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Q: Why does Peter Parker's Room Change from Captain America: Civil War to Spider-Man: Homecoming to Spider-Man: Far from Home?

Marvel Know-It-AllI have noticed that in Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker's room is smaller, has a grey wallpaper, and twin beds, then in Spider-Man: Homecoming, he has a larger room, brighter lighting, still grey wallpaper, and a bunk bed, but in Spider-Man: Far from Home, his room is the same one that wa...

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Q: What did the Yuuzhan Vong use for illumination?

cat40Wookipedia offers no explanation of this. Does anyone know what the light biots used by the Yuuzhan Vong were called? It's been a while since I read the books and don't want to dig through 20 books to find the name.

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Q: Movie where people try to kill a possessed woman with morphine

user73910I watched a movie where some woman was being haunted by a demon. I think it appeared as a human man with a painted face. During a writing exercise of some kind, a teacher or professor tells the people present to write a letter to someone that has been troubling them and to do something with the l...

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Q: Movie where people communicate with a spirit using dice

user73910In the movie I watched, I think there was a man who is killing people at the behest of his mother's spirit, though I'm not sure on that part. There was a scene where a group of character communicate with this woman's spirit using dice. One person would ask her a question and then roll dice with l...

 
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Q: Why does Supergirl's Fortress of Solitude look so different from Superman's?

Mason WheelerIn the episode Welcome Back, Kara!, Supergirl explicitly states that the Fortress is the same one Kal-el uses, but from all visual indications it's clearly not. Her version is more decorated, more open and spacious, and prominently displays Kryptonian technology, whereas the set they use on Supe...

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Q: Did Anglachel intentionaly prick Túrin's foot?

WadeIn the story of the children of Húrin, Beleg is granted a gift by King Thingol, and he asks for the sword Anglachel. Melian warns him of the evil of the sword, and says that it will not love the hand that it serves, and won't abide with him long. He chosoes it even so. But as Thingol turned the ...

 
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Q: Can you identify these Marvel characters?

Kenny Ant-Man Vision ???? Black Panther ???? Thor Hulk Captain America ???? ???? Spider-Man Black Widow??

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Q: What does "it" in "doing it" refer to?

Matt JonasNeville is standing in the river and Harry Potter is reading the book near the tree: Neville: Amazing. Amazing! Harry Potter: Neville. You're doing it again. Neville: Oh, right, sorry. What does "it" in "doing it" refer to?

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@xkcd that's probably already on AliExpress.
 
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Wicked a server at a client has gone down and not only do they not have a backup but they deleted their test environment so we can't even copy from there... have to build from scratch
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I have a new boundary-pushing question.
Is that SFF-nal?
I'm not too sure why you've linked that story id question either
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Q: What is Charlie Chaplin's assembly line making in the eating machine scene of “Modern times”?

b_jonasIn the Charlie Chaplin film Modern times, Charlie Chaplin's character works in a factory at an assembly line. He's standing in front of a conveyor belt. The belt carries objects that look like a thick rectangular metal plate, about 0.3 m long, with two big nuts sticking out from its top, and no...

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@TheLethalCarrot Yes
@Adamant The premise of the scene is that a company is pitching a new futuristic technology: an "eating machine". This would let the workers keep working during lunchtime, because they feed them while their hands are free. They demonstrate the machine on Charlie Chaplin a few moments after the scene that I'm asking about. I think this counts as sci-fi enough. — b_jonas 1 min ago
@TheLethalCarrot That one is mostly a joke and not relevant to understanding or answering the question. I'm just reminded to "The good work" because they are appearing to work on a useless gadget, and it seems that Chaplin is specifically loosening the nuts rather than tightening them.
That they're loosening screws on an assembly line strikes me as odd and humorous.
@b_jonas The machine itself seems very borderline but the actual film doesn't. On top of that the machine is made by an external company
I think in this case questions about the machine may be on topic, though I'm sceptical, but questions in general aren't. So your question seems off topic to me
@TheLethalCarrot Certainly. I don't claim that what Chaplin is making there is itself sci-fi.
So you're saying that the eating machine is the only sci-fi element in that movie, and there's not enough others to make the whole movie on topic? That might make sense.
Though I still wonder what you're supposed to be able to make with your free hands while the machine is feeding you.
@b_jonas I only skimmed the Wikipedia page and watched that scene but from my understanding yeah. I'm dubious as to whether the eating machine itself would be on topic too
I guess it's for autonomous work where you don't really need to see what you're doing
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They even have technobabble like "electroporous bearings" when a voice recording introduces the machine
"no energy required to cool the soup"
"countershaft double knee action corn feeder with its synchromash transmission"
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Q: How should Fourth Age Kings of Arnor and Gondor be numbered?

Aragorn ElessarI wonder on how the Kings of Gondor and Arnor in the Fourth Age should be numbered, in respect to former rulers and kinsmen. It is far more puzzling than one might think. Now reunited, how would a king be called who has the name of a former king of Arnor, but not of Gondor, and vice versa? E.g. ...

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Q: Time traveller finds that Hitler is a kind man

GordonDI'm looking for the title of a short story I read maybe ten or fifteen years ago. A time traveller decides to kill Hitler (don't they all?) but when he arrives in the past Hitler's bodyguards immediately recognise him as coming from the future but tell him that once he actually meets the man he'l...

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posted on August 26, 2021 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: I've been told by programmers that physicists make the worst code because they want all the variables to be single letters instead of descriptions of what the variable means. Today's News:

@b_jonas I migrated the question to M&TV, sounds like it could get a nice answer to it
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Ah, I feel like being snarky, but can't find any suitable targets. :-P
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Q: What was Tony Stark (Iron Man)'s MK 85 Suit made out of?

kelvineloveIn the final act of Avengers: Endgame, Tony Stark's Iron Man Mark 85 suit "absorbs" all 6 Infinity Stones, and then Tony Stark snaps.... My Question: What material was his Mark 85 suit made of, such that it was able to withhold the power of 6 Infinity Stones without disintegrating? In the Guardia...

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Q: Review queue workflows - Final release

Lisa ParkAll good things must come to an end and so must the review queues project. This project would not have been successful without the community. Thank you all for the hours of reviewing, testing, and sharing your feedback along the way. With that said, this will be our final major release. In this p...

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For those wondering what may have happened to the review queues!
Congratulations @DavidW for becoming the top reviewer of all time for the "First questions" queue!
Heh. :) It's probably my only shot!
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Q: Short story about a time traveller (from the past to the present) who is executed for witchcraft when he returns to his time (the past)

lloyd agolaI'm looking for a short sci-fi story about a time traveler from the past who is dragged to the present by 2 scientists. The scientists show him inventions from the modern day such as light-bulbs and electricity, cars and other marvels of the modern world. Eventually, he insists on going back to h...

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Q: Are the Nine Bright Shiners based on the planets?

AdamantIn the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix, the Nine Bright Shiners are powerful Free Magic spirits, essentially gods, that shaped the world in which the story takes place (and, it is implies, a few others). Of course, there were nine "Bright Shiners" in real life at the time the relevant books were ...

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Q: Why do the twins wear masks?

AdamantIn the animated version of Trese, the titular character's bodyguards turn out to which is a fair explanation of their floating and ability to manifest weapons. The sock and buskin masks that they manifest whenever they fight were given to them by Trese's father. We know that the twins are capabl...

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Another question regarding recent SE changes, where did they remove the "last seen on" info from the profile? That was a useful way to quickly check whether there's any real chance that a querent will come back to answer a question left in a comment, or to accept an answer.
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Q: Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive

Aaron ShekeyUpdate 1 I’ve restored the profile age to all and fixed a few bugs y’all reported. I’ll be addressing individual answers as best as I can. Original post On our way to a fully responsive Stack Overflow, we just shipped some changes to the user profile. We won’t be enabling responsiveness just yet,...

Thank you.
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Q: A book about aliens living on Earth who look like humans

SpencerGI read this book when I was a teenager that I can't remember the name of. Here are all of the details I can recall A kid on the cover wearing a metal gauntlet on his arm that extends up to his forearm. In the book, it has some function that shoots bb gun pellets or something similar. This might b...

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Q: Korean historical reincarnation manhwa where the female lead used to be a traditional medicine doctor

Rebecca ShinDoes anyone know the name of this reincarnation historical Korean manhwa (Joseon dynasty era) where the female lead is reincarnated as a 12 year old? In her previous life she was a traditional medicine doctor. It has around 12 chapters out right now. The first chapter shows her doing target pract...

@TheLethalCarrot I've still caught myself trying to check a profile for last seen when considering whether to flag a post or comment for deletion. Even if they chunked it into 48-hour blocks, it would be better than nothing, and I completely fail to see how knowing someone was on the site sometime in the past day or two can possibly be a problem.
If you don't want to be tracked, you can't post, comment, vote, chat, etc. So if you're that paranoid you can avoid usage tracking just by not logging in.
I think it would be reasonable to make it much more chunky, only showing "recently, one week, one month, one year, etc" so that it's a lot harder to actually track someone, but you get a rough idea as to whether they are around to respond.
I'm too close on this one, particularly given my gold-badge status. I personally think scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/173216/… should be marked as the duplicate of scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/253102/… just due to more detail, but I wrote the latter one.
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Q: What did the Yuuzhan Vong use for doors?

cat40Wookieepedia has again turned up empty. I know it's some kind of membrane thing that acts by expanding and contracting a hole. Does anyone know what it's called?

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Q: Trying to identify an old book

Marc WilsonThis is a book I read when I was growing up, so 80's timeframe, although I think it was older then. A group of scientists finds a way to access another dimension. It's described (I think) like turning a corner. Anyone who goes there shortly goes insane, unable to deal with what they see there. ...

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Q: How did Zoom demolish Barry in Se2Ep6 "Enter Zoom?"

Mike Da HicI don't really remember how Barry got beat up by Zoom? Thanks.

The Yuuzhan Vong seem to be an illustrious people.
@SQB Should every HTTP link be cleaned? Just the images? Just ones where it's explicit that they have HTTP support?
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IMO all links, unless the target does not support it (I'm looking at you, ISFDb!)
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@FuzzyBoots I definitely agree.
@FuzzyBoots What @SQB said. Except for the ones I know can't be changed (e.g. ISFDb), I change them all and test the links in the preview, only rolling back the ones that don't work. That also finds all the ones that have died due to link rot (some of which can be fixed).
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Also, if my SEDE query is still in the sidebar (can't see, am on mobile), it allows you to specify known http-only domains to exclude.
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@SQB Yes, it's still there.
It's got a room-owner star on it, so it'll stick around.
 
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@TheLethalCarrot On a more lasting note:
Congratulations @LogicDictates for being the last person ever to review an item in the First Posts review queue.
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Q: A movie that released in 90’s or 80’s (time travel sort of)

Vashisht RaghavI'm looking for the name of a movie that released in '80s or '90s. From what I remember of the plot it involved a young man who is a cop travelled back in time (I think to the 1800's) by putting a ring on of creature he was following. That creature from the past wrecked havoc in the cop's time. O...

 
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Q: Short Story about a Lovecraftian Cult, who secretly have a makeshift nuclear reactor

JoeI remember reading a short story, possibly online, approximately 8-10 years ago. The protagonist is sent undercover, possibly by the police or secret service, to investigate a cult living on an island. I think the island might have been off the coast of Scotland, and it might have been mentioned ...


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