@NapoleonWilson I've been on Lit like once or twice ever, so I'm not sure. But, I seem to be aware that a great deal of active literature users, at least during beta, were also heavy SFF users, so it's possible that our system cross-polinated into theirs.
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Hmm, I see you've made a poster-design tag, or at least started using it. I've often considered just doing a straight up merchandise for all products related to SFF-dom in question.
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I did add it for one of my own questions, but it hasn't been used very consistently and barely at all, despite a large number of applicable questions. See https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/154787/why-was-this-onslaught-toy-sold-as-red-skull.
@Loong I think one went so far as to say that this will be the downfall of Stack Exchange.
Sorry, but this makes Stack Exchange a social network, by focusing on the users, and not on content. Something it tried not to be. Stack Exchange has lost its unique place among Q&A sites, and I'm afraid that with time people will realize it (as quality will start dropping sharply), and move to one of the many other Q&A sites. — Shadow Wizardyesterday
@TheLethalCarrot They used to. But they have extended the functionality of YouTube embedding quite a bit some time ago. Since then I didn't notice problems with time links.
@WebHead I'm not quite sure what you mean by an ID system, but there are a lot of other SE sites which take ID questions. The more I go nosing around the network, the more I begin to think A&M and M&TV are exceptions rather than the norm.
There's also the two Russian sites, Русский язык and Russian Language. Not sure what the history is there (or indeed what the difference is between the two).
As much as I know one is a classic primarily English-based (but bilingual) SE site about a foreign language not too dissimilar to German Language or French Language, while the other one is a site in Russian for Russian.
It's...not the stuff of movies really. ;-) It was just an independent SO clone in Russian for Russians. At some point it merged into SE and its creator/maintainer got hired as CM.
The other sites, like Japanese and Portuguese went throught the normal Area51 community building as much as I know.
(Although, it requires a little more traction and resurces than your normal SE niche site, since SE needs extra resources for it, starting with CMs speaking the language.)
@NapoleonWilson Yeah. There is (or was) a Turkish SO which stuck at the end of the Area 51 process for years, because it had more than enough committers but SE didn't have a Turkish CM.
Not sure they ever looked. As SE I'd rather treat it as a bonus if an employee spoke a language I could use for starting a niche site, rather than a requirement.
But...I'm not SE, maybe the language-based SOs have a higher priority than your normal niche site because they're SOs and thus the core business.
Yeah, I'd assume so. If they can extend their reach as "the go-to programming Q&A site" to places like Russia and Brazil, that's going to be good for the company.
They rejected the idea of a Portuguese SU, even though it got more than enough Area 51 commitment and they already have the language resources to do it.
Dementors seemed to have had some distance effects on humans - the feeling of coldness, moral depression, darkness.
Is there canon evidence that these area effects were targeted at specific individuals (or that Dementors excluded individuals from such effects)?
Or was the effect 100% determined...
Quoting from here and here:
From a Leaky Cauldron chat:
Samantha: Was snape the only death eater who could produce a full patronus
J.K. Rowling: Yes, because a Patronus is used against things that the Death Eaters generally generate, or fight alongside. They would not need Patronuses....
I want to close the older one (DVK's) as a dupe of the newer one (user13267's). But I may be biased since the accepted answer to the newer one is mine.
Is it me, or you can throw three random, unconnected words at @FuzzyBoots and that will automatically remind him of an obscure short story/book/whatever he read 20+ years ago? :p
The movie isn't bad; it's just a repeat of hundreds of other action movies: bad guy is pissed, bad guy does bad guy things (involving stealing nukes), good guy stops bad guy and gets the girl. There's one line of this movie, however, which is just hilariously memorable:
> Giles Prentice: A Broken what?
> Secretary Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.
> Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.
@NapoleonWilson to be honest, I can't help but think the Pirates of the Carribean memorable theme was influenced by Broken Arrow's soundtrack. Makes sense: Badelt learned a lot from Zimmer.
Many action movies are just a repeat of a classic action movie story. Doesn't mean you can't implement it really well, though.
@Jenayah Well, you could aslo say Zimmer has a tendency to repeat himself sometimes. But that's natural, there's only so many different pieces you can compose.
See, I would go as far as saying I'd like Broken Arrow more than Face/Off.
Not to say that Face/Off isn't nice. But Broken Arrow just had the cooler setting to me and the overall smaller scale. John Woo wasn't yet entirely devoured by Wooisms.
@NapoleonWilson honestly, Face/Off would really have benefitted from having the first cast it was supposed to have (Stallone/Schwarzenegger). Escape Plan exists, sure... but it was made 20 years too late and come on, when you've seen Face/Off that "Omg the prison is a boat!!" thing is less striking :/
Hey, I found the part which reminded me of Pirates of the Carribean.
Hmm, I can't really say anything against the cast there, though. But true, a Stallone-Schwarzenegger, uh, faceoff, during their height would have been nice, too.
Since activity has increased lately, I'll switch the ticker feed (for main site questions) to a message feed later this week. If you have any objections, speak now or forever hold your peace.
@Jenayah Hmm, I found it good for the setting. I didn't have the impression that it was too self-deprecating, which...I might not have appreciated that much.
Nocontext at work: coming back after fetching a chocolate and hearing the other guy saying on the phone "Yeah, I do Samba now, I think it's great because it's much faster that what I was doing before."
Google says that apart from the Brazilian dance, it's apparently also an Ubuntu server thingy, but I didn't know that, ahah
@NapoleonWilson I don't see why I would ever have to question my stereotypical views, brought to me by newsfeed when said Carnival takes place and the fact that I've never put a toe in a samba lesson. :p
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So, I just discovered.. when you click on an image on the xkcd site, they have quirky image titles. xkcd is awesome.
@IceInkberry works with hovering over the oneboxed ones on SE chat, by the way
@NapoleonWilson ahah, same.
Let's have a thought for my poor mother, who had to handle 4-years-old me deliberately refusing to go to that classical dance lesson I had unwillingly been signed up to.
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@SQB Ohh, I use phone that's why I never discovered them.
@SQB oh, sure. But even then, beware my 4-years-old tantrums.
Funny enough, her "it improves the arms' and legs' movements, the coordination, and it requires fitness" arguments from back then aren't heard again when she speaks about me doing kickboxing.
@NapoleonWilson oh yeah, ballerinas can definitely throw their feet quite high, but tracksuit/boxing shorts offer the same freedom of movement :)
It was a common thing for cancan dancers, I think. The guys were "warned" that if they got too close, they could receive a fast high kick to the chin.
Well, of course a "western saloon" cancan dancer wasn't very likely to be able to defend herself against several determined "good ol' guys of the West", but hey, the legends...
I'm re-reading the Peter Hamilton Night's Dawn trilogy and am confused at this extract from book 3 (I think each book was in 2 parts in the USA) The Naked God - chapter 8.
Louise and her sister Genevieve have journeyed from an agricultural planet and have never received neural implant fleks...
@Randal'Thor We have a huge "rule set" for ID questions, a large variety of tags, and a system where we combine tags that would otherwise be considered useless meta tags, in order to get the full tag. So instead of movie-character-identification we have movie + character-identification.
I have been working on something that would add some buttons to the Netflix browsing page for easier browsing and would like to know what font the buttons (the "Home", "TV Shows", "Movies", "Recently Added" and "My List" ones) use.
I used it the first free month when they started here. But...the selection wasn't overwhelming back then (don't know if it's now) so I didn't continue. I used the chance to binge Breaking Bad during a cold, though.
There's enough free stuff, though. And I'd wager about as much as on Netflix or any other of those streaming services. Of course the selections are probably somewhat exclusive or overlapping, but...I'm not going to subscribe to 5 million of these monthly-paid things. So I'll always have some things and not others.
On an unrelated note, the Dutch just can't stop. Seriously, I've accepted the fact that they can bike and text at the same time. Ok. But I've just seen a woman biking while eating a salad. A freaking salad, with the fork and all. @SQB, you guys are overdoing it.
@CorvoAttano browsed through this project I was talking about, but the files I have on this computer did not contain the font's name... For what it's worth, it was part of the very very basic Meteor Blaze application tutorial, if you wanna dig further
Hey @SQB, given how every Dutch person has two legs and two wheels, is a Dutch person unicycling considered a cripple?
@Alex whatever your current job is, Alex, if you can do that kind of thing, drop everything and enroll in a circus. Or make your own YouTube channel, I reckon that's the 2010s way to do it.
@Mithrandir Surely it's only worth having a Youtube channel if you're sufficiently confident that whatever you put there will be interesting/entertaining ...
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The prophecy doesn't merely say "he will mark him", it says
and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal
When talking about the prophecy, Dumbledore says
"Voldemort himself would mark him as his equal... He chose you, not Neville. He gave you the scar" (OotP)
So Dumbledore says that V...