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Q: Manga where mc leaves party changes appearance and name

Sp3cTeRR8He is with a girl called the sword goddess, they are the only 2 members in their party and he is 'useless'. He gets fed up of being treated awfully and so he leaves changes his name to Flint and dyes his hair red. Then joins the guild as a lower rank and the girl he left ,who I believe was also h...

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Q: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Chapter 1-6

Tp123I need three main topics that happened in chapters 1-6 (with the page number).

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Q: Book about children having dream adventures in aunt & uncle's house

EakTrying to identify a children's/middle grade book I read in the early 2000's. It's about a brother and sister staying at their aunt & uncle's house. When they fall asleep, they go on adventures in their dreams, a different one each night: they get caught in bubbles and have to escape (the bubb...

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Q: Am trying to find a sci-fi movie involving a chemical that turned people into monsters

Caeden KellyTitle sums it up, but in this movie there was a space station that produced a blue chemical as an exhaust and would send people to die on earth as a death penalty (or something similar). The blue chemical in the movie would turn people into these ogre like monsters who would then attack the few s...

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Q: Beehive in body short story

ChrisI read a short story in the magazine of fantasy and science fiction in the past 8 or so years that deals with a lot of body modification. The main character had surgery at some point to add wings but they have started to rot. One of the characters we meet had a beehive living in their body as w...

 
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Q: Why do they have pilots in the Expanse?

BlinWhy do they have pilots in the expanse? Basically everything is automated on the ships. They don’t even have windows or anything for steering. Those ships are moving so quickly with such complex calculations it basically negates any reason for a pilot. Also, further to that, why did Amos always h...

 
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Q: A story where the female main character commits suicide in order to avoid torture but gets sent back in time

DevanorThe main character is accused of something (either attempted or successful murder), and she's sent to jail. She also believes her father either hates or is indifferent to her. Before entering the jail, her father gives her a dagger/short sword, but she doesn't understand why. While in jail, she b...

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Q: Dystopian short story read in US high school: boy and man travel through ancient ruins which are actually our modern-day civilisation

IreneGamineI can't remember if the boy and the man are father and son or perhaps teacher and student. I seem to remember that the boy is in training to be a kind of priest, and that this is why he is being shown these ancient relics. They walk among the artefacts of the 'ancient ones', seeing things like ta...

 
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Q: Satire of old lady laying flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier, Paris - what is this french short story?

NeStackIn a german textbook in high school we had a short story which's name and author I am looking for. I think the story was written between WWI and WWII or right after WWII. It is about an old lady laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris and her being emotional about it. Maybe the...

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Q: Who are all the characters who have called themselves The Wasp?

AncientSwordRageWho are all the characters who've used the super hero persona of 'The Wasp' in the 616 version of the comics? From what I can see on marvel.fandom.com, this was just Janet Van Dyne, and her step-daughter Nadia as well. But I know lots of people have used the alias Ant-Man, so it seemed likely to ...

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Q: Do the different personalities of Moon Knight have different religions in the comics?

codeczarMarc Spector is Jewish in comics as well as in the new TV series. But Moon Knight has different personalities due to DID. Is there any personality of Moon Knight who is not Jewish by religion in the comics?

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Q: Novel where the protagonist knows he will have his memory about a magical world erased and write everything down beforehand

charon25I recently remembered a story I read when I was younger about a boy discovering a magical world (maybe even situated in our own) but hiw memory gets erased because humans are not allowed to know about it. Knowing this, he writes everything down before and then rediscover his notes and remember (o...

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I'd really like to know why people harp on about throwaway framing language so much more than they do the meat of a post.
No I don't; I'm not expecting an answer. I just needed to vent. Thank you.
@Spencer "throwaway framing language" ?
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The way you say "this is the argument I'm about to make" rather than the argument itself.
@Spencer You're saying we should focus less on cleaning up "throwaway framing language"?
@Spencer They obviously did not have my grammar teacher. "Tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them."
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Q: If Irene is "valid", why does she have a risk of heart attack?

WingfootIrene is "valid", and "valid" people are to have perfectly healthy bodies. If she was conceived the same way Vincent's brother Anton and all "valid" people are, why does her body still have a "fault"? And since she cannot go to space, what occupation does she have at Gattaca? Despite saying she i...

@Null I'm saying I needed to vent. Mission accomplished.
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@Spencer I'm just not sure exactly what you're venting about.
@Null people who "harp on about throwaway framing language so much more than they do the meat of a post."
...arguing about phrasing more than they care about the main point...
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Q: School story involving a new computer, novel educational practices, and a secret society

Robert ColumbiaThis is a children's chapter book or possibly YA novel that I read in English in the USA around 1990. I read a few books of this general style, so I'm hoping that I am not conflating multiple books. The story takes place in an all-boys (boarding?) high school that is introducing a lot of cutting-...

@AncientSwordRage Is he venting about the people or harping? Is he fine with people editing out "throwaway framing language" as long as they (a) don't harp on it in comments and/or (b) also edit the "meat of a post"?
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@Null the people who do it initially?
I don't even know who has ever "harped on" about "throwaway framing language." I've certainly deleted "I'd really like to read it again" and similar peripheral commentary from questions, so perhaps I'm guilty of, or at least complicit in, part of what @Spencer is complaining about.
But I don't know of any regular editors who have posted negative feedback to posters about said commentary; it just gets removed. (And generally only when otherwise cleaning up the post, it's not something someone dives in to specifically do.)
@DavidW Yeah, I've done similar editing but I just do the edit -- I don't comment about it. I'm not sure if @Spencer is venting about the editing or the "harping".
Oh, and if I'm ever "doing it wrong" please ping me; I edit often enough that if I'm making mistakes it could cause a fair bit of damage.
@Null Likewise. I've never told anyone that they've done something wrong by including that in their question. Some people just write that way; some questions have even included sign-offs. We don't want to come across as harsh, judgmental or mean, we just want to streamline the question so there's a maximal amount of signal to noise.
 
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anyone seen a decent movie recently?
Watched the new Fantastic Beasts the other day, was alright
Nothing special but not terrible
@TheLethalCarrot I've decided not to watch those for ... reasons. I'm trying to find the best place to buy/rent/stream Spiderman Far from home
thats my next film to watch I think
FFH is good, then you've got No Way Home which is better
We got FFH free on Sky a couple weeks back
I might watch Dr Strange Multiverse of madness, but I'm afraid I'll need to have seen NWH, Wandavision, and Loki first :/
(based on the trailer alone)
@AncientSwordRage What is recent?
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@NapoleonWilson 3 months?
¯\_¯\_(ツ)(ツ)_/¯
Dune.
Barry Lyndon.
Mad Max: Fury Road.
I hear Dune is ok, and MM:FR is very good
Not quite correct. They're both very good.
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@AncientSwordRage You'll want to have seen NWH and WV, Loki shouldn't be overly necessary
@NapoleonWilson no, what I heard is what I heard, your opinion not withstanding ;)
Urgh! Now you need to watch those Disney-exlcusive TV shows to get the movies, too?
@TheLethalCarrot I was hoping not Loki (not that I'm avoiding it), but I wasn't sure
@NapoleonWilson only if you're a completionist ;)
@AncientSwordRage It's not an opinion. You either misheard or were lied to. ;-P
@NapoleonWilson I like how you think other peoples opinions are less valid than your own >;-{p}
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@NapoleonWilson Not really but WV is going to have some setup for DS2, you could probably get around it with a quick summary though
@AncientSwordRage Loki is really good imo
@TheLethalCarrot yeah absolutely
@AncientSwordRage That's how opinions work.
@TheLethalCarrot from what I've heard at least (not sure if I was lied to though...)
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@NapoleonWilson That's just like, your opinion, man.
That's the point, yes.
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Q: What narrative purpose does Ulysses Klaue serve in Black Panther?

AncientSwordRageFrom my memory of when I watched Black Panther (it's been a few months), Killmonger knows how to and is able to get into Wakanda by himself it seems. This answer says that he needs But that doesn't match my recollection - the rebellion is almost ready and Killmonger doesn't seem to need to gain ...

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Q: Does a complete image of Thor's pinboard exist?

AncientSwordRageIn the mockumentary Team Thor, Thor has a pinboard of various connections in the marvel universe, including this hilarious image of Where can I find a copy of the whole board, regardless of its cannonicity?

The original author to scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/262543/… rolled back all of the fixes. I muddled things slightly by redoing several fixes before realizing that it was the same question as before. Ought we to roll it back to the version before their rollback?
@FuzzyBoots I rolled it back. The previous editing was more complete.
How should we update given the new books in the same setting?
Worth a meta post?
 
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Q: Man finds tape player inside his chest and cuts the tape

PotatoCrispA very short story from an anthology. As usual read 79s/80s, in English. A man discovers he has some kind of tape player in his chest with a reel of tape. He fiddles with it, perhaps rewinding it and experiences the same few minutes again. Curious he tries cutting a bit out of the tape and splici...

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posted on April 28, 2022 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: What you really want to do is slip the surly bonds of Earth then post about it on instagram. Today's News:

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Q: Movie about meteor exuding liquid that zombifies people

PotatoCrispOld movie, low budget, in colour, could be TV movie. It was before the Sunny Delight craze (which reminded me of this) so 90s at the latest. A meteorite lands in America. It is found quickly and as it cools it exudes a thick creamy liquid, possibly pink. Some fool-hardy by-stander actually tastes...

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@TheLethalCarrot you're on a roll!
@AncientSwordRage I answered the first one whilst “walking” Stella i.e. stood around whilst she has sniffs
Needed to refresh on the BP one just to make sure I was remembering correctly cos I’ve only seen it once. I think I got it right :P
I want to do the Thor one but no way I’m looking into it on my phone haha
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@TheLethalCarrot not sure it needs another answer, but your welcome to have a go
Hmm? the Team Thor one? It’s not had an answer yet

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