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Q: 80s or 90s anime with a robot chasing a girl in a flying craft

Diego ForcatoIt's an anime probably from the 80-90s. I remember a long scene where a big robot that throws metal? balls from his arms is chasing a girl in a spaceship or glider on a desert planet.

 
 
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2:35 AM
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Q: Scary story anthology where a kid gets killed by a table in his house while his parents are away?

Raith KorakashiI'm looking for a scary story anthology book where a kid gets killed by a table and his friend gets killed by a window, while his parents are away. It also had pictures showing the kids getting killed.

 
 
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Q: Why didn't Cornwell beam out of this situation?

colmdeIn Star Trek: Discovery S02E14 ("Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2"), an undetonated photon torpedo becomes lodged in the Enterprise, and the only way to protect the ship is to close the blast door between the room in which it resides and the rest of the ship. The automated door-close mechanism also seem...

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Q: Is it possible to beam someone against their will?

colmdeIn Star Trek (any series) it would seem the transporter would make a great defensive weapon against your ship being boarded - simply start beaming the intruders into a holding cell (or if you're feeling particularly cruel, into space or just delete their patterns from the buffer altogether) But m...

 
9:51 AM
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Q: Why does this character kill Sparky in WandaVision?

SandunIn WandaVision S01e05, named On a Very Special Episode..., the twins of Wanda and Vision find a dog and eventually they decide to adopt it, naming it Sparky. However, later in the same episode, the dog goes missing. When Wanda and the twins go searching for Sparky, However, in S01e07, named Brea...

 
10:15 AM
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Q: Book where someone from the civil war died and became a zombie because his family didn't put wax in his ears

senior pugIn book 3 the plot is that this civil war dude died and since his family forgot to put wax in his ears he became a zombie. His master wants gold under the main character's new school and the main character can see and talk to ghosts. Also the boy's father went to this school. The kid has a dog wh...

 
10:39 AM
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Q: Isekai manga where the main character is taught magic by an old elf

StraussI remember this was an isekai manga but the main character is not reincarnated nor does he remember his past life. He was raised and taught magic and stuff like this by an old elf (the old elf says to him he is weak but in fact he is OP). He leaves his home and goes on an adventure but soon he me...

 
 
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12:16 PM
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Q: Why did Umbridge hate Muggles/half-breeds?

SmudgeWhy did Umbridge hate Muggles/half-breeds, when she’s not a pure-blood? Weren’t her mother and brother Muggles? And why did she hate Harry so much?

 
 
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1:52 PM
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Q: Pronounciation of 'Teixcalaan'

DavidI was wondering what the correct pronunciation of the word 'Teixcalaan' (in Teixcalaanli) is. I rewrote the word using the IPA and arrived at (except using the sound 'l' for the letter 'l' instead of 'ɣ' which the book suggests -- a typo?): tʰeɪkskɑːlɑn pronounciation but in the audiobooks it so...

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Q: Manga where a girl reincarnates into a super tech world and she pretends to be a boy to inherit her new dad's things

ShawnIt's about a girl who reincarnates into a super tech world. Her new dad had died protecting people and was a SS mecha pilot. She pretends to be a son to inherit all of her dad's things. She has a little space (like sky poison pearl in Against the Gods, etc.) where she is trained. It's all full co...

 
2:07 PM
Is there a way to render the phonetic alphabet symbols in answers?
 
@ClaraDiazSanchez do you mean IPA?
 
@AncientSwordRage exactly
 
You'd have to look them up on wikipedia, or download the IPA keyboard for your phone
 
I believe the usual idea is to wrap them in code blocks and/or grab the relevant characters from somewhere online for things like the ae character
 
@TheLethalCarrot ah, simple solutions are best. Yes I can copy paste from a dictionary.
 
2:15 PM
@ClaraDiazSanchez ipa.typeit.org
 
That's the approach I usually use for accented characters I can't remember the combining codes for, like c cedille. ("français")
 
problem solved, thank you all!
 
2:30 PM
Greetings, Earthlings.
 
@Donald.McLean bleep bloop
 
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Q: Short story or novel set in a simulacrum of Christian Hell, populated by humans and non-human creatures

daximIdentify the following short story or novel. I read the book in the 1990s in the German language. Very likely the book was published one or more decades earlier, a typical softcover Heyne or Bastei-Lübbe sci-fi anthology or novel. Unfortunately, thousands of these publications exist, so this does...

 
2:50 PM
@Donald.McLean Ahoy!
 
FWIW the question on Voldemort's lack of nose is asked and answered here. — TheLethalCarrot 3 hours ago
@TheLethalCarrot I wondered where that upvote came from
 
Am I being dumb? Upvote on what?
 
@TheLethalCarrot Someone recently upvoted the question you linked in that comment
 
Oh I thought you meant you got an upvote and couldn't find your answer there haha
 
oh! No... someone must have clicked through to my question
I got my self confused
 
2:59 PM
Ah I see
 
3:41 PM
@Randal'Thor Lady and the Tramp style
 
Yes, but even floofier :-)
 
@Randal'Thor so much floof
 
@AncientSwordRage And if that wasn't enough, here's another one:
 
4:31 PM
posted on February 23, 2021 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: 'This way of thinking bonds works great everywhere except anywhere in or near the middle of the period table' Today's News:

 
5:10 PM
Looks like review UI changes have rolled out.
 
Aye, it's like it has minimised all of the content on the screen... everything is just smaller
 
It's just so much worse.
It doesn't even display the full text of the question anymore? (LQP) But that's when you're most likely to need it!
 
You have to click to the question tab now
 
Everything is one more click. I just don't get how it's considered an improvement...
 
Well parts of it are but probably not all of it
 
5:20 PM
And the history view? All those borders and background colours? It's like someone read Tufte and said, "nah, I feel like doing the opposite."
 
They turned clicking buttons into selecting the button and then clicking it?
 
The massive variations in text sizes... The layout...
 
<thumbs-up-emoticon>
Now tell me that's easier to do on a friggin' phone.
 
@NapoleonWilson Oh, it's the worst. I'm on my phone now.
 
TBF I used to fat finger a fair amount on phone so hopefully that'll make it harder it I remember to check
 
5:23 PM
I have to zoom in, then out, then in, then out...
 
But wait, the UI actually looks like you can review multiple ones at once now (or why else cram all that crap into, like, a 100x100 pixel box)?
I can't check it, though.
 
At least with a button row, things have a natural size because of the text itself. Now, with a stack of radio buttons to pick from, the spacing is not much more than line height. So you have to zoom in to hit one.
 
@NapoleonWilson What do you mean multiple at once? Multiple on the same page? I doubt it...
 
@TheLethalCarrot Yeah, it kinda looks like a list with...uh..one element.
 
And then it throws up the "select a reason" dialog way too large and you need to zoom back out.
 
5:27 PM
Though, I guess that wouldn't make much sense with only one action to do.
Also, where's the MSE post to downvote?
 
Still pinned in the featured bar
@NapoleonWilson Aye, but everything is really small... including the main /review page
 
At least skip is still a button.
But wait a second, did they maybe actually do that to discourage the non-skip-button-skippers? If that's the case, then it would be a genius idea!
Now all the lazy people can only click skip, instead of "no action needed" or "leave open"!
Maybe SE aren't as stupid random as I thought.
And yes, that was the motivation. Then I'll totally take back criticism on at least that part and happily click twice, knowing that about 5 million users daily won't click twice.
 
 
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7:32 PM
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Q: What's the significance of calling the bounty hunter Jubal Early?

Rand al'ThorThe last TV episode of Firefly, "Objects in Space", features a bounty hunter named Jubal Early who boards the Serenity with the intent of kidnapping River and claiming the bounty on her head. When I watched the episode, I thought that was just a funny name, but today I learned that there was a US...

 
7:56 PM
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Q: Are Dr. Allen and Obed Marsh the same person?

Matthias BraunSpoilers ahead. In The Lovecraft Investigations, are Dr. Allen and Obed Marsh two names for the same person? In episode 10 of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Kennedy Fisher says this about her time in Iraq: We tracked down Melody Cartwright. She's here with Barbara Sayers and some other guy who...

 
@Marvin I just learned way more than I ever really wanted to about the pro-South (American Civil War) subtext of Firefly. :-P
 
Honouring a Confederate general isn't necessarily a bad thing, though. Unless there's more abstruse extents to it that your answer is shy of mentioning.
Also, there's Lovecraft radio shows?
 
@NapoleonWilson It isn't that; it's all the other stuff I read about while trying to dig up more about the Early-Whedon connection.
Starting with the confederates being the good guys, fighting against the Union of Allied Planets, and leading on from there...
@NapoleonWilson I know, right? And they're podcasts, so anyone can listen to them. Maybe I should add links to the wiki excerpt I wrote for the show.
The BBC site URLs are so ugly, though, I'm disinclined to trust them.
 
8:19 PM
@DavidW Heh, true.
 
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Q: looking for a manga with a strong female lead (a princess) that likes to beat up (bad) people for fun (with her fists)

shiniquaai really liked it but forgot the name :( it‘s definitely not completed! anyway as i said it‘s about a princess(? i‘m not sure about that but she is definitely a noble) that occasionally beats up people while only using her fists (she can use some type of magic that makes her stronger). she is ver...

 
8:44 PM
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Q: Short story about man who time travels by crossing folds in his map. He meets a young woman and falls in love with her

Margaret CochranThis was in a magazine around 2000. A man gets in his car and realizes he drives to a different time by crossing the folds in his map. He meets a young woman who he falls in love with. He’s a old man and becomes young when he crosses the folds of his map.

 
9:23 PM
@DavidW was about to come rant about that
*violent hisses*
 
I don't think it's all bad
 
@TheLethalCarrot spam
Ish
 
I flagged as spam but after looking again I thiknk it was more of a troll
 
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Q: Book premise: Guy on the run after a routine hospital check up shows metal in his stomach?

Tristin GagnéI can't find this book where a 20 twenty something year old is chased down after his normal hospital check up shows metal workings inside his stomach. When he decides to run, he meets this girl who does fake IDs. After, they go on the run together to the Canary Islands (I believe) and they fall i...

 
9:59 PM
@Jenayah Go ahead! Maybe you'll have more luck rousing the rabble than I had. :)
 
 
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11:10 PM
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Q: short story: nine billion names of god

SharminiIdentify and explain the conflict. Include a direct quotation that shows the conflict. a) How does the conflict reflect an important issue or problem evident in our world today? b) Based on the conflict how can this text be considered a science fiction text? Identify and explain the point o...

 

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