You've only asked three Harry Potter questions. So we don't have that much to go on.
Oh, so that definitely reinforces my theory that you have a notebook/Word file somewhere with a bunch of answers to Harry Potter questions which haven't been asked yet, ready to be posted as soon as they appear on the frontpage. — JenayahAug 3 '18 at 21:39
This guy gets into a magic school where on the first day he is forced to fight a girl in front of everyone but during the the fight a lady comes out a portal and claims she is his wife and he gains a gauntlet/claw which I think was gold.
(It is not High School DxD or Qualidea Code)
Many halacha questions are straightforward. There is a Talmudic statement on the matter, and the Talmudic statement is codified in the various codes of Jewish law. When posting an answer to such a question, one can technically just post the Talmudic source, or one can post any of the sources wher...
some people claim they've seen a fourth movie but there's no such a thing
they must have imagined it
Lara Croft (girl on the left) is the heroin of titular video game series
She's known to be a badass gun-wielding female actiion figure, hunting down treasures kept by various... more or less coherent stuff...
Meh she's also mainly known to be what video games developers end with when they think "hey how does it look like if we double her breast size... Oh hey it looks good let's do it again" :P
Nathan Drake (guy on the right) is the youngest (in terms of creation order) of the three. Same thing, history aficionado hunting for treasures. Witty badass too
So the joke in the image above is that the two video games characters are sometimes (often) compared on a "who's the best treasure hunter one" but Indy separates them kids as he was in the game way before they were
No it's not. SE is just being stupid here, not accepting valid URLs. Like it does with some that contain parenthesis. Give me a moment to get a different link to the same page.
We all know how the movies happen at the end of Back to the Future Part II and the beginning of Part III. Western Union delivers it at some road next to a sign for a land development site. Marty McFly receives the letter dated 70 years ago.
Why would Doc take such a big unnecessary risk? Why ...
Seen in the question list: "In search of a short story from my childhood [migrated] story-identification". He can't find the book he had because he migrated to another country and had to leave some belongings behind? Oh wait...
From what I can remember, the main leads are immortals that belong to enemy factions. The male lead's faction wore white or black or something all the time and the female lead's faction wore red outfits all the time. They met and fell in love somehow and were together even when they were doing th...
Recently after browsing through easter eggs in movies I found this one which puzzled me. It's in the bottom left corner. It looks like... Well what it looks like. I'm wondering if any producers or cast members have released a statement about this and why it was added into the movie... If i rememb...
In S02E10 of Runaways, Nico has exhausted herself defending the shelter, but her body snaps into guard position and she uses her staff to destroy the enemies. After her body snaps upright and before she destroys the strike force, her face scales around the eyes in exactly the manner that Dormamm...
Did George Lucas have a relatively clear vision of what things like Star Destroyers, Death Star corridors, Tatooine, Millennium Falcon, Darth Vader, etc. would look like before he pitched the movie? Did he have sketches or something?
If not, who came up with the film's visual identity and when? ...
One of the story was about a scientist who leaves everything to find the one final equation or formula that will combine all equations. I think it was Russian story collection. Could you help me find/identify the book
This is a movie or TV series from France, or at least about France in the middle ages. I watched it in the 90s.
Plot: a young man studied swordsmanship with two mediocre masters. At a bar (not sure), the two master met saw a noble man who defeated his opponent and left a pentagram on their foreh...
@Alex It was unintended. And it turned out that there was no way to rename it and keep the pun, because the renamed title only showed up on Lit (the site to which it got migrated), Sci Fi kept showing the uninformative old title.
This is my short story! Just to preface, I wrote the last few 100 words and haven't looked back at it. I want an external opinion on how it ends before I do. Any feedback is much appreciated!
In the book Salvation, Peter Hamilton uses the terminology G3Turing, G5Turing, G7Turing to talk about AI. I understand what "Turing" means of course, and the number means the higher the more intelligent.
What is the meaning of the letter "G"?
Please don't spoil the book, I have not yet finished...
I remember Harry condensing cloud and using them as a way to move around the castle. At one point when he’s experimenting with his magic he blasts a hole in the dungeon wall.
On the theory that Neil R. Jones probably read the magazines he wrote for, I figured that a likely place to find his source for those factoids would be in the early issues of Amazing Stories. Sure enough, I found a plausible source for the first one. On p. 925 of Amazing Stories, January 1928 (av...
Like if for example like me I have some traits from some houses but lack other traits and though I'm definitely not a Gryffindor because I lack bravery, not a Hufflepuff because I'm lazy, not a Ravenclaw because I'm not creative enough and not a Slytherin because I'm not Pure-blood. What would I ...
Several times, in the Harry Potter series, we are led to believe the sortee has some control over the House they are sorted into. Most famously, Harry Potter turns down his chance at being in Slytherin House, as suggested by the Sorting Hat to be in Gryffindor.
Harry: Not Slytherin. Not Slyt...
This reddit post implies that some Overwatch characters may have been created under The Dark Tower influence. Namely, McCree and Reaper might be based on Roland and The Man in Black respectively.
I also find it interesting, that Orisa is both the character name and the name of the weapon in DT: ...
This answer to Have any students not been sorted? theorizes they'd still go to Hufflepuff. Given how many "why was X not sorted into Y?" questions there are, there is probably a "general" dupe; the linked one is the most fit I've seen so far. Leaving it here for the community to decide whether it's indeed a dupe or not (or there's a better dupe-target fit). — Jenayah11 secs ago
@LÃamMurphy interesting. I had to re-read some sentences to make sure I got the concepts right, but it all adds up :) about the last 100 words - Iliked how the story went from "bit lenghty description" to "action-packed" (of sorts). Something though: when you share/publish it, add a disclaimer that it has... disturbing... implications. (I didn't mind, but others might)
ooh yeah that's a good point. i've written it for a short story competition. but robotics in the way of military use and also sexual use is such an important topic at the moment
@Stormblessed Can you be a bit more careful with your edits? For example, here removing movie in the title and changing cartoon to animated were bad edits as you lost information. Then whilst it's implied the help was afterwards it isn't explicit so you may be altering the OP's meaning
Then the "I am looking for an" isn't really needed, brevity is fine and again the group of is only implied but I left that alone
At the end of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Legolas was sent to find Aragorn. But in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo is already 111 years old. So Aragorn must be very young in the first place.
How old is Aragorn at the time of the Hobbit movies?
The Necronomicon is a fictional book mentioned in a number of Lovecraft's short stories and novellas. And we know a few quotes from it.
In "The Nameless City" (1921), a rhyming couplet that appears at two points in the story is ascribed to Abdul Alhazred (author of the book):
That is not dea...
When Harry gets his wand, Olivander's magical measuring tape first takes all kinds of ridiculous measurements on him, like the distance between his nostrils, from eye to ear or something like that.
Were these measurements actually used for anything, like narrowing down the selection of wands, or...
These kids try to beat their evil teacher, I think her name has Macbeth or Ms. Beth or something, and they all act as secret agents? I never got to finish this animated show. It is either Australian or Canadian.
I ask this question because if we think about, for example, the case of Star Trek and Star Wars, there are very significant extended universes including original novels.
However, as far as I'm aware, the major superhero franchises don't have such a thing. Obviously, there are novelizations of...
@TheLethalCarrot I'd be a little careful about the cuddles; those are some pretty big paws for her to grow into, and what's cute and cuddly now could get awkward when she's fullgrown and still trying to cuddle :-)
@RDFozz In the family we currently have 3 labradoodles, a wire haired vizsla and a beagle. I've gotten quite decent at dodging paws in cuddles though most are quite good at not hitting you with them haha
@Marvin Hah! I thought about exactly this problem a few weeks ago and considered asking a question like that (albeit somewhere else, where maybe the votes might also have turned out differently).
(And maybe with less of an "are there any" example bait feel and more of a broader generalized edge to it.)
Formatting experts: How can I format a quote in superscript without having the number at the beginning of the line be subsumed into the quote. E.g. how do I get the "1." out of the quote in this example:
The above image is from: 1. ><sup> But then, through the mist in front of him, he saw, with an icy surge of terror, the dark outline of a man, tall and skeletally thin, rising slowly from inside the cauldron.</sup>
1. ><sup> But then, through the mist in front of him, he saw, with an icy surge of terror, the dark outline of a man, tall and skeletally thin, rising slowly from inside the cauldron.</sup> leads to:
<sup>1. > But then, through the mist in front of him, he saw, with an icy surge of terror, the dark outline of a man, tall and skeletally thin, rising slowly from inside the cauldron.</sup> leads to:
><sup>1. But then, through the mist in front of him, he saw, with an icy surge of terror, the dark outline of a man, tall and skeletally thin, rising slowly from inside the cauldron.</sup>
<ol start="8"> <sup><li><blockquote>Enter text here.</blockquote></li></sup> <sup><li><blockquote>Enter text here.</blockquote></li></sup> </ol>
And you should be able to do the following but it doesn't work
<ol> <sup><li value="7"><blockquote>Enter text here.</blockquote></li></sup> <sup><li value="900"><blockquote>Enter text here.</blockquote></li></sup> </ol>
@NapoleonWilson As I indiczated in the comments, there are actually quite a few Marvel novels in particular - they were publishing at least one a month back in the 1990s. I would agree it's not a well researched question, as googling for Marvel novels brought up that Wikipedia page I mention immediately.
In Warbreaker, Vasher uses Nightblood, an Awakened sword with enough Breaths infused in it that it has sentience. People who draw the sword end up dead and towards the end of the book when Vasher uses Nightblood to cut into a wall the entire thing just turns to smoke. Very similarly, Roshar's Sha...
I see that the special "The Plan" is generally recommended to be viewed after the episode "No Exit", although I hear it could very well be viewed before that episode, but the reasoning there is undocumented.
I am looking for the ultimate viewing order, meaning I want to inspect it myself. Anybod...
I remember watching this one show when I was a kid in the 80's/early 90's, it was a live-action show with some puppet/muppet-like characters, but it kind of had a dark/mysterious element to it. I can't remember too much about it except portions of some episodes, but the main characters were kids,...
Is there anything wrong with accepting an answer solely to place it at the top of the list for a while, with the intention of then unaccepting it?
Oftentimes there might be an answer to a question that comes a bit later than a couple of other answers. By the time this answer gets posted, the oth...
I'm looking for a book I read. It's based on a girl who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in a tower. Two boys went out scrounging for things in the wasteland and found an apple core (for the seeds) which was taken by someone in the upper echelon. The person who took it was found dead and the boy...
I'm looking for a manga telling the story of a woman who travelled from a distant land to marry a man from a different tribe. I don't recall their names; but the man is 12–15 years old and the woman is older. The setting is medieval-like. The artwork is very detailed, especially the clothing.
A ...
When I am looking for new anime series to try, I often use Anime News Network to pick by popularity or quality of votes. Because I haven't watched a whole lot of anime, it's useful to pick out series that I may not have heard of due to age, etc, but that I might enjoy. It is a similar concept wi...
There was a short story I read years ago that has stayed with me in the back of my mind; I just can not think of the title. It is about an old woman who by happenstance meets a group of humanoid aliens. She is very kind to them, and in doing so they decide to be hostile and aggressive to humans. ...
I watched a movie where there was a girl, kinda awkward, some kind of hacker. She sees an advert for virtual friends to talk to in a sort of virtual environment, she meets this AI girl who is not very clever kind of ditsy but the hacker girl makes her more intelligent, which is against the law, t...
I’m having trouble remembering what a certain book was called and I’d really love some help. It was the last of a trilogy (I read the last book first because they’re not related, really).
It’s about an orphan girl who’s roughly 14 years old and has been raised by a sect of wizards who wear purpl...
Once i heard a story from a teacher which is unique. I really need to find its title, its going on my nerves. Here is the plot: in the post nuclear war times, a man goes to strange place to find someone who can send people back in time, to live their good moments again. He meets guy, A strange ol...
@Marvin Does anyone have the vaguest idea where this guy gets these requirements from? I mean, I can't help but get the picture of someone who has this headcanon about Shrek and Disney princesses that's dozens of times larger than anything that exists in reality....
I mean, I'm borderline worried about this guy's sanity.
@Marvin this... has been goingon for quite some time now. What's impressive is that there's sometimes the odd upvoted, answered and HNQed question which, I guess, pushes away the question ban a little
Not that I want a question ban for that user (downvote-close-rommba works fine), but I'm surprised it hasn't kicked in yet. I mean, possibly the last ten of them were DVed-closed-deleted
^There was an online test option for Biology 110 when I was in school (one of the first there), and I got a B+ at least, attending two lectures and doing no labs.
This is just one of those inconsistency things that bothers you. When all the people were in the Sept of Baelor for the trial and then they sensed something was wrong and then got blown up. Why would the sparrow guards try to prevent everyone from leaving. They were just the audience, they weren'...
I haven't looked into the Trivia policy properly yet to know exactly what falls under it except the obvious cases for it so didn't want to state as such confidently