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9:02 PM
I would support a Neil Degrasse Tyson/Adam Savage presidential ticket.
 
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@agent86 We'd actually get NASA funding then!
 
ugh, today I feel like my sense of equilibrium is kinda asleep
 
@agent86 doesn't matter how smart you are, if you aren't a Christian it'll be hard to get elected in the next 20+ years
easily the most effed-up thing about US politics
 
@IanPugsley yeah, I realize it's impossible to elect someone who is actually intelligent to office, it's just a matter of money and rhetoric. Still, those two guys I <3
 
9:05 PM
@agent86 there's a form you have to fill out before you're allowed to spend any amount of recreational time on the Internet - the first two boxes are "do you like Neil Degrasse Tyson and Adam Savage" :P
@agent86 also, my favorite complaint about Obama is that he filled the White House with "people who were out of touch with the common man" (i.e. highly educated and intelligent people)
 
@IanPugsley Guess I can't be on the internet...
 
@IanPugsley well, yeah. People who have an education are elitists.
 
@Wipqozn I'm really curious to see where we end up in 30-40 years
 
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@IanPugsley Hell, I'm curious to see who's getting elected this year.
 
People talk about being elitist now...hipsters running for office?
oh dear oh dear
 
9:09 PM
0
Q: How to beat 5 supports in League of Legends Blind pick

eric fI recently played against Taric, Sona, Janna, Soraka, and Lulu in a blind pick. They all had Heal. We got destroyed. We were: Warwick, Fiora, Swain, Nautilus, and Caitlyn. I jungled Warwick. Fiora went top (probably the reason we lost), Swain mid, and Nautilus and Caitlyn bot. It was nuts. Th...

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Q: Is vampirism genetic?

UllallullooI found someone that I think might be a vampire, but he's married and has a young child. His wife is somewhat suspicious too. I'm thinking of just executing the three of them. Can a vampire marry a non-vampire? Would their child be vampire?

 
@Wipqozn CANADIANS AREN'T ALLOWED TO CRITICIZE AMERICA! (that what I'm supposed to say as an American, right?)
 
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@OrigamiRobot They really aren't, Harper is awful :P
 
Oh yay politics time now I get to link this:
Someday, residents of Missouri will go to vote, and look at their ballot, and be able to say "My ballot is full of useless images of birth certificates, because once upon a time, the president was black."
YAY AMERICA
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz He's an Ay-rab!
 
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No, DrawSomething, I am not going to try to draw Snooki
 
9:17 PM
@FAE Big orange circle.
 
"There is nothing wrong with asking the president of the United States for his birth certificate. I am tired of being called racist."
That's a fair point.
I'm not so good with history. Has any other president been asked this?
 
Exactly. Coincidence?
 
A thank you to @StackExchangeTeam, my prize came already :)
 
@OrigamiRobot Most presidents' parents were born in the US.
 
9:19 PM
More to the point, Obama has already presented his birth certificate. The problem is dipshits that refuse to believe it is legitimate.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz or they don't want to
 
They refuse because they don't want to.
 
@FAE Well, in our defense, Harper only won because our political system is moronic.
When you can win an election with less than 50% of the votes, there's something wrong.
 
@Wipqozn Do you know about the Electoral College?
 
@OrigamiRobot I've heard of the term.
 
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9:21 PM
@Wipqozn Also, your conservatives apparently committed vote fraud!
 
@Wipqozn It is possible (though highly unlikely) to win with something like 18% of the popular vote.
 
@FAE Don't worry, that only matters if they won the election.
And yes, I'm serious.
It's okay to rig an election, so long as you do a bad job of it!
@OrigamiRobot ...wow
 
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This is a great video explaining the electoral college if you're not familiar with it:
 
@Wipqozn Lots of states have no laws requiring electors to vote in any certain way
 
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And this one goes into its flaws:
 
9:23 PM
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, but as a legitimate argument, that's a scare tactic.
 
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@OrigamiRobot Thats a disingenuous way to present the EC. A better way to think about it is that the votes of residents of low population states are worth more than those of high pop states.
 
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(this guy's videos in general are great, by the way)
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I agree. I said highly unlikely. I think if you assume all electors will vote like they are "supposed to" it only takes like 35% or something like that.
I forget the math.
 
@OrigamiRobot Even that is largely disingenuous.
 
9:26 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz It is worst case scenario, yes.
 
@FAE Wow.
 
The main point is, I can construct multiple scenarios where one person's vote matters more than another's.
 
@FAE looks like a 3rd world country system to me
 
DAmn it @FAE. Now I'm going to be stuck watching this guys videos.
 
@OrigamiRobot Yes, that is actually the main point.
@FAE Also, the argument in this second video that abolishing the electoral college wouldn't result in a focus on cities is extremely disingenuous, because he uses the populations within city limits rather than the largest CSA's or Media Market numbers.
 
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9:35 PM
@Wipqozn They're very entertainingly informative, I think. He mentions Skeptics.SE in one of them.
 
Which, if you combined the top 10 CSA's, you'd have a combined population of roughly 100 million.
 
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Q: How should we deal with questions and answers about rapidly changing games?

Jake KingWhile this is technically a general question, I was inspired to write this particular question simply because of Minecraft. It seems to me that games like this which change extremely quickly are difficult to answer in some cases. I have seen this answer which seems to attempt to answer the questi...

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Q: Why are my AI enemies surrendering all the time?

ExaI recently started to play AoE2 again and tried to play some random maps against AI opponents. I set the difficulty to "Moderate" (3 of 5) and started the game. But every time after exactly 5:01 min of play time, my enemies surrender and I win the game... I know that I'm not an uber pro at playi...

 
@Lazers Wait isn't this a dupe?
The answer is "Keep the answers up to date."
 
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9:50 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz good point
 
Oh Datapad and your collection of context-less Twitter responses: "Sounds a bit naughty, but we'll pass your suggestion along."
 
@FAE And as I look at more of this CPGrey fellows videos and blog posts, he makes this mistake constantly.
(Using city population instead of metro area or CSA when he wants to talk about population distribution.)
 
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@LessPop_MoreFizz Leave a comment or send a PM?
 
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Q: How do I unlock Expert mode in DDR Supernova 2 for PS2?

dvcolganI've been playing DDR Supernova 2 for the PS2 for months now. I have gotten B's and A's on almost every song I have unlocked on Expert difficulty, but I still am not able to select Expert difficulty when first starting a session. I hit a wall in in the Master Mode, and can't beat any more level...

 
Stupid stuff like declaring Columbus to be the 'biggest city in Ohio', while technically true, is really disingenuous when both Cleveland and Cincinnati are larger metro areas.
@FAE It's pointed out to him repeatedly.
 
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10:05 PM
@LessPop_MoreFizz Ah, I don't see the comments sections at all because I've seen them through the HTPC.
 
@FAE Yeah, I'm skimming his blog posts, and he makes the same mistake. Repeatedly.
He never acknowledges it though.
 
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@LessPop_MoreFizz That's a shame.
 
Woah, @Stephen made it to Admiral after all? Or did the Me3missions site keep updating in spite of itself?
 
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@LessPop_MoreFizz Nay, he did make it.
with like... a few hours to spare, haha
 
I was on the road that day i think so I missed it.
 
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10:09 PM
But as far as I know, it was legit, no serial upvoting worries or anything.
 
fuck, is this mission quizzing me on whether or not I read up everything?
yes, this mission is quizzing me on whether or not I read up everything
 
@badp Clearly you shouldn't have space-barred through all of those cutscenes.
 
Actually I only space-barred through the ebooks and emails.
and by that I mean I just didn't scroll through them, I just waited until 'NEW' went away.
 
Time to use the Internet to cheat!
 
10:23 PM
Actually most of the stuff was repeated on voice-comm and I did pay attention to that, so I only fucked up the first two questions <_<
 
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@LessPop_MoreFizz A lot of the stuff he does—even outside of population—is oversimplified at best to flat out wrong at worst. His video about the necessity of the British Crown was particularly bad
 
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@MarkTrapp Never saw that one, what'd he say?
 
user2334
@FAE here it is. He argued that the Crown makes more money for the UK than it costs
 
@MarkTrapp Yeah, the population example was just a case where he as consistently going about something in the wrong way and hurting his own argument. Even if in many cases, his final point is one I agree with.
 
user2334
Oh, man, looking through his stuff, there's a couple of cringeworthy videos I remember. Like his copyright video where he tries to make the argument that the point of copyright is to incentivize people to create new works, and that everyone has a right to bastardize people's works after a certain amount of time.
 
user2334
10:30 PM
Which confuses patents with copyright: copyright is to allow the author the ability to preserve the integrity of their work.
 
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Q: Can I delete glitched quests from my journal in Skyrim?

dammitskyrimI am currently doing 2 sidequests for the Companions at Jorrvaskr, Hired Muscle from Farkas and Rescue Mission from Vilkas. Can't remember how I managed to get two active quests from them at one time. I started the quests a long while back and just got around to finishing them up now. I went t...

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Q: what is league of legends strategy other than taking the noxus?

conjimI have been playing lol for a little over a month and I thought that the strategy of the game was to destroy the other teams nexus with out losing yours but I've been watching league games and they hide in bushes and take golems from across the river and the announcers are always talking about go...

 
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@Lazers I... huh.
 
@MarkTrapp No, Copyright is also meant to incentivize the creation of new work. The right to preserve the integrity of that work is one of the incentives.
> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Arts, Authors and Writings are there in the same sentence as Science, Inventors, and Discoveries.
 
@FAE Possibly a little too broad.
 
I wonder if this works.
 
10:34 PM
Or just nonsense.
 
Hack the console by the door, get security mad at me, load the other level, go back... nope, they're still mad at me. Oh well.
I wonder if I waited a little bit more.
like, umm, right about now.
yep!
 
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@Ullallulloo I'm not sure it's really a constructive question. Yes, when you get down to the bare bones of it, it's about destroying the nexus without losing yours, but that's just saying "It's about winning without losing."
It's basically asking "What's the point of LoL?"
 
@John I was saying we had found one man, not that I found a new one :)
 
user2334
@LessPop_MoreFizz Poor choice of words on my part. His argument is that it's a contract: the public's only obligation to protect a copyright is if the author makes new stuff. But that's not what copyright is: it's a protection granted in hopes of promoting the arts and sciences. He uses that distinction to make the case that people like Lucas, Rowling, and dead people don't deserve long copyrights because they aren't doing anything innovative with the works anymore.
 
crashes through that little hole in the death star that would totally make it blow up if 2 missiles were to enter it.
 
user2334
10:42 PM
That once an author stops using a work, the copyright is meaningless because competitors or remixers have a right to the work, gimmie gimmie. That more closely aligns with patents, not copyright.
 
@MarkTrapp Yeah, that's a popular, but IMO stupid argument.
 
It also was the entirely wrong way around that door but oh well.
As if I was ever going to realize there was a sewer door there.
 
The point of copyright is to give the author the ability to profit from and preserve their work for a long enough period of time such that they will be incentivized to create it in the first place.
 
user2334
Right
 
The quid pro quo is 'we protect your rights, you make the thing.' Not 'You make the thing, we protect your rights, you make us more things'.
 
10:44 PM
ohhhhhhhhhh man.
 
The purpose of copyright is not to protect the integrity of the work, but protection of the integrity of the work is one of the mechanisms by which copyright provides an incentive to the creation of new creative works.
(Which, I think, is where you perhaps got a bit tied up)
And on that note, I am off to scrounge up some food.
 
Is it sad that I had the same thought process as the girl on the left? :)
 
@James lol
 
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@James I've never liked those things
 
I like one of them, a year
I never finish it
 
10:53 PM
@FAE I always wanted them as a kid and kept getting told no. Now as an adult I buy them because I want one.. but I never eat them. I always give them to someone else. Odd eh?
Now I just don't feel so bad about doing so :)
 
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@James The taste of the filling was always gross to me
 
@FAE Its just way too much sugar for me.. I actually do not like candy chocolate.. Even the thin coating on a snickers or something is more than I generally like (I do love chocolate cake/pudding/etc though :))
 
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@James Yeah, that's mostly my issue as well, too much sweetness.
 
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Q: Who is the best Jungler to learn on?

BubBidderskinsI've been looking to start jungling a little, and I was wonder what is the best jungler to start out with. Keep in mind I'm running on a limited IP budget, so I'd prefer a jungler that's 1350 IP or less.

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Q: When is split-pushing/backdooring a good option?

RiceIs it ever a good idea to split-push? I mean, every time there's a chance someone gets caught and it ends up being a 4v5 team fight. Is there ever a justifiable reason to split-push (or backdoor) in a game?

 
@Lazers Haha, When is backdooring not a good option :D
 
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11:01 PM
Can anyone help me out here?
 
I might just spend 2 praxis points on negating fall damage ಠ_ಠ
although all I should need for that is some cardboard.
 
@FAE Hmmm
Basically he has noticed that there is more strategy to the game then just going to your lane and killing things
SOme of which are controlling aura spawns, getting the team wide xp/gold from farming the Dragon, etc..
 
holy crap, I'm top 5% in dragonvale
Gamecenter is neat
 
I am not sure if he should break up his question into asking why controlling the auras is a good tactic ...
 
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@James I'm not sure how we can salvage it into something that can remain open. :/
 
11:05 PM
But overall if you slim up his question to 'Is LoL really an in-depth strategy game' Then you could say Yes, and map control/aura control is a key part of that
 
@FAE I like how you said "your question is too broad because it's just what's the point", to which he responds, "my question isn't too broad, I'm just asking what's the point"
 
Hm. I wish at Mana were here. I need him to poke Gnomeslice for me.
 
I think the problem is that he has some of the answer already IN his question so its more of to the point where an answer is just going to be 'Yes'
 
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@Wipqozn This is why I was unsure how to respond further.
 
@RavenDreamer On steam or bookFace?
 
11:05 PM
@James sorry if I'm not helpful on your "dragonvale strategy" question, it's not easy to answer
 
@Wipqozn He's not on steam atm, and I don't book face.
 
@RavenDreamer Well, he's currently on facebook via mobile. Want me to ping him?
 
@BenBrocka I am just trying to make sure I have asked the right question, your answer has alot of information in it :)
1 min ago, by James
I think the problem is that he has some of the answer already IN his question so its more of to the point where an answer is just going to be 'Yes'
 
@Wipqozn Which one?
 
Might be good enough of a response?
 
11:06 PM
He who?
 
@RavenDreamer Gnomeslice.
 
@Wipqozn Yes, please!
 
@RavenDreamer What do you want me to ping him about ?
 
@FAE want me to take a stab at editing the question a bit?
 
@Wipqozn Tell him that the final music is being put into the iOS game on Friday, so he has until then to make any last changes to his music. Otherwise, we're going with it as is.
 
11:08 PM
@James I guess the best thing I can say is there's really nothing specific you should focus on, just do everything, completing the goals is an effective and fun way to play early on.
 
@RavenDreamer Done.
 
@BenBrocka Mostly my problem is things take too long to build :D
 
@Wipqozn Domo arigato, wipqo-ato.
 
@James ah :Pthat's why it;s nice to be able to do multiple tyings at once
 
11:09 PM
@BenBrocka I already came up with the cash to have a new island started. Now I guess I just need more cash to get the dragons I need to keep trying and achieving those goal things they set up
 
but do focus on getting experience,unlocknig stuff should always be a priority
 
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@James Give it a go.
@James I'm mostly unsure what we can edit it to that won't end up soliciting opinions.
 
@FAE What rep do you need to get into chat? Maybe we could drag the guy in here? :)
 
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@James 20
 
Stupid thing thought I wasn't logged in..
I think he has a good solid question actually but the wording is making it sound too broad
Basic Strategy: Get their nexus while defending yours.. Thats the basis upon which the game is built
 
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11:14 PM
@James I'm gonna edit that Jungler question to be a bit less "champ-rec"
 
What the guy is then asking, as far as I can tell, is what other sub-strategies are there that he has started to notice.. this ranges from ambushes to clear out champs so you can push a tower, to controlling auras, etc...
@FAE I thought "What is the best way to do X in a game Y?" is a valid question for our site?
Champions in LoL need to be thought of as Weapons, not characters (The summoner, you the player, are the characters.. the champions are just the tool of choice)
 
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@James I think in this case that asking about what qualities make an effective jungler rather than "who's the best" is a better course of action.
Teach a man to fish and all that. :)
Give them the information they need to be able to judge a champion's jungling ability for themselves.
 
@FAE Yeah but the core of that question when I read it is which one is easy to attempt to do it with, not which ones can do it (As it has been proven any champion can jungle if you are good enough, the difficulty level just scales REALLY high :))
Jungling with Udyr and Shaco is far easier than say, Soraka.
 
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@James "As a beginning jungler, what champion qualities should I prioritize?"
 
@FAE I guess...
Yeah most of the ways I can think to say it just remove 'qualities' but it says the same thing mostly
 
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11:25 PM
@James The problem with it as stated is it invites a "champ per answer" type list of X question, which is something we've determined is not a good fit for the site.
 
@FAE Woah, Really?
I thought that was -exactly- the point of the site... People propose their answer, in this case the champion, or add in comments for points that were missed.. and then the community vote up or down the recommendations as they are found to be viable or not..
 
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Q: Unusual Gem in Skyrim

ShanonI bought a house in Solitude and when I was exploring it I found and unusual gem. I took it to the appraiser named Moul but he only tells me to get out of his way. How do I get him to look at the gem?

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Q: Can't connect in Forged Alliance Forever (FAF)

pukI successfully installed FAF, and managed to set up an account. On two occassions I also managed to enter the game lobbies. However, in every other case, I just get presented with the "Connecting" screen. Here is what I have tried so far: Toggling Windows Firewall Toggling UPnP option Toggling ...

 
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@James "List of X" type questions, ones that invite "one X per answer" tend to have problems with inaccurate voting schemes, in that people upvote the answer they agree with or what's most popular, rather than what makes a quality answer.
 
I mean I guess that there isnt supposed to be a definitive answer (or RIOT failed at their balancing in making one champion far superiour to another :))
@FAE I wonder if we are maybe too used to questions only having one answer.
 
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@James No, this is exactly what we don't want.
"List of X" problems were inherent in "game rec" questions and contributed to why they were banned.
 
11:30 PM
@FAE Oddness.. SE sites seem specifically geared towards a person asking a question and marking what answer worked for them while other people can vote up or down all of the answers to get the better one to the top and the worse ones to the bottom
@FAE Id just vote to close the jungling rec question then.. I just see no value in another answer that just says "something that can do nice AOE as well as high single target damage along with some healing, either through items or innate"
 
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@James But like you said, in LoL, there's not necessarily a definitive answer here because of the inherent subjectiveness in player skill and preferences.
 
There are just way to many champions to give a list of abilities and actually have that be useful
You just end up with the question being reworded to 'Ok, what champions have all of those abilities in them or which ones can substitute an item for them' instead of the shorter version of which champions are easy to jungle with.
Guess I do not see a difference between a list of abilities and a list of champions.
 
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@James This is why questions like this one are closed.
 
Best Jungler == Closed
Easy to jungle with == Useful
 
FAE
@James Semantics can make a difference!
 
11:35 PM
At the end of the day though it doesnt matter to me.. I have already accepted that all the potential I see in SE sites are most of what people never want on SE sites :)
As has been pointed out to me, these sites are not meant to be social sites :)
ARG, Ok! Hitting enter while editing a title shouldn't submit the gorram edit!
 
@James We're cooler than Facebook. I'd say about 20% cooler.
 
@Tristan I look at most guide sites that have a commenting and rating system in them and go Ya know? SE could do that easily and quite a bit better and not be tied to one single game... Cept... SE sites, while capable of it, are not to be used in that manner.
Maybe we need a gameguides.SE.com :D
@FAE What strategies assist in destroying a team's nexus? is the title that question should have.. But I am having a hell of a hard time putting that in the body of the question because he has started to list some of the answers that he has seen.
 
@Tristan you might like this WLF Contest design: welovefine.com/…
 
@murgatroid99 Why do most of those drawings remind me of Charlie the Unicorn videos? :)
 
@James I have no idea
 
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11:47 PM
@James Hrm. :/ I'm not sure how you can best edit it. It's late and my brain's kind of melty.
 
@FAE I can't edit it with out removing almost all of the second half of his current question
At which point, is it his question any more? hehe
 
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@James Also to expand on this, let's look at a hypothetical example. Say someone put a really long, well-researched answer with reasons to recommend Fiddle but someone else put another 1-sentence answer saying they liked Warwick. If people vote up the Warwick answer simply because they liked playing Warwick more than Fiddle, and didn't upvote or even downvoted the Fiddle answer (even though it was a better answer) just because of personal preference, that's not the correct usage of voting.
 
@FAE Does the long answer make it easier to jungle with Fiddle than it does with Warwick?
 
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Q: Can you change the camera angle?

BubBidderskinsIs there any way to change the default camera angle in LoL? I've seen some videos where the camera angle looks different, but I can't seem to do it the game.

 
@murgatroid99 How do I see the contest entries?
 
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11:55 PM
@James For the sake of hypothesis, let's say yes.
 
@RonanForman btw I'm getting my laptop back tomm so I can join an LP this week or something. Was anyone going to do a terraria thing?
 
@Tristan Didn't I just link to them?
 
@FAE Then people are abusing the system.
I do not like the whole "we can not ensure a pure environment so we should remove the possibility" attitude that is common on gaming.se though
Sooo you do not end up ignoring me like Strix, maybe we should stop trying to convince each other to see things our way?
 
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@James Indeed. We had a huge problem with this back in the game-rec days. For example, any answer that mentioned Portal got a ton of upvotes, even if it was just a 2 sentence "Portal is awesome. You should get it." answer.
 
say there was a weapon in skyrim... like a little dragon that you can get that sits on your arm, and it shoots out a random elemental breath
 
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11:58 PM
@James In this case, it's not just a hypothetical though. We've tried accepting "list of X" answers on the site, and it just proved unworkable in the system.
 
@FAE Then I honestly question the usefulness of a system where 50% of what it is supposed to be in regards to is not on topic
People dont want G.SE to be a pass through site.. HOw DO I do this? There is a wiki over there. Oh, THanks.
 

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