« first day (1404 days earlier)      last day (1442 days later) » 

00:18
2
Q: Hero uses folding magic and releases ancient prisoner

AlanThink I read this post-2000. Coming of age tale about a young man who was raised in a backwater or rural province and taught sorcery. Since he was in a remote location, the person teaching him magic couldn't teach him much; a lot of the training was based around a specific type of magic - a sort of

01:12
10
Q: Story about an abandoned space-ship with lots of humanoid bodies dumped in its core

RedBaronI had read a part of a space fiction novel/story a long time back. I don't remember names of the characters or spaceships but the plot is something like this: A group of space soldiers find a huge round spaceship (much larger than their vessel) abandoned in space with no signs of life. They map ...

01:33
0
Q: Manga: boy lives in apartment, lots of girls

boomer catThe girls come from different worlds. Sister is a hunter. He switches bodies with someone he saved he asleep in the hospital. Update this year. The guy he save has ecchi whit the girls. boy lives in apartment, lots of girls. I think is between 10 t0 20 ch.

 
4 hours later…
05:39
0
Q: Would Batman use guns or other lethal methods in a post-apocalyptic world?

Ismail HafeezIn Batman v Superman and the leaked Darkseid teaser trailer for Zack Snyder's Justice League, we can see that in the post-apocalyptic Earth (likely ruled by Darkseid), Batman has resorted to using guns again. My question is, is there an instance anywhere in the comics where Batman would use gun...

06:36
-1
Q: Book about a girl who was rich and moves in with a family where she learns how to bake and make silk

Laura A MerchantI'm looking for a book that is about a girl who seems to have been rich at one time and has to move in with a family where she learns how to do chores and baking from scratch and making silk out of silk worms. She falls in love with the son of one of the parents. It seems to be a story about the ...

0
Q: How many copies of Inkheart were printed/sold, in-universe?

Rand al'ThorBy the time of the events of Inkheart (the real-world book by Cornelia Funke), physical copies of Inkheart (the fictional book by Fenoglio) are extremely rare - indeed, if I remember rightly, it seems that only one copy is left. It also seems that the book was never a bestseller or very successfu...

@Marvin worth bearing in mind that Capricorn intentionally hunted them down and destroyed them
07:16
0
Q: Book about a girl who was rich and moves in with a family where she learns how to bake and make silk

Laura A MerchantI'm looking for a book that is about a girl who seems to have been rich at one time and has to move in with a family where she learns how to do chores and baking from scratch and making silk out of silk worms. She falls in love with the son of one of the parents. It seems to be a story about the ...

 
1 hour later…
08:16
0
Q: What does Neil mean by "In a parallel worlds theory, we can't know the relationship between consciousness and multiple realities"?

galacticninjaIn Tenet, the Protagonist and Neil had this conversation, just after discussing the grandfather paradox (emphasis mine): Protagonist: This reversing the flow of time. Doesn't us being here now mean it never happens? That we stop them? Neil: Optimistically, I'd say that's right. Protagonist: Pess...

09:06
0
Q: Is there an instance anywhere in the comics where Batman would use guns in a post-apocalyptic world?

Ismail HafeezIn Batman v Superman and the leaked Darkseid teaser trailer for Zack Snyder's Justice League, we can see that in the post-apocalyptic Earth (likely ruled by Darkseid), Batman has resorted to using guns again. Is there an instance anywhere in the comics where Batman would use guns in such a sett...

 
2 hours later…
11:13
0
Q: Why didn't Ministry perform leglimens on harry potter

mTvareWhy was the Ministry just questioning Harry in part 5 about the dementors instead of trying leglimens, as the dementors were also showed in movie when Snape performed leglimens

11:38
0
Q: Looking for an animated films I saw on tv in the 80's

Lawrence RichardsonOk, there are two that I remember quite vividly. The first was some kind of sciencefiction one, I remember there being a child who is being transported somewhere when the vehicle gets into trouble and he has to go on alone with a communicator thing that looks like a big egg, somewhere along the l...

12:09
@Babelfish I flagged this to be migrated
@Marvin T'was asked here... is asking two questions though
@Randal'Thor Talking about that, have they actually started doing that yet cos I haven't had an email
13:00
@TheLethalCarrot gah, I had a scan of the feed and didn't see it
13:23
This just never gets old...
@InfinityMilestone whats up?
13:52
Greetings, Earthlings, Robots, et al.
@Donald.McLean heyo!
14:12
So much for my Martian heritage.
@AncientSwordRage, I'm just fine. :)
I'm trying not to be speciesist.
0
A: Can the replicator from Star Trek TNG make illicit substances (drugs)?

Donald.McLeanThis is a really interesting question, but it and most of the answers are severely humano-centric. What constitutes a drug (or poison) would vary wildly from species to species. Consider substances like cocoa and capsaicin here on Earth. How would a replicator restrict substances across ALL the s...

14:29
0
Q: In the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban video game, are the hags’s card stories the inspiration behind the fairytales?

Bri OniIn the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban video game, as with any other HP video game, you can collect Famous Witches and Wizards Cards, some of which are about hags, two of which are Malodora Grymm and Leticia Somnolens. But the Malodora Grymm page on HP Wiki says: Grymm’s plot, despite be...

14:40
@TheLethalCarrot Me neither, it's probably in a backlog.
There's more important things for SE to do, TBF.
@Mithical Yes, but the question is how many there were originally (before Capricorn came to our world).
@Randal'Thor At least 1.
Hooray, a lower bound is established!
@Randal'Thor Aye, and I have my SFF t-shirt anyway which I won't get this time either so not overly fussed when they get round to it
Oh right, they stopped doing site-specific swag, didn't they.
Collector's item then.
@Randal'Thor Right, but the scarcity we hear about is after he hunted them down.
14:44
@Mithical Fenoglio isn't exactly living the life of Rowling, so I'm guessing it wasn't very successful to begin with either. That's the question though.
I have a couple of stackexchange shirts, from failed bids to become a benevolent moderator.
@JackBNimble did you fail at becoming a moderator or being benevolent?
Or were the two connected...
@Randal'Thor Well, actually we know there were still at least two dozen copies left at the start of the story...
@Randal'Thor But it did have translations, so more popular than most books...
15:40
posted on March 17, 2021 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: I believe that's the correct sign language for that particular request, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Today's News:

15:50
0
Q: The Force Spectrum

Vinay KaushikI have wondered if there was a list representating of all aspects of the Force, for example the Nightsisters use the magical side of the Force, Jedi/Sith use the telekinesis and spiritual powers. Are these the only abilities a Force user can harness? If not, please list all known "force powers"

@Marvin @TheLethalCarrot needs more focus? it's pretty open ended/bad list question from my initial reading
Would be a finite list.. though I'd be surprised if it's not a dupe
@TheLethalCarrot most bad lists are finite, but it's still very open ended I think?
"Please List all force powers" is going to be a massive list
Yeah it's still pretty open ended
And not really a grwat question
I'm reluctant to nuke it as needs more focus/detail
because I don't know how to advise them on 'fixing' it
16:08
@TheLethalCarrot Technically any recommendation or "books like X" question is finite because the size of the answer is bounded above by the total number of books ever written. That doesn't make them acceptable.
16:24
How many stars are in the night sky is also finite.
Answer? ~7
16:41
0
Q: What is the conscious state of Stoker’s‘ Dracula while he rests in his coffin?

ferjsoto42yahoocomNear the end of Chapter 4 of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Harker has the opportunity to strike at the “sleeping,” prostrated, Count. This is the second instance of Harker encountering him in this state in the same room. While Dracula keeps his eyes open, he seems insensible to Harker’s presence and he...

Howdy! Is this an appropriate place to discuss close/re-open votes and user moderation of the site?
sure
Well I think this one was closed a bit too harshly: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/244687/…. I did a minor edit to make it less subjective. Also I don't think it's a duplicate. Anyone with re-open privileges please take a peek.
17:31
1
Q: Why didn't Shmi bought her freedom with the pod money?

Angel PeñaflorIn The Phantom Menace, after Anakin wins the race they sell the pod and give the money to Shmi. In Watto words: "No pod is worth two slaves", however, clearly a pod is worth at least one slave given that Watto betted Anakin. After the race Watto also says that he "Lost everything", therefore, one...

18:17
0
Q: Arthurian legend style story with future knowledge of science and chemistry

AdamTI recall a YA book that I read in the late 70's (in the UK) and was probably written roughly around that time that was "arthurian" in style. I'm not sure that this was directly specified or whether I jumped to that conclusion, but it certainly had a Merlin-like character even if that was not exac...

 
3 hours later…
20:53
0
Q: Short lived time travelling British TV show identification

Matt CopperwaiteI recall a short lived TV show that I think was broadcast on the British TV channel ITV in the late 90s or early 2000s and it was about time travel. It was set in Britain in relatively modern times. The scene that really sticks in my head is when the protagonist goes to use their time travelling ...

21:13
@Marvin Tempted to close this the other way... Blah.
22:05
@DavidW Oh, how come?
Also, nostalgia overload
@AncientSwordRage I'm biased, but my answer is better, and the questions are about the same.
22:22
@DavidW Agreed
My wish is your command, @DavidW
Oh, wow!
(a) Thank you!
(b) I don't think I can be trusted with this power... :)
@DavidW read it again
Aha. Sorry, attention fail.
I'm still not sure I deserve that much power though. :-P
I can't even make grep work for me right now.
lol
its a hard beastie
I need to grep for win-1252 encoded characters. And I'm in a UTF-8 locale. I don't even know how to specify a locale to use win-1252.
And I'm using a bash shell on Windows, so I don't necessarily trust the shell either.
22:31
yikes
count me out
I've tried LC_ALL="en_US.ISO-8859-1"; grep -aP "[\x7f-\xff]" {file} with a file I know should match
Nothing.
I've even tried single-character REs for specific characters I know are in the file, and I still can't get any hits. :-P
Hi. It is I, the designer who speaks shenanigans.
Oh no! Run and hide! Run and hide!!
22:46
I see you are still here.
Little dawgie.

« first day (1404 days earlier)      last day (1442 days later) »