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12:34 AM
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Q: The Risen Empire, by Scott Westerfeld. Was that series ever finished?

Italian PhilosopherI read book 1 and book 2. If I recall correctly, book 2 ended with the Navy Captain back on one of the imperial worlds, near his romantic interest, during some kind of big public celebration. Nothing really came to a conclusion. Had some really good ship-to-ship combat sequences, much more inv...

 
1:22 AM
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Q: Cayote and the roadrunner

Abraham RayWhich animated cartoons did the cayote even come close to catching the roadrunner? I know that he caught him once, but he didn’t know what to do afterwards.

 
 
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4:24 AM
@Jenayah @SQB Done.
@Marvin Needs better tagging.
 
4:49 AM
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Q: How did Garland initally travel backwards in time?

Jason_c_oAt the beginning of the game the Warriors of Light, Garland, and the Four Elemental Fiends are already caught well within the time loop. 2000 years before the Warriors of Light appear, Garland's hatred for the Warriors corrupts the elements and creates the Fiends. The Fiends are then sent forwar...

 
5:32 AM
@Randal'Thor thanks!
 
 
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8:11 AM
@Randal'Thor done.
@Marvin I've now tagged this and , but perhaps we want just one tag ?
 
1 tag sounds better
 
Aye
 
SQB
Done.
 
SQB
8:36 AM
@Randal'Thor thanks.
 
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8:59 AM
Get your POB close votes in: scifi.stackexchange.com/q/195759/19561
 
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Q: Another Sleeping Beauty remake?

Alex DownsAm I the only one who thinks Disney's Sleeping Beauty needs to have another remake in the future, with Prince Phillip's mother as the protagonist. She is the Ogress Queen Mother (I call her Queen Alexandra) and in Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, she tried to cook SB's children

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Q: How did Hermione get galleons?

GnudiffIt is implied in HP books that Hermione Granger is reasonably affluent, compared to eg. Ron Weasley. At the start of Prisoner of Azkhaban, she had 10 galleons left to spend after purchasing what was needed for school. Is it indicated anywhere in books, how she got any wizarding money at all, he...

 
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@Marvin VtC: POB.
 
9:17 AM
Answer accepted six years after the question was asked :D
Do we have statistics or SEDE on these figures?
 
Longest accept after question asked?
There's a "new answers to old questions" page but I don't think anything built in
 
Something around this phrasing yeah
 
Probably have to SEDE it, I think accept time is available
 
I'll check main meta
 
I usually google to try and find a query haha
 
9:27 AM
Hum
True
Google rank is better than Meta search
 
SE search is borked and poor
 
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9:55 AM
"begs the question" is:q tempted to s/begs/raises/g.
 
I hope you won't edit that change in everywhere, it was pointless the first time you did it
 
@SQB REST principles much? :P
Or did I not understand the joke
 
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@TheLethalCarrot don't worry, I'll leave it alone.
 
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Q: What actually happened during the silent coup at the Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?

Ken_To_2018In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it was said that on 1st August 1997, Voldemort and Death Eaters took over the Ministry of Magic, and killed Rufus Scrimgeour. What happened exactly on that day? Did the non-imperiused Ministry workers notice that Voldemort and the Death Eaters rushed int...

 
 
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11:12 AM
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Q: Could Harry have used the Elder Wand to undo the damage to Hogwarts after the Battle of Hogwarts?

FanofCometsCould Harry have used the Elder Wand to undo the damage to Hogwarts after the Battle of Hogwarts before he broke it in half and threw it away? Or in other words, would the Elder Wand have given Harry enough power to accomplish this task?

 
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11:57 AM
@Marvin not POB; voted to reopen.
 
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Q: In what way is the Elder Wand more powerful than a regular wand?

user13267The Elder Wand is more powerful than a regular wand, as we see Harry use it to repair his seemingly irreparable wand. We have also seen that every time the wand had been used in front of the readers in a dual, the wand didn't lose (Dumbledore vs Voldemort in the Ministry for Magic, Harry vs Vold...

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Q: The YOU'RE FIRED note?

Alex DownsIn BTTF 2, Marty gets fired for doing something illegal. In Part 3, Marty avoids the car crash and thus the words fade away. But my question is: Wouldn't it have faded away when Old Biff changed 1985? Think about it: Marty is sent to Switzerland in 1985A, so there's no way he could've worked fo...

 
12:15 PM
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Q: 80's Oriental Movie with violnet interrogation scene

DiegoI'd like to know the name of an 80's oriental movie that I watched probably between 1993-1995, but these movies usually were from the 80's. At least I consider it was an oriental movie (possibly chinese) since the most part of actors had oriental traces. It wasn't an horror movie, maybe a marti...

 
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@Marvin off topic.
 
@SQB I'm a bit torn to be honest because if it's indeed a Wu xian pa, moreover a 80s one, well they did tend to have SFF elements
It's mainly characters jumping way higher than any human could, nonhuman acrobatics and stuff but still
 
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Could very well be, but as described?
 
Bit clichéd but you get my point
 
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@Jenayah That's about the level of spy-fi, which we deem off topic.
 
12:28 PM
Granted, the Q doesn't feel very SFF
@SQB depends on which of course, but aye
Take a look at some though
They're funny :p
 
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Q: What was the name of the magical robot from Dr. Strange?

BroklyniteWhen my father was a teenager in the 60’s, he and his friends loved Dr. Strange more than any other comics. Then one day, Dr. Strange was attacked by some kind of magically powered robot. Issue after issue, Strange would try everything to defeat the robot but every one of his spells bounced off t...

 
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Hm. I tried searching for "martial arts" film "insect torture" but the results proved not very relevant yet very NSFW.
 
Results are tailored... just saying :P
 
SQB
Nope. Using a private window in a different browser makes no difference.
 
 
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1:50 PM
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Q: John Carpenter’s The thing

PaulmHow would John Carpenters- the thing fare against a Xenamorph would it be able to assimilate it knowing that the Xenomorph has acidic blood

 
Damn I'm browsing Strange Tales issues now and the 50-60's were really into weird villainous robots
 
My quick search didn't bring up many
Guessing they musn't have been major enough
 
they didn't all fight Strange though
John Doe the robot (relevant panel 1 and another)
From Strange Tales #18
the two Valorum mentioned
Voltorg (see my answer for pictures)
Mechano (Strange Tales #86)
 
Aye, not convinced it is the one in your answer though
 
that's a good bunch of robots ahah
To be honest, I'm not sure that is the one, because even if "robot breaks after falling over" and timeframe are right, Strange did manage to hold his own against the thing, and wasn't really cornered when the robot tripped. Still worth mentioning this issue, though! — Jenayah 23 mins ago
 
2:02 PM
I saw it
 
lol
wasn't my first line explicit enough :p
thanks for pointing out to the guy
Voltorr sounds better tho
to be honest it also wans't on page 2 or 3 but what I got on the internet was a scan from what looks like a reprint version, so that may come into play
 
Apparently not
Guess they only looked at the pictures
 
hey who doesn't want to watch a robot trip over
 
The robots family
 
true
 
2:12 PM
Poor kids will be so embarrassed
 
then again maybe his father is one of those fathers who embarass their kids at family meetings "lol, look at my kid falling over from the swing, ahahah"
oh it hit HNQ
 
Aye
High Q votes I think
 
lol
only SFF Q in HNQ right now
 
someone's got to keep the flame burnin' :D
 
2:15 PM
Daft question from holiday last week, we're on the marked spot on the map, car pulls up next to us.

"D'ya know where the sea is?"
"Yeah mate, it's there" points to the sea ten meters to our left haha
 
looool
They don't make tourists like they used to
 
Was great, ask a stupid question and all that
 
guess so
 
They were actually asking where to park... parking was here...
And even then they drove straight past it
 
Yeah these guys needed holiday rest for sure
 
3:09 PM
Are those lightning rods? Because it looks like he's about to bust out a wicked drum solo. — indextwo 12 mins ago
Ahahahahah
 
4:10 PM
 
@xkcd "that one friend who hates texting" ahahah
 
One of our daughters will call if you text her. The other will text if you call her.
Greetings, Earthlings.
 
@Donald.McLean Greetings, Hubble guy!
@Donald.McLean this reads like your daughters attempting to reach each other by phone will end in a time loop.
 
The extrovert knows not to call the introvert, so the timestream is safe from them.
 
See that, Flashes? That's how you avoid tearing up space-time continuum.
 
4:28 PM
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Q: Dystopian movie with thousands of vagrants in a barren flat outdoor

PalliserI remember myself watching in the mid-80s, on TV, a kind of dystopian movie in black and white. I know that there was sound but dialogue. Here are extracts of the only two scenes that I remember from it: There was a barren flat outdoor with thousands of vagrants, like hobos. The weather was ver...

 
@Marvin I dunno, that doesn't seem really SFF does it?
No climate change catastrophe, at least as I recall. I believe this movie belongs to the realm of fantasy by having these things (thousands of hobos jumping all together like in a rock concert) seemingly impossible or improbable. — Palliser 40 secs ago
 
5:00 PM
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Q: Anime about a pirate submarine on a flooded mars

TrishAround 5 to 10 Years ago I had seen an anime series that was set on Mars, which was flooded to create pretty much an ocean world. The main character - a stereotypical male teen ditz - was picked up by a pirate submarine close to the start and in the run of the show, this pirate submarine did go...

 
5:17 PM
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Q: Trying to recall a sci-fi book about elitists uploading their mind into computer to gain immortality

kalmiyaI vaguely remember reading this book in which there was an elitist group trying to gain immortality by uploading themselves into a computer(simulation). Each created their own world. Our hero somehow ends up in some of these worlds. Most are against him - but one of the elitists (I think with an ...

 
6:11 PM
@Jenayah What a cheesy monolog. Big bad guys should learn some more public speaking if they want to do such announcements themselves, or hire a herald who does it for them.
@TheLethalCarrot Meh, it can be easy to miss if you just drove five hundred kilometers with two whining little kids in your car.
 
@b_jonas man, I've been browsing 60s Strange Tales and Doctor Strange issues for some time today, and what you just end up feeling pity for the bad guys.
The cheesy monologs aren't their fault
 
@Jenayah Why? Is it the writers' fault?
 
Blame the writers... I will never trust again a 60s Doctor Strange writer stating they were not under mushroom influence when writing this stuff
Seriously
Who needs weed when you can read 60s Doctor Strange comic books
 
 
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7:20 PM
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Q: Does the magic potion provide invincibility or only superhuman strength?

user598527At least the early albums in the Asterix series don't directly tell if the potion gives invincibility in addition to superhuman strength and speed. My impression has been that only Obelix is immortal due to falling to a potion cauldron as a child (the potion's effect on him is permanent). I think...

 
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Q: Is there any possibility that Harry's wand was a horcrux?

DeepakmsI came upon this possibility due to Dumbledore's words: “I believe that your wand imbibed some of the power and qualities of Vildemort’s Wand that night, which is to say that it contained a little of Voldemort himself. So your wand recognized him when he pursued you, recognized a man who was bot...

 
8:02 PM
@Babelfish what's unclear about that? ._.
Also,
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Q: What to make of a bizarre interview

MisterDoenotLast week, I interviewed for a mid-level programmer position. It ended up being the strangest interview of my life. I won't name the company, but it was not a startup and was full of people who have been in the industry for a while. The first few questions were all negative, such as: What is ...

> Then they got just plain bizarre. I'm completely serious; I was asked: If Buzz Lightyear doesn't know he's a toy, why does he freeze when Andy enters the room?
They're not plain bizarre mate, they just wanna check if you're a SFF member :D
 
8:49 PM
@Jenayah that was creative, I liked it :D
 
@Gallifreyan to be honest I would have quoted this answer in reply, ahah
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A: Why doesn't Buzz reveal to Andy that he is alive?

RacsoA possibility is that he was following some space ranger directive. In Toy Story 2, the "Utility Belt Buzz" says the following to Buzz after catching him trying to steal the belt: New Buzz: "You're in direct violation of Code 6404.5 stating all space rangers are to be in hyper-sleep until awa...

 
I meant the prepa story
 
And depending on the reaction of the interviewer, I may have dropped SFF's name ahah
 
oh!
Yeah, it was a good blast of fun :D
 
9:17 PM
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Q: What languages are present in this text?

CBredlowI was working through a test and saw an image with some familiar gibberish in it. At first glance, it looks like Aurebesh, the language from Star Wars, but some of the characters don't line up, and a couple look like they're flipped around. Is there another character set being used here, or i...

 
that one might be off topic
 
@CBredlow I'd say no, with regard to:
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Q: Does anyone know what this fantasy script is from?

James Mccoon My friend keeps on writing it, yet he won't tell me where it's from. He says the third line from the top says : "for what reason."

 
mkay
 
just my opinion though :)
lol
took me a good minute to realize you were the asker :D
(I hide the feed's posts so I didn't see the double avatar ahah)
 
 
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10:53 PM
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Q: Was the pain box from Dune the inspiration for the pain box in Phantasm?

BroklyniteIn both Dune and Phantasm, a character must stick their hand into a box where they suffer searing agony which only releases them once they have accepted the pain and faced their fears. Is there any evidence (interviews, behind the scenes, whatever) where Don Coscarelli addresses this? Alternatel...

 

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