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8:04 PM
@NickT You do.
 
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Q: I purchased "AC:R Embers" from XBox Live. How do I view it?

Mike C.I purchased the Embers video for Assassin's Creed: Revelations on XBox Live, but I can't find where to view it. Where do I go to see it? I've tried in all the menu options in AC:R and I looked in the XBox Live Dashboard, but no joy.

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Q: How do I raise the Assassin's influence in cities over 50%?

Mike C.It seems to be capped at 50% for me. Is this normal, or am I missing something obvious? Thanks!!

 
@ArdaXi What. You reuploaded it?
 
I did it especially for you.
 
Anyone here played Metro 2033?
I always thought it looked interesting, and it's 75% off.
 
@GnomeSlice No, I've just heard that it's graphics are ridiculously inefficient.
It doesn't look too great, but it's one of the most graphics-intensive games for sale.
 
8:17 PM
Has anyone played this?
 
There's an OnLive demo
 
Doesn't help me much.
 
Actually, Metro 2033 might just look great too...
 
btw, can someone stab either Konami or Silicon Knights... whichever decided they weren't going to do an HD version of MGS: The Twin Snakes in the Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection.
 
8:20 PM
@Ullallulloo Doesn't mean they've played it.
 
@GnomeSlice I guess...but usually you'd play it if you bought it...
 
Seriously, I'd have bought the MGS HD Collection except they left out the best game in the series!
 
So many amazing deals on Gamersgate. Darksiders for 4.99
@Ullallulloo You'd think, but lots of them have games they've never played that they got in bundles or something.
 
What game do I own?
 
8:23 PM
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
 
Metal Gear - OK game. Metal Gear 2 - Damn good game that many people missed due to its first English release being in MGS 3: Subsistence. MGS - Best Metal Gear game. MGS2 - You followed MGS up with this crap? Can it get worse? MGS3 - Apparently it can! MGS4 - No idea, haven't played it after playing the first few minutes of MGS3.
 
@Ullallulloo lololol
I'm sorry @Ullallulloo, but you have you not been using STeam for very long :P
 
I see, it's okay, the UI is terrible.
 
@Ullallulloo What game?
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAa?
 
@ArdaXi Yes
 
8:25 PM
Horrible game.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz It's cheaper here.
 
OMG! Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes had characters whose mouths moved! (Side Note: Metal Gear Solid didn't)
 
DAMMIT, the Steam sale on Greed Corp is over already.
 
@ArdaXi I wouldn't call it "horrible", but I also wouldn't suggest anything buying it.
 
@Powerlord That's the only one I've played
 
8:26 PM
@GnomeSlice Yup, that happens in one day sales.
 
@Wipqozn I would, and no, I wouldn't.
 
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU
 
@GnomeSlice I haven't played The Twin Snakes.
 
@Powerlord It's just a remake of one of the other ones. Apparently it has some different stuff, but I wouldn't know.
 
Sup all? I'm lookin' for some BF3 compadres. Anyone wanna offer up their account name and get a random friend?
 
8:27 PM
@GnomeSlice Yes, it's a remake of Metal Gear Solid. Which I thought was obvious since I keep mentioning the two of them as if they're the same game. :P
 
As far as I'm concerned, they are.
 
I already know Wipqozn, how many random friends do I need?
 
@GnomeSlice Same here, but they redid the animations for it, so they should have included it in the HD collection they're selling now.
Instead, they include Metal Gears 1, 2, 4 (MGS2), 5 (MGS3), and one of the side story games (MGSPW).
MG1 and 2 look incredibly dated now since they're 2D, but I still thought they were good, 2 in particular.
 
> Get to use my cigarettes that I hid in my STOMACH! AWESOME.
 
MGS actually swiped several puzzles directly from MG2.
MGS (and its remake The Twin Snakes) being the third game
 
8:29 PM
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Q: What maneuvers can be employed to shake a jet from my six?

tQuarellaSay I'm in a jet and start getting pinged by the machine gun fire of a jet directly behind me. He has me in his cockpit view and without some serious flying...I'm dead. What specific maneuvers make it difficult for the enemy pilot to follow, and would allow me to shake him? What specific ma...

 
How does everyone know your phone number in that game?
 
@RonanForman you're such a sweet heart
 
@GnomeSlice Presumably they're given it.
 
I take it you haven't seen that vid before.
 
@GnomeSlice If I have, I don't remember it.
 
8:31 PM
GREY FOX!!!1
 
Well, that's the other thing, can codec frequencies be tapped? If I tune a codec to 120.85 (or 140.85), will I overhear you talking to Campbell?
 
> Dude, seriously, you fucking peed like a million gallons of piss everywhere.
Man, I love Egoraptor.
 
@Wipqozn Admittedly I could have pretty much said anyone in here.
 
@RonanForman True.
 
Seriously, your commanding officer always starts on .85 in Metal Gear games. :P
The Colonel in MG2, MGS, and MGS2; Big Boss in MG1.
 
8:33 PM
> YOU JUST SHOT ME IN THE LEG
> ...so?
 
I hates me some makefile syntax
 
@agent86 OTOH we're always asking people, "what have you tried?"
@YiJiang This comes from the AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA demo, which was pulled because it was apparently so bad it actively turned people away
like they'd have people saying "I still bought your game despite the demo"
 
@Wipqozn When are we re-rebooting game on!?
 
8:50 PM
Yikes, I just got obliterated by @DMA.
 
@RonanForman I'm actually working on a meta post right now
 
Also, was it really necessary for Dejobaan Games to do another version of AAAaaAaAaAaAAAAaaAa so soon?
 
@Powerlord Exactly what else could they do with the game?
 
I thought it looked like fun...
 
@Wipqozn I vote we start with a minecraft building competition as we'll get a good video out it.
 
8:57 PM
@Wipqozn Oh, I don't know, add more content to the existing one? Make a new game (although, I understand this is a stretch since this is essentially their third game about roughly the same concept, and their only other game is a Katamari Damacy clone)?
 
@RonanForman Ah, I did that on my server a while ago.
 
@Powerlord By "what else" I mean how can they even make a new one?
 
Also if we get the YouTube Chanel popular enough to get ads we could use the money for prizes! But I don't think that's realistic.
 
@RonanForman Good idea.
 
@Wipqozn er, you did know that the new one is already out on Steam? aAAAAAaaAaAaAaaAAAaAa For The Awesome (or whatever)
 
9:00 PM
@Powerlord oh, okay. I thought you meant they were coming out with another one
 
@RonanForman Me neither.
 
Isn't aAAA.... a year old now?
 
Anyway, @Wipqozn and I need name suggestions for the new brand of SE tournaments.
 
That's a regular release schedule for series which just copy paste their previous games (see: Modern Warfare series)
 
9:01 PM
and I realize Steam shortened the second one's name there, but since I can't access the page, I can't see its full name
 
@Wipqozn I think the main problem is that people get bored of it too fast, I think we lasted 3 weeks this time.
 
@RonanForman Yeah, that's why I like @badps suggestion
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A: Restructuring Game on

badpHow about something simpler: Minecraft friday Team Fortress 2 saturday Every-week-something-different sunday

It has two popular games so people keep interested, but the sunday should provide variety
 
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Q: Game menu idea - worth continue working

WarrenFaithI hope this question is not to subjective... We are working on a game for android. We had a normal menu where each menu entry is below the other. As we find this boring, we looked to different approaches and came across the lock screen on tablets with honeycomb, where you have a start point and ...

 
and we can play one game for a few weeks if everyone wishes to
 
If we can set some kinds of goals for minecraft it could work.
 
9:03 PM
@GnomeSlice Notch plays TF2, why don't you? :D
 
Adventure maps is what I was thinking @RonanForman
 
Also, I managed to get a full distance Bonk with the Scout's Sandman baseball yesterday. :D
 
@RonanForman Spleef!
 
@Powerlord that's a hard cheev. I'm pretty sure I've never done it. but I play scout like, never.
 
@Gnome that'd be awesome
 
9:06 PM
@agent86 I didn't think there was an achievement for that.
 
19 hours ago, by GnomeSlice
So, @Wipqozn and I have been thinking of making game tournaments a regular event here at Gaming.SE. I thought it would be best if, rather than trying to merge it with Game On!, we brand it as a whole new 'thing'. We need a good name.
Any suggestions?
 
Oh wait, maybe Moon Shot...
 
Also if we get people to record it and then people suggest their favourite bits to send to me to edit.
 
@RonanForman It would probably end up looking like a jigsaw puzzle.
Unless everyone used the same tools with the same settings.
 
I had forgotten that a full distance ball would stun them completely.
 
9:08 PM
@Gnome that is a point. We could use exadurated 3D transitions so no-one notices.
 
@GnomeSlice The idea is for ti to be a "best of" video
 
@GnomeSlice I'm not sure how well that'd run in practice
 
@GraceNote Can we hear your thoughts?
 
@Wip the point is if we cut between two resolutions of the same game people we think it's weird.
 
@RonanForman ah okay
 
9:11 PM
We just need a swooshey effects or to never show similar footage in succession. It'd be fine.
 
@GnomeSlice Well, for regular tournaments, you're either playing a brand new game on each cycle, or you're regularly playing the same set of games.
 
@GraceNote So? We could come up with a few games, I'm sure.
'leaderboards' style games could work too.
 
If we're playing a new game, there's either going to be lots of people who haven't heard of or played, or we're dealing with a handful of secret experts. Either way, a tournament structure seems like it'd be not as appealing as just fun get-together gaming
 
@GraceNote That's why it's something separate. Also, the idea would be to have a few games to cycle through.
 
@GraceNote Which is why I thought it would be better to rebrand this instead of lumping it in with Game On.
 
9:13 PM
I'm not saying it's something that will happen, and why gnome was asking for peoples thoughts on it.
 
can I be a secret expert? can I can I? :)
 
@DavidB On what?
 
@GnomeSlice I'm just uncertain about the appeal of making formal contests in this environment. Informal competition is conducive within a tight knit collection of gamers who regularly have fun to each other. But structuring a regular tournament system with a handful of newcomers now and then and an otherwise static base of players who'll be playing often
 
@GraceNote I suppose after a few rotations it might get old.
The current tournament has been pretty well recieved.
 
@Gnome I think a legue would be a better idea as it wouldn't kick people out after a couple of games.
 
9:17 PM
@RonanForman Not sure how a 'league' is a competition.
 
@GnomeSlice Do you know what a 'league' is?
 
Evidently not.
 
Well we get points for winning and the person with the most points win.
 
It's when you use a ranking system, like a ladder.
@RonanForman this
It would encourage players to play as as many games as possible.
but also wouldn't have people sitting around waiting for games if some players take awhile to make a move or what have you
 
I meant winning, and you only have a set number of games.
 
9:19 PM
Oh. That sounds like what I mentioned about games like SSBSBHSD, where we have people post times to a set of tracks or something.
Good idea.
 
I'm a not secret TF2 expert!
But TF2 is also about teamwork...
 
Also even people who are bad at the game can still have as much fun as people who are 'secret experts'
 
Speaking of TF2... @MarcoCeppi: Have you updated our TF2 server lately?
 
@Powerlord nope. I'm trying to finish my steam charm so it'll update automatically from this point forward
 
@MarcoCeppi You mean, set up nemrun and fix it because 1.7 is somewhat broken?
(and 1.8 isn't out yet)
 
9:22 PM
What's nemrun?
 
@MarcoCeppi A Source server launch script.
 
We should do a minecraft building competiton around Christmas and have it themed and get lower life forms to play too.
 
But, not just a launch script. It includes a script you can run as a separate process that checks for updates.
 
@GnomeSlice I have no idea what that is. When I Google it, The Bridge is the only thing that shows up...
 
@Ullallulloo Super Spring Break SpeedBoat Hero SD.
 
9:23 PM
It'll get more people into game on, which is what we really need.
 
@GnomeSlice Ah, right.
 
I don't own this minecraft thing everyone's so excited about.
 
@Powerlord ah, I've been charming things and I'm making a Steam charm which kind of does that. Only it deploys on the cloud
 
I have it set up on my old server to auto-update my binaries, then when it's verified that the update is really finished (iirc, after updating, it tries to update twice more) it restarts both of my servers.
Granted, one of my servers is locked and has the IP to another server in its description.
 
psh nemrun. noob.
 
9:25 PM
Like I said, nemrun is slightly broken.
I intentionally updated it to work properly on Ubuntu server 10.4 and the current version of Steam
People still go to my secondary server. And then complain about how laggy it is. Apparently they forget I moved the primary server because of how bad the bandwidth is at that hosting center (but it works fine for web stuff, which is that box's primary purpose).
 
Game on is our social thing and without people it's not... social.
 
I would play more, but I don't have my own copy of Minecraft and my internet is entirely unpredictable and fluctuates between 30kBps and 500ms, and 600kBps and 15 ms.
 
@Ulla I'm not blaming people personly for not playing, but most people don't know it exists.
 
@RonanForman I know.
 
if this "minecraft" thing ever went on sale on the steam store, I'd probably buy it.
 
9:34 PM
@Ulla Also we don't only play minecraft.
@Agent It just when up €5
 
@RonanForman fail.
 
@agent86 Minecraft isn't even on Steam.
 
@Ullallulloo someday.
I'm in no rush.
it's not like the graphics are going to become outdated
 
@RonanForman Yeah, I know. I play TF2 when I can.
 
@agent never, they'd lose too much revenue.
 
9:35 PM
@agent86 It's surprisingly hard to run smoothly.
 
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Q: How to trigger pressure plates from a distance?

AnnanWhat ways are there to trigger pressure plates without standing on them? Say I sneak into an old ruin and come across a posse of skeletons that are so positioned to be completely decimated if I could just trigger the trap they are standing next to!

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Q: How hungry will I get from a boat trip?

Simon StellingI am planning to make a large expedition with my boat. Does travelling by boat reduce my food bar? If so, how much (compared to walking/swimming)? And does this actually depend on the difficulty? I am playing on 'easy'.

 
@RonanForman I know, Notch has only made like 50 million dollars.
 
@Lazers I want to make a gilligan's island joke there
 
@GnomeSlice ^this, it's very RAM intensive.
 
@Ulla No, Mojang has.
 
9:36 PM
valve's proven that lowering the price of a game does not cause you to lose money.
it'll come. I can be patient. I can wait for minecraft 2 and buy a bundle.
I can wait for them to ink a deal with valve.
I've waited on bigger games for longer times
 
Even if they evenly distributed it, everyone would still be millionaires.
There are only 13 people total.
 
@agent not from lowering the price, but putting it onto steam would mean they have to give a cut to valve, but they're not having issues with distribution.
 
@RonanForman you make assumptions, I make assumptions, your assumptions back up your claims and mine do the same for mine, and then we disagree. another day on the internet!
 
Now we only need a cat!
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user15026
 
user15026
9:44 PM
there. :)
 
We forgot to reset the anticat matrix!
 
I have a cat.
But she's boring.
 
@GnomeSlice You're boring.
I have two cats, and they are both awesome. Like me.
 
Point?
I had two cats. The brother died last year. =[
 
user15026
I have two cats. One is sitting in my lap and purring, the other is trying to nibble the keyboard. :(
 
9:46 PM
 
user15026
@GnomeSlice Aw :(
 
I have lots of cats and they all have hair!
 
@RonanForman If she's pregnant, does that mean her baby is a bomb?
@Ullallulloo how many cats do you have?
 
@Wipqozn He was drunk, it doesn't need to make sense!
 
@Wipqozn Like...twelve-ish?
 
9:49 PM
@Ullallulloo That's a lot of cats.
Do you run some form of cat shelter?
 
So you're a crazy cat lady?
 
@Wipqozn No, I live on a farm.
 
@Ullallulloo That would explain it.
So, @Ullallulloo is a farmer.
 
@Wipqozn ya
 
user15026
@Ullallulloo That's quite a few cats - I thought my mom having 5 in her house at the moment was a lot
 
9:50 PM
Do you play a lot of Harvest Moon @Ullallulloo?
 
@Wipqozn Yes...
There aren't cats on there though.
 
@Ullallulloo Some of them have cats.
 
I have more cats
 
@DavidB Go on.
 
Not most.
 
9:51 PM
well, we had a bunch to start, then rescued some litters
 
@Ulla Do you have square pigs?
 
5, 4, 6...
 
@RonanForman Clever girl.
 
@RonanForman Who doesn't?
I guess @agent86 ...
 
the official count is 40, but that includes strays that never come in the house.
all fixed (even the strays)
 
9:52 PM
I was unaware we had so many cat people on this site.
 
@DavidB has a lot of cats.
 
I must say, cats are awesome. A lot better than dogs.
 
@Wipqozn I have a dog too...
 
@Ullallulloo Traitor.
 
I have ALL the cats
 
9:53 PM
have ALL the cats?
:(
I have one cat, and that is half a cat too many.
 
they all have names too. was hard to learn them
 
Dogs are way better, they don't randomly attack you and sleep on your face.
 
@agent86 more like half a cat not enough.
 
@agent86 You only want to have half a cat? D:
 
@Ullallulloo I just want the cute front half, not the smelly poopy back half. They make that, right?
 
9:54 PM
@Ullallulloo So it would seem. Rather unusual I must say.
 
Somehow I managed to outscore an answer with a comic with my text-only answer, this invalidates my preconceptions about how people vote on SE sites. ;-)
 
sleeping on face, yeah - that's rough. Oh, by the way - I'm allergic!
 
user15026
@DavidB O.O
 
@Fabian Link?
 
@Fabian pics or it didn't happen
 
9:55 PM
@DavidB lolwhat?
 
5
Q: Why are mammoths so much harder to kill than dragons?

HunterIn Skyrim, I noticed that it is much much harder to kill a mammoth than it is to kill a dragon. Why is this? Am I just bad at Skyrim, or is it like this for everyone?

 
after years of living with these cats, I'm not very allergic to them, but when we get a new animal, it comes back
 
@Wipqozn It seems you are right: harvestmoon.wikia.com/wiki/Cat
 
Usually, e.g. on P.SE a comic always guaranteed you the highest score
 
@Fabian down votes the comic, flags it as not an answer, is a huge dick who hates fun
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9:57 PM
The comic does actually answer at least part of the question ("is it like this for everyone")
 
@Fabian True
 
Programmers, or where else would you post XKCDs? ;-)
Or the old, probably now deleted SO questions
 
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Q: What kind of dose can you expect from a radioactive lens?

LouisI read that lens makers used to use radioactive glass to increase the refractive index property of their lenses. How radioactive are they? Here are some example dosages; where would looking through the viewfinder for an hour fit? http://xkcd.com/radiation/

 
I stand corrected
 
10:00 PM
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Q: How can I easily take down the Witch-Bride of Achriman?

badpThis boss fight involves a telekinetic witch that can teleport in, deal slight damage and freeze you and your aim in place for a few seconds and then teleport out. She's assisted by a great deal of enemies, from hordes of Beheaded Rocketeers to Scrapjack Rocketeers, that can make a great deal of ...

 
and before anyone says anything, we have an XKCD comic on Skeptics somewhere, I think
Do we want a tag?
See the suggested edit queue
 
I you don't want it, I'll take it, you might get a good price for it on game dev
 
@Fabian it's just the tag
 
@Wipqozn That's what I thought
 
Kill it
 
10:04 PM
Can you repeat that deep and over an intercom?
 
@GraceNote Did you nuke it already?
 
@Fabian someone did
 
Aha, Nick T did
 
@RonanForman DeepThroat
@Fabian Oh, hell no.
Jesus Christ, this guy on the Lexaloffle Forums is dumb. "Mr.Mutant".
@RonanForman Now I want to watch Metal Gear Awesome 2 again.
Scroll down a bit and read that guy's posts.
 
I got a mystery box in the mail today. It either contains Skyward Sword or a PSP
 
10:17 PM
@GraceNote speaking of mystery boxes, when (did/are?) grant games shipping?
 
I would imagine that they'd already have been shipped.
 
@GraceNote My reimbursement hasn't, which suggest they haven't.
 
Reimbursement has lower priority, so to speak
 
Can't imagine why, but alright.
 
@GnomeSlice because you already have the game
 
user15026
10:19 PM
@GnomeSlice eyeroll I think that is internet speak for "please sir do this for me because I am lazy"
 
@AshleyNunn I don't know, did you read his messages, and the post that he said he didn't see instructions on?
 
I got Skyward Sword Friday, but I got it from Brett's round.
 
@GnomeSlice We have limited personnel in charge of actually buying the things. So, we put priority on the things that have a timeline (the games) and allow some measure of backlog for the things on a less time issue (the reimbursement)
 
How much of my reimbursement comes directly from Jeff's personal account?
 
Jeff isn't in charge of it
 
10:22 PM
Well, that's disappointing.
Also, I'm kidding.
 
@GnomeSlice he's got a wad of 20's from his "side business" and he counts them out into individual envelopes to mail to people.
 
@agent86 Unfortunately I'm not in the US.
 
@agent But he doesn't fill all the envelopes at once.
Apparently it's slower.
 
...wow. This is one of the most insubstantial instruction booklets I have ever seen
 
@GraceNote WAG REMOTE. A WINNER IS YOU.
 
10:24 PM
I went to double-check if they skimped on having a "Backstory" section, and it turns out they skimped on having a Table of Contents at all!
 
scandal.
 
@agent86 With the epilepsy warning on the reverse side, naturally.
 
@GraceNote Horrors!
 
It looked like it was the size of a normal instruction booklet, so I had hopes "Oh, hey, maybe this isn't padded with 2 additional languages". Oh how wrong I was on that...
 
@GraceNote I hate it when that happens.
 
10:26 PM
It's only got 6 pages.
 
I've seen worse.
 
user15026
@GnomeSlice Yeah, I love it, especially because it even explains how to copy and paste >.<
 
But not often.
@AshleyNunn Well, he said he looked, with his eyes.
So clearly I'm doing something wrong.
 
user15026
@GnomeSlice Of course, because obviously his eyes are functional so how could he miss it.
 
user15026
10:30 PM
@GraceNote I tend to forget games have manuals, which is why my question was so awesome - the answer is in the manual. >.<
 
user15026
Hurray, I can type tags properly!
 
...victory! I found a second Mystery Box!
 
user15026
@GnomeSlice That is pretty cool. :)
 
user15026
@GraceNote Hurrah! Mystery solved!
 
And now I shall own a platform that I think our site has less coverage of than it has on flash games!
...man, this box and instruction set is entirely more entertaining than the Skyward Sword box
 
user15026
10:34 PM
@GraceNote Is it more than 6 pages?
 
It folds out like a flower that has even more instructions in it
 
oh, Serious Sam
after 40 minutes and a boss fight, I find the minigun
and a huge wave of kleesk (?) come my way
after I dominate it at the third try I pull out the statistics
KILLS: 568/1139
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
(I'm at 778 right now)
 
Kleesk?
 
@GraceNote Wii? Not quite, I don't think.
 
@GnomeSlice PSP
Also, I'd ask more flash questions if I could figure out how to tag them.
 
10:44 PM
@Ullallulloo Game name.
 
0
Q: What happens if I kill a butterfly?

splattered bitsI was trying to capture a butterfly in Skyward Sword, when I accidentally hit B and put the bug net away. Unknowingly, I continued to swing. This armed my sword, and before I realized it, I had killed the poor butterfly I was trying to capture. I had a similar incident early in the game, bef...

 
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Q: How should we tag flash games?

UllallullooFlash games aren't overly common, but there doesn't seem to be much of a consensus on how to tag them. Most of them were tagged with the game's name and flash, but as most flash games don't have too much depth, the game's tag degrades, and it's left with just the flash tag. An exception is Gemcra...

 
@GraceNote The hacky and slashy and chain plus ball throwing things
...actually named Kleer Skeleton
 
@GnomeSlice Then the problem becomes thinking of two questions or leaving tons of untagged questions.
 
Maybe that feature needs to be modified.
 
10:51 PM
@GnomeSlice Jeff won't let us have game tags though.
Also, Jeff seems to tag them with just .
 
@Ullallulloo What? That's foolish.
Flash games have just as much variety as retail games.
Maybe even more.
 
Personally, I like Cyberskull's suggestion of tagging them with both.
In case the game has enough questions for it's tag to survive.
But I am interested in looking at almost every flash game question.
Since they're easy to start and free.
 

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