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12:29 AM
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Q: Can the Others not simply cross the Bay of Ice when it freezes over?

G SnowI understand the wall is imbued with magic, that in addition to it's staggering size, prevent the Others from passing south, but that is not the only way to get south. I've also seen some discussion on whether or not the White Walkers or Wights can cross open water, swim, or sail in boats to go a...

 
 
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2:14 AM
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Q: Looking for a Bruce Wayne alias

KreannIn Batman Vol 2 23 a short story was included called "The pit" in which: At the age of 24, Bruce Wayne was training in Norway, involved in a death-match fight that had thus far lasted for 28 hours because he refused to kill. A character known as "the Queen" leads these warriors that have be...

 
2:34 AM
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Q: Is the villain from wonder woman related to this DC villain?

SidneyDr Poison's in Wonder Woman is revealed through the film to be Isabel Morrow. I hadn't heard of Dr. T O Morrow having any relations in other DC media, but the fact that they chose the same surname for two science based villains is rather interesting. Is there intended to be a connection here, or...

 
2:48 AM
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Q: What was this spy movie called?

naturalThere was a movie I watched a couple of years ago, I can not remember the name of it but I remember the following: There was middle aged man who had a watch with the ability to shoot darts from the side of it There was a scene where thes other recruits were sharing the same room as each other (...

 
 
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4:21 AM
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Q: Was Durin's Bane the last Balrog on Middle-earth?

LamphamI am interested to know, after the death of Durin's bane by Gandalf, were there any Balrogs left in Middle-earth, or was it the last Balrog?

 
4:49 AM
@Babelfish DUPE HAMMER TIME!
 
5:07 AM
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Q: SF short story - The annual(?) power station trip

jonrockA man hikes through an abandoned town to an industrial building. He sweats and slightly injures himself doing several tasks by hand that normally would require a forklift. He throws a switch and watches in accomplishment/marvel as the town has electricity again for 80+ seconds. This may be a pers...

 
 
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6:29 AM
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Q: Why does Denethor Lord of Gondor burn himself to death?

LamphamIn LOTR Return of the King, Denethor Steward of Gondor decides to burn himself, and his son Faramir to death. Watching the part in the movie again, and I'm still a teeny bit unclear why he kills himself just like that. He was a proud old man who loved Gondor very much, and I don't see how dying ...

 
7:04 AM
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Q: What is the backstory for these 2 men in the Hobbit?

LamphamThese 2 people give Thorin the staredown when he arrives at the Prancing pony. Who are these people? I didnt recall reading about them in the books.

 
7:36 AM
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Q: Looking for title of sci fi short story

ScotttobemeHere are things that you may need to know: I first read this in an anthology which was used for a college class ca. 1995. I remember that the cover was a picture of a starscape; nothing fancy, just a background of black with white stars. And the anthology title, too, was on there, I'm sure. T...

 
8:08 AM
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Q: Are there any Marvel/Avengers animated movies with the same adult themes and dark tones of Batman Year One or The Killing Joke?

Alex KinmanAll of the Marvel and Avengers themed animated movies seemed at best like children oriented stories (Planet Hulk) and at worst like very cheap direct to video films (the various "Heroes United" features). Are there any Marvel films of the same artistic caliber and adult tone of "Batman Year One...

 
8:22 AM
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Q: Why didn't a time wraith attack Eobard-Wells?

vs_292In the CW series, the Flash, the concept of time wraiths is a little confusing. (I know it's kinda late to ask since Season 3 just finished), but I was wondering, why didn't a time wraith attack Wells-Eobard? He stayed for 15 years in the 21'st century and was manipulating the timeline. Why didn'...

 
8:41 AM
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Q: Other than stabbing it with an enchanted, 1000-year-old, goblin-made sword, how else can I kill a Basilisk?

VoronwëSo today I found out that my best friend's sister got taken by a beast into a place called the Chamber of Secretions. I went down there together with my bestie to try and rescue her using only 2 magical wooden sticks (1 broken) and a hysterical teacher. Unfortunately, along the way I get sepa...

 
SQB
8:53 AM
Since not much reviewing is done on meta, can someone please review the tag excerpt I created there for ?
 
@SQB Nitpick - some feature requests can be handled by mods' intervention.
 
SQB
@Gallifreyan I think those should be tagged instead.
 
But support says for "help using a feature", not for requesting new ones.
 
SQB
Yes, so? If you want something done the mods can do, use . If you want something new that has to be done by CM's or programmers, use . If is broken, use . None of the above, it's a .
Personally, I'd like to see a fifth, mod-only .
That would be useful for featuring blog posts, for instance.
 
9:17 AM
that's not accurate. check the tag wikis on meta stack exchange.
discussion - Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If it's not a bug, feature-request or request for assistance, it is probably a discussion.
feature-request - Proposals of new features on the Stack Exchange network, or requests for a change to an existing feature.
support - A request for assistance with one of the site's features.
bug - Indicates a reproducible problem on the site that you believe is due to a mistake, malfunction, or programming error.
Bugs and feature requests can frequently be actioned by diamond mods or even the community. Support is a request for help or assistance, not specifically a request for mod action.
 
@SQB done.
 
SQB
@Voronwë thanks.
 
unless those are site-specific definitions/usages i guess 🤔
 
SQB
Bugs can sometimes be fixed by mod action, but that often does not fix the underlying problem.
Same goes for feature requests.
 
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Q: How did Walter and David resolve their conflict?

NrasYou should only read this question if you already saw the movie or are not afraid of spoilers. I cannot formulate this question without giving away crucial parts of the plot. In the a scene between Walter and David we see that We later know for a fact that The question that comes to my mi...

 
@Derpy is that supposed to be a spiky turd..?
 
9:59 AM
Pyrrharctia isabella (Isabella tiger moth) can be found in many cold regions, including the Arctic. The banded woolly bear larva emerges from the egg in the fall and overwinters in its caterpillar form, when it freezes solid. It survives being frozen by producing a cryoprotectant in its tissues. In the spring it thaws out and emerges to pupate. Once it emerges from its pupa as a moth it has only days to find a mate. In most temperate climates, caterpillars become moths within months of hatching, but in the Arctic the summer period for vegetative growth – and hence feeding – is so short that the...
@Voronwë Also a form of punishment. Every time the ones forget the daily floof, I will replace it with a daily bug.
 
 
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11:17 AM
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Q: Has there ever been a "light" weapon other than the lightsabre?

JimmeryHas there ever been a human-usable "light" weapon other than the lightsabre? For this question I am not interested in weapons that resemble swords, double ended or not. Ive seen plenty of them, and even if they are really cool... ...I was wondering if Kyber Crystals had ever been used to cre...

 
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Q: Harry Potter vs Star Wars wiki

user13267I'm sorry if this is off topic, but it's something I have been wondering about A lot of the times in the Star Wars questions, I see the Stars Wars wiki (wookiepedia I think it's called) being quoted as a reference, by both old and new users of the site, and nobody ever thinks twice about it ...

 
@M&TVFeeds The Death Star laser?
(assuming human-usable means "used and crafted by humans", not "weldable by an human")
 
11:42 AM
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Q: Has there ever been a "light" weapon other than the lightsabre?

JimmeryHas there ever been a human-usable "light" weapon other than the lightsabre? For this question I am not interested in weapons that resemble swords, double ended or not. Ive seen plenty of them, and even if they are really cool... ...I was wondering if Kyber Crystals had ever been used to cre...

 
 
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1:28 PM
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Q: Young Adult novel, young man fights with spear, becomes a gladiator at some point in a demon arena

IanI read it when I was younger, it involved a young man, possibly a teenager that fought using a spear, and at some point the world was taken over by demons, and he fought as a gladiator in an arena filled with demons.

 
1:42 PM
Ping @YvetteColomb - we need some floofs! :P
 
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Q: Rand and Mat coin tricks in TSR

fbenceIn The Shadow Rising, "Out of the Stone", when Mat decides to throw a coin to decide which Portal Stone symbol to use for Rhuidean, Rand already knows which side it fell to. Was this some use of the Power? In The Shadow Rising, "Rhuidean", Mat's coin falls in the end to the side which leaves Mat...

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Q: Permissions to enter Rhuidean

fbenceIn TSR, Beyond the Stone both Mat and Rand get leave to enter Rhuidean. It seems the Wise Ones were expecting Rand, but a) how did Rand know he needed to go there, b) how did he know of right (old, but right) words to say when asking for entrance? Mat also gets leave. Considering how Aiel are f...

 
2:19 PM
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Q: Voldemort’s mind connection with Harry’s

beriDumbledore teaches us that Voldemort closed his mind from Harry’s intrusion because he found the connection too dangerous. However, later this connection suddenly reappears. Why would Voldemort ever stop closing his mind, if not to seed Harry’s mind with false leads? Just because Rowling needed...

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Q: There was two DeLoreans at 1885?

riccs_0xOk, in November 12, 1955 Marty watched the leap to 1885 of Doc Brown (the lightning bolt), then immediately receives the letter from the Doc, and travels back to 1885 to save him. Marty arrives on September 2, 1885... the fuel tank is broken and hides the car inside the cave and all that. Then, s...

 
2:42 PM
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Q: Novel with aquatic aliens that block humans from seeing them

BuzzI am trying to remember a novel I read in the 1990s, although the book was probably much older. I don't really recall the main plot, but there was one incident that really stuck in my mind. The episode I remember had a human spacecraft contacting aliens on a planet they passed near. The buildi...

 
scifi.stackexchange.com/q/162050/4918 "could I just conjure a few giant mongooses to help me kill it" -- sure, but then what do you do with the giant mongoose afterwards? it's like that plan in the Slanisław Lem book, to defeat the dragon by creating a bigger dragon, then defeating that by an even bigger and more terrible dragon etc.
unless of course you can summon the giant mongoose in a way that you can control and dismiss it, but that's a more difficult maagical task.
 
@b_jonas 🎵There was an old lady who swallowed a fly🎵
 
Someone suggests polymorphing yourself to a rooster and then crowing. That might just work, or you might end up as a rooster statue, depending in how exactly this rooster plus basilisk interaction actually works.
I recommend doing the responsible thing: run away and call for help, let a professional deal with it. I know that's easier when you have mobile phone reception, but even without, calling a sane teacher (not Lockhart or Umbridge) should work.
 
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Q: Book - boy saves father by holding hand through transformations

NathanXI remember reading a fantasy book as a teenager (in the 80s, I think). In it, a boy had to save his father. All I can remember is that the dad was tied up between two posts...perhaps in a valley. To save his father, the boy had to hold his hand no matter what. His father turned into flame as ...

 
3:00 PM
Finished watching the Independence Day sequel last night. I'm glad I didn't pay $ to see it in the theater, but as a free movie on cable it's bearable. The FX are spectacular as expected, but the dialogue was awful (except for a few funny lines from Brent Spiner & Jeff Goldblum).
Plus couldn't figure out why the aliens are obsessed with attacking Earth rather than finding an uninhabited planet with a magma core they could mine for fuel. I think if we gathered a group of SE sci-fi posters together they could write a better script.
 
Mi Yodeya has released publications; we can write a movie! :P
 
Sci-fi question on Lit:
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Q: Did "Number Five" really act differently from his father?

Rand al'ThorIn the story The Fifth Head of Cerberus, the protagonist - whose real name is never mentioned, so I'll just call him "Number Five" as his father and aunt do - is essentially an experiment of his father's. Towards the end of the story he learns that he is The visiting Dr Marsch describes the ex...

 
@Mithrandir Ha, that would be fun to collaborate on a screenplay. Like open a new chat room where we throw ideas back & forth.
 
@RobertF and invite the Writers people too? ;)
 
@Mithrandir Hmm, don't know if professional writers are necessary or wanted if we're going to be spitting out screenplays for movies like Independence Day: Resurgence. :-)
I guess what bugged me about the ID sequel is the lack of plot complexity. For example, one of the aliens is disgruntled and joins the Earth resistance. Or perhaps some of the human characters have a secret agenda & are collaborating with the aliens.
 
3:14 PM
Gallifreyan has made a change to the feeds posted into this room
 
Added from Lit.
 
@Gallifreyan ... which has only one question so far.
 
Independence Day: Resurgence was really bad. I don't envy anyone who has to put that much thought into it.
 
(Although I'm planning to post at least one more.)
 
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Q: Girl finds new world in mere pool?

Carli__FI might be confusing two books here but I'm trying to find out the title of a novel I read when I was a child about a girl who found a new world by looking in (or falling in) a mere pool or pond? I can't remember the plot at all apart from that I'm fairly sure she had to save the world from somet...

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Q: What determines a lightsaber's length?

Magikarp MasterThe blade (for want of a better term) length does not appear to be standard. I remember an expanded universe story featuring a character using lightsaber with an incredibly long reach, and let us not forget Yoda's teeny tiny lightsaber. Is the length determined by the user, or does it's design ...

 
3:15 PM
I'm beginning to lean towards whoever-it-was's idea of manually curating the Lit feed in here. There are far too many sci-fi and fantasy authors to fit them into one feed.
 
@RobertF solution: have SFF users write a movie about SFF! See what comes out of it! ;) (my seriousness level will remain a mystery)
@Randal'Thor the same could be said about M&TV.
 
@Mithrandir True.
 
@Randal'Thor Can't we add two feeds?
 
@Gallifreyan Yes, but we'll outgrow two too.
 
@Randal'Thor You're a mathematician, you know what comes after two on the natural number line.
 
3:19 PM
Time to add Majikthise! ;)
 
@Gallifreyan 2+epsilon.
 
@Randal'Thor 2 + epsilon is a natural number?
 
O damn, the natural number line.
 
That's what I lose most of my exam points from <nod nod>
 
So I'm going to make a new one.
Particularly since all the entries are in the question.
Worldbuilding seems to edit the question with the newest post and then update the answer with the backlog
 
3:24 PM
 
@JackBNimble Agreed, that seems more sensible. With the backlog in an answer, it can easily become multiple answers in one thread once the character limit is reached, leaving the question free to focus on the "breaking news" of a new post.
 
I'm going to break answers down by year I think.
And then the current year will be the accepted answer.
 
Kind of like this?
 
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Q: Did "Number Five" really act differently from his father?

Rand al'ThorIn the story The Fifth Head of Cerberus, the protagonist - whose real name is never mentioned, so I'll just call him "Number Five" as his father and aunt do - is essentially an experiment of his father's. Towards the end of the story he learns that he is The visiting Dr Marsch describes the ex...

 
Hmm, I guess the downside of that is then the subsequent answers are not in order.
 
3:30 PM
@JackBNimble Just vote them really cleverly so they work.
 
People are insane downvoters in meta.
 
Inflation will take care of that ;-)
 
Or suggest people sort by active. The more recent will have been made more recently.
That is how worldbuilding sandbox works.
 
3:45 PM
@RobertF that not only are the aliens interested in earths core, they are systematically killing anyone that poses a threat. the fact that humans managed to blow up a mother ship shows they are capable of resistance, so retaliation is in order, and the easiest way to do that is to simply blow up the planet. plus the side plot of the other alien race that is leading the resistance being on earth.
 
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Q: Favorite Questions and Answers from second quarter of 2017

Jack B NimblePlease link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2017 through June 30 2017 (They don't have to be your questions and answers, but it also doesn't matter if you want to self promote your own stuff.). Your answers will be compiled into a blog po...

 
4:07 PM
@Edlothiad Rather than retreading the plot of the humans defeating the aliens, ID 2 should have started off with Earth getting destroyed by the aliens, and the survivors escape to the secret planet where the resistance is hiding out. The most interesting part of the film was the last 5 minutes where the writers dangled the possibility of humans joining other races to fight an interstellar war.
 
I dunno, not seen it. I'm just relaying what another user wished me to send to you
 
4:40 PM
@Randal'Thor That's similar to the problem of the Movies feed. I was thinking I should perhaps automate it by having an external program watch Movies, post the relevant ones to a web feed that is fed here, and allow people who have rep on Sci Fi to vote for which of Movies' tags are sci-fi or not.
But Lit isn't big, we can just post all the relevant questions here manually.
 
@b_jonas Trouble is, there are way too many sci-fi and fantasy tags on M&TV to fit in one feed.
There's some secret character limit on the length of a chatroom feed.
 
@Randal'Thor There's a character limit on ordinary searches as well.
 
@Randal'Thor Yes, that's why an external (not ran by SE) website should produce the feed. The big problem isn't the technical limitations, but whether there are enough people to maintain the list of tags that apply.
ok, so posting manually:
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Q: In which story does a child survive Hiroshima by diving in a pond?

d3vidI am trying to identify a story about a boy who survived the attack on Hiroshima. My clearest memory is the moment of impact: the boy happens to be outside the city and dives into a pond just before the bomb hits, and so survives the immediate effects of the blast. (1) After that my memory is ha...

^ this one is certainly sci fi
 
@b_jonas Not all at once, please :-P
 
hey, we've got an Anthony Horowitz question finally? literature.stackexchange.com/q/2758/139
Great
 
4:51 PM
Bleh, Anthony Horowitz.
 
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Q: Did Dumbledore knew that Snape is bullying Harry and Neville?

anakindchosenone05192005Snape is a triple agent. He sided with Dumbledore because Voldemort kill Lily, the only person who Snape loved and cared. Snape was a spy to the death eaters and giving information to Dumbledore. Why is that Snape is bullying always Harry and Neville, Since Snape has a sole reason to protect Har...

 
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Q: Latest Blog Post: Jack's Bad Movies

Jack B NimbleJack's Bad Movies: The Craft (1996) In which Jack says mean spirited things about teenage girls because he is a stupid adult male. Interested in contributing? Contact me (Jack B Nimble) or KutuluMike, or CreationEdge about getting setup. Some ideas for blog might be: Movie, book, or series r...

 
@Marvin @JackBNimble ping me if you want a tag on that (I didn't just add it right away because it looks like you're not finished yet).
 
@Randal'Thor you can feature it now
what looks incomplete about it?
 
Done.
@JackBNimble "Answers to this post will be a backlog of previous posts." and there are no answers yet.
 
4:59 PM
There is one
I'm working on it!!!
 
Oh, sorry. I must have loaded the page at just the wrong moment; refreshing did the trick.
 
"And we don't buck the controversial issues like 'Is Starship Troopers pro-facist?'" Um, ok, let's discuss My Little Pony FiM S7 E11, only not yet, because it's too recent, we should wait a few days before spoilers.
 
@b_jonas You should write something about MLP for the blog :-)
 
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Q: Can a fake rooster kill a Basilisk?

DVK-on-Ahch-To ... Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it. (Chamber of Secrets) Now, in Harry Potter world, there's real roosters; and then there's "fake" roosters (off the top of my head, at least tw...

 
@Babelfish uh... how the heck are we supposed to answer that? JKR doesn't publish rulebooks, and if any wizards have done the experiment, they won't tell us because of the statute of secrecy.
 
5:09 PM
@b_jonas Is there anything in FBaWtFT?
(dammit, how are you supposed to capitalise that?)
 
@Randal'Thor I can't be sure, I didn't like that book so I just returned it to the library without photographing any pages, but I don't think so. It probably just tells that Basilisks are too dangerous so we don't know much about them (which you should heed if it's coming from Newt Scamander).
 
@b_jonas haha, this would be pretty funny in a D&D rulebook situation.
 
@Randal'Thor No.
 
Your best bet might be to ask a shapechanger who is familiar with polymorph and shapechange rules.
 
@b_jonas yes, that panned out, that was funny
 
5:16 PM
It actually seemed like a reasonable proposal, because it's not very likely that the rooster has some magical ability that a plain Polymorph can't copy.
Do we have a question about whether I can protect myself from a sonic screwdriver by polymorphing myself to an ent?
Hmm wait, that might not work. What's the difficulty of the smallest ent there is?
ok, magiccards.info/lw/en/239.html is the smallest, that's small enough that you could Polymorph to it. ok.
 
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Q: Why Snape couldn't suspect that Moody is an Impostor?

anakindchosenone05192005In the Philosopher's Stone, Dumbledore suspected that Quirrell is up to something. Dumbledore ordered Snape to keep an eye on Quirrell. In the Goblet of Fire, Moody is the Defense against the Dark arts Teacher. But that Moody is just a disguised of Barty Crouch Jr. No one in Hogwarts suspects Moo...

 
6:06 PM
@Babelfish I think he means "didn't", and while the question seems valid I wonder if there's still a reason to close it
like, I could ask "why didn't Nearly Headless Nick suspect that Moody is an impostor?" and it would be on a similar level to this question
I could ask like fifty nearly-identical questions, and if one got closed then wouldn't they all have to be closed?
 
@DaaaahWhoosh There are many questions which are "mass-producible" without necessarily being bad questions in themselves.
 
@DaaaahWhoosh I think that they all should be left open -- if they can answer this question:
Why would he suspect him? — Bellerophon 46 mins ago
 
If someone spams the site with fifty near-identical questions, they'd be likely to get some form of slap on the finger, but each of those questions taken individually might still be perfectly fine.
 
I guess @Shokhet your explanation makes sense, as long as there is reason to believe the answer would be complex/useful, then the question is worthwhile
but in that case, this one should be closed?
 
@Randal'Thor What house was $character sorted into? What form is $character's patronus? What memory does $character revive when a Dementor attacks them? What does a Boggart show if they want to scare $character? What wand core and wood and length and flexibility does $character use? When was $character born? Does $character have a spouse? Relatives? What color is $character's eyes?
 
6:14 PM
@b_jonas I do think most of those are bad questions.
 
I have certainly posted some of these. (What house was fake Moody? How old is Mrs McGonagall?)
 
@DaaaahWhoosh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
@DaaaahWhoosh Under what close reason?
 
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Q: Lessons designed for the average man work extraordinarily well

studogThis is a short story I read a long time ago, almost certainly before 2000 and likely before 1990. I don't recall if it was in a magazine or in a book/anthology. It was probably published a decade or more before I read it, because technology is not present in anything beyond about mid-1970s lev...

 
@Shokhet The posting comments into chat feature worries me. I fear soon I may be replaced by my own comments posted in a random order into chat.
 
6:16 PM
@Randal'Thor well, I don't know, that's the other part of my question. On Skeptics, it wouldn't be a notable claim
or something like that
 
@DaaaahWhoosh Probably "unclear" or "primarily opinion based," if it is too be closed.
 
@Shokhet that does seem to be the current consensus. I went with 'unclear' because of word choice.
 
@Bellerophon Nobody could replace you. Not even you. :P
 
@DaaaahWhoosh We're not Skeptics, thank God :-)
There are a lot of very bad questions which still aren't worth closing.
 
@Randal'Thor so what you're saying is that I should downvote it
can do
 
6:19 PM
Then there's also "Why was $character sorted into the house JKR sorted her into? Why is she not a Ravenclaw instead?"
(I answered one of those.)
 
@b_jonas I had an issue with those, I think asking "why do people sometimes get sorted into houses that don't seem to fit" would be a great question that could get all of them closed as duplicates
 
@b_jonas That would be Hermione, right?
 
@Shokhet Or Gred and Forge.
 
She really should be a Ravenclaw. #HousePride
 
@Shokhet There are like ten such questions. I answered the one about Peter Pettigrew, because I think the OP underestimated him.
 
6:22 PM
In case anyone was interested...scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11058/75000
 
@DCOPTimDowd Oh, you're SonOfSam? I thought you were a newcomer here!
 
@Randal'Thor Nope! Same 'ol me!
 
Let you think I'm kidding: scifi.stackexchange.com/q/157221/4918 "Why do less-bright students end up in Slytherin?" scifi.stackexchange.com/q/107498/4918 "Why wasn't Snape sorted into Gryffindor?" scifi.stackexchange.com/q/54865/4918 Hermione scifi.stackexchange.com/q/107911/4918 "Why weren't Fred and George Weasley Placed in Ravenclaw?" scifi.stackexchange.com/q/139431/4918 "Why was Albus Severus sorted into Slytherin?" ...
 
there's got to be one about Luna
 
6:27 PM
@Gallifreyan Daily floof?
@b_jonas Wow.
 
@DCOPTimDowd Did you mean "Sam 'ol me"?
 
scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7514/4918 "Why Was Peter Pettigrew Sorted To Gryffindor?" scifi.stackexchange.com/q/59365/4918 "Why wasn’t Cedric Diggory sorted into Ravenclaw?" scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3710/4918 "Why was Neville Longbottom in Gryffindor?" scifi.stackexchange.com/q/97136/4918 Severus Snape duplicate scifi.stackexchange.com/q/100898/4918 "Why was Percy Weasley sorted into Gryffindor?" scifi.stackexchange.com/q/46672/4918 Lockhart
 
@Shokhet And so on, and so on. You see why we have over 4000 HP questions.
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@Shokhet No one will stop you from posting one :)
 
@Gallifreyan Lol
No, I meant to ask whether that image you posted was the daily floof.
 
6:29 PM
@Shokhet She's not floofy even by my standards.
But I could try...
 
scifi.stackexchange.com/q/81130/4918 about Harry Potter himself scifi.stackexchange.com/q/15009/4918 Slughorn (SERIOUSLY?)
And no, there isn't one yet about Luna as far as I know.
 
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Q: Human and alien stranded on a barren world. Initially enemies but come to respect each other

Magikarp MasterThe movie is about a human and an alien being stranded together on a barren world. They initially hate each other, but grow to respect each other. I remember the quote I need to look at a face. Even a face as oogly [how the alien pronounced ugly] as yours.

 
huh. Should there be?
she seems brave. She should be in Gryffindor.
 
@b_jonas I read a HP fanfic last year where Harry and Hermione were sorted into Slytherin. (That Harry was a very different character from Rowling's, though.)
 
6:31 PM
Is there a separate House for looinies? No? Ravenclaw it is.
 
(because I missed April Fool's)
 
@Gallifreyan No, that's Hufflepuff.
 
@Randal'Thor Oh, f*ck.
 
@Gallifreyan :-D
Also, does Capaldi's hair qualify him for floof status?
 
Damn, you natural number line.
@Randal'Thor Is it an image or a description? The former should qualify.
 
6:33 PM
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Q: Ravenclaw House - is it really a good place for eccentric people?

R. SkeeterThe Ravenclaw House's motto is: "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasue." (Rowena Ravenclaw) And from their welcome letter, it seems Ravenclaws associate eccentric behaviour with creativity and intellectual giftedness: "...Another cool thing about Ravenclaw is that our people are ...

I was wrong. @DaaaahWhoosh, you're right, there is one about Luna
 
@Gallifreyan I'm still proud of the image I made for my blog review:
 
It just wasn't tagged yet.
 
@Randal'Thor Wow! That's... hideous.
 
@Randal'Thor they must maintain a delicate hairstyle equilibrium. they can only have so much length and wildness between them.
 
@doppelgreener Exactly!
 
6:35 PM
@Randal'Thor Needs more unfitting fonts and out-of-place colours.
Reminds me of a panel from The Sandman.
 
@Gallifreyan Hey, I spent a long time choosing those fonts!
 
Very interesting theory on Hermione's (and, I suppose, anyone's) sorting into Gryffindor: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/63200/41144
 
scifi.stackexchange.com/a/158679/4918 "however she made a diadem to increase her intelligence even more" -- no way. I think the book specifically says the diadem of Ravenclaw gives a Wisdom bonus, not an Int bonus.
 
@Shokhet whoa. that actually does make a lot of sense
 
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Q: GitHub satanically messing with my README

MD XFMy GitHub repository has nothing but a readme in it. In this readme, locally I wrote this: Factoids: - There are about six different ways to do everything in Forked. - There are actually six different ways to enter loops. - There are six directionals and six I/O commands. - 666. ha. Emphas...

^ I like seeing that question while reading Good Omens.
 
6:43 PM
@Gallifreyan Formatting is messing up custom numbered lists? I've seen something like that in a totally different case.
 
@Gallifreyan Fortunately, no
 
@DCOPTimDowd A friend of mine made his username on his computer "Son of Sam" because it used to be his dad's computer, and his dad's name is Sam. (He was aware of the serial killer connection, however.)
 
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Q: Should the Legends tag be added to Star Wars questions before April 2014?

amflareGiven the answers received, if those question were asked today, they should be marked as star-wars-legends. So would it be worthwhile to have all the pre-decanonization questions marked as such? If so, this will likely be a job for an automated script from Stack Exchange, rather than a user task...

 
@Marvin I think this is a dupe, but I'll leave it to the SW experts.
 
6:59 PM
@Shokhet Looks like I'm the only one. :/
 
@DCOPTimDowd I'd never heard of this serial killer until today. Guess I'm not American enough.
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@DCOPTimDowd I probably wouldn't have been aware of it if one my teachers hadn't been slightly obsessed with serial killers.
@Randal'Thor And I'm American :P
 
@Shokhet That's an ... interesting obsession to have.
 
@Randal'Thor I know, right? He was a really cool teacher, though.
 
But then, I know someone who's slightly obsessed with crackpot scientists.
 
7:01 PM
@Marvin and here I thought that was Smokey posting. Pity.
 
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Q: Is John Simm version of Master returning to Doctor Who?

Metro BoominI just watched the Doctor Who episode 'Eaters of Light' and in the preview of the next episode it showed Missy dancing with the Doctor and John Simm smirking that classics evil smile. Is John Simm returning to replace Michelle Gomez as the new/old Master? I would love to see this happen since Jo...

 
@M&TVFeeds 1) future works. 2) yes, duh - don't you follow all the latest DW news? :-P
 
@Shokhet I had a friend growing up that was super obsessed with all of them. They turned out to be weird (surprising, I know). I never got into that stuff.
 
@DCOPTimDowd Yeah. Me neither.
 
@Shokhet If you're studying for academic purposes, I can understand. But to read about them for "fun"...I can't understand that.
 
7:12 PM
@DCOPTimDowd Right.
One of the psych professors in school does something or other in the nearby prison. I think it's forensic psychology, or it could just be clinical stuff; I'm not sure. Either way, he would be someone who should know stuff about that.
 
7:24 PM
@Randal'Thor Neil Gaiman has a short story about (sort of) trying to make a film about a serial killer named Manson (the film would be titled Sons of Man).
 
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Q: Should we rename the [star-wars] tag to [fairy-tale-rubbish]?

DVK-on-Ahch-ToIn honour of TFA release, I propose we rename the star-wars tag to fairy-tale-rubbish? Reference: What has been Alec Guinness's attitude toward Star Wars? We can keep star-wars as a synonym, to avoid confusing posters.

@b_jonas Why was X sorted into Y?
 
@SQB Oh, so that's why I just got a drive-by upvote on my Alec Guinness answer.
 
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Q: Why did the Boltons burn Winterfell?

conceptualinertiaAt the end of Season 2/beginning of Season 3, Ramsay Bolton and his men burn Winterfell after the Iron Born (other than Theon) run away. But why? If Roose Bolton was already planning his betrayal of the Starks, he knew he would be making a play for Winterfell so why burn his future castle? And ...

 
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@Randal'Thor not yet.
 
And another one.
Andres F's answer is pretty awesome too.
ROFL! That's just what I feel like saying to all the Star Wars fanatics on this site... — Rand al'Thor ♦ Dec 24 '15 at 10:22
Also, how am I still the only person to have upvoted Jack's big blog roundup on meta?
 
We have a blog?
 
8:12 PM
@Randal'Thor Fixed.
 
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Q: Do magical recordings exist at the wizarding world?

DarkPurpleShadowAt HPHBP: A Very Frosty Christmas, there is a scene where they have the radio put on. Celestina is singing this famous song "A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love", which Molly loves but Fleur Delacour hates. I was wondering if that was recorded, or if Celestina Warbeck is singing life. If it is r...

 
@Randal'Thor ^ That's what came to mind after your weird fonts and colours.
 
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Q: Looking for a post apocalyptic movie from 70's about survivors in a nuclear bunker

WalkerStalkI've been looking for a post apocalyptic nuclear war survival movie. I only remember a few bits and pieces, and hoping someone might be able to identify it. I believe it's set in Europe. Perhaps in Germany. Can't remember. Here's what I remember. Initially starts with 3-4 couples in a bunker As...

 
@Gallifreyan That cat looks like it's about to fall off.
 
cats often do
 
 
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Q: Cartoon about a boy and his friends capturing monsters

KristupsI'm trying to remember a cartoon where a boy and his few friends went around capturing monsters. When they captured one, they always put the monster in some sort of glass container. They had a collection and if I remember correctly, they would always give the monster to a scientist. That's all ...

 

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