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Q: Short fiction in which the suits of playing cards (clubs, diamonds, spades, hearts) are used in place of some words

J SheepI remember reading such a story, maybe in the New Yorker or The Atlantic, in the 1990s or early 2000s. There were hearts and diamonds and clubs and spades throughout the story (printed the same size as the type font, like wingdings or webdings symbols) in place of words. The story was written in ...

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Q: Death and grief in Science Fiction

Grtxeverybody! I'm doing some research on how the themes of death and grief are dealt with in science fiction, especially when linked to the topic of artificial intelligence, but not necessarily. For now the examples that I came up with are the episode of Black Mirror "Be Right Back", Altered Carbo...

 
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Q: explorers unwilling to return

Anton SherwoodUnusually for such a request, I think I know the title: “The Deserter”. Trouble is that ISFDB lists seven short stories with that title. Setting is one of the cold planets. To explore it, people are sent out in new bodies suited to the environment. Not one of them has returned or reported, an...

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Q: Why do they shave hair and remove teeth before sending them into shrinking procedure?

Willy TopIn sci-fi comedy Downsizing (2017), why do they shave hair and remove teeth before sending them into shrinking procedure?

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Q: Sci-fi book with a generational spaceship traveling the interstellar void

Vyas BharghavaSpaceship is gigantic. Most of the passengers don’t even realize that it’s a spaceship and the Author describes the world in great - captivating - detail. Muddled recollection that it uses Micro blackholes for propulsion. It comes under siege. The protagonist - a young girl aspiring to become...

 
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Q: What is the meaning of the Liason designations?

AdamantAs we see throughout the series, the Liasons who are charged with managing the transition of souls in the Pasarela have names that consist of two letters, generally DH, and a number. I assume that the numbers indicate their position in the hierarchy, with lower being better (Carlota, for instance...

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Q: What happened with the death of the Butcher?

AdamantAt the end of the third season, during a shootout with the Butcher, who has somehow returned from the dead again, Vargas puts a bullet in the middle of his forehead. When he does so, the Butcher immediately falls down dead (for the third time, I suppose). Then, so far as I can tell, the bodies of...

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Q: What was going with the family of Marquez?

AdamantAt the beginning of the third season, Carlota delayed Laura, Susana, and Beatriz, thus assuring that they In the recap at the beginning of the episode, they also mentioned the fact that the family of Marquez had died in a car accident on exactly the same day as Vargas. It seemed fairly obvious...

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Q: Why they only show shrinking procedure of men only?

Willy TopIn sci-fi comedy Downsizing (2017), here is a lady picking up a shrunk man with a spoon and putting him into a box: Why they only show shrinking procedure of men only?

 
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Q: What anime is this?

LaceyChanFrom what I believe I saw on YouTube was a video about a character in love with the king. Honestly, I’m not sure if this was a movie or a series. All I remember watching from the video was the cute, mascot-like character is in love with the king but was afraid of ruining her relationship with him...

13:53
Hi all, hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy. I have two quick questions.. Is there any way to add ignored tags in the same way we have watched tags? Second, can anyone confirm the day resets based on UTC/Greenwich time on this site? Thanks very much. o/
@creative-username hey!
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A: What do "watched tags" and "ignored tags" do?

Alex BWatched Tags To watch a tag, do one of the following: In the tag’s tooltip, click on the "Watch Tag" button. On the main page’s sidebar, click on Watch Tag On the main page’s sidebar, click on edit next to Watched Tags On /users/preferences, use the respective field in the Tags section. Note...

@creative-username Just out of curiosity, what tags do you want to ignore? :)
Oh, and yes, the day begins at 0:00UTC.
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@Jenayah thank you, much obliged!
you're welcome !
@DavidW the story ID tag. Some one them sound really interesting but for the most part it's a lot of clutter imo..
Some of*
@creative-username I don't know if I can still be friends with you.
I'm sorry >_< I have gotten some great book suggestions from them but only from one out of every dozen or so.
14:33
(That was a joke, in case it wasn't clear.)
(same :) )
No worries. I will still that tag a few times a month :)
check that* ugh typing is hard.
Does anyone find that when you spend all your time at home subjective morning seems to extend into the afternoon?
Yeah, time is definitely getting a bit blurry.
@creative-username Almost as hard as .
14:37
Absolutely!
@Alex The challenge is half of the fun!
What's the other half?
Discovering new things you'd missed or never heard of before.
I don't think any of my answers have been accepted.
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A: Fan fiction where Snape, McGonagall and Pomfrey save Ginny using an ancient spell

AlexThis is "Digging for the Bones" by Pannageid. Ginny attempts suicide with a potion (Chapter 23) "Sir." gasped Harry, "Ginny Weasley. She's taken a potion. It's bad. In the common room." "It looks like an overdose of a Draught of Peace. There's residue still in her mouth." said Snape,...

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To be fair, I only have four of them, so not such a large sample size.
@Jenayah Interesting. I did not remember that being accepted.
And it doesn't show in green on my tag page.
1/4 ain't bad.
Though only two of them involved "the hunt".
By the way, @Jenayah , did you know offhand that that was accepted, or did you just not trust me and quickly check my profile?
If I may be so bold as to ask.
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Q: Young adult vampire novel with a female vampire hunter and her two friends, all orphaned

Help me find this book thanksThis was a young adult vampire book about a girl who is a vampire hunter with her two other friends. They are trained by a man who is an older hunter. All of their parents were killed when they were younger and the main girl was raised by her grandmother. The other male friend was raised by his ...

 
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Q: Seeking the name of a movie about a group trapped in a fallout shelter

TSayI saw this movie way back in the late 80s, maybe early 90s. I remember it being about a group of people who I think were touring a fallout shelter when the alarms go off and they become trapped inside. One part I remember for some reason is that of a girl dancing on a table. It was in colour and ...

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@Jenayah That quote seems odd. Should it be "It bears our burdens and shields our hearts?" scifi.stackexchange.com/a/226813/101407
@DavidW mumble mumble phone autocorrect mumble mumble
duck
Check out that sarcastic edit summary...
are you all stalking me or what?! xD
Of course.
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What else is Alex supposed to do while we're in lockdown around the world?
Though actually I had the post open from when I followed DavidW's link. Then the screen updated with "an edit has been made" so I just checked it out.
It's good. Edit summaries are a place where you can secretly have fun.
I had one recently, though I don't think anyone noticed it.
link?
I wonder how much you can get away with?
How about this one? My edit summary on a Mi Yodeya question is a link to a comment from Randal'Thor on Literature.
19:37
Another fun one from Jenayah.
you stalker
Here's one on a tag wiki.
24 mins ago, by Mithical
What else is Alex supposed to do while we're in lockdown around the world?
@Alex ahahah!
This one is gibberish.
This stalking would be so much easier if I didn't have to go keep going to a new page.
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Q: Why was not Klingon Chancellor constantly challenged to a duel

LacekIn Deep Space Nine episode "Tacking Into the Wind", Worf challenges Gowron, the Klingon leader to a duel, defeats him, and becomes the "leader of the Empire" (which he later passes on Mortok). Anyway if defeating Chancellor in a duel allows the winner to become Klingon leader, why wasn't the Klin...

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@Alex ?
@Jenayah The profile page for revisions only shows 20 revisions per page. I only have 473 revisions on this site but that requires me to select a new page 23 times. You probably have 20 times as many revisions as me, so that would probably be hundreds of pages.
oh, I thought th edit summarry appeared in the revision page
@Alex 24.3 times as many, to be precise.
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@Jenayah It does, but only twenty per page.
@Jenayah My calculations turn up 10.38 times.
Who's right?
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@Alex I hate to say this, and I'm speaking only for myself, but my gut tells me to go with @Jenayah answer.
One of them is presumably excluding edits to own posts.
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Q: Are these people we should/Might know...?

wcullenIn Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker I was wondering if these two people were cameos/people we should know..? No spoilers, but they appear almost at the end of the film. I looked through quite a few of the 'cameos' websites/zines, but couldn't find anything :-)

@DavidW Ouch.
Here's my calculation:
4,910/473=10.3805497
Both numbers include revisions to our own posts @Mithical
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Q: Looking for Sci-fi Short Story - Aliens observe a planet where machines continue a war after the people are dead

OmnificerI've read this short story within the past 5 years, somewhere online, but I don't believe it was a new or recent story. The short story involves aliens attempting to contact a planet only to realize that all of the people are dead but the automated systems of two nations are continuing their war...

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Q: Why did Voldemort give Harry the choice to sacrifice himself for everyone if Voldemort already had witnessed how useful that protection would be?

John LucasIt's a widely accepted theory that Harry's sacrifice for everyone fighting with him gave them a protection against Voldemort, Why would Voldemort create such a situation like that, keeping in mind that HE was the one who magnified his voice and basically told Harry to come sacrifice himself? Vold...

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Q: Collection of short stories about plane flight to the future

Chris DirkisBack in 2017, I read a collection of short stories on a website, all around a single theme (similar to Machine of Death, I believe). The theme was a plane flight that went into the future. I think it was to a specific date, 2030 or 2050. It started off with a single intro, but everyone's take o...

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Q: What movie/episode had a character get electric power from train track with a glowing finger?

Arthur WatsonAll I remember from a TV show I partly saw around 1970 is a character touching an electric third rail on train or subway tracks, absorbing electric power, and getting a glowing finger. Not sure whether it was a villain or hero, or even whether it was a movie or series episode, looking for any in...


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