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Q: Sci fi novel series about teens fighting a robot proxy war

tumsI'm looking for the name of a book series. This was a series I read a while ago. It was about a school for special teenagers who were going to pilot robots to fight proxy wars in outer space. All the teens have some kind of neural network / computer implanted into their brain so they can learn ba...

 
 
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10:55 AM
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Q: Is this image of Jean-Luc Picard sourced from a TNG episode?

feebI recently played Star Trek: The Next Generation: Echoes from the Past, and was greeted by the following image of a front-facing Picard on several screens: I at first assumed that the image was hand-drawn pixel art, made from scratch for the game, but according to Memory Alpha's page on Future's...

 
 
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12:24 PM
posted on October 30, 2020 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: I could live with all the bigotry and ignorance, but must they have jpeg artifacts? Today's News:

 
1:01 PM
@CerealBot metabolomic?
 
 
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2:35 PM
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Q: Book about very long lived wizards who live in a secret grove and watch society evolve

RobI'm looking for the name of a book/series I read when I was younger (maybe early 2000s?) that follows a family of very long-lived wizards/magicians who live in a tower in some sort of secret grove and watch human society evolve from a distance. There are multiple books, possibly each one followin...

 
2:54 PM
@Marvin Holy crap. Except for not being the Belgariad this is totally describing the Belgariad.
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So the easiest way to find this is probably look for people who have been sued for plagarism by David Eddings in the past 10-20 years. :-P
Waitaminit. Polgara did dress in blue. Maybe this is the Belgarath and Polgara books?
 
3:12 PM
@DavidW who knows...
 
@CerealBot Chinese healthcare?
 
4:07 PM
Greetings, Earthlings.
 
Greetings, Hubble guy!
 
5:07 PM
@Donald.McLean Privyet!
 
5:45 PM
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Q: How does Tony Stark control his suit?

JamesMI've been watching the MCU recently and have come to think about: how does Tony control his suit? I've googled this before and someone said that it uses things in the mask that read his brain signals and therefore, would only have to think about moving his arm or flying to do it. However, in Iron...

 
 
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7:44 PM
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Q: Looking for the name of a children's book about hobbit-like people

KatieI read this book 10+ years ago at a libary and now I cannot for the life of me remember the title. Plot things that I remember: In the first book, there are two groups of hobbit-like people. The first group live like us in houses and have schools. The second group all live together in one group u...

 
 
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9:47 PM
Very few questions today...
 
10:18 PM
Very little of anything today.
 
yep
 
11:07 PM
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Q: Star Wars Prequel fanfic where it turns out almost all of the Jedi masters are secretly married

FuzzyBootsThis was a minor subplot, but the only part that's sticking out in my head. It happened several chapters in, I think, with a fanfic that started around the second film and kept many of the events there. Anakin confesses to Obi-Wan that he has secretly married Padme. Obi-Wan, much disturbed, says ...

 
11:31 PM
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Q: What does The Doctor mean by "Hello" in "The beast below"?

mborkNear the end of "The beast below", there is this exchange between Amy and The Doctor: Have you ever run away from something, because... because you were scared, or... or not ready, or just... just because you could? Once, a long time ago. What happened? Hello! I have virtually no idea wha...

 

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