Set in a city, extremely dark and gritty, involving a guy going through some kind of deep psychological torment, possibly drug-addiction related. At one point he gets out of bed and takes the top of his skull off, revealing his brain. I saw it sometime in the 90s and it was probably made around...
Why the last survivors, the council, Kal-El's mother didn't go to the phantom zone to at least survive or in a scout ship to find other inhabitant planets. They had a chance to live like Zod did. We also see Zod need the codex so the unborned child may have the destiny in their life as they are p...
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it is revealed that many Ministry officials were Imperiused by the Death Eaters, and committed otherwise punishable crimes. It is also stated in various canon sources (Pottermore) that if a person is under a mind control spell, such as Imperuis, he/she is ...
Watched a movie where a guy replaces his blood with water. The protagonist of the movies tries to fight with him but fails because he has no blood in him but water. I don't remember it being water but it was some liquid stuff and there's a team doing the same thing. I watched it back in 2008 or 2...
Recently a friend and I were discussing the Harry Potter books and noticed that on Pottermore J.K.Rowling has occasionally contradicted the books. I'm almost certain that other Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors have contradicted themselves or their books in later interviews. I know if I was trying to re...
I've just come up with a conjecture on what a piece of literature means, but the author has said that they didn't mean for their work to suggest that.
For example, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is often considered an iconic book about censorship, but Bradbury says that he didn't write the book a...
Very closely related: How much weight is given to authors' intentions in literary analysis?
Related (as an example of what I'm talking about): Is there any textual evidence to support that Dumbledore was gay?
Loosely related: Should Go Set a Watchman change our view of Atticus defending Tom Rob...
When people analyze literature, one of the first things people seem to do is look for interviews or quotes from the author where the author describes the meaning they intended their text to have.
My question is: when academics and professors of literature analyze texts, how much weight do they ...
When Stack Exchange announced the recent design updates (with the left sidebar) to the SE websites, users immediately complained about how SE is going to abolish per-site customized voting button. SE claimed that those per-site customizations that so many people enjoy take too much time to maint...
When Stack Exchange announced the recent design updates (with the left sidebar) to the SE websites, users immediately complained about how SE is going to abolish per-site customized voting button. SE claimed that those per-site customizations that so many people enjoy take too much time to maint...
This was inspired by a related question about whether Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru knew that Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader.
Did they know that Obi-Wan "Old Ben" Kenobi was a Jedi?
Or did they think Kenobi was just an eccentric old hermit living out in the desert by himself?
Please provide an...
Yes, we do
The custom background is one of the main things that is unique to our site and gives us our own identity on the network. Without it we look just like everyone else. Consider this answer to the linked meta:
My main gripe with the new theme is that once the site header has scrolled ...
I saw this cartoon a couple decades ago and I believe it was from The Far Side but I am not certain.
It showed a cowboy-style theme where the champion ping pong player (a king of the mountain) was finally beat by a skilled kid.
The caption was something like this:
Well kid, you beat me. Now...
Mid-2017 TeamDAG started publishing monthly updates. This post will continue that effort into 2018. (See 2017's updates here.)
Updates are posted at the beginning of the month. They cover what was done last month, what is still in progress and new work that will be started in the current month.
So all I can remember is that he was a cartoon villain who was super old, in a wheelchair, has a huge forehead, with purple glasses, and had a white lab coat on. I'm pretty sure he was a doctor or evil scientist. It was an older cartoon shown on Cartoon Network I think.
A good technical solution would be to allow mods to exclude questions from specific tags from appearing on the HNQ.
Impact would be low, since filtering is not done per user, so it does not have to take each user's preferences into account. This would simply prevent questions within a tag from ...
They changed Thanos' motivation for killing half the universe's population in the movies. In the comics, he did it to impress Mistress Death. In the movie, his reasoning was to reduce overpopulation in a universe of finite resources. While halving the population keeps the number in line with t...
I’m curious as to why the Xenomorphs from the Alien series tend to kill some of their hosts instead of infecting them with the face huggers? If they are to reproduce by using the hosts to carry out their life cycle then why kill them in some instances?
