Smells like Tuna(ki) — Tim Castelijns Apr 21 '16 at 6:48
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Annoying to not be able to vote on a post that was locked just for comments
Like this one
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@Stormblessed Tunaki is a user who was once extremely active in moderation stuff on SO, especially automated stuff. They left the site a while back, though.
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Q: A magical pen or marker that what is drawn with comes to life

myriaidee1sessh43I recall that it was a boy and a pen falls from the sky. I think he draws a fish and it comes to life and jumps yo the river or pond. He takes it home and has a blue wall at his room and he draws a hippo, and it comes to life. I just recall that they livef in a fishing town and lived by tje bay o...

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Q: What does this line mean from Avengers Endgame?

sanpacoIn Avengers: Endgame after Thanos arrives and destroys the Avengers base, we see War Machine yell out, "Canopy! Canopy! Canopy!" This appears to be a command which releases him from his suit and allows him to move freely. My question is what is the significance of the phrase? Why would that spec...

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Q: What time-related powers has Dr. Strange demonstrated in the comics?

ThePopMachineIn the MCU, the Eye of Agamotto houses the Time Stone, and Dr. Strange has demonstrated numerous powers, including: ageing/deageing fruit trapping Dormamu in a repeating time loop seeing 14,000,605 possible futures However, as I understand it, in the comics, the Eye of Agamotto is not relate...

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Q: Explain Ant-Man's "not it" scene from Avengers: Endgame

KharoBangdoIn Avengers: Endgame, during the brainstorming session with all the surviving Avengers, there is a scene where Nebula recalls that Thanos went to Vormir with Gamora, retrieved the Soul stone, and came back without Gamora. Then Scott Lang (Ant-Man) says "Not it" awkwardly. What did it mean? Wh...

 
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Q: What comic book are Young Sheldon and Paige talking about in the carbon dating museum?

Pre-alphaPaige asks Sheldon if humans will become extinct like dinosaurs and Sheldon replies, Yes, but not before some of us merge with computers and become immortal cyborgs. Sheldon then says he got the idea from a comic book. Anyone know which comic book that is?

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Q: Interstellar time travel explanation

nooravI realise I'm late, in fact 5 years late but I got to properly see the movie only now so please be patient in answering. 1)How does time travel in Interstellar work? I understand the whole plot of the movie and that Cooper was Murphy's ghost. But if Cooper had to be her ghost, he should have gon...

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Q: ANALOG story about Genetic engineering

CovertwalrusOK, tricky one. I know the title, not the author. Sometime in the last couple decades, ANALOG magazine ran a story called "Super Hero" about a robbery of a submarine sandwich shop (hence the pun title). It takes place in a future where genetic engineering has given people an assortment of trait...

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Q: Are there mythical creatures in the world of GoT?

vojtaThere are quite a lot of creatures from our real world ancient myths, that exist in the world of GoT: giants, dragons etc. However, are there any creatures that are mythical in both worlds? Creatures mentioned in either book or show which are mythical both in our real world ancient myths and myt...

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"Super Hero" about a robbery of a submarine sandwich shop (hence the pun title) I didn't get the pun :/
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Q: How exactly did Voldemort look before his killing curse rebounded?

RubyWhen he came to Dumbledore asking for a job at Hogwarts, he hid Ravenclaw's diadem in the Room of Requirements. When Harry saw the memory, he noticed that although he did not look like the handsome Tom Riddle, his features were not snake-like as of then. Ravenclaw's diadem was his last horcrux be...

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Q: ANALOG story about Genetic engineering

CovertwalrusOK, tricky one. I know the title, not the author. Sometime in the last couple decades, ANALOG magazine ran a story called "Super Hero" about a robbery of a submarine sandwich shop (hence the pun title). It takes place in a future where genetic engineering has given people an assortment of trait...

> password recovery requires the old password
that sounds... stupid...?
@Jenayah Back before the IOC got blatant and stupid in its idiotic trademark overreach, there used to be a Greek restaurant called "Olympic Gyros." The owners had to explain the pun to 99% of their patrons. :)
Today I learned, "IOC"
"CIO"?
Thanks, though. There was one pun I didn't understand, and now with your anecdote, there are two :P
But I'm sharing your pain! I had to have that one explained to me.
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Then start explaining xD
"Gyros" is pronounced (in Greek) approximately "yEEros."
So if you say it fast "olympic yEEros" sounds like "olympic heroes."
And yes, they sold gyros and submarine sandwiches.
WTF I'd have pronounced that "guros"... I think the little Greek I know may be very outdated, something like 2000 years outdated :D
(In fact a gyros sub was yummy.)
I don't get what's so special about submarine sandwiches. Like, I didn't know whta it was Googled it, but it'sjust a regular sandwich.
For someone from France, where baguette is regular bread, of course.
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It's not "regular bread". It's bread. :P
For someone from the anglosphere where breads are rectangular, it was revolutionary to have buns shaped like that. (Or so I assume.)
oh hey is that why the fastfood chain is called "Subway"?
Yep. They sell "subs."
ooooh. I never thought about it before I guess
By "regular bread" I meant "not special occasion bread" so not, for instance, brioche, panettone (Italy), egg challa...
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Anyway, Subway sandwiches taste awful.
@DavidW rectangular bread.... tssss.
@Jenayah But it stacks so much better! :)
I'm not going to argue in favour of Subway bread. I like a good baguette, but I also like a nice pumpernickel or other rye breads.
Years ago I bought a really nice walnut bread somewhere around Nevers, and there was a delicious rosemary bread I got in Gap.
Sorry, Apt. Confusing trips.
Have you ever seen seiche ink bread? I tasted those a couple days ago. I was looking at what we had to propose for food packages in an association, and they had some but no one would take them 'cause in all honesty, it looks awful. I thought they were some weird black mushrooms at first
It tastes surprisingly good!
Well, the images look much better. In real life it looks spongy and dusty.
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No, I've never seen bread coloured with squid ink. Pasta yes, risotto yes, but not bread. Never even knew it was a thing, TBH.
Didn't either until a couple days ago :D
I'd definitely be willing to give it a try. It's got to be better than any of the "white bread" that's sold in the English-speaking world. :)
It justes tastes like regular burger bread. A little bit drier maybe.
Yeah, that's kind of my experience with squid-ink pasta; it's mostly cosmetic. (Though with the right sauce and good presentation it can look fantastic.)
Unrelated - when did that happen? travel.stackexchange.com/posts/139427/edit
Less than a week ago this banner didn't link to the privileges page, right?
Weird. It's not linked to on communities I have an account on, but <2k literature.stackexchange.com/posts/10985/edit
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@Jenayah Right. I just did the same test edit, on the same site, as I did last week when I verified it wasn't there. Now it is.
Oh, maybe because of the logged in thingy?
Oh, the logged in thingy was already there?
I need to review that conversation. Do you have a link?
I'm not sure anymore. Now I'm confused. :)
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Anyone here on a computer? Could you confirm what the comments pointed out here? I only saw mobile and desktop on mobile, it shouldn't be different on computer but still https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/328526/398063
ooooh indeed
Ah. The "You do not have edit privileges." is still missing.
Comments only asked about logged in, logged out was my addition in the post
going to update the meta then...
 
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@Jenayah No link on desktop to that page
Oops, I'm at 6 edits. :(
C'mon people, post questions! (Or answer them, either works.)
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Q: Can The Mallorean be read without first reading The Belgeriad?

MithrandirDavid Edding's series The Mallorean, consisting of five books, is set in the same universe as his prior series, The Belgariad, also consisting of five books. (These books are not small.) Now, I've read The Belgariad, but not The Mallorean. However, if I have a friend who has the ability read The...

@DavidW There, done :P I've been meaning to ask it for a bit, only now got around to it
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@Marvin ...and four comment answers, with no proper answer. *eyeroll*
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Q: TV show or movie: Diseased people are exiled to a spaceship

Rockyx123There was a programme I saw on TV a long time ago. I think since that "episode" was self-contained that it was either an episode of a series similar to the Twilight Zone or the Outer Limit. There was a disease (it might have been called Rigum) and those infected were exiled to this ship. The dis...

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Q: Why did Voldemort send Wormtail to Snape's house?

ClarabelleWas it in order to keep an eye on him? Wormtail had taken a habit of eavesdropping on his conversations, according to Snape, so keeping an eye on him seems like the only plausible reason why he was sent there.

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Q: Old BW sci-fi movie

Mark KendrickCan't remember if I even remember this movie correctly, but here goes. About 50 years ago I saw a BW sci-fli flick on TV. It had sorta pumpkin headed aliens in it who had landed on Earth. Their eyes were on the back of their hands. One of the hands gets severed and it crawls thru the forest in th...

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@Mithrandir Yeah, well I have a strong feeling but with the books currently 2h away, no actual quotable support for that.
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@Mithrandir There, that a proper enough answer for you? :-P
Haven't finished reading through it yet :P
In-depth, shows knowledge of the situation, thorough... I'll allow it. ;)
Gotta show people what a well-supported answer to a suggested-order question looks like ;-)
Yeah, "do it this way because I said so" doesn't really work
To be fair, it's hard to justify one's gut feeling that one book does or doesn't depend on another.
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I remember when "Pawn of Prophecy" and "Queen of Sorcery" came out, how the novelty of the longer novels (c.350pp when most novels were still 180-250pp) was more than offset by the sticker shock. A whole $3 for a paperback!!
Then maybe a decade later I was slogging my way through some forgotten-except-for the-length novel that literally pushed the limits of paperback binding technology at 32 signatures between the covers.
And I wondered if maybe perhaps there hadn't been an upside to the older-style shorter novels that were (mostly, Andre Norton was an exception) not being produced anymore...
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Q: In Shrek 3, should Doris (the ugly stepsister) be considered Royalty by Association?

Alex DownsI’m just asking, because she joined Fiona’s princess circle even though she isn’t a princess and one tie-in book called her “An Honorary Princess.” Also, I’ve tried to make a Royalty by Association category on the Shrek Wiki, but making categories is not one of my strengths, so I’ve asked others...

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Q: Older sci-fi novel about insectoid winged alien invaders and Christianity

Karl GreenI read this novel when I was young and dumb, and I would love to read it again as an adult to suss out some more meaning. Parts of the plot that I remember: Super advanced insectoid winged aliens invade earth. They are very random, doing things like cure disease and pour wealth from spaceships ...

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Is Buffy good?
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Q: Why do people call Bellatrix Lestrange a psychopath?

ClarabelleShe was clearly not a psychopath. She loved Voldemort, psychopaths do not love. Psychopaths are charming, she wasn't (I am talking about book Bella, not HBC). Psychopaths rarely lose control, she often lost control. She had emotional attachment towards people and causes. She wasn't even psychotic...

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Q: Why did Himarm get suspended?

I N T E R E S T I N GI was poking around and I noticed that his account was suspended. I am expecting this question to be marked as a dupe in about 5 minutes because it's probably hidden in some question that I haven't found. I was just curious: why was Himarm suspended?

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Q: In search of author name for a story

AbhiI read a story about ex lovers who met each other after few years in a beach at sunrise..and following days had an attraction and ended up in marriage..I read this book around 2012 ..I remember the story name as A Lovers touch..who could be the author??

@Slartibartfast Half the comments there could be answers.
@Alex a good bunch are jokes, and the others say such questions are to be deleted, not answered.
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Q: Online short story about a robot plugged to a wall that becomes sentient

marev711I’m looking for an online (very) short story written in English that I read about 10 years ago. The story is about a couple of scientists making repeated experiments on a robot that is attached by a power cord to the wall. During the experiments the robot becomes sentient but cannot communicate ...

@Jenayah I didn't see any mentioning deletion.
You didn't read the meta I linked to? :'(
@Jenayah A linked Meta is not a comment.
Anyway, hit 6,000 questions today.
@Alex oh c'mon :P
@Jenayah Well I didn't read it.
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@Alex :(
@Jenayah If you would have mentioned deletion in the comment I would have followed the link.
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Q: How is Princess Daisy a tomboy?

LaurelThe games say that Daisy is a tomboy. However, I don't see her acting like one. Is there a good reason why she's called a tomboy? Here's the background: The Japanese instructions for Super Mario Land, the game where Daisy debuted, seem to be where this started, describing Daisy as: ちょっ...

But to make up for it I'll read one of your recent posts.
Hmm, now I have a question about your answer.
> Even Captain Marvel might not have been able too, and she's easily in the top 3 of overpowered people in the MCU.
Is this me not knowing enough about what you're talking about, or is it possibly a misuse of the word "overpowered"?
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Q: Children's book (maybe German) I read in about 1995, fox and badger need to dig a tunnel to escape from farmer guarding their burrow's exit

user7333I'm looking for a children's book that I read some time between 1997 and 1999, but it wasn't a new book so I guess it might have been written before 1990. I must have been about 8-10 years old when I read it. The book I read was in German, I don't know if it has been released in any other langua...

@Slartibartfast Why was that deleted?
@Alex “overpowered” is misused (including by me) a lot, meaning “too powerful”
I want a VLQ button that says "It's kind of an answer, so I can't justify deleting it, but it's really not a very good one."
@Stormblessed That was my guess. But it would really mean almost the exact opposite.
@DavidW There is one.
I think it's one of those thingies where a word - "overly powerful" - is simplified to fewer syllables without regard to the change of meaning. Whatever those are called...
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@Alex That would imply that it deserves enough work for me to compose some text. Which frequently would imply me spending more time on the review than the author apparently spent on the post.
@DavidW So ask for a raise.
@Alex That doesn't even work in a real job! The only revenge is slacking off!
@Marvin This is answered explicitly in the book. It shouldn't be deleted and almost closed.
Huh. Didn't we just vote to reopen that?
No.
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Huh. I guess not. Shows my brain is mush now.
But you can get yourself 4,071 more reputation and vote to undelete it.
Okay, ask me an easy question.
Wait, on second thought, that might backfire. Nevermind...
I'm getting sidetracked. My pedantometer just exploded when looking at the user's profile.
Don't tell me the guy hasn't posted when I just read two posts.
Perhaps it should say "This user has no posts."
@DavidW Why would it backfire?
"This user hasn't posted yet anymore."
@DavidW It's perfectly accurate and also confusing. Nice!
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@Alex Well, you have a bit of a rep for attracting downvotes. And one of only 3 answers I've gotten downvotes on was for a question of yours.
@DavidW When did you answer a question of mine?
@Alex Oh right, that wasn't you. Sorry.
It was HP so I just assumed; why else would I have read it?
12 mins ago, by DavidW
Huh. I guess not. Shows my brain is mush now.
@DavidW You talking about your answer to the Burrow question?
It would make sense that you associate it with me...
@Alex Yeah, my one and only HP answer.
It does, in a way, since the fact I answered it was kinda your fault. :)
In any case, every extant answer to one of my negatively scored questions has a positive score except for two, one of which is my own. Some of them even have pretty decent scores.
@DavidW What if I told you that I was the downvoter?
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@Alex I'd say that it made you seem insecure. :)
@DavidW Well it actually wasn't me.

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