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Q: Do Necrons have (or had) priests?

YasskierThe universe of Warhammer 40000 is very spiritual1 - gods (or god-like beings) are very real and widely worshipped: the biggest political organization - the Imperium of Man - is in fact a theocracy, with various political and military figures justifying their action as "the will of God-Emperor". ...

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Q: TV show, Humanoid Aliens spaceship crashs in Alaska, Half escape, Half are captured

NJohnnyTV series broadcast in USA, Probably from 1990-2010. Set in modern times, in English. Spaceship full of humanoid aliens crashes in Alaska or northern Canada in the middle of winter... Earth radar saw the crash and sent out the military to "rescue" the survivor of the crash. About half/two-thirds,...

 
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@DavidW take it to meta, so they can improve the example
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Q: Adventure game based on Japanese mythology including when you die, you're stuck in (Buddhist? Shinto?) hell and have to escape to continue

FuzzyBootsI played this probably around two decades ago on a Windows PC, I think while I was in my Freshman year of college. I remember it as a point-and-click adventure game with 2D art that looked like a mix of painting and paper cutouts. The protagonist was Japanese, I think, and might have been a warri...

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Q: Why is Lee Jordan not part of Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes?

HelloFred and George probably had dreams of making their own joke shop for a very long time and seemed to be working on new jokes and rule breaking things for during every summer. It seems that once reaching Hogwarts, they would continue their research on joke items, as the two summer months seems lik...

 
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@DavidW I gave up reviewing on SO a long time ago
@AncientSwordRage Review tasks are picked automatically I believe, all they can do is exclude it I think and lift the ban?
Assuming there is a ban
 
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@TheLethalCarrot yup! It means your unbanned, and no one else should get caught out
Till it picks the next terrible audit... straight away haha
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10:35
@AyushBhatt at least the coffe's hot.
That's why it's fine, of course
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10:53
Congratulations, @ClaraDiazSanchez!
@AncientSwordRage Assume you just nuked that post. For some reason it didn't look like spam at first to me but just a misguided user posting a comment as an answer... spent ages writing a comment out then as I was about to post it, it got deleted... then double checked and yeah it was almost certainly spam haha
Time well wasted!
@TheLethalCarrot Sorry!
I was tempted to comment but when I looked it seemed just like spam so I nuked it
No, you did the right thing, I had a brain fart it seems
@TheLethalCarrot join the club
I joined a while ago
10:57
@TheLethalCarrot You merely joined the club, I was born into it... etc...
I need a montage then to be able to get better than you at them
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@TheLethalCarrot we all need montages!
Had to watch it to double check because my memory is terrible but I think we're alright:
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@SQB, was really hoping it was tea. ┗( T﹏T )┛
I think the "This is Fine" hat this year was a reference to this. (⌐■_■)
I'd be very surprised if it wasn't
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Q: One shot manga about two strangers that meet each other in heaven

pillowpandaI read this one shot years ago like around 2007? All I can remember is it was a one shot about a guy and a girl that die and are complete strangers. They meet in the afterlife and talk about their lives. Eventually God is willing to give one of them a second chance and they fight over who should ...

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Q: Book about an AI that traps people on a spaceship

AyushBhattMy memory about this story is rather short. I only remember the following points :- The story was in a collection of stories. In this, a robot/AI of some sort traps 2 people on a spaceship and sends them off. On the ship, they realise that they are travelling in space unaided and try to scourg...

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@TheLethalCarrot, this question confirms the thought.
Well there you go
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Q: What species is Adira represented as by the holo in S3E13?

Jon ClementsIt kind of looks familiar but can't quite place it - we know the holo was meant to represent the federation members etc... but can anyone identify this species it chose to represent her as?

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Q: Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!

Rand al'ThorSFF Stack Exchange's new topic challenge program has got off to a good start, celebrating the start of 2021 and the 10th anniversary of the site with an Isaac Asimov topic challenge. This topic was chosen more or less by decree, since we didn't have time to hold a proper discussion with voting on...

@Marvin Does this Q&A count for the Asimov topic challenge? The question doesn't say Asimov, but the answer is.
Yeah? Kind of a grey area but why not?
 
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Q: Is Alex the same person as Sarah in Highlander 3?

JohnIn the third Highlander film there are two women played by Deborah Unger who may or may not be one and the same person: the noble Sarah Barrington, a woman Connor MacLeod was in love with in the 18th century, and Dr. Alexandra "Alex" Jones, an archeologist who becomes Connor's lover in the presen...

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@Skooba thanks.
Didn't know if you would like it.
It works perfectly! Now I will just have to make sure I keep the formatting next year.
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@Skooba ooooh shiny
@Randal'Thor Dunno. But the question says "beans and milk" so that's specific enough that the answer is correct.
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@AncientSwordRage question is, do I try my hand at it and do the previous ones as well? Or am I too lazy?
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posted on January 08, 2021 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: 100 is really just a starting point. We may need to go as low as 1 before we see results. Today's News:

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Q: Time travelers wife (2009 movie): when footage from "The Hidden" was shown?

Martian2020 The footage from "The Hidden" Courtesy of ... "Dark Victory" clip ... These are words at the end of Time travelers wife (2009 movie). I could not recall the characters ever watched a movie/tv. I could not find nor by web-search neither in wiki when in the movie these other movie/clip were sho...

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Q: can't remember the name of this manga

MackThe main character is a young man who looks like a cute young girl with hair all the way passed his ass. The manga starts off with him in the Murim world as an unparalleled martial artist who lives with an all women group of Murim martial artists. One day a man shows up and the MC steals a bracel...

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Q: Paperback book about a falsely arrested man living in the wilderness who raises wolf cubs

GatewaytofreedomThe book starts with the protagonist, a shop owner, who gets falsely arrested for murder. While he's being taken away in a police car, he manages to escape and runs off into the woods, which happens to be a national park. He lives in a cave near the top of a hill. At some point in the book, he fi...

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Bah. I just realized that came from literature.
Probably because every site looks exactly the same now
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Beta sites always looked exactly the same, though.
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Q: Book about a world where there is a limited amount of souls

lowermoonsLooking for the title of a book I read where it was about a world with a "well of souls" and everyone was extremely religious as mandated by a church in order to keep from being possessed by demons that were consuming souls, making the amount of souls grow less and less. Babies that were born had...

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at a glance, the only difference is the banner under the menu before the question
otherwise the sites are identical in style
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Pretty much since the theming change, banner and icon. Hopefully we get something back but I doubt it at this point
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Q: Which division is Tilly now in?

SpacePhoenixWhen I watched the season finale of season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, during the final season on the bridge, Tilly is in sciences blue. If you look at the screenshot on this page: (you'll need to scroll down). Tilly is in command red. In the latter part of that scene when they pan by the bridge c...

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@Skooba I wouldn't worry about it, because the latest one covers all the previous ones
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@JackBNimble I've drafted a blog post about the topic challenges. My first time using the new blog platform, so I hope I've saved it right and you can find it in the system. I couldn't figure out how to add tags, like "Site News" or "Promotion" or "Question of the Week" (month? quarter?) that I saw on some previous blog posts.
I can add those.
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Updated, and published.
I don't suppose someone has any ideas for the blog for the 10th anniversary?
Thanks!
@JackBNimble A sum-up of 10 years of SFF, written by whoever's the longest-serving still-active user?
pages @DVK
Is the blog exactly as old as the site, or did it start a bit later?
Interesting question.
Let's look in the dark recesses of history.
The earliest blog entry is August 12, 2011
I need to watch more bad movies.
posted on January 08, 2021 by Rand al'Thor

A new year is beginning, and 2021 brings new change to SFF Stack Exchange. The site turns one decade old this month, on 11 January 2021, and its eleventh year is being marked with a new program of monthly topic challenges. First up is the famous sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov, the topic of the month ... Read more

Maybe we should change that icon of the mutant love child of me, Creation Edge, and Mike, to just be Mike's avatar, in his memory.
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@JackBNimble I can do that.
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@JackBNimble Is that actually related to the previous comment? It seems like a non-sequitur.
Just thinking out loud.
@JackBNimble What? How is the blog that old?
Wow, so it's within a year. I didn't know.
How sad that my account says it is only 9 years, 10 months old right now.
@JackBNimble That's a good question, but I sort of gave up trying to organize celebrations like that here. We didn't do anything on Harry Potter Epilogue day.
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@Randal'Thor Hmm. Well DVK is in exile so I'm not sure if he counts as active. scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931/11-01-11 is more active right now and longer serving. But I don't see why it would have to be the longest-serving user.
Umm, sachin?
scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23/mike-scott is probably THE longest serving still active user
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Q: Was The Lord of the Rings an inspiration for the Regular Show Christmas Special?

Donatello SwansinoIn Regular Show's fourth season, a Christmas special premiered, appropriately titled "The Christmas Special." In it, the park employees are tasked by Santa, a bearded, immortal, magic being, with destroying the Box, an item of immense power, by throwing it into a lava pit. At one point in the spe...

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Q: Doctor discovers (or is deluded) that long-time catatonic patient in the hospital is actually some kind of superbeing

OtisThis was a short novel (maybe 200 to 250 pages) that I read in the 1990s, but which based on style I would think was published in the 70s, and almost certainly in the late 60s to mid-80s period. The protagonist is a new doctor in a hospital who takes a special interest in a long-term patient that...

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Q: Book about a female protagonist travelling through space with alien creatures called the Leviathan

RoeThe main character of the book was selected to travel space with these aliens that also were able to act as spaceships called the Leviathan. They were helpful to Earth in fixing it's problems. As they travel across space, the main character encounters another species traveling with the Leviathan....


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