The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Babelfish

10:02

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Q: Why did Ego's mortal form age normally?

DISCLAIMER: Those who have not had the good fortune of watching Marvel's latest offering, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 are advised to avoid this question for the major spoilers it contains. SPOILERS AHEAD In the movie, it is shown that when Ego first met Meredith Quill in his human form, he l...

Shadow Wizard

10:18

@Mithrandir I only host bots in the Den, don't have any of my own... :(

@Derpy only @Pro can do that... and don't think people here will play WAG too much.... :D

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard you may be surprised...

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir Well, you can ask @Pro in the Den to put @FOX here. Don't think it requires anyone else to host it. :)

(FOX is on a cloud)

ArtOfCode

Just a matter of adjusting a config file

SQB

Do we need a bot?

Gallifreyan

We have a bot?

Ixrec

10:29

We have a chatroom?

Gallifreyan

@SQB ego-the-living-planet?!

SQB

@Gallifreyan wrong ego?

I thought we had more questions about Ego the Living Planet.

Gallifreyan

5 or so, I guess.

Shadow Wizard

So you have a tag for each character in SF&F?

2

Gallifreyan

Noooooo!

Ixrec

10:38

this is a perennial topic of debate

Shadow Wizard

Heh

Gallifreyan

Just the big ones, e.g. darth-vader

Ixrec

there's a (sadly well-founded) running joke that anyone who tries to bring order to the system of character tags is doomed

Gallifreyan

Or the biggest of them all - harry-potter

Hehe

Mithrandir

...gah, character tags

Shadow Wizard

10:39

Guess it's already discussed on Meta, without any final decision?

Ixrec

depends on your definition of "decision"

Gallifreyan

@ShadowWizard There is one, but no one cares to adhere to it.

Mithrandir

Meta answer: THERE IS NONE MWAHAHA

Gallifreyan

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A: When should character tags be created/recreated?

Warning: this is a long one, mostly review! Skip to the end for the good stuff if you're in a hurry. I've gone back and read a lot of the earlier questions, and the main problem is they were written when the site was much younger (the main "reference guide" is from 2011), and there were far fe...

Shadow Wizard

@Gallifreyan well, the books/movies are all about him, so that's quite obvious.

Mithrandir

10:40

harry-potter is a franchise name

Gallifreyan

@ShadowWizard I was attempting a joke, since it's also the franchise tag, and... uhm...

This question of my is dead in the water:

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Q: Should we use [dc], [vertigo-comics], or both, for questions about comics published by Vertigo?

After I've read The Sandman I've started looking here for relevant questions to answer, and asking some of my own. I noticed that the tagging for them is inconsistent and debatable. Some didn't have any publisher tags, some had dc-comics, some had vertigo-comics. Now, Vertigo is an imprint of D...

discussion tags

Shadow Wizard

@Gallifreyan lol, guess I'm not used to this kind of humor.... not a regular here or in SF&F in general... :D

Gallifreyan

@ShadowWizard Don't worry, it's just me being terrible at humour ;)

Shadow Wizard

:D

Mithrandir

humor often fails in the web, unf

Gallifreyan

10:43

@Gallifreyan I think it doesn't really matter, since I've been tagging everything with vertigo-comics anyway :D

Shadow Wizard

unf?

Mithrandir

ort

una

Shadow Wizard

?

Edlothiad

I'm annoyed, where's my daily tolkiens-legendarium question?

Mithrandir

tely

Edlothiad

10:43

@ShadowWizard His phone's dying

Shadow Wizard

checking @Mithrandir for viruses

@Edlothiad oh

l

o

l

Mithrandir

@Edlothiad nah, I just hate typing that word without autocorrect (on laptop :P)

Edlothiad

he tried to say unfortunately

oh

Shadow Wizard

@Edlothiad that's a long word

Mithrandir

Exactly

Gallifreyan

10:45

@Edlothiad Diversify, answer some Lucifer questions :)

Mithrandir

So it can be shortened to 'unf'

Edlothiad

@ShadowWizard ye, but pneumonultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis much?

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir just write something up, knowing it's wrong, right click --> Search Google --> you will have it auto corrected. Usu

al

ly

Mithrandir

@Edlothiad That disease is horrible

Almost as bad as suffering from ichthyoacanthotoxism

Shadow Wizard

@Edlothiad pneu what?

Gallifreyan

10:46

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard lung disease

Longest English word according to some

Shadow Wizard

cough cough

Hebrew is flawed, don't think it has any really long words. :(

Gallifreyan

Edlothiad

@Mithrandir What about when you Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz

Mithrandir

@Edlothiad that doesn't look like English

Shadow Wizard

10:49

> Germany drops longest word after EU law change

Edlothiad

Nah it's german

@ShadowWizard lol, new meat laws renders word invalid!

Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung

Car insurance ^^

Shadow Wizard

:D

Mithrandir

blog.jmay.us/2009/11/longest-english-word.html

Gallifreyan

I should ask a mod to feature that post about Vertigo tagging. And feature the June film night. And unfeature the May film night.

the only problem is that there aren't many mods to go around.

Edlothiad

Anyone remember who the friendly mod on day zero was? something green?

Mithrandir

10:51

doppelgreener?

They're an RPG.SE mod

elected around a week or so ago

Edlothiad

yes them!

Gallifreyan

What usually comes to my mind:

Shadow Wizard

According to Google Hebrew does have long words....

Edlothiad

@doppelgreener, I watched some american rugby highlights. Not very good

Shadow Wizard

Edlothiad

10:52

@Mithrandir Not an IUPAC name, therefore not a word

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard ouch.

Shadow Wizard

:P

Edlothiad

@ShadowWizard chhhhchchchhhhhhhhchchcchhhhhhchchch (ch is a phlegmy throat noise)

Mithrandir

Too many sofit letters in there...

Derpy

@ShadowWizard if you really want to annoy them ask to define what is off topic for the site. A common question could just ask if James Bond qualifies as Sci-Fi

Shadow Wizard

10:53

@Edlothiad lololol

Derpy

(Spoiler alert: they don't agree on that too :P )

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy nah, prefer not to cause trouble here.... room is still new... nice people around.... ;)

Mithrandir

@Gallifreyan you could see if the mods want to have an election - might be time to replace Thaddeus, unfortunately.

Edlothiad

@Derpy We can't even agree on whether making edits to destroy tags is good

@Mithrandir Is he not returning?

Gallifreyan

@Derpy I think the latest consensus was that certain Bond films qualify, while others don't.

Derpy

10:55

@ShadowWizard that won't cause trouble. Just very long arguing and wall of text posted ^_^

Shadow Wizard

lol

Mithrandir

@Edlothiad he was last seen April 19th, as of yesterday, and he... isn't really active that much anymore.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy Sounds like a way to wake them up when things get sleepy around here. :D

Ixrec

@Edlothiad I think it had "doppel" in the name

Edlothiad

@Ixrec doppelgreener, we got him

Mithrandir

10:56

or her, avatar is female now...

Ixrec

@Edlothiad the starboard did something useful!

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir or unknown forever, like @Derpy ;)

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard exactly

Ixrec

@Mithrandir my experience is that the correlation between avatar gender and user gender is negative, not positive =)

Mithrandir

@Ixrec it was male before :P

Gallifreyan

10:57

Hehe, you won't be able to guess my gender from my avatar

Ixrec

there are a lot of non-gender-specific avatars in here

Edlothiad

It's a Schrodinger's gender

Gallifreyan

Edlothiad

@Derpy, you've been here 2 years and collected less that 700 network rep?

Shadow Wizard

From my experience around SE, most of the times when someone has avatar of a female, which is not them, they are males. More likely 100% of the cases I've seen... though probably there are exceptions. :)

doppelgreener

10:59

@Edlothiad As an Australian I agree XD

Mithrandir

in The Reading Room, Apr 19 at 18:43, by Mithrandir

@Gallifreyan it's leaning towards F I think.

Edlothiad

@doppelgreener As a swiss... It's awful

I'm currently watching this: youtube.com/watch?v=Jsj1t07s-BM

Gallifreyan

@Mithrandir I can see it being male. The shape of the face has something masculine in it.

Shadow Wizard

SPArchaeologist, 🦄: Sugarcube, Ponyville, Equestria

6k 1 21 43

2010 list development 2013 web-part feature sharepoint-server

@Derpy is their alternative account.

Edlothiad

Ah ok

Shadow Wizard

11:01

Used to be a bot serving cupcakes

Or was it muffins? Wait let me check

in Shadow's Den on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, May 6 '15 at 7:14, by SweetieBot

~ One cupcake on its way for @Shadow Wizard ....

@Edlothiad ^

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Paranoia, The Quantum Traitor.

Shadow Wizard

Who?

Edlothiad

@ShadowWizard That's nice, shame that's gone

Gallifreyan

@Slytherincess Weren't you going to nominate anything?

doppelgreener

@Edlothiad Rugby Union, and the Australian State of Origin, are my preferred ways to watch rugby. :D

Shadow Wizard

11:06

@Edlothiad not sure it's gone, @Derpy might still have the code around, we can ask them nicely to activate it again... :D

This might be a fitting bot here. ;)

Gallifreyan

Cupcakes?

Mithrandir

Shadow Wizard

Sure

@Mithrandir did you.... just draw it now?? :D

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard nah

Shadow Wizard

Free Hand Smiley

Mithrandir

11:07

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Q: Forget the freehand red circles - it's a freehand rebus! - Clue Twenty Eight

<<---First clue <--Previous clue This is an entry in the 26th Fortnightly Topic Challenge. You speak the password. The entire space shudders, and the wall that you were leaning on open, spilling you headfirst into... an art museum? There are all of the pictures from the previous Clues there...

story rebus

Gallifreyan

Although Sweetie would be appropriate:

Shadow Wizard

lol

@Derpy also got a red button, careful. ;)

You don't want that button to be pressed....

It's worse than a flag, much worse.

It makes you regret what you said. :P

Mithrandir

Shadow Wizard

Nah, much smaller. Better!

Babelfish

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Q: Black Tide Rising - how come armies all over the world were caught so badly flat footed?

According to the timeline the US government was aware of the plague almost instantly - not about the origin, infection sources and so on, obviously, but that something's going around and it's bad. Uncle Tom was aware of it as an employee of BOTA, which obviously would get any info from the gover...

john-ringo zombie-apocalypse black-tide-rising

Shadow Wizard

11:13

oops, it's not even red. :(

doppelgreener

@ShadowWizard [reads "do it" in Palpatine's voice]

Gallifreyan

@ShadowWizard W00t?

Shadow Wizard

@doppelgreener that's a nice idea! Wonder if @Derpy can do it.... ;)

Derpy

@Gallifreyan yep, and trust me, the picture isn't fake

ArtOfCode

dewit

Shadow Wizard

11:17

@Gallifreyan that's the button we don't want @Derpy to push.... :D

Derpy

Shadow Wizard

lol "scold the scolders"

sensing infinite loop

Gallifreyan

What does it do?

Shadow Wizard

@Gallifreyan horrible things, we better not even imagine

Gallifreyan

Nah, I bet it doesn't do anything at all.

Shadow Wizard

11:19

Careful, you don't want to provoke @Derpy!

:D

SQB

vimeo.com/126720159

Shadow Wizard

It cause the ultimate punishment: feeling utterly sorry for what you did....

SQB

Darn, no onebox-love for Vimeo?

Gallifreyan

@Derpy Show me what you've got!

SQB

Ren & Stimpy: "History Eraser Button".

Shadow Wizard

11:21

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Q: Add onebox support for Vimeo

As the title says, can support for oneboxing Vimeo links in chat be added? Here's one to test with: http://vimeo.com/58200103

feature-request chat onebox

SQB

@ShadowWizard voted up on the dupe.

Shadow Wizard

@SQB now wait 6-8 years ;)

Derpy

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, May 3 at 13:07, by Derpy

Shadow Wizard

nooooooooooo

secret revealed

fun spoiled

Derpy

@ShadowWizard yep, and to add to the blame, that was a reply to one of your messages.

Shadow Wizard

11:25

Heh, that's the latest use of the button? @Derpy ;)

@Derpy of course, as most, if not all, of the scoldings.... :P

You keep a log of them?

Derpy

@ShadowWizard yep, but considering ponies cause allergic reactions to some of this room users, now the fun will become terror.

Shadow Wizard

achoo

Derpy

@ShadowWizard nope, the image link is always the same so that I don't upload a new image each time. You can just search for the picture file name.

Shadow Wizard

Only 6 in Den?? chat.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=ePLTw.png&room=721

Considering the "b" word was said hundreds of times, was sure you used it much more.... :D

Oh great, we scared everyone away. D:

Mithrandir

*peeks in*

Shadow Wizard

11:30

Taking ownership of the room

Puts flag on top

Mithrandir

Gah, pony! *runs away*

@ShadowWizard ...I was so tempted to temporarily add you for a sec :P

Shadow Wizard

lol

Feeds

Mithrandir has added Shadow Wizard to the list of this room's owners.

Mithrandir has removed Shadow Wizard from the list of this room's owners.

Shadow Wizard

heh, this reloads :D

Mod can troll any user in chat by this :D

Ixrec

mods have more than enough ways to troll any user anywhere as it is =)

Shadow Wizard

11:32

@Ixrec forcing whole page reload sounds like the most fun though... ;)

Edlothiad

@mods, Mith is abusing powers, take them away!

Mithrandir

@Edlothiad :O

Edlothiad

I'm bored, someone give me something cool to watch

Shadow Wizard

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Q: Achievements can be used against us by trolls

First, please take a look in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVTsQZeVCSM The baby is having fun, but imagine someone would cause the lights in your own room to turn on and off over and over and over again? Irritating, isn't it? Now see this: It's real. (Thanks Manishearth for...

discussion top-bar trolling achievements-dialog

The gif is nice

Mithrandir

@Edlothiad cool graphics

@ShadowWizard head over there for a sec

Shadow Wizard

11:35

lol

Mithrandir

I feel so inclined to do that on this quesrtion. — Dimensio1n0 Jan 18 '14 at 6:21

Shadow Wizard

:D

Edlothiad

@ShadowWizard Nice

@Mithrandir no

@Babelfish I got this one. Because he could manipulate his look to whatever he needed.

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard hmm, tempted to write an answer about the 30-times vote-lockin

Shadow Wizard

11:52

@Mithrandir oh, there is? Think it's only after 5 minutes, so using a script one can cause it to blink much more than 30 times

e.g. script that cast and uncast the vote every second

Edlothiad

0

A: Why did Ego's human form age normally?

Since we don't have access to scripts or anything, we'll just have to go at this unsourced, but it will make sense. What are Ego's powers when it comes to forms? We see clearly that Ego can change his form as he wills. He swaps from Kurt Russel to David Hasselhoff in a heartbeat. He also would'...

Good, Bad, Downright awful?

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard according to the rate-limiting guide, it's 30 times, but we can test

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir huh! Never noticed..... maybe added after my MSE question. So yeah, surely worth an answer. :)

Edlothiad

Anyone on unsourced answer?

Shadow Wizard

@Edlothiad there is screenshot, no need for a better source

Edlothiad

12:02

A haha! I missed it

Should I edit it so you can have another round/

Shadow Wizard

lol

Babelfish

0

Q: Why didn't anyone inform Daenerys that she belongs to Dosh Khaleen after death of Khal Drogo

After Death of Khal Drogo Daenerys leads her Khalasar further. Why did noone in her Khalasar inform her that she has to return to Vaes Dothrak and be part of Dosh Khaleen. I know she would have rejected the idea but it seems it came to her as a surprise when Khal Moro captures her (Season 6) and ...

game-of-thrones a-song-of-ice-and-fire

Edlothiad

@Babelfish This is a tough one

Sorry Shadow: scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/105187

@ShadowWizard, you may have edited just as he did and it therefore rejected your edit

Shadow Wizard

Yeah, I know :/

> This edit conflicted with a subsequent edit.

Edlothiad

NAA: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99715/…

@Gallifreyan, only like 27 more rep!

Shadow Wizard

12:21

67, no?

Edlothiad

till?

Babelfish

2

Q: In Aliens, what is the "ornament" that Drake has in two scenes

Watching Aliens again, I know every scene pretty well, but I noticed something new. The smartgunner "Drake" seems to have some sort of ornament / decoration. I spotted it in two scenes, once it was hanging from his USMC cap, and in another scene it's hanging from the end of his smartgun. It doe...

aliens-1986

Edlothiad

i have 9973

Shadow Wizard

@Edlothiad you reach 10k

caching?

Edlothiad

No I have a few more rep to go

SQB

12:27

@ShadowWizard more like ca-ching!!

Shadow Wizard

lol

Edlothiad

Hmm mine comes up as 9933 as well, but maybe because it hasn't registered my 50 new rep from my ansewr

Shadow Wizard

@Edlothiad so where do you see 9973?

Edlothiad

stackexchange.com/users/6082842/edlothiad?tab=accounts

But I guess as long as chat thinks I have 9933 I'm not going to get them privileges

Shadow Wizard

@Edlothiad yup. Chat profiles are cached heavily, think for whole hour.

lol @ typo

Cache profiles are chatted heavily..... :D

Mithrandir

12:29

....

Shadow Wizard

uh oh, dots attack! runs

SQB

.....

(It's a dDots attack)

3

Shadow Wizard

rofl

Mithrandir

......

Shadow Wizard

....................

if you can't beat them, join them!

Zaphod

12:34

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Q: Is there any occasion where the Order of the Phoenix won a battle against the Death Eaters without Dumbledore intervening?

(some mild spoilers ahead) In the books the Order of the Phoenix seems to be always on the losing side when fighting Death Eaters. Some battles that are more or less lost: The battle in the Ministry at the end of book 5. The Order of the Phoenix was practically losing with most of them either...

harry-potter order-of-the-phoenix

Shadow Wizard

Is this a bounty feed... ?

Mithrandir

yep

Ixrec

yep

SQB

(I guess it is).

Ixrec

@SQB Dippin' Dots? =D

Edlothiad

12:35

@ShadowWizard It's THGTTG's version of Trump apparently

Ixrec

can't decide if that's accurate or not

Mithrandir

he is the president

Shadow Wizard

@Edlothiad THG what?

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

SQB

@ShadowWizard The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Ixrec

12:37

the thing the room is named after

Shadow Wizard

echo echo

Ixrec

hitchhiker is one word!

Shadow Wizard

Plot twist: @SQB is @Mithrandir's sock! :D

Mithrandir

nah, I have a sock already

SQB

@ShadowWizard I misread and did a double take.

Shadow Wizard

12:38

@Mithrandir pic or it never happened.... :P

SQB

@Ixrec But H2G2!

Locutus of Borg

@ShadowWizard hm?

Shadow Wizard

@LocutusofBorg pic of his sock, of course

Ixrec

@SQB not a valid chemical formula, there is no element with the symbol "G"

Shadow Wizard

Otherwise I won't believe he got a sock

Ixrec

12:39

=P

Locutus of Borg

Shadow Wizard

@LocutusofBorg fake!

:D

SQB

Was it @Gallifreyan who said that Scarlet Canary reminded them of Halestorm? Because I just heard Hannah Maddox (singer of the former) name the latter as a huge influence.

Locutus of Borg

@ShadowWizard :(

Shadow of The Shadow

Hello, I am a sock! :P

Locutus of Borg

12:43

sock party!

Shadow Wizard

sounds dirty!

SQB

@ShadowWizard Like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

Mithrandir

Hot peppers are good if they're not too hot

Shadow Wizard

hot != dirty

Red Dirty Chili Peppers might be a different thing though! :D

Locutus of Borg

@ShadowWizard I'll have you know that I just took a shower, than you very much.

Shadow Wizard

12:47

@LocutusofBorg you're welcome! That doesn't mean your socks are clean...... :D

SQB

Just put a sock in it!

Gallifreyan

@ShadowWizard They rock.

Locutus of Borg

...after a shower, you put on clean clothes...

(hopefully)

Edlothiad

I've been saved

Shadow Wizard

@Edlothiad by the bell? Or by the sock?

SQB

12:52

@Edlothiad You're free?

Shadow Wizard

You can see ~~dead people~~ deleted rooms now? @Edlo

SQB

@ShadowWizard see starred message on the sidebar.

5 hours ago, by Edlothiad

I've been locked in my girlfriends house, send help!

...they have an unconventional relationship.

Shadow Wizard

LOL

Never imagined BDSM here... oh well. :D :D: D

Mithrandir

o_o

Shadow Wizard

"locked". yeah right :P

Babelfish

12:57

-2

Q: What happen to the guy that got laid in GoT Red Wedding

You know what I've been wondering? What happen to the guy that got laid by Walders daughter? Maybe I missed it but can I assume he got killed like the others?

game-of-thrones

Edlothiad

@ShadowWizard That as well, but yes, my girlfriends flatmate has arrived, I'm free

@Babelfish He died with a smile.

Ixrec

probably

Shadow Wizard

Not sure OP even knows the meaning of "got laid"... can anyone edit it?

Edlothiad

Nah he survives, is made a prisoner, and then exchanged for a Castle

@ShadowWizard Ye I edited it

Shadow Wizard

"daughtera" @Edlothiad

nuke that "a"! ;)

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