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12:21 AM
Oh crap space-time is falling apart
It's been 10 days with NO FLOOFS
 
1:20 AM
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Q: Authority figure who treats charges based on their background?

JeydaanThis is a tricky one because I can only remember the gist of the dialogue and not much else. I have a really vivid memory of a story with some authority figure who is harsh on one of their charges and kinder to another. The latter at some point asks why they're treated differently. The authority...

 
1:33 AM
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Q: Why was this needed earlier but not later?

Gustavo GabrielIn Spider-Man: Far from home, when Peter and Beck are at the pub, we see that: With a whole voice command and confirmations, but later when: How does this work?

 
 
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2:40 AM
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Q: Who were the recurring character depicted on the Thieves' World covers?

LexibleThe Thieves' World shared-world anthologies had a memorable series of book covers. Three recurring characters appeared on these covers (for example, see the covers from the first three books below). I assume that the blue-star adept is Lythande, and that the black-haired youth with the bangs is S...

 
 
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4:03 AM
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Q: What avenues of science are left to explore for a scientist in the Star Wars galaxy?

MaxI know this question may be considered too broad but I legitimately wonder what science scientists are working on in Star Wars. Many many people have said that there is no scientific progression in Star Wars; but I don’t believe that. Scientist characters are featured in stories and surely they m...

 
4:15 AM
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Q: Which movies from The Infinity Saga show an Infinity stone or its container?

CœurRegarding the movies of the Infinity Saga (23 movie so far), which ones actually show an Infinity stone or its container as part of the plot? Not counting mid-credits or post-credits references. Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers have the Tesseract (Space stone). Thor: The Dark ...

 
4:39 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected, potentially bad keyword in answer, toxic answer detected (161): Anime from 2008-2012 involving furry characters and a watermelon shaped monster by user118436 on scifi.SE
 
5:07 AM
@Mithrandir How can I suggest keywords to trigger Smokey? There are quite a few ones I've noticed in questions that it's caught that weren't detected by it
 
@Stormblessed Bring it up in CHQ
 
Ok
Any idea how iBug does that serif text?

  𝐢𝐁𝐮𝐠'𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐭 𝐇𝐐

A heavily modded bot for testing crazy ideas
And in their Github username
 
Unicode.
 
Ah
in Charcoal HQ, 1 min ago, by SmokeDetector
fp- feedback received
What does this mean? It keeps saying it @Mith
Oh, did that also ping the other Mithrandir
 
It means "false positive feedback received", which means it's getting feedback that the latest post was not spam. You don't have to ask me everything.... there are other people in that room who can help you.
 
5:21 AM
Oh, got it
Sorry
Good night, it's late (actually good morning to you, according to the internet)
 
Good morning
 
6:03 AM
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Q: Why did Dumbledore ignore this line?

AlexIn Chapter Thirty-Three of Goblet of Fire Voldemort says: What I was, even I do not know... I, who have gone further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality. You know my goal – to conquer death. And now, I was tested, and it appeared that one or more of my experiments had worked...

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Q: Can AI of future write codes that humans write presently?

give_it_a_bitSeeing the growth of the scope of the field Machine Learning, I was wondering if future AI could write the codes that one could presently write. In other words could we in future ask an AI to - Write a code to take a name input and then print a reverse of the name

 
6:23 AM
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Q: How was Erica able to open the door without a key card?

sudhanvaIn episode 5 of Stranger Things season 3, a conversation between Steve and Robin when they are stuck in the elevator goes like this: Steve: They're buttons. They have to do something. Robin: Yeah, if we had a keycard. But just in the previous episode, Erica opened the door using one of th...

 
 
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7:43 AM
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Q: How does Shazam’s staff know what to do?

RoboKarenIn Shazam (2019) we see three uses or attempted uses of the staff: How does the staff know what to do? With

 
 
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12:44 PM
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Q: Novel with societal breakdown and spaceship passengers marooned on a planet covered with a city

Tony RobinsonI read this novel when I was young. It involved some sort of societal breakdown (I think) and ended with the passengers of a spaceship marooned on a planet covered by a single abandoned city. Some of the passengers were reptilian species but the main characters were human. It could be from 1950 -...

 
 
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1:44 PM
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Q: Distinguish the explanations of Galadriel's test in LotR

klausSo, I just finished The Silmarillion, and of course The Hobbit and LotR before that. One of the reason I wanted to read Silmarillion is because I didn't quite understand the part of Galadriel's speech at the fountain in Lothlorien. I went online and saw some explanation of which most well-versed ...

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Q: What was this character's plan?

PlutoThePlanetI'm a little confused about ! Mysterio's plan in Spider-Man: Far From Home. It occurred to me at about the two-thirds mark that it's very similar to Syndrome's plan in The Incredibles. However, Syndrome did it out of spite in order to (eventually) render supers superfluous. But whi...

 
Oh, hey @Alex haven't seen you in a while
 
2 days ago, by Jenayah
It's been a while. How are you? :)
 
@Alex I don't think bathtubs have cells. Thus, you are nonliving
 
@Stormblessed But remember, I come from a living being.
 
Ah, ok
Wonder what happened to RDFozz, he used to be here a lot when I started using Chat
 
2:39 PM
@Stormblessed And now his watch has ended.
 
3:04 PM
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Q: Mind Flayer at the end of Season 3

AstroRPIn the beginning of season 3, the characters say that However, at the end of the season,

 
 
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4:16 PM
@Gallifreyan ?
 
 
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6:44 PM
@Stormblessed Nothing, just talking nonsense
 
6:54 PM
@Stormblessed ASOIAF reference
Well, GOT reference for sure. I'm assuming this comes from the books
 
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Q: Which series of Superman comics had drawing style of the Animated Series?

R SI've seen some comics where style of drawing were like in cartoon TV series (The Superman Animated Series). What was the name of those comics (for example Action Comics or The Adventures of Superman...) or what issues of certain series?

 
7:25 PM
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Q: Doctor Who: River Song's death and Doctor's "Death" *Spoilers

JuniorinIn "Silence of the Death" the Doctor saved River's consciousness by uploading it to CAL. She also says how the Doctor brought her to Darillium and how she now knew the Doctor always knew how she dies. Then in "The Wedding of River Song" the Doctor has to die at the fixed point. If he knew that he...

 
7:39 PM
They say that in the series, too.
 
 
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9:05 PM
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Q: Book about a brother and sister that shared a telekinesis connection

MariaI’m looking for a book I read in the 80s about a brother and sister that shared a telekinesis connection. She was able to follow him as he traveled to a different time/realm. She felt the connection when she was petting their dog and could see the current...very weird, I know. She was in the cu...

 
9:25 PM
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Q: Children's Book with Hooded Figures Wielding Pokers?

SpaceWolf1701I'm trying to find a book that I read, or that I think I read, over 15 years ago so it would be from the 1990s or so. I remember it being more of a kids' book, English language, big painting-style or hand-drawn illustrations on some pages with the text either to one side or framing the pictures. ...

 
I’m at 15 I think out of 20 for bronze!
 
@Stormblessed congrats !
 
9:48 PM
@Stormblessed I דופפםדק אישא,ד םמק אשע טםו גםמ,א ישהק אם 'םררט שנםוא רקארםשבאןהקךט ךםדןמעץ
 
> Do you like me, so be nice if you want me to do so now?
Trying to select the I and the Hebrew is impossible on my Mac
Anyways what does that mean @Alex?
(Sorry, I don't know Hebrew)
 
@Stormblessed How'd you get that?
 
Well I know a few prayers somewhat
@Alex Google Translate
Wait now it's incoherent
 
Putting the Hebrew text into Google Translate gives me the suggestion for the English keyboard equivalent:
 
Oh it tried Yiddish?
Oh yeah
> Did you mean: suppose that's one tag you don't have to worry about retroactively losing.
 
9:54 PM
Now add back the "I", and you have what I was trying to say.
A reference to the fact that I've already twice retroactively lost the same tag badge.
@Stormblessed What prayers do you know?
 
Vaguely the Passover and Hanukkah ones
@Alex so was that accidentally on the Hebrew keyboard?
 
@Stormblessed As always.
@Stormblessed Anything specific?
 
@Alex oh I thought you got it back a third time
 
@Jenayah No, and apparently it's not even the next on my list:
Ha, I have the score for a silver before getting the bronze badge.
 
10:25 PM
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Q: Harry Potter fanfic where he never got his Hogwarts letter and lives on his own in an apartment

elysianI don’t remember much but I do remember Harry didn’t live with the Dursleys. Harry lives by himself in an apartment with a snake.The Order was trying to find Harry and ended up chasing him multiple times although they found it difficult to catch him. Sirius was out of Azkaban so it’s after third ...

 
@Marvin fast!!
 
10:44 PM
Should we have a Community Promotion Ad on Arqade?
> “have a sci-fi game ID question? Go to SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY!”
Maybe?
 
11:30 PM
@Stormblessed we're more than ID
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And that's me talking :-)
 
@Jenayah Well a lot of people go there and ask game-ID questions that get closed
So what if we were like "hey those are on-topic here"
 
11:46 PM
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Q: 90s fantasy movie: winged demons dragging a man under furniture, followed by a splash of blood

DragosIt's a fantasy movie from the late 90s I think but I'm not too sure. There are some winged demons that drag a man underneath a piece of furniture then the next scene shows a huge splash of blood. I always thought it was in a Dungeons&Dragons movie, but I searched throughout the whole films in v...

 
11:58 PM
So why can a user be suspended for a year "to cool down", mods? (ping @Mithrandir because you were here and I've bothered Rand enough :P)
It sounds really temporary
 

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