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12:10 AM
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Q: A movie with jumping into another world

BLASTERSA movie where a group of people people teleports to a deserted place through a machine thats like the shape of a ring. They enter from one side of the machine and it takes them like they're going through the space and just jumps out to a deserted place. They they find people with some creatures a...

 
 
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3:03 AM
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Q: Looking for an episode

Marlene Silvahas anyone seen the episode of farscape where Rygel goes back to his planet with Chiana and Ka Jothee? I can´t find it anywere.

 
3:19 AM
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Q: How did Dennis Creevey get into Hogsmeade?

AlexIn Goblet of Fire Chapter 12 we see that Dennis Creevey starts at Hogwarts that year: “Hiya, Harry!” It was Colin Creevey, a third year to whom Harry was something of a hero. “Hi, Colin,” said Harry warily. “Harry, guess what? Guess what, Harry? My brother’s starting! My ...

 
 
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4:42 AM
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Q: Is there any indications that beat-'em-up video game elements were inspired by the 1979 film The Warriors?

BuzzI recently found out that the 1979 film The Warriors (which, while not a really great film, has had an enduring cult following) had a beat-'em-up video game based on it. In retrospect, the existence of the game (released in 2005, the same year as a new "Ultimate Director's Cut" came out on DVD) ...

 
4:57 AM
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Q: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (book 6) - Rufus Scrimgeour & Dolores Umbridge

Ken_To_2018At the end of book 5, Umbridge was exposed to be the one who sent Dementors after Harry Potter, and she attempted to perform the Cruciatus curse on Harry Potter!!!! In book 6, Rufus Scrimgeour took over as the Minister for Magic, but why didn't he remove Umbridge from the Ministry in the first pl...

 
 
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7:20 AM
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Q: Hello hello hello hello

LosserWell I was trying to fix my hello hello hello hello, but it blue up. How do I fix it? Thanks for helping. Also could someone pick up my McDonalds? Order number is “1399”.

 
How do you separate quotes that have nothing between them?
 
@Alex Put <!--> in between
@Marvin this can probably be flagged as rude/abusive
 
@Mithrandir Thanks!
 
np
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8:17 AM
@Jenayah blacklisted by Smokey != blacklisted by the system
 
@Mithrandir oh, okay.
How do those differ?
(if the info is revealable)
 
Smokey blacklists a user after any of their posts have been marked as spam by Charcoal. Getting completely blocked by the system is a lot harder (and that's info that's non-revealable).
 
@Mithrandir okep
 
8:34 AM
@Jenayah If you want to see the shout-out to you, check the reason in the edit history.
 
@Alex aye don't worry
 
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Q: Is the film 'A Quiet Place' based on the book 'The Silence'?

Danny3414The blurb for A Quiet Place immediately made think of the book 'The Silence' by Tim Leebon (which I read last month) They're both about blind creatures that hunt by noise and a family who have a deaf kid so they are able to communicate using sign language. Is the film based on that book?

 
 
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9:57 AM
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Q: Harry Potter Series - Jinx on Defence Against the Dark Arts

Ken_To_2018In the entire series, it was rumored that there is a jinx on the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, which leads to the fact that, no wizards can hold that post for more than 1 year. This curse was cast by Lord Voldemort. If Dumbledore knew the existence of this curse, why didn't he ...

 
@Marvin dupe
 
SQB
10:17 AM
@Alex &nbsp; on a line by itself, wrapped with empty lines.
 
10:29 AM
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Q: Looking for a harry potter story were harry figure out his magic and runs away as a child

ThirzaAI can't remember a definite year for when I read it ,or when it was published, other then that it was three years back or so but less then eight years ago. I originally found the story on fanfiction.net. In the story harry discovers he can do magic, learns to fly based off of peter pan as well...

 
 
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12:05 PM
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Q: Diablo 1 characters' full names

SovereignSunDid Blizzard ever reveal full names of Tristram inhabitants from the first Diablo? I mean we had Pepin, Griswold, Gillian, Farnham, Ardia, Wirt, and Ogden full names of which I can't find. Only Deckard Cain seems to have a full name, although I'm unsure if he has a surname, I can't find informa...

 
12:17 PM
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@Jenayah Sunday's a fairly slow day on SE
 
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Q: Time span in Lord of Light by Zelazny - age of Yama

dcn2005Re-reading Lord of Light, I'm a bit confused by the timeline. To be exact, by this remark which ruins my previous idea of the colonization time span: Hear me, country cousin," said Jan. "Do you remember a snot-nosed brat of dubious parentage, third generation, named Yama? But we do know from th...

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Q: Need help finding a Sci fi movie I once watched

TrueAround 6 year ago, I watched a sci fi movie that I would like to watch again.. But.. Sadly I do not have much to go on.. All I can remember is there was this group of high intelligent humans (possible living in space) that looked after and breed humans to extend their own life.. I can remember...

 
@Mithrandir no but I mean, I thought Smokey would auto-flag 5 flags there or something?
Leaving the rest to one or two users
 
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@Marvin man, that's a novel I don't reread enough. And I've reread it a couple of times now.
 
@Jenayah cast 3 autoflags
 
12:37 PM
@Mithrandir ah, my bad
 
SQB
So, @Mithrandir, @Jenayah what are you reading these days?
 
in The Reading Room, 14 hours ago, by Mithrandir
Finished The Book Thief (Markus Zusak).
in The Reading Room, 14 hours ago, by Mithrandir
Currently reading: "Stories and Satires": A collection of 19 stories and a single-act play, by author Sholom Aleichem, translated from Yiddish to English.
 
SQB
Is that the author of Tevye?
 
I think so, yes.
 
SQB
(checks)
Yes.
That's still on my to-read list. I have it somewhere.
 
12:44 PM
@SQB an horror story. Not very long (about 10 pages), but it's so disturbing you just can't read them in one go and process the information. The brain just won't focus because of the atrocities described :( seriously, the guys who wrote this are wicked as hell.
 
SQB
I picked up The Rhesus Chart, the xth book of The Laundry Files.
 
It's called Guidelines to write your internship report.
 
Googles
 
SQB
Hahahaha!
 
How's the report going? ;)
 
12:46 PM
It comes and goes...
Well, mainly it goes (away)
 
SQB
Will it include a chapter "Notes on my Roommates"?
 
@SQB I'm not sure. As I understand it, drawings and pictures are encouraged to back up your point, but the ones I would include there could get me expelled.
And in a psychiatric hospital.
 
ouch, heh
A large part of my day so far has consisted of listening to a bunch of these over and over, which was pretty epic: licensing.jamendo.com/en/catalog/…
 
SQB
> Delft, September 2018 — The mutilated bodies of two women have been found in a student's apartment. The whereabouts of the third occupant, a French woman, are unknown. Authorities fear for her life as well.
Something like that?
 
@SQB eight women, in a house, but yeah.
 
SQB
12:57 PM
(Hey, horror is on topic, right?)
 
@SQB SFF horror yeah, but I think psychological horror stuff was debated on Meta
 
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Q: Do we want Smoke Detector to auto flag spam?

TheLethalCarrot TL;DR: there's a system called "Smoke Detector" that has been automatically flagging spam here for the past year. You can view a list of posts that have been flagged by clicking this text (warning: some vulgar / offensive content if you click through to the flagged posts in that list.) Right n...

 
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@Jenayah true. So summon a lesser demon to do the work for you.
Then it is on topic.
 
@SQB do we have a policy on whether cats are demons?
 
@Jenayah read "Cat in Glass" and there'll be no doubt
 
SQB
1:07 PM
Cats are aliens.
 
(I have that one in an issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction somewhere.)
 
SQB
Reminds me of a Laundry Files novella, Equoid. The idea is that unicorns do exist, but are sexually dimorphic — the females look like large horses, the males look like snails with a pointy shell. The males attach to the female, forming a unicorn.
 
I don't see how they'd be similar, but okay :P
 
SQB
Hm. Need to reread as well, something occurred to me.
AFK, DIY.
 
 
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2:26 PM
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Q: Is Dumbledore still on par with Voldemort after wounding his hand by the curse in Marvolo Gaunt's Ring before the start of book 6?

Ken_To_2018In book 6, Dumbledore wounded his hand by the curse on Marvolo Gaunt's Ring. Does this suggest that the curse slightly diminish Dumbledore's power, and Dumbledore is now weaker than Voldemort, so this prompted Rufus Scrimgeour to place more aurors around Hogwarts to guard the campus?

 
2:59 PM
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Q: Would it be illegal (maybe fraud) for a musician to fake their own death?

Corvo AttanoI heard about someone who had to do with recording a Jerry Garcia solo album but he died right before it came out and this guy made TONS of money off of it. The Beatles also got a lot of attention when some paranoid guy decided Paul was dead. So my question is: would it be legal for someone to fa...

 
@CorvoAttano that tok me so off-guard, I don't even have a snarky quip to throw :p
 
3:28 PM
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Q: Is Thor indestructible (MU films)?

SeamusthedogIn Thor:Ragnarok especially, Thor has a monumental battle in the arena with the Hulk receiving not physical damage (ok he got knocked out but didn't even get a black eye) yet in his fight with Hela he looses an eye and get stabbed in the back a few times. Does he receive this damage because he is...

 
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3:57 PM
Just stopping by to check if @Jenayah's roommates are still alive.
 
@SQB you really wanna know? You know that could make you an accomplice, right? :p
 
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4:22 PM
Good point.
 
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4:47 PM
@Marvin like that Robert Palmer song, "Simply Indestructible".
 
 
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6:21 PM
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Q: Movie/series about people fighting off a fake human to protect a pregnant woman

ClockworkI'm not totally sure if this one was a movie or a series, though I think there's more chance of the former than the latter. By the sound of it, it looks more like a TV movie than a theatrical film. I probably saw this on the TV at least 11 years ago, and I probably arrived in the middle of the ...

 
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7:02 PM
Oglaf surprisingly SFW.
 
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Q: What was the title of this scary tv series

Johnas a child I saw bits and pieces of a tv series that absolutely scared me. It was shown on Dutch television in the 80’s, English or US series, and i’m curious to know the title. I can’t tell what is was actually about. A light spot would move around the floors, go underneath doors and you know ev...

 
Hi every one, Im looking for a batmat animation where batman look like a granny fighting a russian lady in a liqor store. But I struggle to find enought deftail to make it a story indentification..
 
7:23 PM
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Q: What was the Order of the Phoenix's first headquarters?

user103390We know that Number 12, Grimmauld Place was the Order's HQ during the 5th and 6th books. Then it was moved to the Burrow. But what was their first headquarters? My only guess is the home of an Order member. The definitive guide to the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledore’s Army from Pottermore wil...

 
@DragandDrop like, an official animation? The 90s cartoon or stuff, or seemingly fanmade?
 
2000+ animation
The russian girl is the classic caricature, Short air muscular
And The granny got a frog like skin
 
@DragandDrop Justice League episode maybe?
 
Na movie at least 45min 1h
The voice is clearly batman voice, so in my head it's somekind of 80year old batgranny
 
@DragandDrop doesn't ring too much of a bell but there are the Batman Unlimited which I didn't watch
 
7:32 PM
@Jenayah, the russian girl look like mother russia from kick ass 2
Im page 23 of google video I won't stop before finding it ...
 
@DragandDrop maybe Google images would yield more results...
 
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@DragandDrop why not ask on the main site? Or have you already done that?
 
27 mins ago, by Drag and Drop
Hi every one, Im looking for a batmat animation where batman look like a granny fighting a russian lady in a liqor store. But I struggle to find enought deftail to make it a story indentification..
 
SQB
Ah. Just give it a shot.
I've seen questions with less details answered, @DragandDrop.
 
The more I think about the more confusing it get.
 
7:42 PM
@DragandDrop To be honest, Batman beating up a grandma is already confusing to begin with :p
 
batman is the granma
 
@DragandDrop holy - that's even more confusing
 
thats the confusing point in my head. because from hte voide I clearly label the granny as batman.
found the girl she was no russian but swastikas comicvine.gamespot.com/bruno/4005-77120
 
@DragandDrop well, she looks lovely oO
 
7:50 PM
@DragandDrop oooh, that's the part two then
Aye only saw part 1 of this one
 
I guess we are both going to watch it tonight .. My place or your place? I got pop corn ..
 
@DragandDrop ahah
Man, the Wifi is waaay too bad for me to watch a movie these days
 
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Q: Scifi novel about two battling AI's, where one is trying to protect humanity and the second one is trying to destroy it

rofrffThe main idea was about some intelligent missile system which gone out of control. It started the war against humanity and then was defeated (or not?) by another system of that kind. I know that Marvin Minsky recommended this book, but I was unable to found a talk/interview where he mentioned it...

 
8:10 PM
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Q: Help identifying a vampire series

ViolentLavenderI need help remembering the title to a vampire book series I read back in the early 2000s. The details I can remember include twin sisters and at least one of them gets turned into a vampire. There was a scene where one of them was craving blood and ate raw meat. I think they were high schoolers ...

 
8:40 PM
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Q: Opposition to the Empire not related to the Rebel Alliance?

BooleanDuring the years prior to the Battle of Yavin (the early rebellion) there were a number of different groups that opposed the Empire. Many of these said groups would eventually join together to become the Rebel Alliance (and to a lesser, more ideologically extreme degree, the Partisans.) But while...

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Q: Filius Flitwick image on YouTube video

Alex DownsThe YouTuber, Jake Rutigliano, has uploaded voice clips of the first 3 Harry Potter video games. But my problem is this: With the Professor Flitwick voice clips from the Prisoner of Azkaban video game, he uploaded the picture of the young Flitwick. When they were doing the actual film, the young...

 
9:13 PM
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Q: Agents dodging bullets in the Matrix

SeamusthedogIn the Matrix, especially the scene on the rooftop in part 1, when Neo is shooting at the agent who is dodging Neos shots using the 'bullet time' move the agent is only moving from the waist down. Why not shoot the agent in the legs also, what happens when you shoot an agent?

 
SQB
> "Und ich bin Ilsa."
 
‘Incredibles 2’ crosses $600M domestically, becoming the first animated film to reach that mark 💰 (via @forbes) https://t.co/md6Bbii0dA
 
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@Mithrandir incredible.
@Marvin "dance, greenhorn!"
 
9:28 PM
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Q: Story identification Anime with birds and a vibrating building

Ponder StibbonsI watched this as an animated cartoon. I assume from my memory of the style that it was Japanese Anime. The story follows a small group of security personnel dealing at first with the problem of industrial robots going berserk and smashing down a line of buildings in the city. The world of the st...

 
10:17 PM
@Randal'Thor: What was this dance discussion I missed? Sorry - long story, but usually I check back regularly and should hear pings, but I'm also not at the computer as much as I used to be.
 
10:30 PM
@SQB @Jenayah In case you're still interested in minor differences between Artemis Fowl editions, I added a couple more to my answer.
 
@Alex I'll check that out later. Right now there's an unexplained Wifi spke, which means it's binge-watching time o/
 
10:52 PM
@Tango Napoleon and Jenayah were talking a bit about samba, starting here:
Aug 22 at 12:20, by Jenayah
Nocontext at work: coming back after fetching a chocolate and hearing the other guy saying on the phone "Yeah, I do Samba now, I think it's great because it's much faster that what I was doing before."
 
11:05 PM
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Q: Identify Book: Phalanx trying to steal gyroscopes?

voidUpdateI think I read this teenage book around 2010/12, and I dont have a huge amount to go on. The main bad guys, the Phalanx (might be spelled slightly differently) are trying to get the main macguffins, some sort of gyroscope contraptions that possibly generate power. I seem to remember small secti...

 
@Mithrandir But for the one I pinged you about, the post on SFF was deleted almost immediately after Smokey's report, and yet the report remained. Need to check that auto-deletion code.
 
11:19 PM
KutuluMike's gofundme campaign received a couple of updates. It looks like he got his lung transplant and is beginning rehabilitation. :)
 
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Q: Trying to find name of old scifi anthology

Russ FoxIts something I read back in junior high, 20 years ago or so, cover had this yellow spaceship zooming over a planet on it. The only bit I can remember is some story dealing with the winding down of 'life', I guess, and the one part about a spider that could see in the gamma spectrum and spun fibe...

 
This site was eighth network-wide in most Hot Network Questions over the last month:
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A: Which sites appear most often in the Hot Network Questions list?

GlorfindelI've conducted a small experiment with the Hot Network Questions list from 2018-08-04 to today (2018-09-02), so about one month worth of data. Stack Exchange itself does not keep any statistics about this, so this is about as good as we can get it. The data has been collected into a PostgreSQL da...

 
Who is KutuluMike @doppelgreener
He a big user of SE?
 
@CorvoAttano Of SFF.SE, yes. He's got about 90,000 rep here.
 
Great he got a lung transplant!
 
11:32 PM
Yeah. :D
 
How can I do code formatting on SE (in comments and chat and that sort of thing) on my phone (in a browser)? I can’t figure out if there’s a way to type those things
 
@CorvoAttano backticks in comments and chat
four spaces in front of each line of main
example
 
@Randal'Thor I've done some samba, but it's not one of the ones I need to know for American Nine Dance titles, so I don't do it much. It's hard enough to keep in practice for the 9 dances I need to know for that, so I don't get much time for other dances.
 
@Tango Ah OK. You just sprang to mind when Latin American dances were being discussed in here :-)
 

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