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Discussion on answer by Praxis: What …

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KutuluMike

Aug 9, 2020 19:53

@ThePopMachine The difference between this answer and the others is that these are examples of the phrase "first contact" being used in a non-sci-fi sense; they mean first contact between two human cultures. I assumed, since this is SF&F, you meant first contact with aliens :)

Discussion on question by 1sadtrombon…

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KutuluMike

Nov 27, 2018 19:12

Or more succinctly... is there a difference in the penetrating power between me stabbing you with a sword or me holding a sword stationary while you dive onto it?

KutuluMike

Nov 27, 2018 19:12

Just rewrite this question to restate the premise without the fantasy elements. They're totally irrelevant to the question and answer: Switch "Shelob" with "guy wearing plate armor" and "magic sword" with "sword". Assuming a given person cannot pierce plate armor with their sword, could the armor bearer pierce their own armor with the same sword merely being held in place by the sword bearer?

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KutuluMike

Nov 15, 2018 15:24

@KyloRen well, you could interpret them properly, for example, you could read the tooltip on the downvote button.

The Restaurant at the End of the Univ…

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KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 19:34

no, they're the same link, don't need both of them.

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 19:34

:thumbs_up:

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 19:31

feel free to rewrite and pin whatever you want :)

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 19:31

the first link is broken, don't pin it.

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 16:04

or, better yet, ignore that link and go here: gofundme.com/…

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 15:52

I hope this is not considered bad form here, if so I apologize, but please take a moment to consider: gofundme.com/help-me-get-new-lungs

The Screening Room

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KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 16:09

if not I'm probably gonna die.

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 16:08

yeah, well, if I'm really super lucky and I can go back to my current job afterward I will be mostly OK.

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 16:08

thanks... i mean I'm not dead yet.

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 16:04

Take a moment to consider: Help Me Get New Lungs

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 15:53

I hope this is not considered bad form here, if so I apologize, but please take a moment to consider: gofundme.com/manage/help-me-get-new-lungs

KutuluMike

May 12, 2017 05:50

do we have to rub it in?

KutuluMike

May 12, 2017 04:15

but that's not even my point. what do I personally do to stop it?

KutuluMike

May 12, 2017 04:15

this time they clearly stepped over the line. 9 times out of 10, though, that's not even what happens.

KutuluMike

May 12, 2017 04:14

when no one can tell you where the line is ahead of time, and no one's willing to talk about where the line is after the fact, you're left guessing.

KutuluMike

May 12, 2017 04:14

But I'm also a regular of several rooms, some of which frequently talk about exactly the same things that got Mos suspended.

KutuluMike

May 12, 2017 04:12

other than "be terrified to talk about anything"

KutuluMike

May 12, 2017 04:12

but no one's willing to explain how we're supposed to do that.

KutuluMike

May 12, 2017 04:12

we keep being told to "do better".

The Bridge

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KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 16:04

sorry :|

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 16:03

gofundme.com/…

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 16:03

i always do that

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 16:03

ugh.

KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2018 15:52

I hope this is not considered bad form here, if so I apologize, but please take a moment to consider: gofundme.com/manage/help-me-get-new-lungs

KutuluMike

May 12, 2017 15:23

and join all of them at once.

KutuluMike

May 12, 2017 15:23

you can set up favorites.

Discussion on answer by KutuluMike: P…

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KutuluMike

Jun 28, 2018 14:10

@TheLethalCarrot it's how some people insist on doing things no matter how many times the rest of the community tells them to stop, is a more accurate description.

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KutuluMike

Jun 21, 2018 14:57

@Catija I don't think anyone here is asking for an election. I feel like several of these meta questions have been marginally passive-agressive ways to express the exact idea you just did -- we have 5 moderators but not 5 active moderators, why not trim some of the excess? The response, of course, was "why? it's not hurting anyone." (which is not 100% strictly true, but close enough).

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KutuluMike

May 11, 2018 15:35

didn't we just have this post like 6 months ago?

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KutuluMike

May 1, 2018 03:52

but then we would have to elect new moderators, and historically speaking, that tends to end badly.

Discussion on question by Valorum: Wh…

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KutuluMike

Oct 3, 2017 15:29

@MichaelKarnerfors it's well established SE policy that "the community finds it offensive" is plenty justification for removal of content, and in certain cases, suspension of the user who posted it. That's the entire point of community-moderated content. Why is this situation any different?

Discussion on answer by Rand al'Thor:…

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KutuluMike

Sep 26, 2017 13:42

And yes, I'm openly, blatently, and explicitly voting the user, not the post. If anyone else posted this, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt that they were just unclear how this site works. SS knows better. He's doing this to make people angry and I'm absolutely going to downvote him for it.

KutuluMike

Sep 26, 2017 13:42

@Randal'Thor you're ignoring the key part of my comment: if you take out the anti-British rant there is no NEW information in the answer. The Dark Lord posted a very thorough answer about the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy nine months ago. SS's answer merely takes that exact information, presents it less clearly, and tacks on "plus Churchill was also evil" onto it.

KutuluMike

Sep 26, 2017 13:42

@Randal'Thor and there's is a HUGE difference between disliking a user, and recognizing that a user has repeatedly taken actions to disrupt the site despite being routinely punished for it, and deciding that said user no longer qualifies for "assuming good faith" because they have proven decisively that they have none.

KutuluMike

Sep 26, 2017 13:42

@Randal'Thor it's a rant because it has nothing at all to do with the question or the answer. Whether the British Empire was evil or not is completely irrelevant to why a character with Dumbledore's power didn't try to stop another evil person in history. You could ask why didn't he stop both of them, but the OP is fully away that answer was already given. They were just looking for an excuse to tell us that the British Empire f---'d over India in case we didn't already know.

KutuluMike

Sep 26, 2017 13:42

the entire answer is a rather transparent way to trash-talk the British by reviving a question that was asked 9 months ago by providing an answer that included precisely 0% additional relevant information wrapped around a unnecessary political rant, posted by a user with a long and pathetic history of causing trouble just to be a jerk about it, so I feel no need to pretend not to be annoyed by it.

KutuluMike

Sep 26, 2017 13:42

The second paragraph is a made up justification for why Dumbledore, in the OPs own imagination, might not have thought Hitler was evil. For which there is no evidence given other than "some other people thought Churchill was evil too", which is a logical fallacy on top of everything else. (They're both allowed to be evil.) It also goes against all common sense about how a character who spent their entire lives living in Britain would see Hitler in the middle of The Blitz.

KutuluMike

Sep 26, 2017 13:42

answers shouldn't contain political views on this site. take that crap to politics.se. this site is for science fiction.take out the entire second paragraph and it's a decent answer.

Discussion on answer by Ghoti and Chi…

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KutuluMike

Aug 10, 2017 22:08

Diana is not a god; she's a demi-god. The rules may be different for her than Ares.

Discussion on answer by Denis de Bern…

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KutuluMike

Jul 29, 2017 21:09

@Aaron it was already in your best interests of your employer to screw you; the ACA only moved the goalposts on where and how.

Discussion on question by Skooba: Wha…

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KutuluMike

Jul 14, 2017 21:21

its an open-ended list question, at least until JKR stops tweeting. we close these all the time.

Discussion on question by Tushar Raj:…

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KutuluMike

Jul 10, 2017 13:52

@Typhon I'm pretty sure the first scene in movie is Toomb's crew cleaning up the Chitauri mess from The Battle of New York; there is then a title card explicitly stating "8 YEAR LATER"...

KutuluMike

Jul 10, 2017 13:52

@FezWasTaken re: your deleted answer -- the second part of your answer was very good and makes perfect sense; I just think you're misinterpreting the first part. Please don't delete a good answer based on a bit of constructive criticism!

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KutuluMike

Jul 6, 2017 17:14

You can't make it interesting, and that's exactly how the SE moderation team wants it.

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KutuluMike

May 18, 2017 14:47

meh. i'll write a bot to do it.

KutuluMike

May 18, 2017 14:47

@Valorum 1) tags are not a substitute for asking good questions, and 2) if media tags are only meaningful when paired with story-id... then perhaps they shouldn't be separate tags.