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Q: Novel about an extroverted boy and an introverted girl

William R. EbenezerI'm looking to identify a novel which talks about the relationship between an extroverted boy and an introverted girl, who fears that the boy will forget her and writes to him every week. Another detail that I could find was that the girl's roommate quotes Goethe, telling about how people who ar...

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Q: Series name unknown

Debb55Years ago I read a sci-fi fantasy series about a race of people (started with Ch I believe) who at a certain age bonded with an animal or bird for life. Want to read it again and cannot find the series name.

 
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Q: IDing a reverse-race-prejudice story mentioned by Algis Budrys

Organic MarbleIn a memoir by Algis Budrys in Worlds of If, A Retrospective Anthology, he writes I remember-unfortunately not in detail-a short story in which a returning white astronaut finds the US firmly in the hands of blacks. The blacks were depicted as rather middle-class types, given to three-p...

 
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Q: I want to ask about the title of a specific manga I've read more than 1 year ago

Hafizzuddin NurI've only read a few chapter (perhaps around 10-15), the story goes like this, the mc was summoned by some being (I forgot if it was a god or goddesses or something else) to a white room, where he will be given his skill by a roulette and then sent to another world to finish contract with the one...

 
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Q: How is Captain America worthy?

SathyaHow can Captain America lift Mjolnir in Avengers: Endgame? Is he really worthy for it?

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Q: Manga where a police officer saves a criminal from committing suicide and goes back in time to high school

Jordyn JonesThe manga is about a young woman, working as a police officer. She is in love with a fellow colleague. While visiting her old high school she meets a wanted criminal. Said criminal was about to commit suicide by jumping of a building. The main heroin wanted to prevent this, but falls with him. I...

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@Marvin Looks like a copy paste of an old post but a "different" user, what do we do here?
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Q: Why do the people act like the household items they turn into?

Ernest Friedman-Hill(Split from this question.) In Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” all the castle staff and livestock were, at some time in the past, turned into china , furniture, clocks, feather dusters, etc. These formerly-human objects are filling the roles of the real objects they resemble. The “people” hold...

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Q: How exactly did Gandalf win over Balrog?

ERJANIn the first part they were falling through some abyss. They both fell into some underground lake. In the 2nd part, they are seen fighting on a tower - how could this be?

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@TheLethalCarrot Close the newer one as a dupe, given the circumstances?
Normally I would but it's not 100% clear it's the same user and the old user hasn't accepted the answer
And the new user hasn't actually said on their own question what the answer is
It could be, oh this sounds familiar, instead of re-writing the question I'll just copy paste it
12:38
If the sentences are copy-pasted then dupe-close
If it's the same user, sure but it might not be
@TheLethalCarrot I'm checking
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Q: How is this mild Picard spoiler possible?

GridAlienIn Picard a familiar character asserts to Soji that How is that possible? In TNG, Data says I'd buy the idea that this is a well-kept Tal-Shiar secret, except

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12:51
@AncientSwordRage I knew it!
 
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Q: Why and how did the Banking Clan and Techno Union pretend to be neutral?

Milo PIn the Season Two The Clone Wars episode Senate Spy, Rush Clovis, a senator representing the InterGalactic Banking Clan, is suspected of working with the Separatists, which later turns out to be true. From the episode prologue: Treachery in the Senate! The Jedi Council suspects that Senator...

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Q: Science fiction book where the main character is trying to memorise the face of the person they love

SystemCallsI am 99% sure I read this vs. some other media. 99% of the fiction I read falls into science fiction or fantasy so I should be in the right place. Here are the bits I recall. I read it in the last few years, no guarantee because I have a LOT of books but that makes it likely to have been publis...

The new quote/spoiler formatting is live now
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Q: Quotes vs Spoilers - Style Sheet Change

T.J.L.In the past, quotes and spoilers had a yellow background (using the same color as watched tags). They were basically the same, except for whether or not they hid text. As of sometime today, they both have a grey bar to the left, but only spoilers have a background fill. It is clear the style sh...

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@TheLethalCarrot Yeah, I hadn't paid attention that it was coming and did a bit of a double-take.
My initial reaction was "do not like," but on reflection I can't really see a good reason for that.
Well, other than "change is bad."
18:03
Is it my imagination, or does the new style take up slightly more vertical space?
@TheLethalCarrot @DavidW Hmm. The vertical doesn't bother me much, but without the background colored box for the quotes, the indent on the left of quotes seems too little. I'll try a bit more, but I might edit this with a client-side CSS.
I don't mind the lack of the background color itself. The quote boxes in many phpBB styles are annoying, SE's were slightly less annoying but still superfluous.
18:29
I wasn't super fond of the yellow, but a faint background - even f8 (maybe with a slightly less faint border, say f0) - helps subtly break the response up so it's easier to scan.
Playing with that (f8 bg + f0 border) it's possible to tighten it up and still have it clear.
The advantage of that is that scanning an answer, it's very fast to skip ahead to the end of the quote, which otherwise requires scanning back to the left of the line.
@DavidW I wasn’t a fan of it when it was announced but now it’s live I think I like it more
Though a slight grey background still would have been nice
Agreed.
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I like it, actually.
I like it more than the old but I don’t think it’s distinct enough from regular text
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Q: Does the Dungeons & Dragons Movie (2000) take place in any known setting?

TreeSpawnedDoes anyone know if the Dungeons & Dragons Movie from 2000 takes place in any established D&D setting like the Forgotten Realms or does it take place in a original setting separate from any known D&D universe?

 
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Q: how can magic be cancelled out?

NAME.ex is not respondingif you can think of a resource or device that could stop magic from working what would it be and how? also how would you use magic? like chanting or drawing magic circles (open to other) (planing to use magic for fusion of cats and humans making catgirls or to bring art to life)

@Marvin Also way too broad in addition to being off-topic.
Also a not very happy or nice OP
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Q: help me find a movie- its about a monsters that come from a portal from the future

אור פארat first the people that first saw the future was so scared or something from how the world has come to this, so they try to stop the future from happening, but it ends up that the future actually happened because the monsters came from the portal to the future. so the monsters originated from ...

@TheLethalCarrot Sorry about stepping on your edit.
Lol it’s alright, all three of us did
Odd that Valorum’s tag edit blocked my initial edit but you and Valorum could then edit “over” mine
21:59
@DavidW Other than that it makes quotes much less distinguishable from the actual content of the post?
@NapoleonWilson I think that's ultimately the nub of it. I appreciate anything that adds semantically-meaningful structure/meta-information, and miss the lack of it.
If I have the background cue that I'm reading a quotation, then I'm not going to have to process a shift in voice (for instance).
I can also instantly glance ahead to check that I'm understanding the quote in the correct context and flip back, because the background creates unmissable wayfinding.
Also, when editing, I can more easily concentrate on the parts that are in the post author's own words.
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Q: Anime (maybe movie) about a boy meets naked girl with a very dinstinct thick collar or bracelet

AzikI’m trying to find an anime I saw on Mangas Channel in Hotbird Satellite before 2006, i think it was a trailer. I remember watching a boy in the street that notices a young girl walking naked with thick bracelet on her wrist or maybe it was a collar on her neck , definitely had an inscription o...


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