The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Stormblessed

00:00

@Adamant Ok

Does the graphic novel get more interesting? It's kind of boring so far.

(Currently all that's happened is they killed the mysterious bald guy with the weird scar [not much of a spoiler at all])

Jenayah

00:28

3

Q: Anime about a girl group and they get powers

I watched like 3 years ago on Netflix but stopped because I had to move. I don't really remember much of it. I just know it's a girl group that goes to school (I think) and they fight a creature (last I remember it was like a worm, but huge). My sister says it's been taken off Netflix, I'm not r...

^ voted to close as "way too f***ing broad" ahah

Adamant

@Stormblessed idk

@Jenayah I remember this one. I think it was made in Japan with a giant robot and the girls had uniforms of some sort.

They might have had magical powers too.

And some of them had hair in unusual colors, that might narrow it down.

Jenayah

Not all magical girls have mechas.

Stormblessed

@Jenayah I agree

"I remember this manga where the main character liked food a lot and it was in Shōnen Jump" <-- About 2,740,000,000 results (1.14 seconds)

Marvin

00:53

0

Q: Jack and Sally's children

In the epilogue of the official Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack, it says this: "Four or five skeleton children at hand" who play together in a xylophone band. It is obviously implied that these are Jack and Sally's children...but how is it possible for them to reproduce?

the-nightmare-before-christmas

Adamant

@Jenayah That's of course true, but mechas are common in anime.

@Jenayah Not all of them do, but they should.

Everyone knows that giant robots make everything better

Star Wars, Pacific Rim, Big Hero 6

Ummm

Jenayah

01:49

Giant robots + underage girls in skirts = recipe for success

Marvin

0

Q: Drarry Harry Potter fanfic, de-aging

I have read it before but I can’t find it or remember it’s title. Either Harry or Draco were de-aged, I think it’s draco but it could be Harry, and Harry looks after him in a room of their own. Dumbeldore has placed clothing already and Harry dresses a little Draco but snape can only administer t...

story-identification harry-potter fan-fiction drarry

Stormblessed

3

Q: Can one voluntarily enlist as a First Order Trooper?

In the Star Wars sequels, we find that the First Order is filling their ranks with slave labor conditioned from early childhood for loyalty. Is this the only way to become a First Order Trooper, or is it possible for adults, or at least older children, to voluntarily choose to enlist despite not ...

star-wars first-order

This seems pretty clear; why wouldn't the glorious First Order let you join the effort against the murderous Alliance? The more troops around, the more rebel scum dead

Marvin

02:28

0

Q: Looking for a short story about a freed prisoner who pulls off a coup

I read it in a collection in the early 80s. I believe it was in the near future. A young prisoner was enrolled in some sort of program where he was educated as part of an experimental program. Once he was deemed sufficiently rehabilitated he was eventually released to begin a new life as a colleg...

short-stories

Marvin

03:15

0

Q: What's the Title of the Book where the main character's consciousness is transferred to an artificial body?

so i'm doing a school project which requires me to cite the books I've read under the genre Science-Fiction. I am almost done, I just need the last book, which I can't find the title. I recall it taking place in this future dystopia where robots/ais sort of cohabitate: technology here has advanc...

robots science-fiction-genre

Stormblessed

03:58

3

Q: What's the Title of the Book where the main character's consciousness is transferred to an artificial body?

So i'm doing a school project which requires me to cite the books I've read under the genre Science-Fiction. I am almost done, I just need the last book, which I can't find the title. I recall it taking place in this future dystopia where robots/ais sort of cohabitate; technology here has advanc...

story-identification novel robots

Trying to improve this, but another edit is in the way

Reviewers, please look at that

Pinging @Jenayah

Marvin

04:51

0

Q: Who owns the rights to Kingpin?

I used to think that Disney-owned Marvel had a pretty clear-cut claim to Wilson Fisk, featuring him in Daredevil since 2015. However, just a few months ago he appeared in Spider-Verse (brought to you by Sony), and now I'm not so sure I know who owns him. How can both studios use him? Did someon...

marvel marvel-cinematic-universe daredevil-2015 sonys-marvel-universe spider-man-into-the-spider-verse

Marvin

06:10

0

Q: Donald Duck comic book with giant shark

I seek help identifying a circa 1960 Disney comic book in English where Donald Duck goes down in a diving bell. A seemingly megaladon-sized shark attacks the bell and the diving bell falls to the seafloor and into a really giant clam. The diving bell is covered with nacre, and then is found and ...

story-identification comics donald-duck

Marvin

08:31

0

Q: a man who fell in love with a ghost

actually i read the story in quiz during my college time, it is around 2013. A man who discover a girl who look shy, then the man try to talk to him, the scene was in a train or near train station i guess. Later they kinda become close to each other, but the girl looks like she still keeping so...

story-identification short-stories

Marvin

09:18

0

Q: Book where angel finds a planet full of humans and crash lands there losing its memory

The book is sci fi. God and the devil are playing a great game on a higher plane of existence. God is losing until an angel finds a planet full of original humans. The angel crash landed the ship and has lost his memory. The humans are very low tech. There is a fair like event and they're playing...

story-identification books

1

Q: In The Umbrella Academy who does Number 5 owe a debt to?

In The Umbrella Academy in the episode "The Day That Wasn't" number five says: I do owe a debt, but not to you. Is it specified in the comics who he was referring to?

dark-horse-comics the-umbrella-academy

Marvin

09:34

0

Q: Is there any in canon date of whether the goblins existed before normal human wizards or witches?

See what I wrote above Is there any in canon date of whether the goblins existed before the wizards and witches or were human magic users exist before goblins?

harry-potter

Marvin

09:49

0

Q: Horror Movie where a child had to hide his hands and feet under the bedcover to avoid being caught by a monster

I am searching for a title of a horror movie, which I never had seen to an end, because I was fallen asleep. As far as I could remember, a Brother has to babysit his younger Brother, because the Parents were out. The younger brother was scared, because there was a monster which he said about, cau...

horror

FuzzyBoots

10:47

41

Q: Term for immortality that only prevents death from old age

Is there a term for immortality that only prevents death from old age? For example, the elves from The Lord of the Rings are "immortal", but only to the effects of dying from age. They can still be killed from wounds. So they are technically not immortal. In fact, the use of the term "immorta...

terminology immortality

Alright, so I am far from blameless on this one. I answered the question in early days, when it was just about being unaging, and gave a technical answer. Then, the question got revised to just want Fantasy or Sci-Fi mentions.

I kept my answer up because, honestly, I was enjoying the rep bump. Now, there's some squabbling over whether to keep the change in the question, which nullified my answer, which is complicated by the weren't having accepted it.

I probably should fall on my sword and surrender my answer somehow, but I'm not entirely certain how, now that it's heavily upvoted and accepted.

TheLethalCarrot

Just leave it be, Null has already looked at it and taken the action to make your answer acceptable within the question's limits by reverting the edit

And edits to a question should not invalidate answers anyhow so reverting the edit was the best bet in my opinion

Now it's dropped from the HNQ it'll start to die away too

Jenayah

11:11

What TLC said, although a meta about "how do we handle single word requests when they're still about SFF topic" could be of use

IMHO this is on-topic as immortality is SFF - although it's an incredibly dull question. And we've had such questions before, we even have a terminology tag

TheLethalCarrot

11:33

I don't think we need a meta for it, it is on topic it's just that some users don't like them

Jenayah

11:51

Well it'd be one of these "let's do a meta so that we can throw it in the face of angry close-vote-as-DV people when they say it's off-topic"

TheLethalCarrot

That's not always a good approach

Jenayah

well it would have some kind of "official" stamp

and if the reverse happens and the meta gets downvoted as hell well alright it's off-topic if the community doesn't want it

TheLethalCarrot

I think with 67 questions in the tag it's proven that people want it, it's just that some vocal users don't like it and were kicking up a stink and super downvoting

The main problem with that question is that it went to the HNQ

Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot aye

TheLethalCarrot

I like the HNQ but there are some questions where it just takes on a life of its own and won't die and then it causes problems

That's where I think we need the ability to kick questions out of the HNQ

Hopefully we'll get something like that with the "changes"

Jenayah

11:57

"we" as users or "we" as our mods?

'cause TBH if the users have the ability to kick out a question from HNQ it will get messy real soon

TheLethalCarrot

"we" as a community... whether that is all users, high rep users or mods I don't know

Jenayah

Not saying that all mods will always make the best decision but still, that's less people to pick from in the first place

@TheLethalCarrot eh... dunno, that seems wrong

TheLethalCarrot

My point was I don't know who it would be best to give the power to

Mods at least but there are pros and cons for giving it to high rep users

Jenayah

I say mods

they're already used to being blamed for everything anyways :P

TheLethalCarrot

That is what they are there for

Jenayah

12:00

High rep users I'm less sure about

you can get high rep by specialising in a trendy tag and not knowing the rest

TheLethalCarrot

That's the same with mods though

I've always said rep is a poor judgement for the privileges users get

Jenayah

Yeah, but mods are supposed to know how the site "overall" works

@TheLethalCarrot you're not wrong

TheLethalCarrot

But it is the best metric we are given by SE so got to work with what we have

I'd love to see a system where privileges get unlocked through trust rather than rep and the more trust you earn and the more you are "proven" to be able to use the tools you have the more you unlock and if you start losing trust you lose privileges and have to earn it back again

But that would be super complicated and a major overhaul with how SE works so it's incredibly doubtful it will happen

Jenayah

How would you gain trust?

TheLethalCarrot

Well that's the thing, you pretty much have to assess it by some poor factors so it's doubtful it'd work

But it's questionable if it's better than rep

Though off the top of my head

Jenayah

12:07

Still, I'm curious to hear what'd you have thought about

TheLethalCarrot

Edits unlocked after X amount of suggested edits are approved and you have >= Y% accepted

Same with flags and review queues/close/reopen privs

Jenayah

mmmh fair nuff, though how do the first ones get trust?

@TheLethalCarrot sounds reasonables as well

TheLethalCarrot

That can then be maintained by comparing the review outcome with how you voted

Jenayah

I meant first users

on the site

when they can't be revviewed by others 'cause there's no other

TheLethalCarrot

Oh that was a continuation of my previous comment not a reply

Well that's part of the problem isn't it? New users to an established site are "easy" just unlock flags/suggesting edits like we do now at X rep (15?) but new users on a new site? Dunno

I'd also like to see time on the site/network factor into it somehow

Jenayah

12:13

@TheLethalCarrot then again there's not much new sites on SE anymore is it

@TheLethalCarrot that'd probably be a good idea too

and yeah flagging is 15 rep

TheLethalCarrot

@Jenayah No but low traffic sites would probably fall somewhere in between where this system wouldn't always work

Jenayah

maybe adjust per site then?

Or per categories of sites

Trinity

TheLethalCarrot

We already sort of do that with Beta sites

Rep is lower to unlock certain things

Jenayah

High but not too high traffic sites (the HNQ ones mainly I'd guess)

low traffic but gradutaed sites

beta sites

or something

duck I screwed up again

scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/gargoyles-1972/info @TheLethalCarrot care to add the missing "g" in gargyles?

TheLethalCarrot

Done

Jenayah

12:16

:thumbsup:

TheLethalCarrot

Thinking about edit privileges are already partially a trust system because if you only suggest edits you can still earn full edit privileges

Jenayah

if you're going to suggest ~1k edits hopefully you're knowledgeable enough on some stuff because of all the posts you read ahah

TheLethalCarrot

Well you'd hope haha

@Jenayah e.t.c -> etc.

Jenayah

done

Marvin

12:42

0

Q: Who was the first Wizard or Witch in the Harry Potter Universe?

Not sure if this has been asked previously, I couldn't find any references to it, but who was the first wizard or witch in the Harry Potter universe? We know from the books and movies that Olivander's has been making wands since 382BC, so there would of had to have been Wizards or Witches arou...

harry-potter

Jenayah

12:54

imdb.com/title/tt0113762

> A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.

Dying of laughing at what lengths horror movie writers can go

"Car? We can stuff a demon in it and make a horror movie out of it"

"Dog? We can stuff a demon in it and make a horror movie out of it"

"Coffee machine? We can stuff a demon in it and make a horror movie out of it"

"Pair of socks? We can stuff a demon in it and make a horror movie out of it"

Jenayah

13:08

4

Q: Is there a historical basis to this movie's claim about Pope Sylvester II?

In the movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), it is claimed by a character that the creatures made a pact with Pope Sylvester II to leave humanity alone in return for the right to take a human life whenever they surface. Movie makers usually wildly exaggerate, misinterpret history and mist...

dont-be-afraid-of-the-dark

^ doesn't seem that much off-topic?

b_jonas

13:27

@Jenayah qntm.org/socks Planet of the Socks by sam512. There's a short movie version of it too.

Um no. A stage play version actually, with a video of it.

Jenayah

b_jonas

It's qntm.org/convoluted that was made to a short movie.

Marvin

1

Q: Who put the coins in the Mario Universe?

According to canon: (from the official instruction booklet, according to this FAQ) Once upon a time, the peaceful Mushroom Kingdom was invaded by the Koopa, a tribe of turtles famous for their dark magic. These terrible terrapins transformed the peace-loving Mushroom People into stones, b...

super-mario-brothers

Donald.McLean

Greetings, Earthlings.

Jenayah

@Donald.McLean greetings, Hubble guy!

(by the way, you tell me if you ever want me to stop with that nickname :P )

b_jonas

13:32

@Marvin Oh dear. Should I make the stupid joke about how peace witches turned the bricks into coins?

Jenayah

What's the joke?

b_jonas

@Jenayah It's a really stupid pun.

Jenayah

Oh wait, a brick = $1000 right?

b_jonas

@Jenayah No, I don't think it's that expensive. We wouldn't have been able to buy brick houses then.

Jenayah

Ah, translation thing. In French "une brique" is 10k Francs, so approx. 8.8k€.

and the site I'm reading says "lol, nobody uses that expression anymore".... so I guess I'm old :/

Jenayah

13:49

I feel like this question is based on the misguided notion that there is a strong sense of canon behind the "story" of the Mario games... — Dr R Dizzle Jun 13 '16 at 14:06

ahah

Zaphod

14:03

11

Q: What happened at the end of the Super Mario Bros film?

The Super Mario Bros film ended on a cliff hanger… What happened, and what if any were the plans for a sequel?

super-mario-brothers

Marvin

14:16

0

Q: Fantasy Book about a young man taking a dream Vacation

As far as i remember the young man saves enough money at the start of the book to buy a vacation in a Dreamland. He choose a medival land where magic is pretty commen. All i remember is that when he arrived the world feels real to him and i think something/someone is preventing him and all other ...

story-identification

b_jonas

I didn't dare to post it as an answer, but I left a comment.

Jenayah

@Marvin hat tip to @TheLethalCarrot :P

you'll have gotten me a movie bronze tag badge :P

TheLethalCarrot

I know I am just amaxing

And that screenshot is amazing haha

Jenayah

I fastforwarded the whole thing but it's clichéd as heck ahah

Marvin

14:32

-2

Q: Can a woman kill a man with her legs?

I woundering if a woman can squeeze a man to death by put her legs around his body and squeeze to death. I watched a James bond movie there a beautiful girl squeezed a man death by squeezing her thighs around his rib cage incredibly hard. Is this possible in real life? I think that if a woman s...

movie

Jenayah

14:44

This is an off-topic question for Science Fiction & Fantasy SE, so your question is going to be closed I'm sure, that aside, of course it's possible, just incredibly unlikely unless the girl has extremely strong thighs & the guy's really crap at self defense & basically just sits there & lets her get on with it, it's going to take the same length of time as strangling someone, so maybe a minute or more to pass out & another 4 or 5 before brain damage is irreparable, so it's quicker to stop & bash their skull in after they pass out. — Pelinore 6 mins ago

this guy thought about it ahah

TheLethalCarrot

It annoys me when people say "This is off topic so should be closed but here's the answer anyway so I will continue to encourage you to ask off topic questions"

Jenayah

sheesh I'd usually say the same (I even think we discussed it before) and refrain from doing it, but I did that recently 'cause I knew the movie from memory so I guess I'll just shut up

TheLethalCarrot

tut tut tut

Jenayah

meh, FWIW user had already asked an on-topic question so now they'll know the difference for realz

Flash/Eddie combination is pretty ducking awesome

TheLethalCarrot

Jenayah

14:59

:thumbsup:

Rand al'Thor

15:16

@Stormblessed I don't understand your question, as I've explained what's wrong with it in the very message you're replying to.

TheLethalCarrot

I think he means what's wrong with auto deleting thanks comments on story id Qs

And in which case comments count as acceptance on story id for dupe closure

Marvin

0

Q: Do these large-scale, human power-plant-tending robots from the Matrix movies have a name, in-universe or out?

Do these large-scale, human power-plant-tending robots from the Matrix movies have a name, in-universe or out? Source This one (found with search engine) already has a Stack Exchange imgur ID Source: Immaterial Labour and Data Harvesting; Facebook Algorithmic Factory (1) "Human fields f...

the-matrix object-identification

TheLethalCarrot

And essentially tell us the OP found the work

Jenayah

18 hours ago, by Jenayah

@Stormblessed this kind of situation:

18 hours ago, by Jenayah

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A: Book about a pair of siblings that had powers, the younger brother had powers to control people but concealed it the whole time?

I want to say The Secret of Dragonhome by John Peel, published in 1998. Melayne and her young brother Sarrow are Talents, hunted by the King's relentless Seekers. If their Talent is discovered, they will be sent to their death. So they must hide...or die. Melayne and Sarrow find re...

18 hours ago, by Jenayah

See comments on answer and question, and dates

SQB

Jenayah

15:20

@SQB image not found

Stormblessed

@TheLethalCarrot ok

SQB

Yeah, I saw.

Jenayah

ah nevermind clicking did it

Rand al'Thor

@Stormblessed Flag-deleting "thanks" comments on ID questions is problematic because by site policy we often use those as reason to close the question, and if they get deleted the question might get reopened unnecessarily, re-closed, more comments, headaches ...

Jenayah

plus to be honest, a "thank you" comment might be chatty but it's perfectly fine on SFF...

Rand al'Thor

15:23

IMO, autoflagging any single-flag-deletable comments is problematic because it removes the human element altogether. There's a reason why SE doesn't just auto-delete all those comments without flags.

Jenayah

blahblahblah comments temporary blahblahbmah we hate fun blahblahblah... Truth be told if we hated fun and helping people SFF wouldn't exist so "thanks comments policy" is pointless on SFF

SQB

Poison Idea - Punish Me

►

(The song to go with that image)

Rand al'Thor

@Jenayah There's an interesting spike in the flags-per-month graph for SFF at one particular month when one particular user was flagging hundreds of "thanks" or "+1" comments from the entire history of the site.

Donald.McLean

@SQB That sort of reminds me of a scene from American Gods. Very strange show.

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor I'm guessing there's a spike in summer 2018 for all the "If this is the right one you can click the checkmark" comments I flagged on accepted answers as well

SQB

15:28

@Donald.McLean Haven't seen it. Read the book though, so I can imagine.

Jenayah

in hindsight I must have been quite the bother for flag handling this summer xD

Especially since I didn't know what a mod flag was and kept leaving comments on NaA stuff I flagged...

Heck, I was such a noob

apologies for that, I guess

Rand al'Thor

@Jenayah Not sure if our graph goes that far. (It's not built in to the mod tools; we've just requested one from CMs a couple of times.)

Jenayah

is it something accessible by others? Or mods only?

Rand al'Thor

@Jenayah I really liked that you were doing that. Did I never ping you to thank you for it?

It's much easier to handle a borderline NAA flag when the flagger leaves a comment explaining exactly why it's NAA.

Also probably easier for the answerer to figure out why their answer was deleted and potentially fix it (in the rare cases when that happens).

Napoleon Wilson

@Jenayah And now you instead leave such comments on every answer you give. ;-)

Jenayah

15:32

@Randal'Thor That's what the "mod dialog" box is for... Dunno why I never really caught on it till ~September

Rand al'Thor

@Jenayah Like I said, it's not even accessible to mods. Just a thing CMs shared with us once or twice.

@Jenayah Well, not every NAA needs a custom mod flag. Best to flag as NAA with a comment; then either LQP reviewers or mods can understand the reason for the flag and get it deleted.

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor I think we had a couple of "don't worry, the amount of flags to handle has risen up but we manage" chat comments

@Randal'Thor IIRC most were from drive-by users never to be seen again, in these cases

@NapoleonWilson yes, but I delete them at once when it does get accepted :)

@Randal'Thor sure, but are you allowed to share it?

Rand al'Thor

@Jenayah Yeah, that's why I added the parenthetical about rareness.

@Jenayah Dunno, probably not. Anyway that would rely on being able to find it again :-P

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor true, but I don't think I knew the queues' mechanisms at that time. What kind of flags sent it to queue etc

Mithrandir

@Randal'Thor innocent look

Rand al'Thor

15:35

(kidding, my chat search skills have been known to scare people)

@Mithrandir Naming no names ...

@Jenayah It is complicated, TBF. Even lots of mods don't know it exactly.

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor 'cause they're awful or awesome?

@Randal'Thor has a lot to do with whether it'd been edited or stuff, I guess. At least I think that's the conclusion we went to in an earlier discusion with TLC

TheLethalCarrot

To send it to LQP queue again? I never double checked if editing played a part in it

Jenayah

hypothetical conclusion

of sortds

Rand al'Thor

@Jenayah Because "how the hell did you find that?!"

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor combination of memory aout some comments I guess

Marvin

16:38

0

Q: What Short Story is this?

Can't find this short story...searched for years Everybody given $1,000,000 at birth A single guy figures out how to game the system...everybody thinks he's crazy to buck the system but he wins.

short-stories

TheLethalCarrot

Is there anything in this story that is science fictional or fantastical? I mean giving someone a million dollars at birth is fantastical to an extent but could plausibly happen (hahaha) so it isn't really fantastical. Could you edit to explain why this is SFF-nal? — TheLethalCarrot 2 mins ago

b_jonas

@TheLethalCarrot I decided to interpret it such that he's looking for an SFF story, and commented assuming that.

Napoleon Wilson

17:06

Just that you...should rather have answered.

Jenayah

@NapoleonWilson that was ironic, I think, as B linked a comic and not a short story

Napoleon Wilson

So the comment isn't meant serious then?

Jenayah

dunno

Marvin

17:41

-1

Q: How was Gandalf humble as a leader in "The Lord of the Rings"?

Humility is a major trait of a great leader, how did Gandalf express humility in The Lord of the Rings?

tolkiens-legendarium the-lord-of-the-rings gandalf

Stormblessed

0

Q: What language do they speak on Detritus?

I recently got the book Skyward by Brandon Sanderson. I've read the first few chapters, and have a question about the world: What language are the characters speaking? I would assume English, as it is such a widely spoken second language, but it takes place in the future. So far, I've seen no me...

skyward

Jenayah

@Stormblessed put the author's name in that tag edit :)

Stormblessed

@Jenayah Oops

Jenayah

Also I saw that tag and thought you were talking about the comic... Which I'd have been happy to answer but it's not the same stuff :P

Stormblessed

@Jenayah What should the tag be named to distinguish it from that?

skyward-sanderson?

Jenayah

17:48

@Stormblessed nah, your tag is fine

Stormblessed

skyward-novel?

@Jenayah Ok

Jenayah

If we ever have a question about the comics we'll throw in a skyward-comics or something

Stormblessed

Should the tag maybe be defending-elysium? Haven't read the (short) story yet, but it came first in the universe

Jenayah

Dunno, I don't know the work, probably best to ask Sanderson readers. @Adamant ?

imagecomics.com/comics/releases/skyward-1

Stormblessed

@Jenayah They are offline currently

Jenayah

17:50

Well they'll see that when they get back

You can leave a comment under your question, though, maybe Sanderson readers will see it and reply

Stormblessed

@Jenayah That shows up? Didn't know that

Jenayah

@Stormblessed yeah, when you get pinged in chat it eventually makes its way to inbox notifications

Stormblessed

@Jenayah I thought that only worked if you were pinged while in chat

Jenayah

not sure

but as there was auto-completion for the @ I think they shoukd get it

Stormblessed

@Jenayah Maybe because they are frequently in the room?

Jenayah

17:53

possibly

SE chat workings are obscure

Stormblessed

Suggested edit

Marvin

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Q: What language do they speak on Detritus?

I recently got the book Skyward by Brandon Sanderson. I've read the first few chapters, and have a question about the world: What language are the characters speaking? I would assume English, as it is such a widely spoken second language, but it takes place in the future. So far, I've seen no me...

skyward

Mithrandir

If the name autocompletes, they'll get a notification.

After... a week? Two weeks? without them being in the room it won't autocomplete and they won't get notified.

Jenayah

3 mins ago, by Jenayah

SE chat workings are obscure

Mithrandir

After about five days without you being in the room, you won't get pinged by a partial ping (e.g. @Jen).

Stormblessed

17:58

@Mithrandir That's weird

Mithrandir

After two days, you won't get notified of a partial ping if there's a better match (for instance, someone named Jen Sky - a ping to "Jen" will ping them, but not Jenayah).

Stormblessed

@Mithrandir If both you and Mithrandir24601 had the exact same name, would both of you always be pinged?

Rand al'Thor

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A: What are the rules for when chat messages appear in a user's inbox?

To use you as an example: @TonyMeyer, i.e. an exact match will cause a notification if you've been in the room in the past seven days. @Tony, i.e. a first name match (to be precise, a word boundary match) will cause a notification if you've been in the room in the past two days. @Ton will notif...

Mithrandir

Yes

Jenayah

funny, that came up in meta like an hour ago

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Q: How to ping users with the same display name in chat and in comments?

Notion To simplify writing, I'll simply refer "users with same profile display name (case insensitive) user" as "users" (with quotes), and an arbitrarily user picked from "users" as "user" (with quotes). Problem Suppose that multiple "users" participate in the same chat room and/or comment thr...

discussion comments chat comment-replies ping

Mithrandir

18:00

@Randal'Thor oh that's where it was

Stormblessed

Good thing my name is unique (on this site)

Mithrandir

I was looking on MSE, not SFF meta :P

Niffler

i'm wondering, is having 2 stackexchange accounts discouraged?'

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir ;-)

Mithrandir

Now y'all can correct me on what I got wrong ;)

Stormblessed

18:01

@Randal'Thor Should stuff like that be migrated to Main?

It's relevant everywhere

Jenayah

@Niffler depends on what you do with them.

Rand al'Thor

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A: How should sockpuppets be handled on Stack Exchange?

How can I be sure I'm looking at a sockpuppet? You can't ever be 100% sure. What you think is a sockpuppet could in fact be my good friend Nog Shine, who loves everything I write, copies my writing style, and uses my computer to vote and post stuff when I step away for coffee. But in practice, ...

@Stormblessed Too old to migrate.

Mithrandir

@Niffler There are valid use cases, but is generally discouraged.

Jenayah

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A: What's the policy about having multiple user accounts?

It is not a problem to have multiple accounts, as long as they aren't voting for each other and doing other sockpuppet-y things. Though it is generally discouraged, as what legitimate reason would you need for multiple accounts? Idle hands are the devil's playground, etc etc. That said, for thi...

Niffler

alright thanks

Stormblessed

18:02

@Randal'Thor But when it was new?

Rand al'Thor

@Stormblessed Meh.

I'm generally leery about migrating to main meta, because it's so fierce there.

Stormblessed

@Randal'Thor Wdym?

Mithrandir

It's not that scary... also, it has mods now, so flags actually get handled on time.

b_jonas

While we're there, can we tag rename super-mario-brothers to super-mario-bros?

Stormblessed

@b_jonas Synonym?

But yes

Definitely

When I'm talking, I never say "Super Mario Brothers", always "bros."

b_jonas

18:07

Either that, or make a general tag that applies to the whole Super Mario franchise.

But I'm not sure what we'd call the latter.

Rand al'Thor

@Stormblessed For instance, lots of questions asked in good faith get downvoted to hell and closed just because it's something that's been discussed a lot before (which meta regulars will know but innocent newbies won't).

Jenayah

Super Mario World - Overworld Theme Acapella

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Stormblessed

@b_jonas Maybe the movie should be separate from the game for tags?

Rand al'Thor

The whole "downvotes mean disagreement" thing works fine on per-site metas, but when there's an actual rep system, not so much.

Stormblessed

Like super-mario-bros. is the movie, super-mario or super-mario-games or something else for the games

Jenayah

18:08

@Randal'Thor truth be told, the most "DVed to hell" questions I see are "why are there DVs that's unfair it's not good for newbies" questions which honestly are just a rant

there's a good post on MSO about that...

Rand al'Thor

I guess an "abolish rep on main meta" feature-request would be downvoted to hell by all the people who like their rep ;-)

Stormblessed

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A: Which Sanderson works are part of the Cosmere and which aren't?

List of Cosmere works The Cosmere series is on-going, so the works that are part of it will grow. However, the more recent works set in the Cosmere have been more clearly part of a shared universe, with crossover characters (like Hoid) and concepts (like Shards and Adonalsium itself, how magic w...

Rand al'Thor

@Jenayah Not what I'm talking about.

Stormblessed

Why isn't this flagged as list of works?

It's a good question, but not really different

From that

Jenayah

@Randal'Thor then what?

Rand al'Thor

18:09

@Stormblessed It's not a list question: it's about classification.

b_jonas

I think we want a franchise tag. There are way too many games, most won't have enough questions here. And more importantly, some of the questions are about the general lore:

scifi.stackexchange.com/q/205833/4918 "Who put the coins in the Mario Universe?" scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131735/4918 "How did the Mario Brothers discover/enter the Mushroom Kingdom?" scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131712/4918 "What is Mario's full name?" scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131863/4918 "Is Mario killing people when he smashes bricks?" These aren't specific to one game.

Rand al'Thor

Was actually really useful for sorting out our tagging system.

@Jenayah I was talking about questions asked in good faith, not rants.

Jenayah

I'd take an example, actually...

The ones being "DVed as hell" are usually rants, not sure what other ones we're talking about

Or what your threshold for "DVed to oblivion" is :)

Rand al'Thor

I'm talking about ones asked in good faith. Too lazy to find an example though.

Rants being downvoted to hell isn't so much of a problem.

Jenayah

sure

Rand al'Thor

18:13

Since we were talking about why main meta is bad, I was specific.

Jenayah

but generally, I find that "questions asked before, but in a neutral tone or stuff" are just usually closed as dupes but not that much DVed

Daily floof, 2019/02/21: Baby goats baby goats, watcha gonna do? Watcha gonna do, when they come for you?

3

Stormblessed

You know what's weird? Brandon Sanderson has his name as a registered trademark under Dragonsteel Entertainment

I wonder if he's gonna sell it to Ubisoft eventually

12

Q: Were both of Howl's city exits within the same country?

The first few times I watched Howl's Moving Castle and even when I read about the story on Wikipedia it's not totally clear where the two major city exits, Porthaven and the capital Kingsbury, are in the fictional universe. At first I assumed those exits were each in the two different warring co...

howls-moving-castle

This question makes no sense if you misread "exits"

Jenayah

you were searching for the "Moving Cities" tag as well? :P

Adamant

I read Defending Elysium.

I didn't realize it was the same series.

Marvin

1

Q: Did the characters in Moving Pictures not know about cameras like Twoflower's?

In Moving Pictures, video-cameras are invented... But they're essentially the same thing as Twoflower's camera which only took one picture at a time but Twoflower probably could've asked it to paint many ver-very fast. So did these character's not know about these iconographs? And if so why didn'...

discworld

Adamant

18:29

Ah, but it makes sense.

Stormblessed

@Adamant you read Mistborn, right?

2

Q: Can Allomancers Soothe or Riot themselves?

In Mistborn, can Allomancers burn zinc and brass to Riot or Soothe their own emotions, such as to calm down if scared or cause a fight-or-flight reaction to trigger adrenaline?

magical-theory cosmere mistborn

You could get some easy rep from giving an answer here, doesn’t seem very complicated

(and self answers get downvoted, they also aren’t as useful necessarily because I’m not much of an expert, having just read the first book so far)

Adamant

The answer to any question like this is "Yes, with the right tricks."

Rand al'Thor

@Stormblessed 17thshard.com/forum/topic/59067-riotingsoothing

Adamant

I expect some trick with Identity could work.

Like blanking your identity, maybe.

It's possible that the magic wouldn't recognize you as its user, then.

Or possibly not, it could work either way.

Or like how Shallan can create personae; there's probably some trick to allow a Lightweaver/Mistborn to use one of their personae to influence themselves.

(Hoid might be an example of someone who could do this, although his Lightweaving is different).

Marvin

19:15

-1

Q: What would be the effect of a combination of the Furnunculus Curse and the Jelly-Legs Curse?

What would happen if the Furnunculus Curse and the Jelly-Legs Curse were used on someone at the same time? Would each curse just simply retain its regular effect, or would there be a new combined effect? If the latter, what would the new effect be?

harry-potter

Stormblessed

20:02

@Marvin what’s the problem?

Jenayah

@Marvin that some weird experiment about voting to close as POB @Alex? :)

@Stormblessed presumably people are downvoting because "no research" (as shown by the answer). Or people could be downvoting because they're triggered by the opening "What would happen". Plus I won't say that some people seem keen on DVing Alex but eh kinda

Jenayah

20:29

imdb.com/title/tt5444412/?ref_=adv_li_tt

> A vampire rabbit likes to drink carrot juice instead of blood to strengthen up his super abilities in new paranormal adventures.

^ That one's for @TheLethalCarrot, think about it next Halloween :P

TheLethalCarrot

20:48

Nice

Jenayah

stumbled across it when looking for scifi.stackexchange.com/q/195246/98028

Stormblessed

Moved to imgur

A good query

Jenayah

@Stormblessed indeed

steals and runs to Movies.SE

Stormblessed

Should we have a non-english or foreign-language tag?

All cats are dead? That sounds like heaven. — Wad Cheber Jun 19 '15 at 12:35

I'd call that rude or abusive

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Q: Identify Japanese Book - "When all the cats in the world had died"

I'm trying to find a Japanese book titled something like "When all the cats in the world had died"(translation may be inaccurate). I tried googling that English title-- no luck. The story is about a man awaiting his death. The devil offers him one extra day to live, for each important thing he g...

story-identification

Someone with edit powers want to edit this? I saw no problem with my edit

I've gotten away with much more superfluous ones

This was much less useful

@Randal'Thor was it because of tags?

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