And for the anecdote I already went to the resizing process since the original was even larger ahah
oh I thought those were handled the same way
wait didn't Valorum report a problem with imgur some time ago?
lemme check
Nevermind it was Kevin:
@ThePopMachine: Comparing against the grainy blown-up image that I can now actually see, I don't see any obvious differences compared to Valorum's link. Maybe the cup is a bit shallower? But it's hard to tell with her thumb covering it. — Kevin10 hours ago
I am very displeased with a certain ops team at the moment. Biting my tongue and hoping they're just having a colossally bad day. The number of mistakes and outages I'm informing them of is getting ridiculous for one day.
So @lephe if you wanted the complete story of the story-id, and some Google tweaks at the same time
I think my first query was roman prison labyrinthe cube
Google algorithms and popular trends showed a lot of Maze Runner results, unsurprizingly
so to be sure not to get them Maze Runner I excluded the author's name with -dashner
this way I don't even have to bother with French translation or original English when excluding results, all Maze Runner pages likely containing the author's name somewhere
Then I just removed cube from the query, without totally excluding it: this way the movie doesn't show up, but the pages containing the word cube aren't excluded
so you know you can get wrist out of the query (without excluding it) because it's likely that every content will be related to said tattoo
that's when the cube makes his big return
so we have incarceron cube which doesn't display much more info on the front page
then the story-ID tweak for books is that Goodreads is full of reviews which disclose the content of a lot of books
So you limit to goodreads with incarceron cube site:goodreads.com
First and second results are the books' pages on Goodreads, third one is someone's review which mention how the prison is contained in a pocket watch
And there you have it ;D
(yeah 'cause the asker sometimes remembers things a bit wrong - not a problem of course -, so some of your keywords, wrist here, wouldn't have showed up the right stuff... But an easy hunt is not fun :) )
Wow, not bad. Let me review my opinion about the power of search engines... there. :)
Well, I thought that was the risk : one the one hand you have to give as many details as possible, on the other hand, getting something wrong is clearly misleading so... :x
@lephe hehe and now if I want to show off a bit I'd tell you that once you got the ropes, you can do that in ~5-10 minutes... :) (20 minutes between your asking of the question, my comment for the guide, my searching, my finding, my phrasing of an answer and posting it, though the review quoted came later)
But that's showing off :p
@lephe agreed with TLC, give as much as you can
The people searching for the book will sort out what's relevant or not
@Jenayah : Well you did find it in that short time so that's deserved ^^
Now I'm pretty used to doing this in programming tasks, browsing documentation and the likes, but there are a lot more "unambiguous keywords" like that "ffreestanding" I mentioned, so it's certainly easier to find.
Like, I'm third on this ranking but that's only because I posted 4-5 Harry Potter answers (so more visible) and got a bounty for an answer I posted in April/May (bounty courtesy of TLC by the way :p ), but I wouldn't say I contribute as much as other users
You can VTD answers, and vote to undelete them, and edit tag wikis unilaterally. You can VTD questions that have a score of -3 or lower as soon as they are closed.
@randal'thor : 10k is when you get instant healing, x-ray vision, and the ability to see 15 seconds into the future. 20k, you get improved stamina, and 25k you get a Starbucks gift card.
The posts also show up on search engines, for certain communities (eg. computing, but not only) it's pretty easy to find answers dating back several years.
I'm just curious as to how people found out about this site, so I'm running a bit of a survey here. Basically, if someone has provided an answer to the titular question already, upvote it. Otherwise, post your own answer! After about a month or two (providing I remember), I'll update this ques...
@b_jonas ok I'll be honest, it was actually a Worldbuilding question, which made me think "my, the sites on this network are great. Wonder if there's another which would be like that?"
When I saw this other question about one somewhat illogical aspect of spellbooks in JRPG games I remembered another somewhat illogical aspect about JRPG spellbooks:
How would it make sense that spellbooks or grimoires teach only one spell?
How can it be made logical that each spellbook only teac...
I just started to search for a series of books I read about 10 years ago. I read it in French, but don't know if it was from a French author.
It tells the story of a girl (and probably her friend, not sure if it's this story or another one) who can magically make things become real just by think...
There was scifi.stackexchange.com/a/96703/4918 when I thought I knew what story the person was thinking of, but nope. It matched all too well to his question.
@lephe damn so I provide a Star Wars example even if I'm not a fan either, just 'cause I think it'll flow more easily or something, and I provide it right to another fellow non-Star Wars fan. I guess not all Padawans learn xD
Seriously, newbies keep asking story-id for "Profession" and "The last question" like ALL the time. You'd think if you want to answer story-id questions, it's worth to read some of the other Asimov books too, because lots of people read them.
Heck, you can even get by if you read the short summaries in asimovreviews.net which I link most of the time when I answer anything about Asimov.
In scifi.stackexchange.com/a/40131/4918 , another Asimov, I was the FGITW, but the OP reasonably awarded the check mark to the answer that was posted a few minutes later and gives more details.
Hmm. Should I edit scifi.stackexchange.com/a/40132/4918 ? Foundation and Earth isn't really where Daneel's involvement is first revealed. That's Prelude to Foundation.
@Jenayah I can never know whether you'd like it, but I deem it fantastic. Bartimaeus POVs have frequent ironical footnotes where it brags about being 3000 years old and explains djinn slang terms. Not too serious but really entertaining. :')
I just assumed Asimov wrote the good books before the bad ones, which is generally true, but in this case Forward the Foundation is the best one and he needed all his life's experience to write that, not writing practice.
The way I see it is people spend far too much time and energy trying to hide from a fictional work, when 99% of spoilers don’t affect any enjoyment of the film as you have no idea how that spoiler comes to be. If anything, it keeps you more on edge, in anticipation, and forces you to be far more observant.
When it affects the quality of titles on the site and causes users (and moderators) to be rude because they read something about their “favourite” fake story, it becomes a problem, and I struggle to be supportive of “to each their own” but we have another 8 months at least till game of thrones comes back so I guess I’ll agree to disagree till then.
@TheLethalCarrot effect is a cause, affect is a result. Or something like that..? Where’s the guy who likes to tell everyone how pendatic he is when you need him, he’ll tell you!
@Edlothiad Yeah to be honest I have the stance of "tough luck", we aren't going to make our site lower in quality just cos one person doesn't want to know that character A is in film B
Also, France seems to have a number of big cities with sparsely populated country in between. It makes sense to have high-speed connections between those cities, then.
The Netherlands have a different population distribution.
I'm just curious as to how people found out about this site, so I'm running a bit of a survey here. Basically, if someone has provided an answer to the titular question already, upvote it. Otherwise, post your own answer! After about a month or two (providing I remember), I'll update this ques...
