The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Jenayah

19:00

Seeing OP came back and is still active and you obviously have the one but they don't provide feedback

that's meh :/

Napoleon Wilson

Or seeing the OP come back and provide the answer himself before you can.

Jenayah

Don't even get me started on that.

Neo Darwin

19:18

The worst thing I have written is a basilisk mpreg fic

Alex

Get started.

Neo Darwin

Basilisk kidnaps and impregnates Harry

Simple concept, hard to execute

Jenayah

Title?

In case it ever gets asked for :P

Adamant

@NeoDarwin but why? :_(

Neo Darwin

Hormones

Repressed Christian School

Adamant

19:24

Mmmmm. I've seen male pregnancy done well, but only rarely (Octavia Butler).

Neo Darwin

It would be an achievement to do something like mpreg properly

Adamant

And for me non-con presented positively is just...ehhhhh. I'm not saying anything about you; everyone writes what they want. just really not my style.

Neo Darwin

JKR seems to have no problem with it

Jenayah

non-con?

Adamant

@NeoDarwin I don't like it when Jkr does it either.

Neo Darwin

19:28

Non consensual

Adamant

Much less, in fact. She doesn't have the excuse of saying she's just writing pornography.

Jenayah

oh

Neo Darwin

Yes indeed love potions are dumb

It was meant to be a plot device for Riddle and Merope Gaunt

But making them so freely available is just another thing in the list of questionable decisions that were made over the years of writing such a massive work

Adamant

She didn't think through the concept well, exactly. Her personal feelings are clear from interviews, but they didn't quite get through.

@Jenayah exactly

Neo Darwin

Is music identification a thing on scifi se?

Jenayah

19:32

Yes!

music-identification

Neo Darwin

:D

Alex

@Adamant Every Harry Potter question should come with that as an automatic first answer.

Jenayah

as long as it's in a SFF work you're good

@Alex lol

Alex

@Jenayah Especially if you catch plagiarists.

Jenayah

That wasn't music-ID

rather at-ID

Alex

19:33

Close enough.

@Jenayah anti-terrorism?

Jenayah

?

Neo Darwin

Keep JKR off Twitter

2

Jenayah

ah crap

art-ID

Neo Darwin

Has anyone given the HP quiz on Pottermore?

Respectable level of difficulty, not very difficult though

Alex

@NeoDarwin There’s a bunch, no?

Jenayah

19:35

link?

Neo Darwin

pottermore.com/features/…

Tell me how you do

Alex

I remember a general one and a Defense Against The Dark Arts one, I think.

Neo Darwin

This one encompasses all the books

Alex

I found a mistake in one of them:

Nov 11 '18 at 19:47, by Alex

Mistake on Pottermore?

Neo Darwin

Which question?

Alex

19:38

Next message on.

I really need to get back to my computer. Linking messages on mobile is disastrous.

Adamant

Hmm, I'd say that it helps treat werewolf bites

Jenayah

6/15

Neo Darwin

I got 15/15

Jenayah

alright

Alex

@Jenayah I was trying to figure out who made too many edits.

Neo Darwin

19:41

I have an extremely encyclopedic knowledge of HP

Jenayah

@Alex ahahah!

Neo Darwin

But in an unstable canon like hp its not very useful

Adamant

Heh, I was right about the werewolf bites.

SCIENCE!

Neo Darwin

Yes indeed you were

Silver is anti werewolf and dittany heals cuts

Combined they can help treat werewolf bites

Poor Lavender could have lived

Adamant

She did...

The movies are fake.

More fake

Jenayah

19:45

18

A: Significance of Weasley house destruction in Half-Blood Prince

There are quite a few instances in the Harry Potter movie series of loyalty to the books being sacrificed to make more audience-and-money-grabbing action scenes. That's pretty much the entire plot of the last one. And remember the first trial in the fourth movie?

+1. Now we can close all "why did X happen in the films but not in the books?" questions as duplicates of this one. — Rand al'Thor Jul 4 '16 at 23:28

Marvin

0

Q: What music is being played at the beginning of the Third Task and after Cedric and Harry return from the rebirth?

What music is the Hogwarts mini orchestra playing?

0

Q: book about teleportation, female main character, cant tele off earth

it is about a group of kids who cannot be off-world due to health issues, but they discover that the types of planets that are being searched for are wrong. If they try to teleport to another planet they will die, but they can tele anywhere on earth with no issues. I can't remember the name of th...

soft-sci-fi

Neo Darwin

Wiki lists her as dead

But hp wiki is not very trustworthy

Adamant

Lavender Brown survived, had 10 children, and lived until 250.

Alex

No one caught the mistake?

Adamant

She became minister for magic 30 times in a row.

Some backstage equipment

Neo Darwin

19:50

That's my girl

Adamant

Also powered

Alex

@NeoDarwin Won-Won disagrees.

Jenayah

22

Q: What happened to Lavender Brown?

I have not yet finished the books, but I have seen the films, and in the final film, I think I saw the trio run past Lavender in the courtyard as someone drank her blood. Is this correct? DVK's answer to this question states that she died, but what actually happened to Lavender? Is it differe...

harry-potter

Neo Darwin

Rip Colin though

Alex

@Adamant We have a winner.

Neo Darwin

19:51

Maybe she retired to Romania

And had lots of little werewolf babies

Jenayah

?

Adamant

No

Jenayah

when did she get hooked up with a werewolf?

oh right, she got bit or stuff

Adamant

@Jenayah Greyback wasn't transformed, right?

Neo Darwin

No he wasn't

So she just becomes addicted to raw steakq

Adamant

19:54

Anyway, my headcanon says she never married.

Neo Darwin

Gordon Ramsay's worst nightmare

Adamant

And you don't know I'm not JK Rowling.

Jenayah

@NeoDarwin No need to be a werewolf for that

Alex

@NeoDarwin The basilisk wanted to.

Adamant

True.

Alex

19:58

Let me rip you

Jenayah

buncha creeps

Neo Darwin

Mpreg is mainstream slash

Alex

I'm looking for a fanfiction in which it turns out that there's no basilisk, and Harry was actually just hearing voices.

Neo Darwin

Have you read the Hogwarts/Great Squid?

Jenayah

What the fox, it's actually a thing?

Neo Darwin

19:59

Yes

And it's beautiful

Jenayah

I don't want to know

Alex

@Jenayah Is "fox" above or below "duck"?

Jenayah

@Alex they're roommates.

Alex

@Jenayah Fanfiction coming up...

Adamant

All I ask is that people ship consenting sentient beings who aren't trying to kill each other.

Alex

20:01

Wait, according to you roommates don't actually share a room.

Adamant

Surely that's not too much to ask....

Alex

Jan 2 at 23:58, by Alex

@Jenayah Is it a "roommate" if you're in separate rooms?

Neo Darwin

@Adamant people soon take it to the other end of the logical extreme

Alex

Hogwarts and the Giant Squid are both sentient and not trying to kill each other. Don't know about consenting.

Neo Darwin

Pseudo consent

Adamant

20:03

Hogwarts isn't sentient though

Jenayah

Since we're on fanfiction may I advert yet again for the best fanfic there's ever been

lparchive.org/Animal-Crossing/Update%201

Neo Darwin

She is in this one

Adamant

@NeoDarwin just no

Jenayah

^ Animal Crossing creepypasta

> I've always heard a lot of good things about Animal Crossing, but I never owned a Gamecube. When it was released on the DS it received such positive reviews that I decided to give it a shot, despite the fact that it appears to have been created for small children suffering from down's syndrome and ADD.

I was not prepared for the shit that goes on in this children's game. The result is this.

Alex

@Adamant What series did you read?

Jenayah

20:04

> I've documented the journey of Billy, a young, happy lad who believes he's going off to have fantastic adventures at summer camp. The following images have not been altered in any way (other than to rescale them or to identify which dialog option is being chosen).

This is a literal and practically contextual account of what happens to poor bastards sent to Animal Crossing.

This is the true story of Billy.

Seriously, it's one good laugh

Neo Darwin

Time to read this

m.fanfiction.net/s/3096379/1/First-Encounter

If anyone's interested

Jenayah

HP?

Adamant

Nominally

Jenayah

Then no thanks, but please make a summary afterwards, in case it gets asked for fanfic-ID

Adamant

Worst Harry Potter fanfiction: My Immortal, Methods of Rationality, or Crimes of Grindelwald? Discuss.

Neo Darwin

20:09

Good question

My immortal is satire imo

Jenayah

HPMOR:

Jan 11 at 15:48, by Jenayah

@SQB I've read the first two chapters and dumped it

Neo Darwin

MoR is good for first few chapters then becomes the author's soapbox

Jenayah

Jan 11 at 15:50, by Jenayah

I may get back up to it some day but so far reading everyone dismissing everything with "Can't be done, [insert physics theorem being violated here]" was kind of dull

Can't speak for the others

Adamant

Everything after the first chapter of Philosopher's Stone is fanfiction for me.

Some of it is better than the original.

Neo Darwin

Elizer is a massive narcissist

Adamant

20:13

I like some of the OCs, although let's face it, Ron is clearly a self-insert.

@NeoDarwin mmhmm

Neo Darwin

Waiting for JKR to make Azkaban=Azerbaijan canon

Adamant

@Jenayah did you know that Harry will become an omnipotent AI researcher?

That's his destiny.

Jenayah

oO

Harry and intellignece in teh same sentence?

Surely that's fanfiction

Neo Darwin

Preferable to canon future

Depressed adult who tells his son that he wishes that he was not his son

Adamant

@NeoDarwin that's not quite right, is it?

@Jenayah and consider that he doesn't have half the mental tools of EY himself?!

Jenayah

20:18

EY?

Neo Darwin

Elizer

Author of hpmor

Jenayah

ok

Alex

@Jenayah You shouldn’t have maed that a separate message. Now I can’t star it.

Jenayah

@Alex Harry and intelligence in the same sentence? Surely that's fanfiction

3

Alex

Now it looks like you’re insulting me.

Adamant

20:20

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Alex

Harry and fanfiction in the same sentence? Surely that’s intelligent.

Jenayah

2 days ago, by Jenayah

have you been on the Internet lately?

Alex

No. But a robot impersonating me has.

Jenayah

Oct 15 '18 at 8:46, by Alex

Oct 9 at 19:35, by Jenayah

@Alex I'm going to start thinking I'm just all alone on this site and you're one big creep with multiple accounts that you shaped into different characters.

Also I thought we'd established you were a bathtub of pachydermic descent?

Alex

@Jenayah A double nesting!

Jenayah

20:25

Just like you like them

Alex

@Jenayah there are multiple “me”s.

Jenayah

eheh

Alex

But not multiple users on my account.

As someone once suggested.

xkcd

20:47

The fact that things like the npm left-pad incident are so rare is oddly reassuring.

Alex

Anyone want to downvote one of my posts?

For science.

Jenayah

21:03

If it's for science

Gotta find a posts of yours worthy of a DV

Alright, done.

The meta post about review queues for minor edits

What was that for?

Alex

22:03

Argh, didn't see your replies because my tab decided to get into one of its moods where it doesn't show me new activity.

In any case, I should have specified that it should be a post on this site.

In double any case, I did notice that downvote and wondered where that was from.

In triple any case, I turned out not to need the downvote as I had already gotten one on Mi Yodeya earlier today.

In quadruple any case, this is the result of the "science":

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Q: "Reputation earned since last visit" ignores lost reputation from removed posts

I happened to be looking at my profile on Interpersonal Skills recently, and I saw that I have 103 reputation. I also saw that I had a +4 reputation change since the last time I had checked: This was quite surprising to me. I had started off my Interpersonal Skills account with an associatio...

bug reputation reputation-graph

Thanks anyway, though, @Jenayah

Jenayah

@Alex TBH I browsed but it was easier to find one on meta :p

@Alex whoops then

@Alex WTF, deleted posts that you edited make you loose rep?

@Alex anytime

Alex

@Jenayah If you originally gained reputation from the edit.

@Jenayah I don't know whether that's meant to be an offer to help me anytime or to downvote me anytime.

Jenayah

I never noticed that and I'm sure I've edited stuff which got deleted

@Alex they're not incompatible :P

Alex

@Jenayah Well you anyway don't get a specific notification of lost reputation. It might have been rolled into a +2 and canceled out so you never saw it.

Jenayah

Perhaps

Alex

22:17

Now an experiment to test a possible answer would require a lot of help...

Marvin

2

Q: Looking for a scifi short story about simulating a universe in a computer!

I can't remember the book I read this story in. It was about a poet living in a world where we can simulate universes in computers, and people like him go in and basically plagiarize the art - stories, poetry - and sell it to people in our universe. Problems occur when the universe in the simulat...

story-identification

Marvin

23:30

0

Q: Harry Potter fanfiction where Voldemort traps Harry in a casket and covers it in the Invisibility Cloak: saved by Snape?

I cannot find this FF for the life of me! From what I remember Voldemort discovers Harry is a Horcrux, locks him away in a casket (in a world of ice) and gets discovered by Snape. Harry is then left traumatised and it's a long road to recovery while Voldemort is still at large. I think he gains ...

harry-potter fan-fiction

Mithrandir

what is up with all the fanfic IDs lately

Alex

@Mithrandir I've been taking down all the fanfictions that I've written, so people can no longer find them. Hence they ask about them here.

Stormblessed

@TheLethalCarrot Why'd you uncapitalize Chat?

Mithrandir

@Alex Of course. I should have realized.

Alex

Indeed. I'm quite disappointed in you.

Stormblessed

23:39

Shouldn't it be capitalized? It's a specific service and part of a name

Alex

@Stormblessed Context?

Stormblessed

Also, Batmen of All Nations is a team, it never was a series, so no italics

@Alex An edit on my question

Alex

When writing something like that I usually capitalize it, but it's not something I would make an edit for either way.

Mithrandir

Hmm. A strange specimen. One who does not seek to impose their method on everybody else. Curious. Very curious.

...I should go to bed so that I don't continue trying to be snarky.

Earlier today, someone texted me to ask why I wasn't signed up for something. I texted back "I don't generally sign up for things I'm not planning on going to."

Or the equivalent in Hebrew.

Stormblessed

The Black Bat was added to Wikipedia's page by an anonymous editor

Alex

23:44

Sorry, but what's curious?

@Mithrandir I, for one, am enjoying it.

Stormblessed

Maybe vandalism, as it isn't sourced and there's no evidence as to its existence

@Mithrandir Is there an equivalent of italics in Hebrew?

Mithrandir

You mean apart from italics?

Alex

Snark.

Stormblessed

@Mithrandir Are there italics for the Hebrew alphabet, I mean?

Mithrandir

@Alex upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Curious_George.png (de-OBed)

@Stormblessed כן

Stormblessed

23:47

@Mithrandir That's cool

Mithrandir

@Alex That actually wasn't intended to be snarky.

Alex

How do you link to a specific timestamp in a Youtube video?

So I can show what I meant.

Mithrandir

click "share", check the "start at..." button

Alex

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone Wand Store Scene

►

@Mithrandir Thanks.

Mithrandir

I actually got the reference...

Alex

23:51

Well not everyone is as brilliant as you...

Snark

@Stormblessed Italics in Hebrew come out looking weird (in my opinion).

Like this: באשר הוא שם

Stormblessed

@Alex they look like they’re leaning inside of the screen

Alex

@Stormblessed Part of the problem is that Hebrew is read right to left.

But the italics don't know that.

There's probably a way to reverse the direction, though.

Stormblessed

@Alex Just was thinking that

How long have they been in use? Forever, or a more recent thing?

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