@Thomas If you haven't already I would familiarize yourself with various games that use ASCII graphics (Roguelikes mostly) and stay away from games that have tiled versions (DF is one of them) until you understand what everything is supposed to be. DF is a very intimidating game as far as glancing at screenshots go but like the gentleman before me here just said it is very fun and it is a must play. I highly recommend looking up games like Rogue, NetHack, IVAN, Elona, DoomRL, etc.
@Thomas Once you have the basic concept down of how roguelikes work (DF isn't exactly a roguelike but it is similar) the readme and all that good stuff of DF will tell you all you need to know to get started and the rest can be answered by the wiki or, of course, here.
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@ItakeDrukqs Thanks, I'll have a look in the morning
@Thomas Correction, stay away from the tiled versions of games themselves. For example if you download NetHack, don't let the ASCII graphics intimidate you and run the tiled graphical version, learn the ASCII. And you're quite welcome, good luck and have fun.
The Engineer achievement Patent Protection is eluding me.
The achievement's description is:
Destroy an enemy Engineer's sentry gun
with a sentry under control of your
Wrangler.
I've destroyed mini-sentries and regular sentries currently being built with a wrangled Mini-Sentry, but stil...
@ItakeDrukqs OK, but... that doesn't answer the other half. Having taken out a completed mini-sentry with my own wrangled mini-sentry hasn't awarded me with the achievement. I assume either my sentry or their sentry can't be a mini, and I don't know which... or if both need to be normal sentries.
@Powerlord They have to be normal sentries I'm sure.
@Powerlord I don't play Engineer but the context of the achievement tells us that it would work best with both being normal sentries. It should be easy to get in time and very easy to get by farming with a friend.
I try not to farm achievements if I don't have to.
That reminds me, I need to file a bug report with Valve reminding them that 6 of the classes require a hell of a lot more achievements for their items than the other 3 do.
@Powerlord There's no shame in doing it and Valve doesn't have anything against it whatsoever. You aren't breaking any rules. If you want an achievement enough to ask a question concerning how to acquire it, have a friend help you. If you still want to get it "normally" I would find yourself a lame 2fort server and set up shop in their base.
@Powerlord That's not a bug report. You should probably send an email to Robin Walker instead.
If you have any more questions, especially questions concerning how to play a class or how to use a certain weapon/item/etc. feel free to ask. I've been playing TF since it was a QW mod. I main Soldier and have been playing competitively on and off ever since.
@ItakeDrukqs Yeah, having clocked 1274.36 hours of play time in the game (that's not including any time spent idling for items when that still worked), I'm going to say I have a pretty good grasp on how the items work.
In one of the day9tv video (http://day9tv.blip.tv/file/3633590/, 5:40-6:00 minutes) day9 (what is actually his name?) tells something like this:
Wall-in is almost always a vulnearability as much as asset. In the early game wall-in off prevents rushes, but in later stages of the game it is jus...
Some time ago I was playing CS:Source and logged onto a Korean server. The game mode was something in Korean (aka I don't know) but no files were downloaded. To my extreme amusement, I discovered that they were playing hide and seek!
Before each round, Terrorists would select common objects to ...
When playing Nethack, I have several times now received this message "Not enough stamina to move" typically when a monster is standing right beside me. >.< What does this mean and how can I fix it?
Identify the tokens of any games of your choice and draw
a> The token interaction matrix
b> Sequence diagram and
c> Token class hierarchy
can anybody tell me wt is tokens of any games mean ??
this is my college VC++ experiment ?
> 2011-02-09: Privilege changes: Create tags has been raised from 150 to 300. Retag has been raised from 200 to 500. A new 5k privilege to approve or reject tag wiki edits has been added. A new 15k privilege to protect a question has been added. The question must be older than a day. You can also un-protect a question you protected, but not one that has been protected by someone else. The requirements for editing a tag wiki have been simplified to a 20k rep privilege.
My fiance recently bought a gold membership and a couple weeks later decided she didnt want it.
Is it possible to transfer her gold membership to my account?
I'm planning buying a USB Xbox 360 controller, but I would like to know a bit more about it before actually buying.
Most (all?) USB controllers identify themselves as USB HID (Human Interface Device), which allows them to be auto-configured and work right away, without installing any drivers. It...
The stackexchange.com page seems to me like a perfect "start page" for starting the day. What I am missing here though is an easy way to see the relevant stackexchange stuff for the sites I have a user account in.
I would like to have a specific filter tab to filter on my sites that lives in all...
I have read on Nethack's Wikia that it is possible to enhance my skills that are not locked...and that I free up skill points every time I gain a level.
However, every time I call #enhance, it seems that I cannot make any selection of a skill to enhance. My listed skills are either [Unskilled] ...
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Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline
Note:
We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the entirely wrong question. See this blog post for details: Domain Names: Wrong Question
We're going to keep the name apple.stackexchange.com. But we WILL be setting u...
I've noticed a few different questions recently that were better asked on the Game Development Stack Exchange site. Considering how closely the two sites are related, I would assume that such occurrences would only increase as site traffic increased. I think it'd be a good idea to add the Game De...
I recently flagged a post as a duplicate before reading the entirely of the post that I indicated was the original question (yeah, I know, bad Shaun). After reading, however, I realized the original question was just a subset of the new question and that the new question deserved to be asked. How...
I've read somewhere that Rayquaza and the otehr legendaries are banned somewhere(competitive gaming? battle arena? trainer hill? etc) Where are they "banned" and is Latios included in this?
Take note that I have no plans of going internet battles or whatnot and I am playing Emerald. I am trying ...
I randomly got the Citizen Patrol badge... the one for flagging your first question/answer... but I don't recall flagging any lately, and find it unlikely that I'd never flagged one before.
Citizen Patrol was recently changed to include moderator flags, and applies retroactively. Both of you probably qualify in that regard. But should you still doubt it, you aren't alone in that regard.
If I have a feature request that would likely affect all Stack Exchange sites, should I be asking it at the Stack Overflow Meta, or does it not matter?
(Yo dawg I heard you like questions on your question and answer site so I put some questions about questions about your question and answer site in your questions and answer chat so you can answer questions while you ask questions.)
> Funny thing about Nethack... a newbie looks at it and says "what is this, a computer hacking game?" An intermediate player says "oh, I see, it's just an RPG." An advanced player says "oh, wait, it is a hacking game!"
@ArdaXi In the last year or two, I've really come to appreciate games like Nethack and Dwarf Fortress, where the rules are ridiculously complex and obfuscated and the primary gameplay mechanic is figuring out what you can actually do.
With the growth of the Stack Exchange 2.0 site, there are multiple users that are actively participating in multiple sites. With this in mind, I would like to suggest an option for "Vote to Close" to be able to facilitate a "Vote to Close as a Duplicate of ANOTHER SE site". For example:
Found ...
I've heard that the plots for the DSiWare Mario vs Donkey Kong and the DS Mario vs. Donkey Kong are very similar, so I was wondering if they were just the same game in different packaging.
Wow, Microsoft's getting brave. Not only has Windows 7 SP1 apparently gone gold (and will be available next week on MSDN, two weeks on Windows Update), but IE9 has an RC release now.
@tzenes Stupid because they were bound to get caught and although I don't know what legal implications that has I'd assume getting caught would instantly make bing not worth it
@tzenes Disgusting? Because it's a blatant disrespect for another company and intellectual property. It is not their right to have access to that data.
what MS was doing wasn't copying the words, they were copying the ideas expressed by the words. the result of their competitor's implementation, not the implementation itself.
I highly recommend you read the article I linked above to get the context, but the key takeaway is "Bing isn’t just monitoring what happens at Google. It monitors what people do as they travel across the entire web." (Emphasis mine)
Ah, but see, the crux of the issue is that Google specifically added fake search results for terms that had few or no matches. Then Google's Engineers installed the Bing toolbar, searched for these terms, and followed the links therein.
The clickstream data the Bing toolbar collects is only one of several signals the search engine uses to rank results, and even then it isn't used all the time if it's not a very common search term
@tzenes "We gave 20 of our engineers laptops with a fresh install of Microsoft Windows running Internet Explorer 8 with Bing Toolbar installed." -- Google
Now what about this line, "Google alleges that Bing monitors what people search for on its site, if they have Internet Explorer equipped with certain features. Bing doesn’t dispute this."?
So Bing is saying that they do monitor Google relevant things, but not on purpose. It's just a part of the process? As in they're viewed like any other source and not specifically targeted?
@Mana Will Mana reveal whom they're voting for? Will badp admit his secret to the rest of the world? Did FallenAngelEyes really steal the spotlight from LessPop_MoreFizz in the high school talent competition? You'll find out next time on...The Bridge!
@Powerlord But your meta participation makes me think. Not like meta participation is key here, because I think (personally) that without much experience on meta you can still be a good mod.
The Engineer achievement Patent Protection is eluding me.
The achievement's description is:
Destroy an enemy Engineer's sentry gun
with a sentry under control of your
Wrangler.
I've destroyed mini-sentries and regular sentries currently being built with a wrangled Mini-Sentry, but stil...
In Virtual Tennis 2009 for PC, has anyone actually seen the ball hit out?
Also, has anyone ever aced the computer? It doesn't seem to be possible.
I really like multiplayer racing games, like Need for Speed World or similar.
I wonder if there is any MMO racing game for Linux (2D or 3D).
In one of the day9tv video (http://day9tv.blip.tv/file/3633590/, 5:40-6:00 minutes) day9 (what is actually his name?) tells something like this:
Wall-in is almost always a vulnearability as much as asset. In the early game wall-in off prevents rushes, but in later stages of the game it is jus...
Some time ago I was playing CS:Source and logged onto a Korean server. The game mode was something in Korean (aka I don't know) but no files were downloaded. To my extreme amusement, I discovered that they were playing hide and seek!
Before each round, Terrorists would select common objects to ...
When playing Nethack, I have several times now received this message "Not enough stamina to move" typically when a monster is standing right beside me. >.< What does this mean and how can I fix it?
Identify the tokens of any games of your choice and draw
a> The token interaction matrix
b> Sequence diagram and
c> Token class hierarchy
can anybody tell me wt is tokens of any games mean ??
this is my college VC++ experiment ?
My fiance recently bought a gold membership and a couple weeks later decided she didnt want it.
Is it possible to transfer her gold membership to my account?
I want to speed up or slow down some directx games for some test purposes. There are some tools or another methods to accomplish this?
I have read on Nethack's Wikia that it is possible to enhance my skills that are not locked...and that I free up skill points every time I gain a level.
However, every time I call #enhance, it seems that I cannot make any selection of a skill to enhance. My listed skills are either [Unskilled] ...
Possible Duplicate:
Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline
Note:
We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the entirely wrong question. See this blog post for details: Domain Names: Wrong Question
We're going to keep the name apple.stackexchange.com. But we WILL be setting u...
With the growth of the Stack Exchange 2.0 site, there are multiple users that are actively participating in multiple sites. With this in mind, I would like to suggest an option for "Vote to Close" to be able to facilitate a "Vote to Close as a Duplicate of ANOTHER SE site". For example:
Found ...
