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Q: why were the infinity stones powerless in the time variance authority facility?

neubertSo the Time Variance Authority has lots of infinity stone as shown in the first episode. The implication, if memory serves, was that infinity stones had no power in the TVA HQ. Why is this? As I understand it infinity stones aren't supposed to have power outside of the universe in which they exis...

 
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Q: A fantasy about climbing tree that take you to other worlds

Emma ThorgesenI’m having a really hard time remembering the name of a book series… It was about two children who find trees that when climbed take them to other worlds. There were many different tree and each one went to a different world/place, I’m pretty sure the trees talked or something like to. It was an ...

 
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Q: Help in Identifying a book series

Yatharth SinghI read a book of this series a long time ago.It wasn't the first in the series.There were three main characters I think.I dont remember the plot or the motive but the characters were going somewhere to defeat someone and it involved going through number of worlds.The book was about there journey ...

06:58
Sometimes I wish that sites had not only recommendation systems, but disrecommendation systems.
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@Adamant case in point being ...?
07:18
@SQB Basically, these classification systems tend to be conservative at the individual level (they show us what we already know) and at the societal level (what we already know tends to be more similar to the past than the present).
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Q: pls help me find the name of a natuto gamer fic on fanfiction.net

Dragon Tamerok this one is a gmer fic where not just naruto but all of the jinjuiki become gamers cause they lost their tailed beasts and in exchanged they became gamers yagura broke the genjutsu that obito placed on him and garra lost his auto defence but got it back after pleading with the system i read th...

What are all the TV shows, or products, or search results that might be interesting or relevant to the population as a whole, but which the system thinks I will dislike because I haven't experienced them before?
You can look at things like "hot" on YouTube to get an idea (until the wise and benevolent Google decides that that is bad for us), but it does not tell explicitly what they think we will not like.
Further, many sites only have recommendation-based systems, without any easy way to see what is popular overall.
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Q: Manga where the MC is a fighter and is rewarded according to his desires

Hunter Manga where the MC is summoned as a fighter (demon corps). MC is rewarded according to what's inside his heart (desires) He turns into a monster fights demons gets rewarded.

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08:24
That's an interesting take. I thought you were going in the direction of "warn me for things I', not going to like", but that's not it, it's rather "recommend something you wouldn't recommend to see if I like it nonetheless".
What's our policy for tagging questions where the querant names the (probable) author? Do we tag with that author?
Yes, hold on... looking for meta
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A: Author tags on story identification questions, when OP has a hunch

JenayahJust so that it's written as a proper answer which people can vote on/reply to, I'll reiterate what I said in chat, and what was included in the question. If OP included the author tag themselves, we leave it. If OP seems reasonably sure it might be from author XYZ, we include it. If OP is on t...

Easy enough to find it, I remembered Jenayah answered it
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Well, whaddya know, I voted that up.
Okay, we now have a tag for Eric Frank Russell.
Similar question: do we want tags for large online publishers / popular archives, to use if the querant indicates they've read it there? For instance , , , and so on.
08:43
Personally no, but that'd be quite a large change with a potential big backlog of tag changes should we want it so that'd be something for meta
@SQB uuuuhhh I don't think so
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Yeah, if it hasn't been asked on meta yet, I'll do so.
fanfiction.net is:q: 52 results.
How does a tag add anything over it being in the question body?
@SQB I'm sure I've seen a lot of variations on how people refer to it
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@Mithical how does any tag add anything over it being in the question?
In this case, people may have been very active on there and know the tricks for searching.
Or they may simply have read it.
(Sorry for the repeated pings, Mith).
08:48
@SQB A lot of them don't and I'm very much in favor of removing useless tags :)
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@Mithical do you want me to break out my Bat-signal metaphor again? :)
no thanks
I've heard most of the tag arguments over the past few years :P
09:03
I at least would support fan fiction tags.
It could help with identification.
Anymore so than having it in the question body?
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09:54
@TheLethalCarrot do you want me to break out my Bat-signal metaphor again? :)
I'm in a loop, I'm caught in a time loop
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Bareuh. I've had my second shot of nanobots and I'm feeling a bit under the weather while they're calibrating their 5G signal.
@TheLethalCarrot The Moebius?
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Q: Was there new content in The Children of Húrin?

WadeIt is well known (see here, here) that, when Beren and Lúthien and The Fall of Gondolin were published, they contained no new content: all of it was already printed in previous works edited by Christopher Tolkien. Was the same true for The Children of Húrin? Or is the first and last time new cont...

@Adamant yeah same here
If someone is on AoOO they might want to follow those questions etc
if you think one of those sites is lower quality then you might want to hide them
 
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Congratulations to @LogicDictates on becoming the 9th person to earn a gold tag badge in story-ID!
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@Randal'Thor Thanks! Appreciate it! :-)
@Randal'Thor yay!
 
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Q: Why would He Who Remains even make this offer?

F1KrazyDuring the final episode of Loki Season 1, after Loki and Sylvie enter the Citadel, He Who Remains sends Miss Minutes to frighten the crap out of the audience negotiate with the pair of them. She tells them that He Who Remains is willing to reinsert them into the timeline, and even rewrite future...

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@Marvin parsed that as "He Who Should Not Be Renamed", likely because I'm refactoring code. Was thoroughly confused for a bit.
He did have a few too many names that pesky Voldy
Not as many as Aragorn.
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"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards. It was reprinted in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964. == Plot summary == In a Tibetan lamasery, the monks seek to list all of the names of God. They believe the Universe was created for this purpose, and that once this naming is completed, God will bring the Universe to an end....
16:07
Oh! Congratulations @FuzzyBoots on overtaking Slytherincess to join the top 4 highest-rep users of all time.
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@Randal'Thor Oh my... I'm going to have to issue a lot of bounties to ensure I'm not the victim of the new gunslingers. :-D
Congrats @FuzzyBoots !
Now @Randal'Thor where’s my congrats for overtaking you!? Or are you just salty? ;P
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Q: In The Umbrella Academy TV series, why doesn't Number 5 have a name?

E. J.While Number 5 did leave home at a younger age than his siblings, he was old enough that he should already have been given a name by Grace, his animatronic mother, like the other six Hargreeves children. Why does he seem to have never been given a normal name?

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Q: What is the Castle at the end of time known as?

codeczarIn the Loki series we see that there is a castle at the end of time which was protected by Alioth. In that mysterious castle, we see that What is the name of that castle, name of a similar castle at the end of time in comics is also valid?

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@TheLethalCarrot That was a while ago, did I not congratulate you back then? Can't remember.
I only had a very brief period as the highest-rep mod, between Thaddeus and you :-P
And my plan is complete
18:09
May 2 at 8:48, by Rand al'Thor
In smaller news, @TheLethalCarrot has overtaken me :-)
("smaller news" compared to FuzzyBoots overtaking Jason Baker)
May 3 at 13:08, by Rand al'Thor
Back in the lead, by 1 single rep point (124875 me, 124874 Carrot).
That's probably why there was no big congratulations, we were leapfrogging for a bit.
Oops forgot about that :P
That’s what I get I guess haha
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Q: Who exactly is "she" Harry referring to?

Ashley LongHarry Potter ask Vernon to sign some form: Harry Potter: Nothing. School stuff. Vernon: Later perhaps, if you behave. Harry Potter: I will if she does. Who exactly is "she" Harry referring to?

 
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Q: Sci fi movie or short n which an octopus is captured put in a tank but uses ink to hide

HollieSci fi movie in which an octopus is captured put in a tank but uses ink to hide. It escapes and uses camouflage. DNA is involved, making it smarter.

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21:17
@Marvin questions like that always astound me.
How does one not get that?
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Q: Isekai manga/anime/LN where the main character stays with the God

bakaDevIs there any anime/manga/LN where mc doesn't get reincarnated and just stays with the gods and lives in the gods realm? Something like "Shinchou Yuusha" where the hero also lives in the gods plane.


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