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12:29 AM
@Lazers you're killing my eyes.
 
 
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2:45 AM
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Q: What it means to be massive: What benefits and disadvantages do starcraft 2 units gain by being massive?

gbsodWith the recent patch (1.3.3) Archons are now considered massive units. I was wondering what inherent pros and cons, apart from being immune to concussive shell, are conferred by the 'massive ' label.

 
 
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4:04 AM
Ooh Lazers has a cool animated lazers gif
 
4:38 AM
@Arkive I'm not sure that's the adjective I'd use.
 
4:55 AM
0
Q: NFS: Hot Pursuit friends from different platforms

AlbortI'm looking at getting NFS: Hot Pursuit, but would like to know if the Autolog feature recognizes friends from different platforms, or is it localized to the platform that you purchase the game on?

 
5:25 AM
1
Q: How Can I Butcher Animals en Masse?

GnomeSliceSo, my friend just implemented a bunch of new mods into his SMP server, which meant a host of new commands to play with. I thought I'd give the /mobspawn command a few goes, and see what I could achieve. So I headed off to the server's jail (I forget why this particular location compelled me), ...

 
5:52 AM
 
6:09 AM
@gnome Do not look at the operational end of the device.
 
6:19 AM
0
Q: diablo, what is the genre and where can i find more?

Sir KsilemI've recently played diablo 1 and 2 and I'm totally hooked. Now I've been wondering what genre this game is and where I can find more of it. Can you help me? I don't need to know what is the best game in the genre, I just want to know more gamenames like diablo.

 
@Lazers @SirKsilem The Dungeon Siege series is the same sort of dungeon crawler, although progress is markedly different.
 
@Shaun If the user wasn't in chat recently, he won't get the notification
 
hi, i'm here
i'm sorry if that was a bad question
didn't know where to start asking in chat
there wasn't a diablo chat :s
 
6:35 AM
@SirKsilem Game recommendations are just off-topic here, we allowed them in the beginning but they didn't work well. Nothing to do with your specific question.
 
i just saw a trailer of tochlight
that game looks good
i'll see if i can find that in my gamestore this evening
 
Similar games I can think of: Titan Quest, Torchlight, and Diablo III when it comes out
 
yeah, i can't wait for diablo 3, but in the mean time i gotta waste my time somehow.
titan quest looks pretty old...
is it that good?
 
@SirKsilem Haven't played it, I just remembered the game
It's newer than Diablo II, though
 
yeah, but i only played diablo because i knew the story was awesome :p
 
Oak
7:00 AM
@SirKsilem hi, I took the liberty of changing your question to only ask about the genre, so it wouldn't get closed.
@SirKsilem I'm also a big fan of the series, and I can really recommend Titan Quest. It's an obvious rip-off of Diablo 2, but a well-made obvious ripoff.
 
@Oak, yeah thank you. I've had some nice recommendations in here, so thanx
 
Oak
Plus, the whole mythology background is very cool.
 
ok, i'll give it a go aswell
 
Oak
Torchlight is also great, but something about it wasn't appealing enough for me to play it over and over again... the skill system, perhaps, which is too simplistic for my taste
@SirKsilem I've also tried the original Dungeon Siege, which is also very similar, but it got old fast. I have heard, though, that subsequent games in the series have gotten better.
And finally, @SirKsilem, you might be interested in this page:
It explains what defines the genre, and also provides a list of many of the genre's games. I've added it to my answer.
 
7:28 AM
@Oak, omg, thank you, you have been a great help, I know what i'm doing this evening :p
 
 
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9:06 AM
Do you guys perhaps got any good games like armored core, put for pc?
gundam like games
 
 
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10:52 AM
@failbadp Nobody seems to have changed the title in the revision history (RE: Chell's father)
 
I thought that wasn't necesarry because he added the tag spoiler.
so you could block all question with that tag
 
No, I meant his comment.
He commented on people changing the title.
 
11:40 AM
@ArdaXi There were comments that wanted that done, before I deleted them
 
@failbadp Oh, right. Hmm, I heard that reply sound just as I came home. Great timing.
 
Yeah, I saw you on the cam---
er
nevermind
 
@failbadp -a?
I knew connecting my webcam to the PSN wasn't a good idea.
 
No no no no no no no no it was brilliant!
Not a privacy break, more like a privacy option.
And you didn't have to lift a finger!
I opened the port for you! Didn't have to do that, didn't have to do that.
 
@failbadp You always reminded me of Wheatley. Same colour and all.
Same.. err.. judgement.
 
11:54 AM
Good luck finding a potato now
 
Hrm? In this analogy, I'm GLaDOS.
 
by the way I peeked at the Steam translate application queue and didn't see you @ArdaXi
 
@failbadp How did you...?
 
although the avatars I've seen might be the Dutch admins'
 
It would be appropriate that I'm no longer in the queue.
 
11:57 AM
oh there you are.
 
I am?
 
Translating "Success!" with "Yes!" seems a bit short-sighted.
 
@ArdaXi You only edited one of two.
Although I can see the initial 5 suggestions limit playing a role there.
 
@failbadp Err? Stop stalking me!
That site refreshing all the time is starting to be a little annoying.
 
12:05 PM
I agree. I guess they're captcha-like speed bumps.
 
It's Javacript. Every time I close a modal dialog, it refreshes the page. Kind of a waste of a modal dialog.
 
I guess it's done to refresh the underlying view.
 
Well, yeah, but this is a horrible way to do that.
 
I guess the system is a low priority one dev-wise
 
On a scale of 1-10, every Valve system has a priority of below 1.
I mean, have you seen the Source SDK?
Literally everything that not every gamer sees is put on the backburner of a backburner.
 
12:10 PM
VALVe doesn't have thousands of employees.
Developing games and the Steam core is higher priority.
 
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Q: Trying to remember a capture-the-flag shooter game

DanielI played a really neat multiplayer FPS game in the summer of 2009. Here's what I remember: It was a capture-the-flag sort of game, but the "flag" was a big ghost-like object. The flag filled both hands, preventing you from wielding a gun. There was a heavy class and a light class, and I think t...

 
@failbadp ~260. Should be enough to have at least a couple working on... for example... decreasing the set-up time for a server by at least 50%.
Or making game-servers run much more efficiently than they do now.
> Don a bullet proof vest and defeat 99 explosive terrorist plots in a single day. Or play as one of nine uniquely skilled mercenaries in their team's quest to defeat... another team who looks just like them. And when you're done with all that, dive into the wealth of add-on content and other titles in the series. All in all, eleven games that changed the world (and one that didn't).
At least they do have humour.
 
1:06 PM
0
Q: What's the goal of minecraft and what can users achieve in this world?

ndefontenayI heard a lot about Minecraft and I'm quite curious to know what can be achieved in this game and what's its goal. What mechanism keeps the game going?

 
1:29 PM
@failbadp The tag wiki for says
> If you are asking for spoilers about a game's plot, you should consider using the [plot] tag instead.
But says
> Make sure to use the spoiler tag where appropriate.
 
I don't see the contradiction
 
@failbadp Using the plot tag instead of a spoiler tag means you don't use spoiler any more.
So in case of a spoiling plot question, dictates only the use of , whereas dictates the use of both tags.
 
Suggest an edit then
 
I don't know which it's supposed to be. That's why I looked at the tags.
I was just pointing out the inconsistency.
 
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Q: Urban Terror - Jumping Techniques Demos for current version

will824Hi All, In this page: http://www.www0.org/cgi-bin/urtj?html=urtjq3.html I found diverse Jumping Techniques for UT, nevertheless the demo files are already for a previous version and do not work in current one. Can someone provide some resource of demo files for Jumping for the new version?. ...

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Q: Are Fantasy Sports considered inside of our scope?

Grace NoteThis meta question comes as a result of some revived discussion on the following question. It's not a high priority because it's not a lot of attention drawn to it, but there's kind of middling levels of believing that it's off-topic material. How do I change my league's Draft Date in ESPN F...

 
 
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2:57 PM
@ArdaXi it's in that stupid iPad book
 
@NickT Prior to that I thought Valve said they wanted some form of cross-over.
I really hate the developer of that book now, though.
 
heh, why's that
EP2 had the Borealis with an Aperture Science logo on it and the characters saying it was important and stuff
like you were going to go there
 
@NickT Since just because he really likes the iPad, he decided to cut-off 99% of Valve's audience of really awesome content.
@NickT And the Borealis' dry-dock is in old Aperture.
Then again, even despite the huge amount of time passing, both companies have experimented with time travel.
 
@ArdaXi paid audience
 
@NickT Yes. How many people who own Portal 2 will have an iPad?
 
3:03 PM
more than should
 
But still much less than justifies this kind of thing.
 
@NickT Very true.
Hmm, according to the sound files, Chell was in suspension for 2.7×10⁴⁷ millennia.
 
3:42 PM
yeah, but the sound editing in game shortens that clip
 
@NickT True, but still, the sound clip is there.
 
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Q: Cowering in terror from a wand of death

espaisHi there, face here. tee hee Anyway, I'm a level 13 Valkyrie trying to melee my way through Ft. Ludios so that I can level up enough to take on the Quest. So far, I've been doing well...I'm funneling all my enemies to me one at a time into the room where the magic portal dumps you, and I am ...

 
3:58 PM
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Q: FPS and headset

vartecI've read few recommendations which would suggest, that using good quality headset improves your chances of survival a lot, as you could hear the steps of enemies or where they are firing from. Rather then headset, I'm currently playing with 2.1 Creative speakers. Is it really worth switching to...

 
0
Q: Mobile games: paid vs. ad-supported?

Mike BaranczakI'm working on a game, and I'm hoping to distribute it through the Android and/or Apple stores. The big decision that I have to make: do I charge money for the game? Or do I put ads in it? I really hate advertising, so I'd prefer not to subject my users to it, but I'll do it if that's the only wa...

 
4:18 PM
How did I know that Grace Note would beat me to answering the NetHack question
 
true
 
 
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5:26 PM
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Q: Tag merge request: nfs-hot-pursuit and need-for-speed-hp

Anna LearI don't have the rep needed to suggest synonyms, but nfs-hot-pursuit (9 questions) and need-for-speed-hp (6 questions) refer to the same game and I think they should be merged. It seems like most NFS games are tagged as need-for-speed-[game], so I vote for keeping need-for-speed-hp as the master ...

 
5:44 PM
0
Q: Proper Finger Placement on Rock Band 3 Pro Keys

VxJasonxVIt's been a long time since my childhood piano lessons, and now, with Rock Band 3's introduction of the Keyboard Instrument, it's time to learn it all over again. The Rock Band keyboard has notches on the left-most key at the left end of each colored section (sans the outermost red and orange se...

 
This place is dead. I know what will liven it up! !
 
Mmmm.... bacon.
 
@AnnaLear I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
(I was going to phrase that differently, but this is Gaming.)
 
@Powerlord If you phrased it differently, I'd be disappoint.
 
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Q: Death Knight World of Warcraft: Wrath of the lich King weapon recommendation

Eon Rusted du PlessisI want to start playing my death knight with an Unholy spec, but I doubt which types of weapons I should use. Should I duel - wield two one-handeds , or should I wield a two handed weapon for optimal dps in pvp?

 
5:59 PM
Chat's being meme-rific as usual.
 
6:09 PM
Now there's no sense crying over every mistake, you just keep on whining til a mod changes his take
 
Funny how nobody has taken me up on my offer of cake and grief counselling.
Nobody ever takes me up on any offers, actually.
Meh, that's even better. I look really generous with zero effort.
 
tidy tidy tidy
edit edit edit
 
eat eat eat
So, the Wii is getting a price drop as are a number of Nintendo's first-party titles.
I guess that's not surprising with them scheduled to officially announce a new console at E3.
 
@Brant fun fun fun fun.
 
@failbadp Everybody's looking forward to the bacon.
 
6:15 PM
@Brant Lookin' forward to the gold badge.
 
@failbadp What are you talking about? It's Wednesday.
 
And yes, I did that especially for you, @Powerlord.
I combined Rebecca Black's Friday with .
 
@failbadp It will be mine...eventually.
 
Don't mention that song! Someone might flag your post!
 
@Powerlord You wait Saturdays for bacon?
 
6:16 PM
@Powerlord I don't have a problem with suspensions.
It's funny to see chat activity drop by 50%.
 
Sometimes I want to go on a massive editing spree but I don't want to flood the front page with edits consisting of minor punctuation and formatting changes.
 
@Powerlord Rebecca! REBECCA! AAAAAAAA! Kill her! She's evil!
 
@Brant I do that whenever I want a quick dose of rep.
 
@ArdaXi I'm pretty sure he meant editing other peoples' posts.
 
^
 
6:18 PM
@Powerlord I don't have to edit my own posts. They have nothing to improve anyway.
 
@ArdaXi Protip: if you edit too many posts of yours one after the other in quick succession... well, just don't do that.
 
I edit the questions I've an accepted answer to, for example.
 
Also, I'm amused that one of the questions I wrote a long answer to had its correct answer changed... to the third answer for that question that basically grabbed information from my answer.
 
@Powerlord Was that the one about the hats?
 
@ArdaXi The one about "Why is TF2 so large?"
 
6:20 PM
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Q: What are the vintage items?

C. RossIn playing Team Fortress 2 after the most recent update I've noticed a lot of "Vintage" items. What's different about these items? How can I acquire more?

I thought you meant this one.
 
@ArdaXi I haven't looked at that one for a while.
I guess this just goes to show I shouldn't write detailed answers, it's just a waste of my time.
Oh wait, I forgot... I could get a gold badge if his answer gets up to 10 votes and mine has at least twice his.
 
In the one you were talking about, your answer is actually better.
Voted accordingly.
 
Populist, that's the badge's name.
 
You only need one more upvote on the question I just linked for populist.
 
@ArdaXi Oh really? Iiiinteresting.
 
6:25 PM
Yours has 15, mine has 8.
Your answer is better, mine just looks better because I have the quote and all.
 
@ArdaXi Yours has to have at least 10 votes (which means mine would have to have 20)
 
@Powerlord Well, you know what to do.
 
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Q: Extracting Announcer Audio Files

camiloqpI am wanting to extract the announcer audio files though I don't know if this is legal or not. The closest solution I have found is the following (mini-Tutorial) How to listen to any sound file from LoL (incl. unreleased champions) however is a bit too old, the thread started 08-26-2009 when ...

 
"Answer outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x."
I'll be honest, though, I was a bit late to the game on the Vintage Items question.
 
Your answer was later than mine. Except I edited it afterwards of course.
The irony is that I hadn't even played TF2 since before the Mann-conomy update.
 
6:30 PM
@ArdaXi Such a shame.
 
I've played it since.
It gave me a blog article to write.
 
I mean, look at all these vintage hats I have that I really don't have a use for since they're still not valuable enough to trade for Unusual hats.
 
Ah. Skinner's box at its finest.
 
So, I keep collecting hats despite not needing them. And already owning Plants vs. Zombies, I'll have two more drop shortly.
 
They should retry that experiment on a species with an economy. Well... I guess MMOs are exactly that.
@Powerlord For a follow-up to my article, can I interview you? ;-)
 
6:33 PM
D:
 
Ooh. Wait until Valve adds a reward for whomever opens the most crates.
 
@ArdaXi You mean other than unusual hats?
Speaking of which, I should trade my entire inventory away for an Unusual Towering Pillar of Hats.
 
@Powerlord I mean like if you open the most crates in a day/week/month whatever, you get something extra-special.
 
I'm joking, of course. The problem with the Towering Pillar of Hats, is although it looks nice, it's freaking impossible to hide while wearing it.
 
Hey, I got you another upvote.
And myself too. Great.
 
6:34 PM
Yay.
 
I fixed a link label. Apparently they renamed the article.
 
If I keep my current habit, I'll also have a gold badge just from visiting gaming once a day.
I have less than a month left for that, I think.
 
@Powerlord I already have that one.
 
No wait, maybe I'm only in the mid-60s now.
 
Fanatic.
 
6:35 PM
Yeah, that's the one.
 
It says on your profile.
> 287 days, 25 consecutive
(For me)
 
lol, SO just bugged me about voting on questions when I upvoted an answer.
Oh right, time to go talk to Michelle for a bit. Be back later.
 
Those are the State Finalists from Google's Doodle contest.
That is, they didn't make it to the final round, for web judging.
Check out the chip design from North Carolina -- how did that one not make it?!
Is it not head and tails above EVERY other design there?
 
the gr 10-12's aren't all that much better than the K-3's
 
For context.
 
6:44 PM
I didn't check those out, yet. I'm referring to the K-3.
 
@ArdaXi i thought I was looking at an overhead map for a zelda game.
 
I like World's Most Famous Designer of the 10-12.
 
For context.
 
I asked something similar yesterday, does anyone have an idea on how to recreate or extract the orange/blue portal effect in a form that could be used to apply it to another picture? I can't find the texture in Portal 2, and I'm assuming it just is not a texture, but some kind of effect. With screenshots I have problems with the semi-transparent parts.
 
I like Dream Dragon
 
6:49 PM
That is pretty good. There are so many "painting", and generic rainforest pictures though...
 
Yeah. In general I prefer the ones that are harder to read :P
 
Hm...how do you post inline images?
 
@Billare Just paste the link.
 
Got it.
 
Damn it @ArdaXi you've got me addicted to papercraft now!
 
6:53 PM
I voted for that one, in 4-6.
 
@RonanForman I'm sure @ChrisF is delighted.
 
@ArdaXi He hasn't said anything but he rarely expresses opinion or emotion anyway...
 
10-12.
 
7:17 PM
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Q: How do I enable showing hotkeys in the game?

Philipp RieggerOn some Starcraft II stream I have seen bigger mouse pointers or some kind of overlay where the hotkeys are shown over each button, e.g. in the build menu. How can I enable that?

 
7:37 PM
@RonanForman Which did you make?
 
The camera, i then tried the turret be it kept falling over, i'm moving onto others, i made a banjo-kazooie beehive yesterday!
 
@RonanForman Oo. I only started on the retro cube.
I tried the Companion Cube but I can't figure out the edges.
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A: What are the vintage items?

Arda XiThe main difference between normal and Vintage items is that Vintage items are all the items people obtained before the Mann-conomy update. They can no longer be acquired in any way except trade. This makes them very rare. You can recognise them by their blue name only, since people could also ju...

The irony. It hurts. /cc @Powerlord
 
@ArdaXi er... what?
 
I got 3 upvotes since we started discussing it.
Actually bumping it up to the 10 you need.
 
and I didn't? :P
 
7:42 PM
You got 1, I think.
 
Bah, even if I got 3 it wouldn't have been enough.
Also, I should update the Vintage list in my post.
 
If you get 3 now it will be.
And it turns out PSN might yet have been hacked by Anonymous.
 
@ArdaXi I heard they found a file on their servers that mentioned Anonymous.
 
@Powerlord Yeah.
The fun part is that Anonymous is not a structured group or anything.
 
Of course, I can say "I'm a member of Anonymous" and it'd be technically true, seeing a how they're just a bunch of random people.
 
7:44 PM
Exactly. It's just a bunch of people who sometimes band together.
 
Also, I just coded something that's a really bad idea.
 
And moot is making it all possible.
 
Namely, a function to reload the sounds for Mapchooser Extended Sounds, despite the fact that clients will not have the updated sounds if you do it.
 
Hey @GraceNote!
 
@Arda If you mean Populist, it needs 11/23 votes on yours/Powerlord's answers.
 
7:45 PM
@GraceNote No, Populist.
 
I wonder if I should make it a cvar that reloads it next map change.
 
@GraceNote 10/20 I thought.
 
Even without moot, I'm sure the subgroups that know what they're doing would collab in other places.
 
Greater than 10, and greater than twice the score.
 
@Arkive Not if 4chan didn't exist in the first place.
@GraceNote Provided an answer that outscored an accepted answer with 10 votes by 2x
Doesn't say greater.
 
7:47 PM
@ArdaXi It's wrong
 
Blame Jeff!
 
@ArdaXi True, but then moot "made" it all possible, rather than "is making", but that's just semantics I guess.
 
1 hour ago, by Powerlord
"Answer outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x."
Yes it does.
 
@Arkive Oh, yeah.
@Powerlord That's not what it says, though.
 
@ArdaXi I'm reading it right from the page I got to when I clicked on my populist badge on SO.
 
7:48 PM
Description was updated on non-Gaming sites, it seems.
 
@Powerlord I'm reading it right from the Badges page on Gaming.
 
@ArdaXi Description's wrong on many of the early Stack Exchange 2.0 sites
Quite a few badges are like that, actually.
 
> When Sony Online Entertainment discovered this past Sunday afternoon that data from its servers had
been stolen, it also discovered that the intruders had planted a file on one of those servers named
"Anonymous" with the words "We are Legion." Just weeks before, several Sony companies had been
the target of a large-scale, coordinated denial of service attack by the group called Anonymous. The
attacks were coordinated against Sony as a protest against Sony for exercising its rights in a civil action
 
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Q: As a PS3 gamer, what can I expect in the aftermath of the PSN security breach and system outage?

BobI've seen a few vague (very) details from Sony, including the free month of Playstation Plus for existing users, but I don't know exactly what to expect and what I'll get. The last I read the services were to be turned on in phases starting May 1st, but here it is, the 4th, and the East Coast of...

 
@Lazers @ArdaXi: You know what to do!
 
7:51 PM
@Powerlord Voted.
 
er... I wasn't talking about closing, but I suppose it is localized.
 
@Powerlord Then what? I have no idea what is to be expected.
I'm not a fortune teller.
I might be omniscient, but not trans-temporally.
 
@ArdaXi I expected you to answer it! :P
 
@Powerlord With what?
 
East coast bit, the class action suit bit, and the play station plus bit might be too localized, but I imagine any changes made in the service will be permanent.
 
7:54 PM
@ArdaXi ! Er... I mean with the information you've seen in various news articles.
 
@Powerlord I've only seen Mikko Hyponnen's comments.
Which helped me answer the question. Done.
Well, at least they won't have to worry about DDoSes for a while. The capacity all the leaving users will free up should catch them nicely.
 
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Podcast! Podcast! Kill it! It's evil.
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Who said Portal 2 was low on meme content?
 
I did
I still think so
 
@ArdaXi Maybe Black Mesa. That was a joke, haha, fat chance.
 
8:04 PM
@Powerlord Anyway, this diamond has some explaining to do.
 
I'll try to milk out Portal 1 memes while people use Portal 2 memes.
 
I don't need no stinkin' explaining
 
Acrobat is so much more useful to read documents than Adobe Reader.
That's probably my longest answer ever now.
 
8:27 PM
@Lazers This question already has two close votes for "Too localized"? Nonsense.
 
@Brant So 6 months from now, it's going to matter that people got 30 days of free premium?
 
replaced this post, as it's a duplicate.
 
Yay for double-teaming.
 
@ArdaXi I don't understand what you mean by this.
@Powerlord Yes, it will.
 
@Brant The question was about what's going to happen now.
 
8:29 PM
@Brant Too localized applies to time as well as geography.
 
That's not going to be relevant after 6 months.
We now know who hacked the system, however their identities will remain Anonymous.
 
@ArdaXi I disagree.
 
1 min ago, by Arda Xi
@Brant So 6 months from now, it's going to matter that people got 30 days of free premium?
 
The questions of "what data will be encrypted going forward" and such will still be relevant.
 
@Iszi Not for longer than a couple of months I hope.
 
8:30 PM
That close reason also refers to how narrowly applicable the question is. It applies to pretty much every person who has a PSN account. That's far from narrow.
 
@Brant It's a list of possibilities. It doesn't have to have all the reasons.
 
@ArdaXi What? You think people will only be interested in the security of their personal data for a few months?
 
In this case, it's temporally localized.
@Iszi No, I think... nay, hope my answer will only be accurate for a couple of months.
 
@Iszi At that point (hopefully) any changes Sony made will have already happened... and again, the question would be redundant.
 
@ArdaXi It's a fuzzy list of guidelines, not "IF this OR this OR this THEN close() ENDIF"
 
8:32 PM
@Brant Actually, it is; A, B or C.
> This question would only be relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.
 
@ArdaXi Then you've given the wrong answer. He's not asking about "how it is", he's asking about "how it will be". Although, that in itself can be its own close reason if there's no hard data on it.
 
@Iszi I've given the data Sony has made available.
My answer is accurate at this moment in time. It won't be accurate forever.
 
@ArdaXi What I'm saying is, if the available data does not fit the needs of the query, then the query seeks only speculation and in that case does warrant closure.
 
@Arda xi You didn't like the question so you tweeted it?
 
@RonanForman LOL
 
8:34 PM
@RonanForman I didn't say I didn't like the question. I said it was too localized.
It's still a good source of information. I mean, look who answered it.
 
My point is: If it should be closed, it certainly isn't because it's too localized.
 
@Iszi The available data is localized.
Sony will continue to evolve its security measures.
 
From Joel on that topic:
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A: Change the text of "too localized" in the meta close reasons

Joel SpolskyI strongly agree with this. And not just on Meta. For me "too localized" is for questions like Why is there a green Honda Civic parked in front of my house? It's being (mis)used to close just about any question that mentions a place or time. See my answer here. I propose just truncating th...

 
That is why it is too localized.
 
Too localized means "Why is there a green Honda Civic in front of my house", not "the answer might change in a few months."
 
8:36 PM
@Brant It doesn't say that last bit.
"The answer might change in a few months" is what too localized means according to my dictionary.
 
@Fabian What Joel proposed is changing the text to remove the third reason, changing it to read "This question would only be relevant to a small geographic area or a specific moment in time."
 
@Powerlord Exactly.
 
@Powerlord He generally made the point that this close reason was overused, and that it should only be used for really narrow cases. This question is relevant to about 100 million people for a relatively short time. The high number of affected users easily makes it relevant enough
 
@Fabian That's what I was trying to say in my original comment.
 
8:41 PM
@Fabian Alright, so tell me, what is Sony going to do about security in the future?
For the lifetime of PSN, I mean.
 
When you find out, post an answer and accrue precious upvotes. :p
Or edit an existing answer to update it.
 
@ArdaXi I didn't say there wasn't a different close reason, as it is asked now it could be closed as NARQ, because it asks about something we can't really answer. It also has something of a rant attached.
 
No, you see, assuming the question isn't localized, that is the only correct answer.
 
There's a difference between "localized" and "too localized"
 
I was more defending a hypthetical question asking what was compromised in the PSN attack and what one should do to protect oneself.
 
8:43 PM
@Arkive Which is?
 
i beleive there was a meta discussion on that.
 
@Fabian That's a completely different angle. As in, literally the other half of the PDF.
 
@ArdaXi If it's something localized to North America, that's localized, but with NA's large population, I would think that it's not TOO localized.
 
@Arkive It isn't. It's not localized in any of the first 3 dimensions, it's localized in the 4th.
 
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Q: So, how localized does it have to be to be TOO localized?

OakBillare mentioned in this question that Jeff and Joel made the distinction between a localized and too localized. To hear it: Start 24:45 of the Soundclound podcast here; it's streaming and fast-forwardable (so there's no transcript available.) Joel recapitulates the same feelings, in more d...

 
8:47 PM
Speaking of which.
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A: So, how localized does it have to be to be TOO localized?

Nick TTo emphasize, 95% of the time when I vote to close as 'too localized' it is because said questions are usually relevant only for a brief time. Google something like "is world of warcraft down" and you'll get results like this: "Is world of warcraft down right now? - Yahoo Answers", or "when will...

makes a note to vote that answer up when I get home
Oh right, I won't be at my computer for a bit after I get home. Forgot I was going to cook something that I need to actually keep an eye on tonight.
 
@ArdaXi I assume by 4th dimension, you mean time. I'm personally unsure what the line is on Too localized with respect to time.
 
@Arkive I did, yes.
 
Is there community consensus on what constitutes too localized wrt time?
 
@Arkive Consensus? On Gaming.SE?!?
 
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