The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Marvin

01:29

Q: Looking for manga name boy becomes appreciate blacksmith

5 or 8 year old boy becomes an apprentice blacksmith to his uncle and is able to use this technique that refines this really hard to work metal and his uncle has him turn it into two hammers that weight 300-500kgs then he moves to go to school and uses those hammers as weapons any ideas on the na...

manga

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Marvin

02:46

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Q: Why aren’t Ned Leeds and Peter Parker still friends?

Ned and Peter Parker were friends before the whole Spider-Man Incident. Then, during No Way Home, Why isn’t Ned still friends with Peter Parker?

marvel marvel-cinematic-universe character-motivation spider-man-no-way-home

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Napoleon Wilson

06:49

@DavidW I don't think so.

Mithical

All of these posts are at risk of their images being deleted on May 15th, 2023 due to an Imgur ToS change.

Babel fish

07:19

Q: Did Eliezer Yudkowsky read the original Harry Potter books?

This question has been asked on Reddit but without getting any properly sourced answer. Apparently there is a rumour on the internet that Eliezer Yudkowsky, author of the Harry Potter fan fiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, had never read J. K. Rowling's original Harry Potter ser...

j-k-rowling harry-potter eliezer-yudkowsky

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Marvin

08:22

Q: Short story about astronauts landing on planet and being mind controlled when falling asleep

As a child I read a SciFi short story where I think two astronauts (emergency?) landet on a planet and as soon as they fall asleep they are being controlled by the local (immaterial) species, so the protagonist fights to not falls asleep and the story ends with him finally surrendering, if I reme...

story-identification short-stories

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DavidW

13:13

@Mithical I left one of those links because it appears to be an attribution link to someone's imgur gallery. As I read the announcement from imgur, those aren't expected to go away.

Mithical

(thumbsup) attribution links are good

Marvin

13:57

Q: Would a Particle accelerator assisted fusion engine possible?

My understanding is that exhaust velocity is super important in calculating the efficiency of an engine. Mass ratio = e^(DeltaV/Exhaust Velocity) Therefore if you wanted a super efficient engine for constant acceleration/deceleration travel while minimizing the amount of fuel you need,increasing ...

hard-sci-fi

FuzzyBoots

14:40

@Mithical Well, that explains all of them popping up on the homepage. :-D

Mithical

Sorry, that's a side-effect of the process. :)

Mithical

15:04

Does someone want to write a meta post about it? I don't have time now, but if someone (@DavidW) wants to it might attract more people to help and / or allow bypassing the "flooding the homepage" guidelines

Marvin

15:15

Q: Was cortosis-weave introduced in 2000 or 2002?

While amending my answer to Why didn't the Clones use vibroblades to fight against lightsabers?, I came upon what seemed like an inconsistency in the Wookieepedia article for cortosis-weave. Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, released in 2002, is noted as the first appearance of cortosis-we...

star-wars star-wars-legends

DavidW

15:54

@Mithical Did I miss anything? Should I refactor it as separate question and answer? (Q: What do we do about... A: Here's how to...)

Actually, now that I think about it, should I rewrite it as a self-answered question instead of just a discussion post?

Slartibartfast

16:11

Q: Rehosting anonymous pictures hosted on Imgur because of Terms of Service changes

Imgur has published new Terms of Service to take effect on May 15th. Of specific note for us is: removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account Historically it was fairly easy to upload content to Imgur as an anonymous user and link to it from a post here. It's ...

discussion images

DavidW

@Randal'Thor Is that ^^ good, or should I fix it?

Cereal Bot

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mans

posted on April 21, 2023 by Zach Weinersmith

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Rand al'Thor

16:55

@DavidW I don't fully understand what's going on here, but that meta post seems fine.

But, if you want to propose a mass editing event for this that's not subject to the usual guidelines about flooding the front page, you should say so explicitly, either in a second meta post or in an answer to that one, and maybe ping a mod to feature it.

Is that necessary here? How many posts are we talking about?

DavidW

17:17

The query currently lists 152 affected posts, but I've done 3 of those and it's possible that Mith's changes aren't accounted for either. If we're talking 5/day for 2 people it's possible but a bit of a chore.

It's at least an order of magnitude smaller than the edit event you reference, but it would be nice to recruit at least a couple additional helpers.

It's also fair to warn the community that it's happening...

Rand al'Thor

Oh yes, definitely worth a meta post about this already, and thank you for writing one up.

I'm just trying to understand the scale of the problem and hence the scale of the required solution.

I guess bit by bit over the next month should be OK, if it's only 152 posts.

DavidW

That's what I figured; in a crunch I could likely do it myself without exceeding 5/15 unless traffic crashes, but I'd rather not have to.

Marvin

18:15

Q: Was Douglas Adams's 42 inspired by Robert Sheckley's Answerer?

Robert Sheckley's short story "Ask a Foolish Question" is about a sophisticated machine called Answerer which can answer any question but only those that are "valid", questions posed in terms that are suitable to lead to true answers. Queries like "what is life?" bounce off it uselessly, as it ca...

history-of inspiration the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy douglas-adams robert-sheckley

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Marvin

20:50

Q: Who is this female soldier?

The March of the Machine prerelease kit flyer depicts several famous but one unknown humanoid. I can't find her on any Battle card in Gatherer. Who is she?