The Bridge

@Wipqozn :(

Steve V.

I don't know if it's actually noon or midnight, though

Would be good to find out.

Q: I lost my purchased horse in Skyrim - please help?

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Q: How do I download replays?

It says that you can view replays that you've downloaded, but so far, I can't find out where to go to do so. Is it in a specific menu online? Any answers would be appreciated.

soul-calibur-5

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While I was doing a quest called "The Battle For Fort Dunstad", I got off my horse outside of the fort so it won't get killed while I was killing the enemy. After I killed everyone, I saw a random horse and when I walked towards it, it said "A: Ride Horse". I accidentally pressed A and I mounted ...

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> Vines can now be climbed like Ladders.

Does that mean you can't walk through vines anymore?

@John I think I saw people do it in that Hat Films trailer

I think you climb them if they're on a block and walk through them in the air.

4:10 AM

@Ullallulloo Good. That would become annoying, otherwise.

A: Do we still like 'Identify This Game' questions?

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Identification questions are a poor fit for the StackExchange network, and actively play a part in bringing down the overall quality of the site. On Gaming specifically, they tend to take the form of Identify This Game (ITG), where a user will recite some details on a game he or she once played i...

MBraedley

@SteveV I usually take deadlines to mean midnight

@Wipqozn

Someone already downvoted it.

That's mind-bogglingly stupid.

Steve V.

@MBraedley - hope so.

@StrixVaria Yeah, I would say it's impossible that someone's read it by now...

MBraedley

4:14 AM

@SteveV we'll see. If I don't get the reimbursement, then I've already sunk the costs

Steve V.

::nod:: good way to look at it

MBraedley

@SteveV I'm very up this evening. May have something to do with the amount of alcohol I've consumed

@StrixVaria Votes on meta don't mean that it's bad, just that they disagree.

@Ullallulloo He voted 2 seconds after I posted it.

That's stupid, even if you already want ITG to stay.

I at least gave Matthew Read the benefit of the doubt and read through his post before downvoting it.

murgatroid99

@StrixVaria I have to say, even before reading it, your post looks like an intimidating wall of text.

Do you think you could put headers or something?

4:22 AM

Not really.

@StrixVaria Okay, I've read the whole post now.

It's written as an essay, not a collection of disjointed points.

@Ullallulloo And?

@StrixVaria I still disagree.

Are you going to refute any of the points or are you just going to passive aggressively downvote?

@StrixVaria Like, point-by-point?

4:24 AM

@Ullallulloo Any kind of feedback that makes it look like you have reasons for disagreeing instead of just being irrational.

@StrixVaria I think that the (perhaps small) value that they provide is still worth more than the space that they take up.

@Ullallulloo Did you read the parts about how they're detrimental?

We haven't tried to close the bad ITGs for very long.

@Ullallulloo It's not about the space they take up.

And that their value is negative.

4:25 AM

@StrixVaria yes

@Ullallulloo So in order for your other argument to stand, you must refute that as well.

@StrixVaria Because?

@Ullallulloo Do you not understand how debates work?

You feel it lowers the site quality? Rep-skewing?

So you didn't read it.

4:27 AM

@StrixVaria Yes, I read the whole thing.

In order for your argument to hold water, you must refute all parts of my argument that address it.

You can't just pick and choose.

I give valid reasons that ITG lower overall site quality.

"the most damning thing about ITG is that it's all speculation"

@StrixVaria That's like your whole thing though.

I guess debating with you is just a futile effort.

I really wish @Wipqozn didn't disappear immediately as I posted this thing.

@OrigamiRobot GO UPVOTE MY THING DUDE

I don't know what you want.

I want you to come up with real arguments against me.

I want someone to actually come up with a coherent case for keeping ITG.

Otherwise I don't know why a vote is even necessary.

4:29 AM

It sounds like you're saying to go through and write an answer of equal length to refute each point.

It doesn't have to be the same length.

But I made an all-encompassing argument for a reason.

@StrixVaria To match everything.

Because it is hard to counter.

I try to just pick stuff and then you say that I'm ignoring the rest.

You need to back up your arguments, that's all.

4:30 AM

@StrixVaria Just because of its length.

You said that the value outweighs the space.

But in order for that argument to work, you must prove it has positive value.

Or at least give reasons that it might have positive value.

And "It helps people." is not positive value.

We're talking about value to the site as a whole, not to its participants.

@StrixVaria When I say that, I mean Google people.

@Ullallulloo Did you read the part about broken windows and poor maintenance?

Or the part about attracting experts to join and stay at the site?

Anyway, I have to go to bed.

If you can come up with a coherent argument, I'd love to hear it.

@StrixVaria 'night

Night.

Q: Gaming Grant - should deadlines be provided in UTC?

4:33 AM

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During a discussion of this question, this conversation occurred on The Bridge: http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3671820#3671820 The key point is this phrase: Entries will be open until Friday 3/2 at 12pm EST. Selected entrants will be notified promptly. Depending on your...

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@StrixVaria Goodnight

Now I'm gonna have to spend my Saturday writing a giant post. D:

Considering that we have been pretty easy on them until recently doesn't help.

I'm sure that the majority here are still bad, vague-ish ones, but it's hard to tell what would be left if we got rid of them since we would do that after we decide whether or not to delete them all.

@Ullallulloo I smell the beginning of a post here.

@John sigh I suppose.

Goodnight!

A: Will rain affect the growth of crops?

4:39 AM

@John You going to bed?

Offensive flags:

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@agent86 Does your neat StatsExchange count closed questions?

agent86

@Ullallulloo I believe it does. I don't think the API makes a distinction between open and closed questions.

hm, it does, but I'm not looking at it. so the answer is yes, you will get closed questions on StatsExchange currently.

and with that, I sleep.

4:56 AM

@agent86 k, 'night

5:12 AM

Going through ITGs makes me realize that the average quality seems a lot higher than I thought it was...

Q: Is there a way to make the game NOT ask me about changing the difficulty after multiple deaths?

5:27 AM

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I'm playing Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on the Hard difficulty setting because I would like to get all of the achievements on one playthrough. In some areas I tend to die quite a bit and I've noticed that after a certain number of deaths in the same area the game will ask if I want to change t...

kingdoms-amalur-reckoning

5:52 AM

So if I have never played Mass effect games, how far back do I need to go to be ready for 3

@Pyrodante All the way?

so I will play 3 by... about the time 4 comes out

heh, well, the plot is pretty dependent from one to the next I feel, but I guess it depends on how much/what you are trying to get from the game

Thats what I wanted to know :D

How much would I loose by starting at 2?

You would be utterly confused at the beginning, and at a couple of points along the way. But if you read up on the plot before you start on 2, you might be able to do it without getting too confused

5:57 AM

oh apparently my free copy of ME 2 I got has vanished... how quaint.

wait it says I have it... not to figure out how to download i >.<

You can maybe look at it like LotR. You'll know Frodo is going somewhere, and you'll kind of get the gist of things as you go, but you miss a lot of the depth of the content

how you swing a copy for free.99?

um... some game I got came with a copy of it

I think it was DA2

doesn't do me a lick of good if I cant download it though

herm

Clever I can download all the DLC for it, but not the game

ah live chat, this should help. And now I will stop narrating my progress...

Throws popcorn down Ahh! Come on.

lol

figured I was boring you.

I'm mostly doing work and just checking on this in between lines of code lol

6:07 AM

although fun to find out what the live tech support is like

@Pyrodante I'm already bored. :P

whatcha working on?

Q: Do I need to have played Mass Effect to enjoy Mass Effect 2?

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I have never played Mass Effect, but I hear that Mass Effect 2 is great. Do I need to play the first to understand the second? Will I be lost?

mass-effect-2 mass-effect mass-effect-series

nice!

I looked for ME 2 to ME 3 but I guess I left out 1 to 2 :P

@Pyrodante Website for my senior capstone. So close yet so far...

How productive I've been in my project is inversely proportional to my reputation gain over the past couple days on gaming.SE and I hit the rep cap the past 3 days... :/

6:13 AM

LOL

Q: Vessel - last puzzle in the workshop?

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In the Vessel game, how do you solve the last puzzle with the big machine at your workshop? I'm able to get the machine to start generating the element that looks like XP liquid, but the process stops before I can get anything.

walkthrough indie-games

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Q: Oblivion : How can we make city guards fight each other?

I just completed the quest aid for bruma. I am thinking of a way to make the guards in bruma csamp each other. Apparently the guards from each city will unit against player when I had slashed them or castet frenzy on them.

oblivion

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Q: My dwarves have turned into gummi-bears!

So I'm playing a succession game, using just about the latest version of DF. I just received the save file and my dwarves have turned into Gummi-Bears. I had been using the Ironhand tileset without trouble, and we have only been passing the region file (from /data/save/region1). What can I do to ...

dwarf-fortress

So the answer was, I wasn't looking in Origin

in unrelated news: I hate EA

6:29 AM

@Pyrodante That seems pretty related.

so, it has come to this

@Pyrodante sigh

I... its been a long night

Q: PS3 restore backup restores no data

6:46 AM

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My PS3's blu-ray drive died recently, so I performed a backup with the Backup Utility and sent my console in for repair. About a week later I received a replacement PS3 from Sony and have attempted to restore using my backup. But, the backup utility has restored NO DATA! I have tried logging in...

ps3 technical-issues backup backup-utility

@Pyrodante this

7:10 AM

Time for bed.

Goodnight

Q: (BF3) Which are the light machine guns this assignment is talking about?

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Which are the "Light Machine Guns" they are referring to here? Here and Here are possibilities.

battlefield-3 upgrades

James

Spent about 3 hours trying to fix an NPC village, hehe.

Nick T

8:40 AM

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Those crazy nastyass badgers