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Q: What was the first visual work to show only the top half of a zombie being destroyed, while the legs keeping moving?

BuzzI was watching a gameplay video, and I noticed something about the zombies—something which I have spotted in a number of other action games. Some of the zombie enemies had upper bodies that could be killed separately from their lower bodies. If just the chest was attacked, the legs would keep c...

 
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Q: Why does Bachel seek the eradication of the Riders?

SilvermidnightIn a conversation to Murtagh, Bachel mentions to Murtagh that she seeks the eradication of the Riders (emphasis is mine): But we also see that Bachel is a very powerful individual (emphasis is not mine): If even a dragon as massive as Shruikan cannot achieve such a feat, the Riders of the past ...

 
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Q: Children or young adult story where old tech is actually better than new tech

Alt EI'm looking for a story I read when I was younger that was of the style where it is in first person, with the main character recounting it and saying it's a true story. It was set in the modern world, where there was a conspiracy of people that I think had something to do with librarians or the i...

 
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Q: Story identification: man kills alien who is in great pain. Aliens make him ambassador

TLssI read a story decades ago, probably anthologized in a Dozois collection. In it, an alien crash-lands and is being kept alive in great pain in a government research facility. An ordinary but well-respected man, maybe the janitor, sees the aliens suffering and kills him. The man is sentenced to a ...

 
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Q: Which movie features a scene where a character uses a magnifying glass to look at someone and sees them as a cockroach or another animal?

Tawhidur Rahman DearI saw a movie where someone can see the true character of people when sees through a magnify glass. A male was sitting in a resturant. when he sees someone through magnify glass, he saw a cockroach. Sometimes different animal. the true character of a person. I saw the trailer on Star Movies chann...

 
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Q: In what SF short story were kidney stones of an alien species considered precious or useful to society?

JoceI guess it's a 1950s or 1960s one, but I have no clue any more where I read that. English language most probably, might be French. I think it was gradually revealed in the story that some key resource, very much used and that had a name in the story, was actually kidney stones (or gallstones, uns...

 
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posted on February 21, 2025 by Zach Weinersmith

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: My comics are probably the most enjoyable non-fiction. Today's News:

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Q: What did Jango know about the plan for the clone army?

Milo PIn Attack of the Clones, we learn that Jango Fett was hired as the source for the Clone Army ten years earlier by "Tyranus" (aka Count Dooku). Lama Su mentions that Jango lives on Kamino and continues to provide fresh genetic material for the army, leading Obi-Wan to visit him, introduced by Taun...

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Q: How did Sidious "betray" Nute Gunray?

Milo PIn Attack of the Clones, when Dooku has Obi-Wan captured, he dangles a bit of information to try and recruit Obi-Wan to the cause: DOOKU: What if I told you that the Republic was now under the control of the Dark Lord of the Sith? OBI-WAN: No, that's not possible. The Jedi would be aware of it. ...

 
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Q: Manhwa where the female lead character is Korean military. She is reincarnated into a historical setting

Nica LuceroThis was a manwha. The story starts with the female lead, I remember she's from Korea and I believe it's stated there that she's a part of military. Something happens and she's reincarnated to a different world, it's a historical. I think she has a stepmother (or aunt?) and that person is claimin...

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Q: Why didn't Zam shapeshift?

Milo PIn Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan and Anakin are pursuing Zam Wesell into a crowded nightclub, which she's run into in order to hide. During the chase, Anakin had managed to get a close look at her, leading to this exchange: OBI-WAN: Do you see him? ANAKIN: I think he's a she. And I think she's a...

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posted on February 21, 2025 by Zach Weinersmith

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: The doctor is put in jail and then 20 years later it turns out the findings don't replicate. Today's News:


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