Favorite questions and answers from the third quarter of 2014

Question

Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2014 through September 30 2014.

Note: If you have a favorite question or answer outside of this date range, please post it to Favorite questions and answers of ALL TIME for a blog post that will be coming up in the bottom half of October.

Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous quarterly posts.

I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.

What was the best answer (IYHO) provided to a question that was closed?

• Questions with most Votes created within 3 month range
• Questions with most View created within 3 month range
• Questions with best answer created within 3 month range

Answer 1

I thought this was a good question that provoked a pretty good range of answers;

Why did the Matrix simulate 1999 instead of a pre-computer year?

And I thought this was an especially good answer to a (seemingly) straightforward question;

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/65627/20774