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@doppelgreener Awww. +1 for dog, +1 for deer, -1 for meme and txtspk.
@Randal'Thor ye. :'3
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Q: Are werewolves in Harry Potter powerful even while in human form?

RamWhen we are introduced to werewolves with Lupin he doesn't seem to have any special characteristic while in human form. We can presume, since is canon information, that any wound he inflicts will leave lasting scars but not much more. Yet we meet Fenrir Greyback who, while in human form, shows s...

 
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Q: Did Stark ever show any leadership skills at any point in MCU?

HSchmaleIt seems like Stark's ability to lead is dependent on the plot at best. What are some cases where he actually shows decent communication skills that would be expected of a CEO? I would really like to be proven wrong, but my suspension of disbelief is lost with the new spiderman movie. Spoiler ab...

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Q: Futuristic movie (released past 15 years) about impending flooding and selected people saved on arc like vessels

Movie LoverI'm trying to remember/find a science fiction movie released within the past 15 years about certain people selected to survive the massive flooding in futuristic arc ships. Thanks

 
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Q: Does Thor have to pay taxes?

CodeMedIn Spiderman Homecoming, So does Thor have to pay taxes on Earth? I am adding the comics tag because I do not recall this being mentioned in the movies. I imagine that it was just a kid question in the movie, but I wonder if there is a real answer.

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Q: Who bought the Avengers Tower?

CodeMedIn Spiderman Homecoming, So who bought the Avengers Tower and what do they plan to do with the building?

 
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Q: Looking for a short story about dogs and humans in the far future

dolphins3I'm looking for a short story I saw on Reddit once, but apparently didn't save or bookmark. It's about how, in the far future, humanity finally achieves some technological singularity and "transcends" to a higher plane of existence. In doing so, however, humanity abandons dogs, their partners of ...

 
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Q: Movie where an alien slug attaches to people's backs, makes their tongues long, and makes them kill other people when kissing

KylieI'm looking for a movie I saw on TV once (when I shouldn't have lol) about 23 years ago. There was this slug alien or something that attached to people's backs and made their tongues long and killed people when they kissed them. This old lady picks up the slug and cradles it like a baby in her ar...

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Q: Is the Hogwarts entrance letter written in the color of the receiver's eye?

LitReading the first few chapters of the Sorcerer's Stone, I became very curious about the Hogwarts letter over these lines. ...and the address was written in emerald-green ink. ...held up the letter so [the Dursleys and Harry] could read the green ink address... (both from Chapter ...

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Motion to synonimise to (cc @Randal'Thor).
I'd simply remove the former tag manually, but then someone will just recreate it.
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Q: Is there Internet in Star Wars?

luchonachoIs there something akin to Internet in the Star Wars movies? By Internet I mean an interconnected set of computers that can transmit information to each other using some form of wired connection (e.g. fiber optic cables or equivalent) or wireless connection (e.g. WiFi via routers or data transf...

 
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@Gallifreyan Heh, I was just about to leave a comment here reminding you to edit, and then you edited it.
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@Gallifreyan By analogy with this, done.
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Q: Were the Damage Control references in Spider-Man: Homecoming related to the proposed TV show?

Paul D. WaiteFor some time, there have been rumblings about a ‘Damage Control’ TV series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Spider-Man: Homecoming features several references to, and essentially has its plot kicked off by, the Department of Damage Control, formed by Tony Stark and the U.S. Government in t...

@Randal'Thor
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Can you help me out about Harry Potter? Where is the canon quote saying that Muggle-born children in Hogwarts are usually visited by a teacher who explains the magical world to them?
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@b_jonas Hmm, there should be a question on the main site about that ...
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A: How do you get into Hogwarts if you are muggle-born?

alexwlchanJKR answered this in an interview in 2004: How are Muggle parents convinced to let their kids go to Hogwarts, a strange place they never heard of before; and wouldn’t they think it was a practical joke? In the case of Muggle parents, special messengers are sent to explain everything to t...

^ is that what you're looking for?
@Randal'Thor Ah, there it is, first quote in answer. Thank you.
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@Babelfish probably.
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Q: Spider-Man homecoming Timeline

ThiruIn the Spider-Man homecoming movie it's displayed that it accurs 8 years after new York battle. Is the timeline right?

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@M&TVFeeds I remember a comic where the rebels destroyed some living entity that constituted the empire's communication network.
Can't find it right now.
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Q: Logic behind the Prometheus and Alien : Covenant Movies

Jayendran RoshI'm just watched the Alien: Covenant. I've watched the Prometheus Quite long back just not fully recover the story.So i couldn't exactly relate the 2 movies. But somewhat i can tell the alien covenant is just a continuation of Prometheus. Could someone please explain the story in detail. Spe...

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@Babelfish I'm guessing, a non-native speaker. Needs some work, but I'm not gonna do that on mobile.
I swear we've answered basically this question at least a few times on both sites now
@Mithrandir I was trying to "Improve Edit" at the same time as you :-)
@dop good start, but there was still a lot to fix ;)
@Randal'Thor Heh. I guess I got there faster... from mobile ;)
@Mithrandir yesss...... Much of it outside my power. T_T i've raised a VTC flag as too broad, since a question that says "i'm a bit confused, could someone explain the story in detail" needs some clarity added as to what they're looking for...
@Gallifreyan nice avatar :)
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Cheers :)
@Shokhet Is the "keep calm" slogan not seen as a British thing over there?
(ref)
@Randal'Thor with that font and layout it's completely unambiguously British
@Randal'Thor just wondering, why was it making you uncomfortable?
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Q: Feasibility of Spider-Man

Harry WeasleyHow possible is a real-life Spider-Man, obeying all the laws of physics and so on? I'd accept an answer even if it includes a scaled down version of the superhero, (e.g. instead of being able to lift to two tonnes, our real-life Spider-Man may be capable of lifting only 100 kilos) provided it sta...

If I was following the news, I'd say it's because of the alienation of Britain from EU due to Brexit. Alas, I'm not following the news.
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@Babelfish @Daaaa would that be good on Worldbuilding?
@Gallifreyan neither am I. In any country.
@Mithrandir I'm an anti-monarchist, anti-Brit (except when there are Americans around), and anti-patriot.
@Randal'Thor ...all right then...
What has the poor queen ever done to you?
Sorry, but questions about scientific plausibility aren't on-topic for this site. You might like to try Worldbuilding, but please check their scope and guidelines before posting this question there. — Rand al'Thor ♦ 23 secs ago
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I'm fairly sure it's off-topic there as well.
I don't think it's off topic but it's definitely too broad. There are a toooooon of unrealistic things about Spiderman (and every other superhero) so you'd have to be pretty clear which things you'd like to make up an explanation for.
Hence why I didn't just migrate it, and told the OP to check WB's guidelines first.
@Ixrec Want to leave a comment to that effect before the question gets deleted?
Anyone who asks such questions deserves to be downvoted for missing the whole point of PG-rated superhero films.
Or comics.
well, it is fun to theorize about some of this stuff
Should be on topic on Worldbuilding as long as they explain what Spiderman can do.
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but one does have to be more more specific
Just ask about Cthulhu and you'll be fine
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Q: How would Facebook Sysadmins prevent the summoning of Cthulhu?

Tim BSo, I've got this idea for a short story. Some researchers find a forgotten manuscript hidden locked away in an ancient tomb. While they are working on it one of them pastes part of the text into a Facebook announcement and Facebook automatically translates it. This links Facebook to the nether r...

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Q: Similar proposals to the Muggle Protection Act?

R. SkeeterIn the book Chamber of Secrets there are references to the Muggle Protection Act proposed by Arthur Weasley, aimed to protect the non-magic population against harmful or cursed artifacts made or possessed by wizards who wish to do them harm. Were in the other books any similar official proposals...

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A: How would Facebook Sysadmins prevent the summoning of Cthulhu?

JoeLast time this happened at my job, we were glad our servers were running Windows 10, which forced a shutdown for mandatory updates...

@Randal'Thor Maybe? I'm not sure. I wasn't aware of the British origins (but the crown had to mean something, right?)
@Randal'Thor I'm around. Are you now no longer anti-Brit? :p
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@Shokhet There are nearly always Americans around on SE, so I tend to come across as more British than anti-British here ;-)
@Randal'Thor 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧
^^^that actually looks really lame on my computer. For some reason, the country flag emoji appear as country name acronyms, so that message is just "US GB" repeated :/
Looks like flags to me.
Well good for you. Maybe I need to update my computer or my browser (but I think they're both completely up to date).
So the question is, what's a G-bus?
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@Gallifreyan That's not what I see:
@Randal'Thor Heh. I'm more interested in figuring out what a USG-bus is. Universal serial...something bus?
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Q: Do we ever see any visions in the fire?

muruIn various episodes of Game of Thrones we get to see visions, for example, in Qarth, when Daenerys Targaryen enters the House of the Undying, or many of Bran's visions. However, I think there are more mentions of visions seen by the followers of R'hllor than any other vision. However, try as I mi...

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Looks just like G B U S to me as well
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Q: What would a non-binary or genderfluid magical person be called in the Potterverse?

Magikarp MasterI think it is safe to assume that magical otherkin would not have a problem as they would be able to express themselves by becoming Animagi, but what would we call a magical person of unconventional gender? I doubt they would be happy being called a witch or a wizard, as both terms presume a str...

@Shokhet Windows doesn't support flag emojis yet, and instead just displays two-letter country codes. Emojipedia mentions as much: emojipedia.org/flags
Fun fact though, the flag emojis are really just formed out of two other emojis which represent a letter in a country code.
If you have Discord, try sending a message of :regional_indicator_a::regional_indicator_u: and you'll get the Australian flag.
There's a handful of exceptions: the pirate flag is formed from the waving black flag emoji plus the skull-and-crossbones emoji. Also, Emoji 5.0 (that's right, emojis come in formal versioned releases) is coming with subdivision flags, which will make things like USA State Flags possible as long as the platform implements them, and makes the England, Scotland and Wales flags possible.
This release might also enable platforms to add an Aboriginal flag, and I hope that one arrives soon. That flag is pretty important to Australia -- it's basically Australia's second flag, and modernized flag proposals frequently include it as part of the Australian flag -- so it's weird to me that it isn't implemented already.
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Q: Does Dolores Umbridge have at least one positive trait?

R. SkeeterOr she is the ultimate villain built from character flaws without one redeeming quality?

@Babelfish she likes fluffy kittens
But seriously, was there some Harry Potter event somewhere recently? There have been a whole lot of new HP questions lately.
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@Babelfish Good luck trying to prove a negative there.
@Mithrandir In June, some 20th Anniversary editions of Harry Potter were released.
I imagine that prompted some re-reads.
Ah, interesting.
Which reminds me, I should get around to reading Fantastic Beasts.
It's still in the plastic wrapping.
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Q: Book where vampires are created by drop absorbed on neck?

Dan LoweI have been trying to identify a book that I read maybe 25-30 years ago, in which there are vampire or vampire-like creatures, but instead of being created in the traditional way (e.g. bite on the neck), something drops a drop of some fluid on the back of their neck, which is then absorbed into t...

@Mithrandir Still in mint condition? Could be worth a fortune in a century or so.
@HDE226868 no idea. I haven't opened it yet, but I don't remember if it was secondhand or not (it was from Amazon).
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@HDE226868 You're alive! Haven't seen you on Lit for some time now.
@Gallifreyan Been a while, I know. I haven't been able to do that much reading for a few months.
I've checked in, from time to time.
Also, my poetry class ended at the end of the semester, so. . . shrug
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@doppelgreener Ah, so it's my Windows. Why can't they fix it already? :/
@Mithrandir Is that the new one or the old one?
@Shokhet old one
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Q: Are any of the X-Men comic covers or pages pre-existing?

Meat TrademarkWatching the movie LOGAN (2017) one sees a number of "X-Men" comic covers and pages. I looked up the cover to one issue featured onscreen, and it did not match the cover I found online. I know there are sometimes "news-stand" covers and "direct-market" covers. I was wondering if some or all of th...

@doppelgreener Oh wow! I want the Ravenclaw edition!
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Q: Can a wizard be allergic to magical or regular animals or it is a muggle malady?

R. SkeeterAs in can a wizard have an allergic reaction to allergens produced by cats or hypogriffs or to any other animal?

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Q: Who played Seeker for Gryffindor during the final game in Philosopher's Stone?

The Dark LordWhilst preparing an answer for another question about the Gryffindor Quidditch team I realised that I didn't know who filled Harry's place in the final game of the season in Philosopher's Stone. I just put "unknown player". Has it ever been stated who that player was? We know that the Gryffindor...

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Q: How do non airbenders determine who is the avatar?

WilliamThe airbenders would use toys to determine the next avatar . How do the other nations determine the avatar? For example how was it determined Korra was the next avatar?

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Q: what fantasy movie is this quote from?

Wanda Salgado"with one cherry you may pass to the world behind the glass" I remember the girl moves into her grandmas house and she finds and old standing mirror. Behind the mirror stuck to it there are some cherries and the quote. She uses it to get through the mirror into a different world.

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Q: Was Olaf Sentient When He was Created the First Time Around?

Fickle BeatCrazy thought I was re watching Frozen and I realized that Anna and then Elsa both acknowledge that they created Olaf when they were young. I was wondering if Olaf was sentient when he was created by the sisters before since we know that Elsa had her ice powers since childhood however Olaf has bi...

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Q: How were the moving portraits in the wizarding world created? Why couldn't the trio make a new portrait of Dumbledore during the Horcrux hunt?

user85637I came across similar questions, but my doubt still remains. Yes, there is a portrait of Dumbledore at Hogwarts, and it was impossible for Harry, Ron and Hermione to access it during DH. But why couldn't they create one themselves for guidance during the Horcrux hunt? I know portraits are just im...

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Q: Why didn't father just capture possible candidates for sacrifice?

PdlzWouldn't all those candidates(especially our protagonists) be a nuisance to Father's plan if they just run around? Why didn't they just capture them in the first place, especially when they found out about their existence?

@Babelfish nobody
They didn't have one iirc
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Q: Science Fiction Anthology of the 70's or early 80's

Dr. JI am looking for a science fiction anthology. I remember two short stories in the book. The first had a main character named E and the story ends with "It just goes to show you, a flatter E will get you nowhere." The last story of the book has a post-apocalypse story about a man in a fortress and...

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Q: Name of a fantasy or sci-fi graphic novel about a boy in a coma

user85807I'm looking for a book I think I read about five to ten years ago. It was a fantasy graphic novel, in a fairly classic comic book style. It was about a boy, maybe eleven or twelve, who got into a some sort of car accident or something near his house, and was in a coma. I remember there was a punk...

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Q: Name of a fantasy/science fiction romance book about lion warrior

S-BeeI am looking for a book where the female hero gives I believe a weird Chinese cat doll a belly rub and is transported to the future. There she hears that Earth is at war, she is an empath who can help defeat the opposing fraction or so and falls in love with a humanoid lion alien. Also, throughou...

 
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Q: 80s-90s horror movie about traveling to an alternate dimension?

Mark TalismanI'm thinking of a horror movie from the 80s-90s about people traveling to an alternate dimension that's post-apocalyptic, in which they fight zombies and alien spiders. There was a scene of this alien spider chewing a woman's head and you see her blonde hair hanging from its mouth. I was thinkin...

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Q: Tony's Private LIfe in Spiderman: Homecoming

rosendsI really don't know how to do this in terms of Spoilers, but here goes... After watching the end of Homecoming, it appears that Is there any in-universe explanation for this change from the way the universe seemed to be in Civil War?

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Gallifreyan has added an event to this room's schedule.
@Gallifreyan Can you give me an easy clicky-link to the movie night meta post?
I have too many tabs open.
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Q: July Film Night: The Iron Giant, featuring Vin Diesel, on Saturday 15th July at 6pm UTC+0 (now with Sunday screening!)

doppelgreenerThe theme of July's movie night will be: Robots! 🤖 Your film should significantly involve, or be about, robots. At least one of them. Possibly, but not necessarily, giant robots. Mechas are counted. Cyborgs & organic robots will be counted, since there's fuzzy grey area I'd rather us be able to...

I can also give you the honour of writing the pinnable announcement message.
Well, I'll do the main-site event first, 'cos that needs a mod.
Didn't you just say it was automatic if I added the chat event?
@Gallifreyan Are we doing a Watch2Gether thing this time, or should I say "bring your own copy"?
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Watch2Gether
@Gallifreyan No, it's automatic if I add it :-)
Ahem...
You have my permission to re-add the event here :)
Nah, I'll just add it as a Community Event on the main site separately.
Easier that way, now.
And done.
hat tip
Movie night this Saturday: The Iron Giant at 6pm UTC! We'll be watching a shared copy together - sign up here or just show up on the day.
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@Randal'Thor You should make some more guesses at my riddle on Puzzling
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Q: How identifiable is The Wall in The Handmaid's Tale?

BuzzThis is a somewhat peculiar question, and I recognize that it may end up being closed. However, it concerns something that has been puzzling my for some years about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. (Atwood's well known feelings about SF notwithstanding, this novel is clearly science ficti...

@Hack-R Am I close then?
The last line seemed quite telling, so maybe it's something more specific than Hollywood which still covers those two characters?
Well you're in the right country, but it would be a smaller city/town
@Randal'Thor The only other hint I can give you is that I used a Thesaurus, so if you were to do the same thing in reverse on some of the adjectives it may provide some strong clues :)
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Q: Help required remembering movie that i loved as a child / early teen

Si BI loved a sci-fi film a while back and can't remember much about it, however my mind won't let me quit until I find it and see it again. It started off with the bad guys attacking a Base which was being defended by the good guys akin to rebels in starwars and the Base getting wiped out with the g...

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Oh a movie night, yay! :)
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Q: Book about vampire army underground

Claire dimmockBook set in a small town, possibly in England, where an undead army is waiting in the sewer. Most of the book's story takes place inside a hotel, where they find a video tape. They also dissect a vampire in the basement. The name Leamington rings a bell but I can't find anything with that? He...

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Q: Book about an alien, with one of the plot points being baldness

Matthew MullerThere was this book I read in (primary? < 2007) school that was about an alien, I think his name was Jon, who is found and is taken care of in a family. One of the plot points was someone was bald, either Jon or the family's daughter, and later in the story Jon manages to make whoever was bald gr...


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