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Marvin
Marvin
12:07 AM
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Q: looking for 80s-90s sci-fi anime

lolcowI am looking for an animated series or a movie, which I suspect is an anime, that I've seen somewhere in 90s. I barely remember anything about it but it has been nagging me for decades. In one of the scenes, a group of people are observing/studying a 'new' robot. This robot can transform into s...

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Marvin
Marvin
12:33 AM
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Q: First story of aliens pretending to be humans especially a "human" family (like Coneheads) that is trying to fit in, maybe for a long time?

releseabeMy sense is that this is a fairly new (like post 1940s) idea because aliens themselves are fairly new, but I am not sure. I think while The Invasion of the Bodysnatchers is an example, I think there is probably an earlier one. And in Bodysnatchers, they do not really pretend, barely at all -- the...

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Marvin
Marvin
3:04 AM
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Q: Is Spiderman the only marvel character that has been represented as multiple non-human characters?

A.SteerSpiderman has been represented as multiple non-human creatures: Pter Ptarker - A Pteranodon in a Tyrannosaurus rex body. Peter Porker (SpiderHam) - A Spider, that was bitten by an irradiated Anthropomorphic pig. Has any other marvel character in any continuity been represented as a non-human ch...

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Marvin
Marvin
5:11 AM
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Q: I can't find an anime

wrakSaid anime has a white haired MC who ages backwards. He uses cards to fight. Using time to accelerate and decelerate the cards. He has a son about 16 who uses Water blades to fight, same system using time. MC also has/had a wife who is now like him, aging backwards and has forgotten some memories...

story-identification anime
 
Marvin
Marvin
6:01 AM
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Q: What book or movie contains the most scientifically realistic depiction of a zombie?

JBHOver at Worlbbuilding we're frequently asked for help creating a scientifically realistic... well... anything. But zombies are a popular subject. So, to create a useful reference point to help questioners prepare their questions, I'd like to ask this community for some help. Which book or film ha...

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Marvin
Marvin
12:18 PM
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Q: Cartoon series about a word-saving agent, who is a Indiana Jones and James Bond mixture

Make42I am looking for a cartoon TV series from my childhood: The show is an animated television series for children, named after the main character if I recall correctly. The main character is a (secret?) agent, described as a mixture of Indiana Jones and James Bond by the creator. Not so much in loo...

story-identification
 
 
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Cereal Bot
Cereal Bot
1:26 PM
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Practical Eschatology
posted on June 02, 2023 by Zach Weinersmith

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: I wonder when the first cult run by a robot will start up. Today's News:

 
Marvin
Marvin
2:24 PM
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Q: What does it mean, "Vine strike's still loose"?

Austin MayIn Avatar (2009) extended version, Jake, who is in his wheelchair, meets Trudy in a large hall with weapons: Trudy: Hey, Wainfleet! Get it done! We bounce at zero-nine. Wainfleet: Yeah, I'm on it, capitaine! Trudy: Vine strike's still loose. Jake: You guys are packing some heavy gear. What does i...

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DavidW
DavidW
3:07 PM
Took you long enough smokey, I was just about to manually post this.
 
Marvin
Marvin
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Q: What exactly are "Ph monitors"?

Austin MayIn Avatar (2009) Extended version, Dr Grace speaks inside a class room on the Navi planet: Dr Grace: This was our school. Now it's just...storage. The kids were so bright. Eager to learn. They picked up English faster than I could teach it. So, we'll take a couple of these Ph monitors... ...and ...

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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
4:15 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title (192): Stop bullying KEMONO_PANTSU‭ by user164849‭ on scifi.SE
 
Marvin
Marvin
4:30 PM
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Q: Who are all the different versions of Spider-Man, Spider-Woman and the alternate universe villains in "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"?

jdmarshWho are all the different versions of Spider-Man, Spider-Woman and the alternate universe villains in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse? After seeing the movie yesterday afternoon, I was curious of who all the Multiverse characters were.

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Q: What does "alpha" mean?

Austin MayIn Avatar (2009) extended version, Max and Dr. Grace are trying to wake Jake Sully up from the pod: GRACE : Jake. Jake! MAX: He's in alpha. He's coming out right now. What does "alpha" mean?

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DavidW
DavidW
4:55 PM
It's interesting. I just looked at my history and I started flagging posts a bit more than 4.5 years ago (Oct. 2018). A quarter of all spam flags I've raised in that time have been in the past 2 months! This KP person is very persistent, but I haven't seen their spam on other sites I'm on. What's special about SF&F?
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
5:17 PM
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
5:41 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, repeating words in body (135): testtesttesttesttest from i is game‭ by user164851‭ on scifi.SE
 
Marvin
Marvin
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Q: testtesttesttesttest from i is game

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DavidW
DavidW
6:10 PM
@SmokeDetector How do these completely non-responsive "answers" get upvotes?
@Jenayah *waves*
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
@DavidW Hiya :D
How are things?? :)
 
DavidW
DavidW
Same stuff, different day... Got the same bug reported for the 3rd time in a month, but nobody who's reporting it can ever manage to explain what page they were on, much less what they were doing or how they got there, so we can't debug it.
You? What's new?
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
Ahah same with the new QA team over there :) "sometimes the file's size as displayed in the table does not match the one on the drive" _ "Never saw that, but no problem, we'll look into it. So, sometimes being...? Often? Are we talking 1% difference or 1000%? What was the data you sent to the sensor pre-processing? What kind of filter did you apply?" _ "uuuuh I don't remember" _ "😤"
 
DavidW
DavidW
Fortunately our QA team is better trained than that, and all their bugs come with scripts, and sometimes even test data, to reproduce. (It helps that they're working from standard patterns using mostly canned data in testing.) But this is coming from a customer, and because I'm 3 hops away from the customer, and isolated from any PII I can't even tell if it's ever the same customer.
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
6:34 PM
Other than that, adulting, I guess. Lots of stuff since 2021. Like...
Moved out of my 1-bedroom studio to love with my partner, lived through a big big BIG reorganisation at work, ran through dozens of board games with my partner, got married, bought a house, almost ended up homeless because the notary office screwed up big time, lived through another reorganisation at work,
moved into the house, spent 4 months' worth of free time adding insulation to the walls with my partner, got Covid, guess what new reorg at work, planted a lot of stuff in the garden that doesn't seem to ever grow, fought my hierarchy NOT to become a software architect, won for the time being,
managed to finally find a chill mobile game that I did not give up on after a week, continued to go to the charity association on Saturdays, handled re-increasingly difficult family stuff, biked here and there, refacto'ed months of if/Elif/Elif/elif/else code into an actual Finite State Machine, tried jiu-jitsu, hated it, discovered I'm getting allergic to pollen
 
Marvin
Marvin
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Q: Is the Ahsoka novel still canon?

LongLiveTheJediIn the final episode of Tales of the Jedi, the story is very similar to the plotline of the 2016 Ahsoka novel. I think Filoni did confirm that the episode is based on his original ideas for the novel. And it wasn't explicitly said, but it is hinted that the Inquisitor that Ahsoka fights in TotJ...

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Jenayah
Jenayah
Read a lot of comics, watched a lot of series with my partner, read way less books than I'd have wanted (but still more than in yester years,so it's a win), had my "fireman" status at work made more or less official, meaning I have to cover lots of more or less interested stuff but never in an expectable schedule, had some friends over, yadda yadda yadda
Mostly I'm really <expletives I'm sure are still not OK with the COC> tired, which does sound normal once I've re-read that summary block, but still 🤣
 
DavidW
DavidW
Actually, for all the pace sounds frenetic that sounds like a lot more accomplishment than I've managed in 2 years. Congrats on the marriage, house, and other adult bits, BTW.
It is a lot, I'm quite impressed. :D
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
Thank you :)
 
DavidW
DavidW
Three re-orgs in two years is a lot, though. Like, crazy a lot. You ever think of finding a different job?
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
6:45 PM
(well technically it's not called a marriage in France but a Pacte Civil de Solidarité... Mostly it's the same legal status than a marriage, tax benefits and all, good separated between each partner, but it's free and a lot less of bother than an actual marriage, no ceremony with dozens of guests and all 😂)
 
DavidW
DavidW
...sort of what a marriage ceremony should be, shorn of its religious trappings and one-upmanship. :-P
(Cynical, moi? Rien.)
 
FuzzyBoots
FuzzyBoots
7:32 PM
@Jenayah Japanese or Brazilian Jujitsu?
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
@DavidW yes and no. The reports are fairly common (for that company) on big projects like mine, they do bring a lot of problems in the development process, but overall my direct project hierarchy (SwEM) is golden, he does his best and more to shield us devs from the money/planning management folks and their eternal penny-pinching, so that we can work in (relative) peace.
Most of the colleagues I get along with, the rest I can just work with for what I we have to do together. I can theoretically manage my own hours, within limits but always useful to have. The tech stuff is more or less interesting at times but I like being able to touch everything (and I like being recognised as someone who can touch everything).
Friday afternoons are historically "go home earlier" which is plenty nice too. Dress code is inexistent, I'm in black T-shirt + sport shoes + hiking trousers and I'm pretty much overdressing :D
And last but not least, I've been on this project from the very beginning and I want to see its end 😁
So overall, bunch of bureaucrats be breaking my patience at times, but not enough to drop all this in the hope that there's less bureaucracy elsewhere... Lets' be honest there's probably not :)
(sorry for the delay, got sidetracked)
 
DavidW
DavidW
@Jenayah Not at all, it's not like I'm sitting waiting for you to reply. :D
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
@FuzzyBoots Brazilian. No idea what it would have been like for Japanese JJ. To be honest though, I'm fully aware that me and my partner disliking the week we took was probably partially due to 1/ us both being hands-feet boxers prior, and 2/ the club mentality being pretty... Inefficient? To newcomers
"Okay, I will do nothing while you attack me." _ "dude, I've done this for 20 minutes in my life. I have no idea what the starting position is, but I sure can try to replicate the exercise if you start attacking" and then they go all slow and artificial, while we'd clearly stated that we were both used to take hits and not exactly combat-shy
 
DavidW
DavidW
I admit that I believe I understand your point of view. A previous place I worked at I lasted at least 5 years longer than one might think; some of my co-workers bailed when we got bought by a big US multinational, and the culture shock was potentially pretty huge. But the rest of us on the dev team stayed because we had a huge amount of mutual respect, and 2 layers of management above us determined to keep as much of the garbage off us as possible.
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
7:48 PM
Also, while size and weight difference don't matter (that much) in French boxing, they very much do in BJJ. At some point I was signalling a guy that he had "won", and he was "no, the grip is not complete, that does not count as an ending". Hm, you're 80 kg, I'm 50, and you're literally sitting on my chest while I have all members incapacitated. Fairly sure it's ended
 
DavidW
DavidW
It mostly worked; that team was hugely creative and productive and we all got to do challenging, deep, new, fun things. And we just tried to ride out the churn of conflicting directives and priorities that changed every quarter for the sake of doing interesting things with good people.
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
In boxing you make up for weight difference with speed and different attack zones, even at beginner level 😁
@DavidW aye
 
DavidW
DavidW
@Jenayah In my experience the only cure for bureaucracy is to work for a small company. But there's a magic size between "not big enough for bureaucracy" and "too small not to have executive meddling;" I'd put that at between approximately 40 and 160 people.
Basically the size between when you need a dedicated HR person and the size at which the HR team can't share an office.
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
Plus now that all the "work hard to get that school the hell away of my mother's home, work hard to be financially independent, work a lot because I hate being alone at my place and I'd rather be doing work" is finished...
... I'd rather just be able to come home and enjoy time with my partner, or me time in a house I like, than having a more fulfilling job... But undertaking months of mentally draining job searching+job quitting+teaching my replacement+being onboarded at the new place+different schedule, different pros/cons to get there.
I know, pretty disillusioned and indifferent talk for someone who haven't even reached 30, but oh well 😅
@DavidW I've been very put off to small companies by an internship that went... Poorly
 
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SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive body detected, offensive title detected, potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title, toxic body detected (164): (potentially offensive title -- see MS for details)‭ by user164858‭ on scifi.SE
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
7:59 PM
(well it was a combination of internship "management", roommates being a hassle, foreign country being expensive, to be honest)
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
@Jenayah You are not a privileged user. Please see the privileges wiki page for information on what privileges are and what is expected of privileged users.
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
Oh duck I forgot 🙄
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly punctuation marks in title, repeating characters in title (101): Can't you just say "sorry it was my fault"? /////////////////////////////‭ by user164860‭ on scifi.SE
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
Tpu'd at Charcoal 😁
And again :p
And again :p
And again for the next one :p
 
DavidW
DavidW
@Jenayah That's absolutely fair. I've worked at a couple that had serious issues. (One I was only at for a few months before leaving, and less than 2 years later the founders were before the courts suing one another.)
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
8:11 PM
@DavidW grabbing popcorn while watching them must have been fun
 
DavidW
DavidW
It's always a bit of a gamble, joining a new company. The best way to find a good company to work at is to keep in touch with your ex-co-workers, or at least the ones you work well with and respect.
@Jenayah I was well quit of them by then, and good riddance. I only found out from a friend who, it turned out, knew one of the founders, and that was years later after the drama had played out.
But the best job I had, and the one I learned and grew the most from, was a company with about 50 people, that grew slowly over a few years to a bit over a hundred.
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
@DavidW noted. So far though, all of my "ex-colleagues" are still technically colleagues, just not on the same projects. (Same company, lots of big projects, lots of environment from one building to another)
 
DavidW
DavidW
(Then, of course, they got bought...)
When I was just out of uni, it was my classmates who formed my initial group of contacts; one of them pointed me at the aforementioned job.
8 spam in a row now. I can't believe it's increasing.
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
Pretty much all of my school friends were in different majors than mine 😂
@DavidW little bit more and I'll have caught up on my number of yearly spam/RA flags 🤣
 
DavidW
DavidW
@Jenayah I think I'm at that point in just the past 2 weeks. It's crazy; why us?
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
8:26 PM
I'd have no idea, considering how active I've been the past two weeks... I mean months... I mean years?
But well, it's been a meh day so if some spammer wants to try me at whack-a-mole, I say bring it 😁
 
DavidW
DavidW
*pictures Jenayah tying a kerchief around her head and picking up a large mallet*
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
Mallet not so much, but with all the insulation work, you can picture me with a mortar blender and a jigsaw XD
Also, a dozen vials of physiological saline for the dust that inevitably ends up in our eyes 😅 (not toxic though, just painful)
 
DavidW
DavidW
I dunno; I have done some plastering and the MSDS for those products can be pretty scary. I always wore high-quality filter masks and eye protection.
(For "some" read "several entire rooms, including ceilings.")
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
9:02 PM
That was cork though, so no risk for the amounts we were handling. I do have glasses for when I mix the whitewash mortar, but it quickly appeared that cutting straight with the jigsaw, while wearing glasses, was a fool's errand
When jigsawing indoors and making mortar I wore masks, obviously
 
Adamant
Adamant
9:15 PM
@DavidW - They are also trolling many other websites about being banned for their trolling.
 
DavidW
DavidW
@Adamant I guess I don't have the right mindset for a troll, I just don't get it.
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
Wy isn't their main account deleted, by the way?
 
DavidW
DavidW
They actually have a real account?
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
It's a doozy :p
 
DavidW
DavidW
> The suspension period ends on Apr 9, 2123 at 14:11.
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
9:26 PM
Winner
 
DavidW
DavidW
I don't know what's worse; a hundred-year suspension, or a hundred-year suspension timed to the minute.
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
Doesn't the minute immediately comes with the time of ban application?
 
DavidW
DavidW
I'm sure it's always there; the end time of the suspension period would presumably be stored as a date, and that will have millisecond precision unless you intentionally round it off.
Nice to see that they've moved to 64 bit dates though. :D
 
Adamant
Adamant
@Jenayah Is someone trolling the troll? Or are they insulting themself?
 
Jenayah
Jenayah
@Adamant beats me
I got the profile link from the Meta discussion on Discord though, so it seems to be the real deal, unlikely to be a fake
 
xkcd
xkcd
10:15 PM
 

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