@BenBrocka I haven't, although I can speak highly of this Fractal Design case (except for the fans, which were kind of cheap and that I immediately replaced)
@BenBrocka Yeah, that's a good point. Since I've got my computer on virtually all the time, the quietness was a plus for me, but you may not be as concerned with that.
In Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, what would be a viable character build for using a whip for a weapon?
Related question:
Are whips viable weapons in the end game?
A friend of my Wife's bought a Wii seconhand from some-person.
They cannot purchase games via the Wii store because they get a message stating that the game is not available in their region.
Since they did not purchase the Wii through a retailer is there some way to
1) Change their Wii's re...
(what's it called in English when (say) you don't go to work on Friday (Monday) because Thursday (Tuesday) was a holiday? We call that "fare il ponte")
I am considering installing Windows 8 RTM on my gaming PC. Has anyone tried installing and using Steam on Windows 8?
Is Windows 8 supported by Valve/Steam in the first place? Is there any known issues?
I think it's time to spawn a million similar questions... "Does Doom work on Windows 8", "Does Doom 2 work on Windows 8", "Does Heretic work on Windows 8", "Does Hexen work on Windows 8", "Does Quake work on Windows 8", "Friday Friday Gotta Get Down on Friday", "Does Quake 2 work on Windows 8", "Does Quake 3 work on Windows 8"
@fbueckert You can either argue that save, test and reload is no different from upgrade, test and rollback - and then I don't see why we should make an exception for technical issues - or you can argue that they aren't and that it takes significant legwork to upgrade, test and rollback - which makes those questions even more useful.
@fbueckert whether or not you can upgrade your OS without losing access to something is a real problem. There are a lot of questions that could be solved if the user would experiment completely before asking, but getting knowledge from someone who has tested more things is kind of the point of asking questions, yeah?
A problem is being created by thinking of upgrading to a new OS. Yes, the user doesn't want to break things that currently work, but by asking, "Will X break if I upgrade to Windows 8?" is speculative in action; you won't know until you upgrade.
@fbueckert This is speculative in the nature of "I'm about to do this, what will happen?", where what will happen may actually be a known quality, though.
Yes, upgrading the OS is a non-trivial state. However, if you've already done it, chances are good you're not going to be rolling back. At that point, you're better off asking, "I've run into problem X. How do I fix it?"
I can think of a lot of mechanical questions that could be solved by simple testing, and were in fact answered by someone who tested it, throughout the history of this site.
The reason we keep the questions we have of this sort is because they are questions that people do run into, and we save people the trouble of testing. With regards to game mechanicals specifically.
I think it's unfair to state that "we're not OS user experts", we're all gaming enthusiasts, most of us on PC, PC gamers have always had a certain amount of clue with OS and PC stuff
@OrigamiRobot from what I'm seeing, the vast majority of tech issues are raised by people with little or no rep, it would be assumption but I'd still go with PC gaming enthusiasts have more clue with that stuff
@GnomeSlice When we first met as far as I know you exclusively played indie games and Nitrome.
You may've been bigger on consoles at the same time but it wasn't prevalent in my impression. I'm still glad to have you aboard, though I think we only need one of your kind.
@OrigamiRobot well using my point of view, since that' the one I'm looking at this from, I've never raised a tech issue question and probably never will
I don't think anybody here would like to close that question. "What do you mean 'what happens', turn on wizard mode and see for yourself!" is a silly argument there and then.
@GraceNote I did! but I prefer my guesses in the comments area
it seems to me that we spend a disproportionate amount of time deciding we don't like questions, and then coming up with reasons to close them. I would put forth that some questions we just aren't going to like, and punishing the ones we don't like is not a particularly positive way to deal with them.
@agent86 ultimately, the people in this channel can talk about it all they want, post on meta all they want and in the end its still only a fraction of the users on the site that participated in the discussion and everybody else carries on how they always have done
@pixel yeah, it only takes 5 people to close something though, and closing something forms a precedent that people carry forward. plus it sucks for the person who asked a question that was 95% legit, but contained a bad word in the way it was described.
Oh, right, while we're on that subject, I've been getting increasing reports of consternation with regards to the volume of a certain video being posted in the chatroom today as opposed to other weeks on the same day of the week.
@GraceNote From the basic premise of that question, I'd say close it, because it's not a problem he's dealing with. He's asking for experience of anyone who has had a problem with it.
@pixel I wasn't aware that flagging was being just as frequent today, but I would thus assume that this is probably the same bevvy of people who are perturbed. To which I would like to alert them that flagging the posts won't solve anything and is likely to be just as annoying.
From my admittedly limited experience on SU, the process works as follows: 1) Someone posts a question 2) Comments are used to help troubleshoot 3) Answer is posted
@fbueckert comments exist specifically to get more info from the asker. I don't in particular see the problem if they help them solve their own problem, that's kind of the point, yeah?
missing the "apply all of your rep as bounty" step
which attracted a bunch of people thinking it was going to be an easy to resolve issue, before they all ran away again after leaving a few comments asking for steps to be completed that were already detailed in the original question
there's no requirement in a Q&A site that the answer come from a different person, but frequently people encounter the same problems and can help one another. As long as the solution is shared with the wider community, and it exists in a format easy to work with, that's kind of the goal.
I was playing Bastion in windowed mode. One of the controls is right clicking in the general direction you want projectiles to fly. Needless to say, sometimes I right clicked on the desktop quasirandomly in the hottest of moments. This was a harmless annoyance, until the desktop crashed, and rest...
@fbueckert too localized is kind of a tough close reason, imho. everyone's problems are different, aren't 99% of questions too localized by that definition?
So I just realized that you can actually set a population cap with the Dwarf Fortress LazyNewbPack. I made a game and set it to 50, i feel like thats all i really need to function efficiently and not make me want to slit my wrists (metaphorically). Although im a tad worried about really late game...
And while I think it's great there are people out there I can go to and say, "X is happening. I've tried Y and Z, but it's still happening. How do I fix it?", most often, you're not going to get an answer that completely solves the problem. You'll get, "Try looking at spots A, B, and C."
@OrigamiRobot not going by popularity. in this case, @fbueckert is saying that technical issues are "unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to [...] an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet." the worldwide audience of the internet seems interested in SU. If most everything on it is too localized, the expected outcome would be that they would not be interested.
I suppose you could say views equate to popularity, but that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying something that gets many views is unlikely to be too localized.
I want to try to be a nomad for as more days as I can, playing in hardcore mode. What difficulties will I encounter with this strategy, compared to a more traditional approach of establishing a base?
There's no hatred in anything I'm saying here. I agree with @YiJiang's position that it's a non-problem. Popularity aside, questions that ask "Has anyone run into problems with game X after upgrading to OS Y" are non-problems.
@GrayStoat not to mention that the people in this office don't even see me spending all day messing around on the internet, but I guarantee within 10 seconds of opening a suitable fluttershy picture the abuse would start
Flicky (Arcade, Genesis/Mega Drive): why does knocking out a cat only sometimes yield a diamond?
You can see what I am talking about 20 seconds into this video:
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My answer above was my first and only post on this stackexchange. I wasn't aware there was a spoiler tag. Now I am, so I've changed it. Next time, maybe just jump right in and edit rather than spreading negativity. — mattApr 18 at 22:18
A friend of my Wife's bought a Wii seconhand from some-person.
They cannot purchase games via the Wii store because they get a message stating that the game is not available in their region.
Since they did not purchase the Wii through a retailer is there some way to
1) Change their Wii's re...
Games, If Im going to spend 900 on a computer, How do I play all of those old windows games.
I am considering installing Windows 8 RTM on my gaming PC. Has anyone tried installing and using Steam on Windows 8?
Is Windows 8 supported by Valve/Steam in the first place? Is there any known issues?
I want to try to be a nomad for as more days as I can, playing in hardcore mode. What difficulties will I encounter with this strategy, compared to a more traditional approach of establishing a base?
What is a good Zerg build that utilizes a double extradtor trick, yet allows for an effective economic advantage against zerg?
Flicky (Arcade, Genesis/Mega Drive): why does knocking out a cat only sometimes yield a diamond?
You can see what I am talking about 20 seconds into this video:
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