Thanks to all of you for weighing in here. We hear you and we're going to make this change pretty soon - apologies for the delay and the imprecise plans but let me tell you about it.
There's one element that didn't get shipped with the HNQ update that I think will really help all sites - but par...
In Kubrick's movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey (IMDb), the computer HAL is heard to sing the song "Daisy Bell" (aka "A Bicycle Built for Two") as David Bowman is disconnecting HALs higher memory functions.
I just happened to run across a real recording of a real IBM computer singing the same song in ...
After both his father and brother (who was the heir) executed in Season 7, how come that Samwell Tarly didn't become the new head of the House, i.e. Lord of Horn Hill?
I would expect the remaining house leaders to have sent Sam a message letting him know of what happened and asking him to come b...
This was asked elsewhere but the querent has never been back. It has, however, got me very curious as to the answer.
Please note: I can't answer anything on the content as I'm not the OP
looking for this book had humans genetically engineered with different animals genes to withstand harsh p...
This question says the wizarding world believed Harry Potter lived with muggles, but maybe that is all that most wizards knew about his location.
How secret was Harry Potter's home in Little Whinging and with the Dursleys?
The Weasley twins knew Harry Potter lived. (Maybe Harry told them and Ro...
I like story-identification. While the questions are sometimes bad, some are really well written and fun to look for. However, fan-fiction identifications are...subpar most of the time. Many are just one line or two, and they tend to be badly written. Additionally, a lot of them are just Drarry f...
I like story-identification. While the questions are sometimes bad, some are really well written and fun to look for. However, fan-fiction identifications are...subpar most of the time. Many are just one line or two, and they tend to be badly written. Additionally, a lot of them are just Drarry f...
I saw this movie when I was a kid around the early-to-mid '80-s - I only remember a few details of it but what I do remember left quite an impression so I'd like to find it and watch it again.
Here are the things I recall:
I think the movie was made in the late '60-s or '70-s (visually it was ...
I'm trying to find the Batman comic that centered around Clayface and a death cult made up of teenage horror fans.
Anyone know the story, and/or what the comic was, or the number of the comic, if it was a Batman story?
When Harry was on the Hogwarts Express trying to look through Draco’s belongings, how was nobody bumping into Harry when everyone was getting off?
In the WoW expansion "Battle for Azeroth", players finally visit the legendary Zandalari Empire. Horde players meet its king, Rastakhan, eventually even
During the quest to do so, players witness the following exchange between Rezan (Loa of Kings) and Bwonsamdi (Loa of Death):
Rezan: The L...
Since the Triwizard Tournament is the biggest competition in the wizard world, why would it be so easy for someone to bewitch it? Also if Harry was able to say Accio to the Triwizard Cup, why didn’t Harry or Cedric say it when they both had been running for it in the maze?
I want to know the answer to the below question, based on your understanding from the TV show.
If Bran is the 3-eyed-raven/old man on the tree that was inside the cave in season 4 and 5.
1) How did the old man get there, was that old man like an illusion, i don't think it's an illusion because...
At the end of Incredibles 2, Elastigirl was surprised by Jack Jack's powers. Mr. Incredible said she missed his first 17 powers. However, we the audience saw these powers. He was asleep when most of the powers were displayed.
I know Edna demonstrated some of them when Mr. Incredible went to p...
A couple of days ago I came across this comic strip.
It's about an alternate world where a human dresses up like a bot and tries to infiltrate a bot community or something, then he is blocked by a door that says "prove you are not a human: enter the value of pi".
You can see bots walking in pai...
In season 8 episode 1, Arya asks Gendry to forge her a dragon glass weapon (which we can see written).
What is the purpose of this weapon?
Grindelwald was arrested at the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, so how did Dumbledore defeat him to get the Elder Wand?
I'm trying to remember the name of a fantasy book I read a while back (10 years ago).
There was a male protagonist who was some kind of "chosen one" and a succubus-type character who was after his "seed" for some grand purpose.
I think the book ended with the succubus having sex with him and ac...
Game of Thrones season 8 started and it comes with a new intro, where we see the wall, Winterfell, and kings landing only. And they made some difference in the sigil.
It looks like a lion is eating a fish, next a wolf is hanging dead, and then a man is holding the head of a lion(I am not sure)...
I'm looking for a book that I think I read about forty years ago. About a number of patients in a coma ward that lived in subconscious world run by another powerful patient also in a coma .. somehow they are all linked together.
While title wasnt QB VII, it was something similar.
Any help appr...
Saw this in the 90s, though could have been made in the 80s
Boy meets a scientist, who can open a portal to different worlds
They are being chased by an evil scientist, who wants to destroy the world. He follows them from world to world, attacking them.
Each movie (or TV series? I can't remembe...
At the end of Thor: Ragnarok, the Asgardians are heading for the Bifrost when they are intercepted by Hela's soldiers and Fenris.
After they are all destroyed and only Hela herself remained, the Asgardians still jumped onto Loki's ship instead of heading to the Bifrost which would have teleport...
Robert Baratheon rebelled against the Mad King and took the Throne of the Seven Kingdoms.
Doesn't this legally set the heir to the throne to the Baratheon family by right of conquest?
Both Stannis and Renly claimed to be the legal heirs to the trone.
Since Gendry is the only son of Robert alive...
For example, if Arya were to wear the face of someone considerably larger than her, would she look convincing or ridiculously ill-proportioned?
I remember reading this in a college English class about 20 years ago. The elements I can remember are:
Cinderella's mother was killed by the king because she was a witch.
Both Cinderella and her mother had red hair, this was a sign that they were witches.
Cinderella used ashes in her hair to h...
In which Sirius rescues Harry when he is a kid, walks to his uncle's cabin, and uses a "cooking wand"?
That's all I can remember.
Potter world has dragons, trolls, goblins and elves.
But what's missing is one of the other main races of any good role-playing game swords-and-sorcery world - dwarfs (their niche seemingly being filled by goblins).
Is there any good reason?
I'd strongly prefer a canon or JKR answer, though st...
Robin Hobb towards the end of the "Realm of the Elderlings" series called a group of dragons something and I can't for the life of me remember what it was or find it in said books or online. Anyone know what it was?
This particular comic was written in the honor/memory of some lady who was leaving DC comics.
I read it in mid-80's so it can't be newer than that.
It was about the history of humans but (if I remember correctly) it started in the modern time period. It showed (or at least mentioned) the destru...
