The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Babelfish

00:26

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Q: Are there any references to the events of Guardians of the Galaxy 2 in other MCU titles?

In Guardians of the Galaxy 2 . . . So given that, are there any references to it other MCU titles such as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. or a tie-in comic?

Riker

02:14

Daily floof 2017-05-27

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Babelfish

02:24

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Q: Guys I'm stuck in nuca world on fallout 4

I'm stuck with Colter I have tried everything but I can't kill him I have no save anywhere neer cuz I'm stupid I have no missle's or a fat man I have a shotgun and a spray n pay with 56 bullets no power armor and I need ideas please

fallout

Riker

04:00

M&TV Feeds

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Q: How did Thor return to Earth in The Avengers?

In Thor, it's very clearly stated that the Bifrost Bridge is how Asgardians travel between the worlds. When Thor destroys the Bridge at the end of Thor, him and Loki have the following exchange. LOKI: Stop! What are you doing?! If you destroy the Bridge, you'll never see her again! THOR:...

plot-explanation marvel-cinematic-universe the-avengers thor

CBredlow

04:54

Hey y'all what did I miss

So my wife rented "space between us", and within the first half hour my brain has melted from sheer stupidity

"Were using a model of the SLS as our launch rocket, but using stock shuttle footage, and a random mix of the IRSO and spacex capsule instead of Orion"

which has no shown method of propulsion, nor any landing/parachutes, so it somehow lands perfectly.

theyve also mastered faster than light communications since the teens can IM each other from mars and earth

Why the heck are they showing the kid "human culture" from almost 100 gd years ago

Okay capsules are magical dragon-2

capsules that can land on earth and mars without parachutes

Adamant

05:57

Things must be pretty slow. I didn’t get any upvotes yesterday.

And the last (non-closed) question was five hours ago.

Tango

06:33

@Adamant It's Friday - and in the US it's a holiday weekend. People are out trying to have a life. I've heard it's kind of fun to do.

Babelfish

08:47

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Q: Which in-print editions of Neverending Story have red/green text?

I remember reading a fantastic edition of The Neverending Story (Ende) that featured illuminated characters at the start of each chapter, and text in green and red. Is there an edition like this still in print? The most likely candidate I've found is ISBN 9780525457588 (hardcover published by Du...

the-neverending-story

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Q: MCU: Any foreshadowing of the next upcoming Hero?

The Wikipedia article on Marvel Cinematic Universe feature films says, that in 2019 a new hero will be introduced to the MCU, which is Was there any foreshadowing for this character in the MCU so far? Some hints or references only the comic readers understood? Something similiar to the refe...

marvel-cinematic-universe

Gallifreyan

09:34

@Tango I've heard the opposite.

Gallifreyan

09:54

@Riker Awesome floof!

Gallifreyan

10:04

This crap is not an answer - it doesn't answer the question of whether Cap and Spidey fought, it just throws in some unsourced speculation.

SQB

10:37

@WadCheber This! Is! Floof!

Maltese Bullying

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Gallifreyan

11:18

This must be the most effort I've put into another person's answer - I even had to go to the dark corners of the Internet to find that short story.

Gallifreyan

11:45

@Tango ^ Those are the Hokora I was talking about, from Spirited Away. This is how they look in real life

Babelfish

12:48

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Q: Sci fi short story

A short sci fi story where medical science has enabled almost instant body reconstruction causing a reality based form of entertainment where you can vote for your hero or villain to be actually mauled by a lion or shot and the restored to health only to have the same done again in the next episo...

dystopia

Dr R Dizzle

14:51

Colossal's eclectic mixture of relationship drama and monster movie may seem strange, but it results in one of the more fascinating, oddly cohesive films I've seen this year. My spoiler-free review.

Enigma Maitreya

@DrRDizzle I am going to see this movie for most of the reasons your indicating. One question .... See it at the Theater vs Netflix (or streaming) at home. To clarify that somewhat, I have the option to see it in the City at a high end art/cult etc. style theater

Dr R Dizzle

15:36

@EnigmaMaitreya It's not the kind of film where you'll miss much by waiting for it to hit streaming services in all honesty, but it's worth the cost of admission.

Gallifreyan

15:53

@DrRDizzle Care to post that again but make the whole message a link? I want to pin it, but the starboard doesn't show the end of the message.

Gallifreyan

16:05

Great story-ID answer:

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A: Old SF novel about a white-haired young woman, alien or half-alien, who tutors human kids

In several respects the story you describe sounds like the young adult novel Under Alien Stars by Pamela F. Service, referred to in an earlier question and answer on this Stack Exchange. (I wrote the answer and will add some more details to it shortly which may help you decide if it is the right ...

Gallifreyan

16:22

Should we do a feature-request to have a pop-up when users include the story-identification tag, like on M&TV?

Ixrec

can't hurt to try

Gallifreyan

Certainly won't hurt, and maybe people will finally learn to write meaningful titles.

Hehe, another tag to my to-burninate list: foreshadowing

Babelfish

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Q: Where did Thranduil buy his wine from?

The Wood-Elves of Mirkwood apparently drink a lot of wine and the people of Laketown are providing them with it, hence the returning of the barrels via the river. However, the people of Laketown are obviously only middlemen as they literally live in the middle of a lake and probably earn a livi...

tolkiens-legendarium the-hobbit elves

Tango

17:17

@Gallifreyan I guess it varies depending on your tastes. Personally, I like being out and dancing and miss when I could do that several times a week. But I also find I enjoy being outdoors and working on our lot more than I enjoy being stuck at the computer.

@Gallifreyan I can see my fiancée making those, but not as an actual shrine, but as something with faeries or gnomes around them. You know, that whole fantasy feel.

Enigma Maitreya

17:37

@DrRDizzle Thanks I will run it by the wife and see if we can do a dinner/date thing which of course is the .... point :)

Gallifreyan

Well crap, hit my 5-edit limit again.

So many posts, so little time, too little activity to blend in to.

Dr R Dizzle

Colossal's eclectic mixture of relationship drama and monster movie may seem strange, but it results in one of the more fascinating, oddly cohesive films I've seen this year. My spoiler-free review.

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(@Gallifreyan ^^^^^)

Gallifreyan

17:52

@Ixrec beat me to the pin

Dr R Dizzle

Thanks guys

Gallifreyan

@DrRDizzle I'd offer to feed your reviews here directly via RSS, but the XKCD feed has been acting up, so I'm not sure if that wold work.

Free edit: someone needs to add the istari and symbols tags here.

Also add symbols here.

(Q: Why don't I do it myself? A: This).

Maybe add reference here.

Not an answer

Babelfish

18:16

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Q: Looking for old story: Ancient knights charge and take over alien space ship. Conquer aliens by laying siege to cities

Book starts out with human space explorers coming across very tall humans that left earth around a thousand years earlier. Turns out, the tall humans are descended from knights that charged an alien spaceship that landed on earth. The knights end up conquering the aliens by laying siege to their ...

aliens

Babelfish

18:49

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Q: Did Hagrid talk with Sirius while in Azkaban?

Is it possible that during Hagrid's time in Azkaban he talked with Sirus and told him of Harry being alive, and that's why Sirus escapes?

harry-potter

Babelfish

19:07

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Q: Why didn't the Tantive IV jump to hyperspace in episode IV?

In Star Wars episode IV A New Hope we see a Star Destroyer chasing the Tantive IV, which was carrying the stolen Death Star plans. Is there a known reason the rebels didn't jump to hyperspace like: The hyperspace recently having been used and overheated or perhaps The Tantive IV having no h...

star-wars a-new-hope

Gallifreyan

19:28

Poor people on SO forgot what good questions by new users were like:

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Q: How can I get the penultimate element in a list?

I have a std::list<double> foo; I'm using if (foo.size() >= 2){ double penultimate = *(--foo.rbegin()); } but this always gives me an arbitrary value of penultimate. What am I doing wrong?

c++ stl stdlist

At last, a nicely written question from a new user. Have an upvote! — Bathsheba yesterday

Babelfish

19:38

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Q: Why didn't the rebels use this weapon more often

In The Force Unleashed II Starkiller activates a huge gun (Fusion Accelerator Cannon) to utterly annihilate a Star Destroyer. My question is, why didn't the rebels use more of these? I mean, perhaps they were expensive, but it can destroy a Star Destroyer in one hit! Possible answers I've consid...

star-wars

Gallifreyan

How long do the pinned messages stay pinned?

doppelgreener

About a month, I think

SevenSidedDie

@Gallifreyan AFAIK pins last until cleared manually.

doppelgreener

Oh really O:

SevenSidedDie

@doppelgreener Oh, perhaps I do not know. :)

Gallifreyan

19:46

I know at least one message that got unpinned automatically and not after a month.

doppelgreener

This answer from 2011 suggests a pin lasts 14 days, and this feature request from 2016 suggests that's still the case.

SevenSidedDie

@doppelgreener (TIL. Good question, @Gallifreyan.)

Gallifreyan

@SevenSidedDie bows. Thank you, @doppelgreener.

SQB

20:15

@Gallifreyan I'd be okay with that. Have we seen anything from xkcd since the switch to RSS?

I'd be okay with feeding @DrRDizzle's reviews to the room, I mean.

Gallifreyan

yesterday, by xkcd

According to these blood tests, you're like 30% cereal.

^ This one and downwards, 4 messages, bundled.

Don't think it's working properly.

SQB

Might be because of the switch. Let's keep an eye on it.

How about using DrRElzzid for the feed?

Ixrec

that just looks like a weird typo tbh

Mithrandir

@Gallifreyan it always does that when you add a new feed. Don't worry about it.

Ixrec

DrRSSizzle seems more self-explanatory

Gallifreyan

20:23

@Mithrandir Usually it does that directly after we add the feed - in this case it's late a day.

Ixrec

^

Mithrandir

20:57

@Gallifreyan eh, still within normal range. Not the latest I've seen.

I'm just wondering if my edits went too far here: scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/160444/revisions

(revisions 2, 3,and 4 are all me)

Gallifreyan

@Mithrandir If you don't mind putting this effort to make an answer better, I don't see a problem (unless Radhil does).

10 hours ago, by Gallifreyan

This must be the most effort I've put into another person's answer - I even had to go to the dark corners of the Internet to find that short story.

Mithrandir

@Gallifreyan did you type those quotes yourself?

Because I just typed all those quotes myself, on my phone.

Gallifreyan

21:13

@Mithrandir Your phone should be taken from you right now so that you can't hurt yourself no more.

Mithrandir

@Gallifreyan heh. :P

So do I win for maximum effort on another person's answer? ;)

Gallifreyan

You win a place in the revision history and no recognition and no rep at all. Enjoy.

Babelfish

21:48

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Q: What is your fantasy theory about what space / the universe actually is

I'll explain my theory with an analogy. Our body is comprised of cells, the cells have a different "life" they dont have nerves, eyes,ears, they cant reason. Our life is completely incomprehensible to them. But a blood cell still does things and can be considered, with a very very loose definiti...

space

Gallifreyan

@Babelfish Damn, I missed that one.

bleh

22:02

is @xkcd a user or is he a feed

a feed apparently.

Babelfish

22:16

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Q: Need help identifying - Alternate history - Spanish Armada wins over English

Can somebody help me identify this story which I read in the 1980s(?). What I remember is that in 1588 the Spanish Armada was not destroyed on its way to battle the English fleet and the English were defeated. This leads to a present 20th century in which The Spanish are the dominant culture. T...

story-identification time-travel alternate-history

Babelfish

22:30

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Q: Who were these recent Wolverine bad guys who mimicked his healing factor/claws with tech?

This is Logan Wolverine (not the current female version), 616 universe, from somewhat recent comics (post 2010 I'm reasonably certain). This involved a group of bad guys who had nanotech-based healing factors and some sort of energy-based Wolverine-style claws created by some shady corporation or...

marvel comics character-identification

Babelfish

22:53

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Q: Superman - Superhuman

Ok so we know superman was born under a red sun and we also know that while kryponians are smilar to humans they are made up slightly differently so i was wondering this, if we were to take a space shuttle (presumably in the future) out to a planet that we could sustain life on that had a red sta...

superman super-hero

M&TV Feeds

23:06

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Q: What cameos has Stan Lee had?

It's well known that Stan Lee has had many cameo appearances. He has been in every Marvel Cinematic Universe film, played himself on The Simpsons, and even appeared in Princess Diaries 2. How many films has Stan Lee been in? Is there a full list of cameos anywhere?

marvel-cinematic-universe cameo stan-lee

Babelfish

23:43

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Q: If time travelers do exist,why they don't change history?

I was thinking if there was a time traveler, why they don't change history?

time-travel

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