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Imagine: My fanfiction: Snape saw Harry in a deserted corridor and said, "Harry, I love you". The next day Ron said to Hermione, "did you hear? Snape professed his love for Harry." My question: How did Ron know that Snape professed his love for Harry if the corridor was deserted?
 
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@Randal'Thor And the other half is where the author's ramblings are wrong?
 
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Q: Teen Book series of the MC being transported to different worlds to solve the puzzle

ralph chamberlainHey guys I’ve tried to remember and search for this book series I read about 14-15 years ago. From what I can remember, it had the main character being transported to different worlds with different environments for every book and I believe the MC would have to solve how the world worked to leave...

 
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Q: Stop motion animated film- Santa Claus goes to war with giants

Nu'DaqThis was on TV god knows how long- I guess the upcoming holidays shook my memory of it loose. Like I said it was stop motion animated, and claimed to tell the story of Santa Claus, but in this version of his story he is threatened by a group of giants who for some reason or another oppose his lea...

 
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Q: RIP: Hugh Keays-Byrne (Toecutter + Immortan Joe)

MöozHugh Keays-Byrne, who played the role of Toecutter AND Immortan Joe from the Mad Max series (36 years apart!) has passed away on the 1st of December, 2020. Tributes are flowing in. https://twitter.com/edgarwright/status/1334200226236788740 https://twitter.com/CharlizeAfrica/status/13342568561983...

 
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Q: In the first Resident Evil film, why does the Red Queen not destroy the equiptment meant to shut her down while it was in the laser corridor?

AJHClearly, the Red Queen is watching everyone through her camera surveillance system. So when the tech answers Alice's question about what the equipment the team is carrying into the corridor is for and says it delivers a massive electrical pulse that will shut down the Red Queen, why, when she su...

 
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Q: Why did the Klingon cloaking effect change from Star Trek 3 to Star Trek 4?

LincolnManThe Klingon Bird of Prey in Star Trek: The Search for Spock has a shimmering effect when the cloaking device is on. The shimmering effect is so pronounced that Kirk and Sulu are able to see it visually. But the same ship in Star Trek: The Voyage Home has no shimme...

 
 
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Q: Carmen Sandiego

Micah InfieldWhere in the world is Carmen Sandiego right now?

 
 
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Q: How did this character appeared in the sofa?

Deshan AthensIn Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), at couples therapy, Joanna and Elizabeth saw their older one arrived to present timeline through phone booth. We see this ancient person sitting on sofa: How did this character appeared in the sofa?

 
8:59 AM
@DavidW Firstly, congrats on your gold story-ID tag badge! I didn't know you had one. Secondly, why'd you close this as a dupe of this? Both Q&A are of very similar quality, but it seems to me the older Q is slightly more detailed and the older A even more slightly so. Also, in a case where quality is similar, shouldn't we err on the side of closing the newer one anyway?
I'm thinking to swap the dupes (there's a pending flag), but wanted to get your thinking first in case I missed something.
 
I don't think we should ever bring age in to it... certainly so for story-ids
But from eyeballing it the older one might be of slightly better quality, but it's not really a major difference so I don't think it really matters which way round they're closed
 
@TheLethalCarrot Quality is always more important than age, but age can act as a tie-breaker IMO. Ceteris paribus.
 
9:14 AM
Meh, personally I wouldn't bring age into it at all
Same with checkmark, vote count, etc.
 
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Q: Looking for a mystery novel serie whose protagonists are two old retired women

clefI am looking for a series of books, where the two main protagonists are old women, solving crime, much to the dismay of the local police. If I remember properly, they stumble on their first crime by chance (and I think one of the two is not so enthusiastic about solving crime initially, even pret...

 
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Q: 1980's (maybe 70's) Scifi book series I can't remember the title

Snowy Ann EgretI'm trying to remember the name of a book I read in high school (about 1984) that was about other planets which were colonized one by native Americans, one by Mennonites, one by Mormons etc. Very strict rules on each planet and that's all I can remember. Although I read it in high school, I g...

 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer, repeated url at end of long post (101): OOU whats this Eve thing all about? by Agware Gideon on scifi.SE
 
 
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We all jumped on this one didn't we heh
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Q: Manga about a noble girl who is an author

BujikunI've been wanting to reread this manga for a while but could not remember the name. It's about a noble girl who is secretly a popular author. She is then suddenly engaged to a mostly expressionless man who is mostly known as the prince's bodyguard. Also the noble girl uses her noble status to go ...

 
 
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Question; there's an answer to this question (scifi.stackexchange.com/q/239900/2292) - scifi.stackexchange.com/a/239911/2292 -- that has many upvotes, but am I missing something? It doesn't actually answer the question.
The question is: "Does anyone know what fanzine this could have been, and if the review might be available anywhere?" and the answer says "I probably have a copy of the review in a box in the basement, but I don't have the inclination to locate it now, the time available to find it, or the physical ability to check it out sixty some years later." -- basically it's contributing some interesting information, but not actually answering the question.
Am I misunderstanding something?
The fact that it is from the author of the review and may be interesting info has garnered it 56 upvotes, so I'm hesitant to flag it as a non-answer.. but that's kind of what it looks like; it's more Comment material than answer, to my way of thinking. Anyone have any thoughts?
 
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Q: In "The Jedi", why did Lang the mercenary only fake armistice with the Mandalorian? Wasn't it really in his interest?

Jann PoppingaIn "The Mandalorian" Season 2, Episode 5 "The Jedi", the Mandalorian teams up with the Jedi Ahsoka Tano to kill a local autocrat (Elsbeth), her mercenary Lang and her troops. When all troops have been defeated, the Mandalorian faces off with Lang while Tano duels Elsbeth. After a bit of tension, ...

 
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@K-H-W I think it's too long to make it a comment
But it earned my downvote while I think about what to do with it
 
5:29 PM
@AncientSwordRage Thanks -- I wanted to make sure it wasn't just me -- it's nice to have the subject of a question (kind of; the author of the piece, anyway) respond... But if it doesn't actually answer the question...
 
@K-H-W I read the answer as "no, the review is not available".
 
@Null And I can kind of see that, but it's not complete. It's 'No, it's not available from me (I probably have it but am not going to search for it)', but doesn't preclude someone else having it. As such, it doesn't really answer the question, to me.
 
@K-H-W I reviewed it, but only requested it be updated rather than immediately downvoting it.
 
5:51 PM
posted on December 03, 2020 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: Suddenly regretting that I didn't make him look like Nate Silver. Today's News:

 
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Q: Could Thanos have created more resources rather than kill half of the population? MCU

rzaratxHow powerful are the Infinity Stones when they are all combined in the Infinity Gauntlet? Thanos states that he wants to kill half of the population in order to ensure that there are enough resources to go around. Could he have made more resources instead of killing half of the population or is t...

 
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@Randal'Thor I missed that you finally got there, @DavidW. Congrats, welcome to the club! :D
 
6:26 PM
@Randal'Thor Thanks. In retrospect I'm not sure; feel free to adjust. Possibly the mystically-significant numbers seemed important to me.
@Jenayah Thank you! (I do note the "finally." ;-P)
@K-H-W If someone has an excess of time and enthusiasm they could search here: fanac.org/fanzines/chronological_listing_of_fanzines.html#1960s
 
@DavidW Makes sense -- I haven't voted either way yet; I came here to try to bug the Hivemind to get thoughts first.
@DavidW Nice; I don't have an excess of time, but I'll try anyway.
 
@K-H-W Any answer in the negative to such a question is arguably "not complete" since it's impossible to perform an exhaustive search.
And even if a review is available somewhere, it means that the "no" answer is wrong, not that it isn't an answer.
 
@Null True; which is why a lot stay unanswered. They really can't be well answered except with a 'Yes, and it is X'. Also he didn't say no, he said that he probably has it but won't look. "I probably have a copy of the review in a box in the basement, but I don't have the inclination to locate it now, the time available to find it, or the physical ability to check it out sixty some years later." -- that's just saying HE won't answer it after being asked directly.
To me that's good info, and prevents people from going down that path.. but it doesn't answer it. I could post that "I have lots of magazines from then.. but I'm not going to look." and it would be, also, a non-answer, to me. See my logic?
 
Personally I thought that seemed a bit coy; could he really not remember which zine (or a relatively small number of possibilities) published a review that had that memorable a reaction?
 
To me, it's an excellent comment to help avoid one path for people to go to find it (asking the author).. but not an answer.
All that said, I haven't been participating much for the last few years, so I wanted to bring it here instead of flagging it, to see what you all think.
 
6:43 PM
@K-H-W "No" answers to such questions are perfectly acceptable. They are hard to prove but are nonetheless answers.
 
I suppose that the answer may have a certain amount of value as a confirmation from the other principal that it really happened. I agree that's more of a comment though.
 
@Null I follow you, this one just bugs me. He's not saying 'No', he's saying 'I could probably get it, but I'm not gonna.' THAT bugs me. A 'It's a little know fanzine that only ever had 200 copies, and I believe most were lost in a fire.' I could see.. but 'I probably have a copy, but am not gonna look' feels more like a comment. To me, it's not qualitatively different from 'I dunno.' being posted.
 
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A: How long was Bill Murray's character (Phil Connors) supposed to be in a time loop in the film "Groundhog Day"?

Danny RubinAllow me to jump in here. Hi everyone. As mentioned above¹ my original intent was that Phil would live for longer than a single lifetime. That was the point of the original script: to see how a person might change if he lived longer than one lifetime (it was always about a man who could not es...

^ FWIW, another example of a canonical source signing up to post answers with mixed reactions
That does undeniably answer the question, is the main difference. And the extra "answers" which didn't were deleted, but they were also edited in to the main answer.
 
Or perhaps I'm just being pedantic.
 
I'm sort of tempted to say that we should make an exception to usual NAA regulations since the original source himself showed up to write an answer. But I'm not sure enough about any view on this to commit a diamond-weighted opinion.
 
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@Randal'Thor How do we know it's the original source?
I'm inclined to keep it simply because not everyone agrees whether it's an answer or not, and it's too long to simply convert to a comment.
 
It feels genuine. I haven't done any PII checking to try and verify the user's identity.
 
It also showed up after Fuzzy said he was going to try and ping Panshin on FB.
 
7:14 PM
@DavidW yeah, what took you so long?! :P
 
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@Randal'Thor Since we're discussing reasons for closing stuff; was I wrong with scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/239779/… vs scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/206178/… too?
Obviously I'm biased (but so is O.M.) hence asking.
 
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Q: In Waterworld Are Deacon and the Smokers local thugs?

MCU And You Film BlogIn Waterworld Are Deacon and the Smokers local thugs? Who are the Antagonists in Waterworld Children of the Leviathan or any other licensed Waterworld content?

 
@DavidW I'd say Organic Marble closed it the wrong way; both the Q and A are better in the newer version.
 
Thanks, that's what I thought too.
 
Note though that the older version is already a dupe target of another question.
 
That's weird. I wonder why?
 
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Wait, no, I got that wrong. Never mind.
I saw it in the "linked questions" sidebar and saw it was closed as a dupe, and jumped to a wrong conclusion.
It's a dupe of something else.
 
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Q: Novel set during Roman era with main protagonist is a werewolf

BlairI read this novel in paperback around 2002 in the UK, I bought it new then so it was in print in the early 2000s. The novel was set in Roman times, but I cannot recall during which period or Emperor. I think it involved Roman Britain so at least Hadrian and possibly Antoninus Pius. The main chara...

 
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@Null Sounds reasonable -- I asked; I here because I wasn't confident of my interpretation of the rules.
 
 
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Have you noticed that the word "lirpa" still doesn't occur on our site? scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=lirpa
 

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