The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

12:19 AM

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Q: 80's Animation Sci-Fi Movie Identification - Woman and man on a planet attacked by large colorful bees

First of all, the movie is not Nausicäa or Time Masters (1982). Although it is kinda similar. What I remember (memory is 17 years old): I saw this movie on Free-TV or VHS in maybe 2002. The animation style I have in memory is Anime, realistic, kind of like in "Time Masters" but more colorful a...

Jenayah

@Mithrandir insects

Alex

@Jenayah Can be killed together.

Jenayah

mh?

If it's a reference I don't have it

Alex

I finished your sentence.

19 hours ago, by Alex

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A: Can a single Killing Curse kill more than one soul?

Avada Kedavra is a spell that has spatial properties.That is to say that the spell does not simply kill an intended victim, but instead it has to be aimed at a specific target and it has to hit the target. Consider, for example, the duel between Dumbledore and Voldemort in Chapter Thirty-Six of O...

Jenayah

alright

Marvin

12:34 AM

-1

Q: How many timelines are there in the Star Trek universe?

As I remember, there was a new timeline introduced in the 2009 Star Trek movie. Is there more than one timeline in the Star Trek universe or just one that get adjusted each time?

star-trek

0

Q: Guys looking for a comic!! Please help

Soo I've been looking for this one over several months. Comic was ongoing 2 years ago i was really hooked up. Thing is i don't remember anything except little details of plot like its 1) post apocalyptic ( kinda ) 2) main dude is a badass android/robot with a hat and yellow-ish trenchcoat with ...

comics robots androids

Marvin

1:51 AM

0

Q: Trying to find an old book

About 12 to 15 years ago I read a book that started off as a sword and sorcery style book about a land surrounded by a think fog wall. I don't remember who wrote it, or what it was called. If I remember right, people who were exiled were sent through the fog, never to be heard from again. Towards...

story-identification

Jenayah

2:06 AM

Holy shit. Titans is the best superhero show there ever was.

Alex

@Jenayah Better than Inhumans?

Jenayah

in The Screening Room, 8 secs ago, by Jenayah

I mean, the characters are pretty much all wrong. They do stuff their comics counterparts would never do. But once you just forget that, it's just incredible, and so. much. kudos. to the finale.

@Alex haven't watched it. You?

(though TBH, I'm not an Inhumans fan to begin with)

Alex

@Jenayah No. I googled "worst superhero show" and that's what came up.

Jenayah

@Alex worst superhero show I've seen is probably The Flash.

The Marvel shows I've seen so far are Daredevil (up to S2), Iron Fist (S1). Which were pretty good.

Caught a glimpse of some Agents of SHIELD, didn't really like it.

Daredevil, Defenders and Punisher are on the watch list.

But holy heck Titans was just awesome.

Alex

@Jenayah Iron Fist was second place.

Jenayah

2:16 AM

I don't know what their comparison is based on.

Iron Fist can't be the 2nd worst superhero show when something liek Supergirl exists.

Alex

It's based on Rotten Tomato ratings.

Jenayah

They don't have a page for Arrowverse on Rotten Tomatoes?

Alex

While some of the items on this list have a decent Rotten Tomatoes score, they're only included because most (basically all) of the superhero cartoons ever made aren't rated on the website, nor are many older shows.

Jenayah

Arrowverse isn't "older"

Meh, it's popular, I guess. They wouldn't keeping doing it otehrwise

As a side note, Titans reinforces my position of "f**k trailers, I'll wait 'till I can see the thing and ot watch the trailers so I don't have a previous idea". The trailers are awful and don't do any justice to the series.

Then again, it's so much of an unusual series you can't even present it with a trailer.

Oi @RDFozz, watch that sometime and tell me what you think :)

Stormblessed

3:47 AM

Was the The Death of Superman movie good?

I never read the comics, but it sounds interesting

@Jenayah figure you might’ve seen it

Marvin

0

Q: How old are Richard and Kahlan?

The protagonists of the Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind are Richard and Kahlan. How are they throughout the course of the series, especially during the events of the first book, Wizards First Rule?

the-sword-of-truth

Marvin

4:12 AM

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Q: What "person" is Ebony Maw referring to?

In Avengers Infinity War (2018), Ebony Maw says to Dr Strange, who wears necklace with Time stone on it: In all the time I've served Thanos...I have never failed him. If I were to reach our rendezvous on Titan...with the Time Stone still attached to your vaguely irritating person... ther...

marvel-cinematic-universe avengers-infinity-war

Stormblessed

4:46 AM

I noticed Sanderson uses "maladroit" three or more times in Mistborn 1

Kinda weird, I just read the book and didn't know what it meant

Stormblessed

5:09 AM

Mis-tagged

Did we decide we should murder goblins?

Mithrandir

@Jenayah first-age is a valid tag

In Tolkien context, it refers to a specific period of time, mostly dealt with by stories in The Silmarillion, Lost Tales, and Unfinished Tales It's a valid domain of expertise.

Marvin

6:46 AM

2

Q: Why did Tywin never remarry

With all of Tywin Lannister's talk of protecting the family legacy why did he never remarry after the death of his wife? He was still relatively young at the time and there are examples of older lords taking new brides. It seems odd that he wouldn't try for more children seeing as he believes onl...

game-of-thrones

Jenayah

8:23 AM

@Stormblessed it's alright

@Mithrandir m'ok. Figured if it never made it past one question, it was because people didn't feel a need for it

TheLethalCarrot

9:00 AM

I doubt people do feel the need for it but it is a valid tag as it stands

It's not a great tag and it has potential to be misused but I don't think it needs nuking

Jenayah

K then

Needs a wiki

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Q: Can i include AI in my web app development

We are the one of the best web app developers in India and us, can i include AI technologies in my web app development.

support bug mobile-web mobile-app websites

Did you mean "one of the worst spammers" instead? — Glorfindel 3 mins ago

Boom

TheLethalCarrot

Lol

TBF it's not an overly poor spam attempt

Jenayah

GoT one from a couple months ago was sneakier

TheLethalCarrot

I probably saw it but can't remember it right now

Jenayah

Sec

scifi.stackexchange.com/a/199032/98028

TheLethalCarrot

9:16 AM

Oh yeah I remember it was one of the better attempts

Ruined by the fact they did the same thing on multiple sites with only 1 post

I mean it was still spotted without that but that certainly didn't help

Jenayah

9:36 AM

ayup

Marvin

1

Q: Sci fi book, secret space cop

UK paperback, possibly early eighties. This man goes to the used spaceship dealership. The salesman shows him many types but his eyes are continually drawn to a beat up old heap in the corner which he eventually buys. He takes it for a familiarisation cruise and finds a lot of strange tech hidd...

story-identification

Jenayah

10:39 AM

1

A: 70s science fiction book series with intelligent alien dinosaurs/dumb Earth dinosaurs

Having found an image of the book, this fits your description so I will change my comment to an answer. Although not a (long) series as far as I know, the T-Rex characters could be from The Second Experiment by J O Jeppson (Mrs Asimov). The book was published in 1974 and there was a sequel 'The L...

I'm a simple person. I see a winged T-Rex on a spaceship, I upvote. — Jenayah 1 min ago

Marvin

11:14 AM

2

Q: Why did Shae (falsely) implicate Sansa?

In S4E6, during the trial where Tyrion is accused of regicide, Shae provides a false testimony to the jury. The question why Shae betrayed Tyrion has already been covered, but I haven’t found anything about Shae betraying Sansa. During the testimony, Shae says things like SHAE: I know that he...

game-of-thrones a-song-of-ice-and-fire

Derpy

Morning

Jenayah

@Derpy oi

Derpy

Been thinking to post a question about Christmas Carol, but I am not sure there is actual ground to answer it.

I don't know if there is any actual published material outside the original book that could better explain what Dickens view was.

any form of commentary or such.

TheLethalCarrot

Ask the question, maybe someone else does or can find it

Jenayah

Well the whole point of the question is learning if there is, innit?

TheLethalCarrot

11:28 AM

If you don't ask you'll never know

Derpy

Maybe you can help me to shape it to be more appropriate

Jenayah

sure

Derpy

Basically, what I wanted to ask is the following.

I noticed that most of the adaptations of the book follow the story "pretty closely" in regard to the last Ghost.

Marvin

0

Q: Show about 5 teens who all have elemental powers and turn into different humanoid creatures

I loved this show but it's REALLY bugging me as I don't know the name.... I remember it being animated and in the morning, in the year 2011 or around that. The plot was about 1 teen girl with blonde hair and 4 boys they went to a school and were alerted when they had a mission they went to this...

tv

Derpy

First Scrooge sees the scene with the "unknown" dead rich man, then he is made aware of Tiny Tim death and finally he sees his grave.

The event order makes it so that the final result is that he appears more worried about his destiny than Tim one.

There are a few adaptations that (probably unintentionally) skip the part where "Scrooge" sees HIS death, instead focusing on the collateral damage he caused.

I wonder if there is any reasoning behind that. I mean, to me the change actually helps the moral of the story. But I wonder if that was something that Dickens ever considered.

TheLethalCarrot

11:34 AM

@Jenayah damnit the banner didn't show so I just spent ages editing that for no reason -_-

Jenayah

welll, leave the guidelines comment ;p

TheLethalCarrot

Meh It's good enough it doesn't really need it

Jenayah

always useful

Jenayah

11:54 AM

@Marvin French-Italian show, but doesn't have a French Wikipedia page

logic

TheLethalCarrot

Get cracking then ;P

Jenayah

nevermind

it's just not mapped on the English Wikipedia page for some reason

woah, the french page is super unhelpful

TheLethalCarrot

3 mins ago, by TheLethalCarrot

Get cracking then ;P

Jenayah

Wifi's too slow for that

I need a text description

Jenayah

12:19 PM

this show is a mess

all series have the same name but they don't have the same exact story

streaming site has one episode being labeled 3rd season and same episode is labeled pilot on French site

wtf

music is catchy tho

> The television series, Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return!, was co-produced by Giochi Preziosi and Marathon Media and based on the original Gormiti characters.[...] It consisted of three seasons, Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return!, Gormiti: The Supreme Eclipse Era! and Gormiti: The Neorganic Evolution.

These threee seasons are considered separate series depending on the websites -_______-

Derpy

@Jenayah it is franchise based animation, did you expect any better?

Jenayah

point taken

Marvin

1:05 PM

0

Q: Pacific Rim: helicoptor mounted plasma guns

In Pacific Rim (2013), one of the Jaegers - Gypsy Danger - has some arm mounted plasma guns, which seem to be really effective agains the Kaiju. My question is, is there anything in-universe preventing them from just mounting similar plasma guns on a fleet of helicoptors which would be infinately...

pacific-rim jaeger

Jenayah

Dude, I like the Pacific Rim movies, but if you're looking for any common sense for anything in those movies you're going to be disappointed — Binary Worrier 5 mins ago

^ genius of the day

Derpy

@Jenayah apparently he never watched Gurren Lagan then...

Jenayah

1:20 PM

eh, all I know of that is big robots

Marvin

1:37 PM

0

Q: How Did Professor Quirrell's Office Look Like?

Starting in the second Harry Potter book, Harry becomes quite familiar with the interiors of the DADAs' offices and how the current occupant decorates it. Do we ever have an inclination on how Professor Quirrell decorated the office while he was DADA teacher?

harry-potter defence-against-the-dark-arts

Derpy

2:06 PM

@Jenayah "big"

just a little chart, for your future reference.

Jenayah

yeah it's a big robot

The Rasmus - Drum (Lyric Video)

►

Derpy

@Jenayah one of the few anime that can put Dragonball Z / Super nonsensical power levels to shame.

> Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is 52.8 billion light years tall, according to the official guide book from GAINAX (仕事魂). This makes it about 57% the size of the observable universe, which spans 93 billion light years.

After transforming into its drill form, its size is multiplied significantly, since its Super Tengen Toppa Giga Drill is at least ten times longer (528 billion light years), and about four times wider. This gives it a cone area over 180 times the size of the Super Tengen Toppa, and the size of over 100 universes.

Jenayah

Y'know for me DBZ is mainly just fighting with lots of screaming and straight lines :P

@Derpy but yeah these guys never heard of square cube law

Derpy

@Jenayah that thing already had reality warping powers before reaching that point. It could create matter and alter probability like not even the Improbability Engine could.

Jenayah

ahah

logic gets buried under ten tons of nonsense

Marvin

2:24 PM

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Q: Which was the first story to feature helmets which reads your mind to control a machine?

In Pacific Rim (2013), a similar idea to this was featured. A helmet connected to your head and a suit connected to your spine allowed a human brain-machine interface, but apparently mostly in the other way, what the Jaeger was doing was transfered as feelings to the pilot, and they also shared t...

history-of

Stormblessed

@Mithrandir should goblins die?

Jenayah

@Stormblessed it's got two HP questions, I say we kill it

Stormblessed

@Jenayah How'd you do that so fast lol

That took 37 seconds

Jenayah

hm?

goblin is still up, your tag doesn't bring anything 'cause it's plural

TheLethalCarrot

If you don't want to bump the posts can always ask a mod to merge it with HP

Stormblessed

2:32 PM

@Jenayah oh oops

@Randal'Thor Would you please merge goblin with harry-potter? Thanks a lot!

Skooba

@Stormblessed just a reminder, mark-down editing doesn't work in tag wiki excerpts

Stormblessed

@Skooba Oops, forgot that thanks

Jenayah

@Skooba cough Improve Edit button cough

TheLethalCarrot

I usually add " around the work name the tag is about, * really accomplishes the same thing so doesn't need to be changed

Stormblessed

Made it better

TheLethalCarrot

2:41 PM

@StormblessedNever "assume" things when editing a story id... it isn't necessarily a novel at all

Stormblessed

@TheLethalCarrot But it looks weird and glitchy

Skooba

@Jenayah but doesn't that reject the original user's edit?

Stormblessed

@Skooba No

TheLethalCarrot

Improve and Edit vs Reject and Edit

Jenayah

@Skooba no, there's the Reject And Edit button for that one

Skooba

2:42 PM

ah

well

I learned something too

:P

kingsman

I love the internet sometimes

Stormblessed

How should I burn this? There's one question on it, but it's closed as off-topic and essentially that says that Kingsman is off-topic here

TheLethalCarrot

2:48 PM

Searched it for this if you were wondering

Probably with a bunch of these. — TheLethalCarrot 1 min ago

Stormblessed

???

It has one question, but it was migrated

Why does it still show up here?

Jenayah

@Stormblessed you ask whether >10k reppers want to cast a delete vote on it... It's got mine ;)

poke @TheLethalCarrot ^ ?

TheLethalCarrot

@Stormblessed Questions don't delete when they get migrated

Stormblessed

@TheLethalCarrot So we can't kill the tag?

TheLethalCarrot

I don't know, migrated questions are an awkward business

Stormblessed

2:53 PM

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Q: Why wasn't Gazelle affected in Kingsman?

Toward the end of Kingsman: The Secret Service, when Eggsy was infiltrating the bad guy's HQ. But it seems Gazelle is unaffected, despite having been shown earlier to have the implant that made it possible. We know from The Golden Circle that But I didn't see anything similar going on w...

kingsman

@whoeverwantstohelpus Please vote to delete this, it's keeping an off-topic tag alive

TheLethalCarrot

I thought we'd already said that...

Stormblessed

@TheLethalCarrot Just giving a direct link

Jenayah

While e're on this...

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Q: Why didn't this person kill this other person in Kick-Ass 2?

In 'Kick-Ass 2' The Motherf***er and his gang go to Colonel Stars and Stripes living quarters and they proceed to: But, when they go to 'Night Bitches' house The Motherf***er and his gang After they did what they did to Colonel Stars and Stripes The Motherf***er issued a warning to all oth...

kickass

^ Kick-Ass is superhero but not really no-topic...

Skooba

why would kick-ass be off topic?

TheLethalCarrot

Doesn't it have super healing or something?

Been a while since I've watched it so can't quite remember

Skooba

2:57 PM

if batman is on-topic, kickass is

Jenayah

He doesn't?

As far as I'm aware

@Skooba Batman faces mystic stuff

and teams up with Justice Leaguers

Kick-Ass just faces violent people, per my recollection of the movie and comics

Stormblessed

@Jenayah Also he's super-rich

Jenayah

Haven't caught up with the newest series, though.

TheLethalCarrot

> After recovering, he gains a capacity to endure pain and enhanced durability due to having some bones replaced with metal.

Potential for super ability I suppose

Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot arf that?

Skooba

2:58 PM

but its all about the obsession with the comics

Jenayah

That's meh

TheLethalCarrot

I don't really see why it's off topic

Jenayah

@Skooba I'm obsessed with comics, that doesn't make me on-topic :P

Stormblessed

Same

scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/142108

Skooba

@Jenayah if they make a movie about your obession it will be

Jenayah

3:00 PM

@Skooba gotta speak about it with my agent

Skooba

@TheLethalCarrot yeah they are all dressed in superhero costumes etc, even if they don't have real superpowers the theme fits

TheLethalCarrot

@Stormblessed Calm down with the post edits

Stormblessed

Oh, the homepage seems very blessed

I'll slow down

Jan 9 at 0:13, by Jenayah

@Stormblessed [story-identification] short film is:q -[short-film] -[novel] -[books] is a better query (trims it down to 87 potential results)

Remember this great query!

Jenayah

Feb 14 at 15:17, by Jenayah

If you're looking for unhelpful titles to fix: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+title%3Alook‌ing+title%3Aread+title%3Abook

Feb 14 at 17:58, by Stormblessed

Better query: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3Aquestion

Donald.McLean

Greetings, Earthlings.

Skooba

3:11 PM

Greetings!

Jenayah

@Donald.McLean Greetings, Hubble guy!

scifi.stackexchange.com/…

Donald.McLean

Looking for the Giant Chicken

Jenayah

@Donald.McLean there's never enough at the canteen.

TheLethalCarrot

And SE capped again

Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot so strongly tempted to go on a tag wiki edit spree just to make you grumble

Donald.McLean

3:15 PM

@Jenayah Yeah, we use so much chicken at our house that we're constantly running out. But seriously, that's a great question title.

TheLethalCarrot

Well if Storm keeps it up I'll be grumbling anyway haha

Jenayah

Keep up the good work @Stormblessed :D

TheLethalCarrot

C'mon let me at ya!

FWIW though Storm when all these edits get approved you will be massively over the 5 in 15 so you should take a break

Especially cos it's flooded the home page with lots of old stuff

Jenayah

Rejected the last one actually... scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/142115

TheLethalCarrot

I would but...

Stormblessed

3:19 PM

You know, I’ve always thought my username sounds like I think ridiculously highly of myself, anyone else think that?

Jenayah

Not really

Skooba

It reminds me of the pteranodons from The Good Dinosaur

Stormblessed

@Skooba how so?

Skooba

The storm provides

they are blessed by the storm

stormblessed

Stormblessed

Aha!

I just took it from “Kaladin Stormblessed”, the main character in The Way of Kings

Jenayah

3:24 PM

My username sounded super cool when I created it some ten years ao and I recnetly discovered it means "crime" in Malay

Skooba

my first ever user name on AOL was Metrostar.... as I was a fan of the New York Metrostar's soccer team. I was quickly introduced to internet culture when I kept getting asked if i was gay

I was like, is it gay to like soccer? Then I figured it out.....

Jenayah

I don't get it

Stormblessed

@Jenayah I always assumed it was just your name

Skooba

Also might be a part of the reason the soccer team is now the Red Bulls... but I guess corporate sponsorship probably had more to do with it

Stormblessed

@Skooba ?

Jenayah

3:28 PM

@Stormblessed nope

Derpy

@Jenayah nor do I, but I am also somehow thinking we may not want to know?

Skooba

@Jenayah metrosexuals. which is supposedly straight men with gay tendencies or rather qualities gay men exhibit like fashion and what not

Derpy

Atlas, as a side notice, this reminded me of the whole "Barbie Oreo" incident.

Skooba

so people thought it was short for metrosexual star

Jenayah

@Derpy well if it can prevent me from doing a blunder I guess so, but at Skooba's discretion

Skooba

3:30 PM

i dunno it was weird

I never understood it either, and i droppd the name after about 2 years.

Jenayah

m'ok

Skooba

right after Big Daddy came out

Rand al'Thor

3:48 PM

@Stormblessed It might actually be useful to have a goblin tag, like we have aliens and vampire and so on. But if it's just used on two questions from a single book series, meh, gone.

TheLethalCarrot

Echoes my thinking on it

Jenayah

king on it.. it.. it...

TheLethalCarrot

b'dum tsss

Jenayah

4:08 PM

so what do we do about this

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A: Please help replace links to non-Stack Imgur images

Nope. What you are proposing is that people mass copy images they may have no idea of who's ownership: that's a big no no. I didn't check them, but I guess/hope Slytherincess images were all produced and owned by her in first place so that she had all the rights to publish them on Flickr, and t...

TheLethalCarrot

Like what?

Matt E. Эллен

I agree, you can't just take other people's images without permission

Jenayah

dunno, maybe someone "higher up" can provide guidance on whether we're allowed to host all these Wikia stuff on Stack Imgur

@MattE.Эллен apart from Flickr

Matt E. Эллен

you'll have to check the license of each image

Jenayah

plus of Flickr it's just the normal thing to do to leave a link to the soucre

TheLethalCarrot

4:11 PM

A lot of the images probably aren't copyrighted to where they are currently linked to

Jenayah

?

Matt E. Эллен

that seems likely

TheLethalCarrot

For example, most images will probably be screenshots from a show of film, the copyright wouldn't be to where the image is hosted such as someone's blog but the work's copyright holder... I imagine anyway

Again IANAL and my knowledge of law sucks

Matt E. Эллен

yeah, tbf my copyright understanding is layman.

Stormblessed

@TheLethalCarrot that’s true; we’d mostly be stealing indirectly

I think

TheLethalCarrot

4:24 PM

I imagine fair use applies and that screenshots are fine to reproduce anyway... as long as you cite what work it's from etc. but I'm not sure

@Jenayah If he floods it an enormous amount, by our standards, I'll get an extra 20 ;P

Jenayah

mh?

TheLethalCarrot

On SO if the queue goes above 150 there is a dynamic limit up to 40... I imagine that applies to all sites

Jenayah

oh alright

TheLethalCarrot

Something I've been meaning to look into for a while and never bothered to actually so the cap two days in a row forced me to see why it happens haha

Jenayah

4:39 PM

Kinda happy of how I found this one:

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A: Post-apocalyptic webcomic. Hero is a former doctor turned android, named something like Abe or Aron

Pretty sure what you're after is Dogma by Kemi, hosted on Lezhin. A world where machines yearn to understand and become humans and where one human seeks to become as strong and indestructible as these machines. A jam-packed action SF that will blow your mind away. I can only read the firs...

Jenayah

4:53 PM

oooh and it's my 100th story-ID answer :D

TheLethalCarrot

Jenayah

That could actually totally be me

TheLethalCarrot

Lol, never look down the ~~barrell~~ "bottle hole"

Bottle neck? I dunno what it's called haha

Rand al'Thor

@Jenayah Grats!

Maybe you'll be our next gold-badger ...

Jenayah

FINALLY! someone helped me on other forum. For those curious its called ,,dogma,, :D thank you all for the time guys! — Alex 4 mins ago

GRMGTMKHGMTYLILNHR

I posted my answer before that grmbl

TheLethalCarrot

4:58 PM

@TheLethalCarrot I was looking for a generic party poppers/streamers gif but that one was too good not to post haha

Jenayah

hesitant to post a comment after that xD

TheLethalCarrot

Well you got my UV for it being correct and being quite a clever idea of finding it :)

Alex

@Jenayah How about a disclaimer that that's a different Alex?

Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot :D

Rand al'Thor

@Jenayah @Alex has a sock?

Jenayah

5:00 PM

yeah yeah we see your multicounts ;)

@Randal'Thor one per feet

TheLethalCarrot

How many feet does he have?

Alex

@Jenayah That would be kind of uncomfortable.

Jenayah

@TheLethalCarrot wrong link mate

TheLethalCarrot

Oh that link doesn't add the search...

Just type alex ;P

Rand al'Thor

@TheLethalCarrot Did you mean?

Jenayah

5:02 PM

Jan 22 at 2:00, by Jenayah

@FuzzyBoots it's on my to-do list for 2019... :)

TheLethalCarrot

Yeah just worked it out manually

Thanks for beating me to it :P

Rand al'Thor

Goddammit he's a centipede!

Alex

@Randal'Thor Wow. People with the name Alex are apparently not very successful here.

Jenayah

@Alex or you're taking all the spotlight

Rand al'Thor

@Alex Nah, just most of them are ported over from SO or other sites.

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Q: There are at least three Kevins on Puzzling. I plan to trap them in my labyrinth

Note: please do not edit the title! It originates in a challenge in Stack Overflow chat. I have rounded up all ten (currently) of the Puzzling SE users named Kevin and trapped them in my labyrinth. The only way out is across a narrow bridge which can bear the weight of at most two Kevins at a ti...

strategy story

Alex

5:04 PM

Well it's better this way.

TheLethalCarrot

Carrot's are pretty damn successful at a mean of ~21.9k

2

Jenayah

The funny thing being, Fuzzy's convinced I already have it:

Jan 22 at 2:00, by FuzzyBoots

@Jenayah I think it's a good idea. Kind of a pain, moving all of the links over, but you have the gold badge for story-id, right?

Rand al'Thor

Heh.

Jenayah

Which reminds me that thing never got sorted

Rand al'Thor

I guess when you have 800 story-ID answers, it's hard to see the difference between 100 and 200 all the way down there.

Jenayah

5:06 PM

poke @Randal'Thor can you take a look at this? v

Jan 21 at 22:22, by Jenayah

Hmm... I improved my Kaijudo answer (this one). The current dupe-target for this series is https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/162516/98028 which is a terse question and kinda terse answer. @FuzzyBoots, do you think it's reasonable to change the dupe-target to the new question?

Jan 21 at 22:22, by Jenayah

I mean admittedly I'm bragging a bit but my answer is the most complete out of the three acepted ones :P

@Randal'Thor :P

Rand al'Thor

Urgh. Sorry, haven't got time just now to analyse a bunch of story-ID answers for comparative quality.

Jenayah

Ok, then just trust me. My answer is the best out of the three. 0:)

Marvin

6:05 PM

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Q: Dramoine on a spell's name

I want to find a Dramione fan fic which I think is on a spell's name. In it Draco and Hermione are paired for potions. They create a potion of empathy link or something like that. They try to find a cure by deciphering the journal of a lady who had the same problem with her and her rival. Draco a...

story-identification harry-potter fan-fiction dramione

Stormblessed

@Jenayah yours is better than Valorum’s

Jenayah

totally :P

@Marvin what's "a spell's name" anyway, a HP fanfic site? Google doesn't yield anything obvious so far.

@Alex rings a bell maybe? Since you used to read some of those apparently

I'd have someone else for HP fanfic sites but y'know... ;p

Alex

@Jenayah Never heard of such a thing. It might just mean that it's about the name of a spell. (I only ever read fanfiction on mugglenet.)

Jenayah

okay then

Alex

@Jenayah ?

Jenayah

6:22 PM

@Alex would've asked Neo Darwin instead, but they're currently... unavailable.

(as the guy seemed pretty versed into HP fanfic)

Alex

@Jenayah So if I want you to not ask me questions all I have to do is violate some rule or other?

Jenayah

@Alex well if you get suspended I can't really ping you, can I?

Alex

@Jenayah It shouldn't be too hard for you to find me in a different room.

Unless I got suspended network-wide.

Then you'd just have to find the place where I gave an email adress.

Jenayah

@Alex I'd be uncomfortable pinging you about HP fanfiction in Mi Yoedya's chatroom.

Alex

@Jenayah You wouldn't have to mention the topic there. You could just ask if you could communicate with me elsewhere.

Jenayah

6:26 PM

hmpf. True.

Alex

I own a couple of rooms.

Which makes me wonder...

Why one was deleted for inactivity and the other one wasn't.

Even though the deleted one had a lot more activity, and more recently.

TheLethalCarrot

@Niffler why’d you remove the character ID tag? It’s still character ID...

Adamant

@Jenayah Is there an Orthodox Jewish version of Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles?

Jenayah

eh?

Adamant

Maybe it would be on topic then.

Alex

6:33 PM

@Adamant There's a question there about Harry Potter:

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Q: Would Harry Potter be killed as a sorcerer?

Before asking my question, I'd like to make it clear that this is being asked in all seriousness, and not as some form of satire or "Purim Torah". I think there is a precedent for asking halachic questions based on fictional works – as Dave pointed out elsewhere, R' Zevin has a classic article on...

halacha gentiles books-generally sorcery-magic-kishuf

Jenayah

He-who-must-not-be-named should be referred to as Yemach Shemo — Clint Eastwood Jan 8 '14 at 2:15

this got some upvotes but I don't get the joke... care to explain? :)

(if it is indeed a joke)

Alex

@Jenayah It's not exactly a joke.

More a reference.

Jenayah

ah?

Alex

Yemach Shemo is a Hebrew phrase.

Which means "his name should be erased".

It is often appended to the names of historical figures who were considered particularly evil.

Adamant

People say it about Haman and whatever

Alex

6:36 PM

So you might often hear someone say "Hitler yemach shemo".

Jenayah

Oh

oh, indeed, that's not a joke :/

Alex

So the comment is basically comparing Voldemort to the wicked people throughout the generations.

In a somewhat amusing way.

Since Voldemort's name is anyway "erased".

By calling him "He Who Must Not Be Named".

@Adamant Particularly apropos for today's Hebrew date.

Adamant

It's funny because Kabbalah and folklore are full of effectively, sorcerers.

They get their powers by being righteous rabbis, but still....

Alex

@Adamant Are you Jewish? Or just knowledgeable? (Feel free not to answer.)

Adamant

Well, I do like to think I'm knowledgeable.

But anyway, yeah, I believe I can find a good example.

@Alex - Actually, you might know one. What's an example of a Kabbalistic Rabbi who used "practical Kabbalah" f o r something other than imminent danger?

Alex

6:46 PM

@Adamant Well there are all sorts of legends, but I can't tell you if any of them are true.

Niffler

@TheLethalCarrot i thought the character ID tag was kinda pushing it, seeing as it's not actually a character but rather an illustration

Adamant

@Alex Well, naturally.

Ah, doesn't the Talmud claim that Rava created a human with mystical techniques?

I see a source that claims it but I can't find the original

Alex

@Adamant But many stories involving no threat of imminent danger are usually about secret knowledge the practitioner was able to divine. There are a bunch of stories about miraculous travels.

Adamant

@Alex Yes, exactly, that's the sort I'm thinking of.

Marvin

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Q: Which was the first story to feature space elevators?

In many very popular sci-fi anime stories, there are "space elevators", or, in other words, a giant tower which allows to transport people and/or objects from the surface of Earth to space. Some of these stories where they appear are Gundam (Gundam Reconguista in G (2014) , Mobile Suit Gundam 00 ...

history-of space-elevator

Adamant

6:52 PM

So maybe Harry isn't a sorcerer but rather knowledgeable about the techniques used by these Kabbalists.

;)

Alex

@Adamant But for the record, "kabbalah" at least in name is a long post-Talmudic phenomenon.

Adamant

@Alex I'm aware. But Jewish mysticism isn't.

TheLethalCarrot

@Niffler well it’s an illustration of a character. I’d say the tag is appropriate but up to you

Alex

@Adamant True. But then there's a school of Jewish rationalists that reinterpret virtually anything smacking of mysticism.

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