The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Jenayah

00:35

@Alex an undeletion request, but it'll wait

Alex

I guess you don't trust me...

Jenayah

... It's more a selfishness matter of wanting to be there when it gets undeleted, so that I can post my answer straight away xD

And yes, it's petty, I'll admit

Alex

Aha.

Jenayah

Is that supposed to be a laughing "aha", or a "gotcha" aha?

Alex

I have at times written an answer to a closed post and only then reopened it, so that I 'd be guaranteed to be able to post my answer before the question (maybe) gets reclosed.

Jenayah

00:40

Not that it makes a difference, but I can't figure it out

@Alex like a good bunch of questions you dupe-reopened ;p

Alex

@Jenayah It's an "I'm figuring out how Jenayah's mind works" aha.

2

Jenayah

Best kind of aha!

Alex

@Jenayah Surprisingly not that many. Probably around ten or so.

Jenayah

Ah, spoke too fast then :)

Alex

I should actually check, though.

@Jenayah So that when I create an account on another site under the name Jenayah I can do a proper impersonation.

Jenayah

00:42

HEY!

Pfffft. Go try and impersonate me talking about comics stuff, when you know very little of the source material. I double dare you :D

(who knows, maybe that's how I can get you into comics)

Alex

I do have 16 tag score in dc

Nothing to scoff at.

Jenayah

fair enough

Alex

Interesting, this caused me to search for "comics" on Mi Yodeya, and I see a post about Seuperman and a post about Wonder Woman.

Jenayah

@Alex in all fairness I did point you to it in the first place :p

Sep 28 '18 at 23:16, by Jenayah

@Alex @Mithrandir I know Yiddish differs from Hebrew, but just in case you know both and/or OP was mistaken, you might be able to track this one down:

No, wait, nevermind. wrong transcript.

this one

Sep 29 '18 at 23:57, by Jenayah

Maybe you could infer some info on this one, even if it already has an answer:

Sep 30 '18 at 0:06, by Alex

@Jenayah Nah, my answer has nothing to do with the comic per se (which you are correct, I know nothing about). I'm just identifying the other Hebrew word.

Alex

Oct 4 '18 at 23:08, by Alex

@Jenayah Too many of my posts have been because of you.

And the accompanying list that follows...

Jenayah

00:53

I don't remember how meta.stackexchange.com/q/316280/398063 was prompted by me?

Alex

Oct 4 '18 at 23:11, by Alex

@Jenayah To be precise you referred to at as a form OCD, but that's what caused me to post it.

Jenayah

n_n"

Alex

Interesting, seeing that Meta question about my top network post having a score of 14 when that post now has a score of 31.

Marvin

0

Q: Trying to find an old short story about two cats who are aliens

In the early '70's I used to check out a book with short stories and one of them was about two cats that were actually alien spies, and they get found out when they get high on catnip

aliens

Jenayah

Hey @Alex can I ask you to upvote this comment judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/80484/… on my behalf? I don't want to create a Mi Yodeya account just for that, but that was a very useful comment (would have totally missed the joke otherwise)

Alex

01:08

@Jenayah I already had.

But even with that comment, wouldn't you still have to understand the Hebrew characters אשת חיל to get the joke?

Jenayah

oh, neat then :D

Alex

@Jenayah This is my opportunity to create a Jenayah account then.

I actually just created a Stack Overflow account the other week, after holding out for a couple of years.

Just to post a Meta question.

Jenayah

@Alex by reading the comment I understood there was something more goign on, so I re-read the question and noticed the characters matched, and since the proverb is translated, I got the gist of the joke

Alex

@Jenayah Ah, so you were diligent.

Jenayah

@Alex oh yeah, I remember seeing that. The "I'm not a target of the survey but I'll try to take it and report stuff I think is broken with it from a non-target point of view" one :D

Alex

01:11

That's the one.

Jenayah

I was mildly amused when reading it and had a "I'm not surprised it's Alex" chuckle when I saw you blue blob

Alex

And it got no answer.

So I created the account for nothing.

Well, not for nothing.

The actual question still exists.

Jenayah

@Alex you don't know, maybe someone's sitting it out now to try for a Meta Necromancer badge in two months.

Alex

Interesting possibility.

Jenayah

@Alex would really have seemed odd for an otherwise rude-looking answer to have made it that long without being donwvoted into oblivion or RA nuked (hence me putting in ewtra work)

Alex

01:13

I've actually gotten a couple of Revivals on Mi Yodeya Meta just for submitting nominations to best answer posts.

Weeks after they had been posted.

Jenayah

Such are Revivals sometimes.

I got a Revival for scifi.stackexchange.com/a/196514/98028 a year after I posted it

(with no new activity since)

Alex

@Jenayah If you'd created an account you could flag things that you think are rude.

Jenayah

Yes, but as it was PTIJ all signs were pointing in the direction of mie missing the joke instead.

Alex

@Jenayah Might be my fault:

Jenayah

@Alex oooh :D

Alex

01:17

Let's check the timeline to see...

Jenayah

scifi.stackexchange.com/a/195684/98028 this one took some 6 months. It had some new activity though

(and is a better answer than the other one FWIW)

Alex

Alas, I was the first upvoter.

@Jenayah That one also could be me.

Jenayah

@Alex Depends on how long is "long ago":

May 13 '19 at 17:16, by Alex

@Jenayah Already upvoted that one long ago.

@Alex you did 50% of the work.

Alex

@Jenayah Looks like I was the first voter there too.

Jenayah

1 min ago, by Jenayah

@Alex you did 50% of the work.

Alex

01:26

Your perspective reminds me of something.

Jenayah

?

Alex

A passage in the Talmud about people sitting on a bench without it breaking, but then an additional person sitting and it breaks.

Jenayah

That's benchtesting the bench. Very meta :)

Alex

Is it benchtesting if it was unintentional?

Jenayah

Aren't we all unconsciously benchtesting the bench we sit on? After all if it's a bad bench, you'l make a mnetal note, won't you?

Alex

01:35

Dunno. I only heard of the term three minutes ago.

Broklynite

02:01

I don't know what you're talking about, I'm sitting on a chair.

Which is very Talmudic of me.

Alex

02:13

Chairs are overrated.

DavidW

@Jenayah "starwars.fadom.com" Oops.

Marvin

04:49

0

Q: 80's-ish sci-fi movie with guy/car saving a girl (cyborg?) and car chase at the end of the movie

It was either a guy had to stay with his car to stay alive (the car was how he recharged himself because he was part cyborg) -or- the car had a guys consciousness in it The guy/car was trying to save a girl (who was possibly a cyborg girl) and at the end of the movie there's a big car chase seen...

story-identification movie cyborg

Jenayah

06:39

@DavidW woops

Marvin

07:10

0

Q: Why did Tree try to stop the closing of the time-loop?

In Happy Death Day 2U (2019), Tree tries to stop the closing of the time-loop, which is operated by Ryan, by driving his car into an electric power grid: Why did Tree try to stop the closing of the time-loop?

movie happy-death-day-2u

Jenayah

07:37

Fixed

Daily floof, 2020/02/24: "That's the last time I show him a documentary about suricates."

SQB

08:09

Don't forget to pin that.

You can unpin the last one, then pin this one.

^^ @Jenayah

Jenayah

08:42

Beware my power!

Marvin

0

Q: Who gets the money from auctioning the North Pole?

(Asking in the same spirit as a previous question I asked about Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, only it's a lot more money this time.) Jules Verne's novel Sans dessus dessous (English titles The Purchase of the North Pole or Topsy-Turvy) starts with an auction that sells a huge area of ...

jules-verne

b_jonas

09:31

@Jenayah The chat room owner power?

Jenayah

Yup

Some have a hammer, I have a pin remover. Mwahaha.

I have a hammer as well though :)

Marvin

10:32

1

Q: Do Vulcans blush green?

I have seen a lot of Star Trek fanart that shows Spock blushing with his cheeks flushed green. I'm aware that his half-Vulcan biology gives him copper-based, green tinted blood, so the coloring makes sense. But are there any canon sources on full-Vulcans having the physical ability to blush, and ...

star-trek vulcan spock anatomy

Marvin

10:53

1

Q: Fantasy/magic book with female protagonist and a misogynistic villain

This is a young-adult book that I read in approximately 2006, in English, but cannot remember the name of. The setting is medieval-ish fantasy (similar to the Abhorsen / Belgariad / Inheritence Cycle series), and the ending seemed to be trying to lead into a sequel. It always slightly annoyed m...

story-identification books young-adult

DavidW

12:17

Bomb this one:
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/227871/101407

Jenayah

12:39

@DavidW poof

Mithical

xkcd

17:34

No one likes my novelty ringtone, an audio recording of a phone on vibrate sitting on a hard surface.

Marvin

2

Q: Story about aliens that swap out Earth's government and improve quality of life

I'm trying to find a short story about aliens that take over the world's government. The premise is that we find a humanoid species at a similar level of technological development to ourselves. Earth's fleet takes off to fight, but simply disappears, while the alien fleet takes over the world (pe...

story-identification alien-invasion

Jenayah

18:01

@xkcd meh

Jenayah

18:25

Folks outside the EU (or using a VPN, which I can't right now), does the streaming site at the end of this answer look even remotely legit or should it be edited out?

DavidW

It doesn't look obviously evil. It wants me to disable my ad-blocker, and it also wants to make connections to FB and other ad domains, but nothing surprising.

Jenayah

Is it obvious copyright infrigment?

Mithical

Looks like a legit site to me.

Google says it's an American streaming service.

Jenayah

'k then

Mithical

Interesting... I turned the VPN to the US and it redirected me to the GDPR page. Huh.

Jenayah

18:33

Oh, since you're both here

DavidW

It's not ringing any alarm bells for me, but I'm also not seeing the site fully loaded (because of uMatrix). But the site layout looks like a legit site as opposed to a scam site crowded with ad crap and stuff.

Jenayah

Can I get some undelete votes on scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/214601/… ? Pretty please?

Got an answer to it

Mithical

VTUDed, but it's gonna need a better title

Jenayah

@DavidW okay, leaving the link be then :)

@Mithical will work on that

though the current one is okayish

DavidW

@Jenayah I disagree; I think even the question needs cleaning up if it's going to be an actual useful question.

Jenayah

18:38

The question?

The title I can understand but what's wrong with the Q?

DavidW

AFAICT the real question is "why did the filmmakers not make Nightcrawler the son of Mystique?"

No?

You can't say "pretend he's not" because the in movies, being their own take on the universe, he simply isn't. There's no "pretending" involved.

Jenayah

The way I read it it's more along the lines of "it's never been mentioned in the movies, did the writers voluntarily made it unclear?"

Alex

Looks like you needed my undelete vote after all.

Jenayah

@DavidW agreed, though TBH, it's never explicitly stated in the movies that they aren't related. They could have been in X2; in the new trilogy (quadrilogy now), it doesn't work because of the character's ages, but it's a comic-based movie. We've seen weirder stuff than a mother younger than her child because of time travel blablablbla

Alex

Now the race is on.

Who will post the answer first?

DavidW

18:42

@Jenayah Lots of stuff can be said to never be mentioned in the movies, because it's not true. Like Wolverine being the secret lover of Magneto. You don't mention stuff that has no basis in fact.

Alex

Or will it get closed in the interim?

Mithical

@DavidW From what I gleaned, Nightcrawler is Mystique's son in the original comics. That's where the question is coming from.

DavidW

Oh, I understand that.

My first point is that it's important to state the question on the basis of "this is different from the comic books; why?" My second point is that's not always the basis of a good question given how many differences can/do exist. Are we going to explore, pairwise, the differences between every incarnation of every minor character and each movie?

Jenayah

@DavidW have you browsed this site lately? :)

Mithical

SFF loooves overanalyzing every tine detail

Alex

18:50

@Mithical And every typo.

DavidW

@Jenayah You've been hanging out with a certain blue blob too much lately. :)

Jenayah

@DavidW Just lately? :p

Mithical

@Alex I was talking about utensils and forks

Alex

@Jenayah It was actually the first extended hangout in a while.

@Mithical We do seem to have a surprising amount of questions about forks:

scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=fork+is%3Aquestion

Jenayah

> Has the filial relation between Nightcrawler and Mystique, from the comics, been explictely excluded from the X-Men Cinematic Universe?

Better?

Mithical

18:58

yes

Jenayah

neat

DavidW

Much.

Jenayah

Sep 15 '19 at 21:04, by Jenayah

You know, I had a bunch of other stuff to do lately, but now that we're discussing things that way again, it really hits me: I ducking miss those discussions of ours.

Alex

Sep 15 '19 at 21:05, by Alex

@Jenayah I'll take that as... a compliment?

Mithical

oh god here we go again

Alex

19:10

I won't take that as a compliment.

Jenayah

Jul 20 '17 at 14:11, by Mithrandir

sighs here we go again

Alex

That's before my time.

Jenayah

It's also before mine.

Alex

A long time ago... in a restaurant far, far, away...

Jenayah

nicely done

Alex

19:18

Except for the typo.

Mithical

*hobbles on cane* young rascals

Alex

Aren't you the youngest one here?

At least of those whose ages are known.

Mithical

*looks around for @Riker* Yes.

DavidW

19:33

@Alex Are we talking age as in "as old as my tongue" or age as in "I feel like playing with Lego?"

Alex

Are those different?

Mithical

19:56

@Jenayah *scrolls through transcript there* Heh, I remember that picture with the crazy hair

Jenayah

21:07

This is IMO the best match for this story-ID question; in any case, it's a better match than mine, which is currently the top answer. Please, folks, consider upvoting the other answer so that it gets to the top

DavidW

Done.

Jenayah

:)

b_jonas

21:33

@Jenayah Oh, the orange cat question.

DavidW

21:44

This question is closed as duplicate of a novel, but it precisely describes the novelette the novel is expanded from: scifi.stackexchange.com/q/227877/101407

(I have chased down a copy and verified, down to the OP's comment that the novelette begins at chapter 4 of the novel.)

Does it seem reasonable to nominate to re-open?

DavidW

22:01

In fact the novelette seems to be essentially chapters 4-6 of the novel, which explains why the question only mentions 2 races.

SmokeDetector

22:16

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SmokeDetector

23:04

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