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Arda Xi

Aug 25, 2010 23:33

congratulations. you managed to lose an argument from yourself.

alexanderpas

Aug 25, 2010 21:18

mistags can happen, but they will be very clear after the post is poseted.

radp

Aug 25, 2010 20:56

You know what the real problem is? We don't have enough real questions to answer and waste time in meta discussions!

tzenes

Aug 25, 2010 20:53

because the fact that it helps one person does not mean that it will only help one person

tzenes

Aug 25, 2010 20:49

if voting trend were an indication of the value of the question then the site would be nothing but game-recs and discussions on the pros and cons of races of starcraft

tzenes

Aug 25, 2010 20:35

if the question only helps you its still useful

Jin

Aug 25, 2010 18:18

Seems like http://gaming.stackexchange.com is really http://starcraft2.stackexchange.com

Tweeted by StevenHook on August 25, 2010 at 1:38 AM

tzenes

Aug 24, 2010 16:20

people such as my self vote to close because we feel game-rec questions are harmful to the site

Mana

Aug 23, 2010 15:06

hurray, happy morning on Gaming chat joy for all denizens of wonder magic powers!!

tzenes

Aug 22, 2010 23:06

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A: How can I tell which layers there are in an in-progress fortress in Dwarf Fortress?

Ok, I'm going to give you a crash course in Geology. In traditional Geology there are three kinds of Rock: Sedimentary, Metamorphic and Igneous (actually that's an over simplification, but pretend its true). Dwarf Fortress is modeled on this system but it further breaks Igneous down into Igneou...

Arda Xi

Aug 20, 2010 20:35

awards @JeffAtwood SEO award

tzenes

Aug 20, 2010 03:26

this is 10^7 calculations

Arda Xi

Aug 19, 2010 23:54

people like gamerec on our site because they can abuse the voting system as a poll

tzenes

Aug 19, 2010 23:10

I think forcing people to have CW answers is a useful flag in a question, as it discourages too many answers in favor of collaboration. But there is no reason that means the question has to be CW

alexanderpas

Aug 19, 2010 08:49

Super User is 1 year old and we're having a Super Contest to celebrate! http://goo.gl/Hfvu

Tweeted by codinghorror on August 19, 2010 at 8:41 AM

Arda Xi

Aug 17, 2010 21:25

gaming.stackexchange.com/search?q=wiki:1+closed:0

Arda Xi

Aug 17, 2010 20:29

:97409 If people have questions about them

Arda Xi

Aug 17, 2010 20:29

we used to agree by starring questions

tzenes

Aug 17, 2010 20:24

@Arda in established sports like Baseball the top paid player changes every could years. Historically, in gaming, it changes once a decade.

C. Ross

Aug 17, 2010 20:20

Ivo! you were playing DrugWars in WoW ...

Ivo Flipse

Aug 16, 2010 19:56

sorry, but this should be the ad for chat on Stack Exchange

Ivo Flipse

Aug 15, 2010 17:34

anyone that disagrees should try and have a discussion with you on Meta

Grace Note

Aug 15, 2010 17:28

We're going to get a lot more questions about the newer and more popular games, but many of the answerers who play those will have already gone through the other games you are currently playing

FallenAngelEyes

Aug 15, 2010 12:01

someone I know said that they had the ability to make voice to voice contact in real time with no lag to an iPhone friend of theirs and asked if the person's iPhone could do that. The guy spent 10 minutes looking for an app before he got the joke :P

Arda Xi

Aug 14, 2010 23:50

Dwarf Fortress is to normal city-building games as the UNIX command line is to Windows: abstruse, catastrophically punishing of newbie mistakes, unfailingly esoteric in documentation, and thoroughly opaque in operation.

Arda Xi

Aug 14, 2010 23:23

"Our needs exceed your allowances. Relax. They're only trees."

Arda Xi

Aug 14, 2010 21:37

why doesn't it expand other mediawikis?

alexanderpas

Aug 14, 2010 21:04

The more you know you know, the more you know you don't know.

Grace Note

Aug 13, 2010 23:57

Glad to have people like you, then. I never did finish cleaning up the [language] tag on SO.

Arda Xi

Aug 13, 2010 23:34

@GraceNote you do what you always do. answer later than me with a 100x better answer :)

Gnoupi

Aug 13, 2010 16:13

I will write about game deals on this chat, when I see one interesting, in general. This one is maybe a bit old (Phantasmagoria), but someone could like: gog.com/en/newsletter/phantasmagoria_promo

Gnoupi

Aug 13, 2010 15:34

I have seen that on SU, when the regular users (me included) got sick of the "must have" questions, and wanted to close all of them. Truth is, after a month or two, you barely have them anymore, so just wait for it to pass

Noctrine

Aug 13, 2010 15:11

I don't see the issue then

Arda Xi

Aug 13, 2010 15:04

Gnoupi

Aug 13, 2010 14:50

:83424 I'm sure plenty of ex-husbands have the answer to that one

Gnoupi

Aug 13, 2010 14:44

as long as you bend the rules established in a game, even for your own personal pleasure, in an objective to make it easier, it qualifies probably as cheating. After, as long as it's only personal.... who cares?

alexanderpas

Aug 13, 2010 14:43

Difficulty level

In general usage, difficulty level refers to the relative difficulty of completing a task or objective. In computer and video games, the term specifically delineates the ease or difficulty with which an average user may complete a game or a part of a game. Arcade games as well as many early console games included the difficulty level as an explicit setting. For example, games such as Tempest would prompt their users to choose "easy", "medium", "hard", or similar options before beginning play. Some games, however, maintain the former practice to a degree—often harder versions of the game...

Arda Xi

Aug 13, 2010 14:37

@tzenes what is your definition of cheating anyway

Arda Xi

Aug 13, 2010 14:36

what does automation have to do with the definition of cheating anyway

tzenes

Aug 13, 2010 14:33

please don't misquote me

Arda Xi

Aug 13, 2010 13:54

@tzenes that's the problem, you shouldn't judge someone for playing a single-player game their way

alexanderpas

Aug 12, 2010 21:50

so much games, so little time, at least we still got Gaming Stack Exchange

alexanderpas

Aug 12, 2010 19:45

learning moment: just simply use those up/down stairs always, they're future proof.

McKay

Aug 12, 2010 17:36

I don't think that it's too localized for the worldwide audience of the internet. Other people might want to find that particular replay.

McKay

Aug 12, 2010 17:35

I think I disagree.

tzenes

Aug 12, 2010 15:49

I'd say everything is a possible interest, and then I'd classify what is a known interest out of the possible interests

Ivo Flipse

Aug 12, 2010 07:55

is that site only about coding? I'd say it would allow discussion on mechanics as well

tzenes

Aug 12, 2010 07:10

nothing you said is different than the forum. You can have well moderated forums, you can have ones with tons of information. There are even ones with intelligent individuals. Nothing about SE is necessary there. What SE does well is solve the needle in a haystack problem.

tzenes

Aug 12, 2010 07:06

It sounds like you don't need QA at all, sounds like you just want Forums. So maybe you should go use forums, and stop trying to make QA into forums?

tzenes

Aug 12, 2010 04:16

if we really want a hangout we should create a forum

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