The Bridge

5:08 AM

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So, in Forge 1.6 and previous, if you wanted to get a list of all items available in the game, you could just do Items.itemList This would return an Item[], containing all the vanilla items and all the items added by other mods. The problem is, in 1.7, as part of the new changes to the block/i...

Frank

@Lazers This might be better suited to EE.SE

Lazers

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Q: Minecraft seeds multiplayer vs singleplayer

I went to my multiplayer server and typed /seed: 2200642393142709666 I created a singleplayer world with this seed and went to the same location in both worlds. They are different..... Why? How can I generate my multiplayer map in singleplayer mode? Thank you! :)

minecraft minecraft-server

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Q: "Panna City" dream job?

Has anyone gotten a bitizen whose dream job is Panna City Medicines? I haven't seen one yet despite having evicted and gotten a significant number of bitizens since I got PCM.

Why is this question gathering undelete votes?

Lazers

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Q: My Minecraft worlds won't load up on Magic Launcher

I'm running 1.5.2, and I usually play offline, but lately my worlds just won't load up. The screen says it is downloading but after a while it says that minecraft has crashed. My worlds do work on the normal minecraft launcher.

minecraft

GnomeSlice

5:23 AM

@Frank It's already undeleted, even.

I'm off to bed, Bridge.

Goodnight.

Brant

That particular question is off topic only in a narrow-minded Wikipedia-style play-bureaucrat form of the phrase.

But that’s just my opinion.

If I knew it was deleted I would have voted to undelete it a lot earlier.

Frank

And then I guess I've voted to delete it again.

The question's not on-topic in any sense whatsoever. There's no reason to keep it around.

Unionhawk

I think that one would have had to have been a mod undelete, maybe?

Brant

I cast the fifth undelete vote myself

Unionhawk

Oh, I see.

That's a different one then, with a retroactive mod deletion.

Nick T

5:31 AM

@Frank a shopping recommendation is broken because there are too many variables, not because it's "about shopping"

Frank

@NickT A shopping rec is broken because it's about a specific point in time.

Nick T

"consider the voluminous amount of information you need to even begin properly answering a shopping question:

What is your budget?
Where do you live?
What are your preferences?
Which alternatives will you consider?
When do you want to buy?"

Brant

@Frank You could apply that argument to any answer on the site, because games can be patched. Where do you draw that line?

Unionhawk

Strictly speaking, every minecraft question could be about a specific point of time.

Nick T

Yes, because specific points in time is totally valid thing on the gaming site

e.g. ^

Frank

5:33 AM

@Brant When it asks for website/product recommendations.

Which is exactly what that is.

That said, I'm not chuffed if the community disagrees.

Brant

My question was about how specific a point in time a question has to apply to in order to be considered invalid, not the topic

Nick T

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Q: How can I determine what the current market value of my items are?

Background For the last few days, I've been attempting to figure out what my items current market value are, if anything. Attempts This is extremely hard to figure out, due to the auction house. I have attempted to input items into the in-game search, but with the limit of only three criteria...

diablo-3

Frank

@Brant It's not about specificities. It's about our expertise.

Nick T

@Frank that question should have been closed, the AH is going away.

Brant

The intent of “no shopping recs” is because of the number of underlying problems that shopping recs have, not because somebody decided that anything mentioning shopping is bad

Frank

5:35 AM

We're gamers. We play games, and can be reasonably expected to know how to figure it out inside a game.

Brant

But too many people only read as far as DATA ACCEPTED: SHOPPING == VOTE TO CLOSE QUESTION and don’t stop to think about why Arqade exists: To help answer questions

Unionhawk

By proxy though, we also have to buy games.

Or else it's also off topic for other reasons.

Frank

@NickT Good find. Yeah, I'm not sure what we do with outdated questions; we seem to be wonky about closing, or just leaving it alone.

@Unionhawk Yeah, but that has nothing to do with playing games.

Nick T

@Frank I was trying to be hyperbolic about "question about feature X in game Y", because game Y receives updates, so feature X might be rendered moot later, so why bother asking at all

Brant

This site isn’t about playing games, it’s for passionate videogamers. That includes more than just playing them.

Nick T

5:37 AM

@Frank nothing should be done with the question now...it's like a million other minecraft questions

Frank

@NickT And within a game, we can be reasonably expected to notice that.

@Brant No, that scope is far too broad.

It's not, "if it's tangentially related to video games, it's on-topic"

Brant

@Frank Well, somebody ought to update this page then.

Nick T

I tried to make the temporal context of my question clear (beyond timestamps), because it's after the kickstarter, after backing, after game release, and post-release...nothing seems ot be around

unrelated, close this

@Frank questions like the x360 controller mod aren't really ones I want on EE.SE...but people usually put that crap there anyways

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Q: Converting a wireless 360 controller to wired

I have a wireless Xbox 360 controller that batteries or rechargeables won't work, but the Play & Charge cord still works. I wanted to wire the controller with a USB from a broken wired controller. I know that the USB cable still works. I know how to wire it so that the controller will take powe...

xbox-360 controllers

Brant

I like to think of the ideal scope of the site like this: Imagine you have a friend who isn’t much of a gamer, but does play them from time to time. They come to you with a question. You tell your friend you don’t know the answer, but you know a great group of gamers who definitely do. That’s us.

Frank

@Brant And as long as it's about playing games, I've got no issues with it.

That's where we excel.

Not about anything under the sun related to video games.

Brant

5:41 AM

If we turn around and tell your friend “well, I know the answer, but that’s not really about playing them so I’m not going to help you” then we’re just jackasses.

Unionhawk

@Frank Well we have established that in-universe lore is okay, much to your dismay.

And by "established", I of course mean the unicorn poop of consensus.

Brant

So in the specific case, if someone asks “what online store will give the developer the most money?”, and we know the answer to that question, why are we telling them to GTFO?

Frank

@Brant Because we don't know.

It's developer intent.

Brant

Sure we do, somebody posted an answer with references.

Frank

Or as close as you can get, with a developer = online store.

@Brant I see zero links in that answer.

Brant

5:44 AM

There’s one in the comments.

Frank

We have a single developer providing a reference. Not sure if I'd call that authoritative.

Brant

Well, okay, it’s a little thin, but it’s still better than no answer at all. “Don’t know” and “can’t know” aren’t really the same thing anyway.

Frank

@Unionhawk Well, lore's a real controversial issue, and our current compromise is pretty wonky.

Unionhawk

3 mins ago, by Unionhawk

And by "established", I of course mean the unicorn poop of consensus.

Brant

But to get back to my original point: Just because it’s vaguely shopping-related or development-related doesn’t mean that it’s not a gaming question for gaming experts who can provide gaming answers.

Frank

5:46 AM

@Brant There's nothing vague about it.

I think those questions are outside our scope. And the one we're currently talking about most certainly is.

The Broken Age one, I'm willing to let the community decide.

Brant

It’s not a shopping question in this sense:

14 mins ago, by Nick T

"consider the voluminous amount of information you need to even begin properly answering a shopping question:

What is your budget?
Where do you live?
What are your preferences?
Which alternatives will you consider?
When do you want to buy?"

I don’t think it has any of those problems

Frank

@Brant In that sense, no. That refers to physical shopping.

Online, it's essentially a website recommendation.

Brant

It definitely is! What’s wrong with recommendation questions?

Yeah, that’s a facetious statement, I know.

Recommendation questions aren’t bad, but the problems that recommendation questions almost always have are bad, and that’s why we don’t like them.

But I don’t think the delivery platform question really suffers from any of those problems, at least not strongly enough to outweigh the usefulness of it (as indicated by the number of votes it has)

Anyway I’m kind of blathering and ranting because it’s past my bedtime and I’m kind of drowsy, I apologize for that

Lazers

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Q: Can't Dismiss Follower on Skyrim

Hi there everyone i seem to have a little problem as i play through the Dragonborn DLC from Skyrim... Recently i've run into a problem that's beginning to frustrate me...and that is that i have a riekling hunter as a pet/follower as well as a custom one. I decided that i no longer needed the rie...

skyrim

Frank

@Brant And I don't think knowing where to find or buy a video plays to our expertise. Yeah, we'd be able to answer it now, but what happens if the link dies? Answer's useless. We can't really be expected to notice that and keep it up to date, because as gamers, we're playing games, not constantly re-watching the same things over and over.

Now, if it's something that changes in a game, I think we can be expected to go, "Hey, this isn't right anymore. We should fix that."

@Brant What usefulness? There is zero utility to that question.

Brant

5:52 AM

All answers will become out of date on a long enough timeline. That’s why even anonymous users can suggest edits.

Frank

51 secs ago, by Frank

Now, if it's something that changes in a game, I think we can be expected to go, "Hey, this isn't right anymore. We should fix that."

Brant

@Frank I guess that’s the core point where we disagree. I think it’s a useful question because it’s one that I’ve often wondered about myself. Sometimes I have the opportunity to support a developer I like and I want to make sure as much of my money as possible goes to them.

Frank

@Brant And I think that's a noble goal.

I just don't think we have the capability to answer that in anything that doesn't approach speculation.

Short of buying it directly from the developer themselves.

Brant

I know what you mean. There are probably quite a few questions on the site that nobody can definitively answer. I just think it’s worth keeping those questions around on the off chance that I’m wrong, and someone comes along who can.

You make some good points though.

I should really go to bed.

Frank

@Brant Yeah, this Winnipeg cold is getting to me, too.

Brant

5:58 AM

grumblemutter

Lazers

6:16 AM

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Q: Change the location of the Steam screenshots folder?

There's an option in the "In-Game" tab in the Steam settings menu to change the screenshot folder, but it doesn't seem to do anything? I took a screenshot after changing the location through the settings and the screenshot still went to userdata/id/760/remote. Is there any way to change where Ste...

steam

Lazers

6:34 AM

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Q: Tiny Death Star - New Levels Monday

Did anyone of you see the screen telling you new floors are available but then are not able to build any because there weren't any new floors? The latest update gave me 2 residential floors initially and supposedly more each Monday. But I haven't got any. Any clue? Thanks

tiny-death-star

Gaming Topics From Outside

6:50 AM

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Q: more tar.gz questions

Trying to install Catlateral Damage using the usual extracting and installing commands on the terminal, but it keeps tossing me annoying errors. Probably missing something obvious. Both the archive and the file are on my desktop. Note: the file created by extracting the archive starts out named t...

games software-installation tar

Chippies

7:22 AM

Hey, should duplicate answers to a question be deleted?

5pike

@Chippies If they don't add anything new to the existing one, yes.

Chippies

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Q: What does the Crystal "Lockdown" power do?

I finally managed to obtain my first Crystal crew member (finally!). I note that he has a "Lockdown" power, as shown in the screenshot below: What does this power do? None of the tooltips I've seen provide any explanation. When is this power useful?

ftl-faster-than-light

I don't think I have the power to delete, so someone who does can deal with it :)

5pike

@Chippies Well, in this case, it adds something new, so it's fine.

Not much, but it does.

Chippies

@5pike, mkay, if you say so.

Lazers

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Q: Xbox360 troubles

I purchased a new external hard drive for my Xbox and installed it. It completely wiped my hard drive and all progress on all games were removed. Now it is having trouble turning on...it stays on the loading screen and is not an internet connection problem. I've tried restarting it, taking out th...

xbox-360 technical-issues hard-drive

Lazers

7:40 AM

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Q: Is there an effective counter to a hero's armor?

A warrior I was playing tonight was able to get their armor much higher than I would have liked. In Hearthstone a hero's armor is similar to a hero's health and since there is no practical limit to the amount of armor a hero can stack, his armor advantage became insurmountable. While I was being...

hearthstone

Kevin van der Velden

7:58 AM

Morning

5pike

Morning

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