The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

12:00 AM

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Q: Cartoon Series with a man in black clothing making a metal/rock monster appear after throwing rock cubes

One of the first cartoons I watched. A man in black clothing (like red outlining) throws three rock cubes, with red writings on them, and a gigantic metal/rock monster appears. Maybe he gets his arm taken off and replaced with a blue metallic one.

Jenayah

@Stormblessed maybe it got taken off, or OP misremembered

@Alex why is it missing sentences?

Alex

@Jenayah Because it's a bad PDF, I suppose.

Jenayah

fair nuff

Stormblessed

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Q: How to find a story-ID answer?

story-identification is a big tag. I've read How to write a good story-ID answer? and How to ask a good story-ID question?, but neither answers my larger question: how to find a good story-ID answer. I've answered three story-ID questions, but two were based on others' answers and comments and t...

discussion story-identification

Alex

I have a better one, but the text isn't copyable so I can't use it for word counts.

Stormblessed

12:03 AM

@Jenayah Made a post for you to answer.

8 hours ago, by Jenayah

I'm planning of organizing that in a guide/chatroom for it to be clearer but I don't have the time right now, so transcript's good :P

Jenayah

crap didn't I mention the meta thing in that transcript?

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Q: Can somebody walk me through how to research these Identify this story questions?

Is there any way to research an identify this story question? We have 391 unanswered questions and almost a third of them are story id questions. I wouldn't mind putting in the research effort, but I have no idea where to start short of reading every single short story anthology ever published. S...

discussion story-identification

dupe :/

Stormblessed

12:28 AM

But we could use something more definitive, like the good answer and good question posts

Can you change what answer you have accepted?

Jenayah

@Stormblessed Acceptance isn't locked, OP can change/remove it at will, yes

why?

Slartibartfast

12:51 AM

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Q: How to find a story-ID answer?

story-identification is a big tag. I've read How to write a good story-ID answer? and How to ask a good story-ID question?, but neither answers my larger question: how to find a good story-ID answer. I've answered three story-ID questions, but two were based on others' answers and comments and t...

discussion story-identification

Jenayah

slow feed

Marvin

1:03 AM

0

Q: A movie or theater about a traveling salesman selling little atomic bombs to a family

A film or theater about a traveling salesman who want to sell a little atomic bomb to a family to destroy their bad neighbor. Anyone can tell me the name of that film/theater or story of that please?

story-identification movie

Stormblessed

1:22 AM

theater-play isn’t a synonym for theatre-play

Alex

@Stormblessed It's not a tag.

Jenayah

Jan 9 at 0:15, by Jenayah

Synonymization's goal isn't to prevent but to cure; basically if for years people have been using two tags with the same meaning (for instance origins and history-of), then it can be a good thing to synonymize the two

so basically can't be done if one of the tags don't exist to beginn with

furthermore I think SE policy is to always have US Eglish in tags name unless explicitly British (such as HP1)

Stormblessed

I’m gonna ask a question about a play just to change the tag sometime

😈

@Jenayah but I’ve heard edits shouldn’t change to American/English

Alex

@Jenayah But in this case it's the British spelling.

Jenayah

@Stormblessed edits of bodies, no, tags names are different

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A: Should we allow or indicate non-English titles for SFF works along the English title?

Tag names: English. Tag names are important, because we can only put one name there (perhaps adding others as synonyms). We should use the English name there, because we're an English-language site. As for what kind of English: in general, network-wide consensus is to use US English for tag name...

69

A: What should the standard spelling be - British or US?

Does SOFU have an accepted standard on language and spelling? Which is it? For bodies, no. For tags, US-English. Titles don't actually need to be consistent (tags absolutely do!), but if you think anyone might want to search for a question then you would do well to use the more common spel...

Alex

1:30 AM

@Jenayah He should check out Mi Yodeya where there are tags with a dozen synonyms to account for variant spellings when transliterating.

Jenayah

drop a comment then

Stormblessed

@Jenayah scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/attack-on-titan/info

Updated that based on that answer

Jenayah

@Stormblessed approved; although I'd suggest you add add original title per https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12118/98028 to your edit reason so you don't risk people rejecting it for "no improvement whatsoever"

I mean they could still reject it if they want but if it's backed by a mod on Meta then it's backed by a mod on Meta

Stormblessed

Use this tag for questions about the anime and manga My Hero Academia (Japanese: 僕のヒーローアカデミア "Boku no Hero Academia").

Should "Boku no Hero Academia" be the transliteration instead?

Jenayah

yeah so far it's only a fanfic-id tag

hm?

What, do you mean the tag's name?

Stormblessed

1:37 AM

@Jenayah I.e. "Boku no Hīrō Akademia" in the tag description

Is there a way to search tags by the text in excerpts/wikis?

Like looking for all tags about "manga" to add the Japanese titles?

Jenayah

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A: search in tag description

Until this feature is implemented, you can use the following SEDE query to search in tag names, tag descriptions ('excerpts') and tag wikis. SELECT t.TagName, 'Tag', '' FROM Tags AS t WHERE t.TagName LIKE '%' + ##query:string## + '%' collate sql_latin1_general_cp1_ci_ai UNION ALL SELECT ...

@Stormblessed that seems redundant, there's already the Boku No Hero Academia thing

Stormblessed

@Jenayah I guess it is kinda pointlessly less readable like that

Jenayah

don't ask me I don't read past the Japanese characters :P

Stormblessed

Dragon Ball Super tag

Marvin

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Q: Is "fleet captain" a production mistake or an actual Starfleet rank?

In the opening scene of "Whom Gods Destroy", Captain Garth (posing as Dr. Cory) says to Kirk: "Garth of Izar, a starship fleet captain." Was this intended to be a real Starfleet title, or a production mistake (i.e. by a writer or actor) that has been later retconned into "canon"? The phras...

star-trek star-trek-tos

Stormblessed

1:50 AM

"The series is a sequel to Toriyama's original Dragon Ball manga and the Dragon Ball Z television series featuring the first new storyline in 18 years."

This part of the Wikipedia article on it was plagiarized in the tag wiki

Jenayah

good spot

Stormblessed

@Stormblessed great writing lol

@Buzz

@Buzz why remove the quotes on the English title?

@Jenayah how do I ping Buzz?

Jenayah

hmmm if he hasn't been in chat lately you may not be able to

But let's invite him back

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Invite sent, let's see if he comes

Stormblessed

@Jenayah How do you invite?

Jenayah

you click on a user's chat profile and select "invite to room ..."

Stormblessed

1:56 AM

@Jenayah How do you get to their Chat profile?

Jenayah

To fetch his chat profile I browse the transcript to find a message of his and clicked on the chat avatar

oi @Adamant :)

Adamant

@Jenayah Hi

Did anyone watch the Steven Universe special?

Jenayah

How's the yeast going?

Adamant

@Jenayah The yeast is OK. It's simulated yeast, so it's easy to keep happy.

Buzz

Because titles of full-length works don't get quotes, even when italicization or underlining are unavailable.

Jenayah

1:58 AM

how does one simulate yeast?

numeric simulation you mean?

Adamant

Yes, precisely.

Jenayah

oooh yeah I can see how that's easier

:)

FuzzyBoots

@Jenayah I think it's a good idea. Kind of a pain, moving all of the links over, but you have the gold badge for story-id, right?

Jenayah

@FuzzyBoots it's on my to-do list for 2019... :)

Silver might come this week ;p

Alex

7 hours ago, by Alex

@Stormblessed What are you waiting for?\

Jenayah

2:01 AM

@Alex people to ask questions

I browse a lot of old ones but don't always find an answer

I wonder what I'll get first, gold story-id tag badge or ahead of you in terms or Revivals ;)

Alex

@Jenayah What makes you think you'll ever get the latter?

Jenayah

Technically speaking my phrasing didn't mean I had to get both

Alex

@Jenayah A hero turned bad, had a crush on his teacher's daughter, and she ended up killing him. He had some kind of power. What's the story?

@Jenayah Eh, I took it to mean that you'll eventually get both.

Jenayah

@Alex oh that is what I intend to do anyway :P

@Alex mmmmh... Let me think

Alex

I'll have to up my game then.

Jenayah

2:05 AM

game is on ;)

Alex

I've answered six potential Revivals in the last day and a half or so.

Stormblessed

@Buzz Making sure (not that I doubt you, just couldn't find much either way online

Jenayah

@Alex beats me. I'm sure I'll be all "dangit! Of course! How could I miss it?!" ... but I don't see it

Alex

@Jenayah I don't think it's a real story.

Jenayah

You duck

You had me thinking :P

Alex

2:09 AM

Sorry.

Stormblessed

Editing theatre-play out of questions

Alex

I should have mentioned that I was joking around.

Jenayah

no worries :P

Stormblessed

stackexchange.com/users/9279508/alex

Alex

@Jenayah If only you would stack messages more often. we could be 35 deep by now.

Stormblessed

2:11 AM

stackexchange.com/users/102999/alex

Jenayah

@Alex ?

Alex

chat.stackexchange.com/…

Jenayah

@Stormblessed lots of Alexes out there

Stormblessed

@Stormblessed I went to Alex's profile to look to see his answers then changed the number on his main profile to my number and found another user named Alex.

@Jenayah Yes

Jenayah

@Alex oh, ahah

Alex

2:13 AM

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, Jan 6 at 21:25, by Alex

in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Aug 17 '18 at 19:25, by Alex

@Jenayah I tried my best to pick a unique username.

Jenayah

Jan 15 at 22:00, by Jenayah

Nov 2 '18 at 12:46, by Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot "oh my God it's spreading!"

with a double nest to please @Alex

Alex

@Jenayah That's the word. I knew it was something other than "stack".

@Stormblessed Which site?

Stormblessed

@Alex I typed my SFF account's number

stackexchange.com/users/13563472/corvo-attano

Jenayah

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Q: Nested quote trolling

...

discussion blockquote trolling

Stormblessed

@Stormblessed I'm still Corvo even though that was like a month ago that I changed it

Alex

2:17 AM

@Stormblessed But which site were you looking at my answers on?

Stormblessed

@Alex SFF

Jenayah

SFF account number != chatt account number I think

Stormblessed

@Jenayah Yeah

Alex

@Stormblessed Any specific one, or just browsing?

Jenayah

@Stormblessed you can transfer the new tag wiki by the way

Stormblessed

2:18 AM

@Jenayah What?

Jenayah

@Alex ?

@Stormblessed well now you created a new tag without a wiki when there was one for the former UK version

Alex

@Jenayah Sorry, I replied to the wrong message.

Jenayah

tssss

Alex

That's what you get for posting so quickly after Stormblessed.

Jenayah

meh not my fault if you can't have your cursor right

Stormblessed

2:21 AM

@Alex Nope

Alex

Nov 28 '18 at 23:32, by Jenayah

@Alex that... may be my fault :P

Jenayah

eheh

Alex

Oooohhh, another experimenter!

Stormblessed

@Alex Trolling looks fun

13 secs ago, by Stormblessed

@Alex Trolling looks fun

Alex

@Stormblessed Experimenting does not equal trolling.

Jenayah

2:23 AM

@Alex for some reason I Can't find the transcript of that

Stormblessed

@Alex Quote trolling

Jenayah

I know part of it went to Trash but still

Stormblessed

@Jenayah Removed

Alex

@Jenayah It was removed.

Stormblessed

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/48619187#48619187

Jenayah

2:24 AM

@Stormblessed no, I was referring to an experiment we did with Alex like two months ago

infinite nesting

Alex

@Jenayah Here's the evidence:

Oct 16 '18 at 23:09, by Gallifreyan

Now wondering whether I need to move the experimental messages from here to the trash room

Jenayah

Oct 16 '18 at 22:30, by Alex

Have we determined yet if there is a limit?

Alex

Watch there be some feature that if you self-delete X amount of messages you get suspended from Chat @Stormblessed

Jenayah

Oct 16 '18 at 23:13, by Jenayah

My beautiful science! ;_;

Stormblessed

@Alex There is????

Alex

2:27 AM

@Stormblessed I don't know. I guess we'll find out if we don't see you for a while.

Stormblessed

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/48619225#48619225

Damn, messed up and deleted too quickly \_(ツ)_/

Backslashes don't display

Alex

\

Stormblessed

\

@Alex Well, that one didn't

Jenayah

\\

Stormblessed

Weird

Alex

2:29 AM

\/\/eird

Stormblessed

It thinks I'm a robot spammer

Alex

I think you are too.

Jenayah

.o. /o. /o\ <o/ <o> \o/ heeeeey Macarena

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Stormblessed

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Q: How to find a story-ID answer?

story-identification is a big tag. I've read How to write a good story-ID answer? and How to ask a good story-ID question?, but neither answers my larger question: how do users here find the answers to story-ID questions? I've answered three story-ID questions, but two were based on others' answ...

discussion story-identification

I hope Valorum answers this

I want his secrets !

Alex

:48619310 Are you sure?

Stormblessed

2:35 AM

Any way to submit a request for manual deletion rather than waiting on that?

Jenayah

@Jenayah - In this case (frustratingly) it's cached by Google but not accessible. The site comes up when I search for the word "Cling-mine" in quote marks, but the cache button is greyed out. — Valorum Dec 25 '18 at 21:21

@Alex I think so

@Stormblessed meh it will die within the week

no need to bother a mod

unrelated:

From the Fields of Gallia (Epic Celtic Metal)

►

Stormblessed

@Jenayah Ok

After one gets tons and tons of rep here, can they see things like upvote/downvote counts on other site where I have way less?

Jenayah

nope

Stormblessed

@Jenayah That's weird, they don't seem so top-secret

Jenayah

gotta work your way back to 1k on other sites

it's a pain

maybe less on beta sites

Alex

2:41 AM

@Stormblessed It's not about being secret, it's about cost.

Jenayah

@Stormblessed IIRC it's got something to do with it being a "greedy" query server-side

or something around these lines

Alex

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A: Show Total Votes (or Up/Down Votes)

The total vote count (score) is denormalized, but the individual up/down vote counts are not. So to display it on every post would incur 2 vote table queries * number of visible questions / answers. Our DB is fast, but the vote table is pretty massive, and not doing a query is always faster than...

Stormblessed

i.stack.imgur.com/lmcWF.jpg?s=328&g=1

What movie is this person from?

All that comes up is Google seeing Valorum's profile and guessing it's Chancellor Valorum from Star Wars

Jenayah

Valorum uses Buffy as his avatars

Stormblessed

Valorum, UK

179 1 6

airlines fraud refunds scams

This a different user?

Jenayah

2:47 AM

should be the same user

accounts must be dissociated for whatever reason

Alex

Richard, UK

101 1

Jenayah

enjoying the stalking you two? :^)

Alex

@Jenayah I'm awaiting the day I find one of those for you.

Jenayah

oh you can wait

Most probably I'll keep a separate Stack Overflow account from this very one but that implies creating a SO account first

Alex

My interest is not in the Stack Overflow one.

Jenayah

2:58 AM

Which one interests you?

Alex

The one that I linked for Richard.

Jenayah

A Mi Yodeya account?

You're probably going to have to wait some time :P

Alex

Until you have a question.

Jenayah

That I don't ask you first, for the sake of easiness. :P

Alex

True.

Ankit Sharma

3:33 AM

@Stormblessed yes. Same account

Because in network profile all top posts are scifi and Richard was his old name

Marvin

8:43 AM

0

Q: Why was the Kree's kill switch so weak?

Thousands of years ago, Kree experimented on primitive humans to create first Inhuman Warriors. Later, the program was abandoned and some Kree Reapers were put in stasis to forever orbit the solar system, in case the need arose to kill the Inhumans. And, its activation system was put on the Earth...

marvel marvel-cinematic-universe agents-of-shield

Marvin

10:49 AM

0

Q: Animated TV show about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

I'm looking for an animated TV show bast on King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. It came out some time in the 80s or early 90s. It centres around the table and the knights. All the knights would place there swords on the table. In the intro they showed the building of Camelot. Lifting ...

story-identification tv arthurian animated-series

0

Q: Movie about a house haunted by a teenage girl who possesses the daughter

I believe it's only the mom and the daughter who move to a new house. The house though is haunted by a teenage girl who died there and now she want to possess the daughter. The ghost ends up succeeding but the mom figures it out though when she asks her "daughter" where she came up with her name ...

story-identification movie

Jenayah

11:44 AM

@NeoDarwin will you please stop digging my answer's grave :P

Get searching instead :P

TheLethalCarrot

Hmm?

@Marvin I doubt my answer here is correct but it is surprisingly difficult to search for King Arthur cartoons apparently

And it was at least a partial match

Neo Darwin

If someone gives a wrong answer are we supposed to accept it?

TheLethalCarrot

Accepting an answer is up to the question asker

Don't accept a wrong answer just because there isn't anything else

Wrong answers can be downvoted if you want, a comment given to explain why its wrong and if you feel like it post your own answer that is correct

Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot ? I only know of 3-4 of them

@NeoDarwin what TLC said

TheLethalCarrot

@Jenayah Whatever I google only brings back the same 3-4 and none of the intros really appear to match

Jenayah

11:53 AM

To be fair this is like the most generic description you could give of a King Arthur cartoon

TheLethalCarrot

Oh yeah it's not great

Jenayah

Then again apart from the football one what can you do with a King Arthur cartoon

TheLethalCarrot

The OP seems somewhat confused. I asked them to edit in anything else, they said "magic/monsters" I said okay great edit it in and then they said I put in everything haha

The football one, that the one with justice in its title?

It kept dominating my search results so had to filter it out haha

Jenayah

Yeah the justice one

TheLethalCarrot

I don't even understand what's going on in that one haha

Jenayah

11:57 AM

Japan, don't ask :P

WTF

It's not Japanese :D

TheLethalCarrot

I didn't think so haha

Jenayah

Meh same thing. US, don't ask

TheLethalCarrot

Lol

Jenayah

European high-five

Jenayah

12:09 PM

Meh if it's not in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… I don't knwo where it is

TheLethalCarrot

Yup looked through those and didn't find any that looked right but didn't check them all

Jenayah

@Marvin talk about broad, that's what, 50% of all ghost movies?

TheLethalCarrot

Yup, tbf it immediately made me think of one shit series I watched but apparently the sequels that I didn't watch don't follow that pattern

Jenayah

which one?

TheLethalCarrot

Something in the Insidious franchise, dunno why though

I only watched the first film and thought it was terrible

Jenayah

12:24 PM

alright

TheLethalCarrot

So didn't bother with the rest

Jenayah

I'm not a big fan of those, they're boring

This kind of movies follows the same plot and since I don't react to the "jumpscares" there's literally no enjoyment to be found

Better to watch cheesy 80s action movies :P

TheLethalCarrot

Nah I don't like them in general either

Napoleon Wilson

12:58 PM

Unfortunately, though, this ghost house crap is about the majority of horror fair released. Since this way you can make 500 million with a cost 5 million.

Ankit Sharma

1:24 PM

If we are talking about horror movies then I have to mention Babadook

@Marvin Every horror movie inspired from The Exorcist ?

Napoleon Wilson

That was nice, true. Very depressing atmosphere.

Ankit Sharma

My kind of thing

And best thing is Babadook is gay

Napoleon Wilson

I also liked Oculus for the whole aspect of not being able to trust your own mind anymore, which...also lead to a depresing atmosphere.

@AnkitSharma Uh...oookay.

Ankit Sharma

And supposedly dating pennywise

@NapoleonWilson I like it too

@NapoleonWilson For context

Napoleon Wilson

But...I can't even keep all these ghost house things separate Insidious, Ignoramus, Conjuring, Paranormal Purge 17, ...

Ankit Sharma

1:30 PM

@NapoleonWilson for god sake Purge was different and interesting before they made 4 more films and a TV show

Napoleon Wilson

Oh, right, there's a TV-show, too.

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson I liked Purge, Purge 2 was also not bad. 3rd one was I have seen it all already + election but I was happy purge is canceled and all happy . But then they made prequel film and prequel TV show, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Napoleon Wilson

Meh.

Ankit Sharma

I used to like horror but I have to watch 99 bad ones to spot the 1 good film

@AnkitSharma wow next dp

Napoleon Wilson

I like horror when it presents an interesting and engaging story apart from the simple horror moments. The film ought to work as a gripping thriller even if you don't want to just get scared or whatever.

I don't find most horror films too scary anyway. Though, the last time I was genuinely scared probably was Oculus indeed, I guess.

Ankit Sharma

1:41 PM

@NapoleonWilson In never found a film which can scare me but I do have many fav

The Exorcist was good but then they made shit sequels and even now they copy paste same scenes

Napoleon Wilson

And...there's a TV-show too.

Ankit Sharma

The Exorcism of Emily Rose is good

Mama, Oculus and Babdook

Conjuring 1 was good

But conjureverse is crap

Derpy

1:58 PM

@Marvin gotta love the usual impossible to answer identification questions.

Napoleon Wilson

For some definition of "love". ;-)

Derpy

> Find me a show about X, please post guess as comments, so that I will be able to post a self answer stating "got it!" in your place if by sheer luck you manage to find it.

Stormblessed

@AnkitSharma who is that?

(Sorry, never watched any horror films...)

Napoleon Wilson

The infamous Babadook, from the film of the same name (albeit carricaturized based on a ridiculous joke played by and on the Twittersphere that apparently developed a life of its own).

Marvin

2:30 PM

0

Q: How could the wall really protect the Westeros when it didn't extend into the sea?

Yes, the White Walkers couldn't swim, but during the winter, water gets frozen. What prevented White Walkers from assimilating every single human being from Westeros?

game-of-thrones

TheLethalCarrot

I've been able to use my gold badges a few times recently :)

Jenayah

eheh

so what about that Kaijudo thing

Fuzzy seriously thought I would be able to handle it? I'm no gold tag badger yet xD

TheLethalCarrot

I don't know what you're on about haha

Jenayah

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16 hours ago, by Jenayah

Hmm... I improved my Kaijudo answer (this one). The current dupe-target for this series is https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/162516/98028 which is a terse question and kinda terse answer. @FuzzyBoots, do you think it's reasonable to change the dupe-target to the new question?

13 hours ago, by FuzzyBoots

@Jenayah I think it's a good idea. Kind of a pain, moving all of the links over, but you have the gold badge for story-id, right?

13 hours ago, by Jenayah

@FuzzyBoots it's on my to-do list for 2019... :)

TheLethalCarrot

Ah simple as that haha

TBF you should get it, score doesn't seem to be a problem, it never really is, just the number of answers

Jenayah

2:35 PM

ayup :)

Silver might come this week

TheLethalCarrot