I recently purchased Kinect, and was curious if there is a place to find all of the voice commands for the system?
The manual doesn't really say a lot about the voice commands and I can't find a definative list of all the commands I can use.
The Xbox prompts with some commands now and then,...
The title pretty much says it all. On the one hand, the Boomers are freakin' nuts. On the other, I'm guessing that raising that bomber out of the lake and watching it rain fiery death over the Legion is going to be the ultimate "wow" moment.
So ... Is it safe to finish Volare if I plan on compl...
Considering that I'm going the Wild Card: Change in Management path, when is the latest I can kill Mr. House? I've made sure to acquire and turn in all seven snow globes. Yes Man is waiting patiently outside The Tops for me. I still have the following quests open:
How Little We Know
Pressing Ma...
I need platform games with complex graphics and animation as inspiration for my own game development. While the genre is often considered outdated, modern computers allow much more freedom for them and some games use it to full extent. I want to see games which use:
Complex graphics: realistic ...
I travel a lot and want to play a good game on the move. I've seen things like Truf Wars and Parrellel Kingdoms, but they don't really seem to be all that professional. Can anyone recommend any good ones? Preferably MMO...
I had lots of fun back in the day with Populous, the RTS by bullfrog (tbh I only played the demo, lol). I really enjoyed the 3d, the landscaping, the awesome magics, and most of all, the unit production system by which you send worker into a building to upgrade it into a higher tier unit. a recen...
In Call of Duty: Black Ops, on the mission SOG (Vietnam), you come to a point where your orders are to push back the NVA down the hill. I've spent a lot of time slowly pushing down the hill but the enemies keep coming and on Veteran difficulty at some point I always end up dying. My squad mates p...
damn... only 12 hours left before i leave house to go LARPing. still need to do a sleep cycle beforehand. (not to mention packaging and some last minute shopping.)
I seem to recall rumors that Starcraft 2 looked better when using DirectX 10 over DirectX 9. Is this true, and if so can you give examples (preferably in screenshot form)?
What effects does having the Armored armor type have on a unit aside from taking the appropriate extra damage from weapons that deal extra armored damage? I.E. do normal attacks do reduced damage or something?
@sjohnston > Once you've paid the bounty though, that's it. You can't get the rep back. What's the point of closing questions to avoid giving a bounty? (Although I suppose I was trying to do just this the other day, myself....)
How to solve this bug? As I play MW with autoplayer and I sent a gift to someone, my Firefox 3.6.12 starts to shrink gradually from right, so that I have to chose the tab while it is moving.
If I understood well it seems that when your justice-meter is filled up you consume it as soon as you use any violet weapons.
If you equip DeathSpank with two violet weapons you have then no choice to keep Justice for the right moment. If you instead equip him with 1 violet and 1 non-violet wea...
What's the earliest time (as in exact timing of how long it takes) a Zerg player can have mutas, and the build order to pull this stunt?
Any help appreciated!
I have an issue with my Live ID account. It seems that I have a mismatch of countries in https://billing.microsoft.com for my Xbox Live account. So I need to remove my Xbox Live account (from billing.microsoft.com) and re-create a Xbox Live account.
I have been given the advice to transfer my ga...
I am looking for good games with trophies for PS3. It is there a list or a prize list available for the best ratio Price / Trophies or do you have any suggestions? I'm looking for fun games, not a game like Hannah Montana!
I once heard that the New Experience Update (NX) includes full file and media management onto the Xbox 360 Dashboard software. Is this true and why would I need the Xplorer software anymore? I have an unmodded (original) Xbox, is there a major limitation with the file management I can do on it?
I have an unmodded (original) Xbox 360 Slim. What are the limitations of this system? What could I have done with a modded Xbox that I can't with this? (Please mention mod chip names too)
I am looking for good PS3 games simple and not too complicated for my girlfriend! I found her a young kids games, Mini Ninjas, and she loved it! She also liked Costume Quest available on the PlayStation Network. Now that she has completed both, I would look for another game she can play.
When I ...
In general, ToS is more of a "break the terms and we'll suspend your service, and we'll be protected from lawsuits because we clearly said that in the ToS!"
@sjohnston anything illegal should be deleted, but EULA is something else
@Oak breaking a contract though. Which is one of the significant tenants of English Common Law. The gov't won't come after you for it, but they will enforce the contract and penalties.
@CRoss but there are a lot of other questions here. For example, if the contract terms are illegal, or the way it was "signed" is shady, it might not hold. And even if the contract seems clearly broken, it's up to the court to decide that, not to us. As long as there's no law explicitly forbidding modding an xbox, we cannot claim it is outright illegal.
Copyright infringements, on the other hand, do have clear laws about them.
EULAs often include clauses that are not valid in some countries, I think we shouldn't blindly follow all stuff that is in there, but decide on a case-by-case basis
Like for example: "I bought game X but the DRM is pissing me off. Is there a crack so I don't need the disc to play?" He legally bought the game but this is still breaking the EULA, and I don't think we should promote that.
So if I made a question about how best to bot without getting caught in WoW, would that be cool? How about if I asked if there are any ways to cheat in PvP?
Is it legitimate for a user to ask a question about a hacked or modded game console, provided said question is about gaming on it?
For example, would/should we shut down a question about running MAME on a hacked classic XBox?
Well I think that existing question is close enough and should be deemed relevant. Unfortunately there's no clear consensus there, please go there and vote :)
Specifically, in order to modify a console, you basically must circumvent encryption, and in doing so, you run afoul of the way US (and most European) copyright law is structured - which is to say that the circumvention of technology intended to prevent piracy or encrypt data is illegal, regardless of whether the purpose of such circumvention is legal or not.
To put it in other terms, it's akin to a law stating that being in a building is legal, but walking through the door of said building is illegal. If you get in there, it's implied that you've broken the law.
@LessPop I get what you're saying, but that question isn't asking on how to mod, it's asking what are the advantages of that modded console the store offered to sell him.
As for the iPhone thing - that was not a broad based exemption that can be applied to consoles, and it was not a court case. The Library of Congress granted a limited time (2 years) exemption from enforcement of the non-circumvention provision with two very narrow use cases: to install software on a phone that it is not possible to install without such circumvention, or to use it on another carrier.
@Oak I know, I'm not saying we should or shouldn't allow it. I'm being pedantic about the usage of terms like 'illegal' and 'TOS' as they relate to the disussion.
@LessPop_MoreFizz see, the thing is that unless there is a specific law in IP, there is NO law whatsoever in place. The current state of things is that large corporations are forcing the shape of the law. However, the path they force laws down is designed by interpretations of physical property law
I don't know how it is in the rest of the world, but @badp has a valid point in the States. You are allowed to talk about any form of breaking the law (except for terrorism) without being in violation of law so long as you are not guiding anyone else through breaking it.
@Mechko There IS a specific law in the states, in the form of DMCA, and my understanding is that most European countries have similar provisions by treaty as well.
@Mechko Fair-use has nothing to do with either the first amendment, nor the way the anti-circumvention provision is written. Again, think of it as a law that states "It is illegal to walk through this door". It's perfectly legal for you to be on the other side of that door. But you can't walk through it or go around it and climb through the window.
@sjohnston US democracy is not a quick fix. Throughout history there has always been some contention with the law and the supreme court has always married the law to the constitution and not the other way.
that's what the DMCA stipulates. Now, you can argue about whether that's a good law, but the courts have repeatedly upheld that it is in fact a constitutionally sound law, so the only way you're going to get around it is to get it repealed congressionally.
@LessPop_MoreFizz but im not talking about walking through that door, nor giving the key to anyone else. I am just talking about what you may find if you find a way to the other side.
@Mechko And while it's legal to discuss that, I maintain that it's not healthy for a site that wants to be known as a professional community to discuss that.
@Mechko Which is why I've never said we should or shouldn't allow the modded xbox question. That's not a decision I'm particularly interested in taking a side in. I'm just being pedantic and ensuring that when people throw around words like 'illegal' and 'TOS violation' that they do so accurately.
I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I'm just being a pedant.
@StrixVaria see, there's a very small set of questions that we would allow, which would not satisfy modders in the long run. we won't be known as a professional community of modding discussion if we kept up and actually blocked the questions that shouldn't be here.
@Brant In the US and to my admittedly limited understanding most of Europe. Which is anyway somewhat irrelevant, insofar as in general, the 'standard' by which SO/SE has historically determined whether something is legally shady is US law.
@Brant As an English language site, with it's servers and audience being primarily (though far from exclusively) in the US, it does not really behoove us to base any 'legal' decisions on Chinese or Finnish or Russian or Senegalese copyright laws (or lack therof for that matter.)
If we're going to draw a line and say 'we don't want illegal content on the site', then that line should be based on an American understanding of Illegal, as that's the 'center' of any real liability that may be incurred. I'm sure plenty of our content is already illegal in Iran, but we don't concern ourselves with that, do we?
I think questions about modding for the purposes of piracy are obviously verboten, but modding itself has sufficient non-infringing benefits that we shouldn't have a blanket ban on the topic.
well, I hope someone followed my line because I thought it was actually really simple. I'm not entirely sure why you think that we are a community that caters to modders right now, though. Also, I'm assuming that you have a reason to not want the word mod to come up on the site at all. @StrixVaria
It's (and I know I'm sort of comparing apples to oranges here) similar to the legal argument used in the Betamax and P2P file-sharing legal battles: If the technology has sufficient non-infringing uses, it's okay.
@LessPop_MoreFizz There's nothing illegal about modifying a product that you purchased and own. My (strong) opinion is that the current state of affairs is an unfortunate bug in the legal system that hasn't been patched out yet.
@Brant Except that there is something illegal, because it requires circumvention of the encryption on the XBox's OS and Firmware. Now you can argue that it shouldn't be illegal, and you could make an extremely strong and convincing argument. But arguing that it isn't is just burying your head in the sand.
I agree. I just think that despite the fact that it's technically illegal, there's nothing morally wrong with it. (Unless you're pirating games/cheating online/eating babies)
@Brant I never once made a moral argument. I'm speaking strictly about what's legal, and what isn't. There are a lot of things that I am morally okay with that are not legal.
That example you just came up with specifically asks whether there is an advantage someone would have against you online if you were playing with each other.
Again, I don't have a dog in this hunt. I'm just your friendly neighborhood pedant, here to make sure you don't throw around arguments about what you can and can't do when what you're actually talking about is what you should be able to do and shouldn't be able to do.
If it's strictly a legal thing however, I think the decision should be left to StackExchange, since they're the ones who pay the lawyers. If it's a moral thing I'm all in favor of bashing it out in meta/chat.
@Brant Well, there is also the moral argument that we don't want to host any discussion of content which runs afoul of the law, regardless of how we feel about the specific law in question.
Which is entirely differen than the scope of your example question with NFSW
Ok, I see the trap you got me in now.
But regardless of your semantic trickery, I still don't believe asking "what advantages do a modded console have" is within the realm of what is healthy for our site.
Because the modded console is going to have obvious advantages over the non-modded one
And thus any answer detailing those is essentially going to be saying it's a Good Thing
@StrixVaria Really? There, I was arguing for my question and you were arguing against it. Here, I'm arguing for that question and you were arguing against it...
When taking over another civilization's city, for instance, a city that has the oracle, does it contribute +1 to your civilization's culture as a puppet? When annexed, will the wonder remain in the city and contribute the +1 culture as well?
Does this apply for all wonders, or just a subset?
@badp I... still have no idea what you're talking about. But yes, we get all kinds of cool shit. For example whenever someone downvotes one of our answers we get a pop-up asking us for how long we want to suspend that user. Very useful.
In Plants vs Zombies, at the beginning of every level you're given a preview of which zombies occur in that level while you select your plants. Is the arrangement of zombies on that screen random, or does it correspond to the lanes in which the zombies are going to appear?
I need platform games with complex graphics and animation as inspiration for my own game development. While the genre is often considered outdated, modern computers allow much more freedom for them and some games use it to full extent. I want to see games which use:
Complex graphics: realistic ...
In Supreme Commander 2, is there a way to display the ping rate you can see in the multi-player lobby while you are actually playing the game?
I have a (holy) paladin and would like to better understand the mechanics for Holy Power. And do you think it has improved your gameplay ?
How to solve this bug? As I play MW with autoplayer and I sent a gift to someone, my Firefox 3.6.12 starts to shrink gradually from right, so that I have to chose the tab while it is moving.
If I understood well it seems that when your justice-meter is filled up you consume it as soon as you use any violet weapons.
If you equip DeathSpank with two violet weapons you have then no choice to keep Justice for the right moment. If you instead equip him with 1 violet and 1 non-violet wea...
What's the earliest time (as in exact timing of how long it takes) a Zerg player can have mutas, and the build order to pull this stunt?
Any help appreciated!
When taking over another civilization's city, for instance, a city that has the oracle, does it contribute +1 to your civilization's culture as a puppet? When annexed, will the wonder remain in the city and contribute the +1 culture as well?
Does this apply for all wonders, or just a subset?
In Plants vs Zombies, at the beginning of every level you're given a preview of which zombies occur in that level while you select your plants. Is the arrangement of zombies on that screen random, or does it correspond to the lanes in which the zombies are going to appear?
