The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

@Jenayah You can't decide whether you're a child prodigy or not. You either are or you aren't. The facts speak for themselves.

What facts? I skipped a class. Doesn't mean I'm some kind of prodigy

Was it Mozart who wrote a symphony at age 8? Now that's a prodigy

@Jenayah That's one piece of evidence.

6:17 PM

Meh I just knew how to read one year earlier, that's not a prodigy

2 mins ago, by Alex

@Jenayah That's one piece of evidence.

Avnish Kabaj

Just don't let your talent go to waste it's bad for plebs like us

good will hunting

Dec 20 '18 at 23:24, by Jenayah

@CorvoAttano I speak French (native language), English (rather fluent), Spanish (not as fluent as English but I could probably live in a Spanish-speaking country without being too lost). I can read and understand very basic Arabic (literary Arabic) and Russian, though I'd need to give both those languages some revision. I can read Greek but can't understand it.

And how would me having archaeologist badge be a prodigy ahah

Plus I wasn't even a child anymore

@Jenayah I'm not the one that made the application here.

Dec 21 '18 at 0:14, by RDFozz

@Jenayah Wise beyond your years....

Q: short story about people who wear things to hinder their ability

6:21 PM

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I remember reading a short story about a dystopia where everything is controlled. It was on a reading list along with The Veldt, Farenheit 451, and 1981. I can't recall a lot about it except a few scenes. A family is "programmed" and people wear things to hinder their physical/intellectual capabi...

@Alex most of those I didn't start while being a child, though, plus I think you overestimate my levels in some of these languages ^^"

@Jenayah Well I don't really have a way to know.

7:07 PM

I hate having questions about something that are completely unanswerable

Like about Skyward

Q: Why is Van Pelt trying to kill Alan?

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In the original Jumanji, during one of Alan's turns and is presented with the following message from the game; A hunter from darkest wild, make you feel just like a child. To which Alan responds, Van Pelt... Van Pelt then appears and immediately open fire on Alan with his rifle and ch...

character-motivation jumanji

There’s only one book so far and one novella set way before, so I can’t really ask about many specific things

Weird you can’t edit bio from mobile

7:30 PM

@Stormblessed You can ask, but you might notget an answer.

Q: Story identification: people hiding and growing wheat under a mountain

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What is the book where a group of people lived underground in a mountain and they had a wheat field with possibly a little opening to the sky? I remember nothing about the actual plot except that maybe the main girl was falling in love with someone she wasn't supposed to and they met in the whea...

young-adult science-fiction-genre

I love Brandon Sanderson’s books, but I don’t really like the lack of order

Like the individual series all make sense, but it’s confusing to not have a specific reading order of the different ones

Q: Show Identification: Every time the man sleeps he wakes up years later

7:55 PM

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This is a show (or short movie) I recall from my childhood. Some details may be inaccurate, but here's what I recall: protagonist is a male Plot: Protagonist is a truck with another man. The other man shows the protagonist something creepy. They get into a wreck. The protagonist wakes alone, an...

Q: Height of Mountain Ranges in Middle Earth

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What are the relative heights of mountain ranges in Middle Earth? And how would they compare to our modern world? I tend to imagine that after the First Age, the highest ranges were the White Mountains and Misty Mountains, comparable to the Rockies or Alps. I imagine that the Ephel Duath were ...

tolkiens-legendarium the-lord-of-the-rings the-silmarillion middle-earth

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Q: Cartoon in which kids compete by fighting as monsters or creatures with special powers in a virtual world

All I remember is that a few kids, I think there were two boys who were best friends and maybe their female friend, would somehow transport to a place where they would compete against other kids in virtual reality by fighting as monsters/creatures with special powers. I believe each character cou...

@Alex Make that -7.

Actually, the latest downvote was on an old question so it's not technically part of the category.

A: Cartoon in which kids compete by fighting as monsters or creatures with special powers in a virtual world

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This sounds vaguely like Legendz, a Pokémon-like anime from 2005. In it, three main kids, two boys and a girl, fight through monsters with others. The “Legendz” monsters seem to grow, too, based on this Amazon listing: ...any kid could raise them and train them to play the ultimate >role-play...

Probably wrong..

@Stormblessed Well, considering that the person who asked it posted a different answer...

@Alex I finished it one second before

@Stormblessed According to the timestamps your answer was posted 3:55 after his/hers.

9:04 PM

Took forever due to phone

Thanks for the upvote, whoever did that

Q: Are Dementors able to kill souls in the afterlife?

9:30 PM

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In the movie The Deathly Hallows Part 2, when Harry was speaking with his parents' souls and other wizards' souls in the woods, if a Dementor had suddenly shown up there, could it have consumed one of the souls speaking to Harry? Moreover, if it is able to consume a soul in the afterlife, would ...

harry-potter movie deathly-hallows

Q: Looking for short story set on alien planet where natives receive memories from brain ingestion

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I read this story around 1996. It was probably no more than 10-15 years old then. It was in an anthology book which may have been Nebula showcase or Hugo winners anthology but may have been an original multiauthor anthology. In the story, a lady is looking for her sister and travels to the pla...

story-identification short-stories

b_jonas

10:21 PM

@Marvin Yeah, even I knew this one because it came up on SFF so often.

Q: How does Alita battle angel manga end?

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I never read the manga but I have just watched the movie and now I'm curious about the next part of story. How does it continue? And, how does it end? Thank you.

manga alita-battle-angel

@Stormblessed partial matches deserve love as well. Upvoted :)

A: Short story about pink animals that are born like pink peppers

11:22 PM

@Jenayah Thanks!

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My Thing Friday by Brian Lumley. From a review: Brian Lumley’s My Thing Friday from the anthology of terror and the macabre Dark Delicacies narrates the tale of Greg Griffiths, the lone survivor of the Albert Einstein: The space ship hailing from the Greater Mars Orbital Station. ...

@Stormblessed Nice catch, that one.

@Valorum If the only criterion being considered is whether being about [u/dys]topia makes it off-topic, then even a meta about a specific question could be considered a dupe of the general policy that answers it. If you want to know whether e.g. it should be closed as too broad for not being detailed enough, that could be a new meta question. — Rand al'Thor ♦ 4 hours ago

Never encountered the [u/days]topia formatting to mean two words with the same suffix. Is it common?

(funnily enough, that's something I could've used earlier today)

@Stormblessed a trailer/clip would improve the answer, by the way :)

@Jenayah weirdly hard to find info

My computer is updating, I’ll maybe do that later :-)

Never heard of it actually

@Stormblessed sure, just saying :) nothing much urgent :)

A: Cartoon in which kids compete by fighting as monsters or creatures with special powers in a virtual world

@Jenayah I knew a little about it because I went to a bookstore once and looked through its giant manga section

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Ohhhhh it's called Chaotic! Nevermind!!

Why aren’t self-answers auto accepted?

@Marvin "people eat brains and get the victim's memories" is probably a common trope, but the first thing that came to mind was Warm Bodies

@Stormblessed couple of reasons; first, you can't accept a self-answer straight away. You have to wait 48 hours after the question is posted (question, not answer)

Second, "the accepted answer shows the one that helped OP the most" etc etc; while you can self-answer your question, it's also very possible that someone else's answer helped you more. Granted, on story-id it's an edgy case, but with technical stuff like SO, it makes sense

And the other side of the medal applies as well. If self-answers were auto-accepted, the checkmark could go to a very dull self-answer (there are some...). Admittedly acceoted self-answersdon't stick to the top, but that'd still be a problem

Q: SF book. Distant section of our galaxy, mankind participates in combat that's like Ender's Game to prevent full scale war

11:51 PM

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It's between 25 and 30 years ago that I read this hardback sci fi story. No cover details come to mind. Story details:- Generations earlier mankind made it to part of the galaxy many light years away. There are a good number of Star systems nearby and (I think) five or six alien races, all at a...