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12:03 AM
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Q: Do the "Soldiers of the Sea" in "Return of the Obra Dinn" have any basis in prior works?

temporary_user_nameSpoilers: Have these things or anything like them ever been seen before? Is there another name for them, or have they appeared in any mythology or prior sea-based fantasy horror works?

 
12:50 AM
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Q: What is that 4th medallion pictured?

ackmondualAt the bottom left This is the items page for The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past. Some of these are inventory items, while others are either items found in the overworld or in Dungeons. I don't recognize the 4th medallion (marked with a red square).

 
 
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3:40 AM
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Q: Short story, “Seven Century Summer”, where man has an accident and time travels to a future post apocalyptic world

Thomas BLooking for a science fiction short story I believe is titled “Seven Century Summer” or something like that. From what I remember a modern man had an accident and traveled forward in time, to a post apocalyptic world. There his consciousness inhabited the mind of a native. There was a great being...

 
4:39 AM
My profile loads as desktop on mobile but other users’ don’t. Kinda annoying
Er never mind
 
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Q: Teen Sci fi novel printed during the 80s or 90s - Girl with robot named Kilimanjaro

Nick GellatlyLooking for a sci fi book with a young female protagonist and her indestructible robot Kilimanjaro (called Kili). She is forced to leave her planet (which I think is a moon) and eventually travels to a station orbiting Earth, where mankind awaits first contact with an alien species. I can remembe...

 
5:31 AM
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Q: Anime short about two girls shoting each other with guns from their mouths

Miss_konoThere is a anime short that i saw some years ago , and i can't get it out of my head, but i can't find it anywhere, the things that i remember are : The "protagonist" is a girl with brown hair tied up and yellow clothes,and she is a robot that is controlled by some kind of small animal that i do...

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Q: Searching for a teen fantasy novel from the 90s

Nick GellatlyLooking for a teen fantasy novel from when I was a kid, unfortunately I can't remember the title or the author. It told the story of 3 adventurers: a warrior, a wizard and a small rogue. The antagonist is a shape-shifting monster. The monster is searching for a magical gem of incredible power and...

 
6:18 AM
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Q: How did the Doctor escape being stranded in space in the original script for "Four to Doomsday"?

BuzzThis question is based on some facts I learned from Peter Davison, who played the Fifth Doctor, at an American Doctor Who convention about thirty years ago. Among the things Davison told the audience was that his second Doctor Who story, "Four to Doomsday" was his least favorite. (His favorite,...

 
7:10 AM
@Jenayah Meta offer is about to be revoked.
 
:D
 
Well I guess you have until you get one more upvote...
 
or 5 accepted edits
 
7:29 AM
Suggesting edits is such a pain.
 
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Q: trying to find name of obscure 1980s sci fi animated movie

SPappasTrying to find the name of a move I saw (on VHS!) in the late 80s. I remember the beginning of the movie had a woman who was sent to break a man out of a moon-prison cell (because she wanted him to help her with some quest). She breaks the guy out and he's not excited to help her but some oth...

 
@Alex And if the statistics on the tools page are to be believed, ~15% of duplicate actions in the last 30 days have been via my unilateral powers.
 
7:52 AM
Noooo... Ten seconds...
@Alex eheh
 
Ten seconds?
 
I edited an answer ten seconds after grace period ;p
 
Oh. Happens to me all the time. Quite unfortunate.
 
For a formatting stuff even... Meh it got a check mark, I'm happy ;p
 
I often write answers and add the links at the end. Sometimes I post it, figuring I can add the links within five minutes. Somehow, it often takes five minutes and one second.
 
8:04 AM
Why don't you add the links on the fly?
 
@Jenayah So apparently your answer "solved the problem" or was "the must helpful", but it wasn't "useful".
 
I don't nudge for checkmark+upvote ;p
 
@Jenayah It's disruptive to composing the answer. That's the same reason why I often write "at the beginning of Half-Blood Prince" instead of "Chapter Three of Half-Blood Prince". It's too disruptive to go find the chapter each time.
 
Kinda proud of that ID though, there is one review on the entire internet it seems :)
@Alex him, when you have to browse the full book, I guess. It's not like it was a Goodreads link or stuff
Those are pasted and ding, done
 
@Jenayah Well it's not necessarily hard to find the links I want. It's more that it just breaks the flow if I stop every two sentences to add a link..
E.g. my character limit answer contains 56 links.
 
8:12 AM
56 oO
 
you can actually see that in the screenshot in the Meta question.
 
8:28 AM
56 links ._.
 
~20 of them are Wikipedia.
 
Still
 
The rest are links to sources.
 
So Wikipedia's not a source?
 
It's not a source for the claims I made. It's a source for information about the people that I quoted.
 
8:40 AM
Ok
Perhaps you can save some characters and let people Google Gersonides by themselves then.
 
@Jenayah Or have them ask you. By now you're an expert on him.
 
Ahah not quite
 
Unrelated: I think I just found the answer to an old unanswered fanfiction identification.
 
Nice! Get a Revival badge here at last! :D
 
Well there's quite a few details to match up so it may take a while.
 
8:50 AM
Eh if it's old nobody will snatch it, take your time :P
 
Hopefully...
 
You're my new hero Jenayah. I'll update shortly :) — Nick Gellatly 3 mins ago
:D
 
Well-deserved.
 
</boast>
Thanks :D
 
You have to keep a record of such comments, like I do.
Which reminds me I have to add a few.
 
9:00 AM
@Alex not a bad idea
Yes! I can now see vote counts on main meta!
 
I know I know
 
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Q: Did Barty Crouch Jr. know the Defense Against Dark Arts teacher job was cursed?

RichSBefore Barty Crouch Jr. went to Hogwarts to become the Defense Against the Dark Art teacher, he was already in communication with his master, Lord Voldemort. Voldemort knew the post was cursed and had several options. Voldemort could have lifted the curse for a year. He could have warned Barty ...

 
 
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12:09 PM
seeing vote counts is sweet
 
12:32 PM
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Q: pearl's analysis of steven universe?

clayton slutskyid watch the objiwan film 'dark tower' with idris elba. kind of describes the situation but its not aliens landr there. just cowboys. halflings should play tennis. id read up on other sickening jrr TOLKIEN like the simmilarion perplexed me too much and was a skill in AC2. elronds in ov3er his hea...

 
@Marvin so in there we have Stephen King, Steven Universe, Assassin's Creed, Star Wars, Tolkien, cowboys and aliens (from Cowboys & Aliens?)
VTC, UWYS.
 
12:46 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user (69): Pearl's analysis of Steven Universe? ✏️ by clayton slutsky on scifi.SE
 
@TheLethalCarrot why the heck did you bother editing that?
 
right because TLC never "polishes" recently closed (and seemingly unsalvageable) stuff...
 
1:06 PM
so @Alex ETA on that story-id? :P
 
Meh if it needed editing it needed editing and was on phone so forgot to delete first cos I wasn’t paying too much attention. Gone now
 
tbh the edit didn't make it any clearer
no offense
 
It wasn’t to make it clearer but to fix grammar and what not
 
gonna be roombaed anyways
if it hadn't been nuked first
 
1:45 PM
should scifi.stackexchange.com/q/9123/98028 be unprotected now?
 
2:06 PM
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Q: Why didn't Tom Bombadill take the Ring to Mordor?

NischayHe was certainly more resistant to the Ring than any other character in LOTR. He could have handled the Ring with greater ease throughout the journey, especially in Mordor, as compared to Frodo. Does this idea doesn't come to anyone's mind or is there some deeper reason?

 
2:32 PM
^ nevermind
 
Dune was a cool film
Even more impressive for me since I was made to watch it on a large projector screen by my uncle before I had seen any other sci-fi
I need to watch it again
 
2:57 PM
Which one?
(Feels odd to have to ask that, but nowadays you really can't be sure.)
@Marvin I'll eat whatever if this isn't a duplicate.
 
3:09 PM
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Q: How do I locate the question I previously asked?

James PearceI am new to the site and I do not understand how to locate the question I asked yesterday. Can anyone explain to me how I find my own question and any possible answers to it? Please note that I am not sure that I will be able to locate THIS question, or any answers to it!! Thank you, James Pe...

 
@NapoleonWilson it's in Close Queue
 
3:40 PM
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Q: Did the description of Grendel influence Tolkien's depiction of the Orcs?

Reginald O'DonoghueSince Tolkien was largely influenced by this Old English poem, it should not be a surprise if his Orcs were at least partly derived from it. Just as the Orcs are twisted, monstrous, naturally evil descendants of Elves, so is Grendel a twisted, monstrous, naturally evil descendant of Cain, and t...

 
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Q: How do I locate the question I previously asked?

James PearceI am new to the site and I do not understand how to locate the question I asked yesterday. Can anyone explain to me how I find my own question and any possible answers to it? Please note that I am not sure that I will be able to locate THIS question, or any answers to it!!

 
Ils on des chapaheux
Vive la bretagne
 
huhm
they have hats?
 
They have round hats in Brittany
 
mm
 
3:54 PM
Time to invade Brittany
 
Why would you invade Brittany?
 
4:20 PM
@Jenayah Soon?
 
@Alex fair nuff
 
If it’s not done by midnight I’ll turn back into a peasant.
@Shog9 I guess that's a (of minor importance) bug and not an intended treat for us peasants? :) — Jenayah 23 hours ago
 
Why'd you be a peasant by that definition?
 
4:37 PM
@Jenayah I'm actually quite peasantine.
 
Ahah
 
5:05 PM
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Q: How do everyone know so much about the Tesseract?

NazgulIn Avengers movie everyone seemed to know a great deal about Tesseract. Even Hawkeye seemed to know that it is a thing which can make portals (He tells about the Tesseeact that door can open from both sides). In Captain America The First Avenger Red Skull only used the stone for harnessing power....

 
5:30 PM
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Q: Where did the "pew pew" phrase come from?

LincolnManPeople make silly phrases like "Pew! Pew! I shoot you with my space gun". Where did the "pew pew" meme come from?

 
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Q: How did the submarine get past Atlantis's defenses?

MaslinWhen Mera brings Arthur (Aquaman) to Atlantis, she points out that there is only one entry/exit to the city. She adds that anyone who is stupid enough to go over the wall will be fired upon from the hydro cannons. Prior to that, when King Orm is trying to ally with King Nereus, they get attacked...

 
@Babelfish @Jenayah If you're hiding Babel fish you may be able to answer this question.
 
5:46 PM
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Q: Where did the concept of the borg come from. From the writers perspective in Star Trek

CherylWhere did the concept or idea come from for the borg. Was it the tennis player

 
Wow. Ran out of the character limit on my profile page too.
 
5:58 PM
@Alex ahah
 
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Q: Why did Alara have to go home?

Peter MIn Home (Season 2, Episode 3 of the Orville) Alara is diagnosed with a bone/muscle mass deficiency that is attributed to her living on the Orville and away from her high gravity home world. The initial solution to this was to send home to Xelaya in order to recuperate. However towards the end o...

 
@Alex noted, I'll check
nevermind @Niffler answered what I would have said
+1
 
@Jenayah but how else do we know you mean time-traveling robots, not just normal ones?
 
@Riker use tag. Niche enough to be a tag of its own and that saves you a tag slot
 
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A: How do I locate the question I previously asked?

ValorumThere's a few options available to you You can sort questions by newness. Presumably it's one of the questions asked yesterday You could use the search facility to search for the title. You could search for it by tag (our questions are usually very well curated). If you remember the username yo...

 
6:11 PM
@Stormblessed mh?
 
@Jenayah how did you edit a Meta thing?
 
@Stormblessed uh, the usual way, I clicked edit
 
@Jenayah I thought Meta can’t be edited by others
I can’t see an edit button
 
It can, there's even a Suggested Edits queue
It can't be edited by people who don't have an account though (anonymous users)
Are you logged in on Meta?
 
@Jenayah yes
 
6:15 PM
@Stormblessed strange, I don't know why you wouldn't have an edit button showing up. Let me check on Movies' meta
I do see one on Movies Meta (where I don't have edit privleges)
 
@Jenayah @Stormblessed
 
wtf
 
Suggested edit queue is only for tag wikis.
 
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Q: Why can't I suggest edits on SE meta sites?

NicoleRight as I was going to post this as a possible bug, I finally found this post which says that per-site Metas don't have suggested edits by-design because it's "not needed". However, I've been participating a lot over at Skeptics meta where there is a lot still to be figured out in terms of site...

 
@Mithrandir ah...
Wait, why?
That's kinda dumb
 
6:18 PM
@Jenayah See Jeff Atwood's answer:
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A: Why can't I suggest edits on SE meta sites?

Jeff AtwoodMostly because the per-site metas are generally low traffic -- some of them count daily visits in the dozens. That means the moderators will have to do the work, since the 10k site users are the only ones that can even see this queue. And on many sites, like say Bicycles -- there are exactly ze...

 
<2k reppers should have the right to suggest edits without having to post a comment or stuff
 
And with your new privileges you can see that it has eight downvotes.
 
Then don't freaking leave an edit button
oh right telling it exists and whatnot
 
@Jenayah That would be confusing. "I can't find the edit button." Instead they have it, and it tells you you can't use it.
 
yeah yeah
 
6:24 PM
In any case:
11 hours ago, by Alex
Suggesting edits is such a pain.
 
In any case @Stormblessed if you want to add something leave a comment under the post or ask someone with edit privileges, we'll do it :)
 
7:04 PM
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Q: Post-apocalyptic future with technological advances that enable people to enhance or alter their appearance with animal qualities

NastyN8So I've read this book probably 10 or 15 years ago I remember it starting out with a young woman( I think) talking to a computer and altering her appearance in a mirror. I believe she was making subtle changes that were up-to-date with what was popular for the time and I believe the book explain...

 
7:23 PM
@Marvin What? I was told that sci-fi guns go "ZING", not "pew pew". russell2.math.bme.hu/~ambrus/sc/comic/millie/comic?n=19980430
 
7:53 PM
2 days ago, by Jenayah
my life is based on a lie
 
8:07 PM
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Q: Books mentioning "pillywiggins" - before 1977

SarahThis is a long shot, but I’m looking for anything published before 1977 which mentions pillywiggins (or any similar words). They would be fairies or just small creatures associated with flowers. These creatures have appeared in some modern fantasy works, and are usually claimed to be from folklo...

 
8:18 PM
@Marvin probably a better fit for Mythology & Folklore. Wouldn't it fall under "recommendation" close vote on SFF?
 
Recommendation/too broad I think
 
Too broad I'm not sure
Pedantically speaking
 
Well it is anything but I haven’t read the post only the title
I’ll leave it up to you to VTC if you want anyway cos gotta put pupper to bed haha
 
how does that even take time xD
 
She’s a madam with settling down sometimes and letting her out for toilet and what not
 
8:53 PM
I casted some delete votes on off-topic questions today scifi.stackexchange.com/…
 
Cast away.
 
@Marvin Hmm - what about Pigglewiggle?
 
@Alex you know what I meant
 
@TheLethalCarrot I'm sorry to hear your new puppy is running a brothel :-)
 
@Jenayah Did you mean that we should also cast delete votes?
 
8:57 PM
@RDFozz ahahahah
@Alex if you think they're fit
 
9:10 PM
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Q: Short story seemingly set in the past, but is really post-apocalyptic. People uncover US monuments (Staue of Liberty, Lincoln Memorial)

Jen PerdueI'm trying to track down a short story from my high school English class, but the details are fuzzy. A group of people are exploring ancient ruins of a civilization and they're discussing how primitive they were. In the end, you realize they are exploring a post apocalyptic U.S. I think they f...

 
9:26 PM
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Q: Looking for an old science fiction story with Planck's constant in it

NancyAbout 50 years ago, I read a science fiction story in a "year's best" anthology. As I remember it, a guy was visiting a small moon and ran into a scary giant spider-like creature. He fired a shot, but missed. They somehow get trapped together. At some point, one or the other starts rapping ou...

 
What's considered "completely from scratch"?
 
Well I have five short story-id answers.
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A: Short story by Sheckley about a man from the future who radiates love and lust

JenayahIt looks like it may be "The Future Lost", which appeared in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley (1991). Leonard Nisher, the protagonist, travelled from the past to the future, and back to the past. He relates what happened there to a doctor. Nisher saw that a lot of people had st...

^ OP remembered the author, so a big part of the work is done
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A: The Target who shot back: old sci-fi short story

Jenayah"Gambler's choice" (1971) by Bob Shaw, collected in Alien Worlds: Stories of Adventure on Other Planets (1981) along with an excerpt of "Out of the Silent Planet". The original story is collected on archive.org, here. The guy's name is Mike Targett and the computer's is Aesop. There appears to ...

^ OP remembered a sentence to the word
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A: Short story about humans on a hostile planet, genetically engineering their offspring gradually over generations, to be able to survive on it

JenayahMaybe "Between the Dark and the Daylight" (1958) by Algis Budrys. The story is available at the Internet Archive here (link courtesy of @user14111). A human spaceship crashlands on a planet where conditions are inimical to human life - including a hostile sentient native species. So the human...

^ I found a dupe here on SFF
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A: Arthur C. Clarke collection with two old stories where light kills?

JenayahI believe you are looking for the collection Tales of Ten Worlds (1962). The first story is "Let there be light" (1957). A character criticized the way that death rays in science fiction were visible to the human eye, saying that if visible light was deadly, humans couldn't live. The conver...

^ OP remembered the author
And the latest one,
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A: Old science fiction story with an alien creature tapping Planck's constant

JenayahPossibly "Moon Duel" (1965) by Fritz Leiber, which appeared in 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1967). The story is available at the Internet Archive. A guy was visiting a small moon and ran into a scary giant spider-like creature. At the same time I was thinking how if the biped hu...

that I got from Google :)
 
Oh, cool.
 
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Eh, I think I'll link all the answers I've ever posted...
 
9:56 PM
now that would make for a busy Restaurant on a Sunday :)
 
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Q: Need help finding a book written possibly between the 50s and 90s

NastyN8I read this book probably 10 or 15 years ago. I remember it starting out with a young woman (I think) talking to a computer and altering her appearance in a mirror. I believe she was making subtle changes that were up-to-date with what was popular for the time and I believe the book explained tha...

 
Okay, only the ones with no votes.
 
unless the statistics you gave a few days ago are outdated, that still makes for like 40 posts?
 
Jan 8 at 3:59, by Alex
My profile page tells me that I have 38 zero-score answers.
 
wow, memory's good
 
10:00 PM
Most of the time.
 
10:12 PM
aye
 
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Q: Priority of The Golden Helix, discovery of the helix structure of genes

Mike JacksonTheodore Sturgeon's story The Golden Helix was published in 1954. Sturgeon later said that he wrote it in 1953, "a good span of years before" the double helix for genes was discovered. But that paper came out in April 1953. Has anybody examined the chronology to see if Sturgeon had a hint of t...

 
 
meh. Surely I broke your phone some other time
 
Aug 17 '18 at 18:17, by Rand al'Thor
@Alex It's just a little disturbing how pleased you seem to be about this 'record'.
(I know, some words need to be modified.)
 
Jan 6 at 3:33, by Jenayah
Also you know, I wonder at what point we'll have discussed so much stuff with so many reusable lines, we'll only talk through oneboxed transcripts and it still making sense
 
10:18 PM
2 days ago, by Jenayah
Fair nuff
@Alex Eh, it only fits about half the details mentioned in the question.
 
@Alex maybe author conflated two stories
 
@Jenayah Yeah, I’ll probably still post it.
 
right thing to do
 
10:35 PM
A video review just proved to me that Twilight is not a bad film at all
Compared to the other films in the series
So now I'm watching it again
And I noticed Bella and Edward exchanging the same awkward lines I might have uttered to a certain girl
 
@Gallifreyan You're a hundreds-years-old blood-thirsty albino hitting on college girls?
gee we have weird room owners out there :P
 
No, that I'm just as socially awkward as the aforementioned vampire and the college girl
Which is, given my old age (21), quite unsettling
I should've taken notes when watching the film for the first time
 
Get a Volvo
 
Can't drive :|
 
No seriously, one of the things I remember from the first book is that the girl was always talking about the guy's Volvo
cheaper than a Porsche at least
 
10:40 PM
He's got a Volvo in the film as well, hasn't he?
I think I respect Volvo, could be nice a nice car
 
@Gallifreyan rip a Volvo emblem and glue it to your bike/horse/shoes/ whatever
 
Haven't got any of those either, except shoes
 
@Gallifreyan not something I'd remember
@Gallifreyan Volvo shoes, what's not to like
 
No horse?!
 
@Alex maybe they had one but angered the mafia.
 
10:47 PM
The mafia doesn't go after "socially awkward" college students.
 
Point taken.
Meaning @Gallifreyan's lack of a horse can only be explained by them being a double agent for the local anti-corruption police.
I've got this all figured out.
 
More likely the "socially awkward" college student is working for the mafia.
 
Make that a triple agent!
 
@Jenayah Last time you had things "all figured out" I ended up with an elephant for a mother...
 
@Alex remind me what proof you gave me your mother was human? Hm? None? Yeah, I thought so.
Relevant:
@Jenayah I love your headcanons. — TheAsh May 1 '18 at 17:42
 
10:51 PM
@Jenayah Remind me what proof I gave you that I am human. If you don't presume one, why presume the other?
 
@Alex don't drift away from the subject. We were talking about your mother.
 
On the contrary, I am pointing out the flaw in your reasoning on this very subject.
 
I don't see how you being human would forbid your mother from being an elephant.
Admittedly I didn't graduate in biology.
 
@Jenayah It wouldn't. But my mother not being human also wouldn't make her an elephant.
 
@Alex oh, sure.
 
11:06 PM
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Q: What makes Thanos the most powerful being in the universe?

Filip KočicaWhen Ronan got stone of infinity on Knowhere and decided to not give the stone to Thanos, Korath told him that Thanos is the most powerful being in the universe. Why is he so powerful? His only abilities so far I can see are achieved using the stones in Avengers. His only visible power is strengt...

 
Dang, this is still up? Please flag as spam scifi.stackexchange.com/a/203363/98028
(true positive from Metasmoke if you have doubts metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/153917)
 
Why wasn't it reported by SmokeDetector?
 
Dunno
maybe one of those "reasons they don't appear, keywords etc"
 
Maybe SmokeDetector is "not a privileged user".
 
boom
in Charcoal HQ, Dec 23 '18 at 3:18, by Undo
Both of those reasons are experimental, and ya'll don't get those reports.
in Charcoal HQ, 29 mins ago, by SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): Why do wizards in Harry Potter receive a watch when they turn 17? by Usama on scifi.SE (@Mithrandir)
^ I was right
I think
 
11:36 PM
@Jenayah and, that got deleted before we could continue the lovely chat. Great :/
 
Shot yourself in the foot, as they say.
 
Valorum does browse chat sometimes though doesn't he?
On the off-chance and not to blank you: user had a spammer history, see chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/45452665#45452665
 
@Jenayah Yes. He said in a comment somewhere that he checks once a week or so (I think that was the frequency) to see if his name has been mentioned.
Here:
No worries. I drop into chat every week or so, but mostly just to see if my name has been mentioned — Valorum Oct 7 '18 at 19:40
'twas actually said to you.
 
+ usual pattern of unrelated comment linking to a post of unclear help, no posts (or deleted) elsewhere, and people more used to that than me TPUing it. I've been around in Charcoal to see how things worked, talked with some, seemed nuff for me
And a point I'd like to finsih on... If I was to flag "on the basis of a common name"... Boy now that would be messed up :D
@Alex oooh, indeed!
uh, a quick browsing of the transcript around this date doesn't seem to yield the name though
not in a related way at least
 
11:57 PM
@Jenayah If I recall, someone had made a comment like "Valorum will find a relevant quote".
 
@Alex goes back to browse transcript
 

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