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Q: Server Only Updating for Me On Reconnect

GnomeSliceI've been having some trouble playing on my friend's multiplayer sever for the past few days. Yesterday, for some reason, my laptop began behaving VERY strangely - to the point that I thought I was going to have to reinstall windows. At the time, I thought that this might have been related to t...

@failbadp ^
 
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Q: Server Only Updating for Me On Reconnect

GnomeSliceI've been having some trouble playing on my friend's multiplayer sever for the past few days. Yesterday, for some reason, my laptop began behaving VERY strangely - to the point that I thought I was going to have to reinstall windows. At the time, I thought that this might have been related to t...

 
@Bob Thanks for the heads-up.
 
Bob
12:27 AM
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Q: How many times can you "prestige" in COD4:Black Ops ?

giulioI have "prestiged" only once. And then realised, that you can do it again, and again, for no additional abilities apart from more fitout slots, and a gucci logo that indicates you're a "bada$$" (or a masochist in my case). So, how many times can you prestige ?

 
1:20 AM
This is odd...
But...But I had 2 upvotes... Q_Q
Someone fix it.
 
1:37 AM
The new day started a few minutes ago
 
 
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3:39 AM
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Q: Weapon and Staff Choices in Magicka

RapidaDoes anyone have a list handy of the various items that you can find spread throughout the campaign? A list of their effects would also be appreciated.

 
 
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5:29 AM
@nickt thanks, so if I just respawned and see my sentry under attack I can just switch to the wrangler on respawn to buy myself some time
 
6:25 AM
lol, everybody's ragequitting
 
 
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8:26 AM
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Q: VGA 1gb not running old games with good graphics ?

PeterHello, We have an intel motherboard DG41WV with a built in VGA 1024 MB with the latest driver installed, the driver seems to work perfectly although when we want to play games, there's something weird happening the picture is blue like we're running new games on low VGA RAM, even the FIFA 2008 is...

 
@NickT An hour and eighteen minutes, actually, from what I can see on the time in the image
@GnomeSlice The time on the bottom left, the new day starts at 0000 UTC
And its not a rolling 24 hour period either
 
9:16 AM
I'm amazed by people who, after being wtfpwned for six games running, still do not want a team scramble
scramble is not perfect BUT IT BEATS PLAYING WITH THE SAME TEAMS THE SAME GAME FOR THE SEVENTH TIME IN A ROW
 
Bob
9:54 AM
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Q: What to do with a not completely answered question?

michelemarconTake my question: 360 hard drive failure I asked for people with experience in hard drive failure, but I got a few comments from people that didn't actually experienced what I asked for. I may accept one of their answer as they go around the problem and offer useful advices, but I simply didn't ...

 
 
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11:00 AM
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Q: Spoiler: Mass Effect story question

AlexBeware: Spoilers for central Mass Effect plot points, including DLC, beyond this point! Look away to remain pure! I recently played The Arrival and part of its storyline confused me - it said that the Reapers would arrive through the Alpha relay, which they would use to move throughout the galax...

 
@Bob Eh... if the tag wasn't enough...
 
 
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12:22 PM
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Q: associate meta SO to other accounts for 100+ reputation not working properly.

nelaarSo basically I have had more then 200+ rep for a few days on meta. I still did not get the 100+ reputation bonus on the 12 other sites that I had account with. At first I tried the. Copy Meta Stack Overflow Profile To Related Accounts Which did not work. Then I tried the. Clear Al...

 
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Q: Crossfire Dual Screen

mattWith my two 5870s I have a weird problem in crossfire. I have two screens a 24''' LCD and a 37'' LED TV. When in crossfire if I play video on the second screen it gets some odd artifacts of black(ish) horizontal lines across the bottom half of the screen (not seen a problem like it before). On...

 
 
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1:56 PM
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Q: Douchebags in teams games (DoTA)

CheluisHi everybody. I am a low time gamer, focused on WC3 and CS. I'm not so interested in games, but I love to play those two games. I am also a quite strong chess player, and I spend a couple of hours every two days playing blitz games online. I recently (this weekend) started to play DoTA on Battle....

 
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2:14 PM
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Q: Team gaming vs Solo gaming

CheluisTeam gaming: funnier but too much douches picking you if you messed up. Solo gaming: not so funny, but the credit or failing is on you. What gaming.stackexchange prefer?

 
Ugh. Monday.
 
:(
Whatever the problem I'm having playing Minecraft on this server is, it doesn't look like it's going to go away on its own.
 
2:41 PM
@GnomeSlice How about a reinstall?
Do you have the same problem on other servers?
In single player?
I'm not much of a troubleshooter. Sorry
 
@failbadp Haven't tried other servers. Works fine in Single Player. Do you mean a reinstall of Minecraft?
 
Yep
I'd suggest you try e.g. chaos.nerd.nu, but that server will lag like crap
 
Well, I removed all of the files, and downloaded it again, if that's what you mean. You don't really need to install minecraft
@failbadp Why is that?
High traffic?
 
@GnomeSlice Aye
 
3:09 PM
Man... I should really like the solo mode of Minecraft.
But all that happens is I go way underground and get lost.
And dig up stuff to make more tools.
 
Solo mode is the only way into the Nether
 
@failbadp I know.
But still, it all seems rather monotonous
I mean I start from my little cliffside home, and go down the shafts, and explore for a long time, and then I spend like an hour finding my way back.
And then all I do is build new steel stuff when I get back.
 
That's because you haven't found diamond yet
 
I found two blocks of ore once but I got killed.
 
I also have never found enough diamond in the same map to make a diamond pickaxe, incidentally
 
3:15 PM
But man, oh man, I can't wait until the day when one day I head home, and instead of building steel tools, I build DIAMOND tools.
@failbadp TooManyItems :P
The only thing I use this for in Solo mode is getting water if I get set on fire, and deleting excess materials.
It's a handy replacement to the /give command on the SMP servers.
@failbadp Did you read my question though? Have you ever heard of anything like that happening before?
 
3:32 PM
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Q: What are the criteria for getting Money.SE out of "perpetual beta?"

JohnThe Area 51 status for Money.SE reads thusly: This site will remain in beta indefinitely so it can grow; we will continue to evaluate its site statistics and overall health. Why the concern with how it's going now? If I recall correctly, other sites were launched before there were five "ex...

 
@Feeds 10kers, perhaps
 
@failbadp Curious if you've considered adding actual news feeds rather than just repost of content from the site.
 
@YiJiang Examples?
 
Approximately 2-4 times a day, certainly lower traffic than Gaming's questions
 
Bob
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Q: BC2: sometimes, engineer's rocket doesn't hit vehicle

David McDavidsonThere were a few occasions where I tried to hit a vehicle with a rocket, and right when it was about to hit it, it suddenly goes up and misses. Why does it happen?

 
3:52 PM
@YiJiang I can try that, but I'm kinda iffy about it
"WHY ARS AND NOT KOTAKU?" e.g.
at any rate.
 
posted on April 02, 2011 by bkuchera

This week in gaming we looked at the latest in the George Hotz case and wondered which serial number is the "right" one... and if that even matters for jurisdiction. We explored the issue of gay characters in Dragon Age 2, and saw how different people had vastly different expectations for sexual orientation in RPGs. We played with the Nyko third-party 3DS battery and fou

 
4:12 PM
@failbadp I've just tried the trollscience.com server, and it ran beautifully.
 
@failbadp "Shut up, that's why not"
 
@failbadp It took a while after launch for gaming to get 10kers, didn't it?
 
@Brant So? Webapps started with no 3kers
Things changed in the meantime
 
Bob
4:33 PM
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Q: Halo 3 ending - I don't see how Master Chief dies

coriMy son and I finished Halo 3 for the second time over the weekend, once on Normal and once on Heroic. While it's obvious from the very final scene at the memorial that Master Chief dies at the end, neither of us can figure out how the moments on the Pelikan are supposed to signify that. Are we ...

 
5:00 PM
And back from Germany now, evening all
 
5:25 PM
Welcome back!
 
Thanks :)
@Ivo Is there a decision on whether it's Amsterdam or Utrecht?
 
5:49 PM
How long does a question have to be active before you can add a bounty to it?
 
6:02 PM
Is anyone available to quickly try a MineCraft server for me and see if it works?
 
Bob
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Q: What is the optimal position of a sentry gun?

fail badpOften, maps feature alcoves or corners in which one can comfortably fit a sentry gun, usually with a nice inviting ammo box with it. I wonder, what's the optimal sentry placement however. The main threats to sentries are demomen grenades and sticky bombs, spy sappers and übers of all kinds. I do...

 
@Bob makes a note to answer that later
...but the short answer is somewhere where you can hide behind the sentry, preferably with your back to the wall so you can't be backstabbed.
@failbadp During the weeks before Halloween, my server had clips from Thriller that would play whenever someone mentioned Thriller in chat.
and eventually, I stepped it up to play the entire song.
This makes a lot more sense if you know that TF2 has a thriller taunt for all classes during the Halloween event.
 
6:27 PM
'cause this is thrilleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer
 
@Powerlord Here's my partial analysis (in the question)
--- XXXXX----X    X-----XXXXXX----- ???  ---
  |   XXX|  |X    X|   |XXXXXX|   |   ?  |
  |    XX|  |X    X|   |XXXXXX|   |  ?   |
  |     X|  |XXXXXX|   |XXXXXX|   |  .   |
  --------  --------   --------   --------
  easy to   easy to    easy to    easy to
  grenade   sticky     über       sap
  (or hit)
 
posted on April 04, 2011 by nate

The hacker hordes of Anonymous have transferred their fickle attention to Sony. They are currently attacking the company's online Playstation store in retribution for Sony's lawsuit against PS3 hacker George Hotz (aka "GeoHot"). A denial of service attack has temporarily taken down playstation.com. In a manifesto announcing the new operation, Anonymous railed ag

 
It's basically impossible to guard from an uber with just a single gun with a single engineer.
 
That's supposed to be an ascii art question mark
 
Two or three guns, though...
 
6:29 PM
@Powerlord I know too well.
 
Sorry, was talking to a co-worker.
 
no prob
 
As for guarding against sapping... not sure there really is a good position. The most important thing there is to protect yourself from the Spy killing you before sapping your stuff. Also, don't be afraid to ask your teammates for help if you're having Spy problems... Pyros in particular can help a lot there.
Oh, and listen for the various decloak sounds.
 
Bob
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Q: Speed up Minecarts without using other minecarts?

mbxUsually I have the well known mincart boosters for speeding up other minecarts. Furnance minecarts are nice, as you don't need typical boosters but the cannot be triggered, can they? I wondered if there are other possibilities: What ways do you know?

 
6:51 PM
I gather GnomeSlice is tired of seeing TF2 chat on The Bridge.
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49 secs ago, by Powerlord
I gather GnomeSlice is tired of seeing TF2 chat on The Bridge.
 
@GnomeSlice Yes, I did just say that! How perceptive of you!
 
Somebody migrate the chat.
 
While we're migrating things, can we migrate the Minecraft chat earlier to the Minecraft room?
 
There's a minecraft room?
My bad. Yes, that should be migrated as well.
 
6:57 PM
Of course the problem with separate rooms is that no one checks them.
 
True.
I'm not particularly bothered by the TF2 chat at the moment, but there's been a few occasions where there's been some extended discussions.
 
Say, we're only... 3 weeks until Portal 2's release?
Whoops, 2 weeks. I can't count.
It'd be funny if I scheduled the 19th off work just to play Portal 2. :P
 
The game isn't going to depreciate in entertainment value as time passes after the release, you know.
 
@GnomeSlice Sure it is!
Anyway, preloading will likely start sometime next week.
If you bought the Steam version that is
 
Preloading?
 
7:02 PM
@GnomeSlice Downloading the game prior to the game's release.
Not the entire game, but a good portion of it.
 
@Powerlord I see.
 
@FallenAngelEyes I guess we'll have to go to Amsterdam, even though it's going to be even more expensive to get there :(
 
@Ivo Ah okay. I might just come by myself and take the train then because A'dam is hell for parking...
 
I'm going to park near the VUmc, which is free after 6 PM
 
How long is this anyway? :o
Like, are we all eating dinner together or...?
 
7:10 PM
I have no idea, it starts at 7PM?
 
Yeah, I know that much. The place is apparently a restaurant I guess?
I'm hoping I can make it, but I'm probably dropping down to tentative because I am a frigging wreck after hiking this weekend.
And I think I may have gotten sick >_<
 
You guys have fun. Last I checked, my closest meeting spot has no one signed up, and the one 1.5ish hours away has like 4 people signed up.
 
But I will chime in here on Wed. afternoon and let you know if I'll be there for sure.
Right now I'm gonna go finish dinner and put my feet up, later!
 
Sorry, it'd be 4 if I showed up.
 
@FallenAngelEyes well if you wouldn't be coming, then I aint going either
same here @Powerlord, I have to drive over 100km and park in the Capital (crazy expensive or another 20 min drive by public transport) just to show up :\
 
7:36 PM
@Ivo Ah, I thought you were also going for SU people and stuff. When's the latest you would you'd need to know by? I don't want to mess up your plans :/
 
well I don't expect any SU-users to come
unless I can convince Bloodphilla
 
ah gotcha :(
If I let you know tomorrow, will that be ok?
I'm going to head off for the night I think, take a hot shower and lay down. Ping me and lemme know. :)
 
7:55 PM
@FallenAngelEyes Get well soon! And yes tomorrow is fine
 
Bob
8:16 PM
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Q: Is being a factions enemy hard?

AndyI'm a gallentean flying for the minmatar. So both doing missions with my friends (gallente) and on my own (minmatar, for LP) get me in bad books with the amar. The wiki recomended doing missions for all 4 factions to avoid being seen as a criminal by them. but do i have to? i dont like the amar...

 
8:31 PM
Finally I destroyed a checkpoint race I wasn't able to dominate yet
(Gold Coast to Canion Hwy, 3:28)
 
Bob
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Q: Can a player kill CONCORD?

AndyCan a player kill CONCORD on his own? Are their any Corporations/Fleets that have done an assault on CONCORD?

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Q: How do I destroy blocks in Minecraft?

fbreretoI have been digging a mine and now have a slew of dirt and cobblestone blocks. How do I destroy them permanently and keep them from filling up my inventory?

 
8:54 PM
@Bob Did this question just give two usernames for a game that has exactly one server? Did the querant not think this was a bad idea?
 
Bob
9:50 PM
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Q: Has anyone earned the Invinvible or Jitterbug achievements in Mega Man 9?

splattered bitsMy son was playing Mega Man 9 this afternoon and it reminded me of its insane in-game achievments, the two most extreme being: Invincible: Clear the game without dying. Jitterbug: Clear the game in 60 minutes or less. Has anyone ever earned these achievements? Is there any proof (e.g., video...

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Q: Creating cantilevers in Minecraft

fbreretoI found an elevated place in Minecraft and would like to expand its borders. However it seems I can't add a block adjacent to a surface without being able to see that surface, and on an elevated area this means I'll have to be off of the area in order to accomplish this. Is there a way to create ...

 
10:16 PM
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An error has occured and a mini-dump (hehe) has been sent to Team Meat. We'll fix this ASAP. Sorry about this.
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10:34 PM
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yet, Super Meat Boy looks fun, and for some reason I've beaten all of my friends' times on all maps. There's something fishy going on here
 

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