A user was just removed who had obviously voted on some of my posts. I lost 20 reputation which may not seem like a lot to all y'all with 400k+ (ahem, Valorum, ahem), but I was pretty annoyed. So what, exactly, is considered a "significant" reputation drop?

In the arcade in Terminator 2, John is seen playing some sort of game with a big seat that rotates around. What game is it?

I saw a film a few years ago. They had a spaceship and went to their spaceship station where these spider type things were on board where they later found out. They leave and blow up the station and then get a call to check out another spaceship which had a distress call. It was completely aban...

I I was a regular collector of Analog and other sci do mags through the 90's and 00's. The collection is sitting in a storage space in TN that needs to be cleaned out. If someone is interested, let me know I can give more specific details.

It was a movie that took place in I think an apartment complex. There was a little girl who got attacked in her apartment and she had to escape by crawling from room to room through the duct vents. The building had a large parking garage that the surviving people holed up in from the zombies. Spo...

How do you think Louis reacted when he found out that his wife was pregnant? after the way he behaves with Claudia he seemed to be a very caring father. In the scenario his wife was older than him, maybe it lasted until they had a child and that's why he suffered so much and shows his love as a...

How do you think Louis reacted when he found out that his wife was pregnant? after the way he behaves with Claudia he seemed to be a very caring father. In the scenario his wife was older than him, maybe it lasted until they had a child and that's why he suffered so much and shows his love as a f...

Seeing that Voldemort got killed by his own killing curse, it seems to me that J. K. Rowling has enforced Batman's "No Kill Policy" on Harry. But, is this really the case? If I recall murders committed by the light side (good guys), I remember Molly Weasley killing Bellatrix. So, good guys weren...

I have just finished reading this book by Arthur C. Clarke, and while I mostly enjoyed it, there is one thing I cannot wrap my head around. Near the end of the book, when engineer Morgan uses a Spider to climb up 600km on his tower to bring oxigen and supplies to the people stranded after an acc...

We see in both books and movies that Harry Potter is Dumbledore's golden boy.Their relationship was more of a personal thing. Dumbledore was more like a mentor than a headmaster to Harry and Dumbledore makes sure that Harry is safe.The boy knows this that he is there for him if anything happens....

I have vague memory of a book about a kid going to another world by hippopotamus. I remember it was a good book. It was a fantasy novel as I remember there was a blind king and a music band that jumps off a waterfall. I believe I read it 4-5 years ago and I remember it wasn't an old book.

In this Batman Beyond clip one of the Jokers says: Let's put a smile on that face. Is there any official source that Nolan got that quote from Batman Beyond and used it for the Joker in The Dark Knight?

I'm not very familiar with actually reading comic books instead of watching TV and animated series, but here goes: I recently started reading Amazing Spider-Man from issue 546 and then between 573 and 575 realized how drastically the art's style has changed. The style was pretty prominent for at...

When a Wizard calls his House Elf's name, it appears. But how does the Elf know it was called?

Read the novel in the late eighties as a child. Short novel in a paperback format. About 150 pages. My memory is hazy so some details may be plain wrong. The evil wizard X, left the real of (civilized) man into the wild. Alternatively, he was always one of the barbarians. He found a magic trinke...

I read this story (probably a novel, but maybe a short story or novella) in the mid-1990s or earlier. I have an uncertain memory that it may have been a sequel or the second story in a series. I also have a vague memory that passing out from g-forces during a space launch was expected, so the sto...

I was pondering what exactly happens to the galaxy after it has been completely conquered by the Tyranids and they have consumed all the biomass. This will wipe out the Tau and the Imperium (and the Emperor), and if they are indeed 100% thorough then the Orks will be permanently exterminated. I i...

The main character, a boy had a fire monster and his friend all had diffarent monsters with diffarent elements. In the finale the boy convinced a giant fire monster (i think they were titans or something) to help him fight the villain, who awakened a water titan. The main characters friends also ...

I just read the Superman Blue volume 1 trade paperback (collecting Superman #122-125, Adventures of Superman #545-547, Action Comics #732-734, Superman: The Man of Steel #67-69, and Superman Annual #9, published April 1997 through July 1997). In it, Superman loses his traditional powers and gets ...

„We have long ago paid the goblins of Moria, said Thorin.“ From chapter 1 of the book The hobbit by Tolkien. What does it mean? Did the goblins pay for their murder or did the dwarves stopped paying them thoughts? Not a native speaker so some expressions I have to look up, this one I could not ...

Obviously a term from Blade Runner, I am guessing this is not incidental but can find little about it online.

One of the major themes in this book is a specific berry/fruit that, when eaten, causes the person who eats it to slip into a coma and have an out of body experience. They can then float around at will in their incorporeal form. However, there are limits, whoever eats the berry/fruit has to "re-e...

The opening credits of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (a Harryhausen monster classic) features the camera panning across an artwork that shows scenes from the film. It looks like a rather interesting mixed media (painting and other methods) artwork, but there seem...