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Q: Manhwa where the mc has his own subspace

Nkiruka AbedI really like stories like (Hiding a Logistics Center in The Apocalypse), so I am looking for a manga, manhwa, or even manhua like it. Where the mc has his own subspace that is either a mini town or he can use things form earth in it!!!

1:05 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (40): What is the origin of the "blink" spell for instant short-range teleportation?‭ by eftkar eftkar‭ on scifi.SE
 
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2:45 AM
Wow, not content with downvote-"review"-undownvote just on the first answer queue, that's how a post was "reviewed" in late answers too. I mean, if you're not really going to do a review, let someone else do a proper review? At least on one of the queues?
 
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4:32 AM
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Q: Sci fi book i read in the late 80's early 90's roughly

Colin Rooneythe book deals with an astronaut who investigates a meteor trapped in orbit that has a cloud of debris ejected from it. upon investigation its a spaceship. pictures of earth and the moon are found inside leading to the discovery of a deserted alien base on the moon with views of earth from the st...

 
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7:05 AM
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Q: Fictional story about a family of three traveling in a time without cars or phones

LysaI don't remember much at all. But I do remember that it's about a family of three traveling! Set in a time without cars or phones, etc. And in the end, the father's baby is killed by an arrow(?), after finally getting where they needed to go.

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7:51 AM
@DavidW I've seen you talk about this before, can you elucidate?
What exactly is happening and is there something we regular users can do?
I don't know if downvote-review(first)+review(late)-undownvote is better or worse. Just saw that one.
@SQB A particular reviewer is doing a lot of bad-quality reviews by (IMO) abusing the system. There doesn't seem to be anything that can be done.
@DavidW Raise a custom mod flag on one of their posts and explain the issue - a review suspension can be issued
(Though personally I have stopped giving that reviewer any votes.)
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So if I understand correctly, they're doing a review of the same post twice, downvoting in one and upvoting in the other, for a net zero?
How do you detect that? I don't see it from the review history, what am I missing?
Not exactly; because you can retract a downvote- within a couple of minutes without penalty, just make a downvote-, do the review, and retract it. You can (and this user has) done it for more than one review on the same post.
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7:58 AM
But what does that user gain? Having done a review?
So gaming the system to "earn" the review badges?
@SQB The beauty is that it's almost undetectable. But if I'm reviewing that post at the same time, I see the post go to -1, and then a minute later it's back to 0, and another user has "completed" the review
@SQB Yeah, that. Same reason they'll review "Leave Open" on a question that's already closed, or "Looks OK" on a post that's already deleted.
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Right.
Now I'm guessing at who it is, of course.
I do have a suspicion.
But I don't think I can verify, since votes aren't publicly tied to users.
This really seems like something for a mod.
8:49 AM
@DavidW I mean, if that's repeated behaviour, you can damn well do something against it. You can suspend users from review or the site itself if the former doesn't work to make them clean up their act. That is a lot more effective (and approrpriate) than just not voting on their posts.
Flagging this shit for moderators yesterday would be a damn good idea, it seems.
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9:09 AM
@NapoleonWilson hear, hear.
 
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2:44 PM
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Q: I am trying to identify a science fiction novel

davidI read it in the early 1980's. It is about an expedition to discover a race of beings who had colonised the galaxy in the past and wherever they went had created amazing civilisations and then moved on. The expedition tracked them all over the galaxy and everywhere they found evidence of them the...

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4:33 PM
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Q: 1980s Thriller - Surgery/Anesthesia/Music

AndrewI'm trying to recall a novel I saw in the book store in the mid 1980s. The SF premise was a new surgical anesthesia, which (unknown to everyone) didn't work. It just made people seem to be asleep, though they were actually conscious of what was happening. I think the deal was that when it wore of...

 
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5:39 PM
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Q: Internet Archive suffered a DDOS attack and passwords may have been compromised

FuzzyBootsI know many people here rely on the Internet Archive to source books for quotes, but they have been undergoing a DDOS attack and password hashes may have been compromised. If you haven't reused the password used on that system, you'll just want to change it when they're back up, but I know a lot ...

 
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6:44 PM
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Q: What inspired Edgar Allen Poe's submarine?

Mike SerfasThere is a February 1845 story by Edgar Allen Poe, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade, in which he recites a long litany of natural wonders, which are explained in his footnotes to the text, with most being recognizable as fact to this day. I read this tale at the Edgar Allen Poe Socie...

 
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7:56 PM
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Q: Novel mentioning a talk between Conan Doyle and Wilde and a beast of dartmoor

ductTapeIsMagicI recall to have read a book in which there is a scene where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde are talking to each other as Wilde advises Doyle to make Holmes more reserved than he is in "A study in Scarlet". I also recall it mentioning a society dedicated to the research of Sherlock Holmes....

 
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9:39 PM
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Q: Anime, I watched around 2010 - 2015 - Armored guy using shells inside his armor to manifest power to kill demons

Abolfazl MohammadnhzadI don't know if it's animation or anime but I kind of remember that the art was more like anime. There was an armored guy who had a big truck and his armory in the back of truck. He would suit up in his armor but before suiting up he had a girl to help him mark up his body for the suit. His suit ...


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