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12:00 AM
I strongly suggest Link's Awakening myself.
 
I never played the other two.
 
One of the best Zelda games imo
 
@badp If you do get Minish do the kings amulet thing as soon as possible.
 
@Powerlord I can rewind at will though.
 
@Wipqozn It's good, but crazy hard.
Plus kind of crazy.
 
12:01 AM
@Ullallulloo Yes... and actually, I like the Oracles games better. :|
 
@Ullallulloo I didn't find it all that difficult. THen again, I've played every non-CDi Zelda game, so I may not be the best judge of difficulty.
 
I ought to ping @Grace when saying Skyward Sword.
 
You'll have to poke Brett
 
Gotcha'
 
@Wipqozn I've played most, but after about half-way though...
 
12:02 AM
It's no big deal anyway.
 
After that one part...
 
I have found memories of Link to the Past.
my first Zelda game.
 
I've started playing OoT
 
Adventure of Link is the best 2D zelda, fuck the haters
 
and the two lines cheat display is driving me nuts since the very first screen.
Oh god holding A doesn't make the dialogue proceed. I must tap it every time.
 
12:05 AM
@RavenDreamer Well, it's the best Zelda game, so there's a good reason for that.
Also, I forgot about that video
 
@Power You've only just found that?
 
Scratch all I said about Zelda.
 
@RonanForman "forgot about" implies you knew about it before now
 
I got Lttp and Link's Awakening backwards.
 
@Powerlord Oh goodie, glad to see I'm not the only one that holds that correct opinion.
 
12:08 AM
@Wipqozn Starring that leaves it open to interpretation which game Powerlord is talking about.
 
I almost beat Link's Awakening.
Lttp was hard.
 
I haven't played enough cross games, I've played like 2 2D ones.
 
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Q: what's holding up the helicopter homie?

MaslowI keep having it grayed out for awhile, with no idea what drives it or what I could do to get it refreshed besides go about my business. Anything I can do to speed this up? There are so many less cribs with heli-access it seems in sr3.

 
You know how much we love context here.
 
@Wipqozn It seems to be split opinion between A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time, although the other games do have some... not followers.
 
12:08 AM
I have played all the 3D ones.
 
@Ullallulloo It was?
 
@Powerlord The puzzles were at least.
After about half-way through.
 
I've played every non-CDi Zelda game and beaten every one except Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures.
 
Cross games? Zelda games.
 
Ok y'all got me curious about playing these. Which one's first?
 
12:09 AM
@Powerlord yeah, I've noticed that too. I have seen some argue for Majora's Mask and Link's Awakening though.
 
I beat all of Link's Awakening except the Final Boss.
I could only beat about half of that.
 
@John you've never played a Zelda game before?
 
@Wipqozn No.
 
@Ullallulloo Any dungeon in particular? After Dark World dungeon 4, you can get the Level 3 sword, which does make things easier.
 
@Powerlord I think I was on a mountain in the dark world and got stuck there.
 
12:10 AM
Zelda 1 for the NES is the first game in the series, but... it's an old game and it shows.
 
@Ullallulloo Were you a bunny?
 
Thoughts, guys?
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A: Tagging the Skyrim questions

Raven DreamerHere's my list. combat - any question about fighting, or how to avoid being killed in a fight, etc. leveling - questions about earning XP, increasing one's character level, or regarding game objects which change based on character level. crafting - any question that deals with enchanting, smith...

 
@John .... Did you like... not have a childhood or something?
 
@Wipqozn I assume he was, because the dungeons on Death Mountain in the Dark World are dungeons 7 and 8.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz It's a long story.
 
12:12 AM
@LessPop_MoreFizz I was going to ask @John the same thing, but I'd rather not associate with him anymore now that I know he's never played a Zelda game before.
 
I played more bad obscure games as a child.
 
@RavenDreamer Could probably stand to have Equipment represented.
 
@Wipqozn ಠ_ಠ
 
@RonanForman Like Milon's Secret Castle?
 
My favorite game as a child was Superman 64...
2
 
12:13 AM
Also, Crime. Because it doesn't neatly fit any of those other tags and is a clearly definable category of Skyrim questions.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz We were talking about that earlier. Could we have both a weapons tag AND an equipment tag?
 
@RavenDreamer I think so. Equipment is a superset for certain kinds of games.
But it's not a synonym in others.
 
Banjo kazooie was and always will be my favourite game.
 
@RonanForman Excellent choice.
 
Like, there are plenty of questions that would deserve both - it's not like we reasonably hit the 5 tag limit often anyway, but I wouldn't use the Equipment for a question about say - two different firing modes in a shmup, though I might use weapons.
 
12:14 AM
I want banjo threeie!!!
Also I always liked diddy kong racing as conker behaved mild mannered.
 
@RonanForman I'm sorry to say that the series has ended, buried with a knife in its back while another game disguises itself as a Banjo-Kazooie game.
 
Bad fur day was good too, its probably still not suitable for me now.
 
@LessPopMoreFizz okay, updated. Got 10 now. That's a nice round number.
@Powerlord I don't know if selling Rare did Nintendo a favor, or if that's why Nintendo sold Rare.
 
@Wipqozn I might have turned human, but I was still stuck.
 
oh my god.
Pam commercial with anthropomorphic muffins.
shudder
 
12:20 AM
@RavenDreamer Anthropomorphism is never good.
 
Oh @Raven I've cleaned up your sound bites, want them back?
 
@RavenDreamer Hard to say. These days, Rare has been completely gutted and turned into Microsoft's Kinect game development wing.
 
@RonanForman Nah. No need.
 
Sure? Okay.
There's no static!
 
@RavenDreamer There's an old joke about two pies baking in an oven...
 
12:22 AM
@Ullallulloo Did you get The Master Sword?
 
@Wipqozn I doubt it.
 
@RonanForman I don't need to improve the quality, so.
 
That's the one. Creepy.
 
@Ullallulloo In that case it sounds like your next step is to go to The Lost Woods and get the master sword
 
12:23 AM
@Ullallulloo Yeah, so you didn't even reach the third dungeon. Third of 12.
Hell, the dungeons aren't even numbered until you reach the dark world.
 
@Powerlord If he stopped being a bunny in The Dark World, then chances are he completed the third dungeon.
 
I don't remember exactly, it was like 8 years ago.
 
@Wipqozn I would find it more likely that he got stuck trying to figure out how to get up to the Tower of Hera, which requires you to pay attention to the differences in geography between the Light and Dark worlds (spoiler alert!)
 
@RavenDreamer The joke about pies is better.
 
@Powerlord I'm proceeding under the assumption that he stopped being a bunny in the dark world, although he was uncertain of that.
 
12:25 AM
And that's not saying much.
 
goes to look for old GBA cartridges
 
@Ullallulloo you damn well better. We must know where you were stuck!
 
Found it!
My save's still there.
 
@Ullallulloo Excellent.
waits in anticipation
 
Wow an 8 year old save...
 
12:28 AM
How do I know if I have the master sword?
 
@Ullallulloo Your sword will have a "2" next to it
 
My sword's kinda blue, and has a 2 next to it.
I have 3 crystals.
 
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Q: Enchanting with the Black Star

tritium6Can the Black Star be used repeatedly to enchant items? Assuming of course that it is re-filled with a soul between applying enchantments.

 
@Ullallulloo pendants, or crystals?
 
@Wipqozn Crystals
 
12:30 AM
@Ullallulloo okay, just making sure
 
It froze when I tried a spin attack though.
 
Is downloading and emulating it legal? I never had (and still don't have) a Nintendo.
 
@John Emulating it is legal, obtaining the ROM to actually emulate it is not.
 
I next to a mountain on the ground, left of a waterfall...
 
@RavenDreamer :(
 
12:33 AM
@Ullallulloo Light or Dark world?
 
@Wipqozn Probably light.
 
Sounds like you are either in or near zoras domain then.
Actually you are probably near the fairy fountain near the church
 
@Wipqozn I think I'm supposed to go in this grave or something, but there are big rocks around that my hammer won't break.
 
Is there a cave door above you?
 
@Wipqozn That's where I spawned.
 
12:35 AM
Wow. 1.0 has a lot of new achievements.
 
Fairy noises inside and a closed skull door thing.
ah!
Found how to get in.
and it froze again
 
@Ullallulloo That grave contains a 'hidden' item, you don't need it. Lifting the rocks requires you to have the next level of gloves, but you can get to the grave before that. Go to the dark world, and go to the location of the grave there, and teleport back to light.
 
@Wipqozn how?
 
@John Am updating my client now!
 
@Ullallulloo The Magic Mirror will return you to the light world form the dark world.
 
12:37 AM
@RavenDreamer It's exciting! They made redstone not take obscenely long anymore! :D
 
@Wipqozn Yeah, but it doesn't do anything.
 
@John And Obsidian too, I think.
 
So I'm in light I guess?
 
@Ullallulloo Sounds like it.
There are a few ways to get to the dark world. The easiest for you would be to go through the portal at the castle gate.
 
@John oh god, the sounds, though
I'm a beaver.
2
 
12:39 AM
Cool, a fairy healed me and I shoot light things.
 
@RavenDreamer Are they that bad? I don't usually (and am not now) play(ing) with sound.
 
52 secs ago, by Raven Dreamer
I'm a beaver.
 
@Ullallulloo When you're at full health, you shoot beams with all swords (Except for the level 1 sword)
 
dead
 
Racoon is not pleased.
 
12:46 AM
k, I'm in the dark world.
 
@Ullallulloo If I remember correctly... the path there would be Right, Up, Left, Up, Up, Left, Left
 
?
Oh, I see where the next crystal is now.
 
@Wipqozn Not left, left, right, right, up, down, up, down, a, b?
 
@Ullallulloo you can get the crystals in about any order
There are a few you need to get before others (Well, the dungeons item that is), but for the most part they can be completed in an order.
 
oh
I'm on the wrong side of the river now, though.
 
12:50 AM
@Ullallulloo hookshot
 
@Wipqozn ah, okay, cuz jumping doesn't work. :p
 
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Q: Is there is website that explains the game mechanics for Skyrim

JamesI am looking for a somewhat comprehensive site to explain the game mechanics to me. I have not (nor do I want to) play any other Elder Scrolls game and picked this one up on a whim. Unfortunately the in game tutorial only explains how to move (For those who find this hard to figure out its the WA...

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Q: Are there areas that have a higher chance of spawning dragons?

Tom WijsmanIt might be that I'm questing too much, but I don't see much dragons so I'm unable to learn the new words I learn. Are there areas I could go and take a visit to perform some efficient dragon hunting?

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Q: Where can I find better armor / weapons in Skyrim?

Tom WijsmanI'm level 14 and currently wearing: Amulet of Talos (Looted of the guy that got executed in the Solitutude) Elven Bow/Warhammer (Stolen from display cases) Imperial Boots Imperial Officer's Helm Silver Amethyst Ring Steel Armor Steel Nordic Gauntlets Now, I can't seem to be finding apparel th...

2
Q: How do I determine whether a quest belongs to the main story line?

Tom WijsmanI've heard that there is a main story line in Skyrim, and that you have the main quests and procedurally generated quests besides that. How can I identify whether a quest belongs to the main story line, or whether it is procedurally generated by someone. I would somehow like to focus on finishin...

 
Wait, I think I just came from the grave...
There's a portal already here from my mirror...
 
Seeing one of my answers show up in /review makes me sad.
As a Low Quality Answer no less.
It's not my fault it was a Low Quality Question with a Yes or No answer that I had to pad out to meet the character minimum in the first place.
 
k, Chuck's on now.
Be back after.
Now I've gotta beat this game. :P
 
1:00 AM
Well, that Hardcore attempt ended badly.
"Hm. Let's watch my wolves tear apart this zombie"
creeper hiss
Hm? What's that wolfie?
BOOM!
Can you tell I've not played with Creepers in a while?
 
@RavenDreamer Why would you ever want to play Minecraft without Creepers? They are the single best thing in the game.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz That's exactly why it's in there. Because it's short.
@RavenDreamer You play hardcore?
I couldn't bear to give up all my creations after each death.
 
@John I know why it's in there. I'm just saying it's not my fault that there's nothing more to say on the matter because it's a bad question.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Because I've been fiddling with redstone.
@John It just got added today.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Then downvote!
@RavenDreamer It's been in 1.9 for a while, but why would someone do that?
 
1:05 AM
I have a 3x4 piston door working! It opens! Now if only I can get it to close.
@John Because you don't actually have to lose the world when you die.
 
@RavenDreamer heheh
@RavenDreamer Oh? How do you rescue your world?
@RavenDreamer What happens to the middle column?
I've never tried a door larger than 2x2.
 
user30
wheeeeeeeey
 
@John You quit minecraft without pressing "delete world".
@John Consecutive pistons
Piston on piston action
 
user30
I just fell into a hedge.
 
@RavenDreamer That must be a lot of wire very in the way.
 
user30
1:07 AM
:(
 
@RavenDreamer Well aren't we clever.
@ThomasMcDonald I'm...sorry?
 
user30
@RavenDreamer Nothing like a bit of girl on girl
 
user30
(assuming you've watched hot fuzz)
 
user30
@John That'll do.
 
Unfortunately, interaction with real-life lesbians has ruined lesbians for me, forever.
4
 
1:08 AM
@ThomasMcDonald I'm mad that you beat me to that question on difficulty.
 
user30
Heh, I just wanted to make a note of it for the greater good.
 
You could've at least let me answer it...
@ThomasMcDonald So you restate the wiki? :P
 
user30
yah
 
user30
wait what
 
user30
meh.
 
user30
1:09 AM
:(
 
user30
anyway, the greater good.
 
user30
in the morning, fellas'
 
@ThomasMcDonald I take it that means goodbye?
 
Let me guess
 
Fun Fact: Skyrim's armor cap is so absurdly low that with perks and maxed smithing you can wear whatever the fuck you want and still have max damage reduction.
A fully upgraded set of Hide is roughly 120 armor over the cap.
 
1:11 AM
to continue in the game I have to buy the svovel
or steal it
 
@badp Always steal it.
 
@LessPopMoreFizz im sure mods will remedy that
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz There are no buckets handy!
 
Alternately, the owner of the shovel, possiby using the shovel as the instrument thereof, and wander off.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz The owner talks when attacked. It's kind of silly.
 
1:12 AM
@badp Buckets are for artless and incompetent thieves. I need no buckets to do my work.
 
@badp Clearly that is all the more reason to him. Can't have him talking. Gotta make him shut up.
 
@OrigamiRobot [tag:murder]
 
@John you are a gentleman and a scholar
 
@OrigamiRobot Why thank you.
 
1:18 AM
BTW, Congrats @OrigamiRobot (I think)
 
@LessPopMoreFizz yessss
A last hurrah for
It served me well :D
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz You sure?
Aaaaand Hardcore death #2.
Found 15 wolves, no domestic animals = no food.
 
@RavenDreamer You really need to be more careful.
@RavenDreamer I haven't found any food either.
 
Went hunting zombies to survive the night. Returning "home" with a pair of wolf friends when I get shot off a 4-foot drop and die from falling damage.
 
All I've found is sheep.
@RavenDreamer If only it were 3...
 
1:25 AM
@John Seriously!
 
@RavenDreamer minecraft?
 
I'm going to switch this world to non-hardcore though, because I like it.
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, I'm tryin' the new Hardcore mode they added today.
I've gotten two spawns with Wolves and little else.
 
skyrim is currently raping my brain
im going to ohio for thanksgiving so ill catch up on MC there
 
@RavenDreamer You realize you're ruining the essence of "hardcore", right?
 
@John mm? No. I just like the world. I'm going to start my 3rd hardcore run soon.
 
1:32 AM
katey on November 19, 2011

After some exciting meetings in late October here at Stack HQ we’d been wracking our brains to figure out a way to capture and amplify the excitement we’ve seen from past game releases on gaming.stackexchange.com. And then, like an alchemical reaction, or a flashbang sent from the Military Gods, it hit us: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was coming out the same week as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim! Two epic games coming out a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving – one with a history of popularity on our site, and one promising to be one of the largest media releases of all time. …

^ the winners are official! If you won, you should already have gotten an email
 
Spawn an Enderman already!
 
@DavidFullerton Did my questions get the most number of views?
 
total? probably...lemme run the query
 
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Q: Does "detect life" level up based on number of lives detected?

EricWhen traversing the land of Skyrim, I use my detect life to mainly ensure that if there's danger, I can strike first. This comes with a price. It feels like my magika is contained in a bottle and to detect life, I have to pour it out on the ground. All of it. I know that my alteration xp will on...

 
DisplayName          Questions Views
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Raven Dreamer        15        60325
Jupotter             4         37251
Mr Smooth            19        31233
Fabian               17        30828
Tom Wijsman          14        29033
Mana                 4         23670
Arkive               4         22512
spugsley             13        20024
theorise             13        19757
Wipqozn              4         17845
@Raven ^ Skyrim + MW3 questions
 
1:42 AM
Also, somehow I got +253 rep from my winning answer.
Not sure how that's being calculated.
Hm. I must have gotten a downvote, somewhere.
That explains the +3, anyway. There's no way it should be +253 though, as that's over the cap.
 
it happened over more than one day?
it's 200 per day, and the +15 from the accept doesn't count either
 
Hm. I didn't think it included past days.
I know it sometimes doesn't.
Fun fact: I've hit the rep cap on each of the last 8 days.
Anyway
Minecraft: TrinityCore - Go!
 
@RavenDreamer - wow you got best answer and it wasnt even from my question!
 
katey on November 19, 2011

After some exciting meetings in late October here at Stack HQ we’d been wracking our brains to figure out a way to capture and amplify the excitement we’ve seen from past game releases on gaming.stackexchange.com. And then, like an alchemical reaction, or a flashbang sent from the Military Gods, it hit us: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was coming out the same week as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim! Two epic games coming out a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving – one with a history of popularity on our site, and one promising to be one of the largest media releases of all time. …

 
What was the grand prize awarded for again?
 
1:56 AM
@John All upvotes went into a raffle, random winner
 
@RavenDreamer Gotcha.
@RavenDreamer How does TrinityCore fit with MC?
 
It's the name of my seed
 
@RavenDreamer Ah
There's a circle. In MineCraft. THERE'S A CIRCLE IN MINECRAFT
 
2:19 AM
Leaky rocks?
 
Means there's water above them
 
assuming they're leaking water and not magma
 
@IanPugsley It's blue, so I'm fairly sure it's water.
 
Grelka. Light of my life. Fire of my loins. My sin, My soul. Why the hell won't you marry me? http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/37143/grelka-light-of-my-life-fire-of-my-loins-my-sin-my-soul-why-the-hell-wont #skyrim
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Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Go go confused twitter users
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz If they're seriously following the GSE twitter, I would think they should expect that by now.
 
2:35 AM
@John Well, most of the absurd GSE subject lines tend to deal with in some colorful manner. But this... this is literature. And love. But more literature really.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz True
 
I can't wait to Rep Cap nearly entirely from question upvotes.
 
@badp Wheeee! 1 Million views inc.!
We should find some way to figure out which question gets the millionth skyrim view.
 
2:37 AM
Oh man, the horse answer was the winner...
I mean, its fun and all, but come on, its a copypasta of a reddit meme
 
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@YiJiang If it makes you feel any better, I had the 2nd highest answer too
 
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51
A: Can I permanently kill important people?

Raven DreamerImportant NPCs are invulnerable, like Oblivion. You might close off some smaller sidequests, but the folks necessary for the main story (for instance) have a tendency to be "incapacitated" from "killing" blows. So feel free to go nuts. Interestingly, NPC allies behave a little different, even...

Actually, it's neck and neck with the 3rd highest
51
A: Is there any reason for me to sleep?

Tom GrochowiczAccording to this wiki: Sleeping in a bed fully restores your health, magicka, and stamina. In addition, sleeping in a good bed gives a temporary bonus to magicka and health. Beds in player-owned houses provide better bonuses than other beds. If you sleep near to your spouse, upon waking you ...

Dunno if it was 2nd or 3rd when the contest ended.
 
Actually it might be a good idea to put this on meta
 
2:40 AM
@badp Put what on what wiki?
Oh.
 
@badp wha?
 
the millionth view
?
 
@RavenDreamer this
@DavidFullerton Do votes cast on the 18th count?
 
Hm.
Good question
 
They do, but you had the 51st vote on the 16th
two days before him
does that count?
 
2:46 AM
Ok wow. I built a platform with random dimensions (~20x20) and I just realized that I made it perfectly square. My inner OCD is very impressed with myself right now.
 
Is it really wise to build a house floating a hundred blocks above a lake, nestled between 5 mountain peaks on hardcore mode?
Maybe, but I'm doin' it anyway. ^_^
 
@RavenDreamer Yes. Yes it is very wise.
 
@RavenDreamer go big or go back to spawn
 
Also, I didn't think it was possible to be that high over sea level...
 
Oh wow, Readable's face detection gimmick really is pretty damned cool
(It scrolls automatically and stops scrolling when you look away from the screen.)
 
2:51 AM
0
Q: Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer is "Currently Unavailable?"

Ian CordleI started up Steam today to play some Modern Warfare 3, and finally play for more than 10 minute increments... Regardless the reason for me playing, the game would not start- and notified me: "This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time." My internet connection is work...

 
What's the markdown for spoilers?
 
@RavenDreamer >!
DAMN IT GRELKA I JUST WANT YOU TO LOVE ME. :(
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz in questions/answers?
Oh, I bet I can't do it within a list.
 
@RavenDreamer won't the lake break your fall?
 
@badp Not everywhere ;)
 
2:56 AM
@RavenDreamer Then make it so!
 

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