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12:01 AM
@Alex Don't tell me this complete and utter bullshit rewording is really causing people to go on some stupid rampage for closing questions that aren't actually opinion-based.
 
@NapoleonWilson I doubt it’s the reason. I also don’t know that there’s actually been a real rampage.
 
AND IT'S A GENIUS CAMEO
Sorry, I'm just too excited right now :D
 
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Q: What was thor eating in avengers endgame?

EricalldayWe see thor laid back in the beginning of Avengers endgame. He seems to be chewing something. Any clues as to what it was?

 
 
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2:52 AM
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Q: If Captain America had been sent to Vormir to get the Soul Stone, would Red Skull have tried to kill him?

user255577Say that in an alternate version of the movie Avengers: Endgame, Captain America is sent with Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, to retrieve the Soul Stone on the planet Vormir. Say the result is the same with Natasha sacrificing herself so that Captain America will go on living and help to rever...

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Q: What made the Trill responsible for symbiotes?

Hollis HortonAre all symbiotes from Trill and are they native to someplace else?

 
3:15 AM
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Q: Star Trek story with giant Borg

Shawn V. WilsonI'm looking for the title of a Star Trek novel in which the heroes encounter a Borg drone who was about three meters tall. I think the heroes were Kirk and Picard (which implies this is a Shatnerverse story), and the scene may have taken place at a Federation starbase that had been assimilated.

 
 
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Q: OTR Radio - spaceship self destruct to avoid city

lucasbachmannLooking for old time radio show OTR story with this plot. A passenger spaceship for some reason has to make the choice to self destruct because if it doesn't it will impact a major city and be like small extinction level asteroid crash. I don't think this was a normal episode of a series like d...

 
6:42 AM
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Q: searching for a specific harry potter fanfiction

stinky spellmanaround 5 years back i found a fic that i loved, before i discovered the joys of bookmarking. i can’t remember the title or the author, but i do recall what it was about. snape was walking the halls at night when he discovered two students who then hexed him, causing him to go blind. ron is also w...

 
 
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8:31 AM
@TheLethalCarrot cough 7/15 :-)
(I didn't check what you were editing, just noticed your name a lot on the front page)
 
Oh woops didn't realise
Forgot about the ones from earlier on
 
8:44 AM
Also should have edited that question before I answered it
 
Do you guys happen to know examples of answers to story-id questions that weren't what OP was looking for but still helped someone, whether the OP or some other user? I'd like to argue on meta that we shouldn't mark story-id questions as dups, but the best example for such an answer I know is mine scifi.stackexchange.com/a/96703/4918 and I don't want to use only my answer as the argument.
 
Not many to be fair, it's usually just "well it could help someone"
Though not a good idea in my opinion, currently 1543 duplicate story id questions
 
@TheLethalCarrot Yes, and we already have an established policy that we keep answers other than what the OP marks as correct, which helps.
 
Keep them afterwards, generally frowned upon if answered after the OP accepts an answer
 
8:59 AM
Or a new answer to an existing meta question if there's one that fits this.
@TheLethalCarrot Right, so I should at least make a meta post where people can argue for or against closing.
 
As far as I know in practice most people agree with the current process but you could make a meta again on it
TBH I don't see the problem in closing them though
 
 
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11:09 AM
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Q: Is this a real Indian fairy tale about a monkey who changes colour and marries a princess?

Rand al'ThorIn R. K. Narayan's short story "A Willing Slave" (which I read as part of his 1982 collection Malgudi Days), the nanny Ayah tells a story to the young girl Radha: The Ayah squatted below the cot and narrated the story of the black monkey which rolled in a sack of chalk powder, became white an...

 
 
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1:10 PM
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Q: Which Spider-Man movies do I have to watch in order to start watching MCU?

Random userI have watched only first Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movie and no movies of Spider-Man and MCU other than that.

 
1:32 PM
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Q: Which Star Trek: TNG episodes show the Transporter controls in use?

JeffI have an image in my head of O'Brien operating the transporter, sliding a finger or two up a marked panel towards a round area while saying "Energize". Which TNG Episode is this from? I know there were several TOS episodes which showed physical levers being slid upward to 'energize' the transpo...

 
2:18 PM
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Q: How did Saluus use the portal if it was destroyed?

Banks FanIn the book, Banks mentions early on that the local wormhole (I believe he calls it Arteria) was destroyed 250 years ago, and the system (Ulubis) is awaiting the delivery of a new one, some 17 years down the road. A bit later, he says that the character Saluus went on a galaxy wide pleasure crui...

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Q: Why is Little Ronnie's place not available on the internet if he is so famous?

Willy TopIn Sci-fi Downsizing (2017), Paul and Dusan are discussing Little Ronni's place, which is in Norway: Dusan: Konrad, too. We make business there. Very good business. Paul: Must be something to see. You know you can't even get pictures of it online? Dusan: Yes, my friend. The world ...

 
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Q: Did humans ever return to their former population in The Matrix World?

Markus RutledgeDuring the Machine War, humans nearly went extinct. The last known human city was Zion. Did humans ever return to life before the Machine War, or did they barely live life, being grown in fields, and trying to sustain their dwindling population?

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Q: Is the power of the Shadowmasters ever ranked against the power of the Ten Who Were Taken?

MegalonychidaeThe Shadowmasters and the Taken were both powerful sorcerers. I would guess that they're sort of on the same order of magnitude, since Stormbringer became a Shadowmaster, but I feel like I could be wrong. Does Glen Cook ever directly compare the power of the Taken to the power of the Shadowmaster...

 
 
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Q: Why was Marcel assassinated?

gowenfawrIn Season One of Counterpart and in the Alpha universe, Marcel is promoted from Interchange to Strategy, and shortly thereafter is assassinated by Baldwin Prime. In Season Two, when Howard Silk Alpha is sent to the Echo prison in the Prime universe, he meets Marcel Alpha. Marcel Alpha holds a g...

 
4:46 PM
*poke @Randal'Thor I've been updating links to blueharvest.net to use web.archive replacements, but I can't find one for the link in this answer of yours. I don't know if it requires a link (the source is identified in the quote) but I didn't want to remove it without checking with you.
 
5:08 PM
@DavidW Meh. I have no idea what that site was, and the answer is four years old to a duplicate question in a franchise I don't care about. I just edited out the last line :-) Thanks for checking.
 
6:01 PM
No problem. Simple, direct solution; I like it. :)
 
6:31 PM
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Q: Why does the shaved head girl (Copperhead?) try to kill Marcus?

FuzzyBootsIn the superpowered crime film, Code 8, there's a scene where The Trust's enforcer, a woman with a shaved head and a psychotic mindset, suddenly pulls a gun out and apparently tries to shoot Marcus Sutcliffe, only to have his bodyguard (Rhino?) rank the shots with his powers. Shortly thereafter, ...

 
7:03 PM
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Q: Introducing the Moderator Council - and its first, Pro-tempore, representatives

CatijaWhen I was a moderator, I often referred to moderation on Stack Exchange as being a janitor: cleaning up spam, deleting non-answers, removing rudeness, and eradicating a seemingly-endless stream of comments were the primary day-in-the-life tasks for me. While this term may cover what Jeff expecte...

 
@DavidW It got me a couple of downvotes though ;-)
 
I... am gobsmacked. And sorry. Oops.
 
Eh, don't worry. It's not a great answer anyway.
 
 
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Q: Is there any indication that 2021's "The Batman" and 2019's "Joker" are in the same world?

RusshiroAre these two DC films connected in much the same way Batman V Superman was connected to Suicide Squad? Or were they meant to completely separate takes on characters who happen to be linked in the same universe, such as the DCEU is it's own distinct entity from the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight ...

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Q: Sci Fi movie involving alien brother and sister (not Witch Mountain) with telekinesis powers

MNVCan anyone help me with the title of a movie I can recall. This is what i know: Brother and sister (both aliens) with telekinesis powers They have an alien mother who dies (I believe she dies while giving birth to them) The twins are raised by a female doctor/scientist who experiments on ...

 
 
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11:49 PM
Friendly neighbourhood pedant noting that Rory's diamond count is not unique since he matches ChrisF. (Counterpedant noting that he still has a unique perspective, as much as anyone else, and "the most" could mean "equal most"/"tied for most".) — Rand al'Thor 2 hours ago
May be enough to undo:
Sep 17 '19 at 13:19, by Alex
Mar 3 at 18:05, by Alex
@Jenayah He has been kicked out of the Pedants Club.
 

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