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Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 13th 2023 at 3:16:47 PM

seasaltcaramelcookie Since: May, 2023
#11501: Jun 6th 2024 at 11:49:36 AM

What's the most popular ice cream flavor?

ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Everyone's friend Malamar
#11502: Jun 6th 2024 at 12:20:37 PM

[up]I heard it was vanilla, but I don’t have a source.

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CanuckMcDuck1 PEPSIMAN from Japan Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
PEPSIMAN
#11503: Jun 6th 2024 at 1:09:10 PM

[up][up]Checking some surveys, it appears to be a battle between Chocolate and Vanilla for the favourite flavour.

Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Jun 6th 2024 at 2:09:50 AM

Do not mess with creatures which you do not understand.
ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
#11504: Jun 7th 2024 at 7:22:25 AM

In the following piece of music, there's a repeated punctuating "sting" of sound that I might transcribe as something like "shhhiing"; an example might be found right at the start, and again at about 0:21.

https://audionautix.com/Music/NightRunner.mp3
(The link goes to a specific MP3 file on a site that provides royalty-free music, the file in question included. It can also be found by typing "night runner" into the search provided on the main site, I believe.)

What is that "shhiing" sound, both in terminology and origin?

To explain, I want to include something similar in a video that I'm making, but my attempts to find or create an isolated version of that sound have thus far failed.

I'm hoping that with better terminology I might be able to better search a site like freesound, or even construct something myself in Audacity...

(I could just excerpt from that song... but it seems a bit silly to include a song for just a tiny sting, and would also incur the presence the music running alongside the sting.)

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Shyhero Unmotivated dyslexic writer. from Sofa Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Unmotivated dyslexic writer.
#11505: Jun 7th 2024 at 6:41:04 PM

Is there anywhere besides Google Docs where you can write online and save drafts?

FSharp Resisting a rest Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: I wanna know what love is
#11506: Jun 7th 2024 at 6:53:11 PM

[up] Yes; Microsoft Word has an online version.

I don't just Wiki Talk the talk. I Wiki Walk the walk.
Malady (X-Troper)
#11507: Jun 7th 2024 at 6:59:08 PM

Is there a way to stop deeper indentation levels from shrinking their text?

Edit: answer: yes. Mimic what it's like without it by using :: and the tiny text modifier.

->''"Not everyone can win."''
-->-- '''Alice''', ''Website/TVTropes''

becomes:

"Not everyone can win."
Alice, TV Tropes

vs.

-->-- '''Alice''', ''Website/TVTropes''

becomes:

Alice, TV Tropes

Edited by Malady on Jun 8th 2024 at 5:06:40 AM

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Codae Since: Aug, 2022
#11508: Jun 7th 2024 at 7:00:27 PM

[up][up][up][up] That'll be a suspended cymbal.

Edited by Codae on Jun 7th 2024 at 7:00:40 AM

ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
MCE Since: Jan, 2001
#11510: Jun 12th 2024 at 4:03:51 AM

If you had an abandoned double lift shaft (side by side) how would you go about setting up a emergency evacuation slide? The lift shaft would be accessible from both sides and connects to three floors.

Or if this isn't a quick question, what would be a better forum to post it in?

Edited by MCE on Jun 12th 2024 at 4:04:37 AM

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#11511: Jun 12th 2024 at 12:13:15 PM

Try making a topic in yack fest

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#11512: Jun 13th 2024 at 9:00:48 AM

On youtube, when you mouse over a video or comment, then the three vertical dots would appear, and you can click on them. At least, that's how it used to be, but for the past couple of days, those three dots are now present at all times. Did something change on the site? Or is it on my end?

Malady (X-Troper)
#11513: Jun 17th 2024 at 8:10:11 AM

What browser are you using? I'm not seeing it.

...

My question:

https://archive.org/details/travelsincrete01pashgoog/page/208/mode/2up?q=simply

Greek: How does Kataχαváv turn into Kathakano or Katakhanas

And do any of those mean Destroyer?

Edited by Malady on Jun 17th 2024 at 8:10:37 AM

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Filip04 Since: Nov, 2023
#11514: Jun 17th 2024 at 8:22:52 AM

Did we ever get Origins Episode in Adventures of the Gummi Bears that explains why Ightorn decided to conquer Dunwyn and gained his army of ogres?

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#11515: Jun 17th 2024 at 8:41:12 AM

Using Firefox, but I checked on Safari and the issue exists there too. Turning off all add-ons and going into private mode result in the same thing. The three dots are always visible at all times, when in the past, they only popped up when you moused over them.

Unless I'm misremembering and the three dots were always present at all times...

Edited by WillKeaton on Jun 17th 2024 at 9:53:25 AM

CanuckMcDuck1 PEPSIMAN from Japan Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
PEPSIMAN
#11516: Jun 21st 2024 at 7:08:14 PM

Is there any way to change your username on TVTropes?

Do not mess with creatures which you do not understand.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#11517: Jun 21st 2024 at 7:30:41 PM

[up] No. But you can tell a moderator beforehand and settle on re-registering.

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MCE Since: Jan, 2001
#11518: Jun 22nd 2024 at 2:20:14 AM

If a government wanted to get a message to every citizen in their country, what are the methods they could use?

The message would be the same for everyone.

Edit: forgot to add, the event they wanted to warn people about would be two weeks in the future.

Edited by MCE on Jun 22nd 2024 at 2:23:27 AM

ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Everyone's friend Malamar
#11519: Jun 22nd 2024 at 2:23:04 AM

They’d probably use a combination of methods. Radio, TV, and the built in emergency alert system on mobile phones.

edit:autocorrect

Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on Jun 22nd 2024 at 5:32:36 AM

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ilovewildkratts1 Local Odd Squad Connoisseur from a nice breezy expansive meadow (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Local Odd Squad Connoisseur
#11520: Jun 22nd 2024 at 2:26:51 AM

[up][up] That's what the Emergency Alert System is made for. It varies by country, but in the United States, it can be used to relay a live message from the President in the event of a national emergency, on both TV and radio. Not sure how it'd work for phones, though.

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#11521: Jun 22nd 2024 at 2:27:03 AM

Is there something happening in two weeks?

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Filip04 Since: Nov, 2023
#11522: Jun 22nd 2024 at 7:29:56 AM

So, I did this mistake, moments ago. It actually had to mean "If I wrote something wrong here, please correct me." But I was in a hurry and it turned out like this. If there's any way I can fix this mistake?

ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Everyone's friend Malamar
#11523: Jun 22nd 2024 at 8:44:44 AM

Regular users can't edit edit reasons after they've been sent.

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Filip04 Since: Nov, 2023
#11524: Jun 22nd 2024 at 10:50:45 AM

[up] I know, but I actually meant that I hope others will not take this literally (aka. they will think that I didn't know what I was writing) and will conclude that I made I mistake in writing edit reason.

MCE Since: Jan, 2001
#11525: Jun 23rd 2024 at 2:28:52 AM

Amonimus: Is there something happening in two weeks?

No, just in something I'm writing.

Regarding ways to contact people, the total list I've compiled is

Two weeks before

  • email
  • text message
  • phone call (automated)
  • phone call (person)
  • billboards
  • letters (post)
  • work meetings
  • television announcements
  • radio advert announcements
  • news specials.
  • emergency alert on mobiles.

Immediately before

  • Emergency Broadcast system
  • Warning air raid siren.

And after all that there would still be someone saying "well nobody told me!'

Edited by MCE on Jun 23rd 2024 at 2:37:31 AM


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