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Bob
12:09 AM
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Q: What happens to my in-game mail when my World of Warcraft account is frozen?

Nick TI don't use monthly subscriptions in WoW so I'm always aware when I'm buying more game time so I constantly determine if it's worthwhile to toss down $15 again and again. As a result, I'll occasionally let my account be frozen for a couple weeks at a time until I feel like playing again. With m...

 
SpaceChem music...too good for just a puzzle game :P
 
1:15 AM
 
1:26 AM
 
@NickT Digital Pork ftw.
 
1:39 AM
Answer like these make me facepalm.
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A: I'm stuck really far down on Minecraft, how do I get back to the surface?

AnonymousOP is obviously a troll... if you have digged yourself this far down then u will have the exact numberr of cobbelstone u need to get out... simple (minecraft) logic

Gah, using chat.SE on a mobile device makes it look like I can't speak English coherently.
 
@KevinY Edited.
 
Very nice edit. :)
 
Too bad you can't earn reps for edits. :(
Whoa...
When you ask a question in the SuperUser chat, the MS paperclip guy pops up, says "It looks like you're trying to find out ______" and gives you a link to an SU search with those terms.
 
1:58 AM
Whoa.
We should get Slippy Toad to scream a suggestion in caps or something.
 
When do we get that feature?
 
Bob
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Q: Families of First Person Shooters.

RookThere are families of shooters. Like real world as possible, Counter Strike, Call of Duty, Day of Defeat. There are also shooters where you have powers, or augmentations. Such as Dues Ex and Crysis. Do these families have names? What other families are there?

 
@KevinY Clippy Toad.
insert coing
 
insert coin
 
Whoops.
insert coin
 
2:10 AM
hmmm, nothing happened...
 
insert coin
 
@studiohack You should see a click me box flying across the screen. Clicking it starts the game.
insert coin
 
Bob
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Q: Halo -- Whats the best way to make use of marines?

Doug T.In the halo games since halo 2 you've been able to swap weapons with allies. I sometimes will give better weapons to the marines I'm with in the hope that they'll be more useful. For example I'll take away their assault rifles in favor of battle rifles or sniper rifles. Or I'll try to get the pas...

 
@studiohack, @GnomeSlice, this is especially amusing because my avatar is spock...
insert coin
 
@nhinkle Haha!
@studiohack Maybe.
Whoa, I didn't realize that it could scroll up through chat.
Except it still leaves a mess of avatars all over the screen when you quit. :P
If it didn't happen immediately, it's not working.
 
2:13 AM
worked.
:P
in IE9
 
Holy crap, that tag is getting out of hand.
 
insert coin
As expected, nothing in mobile chat.
Must remember to try when I get back to a computer...
 
@KevinY Don't tell me you've never done it before...
 
2:33 AM
insert coin
@GnomeSlice ...now I have.
 
That may well be an offence worthy of ...
 
D:
 
So I closed my Twitter account today.
@KevinY Wait, unregistered users can post on the site?
 
Bob
2:59 AM
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Q: seven sages in pokemon black and white

jeremiahIts not like i'm really trying but i just beat the elite four and king N and i want to know were you find the seven sages in pokemon black and white

 
@GnomeSlice Yep.
 
@KevinY Since when??
 
@GnomeSlice I don't really know. Probably since before I joined the Stack Exchange network, which would be...
...sometime around the beginning of 2010.
 
3:19 AM
So, @grace
What you're saying is...
if I do want a Potato mailed to me...
I should post my address in here?
 
what's with my lab prof sending emails at 1 AM
 
@NickT He is WORKING HARD. If you aren't, it's a sign that you are CLEARLY SLACKING.
 
Man... I just realized that I'm writing a far longer answer than this question calls for.
 
end post with tl;dw
 
Nah.
 
Bob
3:47 AM
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Q: Can you change your skin in offline multiplayer?

UllallullooIt says on the wiki page and in this question that you can change you skin online, but my brother actually bought the game and we just share it and play in offline mode. Is it possible to do this offline? I've tried changing the char.png file, and it changes my image, but it also changes both of...

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Q: shrinking and growing creatures in spore GA (laptop)

jeremiahWhen you are making a mission, is it possible to turn creatures into epics and babies an spore galactic adventure even though you don't have a scrolling wheel or if you have a laptop?

 
4:10 AM
@GnomeSlice Unregistered users have always been able to post
Their account is tied to a cookie that's stored in their computer
 
4:28 AM
tropicalmedandhygienejrnl.net/article/S0035-9203(01)90223-8/… anyone at a school where they have access to that PDF?
Hmm, nvm, "This site does not support institutional access" sciencedirect.com/… looks good though
 
4:57 AM
@GnomeSlice My answer is the quickest :P
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A: How do I Determine Which Graphics Card I'm Using?

Nick TUse the DirectX diagnostic tool. Start, Run..., dxdiag Go to the Display tab of whichever monitor you want to determine is driven by whatever graphics card.

 
 
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Bob
7:34 AM
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Q: Minecraft: Tips for not getting lost underground?

fbreretoI have found a rather large series of underground caverns in Minecraft, and have come close to becoming fatally lost several times. What are some best practices in making sure I get back to familiar territory? I have the compass but since it points to my original respawn point it's not terribly u...

 
Bob
8:23 AM
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Q: NFS shift Drivel Duel

Mr.Confused.A.LotI find driver duels very difficult play and currently i finish those by racing till the end. How do i perform PIT maneuver in NFS shift and spin out opponent ? Can some one explain the strategy to spin out card easily ? (Note: I play on PC using Keyboard)

 
 
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9:31 AM
Mornin'
 
10:25 AM
100 people got hired as part of the Valve ARG
 
@failbadp mornin' what's the ARG?
 
11:22 AM
btw
Quantcast sez
Subdomains			US People	Global People
gaming.stackexchange.com	  182,265	      376,670
askubuntu.com			   67,012	      319,015
programmers.stackexchange.com	   72,310	      166,446
(This is the top 3)
 
Horray! (Is that good?)
 
Yep
We pretty much pwn the rest of the network.
 
I'm guessing it's visitors?
 
@failbadp Where do they get their data?
 
11:31 AM
I was just surprised how accurate the data was
 
Skeptics is doing quite well for a just launched website
even though when I visit it I get a feeling of "elite Yahoo answers", I really need to look at the off-topic questions for your site before I end up asking something and get flamed
 
Our off-topic definition is really not obvious, but I don't see any way to make it easier to understand except allowing any question.
 
I see, more like myth busters :)
 
We're usually nice about closing and burning questions, though ;-)
 
@Fabian Well, how about "How does X happen?" or "Why is Y Z?" as off-topic examples?
 
11:35 AM
@failbadp Would be off-topic
 
From the FAQ you're more about fact-checking, so those would hardly belong
Yay I guessed right :)
 
If we allow those, then all of popular science and popular history/politics would be on-topic.
But the type of question we get means that we're very often in the supercollider, that brings quite a lot of traffic
 
Someone just downvoted my answer because I agreed with the question...
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A: Minecraft: Tips for not getting lost underground?

Ronan FormanIf you place cobblestone on the floor and look at the top, you should be able to see a L-shape (only with the original texture pack.) If the L is the correct orientation you are facing North If you saw this texture North would be to the left. This can help you keep orientation if you know whic...

 
Bob
12:00 PM
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Q: How many move controllers do you need to play Playstation Sports Champions?

BobJust bought the whole Eye/Move rig for Socom. I'd like to get this Sports Champions game (I guess the PS3 version if Wii Sports). When you are playing with multiple people can you pass the move controller around on their turn, or do you HAVE to have a separate controller for each person?

 
12:15 PM
...
 
OpenTTD is stupid, I try to play it, I really do
@failbadp What's wrong with that?
 
@RonanForman The Steam Community website asks me to Steam Guard enable the Steam Guard enabled Steam client browser.
 
oh, that's not just for the client
 
(chiasm get!)
 
12:35 PM
@failbadp nice :)
 
Bob
1:07 PM
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Q: Can I use extra/free guns to complete Uncharted on Crushing?

AlexHi, I've loved both Uncharted games but haven't finished either of them on Crushing difficulty, mainly due to the crazy difficulty spikes in some of the fights. I'm wondering if I can use the free guns I've earned (that I can enable from the menu) or if this will count as cheating and stop me fr...

 
Bob
1:55 PM
 
Bob
2:43 PM
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Q: Are There Any Real-Life Applications of Chess?

user8077Chess seems to develop a specialized skill set that in my experience is mostly irrelevant to everyday life. However, I would like to know of any real-life applications that I have overlooked. I am a novice chess player.

 
@Bob Why don't we have a Move to BoardGames.StackExchange option?
 
3:23 PM
@RonanForman I won't migrate without checking with the boardgames people, and there's no one on chat
 
I would guess that that one would also be off-topic there
 
Psh, who needs macro
 
3:47 PM
I've never played starcraft, but I'm guessing thats quite good
 
4:13 PM
Ooh, a new Valve ARG related image: twitpic.com/4jafxk/full
I wonder if the numbers showing on the dice are important.
The paper on the right also seems to be describing Team Fortress 2's crit system.
and likely talking about the Demoman's sticky bombs (area attack and single burst)
That is, unless Killing Floor has crits... since the icon on the shield is KF's icon in these silly puzzles.
 
4:38 PM
This is that time of the year when I'm amazed by the quantity of hair one cat can have
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Q: Families of First Person Shooters.

RookThere are families of shooters. Like real world as possible, Counter Strike, Call of Duty, Day of Defeat. There are also shooters where you have powers, or augmentations. Such as Dues Ex and Crysis. Do these families have names? What other families are there?

We should be able to come up with an answer for this
 
@failbadp Genre-rec
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz -1, there's no *-rec here
 
@failbadp it's a List.
and not a narrowly defined, well-bounded one either, IMO.
 
Yeah... so?
 
@failbadp I'm not going to go to the mat over it, because I don't disagree that vehemently. But I don't think it's a particularly good or useful question.
 
4:49 PM
I'm also not going over the mat, as I need to leave soon; I just don't see why "List" means the question is a bad one
It's probably more about game design than it is about game play proper
in a way I envy the breadth of topics Game Dev enjoys
Certainly it doesn't deserve the amount of activity going on on the Christian-bounty question
 
Bob
5:42 PM
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Q: How much Barracks/Gateways does a single CC/Nexus support?

TomWijLet's say I were to produce a mixed tier 1 unit composition as either Terran or Protoss. How much Barracks / Gateways could my CC / Nexus support? As I am a Terran player I usually see 3 Rax OR 1 Rax 1 Fact 1 Star on a single base. But Day[9] #274 got me thinking that after producing some earl...

 
Wow, I was persuaded to ask a chat-question as a site-question on SuperUser yesterday, and it's gotten a lot of attention!
It even got an answer from @Jeff Atwood :P
 
mine's the best btw.
:P
though this one might be useful in many other cases
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A: How do I Determine Which Graphics Card I'm Using?

defeedAll the specified methods are fine as long as you have graphic card drivers installed. Here's what to do if you don't: In Device Manager, right click the Unknown Device (that you assume is the graphics card), select properties and go to Details tab. Select Hardware IDs from the Property drop list...

 
@Nick I'm don't even know what the DirectX Diagnostic Tool is. :P
 
It's a diagnostic tool. For DirectX?
 
5:48 PM
I told you how to get to it, that not working?
 
Didn't actually try it.
I'm not on that machine right now, so I don't need to worry about it anyway.
 
6:01 PM
That's funny, you can cheat to get the Aperture Science login screen on Defense Grid.
By launching two copies of the game and having the computer essentially play itself.
 
6:14 PM
If I asked the following question "Are there significant differences between the Xbox and Wii versions of Lego Star Wars III?" would it get shot down in flames?
 
@ChrisF Not by me.
 
@ChrisF There're plenty like that already on the site.
 
I've not been able to find anything on the web - but I'd be the first to admit that I could be searching for the wrong terms.
 
Heh, putting questions asked into chat...now it will reappear in ~10 minutes :P
 
Oops - forgot about that.
 
6:26 PM
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A: Minecraft: Tips for not getting lost underground?

GnomeSliceIf you're not averse to changing your texture pack, there's a great solution. Alternate texture packs will change the look of your paintings as well as the rest of your textures. For example, the PieHole texture pack transforms some of your 2x1 signs into these directional arrows: The text...

...I should really stop posting answers that involve modding.
 
Bob
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Q: Are there significant differences between the Xbox and Wii versions of Lego Star Wars III?

ChrisFApart from the price :) and the quality of the graphics are there any significant differences between the versions of the game on the different consoles. Having access to both a 360 and Wii I could get either, but can't decide which to go for. Just to repeat I'm not interested in hearing that t...

 
@GnomeSlice Aren't there a couple dozen paintings; so it would take a ton of tries to get one in particular?
 
@NickT There aren't that many. And you can build a mold for your painting first, which limits the ones that can be randomly selected.
Also, if you've got a few paintings, you can place/remove/place/remove pretty quickly. Paintings are removed instantly, there's no 'digging time'.
 
geez @Gnome, that Halo answer
 
6:51 PM
@Mana I need to add one more thing to it, I ran out of time last night.
Congrats, you've gained the privilege – create tag synonyms
??
 
you hit 2500 reps
 
Oh, I see.
 
I remember when Gnome was complaining that he'd never hit 1000 rep as he made bounties as fast as the system would allow.
 
you can now create tag synonyms (I think only for tags you have high rep on) and other people can vote on them (who have high rep on same said tags)
 
@StrixVaria But... but nobody gives me good answers. QQ
 
6:53 PM
@GnomeSlice You ask some pretty impossible questions sometimes :P
 
@GnomeSlice It's a near-totally worthless privilege, on Electronics.SE I always just tell some mod to make it for me
 
Does that mean that I can switch to now? No one has gotten around to it yet.
 
because A) I might not have the rep on the tag of interest, and b) there's no practical way to communicate to the other high rep users (that probably don't even know they can vote on things) to do it for you
 
In other news, is there anyone here who would understand my ranting about bad luck in Pokemon?
 
pokemon is bad luck
got it
 
7:00 PM
It's like the random number generator is out to thwart your every plan.
 
@GnomeSlice No, you can't. The main tag to which the synonyms redirect must be more frequent than the proposed synonyms. Another reason the privilege is useless. Pester @failbadp
 
@StrixVaria I know that feeling.
Munna use Hypnosis. The wild Sandile fell asleep. <Next Turn> Wild Sandile woke up. Wild Sandile used Bite. Critical Hit! It's super effective! Munna fainted.
 
Bob
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Q: How can I tell if I will make a profit?

Ronan FormanI've just started playing OpenTTD (Thanks to Macha's blog post) and most of my train and cars are making a loss (or not much profit) how can I tell how much money the business will make?

 
@Macha I was EV training a Mienfoo and it got Pokerus half way, making me completely lose track of the EVs. -.- I didn't even know it was possible to get Pokerus at a bad time.
 
lol. I don't have any pokemon with pokerus, so I don't need to "worry" about that :P
 
7:08 PM
I didn't either. He randomly manifested it.
That's why it's so unbelievable
 
Really? I thought it was generated on capture/birth?
 
Hm...
I thought it was just straight-up random, but maybe I"m mistaken.
Maybe one of the party members had it already and I didn't realize...
In which case I'll be even more annoyed
But this time at myself
Bah, looks like you're right.
I need to start paying more attention
 
Did the Mienfoo have it or another party member?
Because if the Mienfoo had it you can accurately measure your EVs, right?
 
By the time I found it my whole party had it.
I eventually did get to calculate the EVs because I knew that I had 31 IVs in the stats I was training.
It really sped things up getting 12 Speed EVs at a time from Basculin + Power Anklet
 
@GnomeSlice That will never, never, ever happen.
 
7:27 PM
@failbadp -1 * -1 * 1 = 1?
 
@NickT List, not a combination. It's [-1, -1, 1] :P
 
About [tag:spoiler]
This tag should only used for questions which contain spoilers in the title, such as "How do I kill GLaDOS?" If you are asking for spoilers about a game's plot, you should consider using the [tag:plot] tag instead. http://gaming.stackexchange.com/tags/spoiler/info
That tag seems to be severely misapplied then
 
@failbadp is actually the one that wrote said tag-wiki for anyways
 
7:45 PM
I wonder if I can level a priest from 60-70 without spending any real time in outland
healers seem to be instant queue in my battlegroup
 
@NickT Archaeology is kinda slow to do, but it gives you a good deal of XP.
 
Hmm, researching my blog post I found this: smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78267
 
8:02 PM
have you never been on smogon before?
 
Oh hey, a comment in need of a flag. Those are uncommon.
P.S.: This question is getting... 'interesting'
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Q: Families of First Person Shooters.

RookThere are families of shooters. Like real world as possible, Counter Strike, Call of Duty, Day of Defeat. There are also shooters where you have powers, or augmentations. Such as Dues Ex and Crysis. Do these families have names? What other families are there?

 
@tzenes I was referring to the thread in particular.
 
oh
I have spend hours on smogon
 
@NickT Meta has the answer
@NickT I know, I correct its application when I see it
OTOH I want good titles even if they're spoily
OTOH spoiler in the title are kinda too much in your face, so the spoiler tag can kind of help with that
 
8:26 PM
Oh hey, that question got closed.
Now to see if it goes to Meta.
 
How should I pluralise "MissingNo."? MissingNo.s, MissingNos, MissingNo's?
 
Missing No's?
 
Missing#s
 
English.SE
 
@Macha Nos.
 
8:29 PM
"MissingNo." including the dot is what shows up for its in-game "name".
 
Wish I could read Rook's comment
I'll instead delete Bora's one, that's making me longing to see it
 
@failbadp It was: "bora: You're a dick."
 
@failbadp Mods really should have a list of flag-deleted comments
 
Bob
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Q: Can all skills be unlocked through skill packs?

sjohnstonThere are five "skill unlock packs" available in the Guild Wars store: Core, Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall and EotN. These are all described as unlocking X number of skills, elite and non-elite, but they don't specify if they unlock all skills for a given campaign. If I were to buy all skill ...

 
Bob
8:49 PM
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Q: Question count and answer count appear on the same line

OakLooking at the user page of a single-answer-no-questions user, I'm seeing the question count and answer count on the same line - shouldn't they be separate? Also, the distance from the left edge is different for that line and the start of tags (and badges) count.

 
Bob
9:01 PM
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Q: Can I backup my Poker Night at the Inventory data for use on other systems? If so, how?

somehumeSince Poker Night at the Inventory isn't a Steam Cloud game, I want to back up my data for use on my laptop when away from home. Is this possible? Note: If it helps, I have both Mac and PC systems.

 
Posted by Alison Sperling on April 10th, 2011

Greg Drinkwater joins the Careers Sales team in the NYC headquarters. As Account Executive, Greg is working to expand our Careers 2.0 jobs board, and most importantly, helping our employer customers fill their open positions.

Greg lives on Long Island with his wife and stays busy chasing after his two rescue dogs, Frankie and Jed.  Frankie is an active Border Collie Mix and Jed is a 75lb German Short Haired Pointer who thinks he’s a lapdog.  Greg is a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan, and enjoys all things sports-related.  When not following the worst “best” team in baseball, Greg enjoys travelling, and listening to live music. …

 
@Feeds I knew Joel would blow a fuse and eventually hire a dog
 
9:22 PM
posted on April 10, 2011 by bkuchera

The 8- and 16-bit eras were famous for dull, dreary 2D platformers created to latch onto the success of any and every popular license a publisher could find. If it was popular in the late '80s, there was likely a god-awful platformer based on it. How many of those games can you name now, and how many do you remember actually enjoying? Very few games of that era did muc

 
 
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11:20 PM
posted on April 10, 2011 by andrew.webster

As we've seen before, the fact that a game is free doesn't necessarily mean it's worth your time. Free-to-play games are forced to find a balance between providing enough free content to be engaging and monetizing enough of the experience to make a profit. And from what we've seen so far, Spiral Knights—a co-op RPG from the developers of Puzzle Pirates—appear

 
11:41 PM
DUH
 

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