I also like how the last "language reform" in Germany trying to prescribe the language ended up with everyone going "You know what? Screw you. From now on, we'll write however the hell we want to."
@MartinSojka Is that really what happened? Everything I've seen written after the reform has used the reformed spellings. I'm not fluent in German, though.
@StrixVaria Pretty much, yes. Read the wikipedia article if you like for details, but basically the result was that now there is way fewer discussions about what is right or wrong, and the "old" spellings (like "daß" instead of "dass") are simply listed alongside each other in dictionaries.
You also have the choice to activate either - or both - spellings in spell checkers.
In the Brawn skill tree (the third, red) from Salvator (Gunzerker) you have the Skill "Come At Me Bro" That has his text: "Action Skill Argument. While Gunzerking, taunt your enemies and instantly gain Full Health. Taunted enemies are more likely to attack you, but for the next few seconds you ga...
@badp Consider that the whole mess resulted in practical disappearance of German grammar Nazis ... No hard rules, no-one to try and prove their superiority by pointing out other's mistakes. Yay! :D
I'm struggling to find a way to insert LARGE images (>100MB, mostly TIFF format) in my Oracle database, using BLOB columns.
I've searched thoroughly across the web and even in StackOverflow, without being able to find an answer to this problem.
First of all, the problem...then a short section o...
@badp If it's any consideration, you weren't the last ones. Iceland changed its rules in 1997 or so, so for example Emilíana Torrini's father had to change his name from "Salvatore Torrini" to "Davíð Eiríksson" ...
@badp I would hope not; that would be a massive deal breaker. "You want me to change my name? Why? So it's in your language? What if I say no? Oh. Well, screw you, then! I'll go somewhere where I can keep my name!"
@StrixVaria Not quite. "Ein-" in combination with people often has the connotation of "alone", "single" ("einsam" = "alone", "Einsiedler" (lit. "one-settler") = "hermit", and so on).
To be fair, it was "just" an air pistol, and I was 16 so didn't get many problems because of it aside from a scare, but a friend of mine had to do community work after he loaned it out and shot some guy in the arse with it (which is why I got busted too).
Some Champion skins in League of Legends are only available for a set time period, at which point they are removed from the store and become unavailable for purchase permanently. How does one know if a skin they are saving up for, or waiting to go on sale, will soon be gone?
Well, if my understanding of stereotypes is correct, as a gun owner I should constantly be leaving it out where children can get it, waving it around at dinner parties, and shooting at people who enter my property.
I think that's the "hillbilly" stereotype. At least for me, "gun owner" implies having the thing locked and not loaded until you intend to use it, not pointing it at anything you don't want killed/destroyed, and generally using it only for hunting and self-defence (which implies the other guys would have to be having their weapons out first), but I might be strange like that.
So, in chat, I've got my window a bit smaller than usual and your name shows up as "Fbuecker" now instead of "Fbueckert". It really enhances the previous name-mispronunciation effect!
Ash is good for some soils, neutral for others, bad for some. For example, burning the vegetation leaves almost no ammonia in the soil, which needs to be supplanted by other means (artificial fertilizer or plants which bind nitrogen).
...Apparently, our province is now wasting money on "Spiritual healing". Because we're not wasting enough money on bureaucracy within our medical system.
Cats are preparing for the winter now, so they are extra-nice to get more food. :)
Meh. I wanted to see if there are any questions with "[minecraft] [xbox-360]" to update now that the creative mode is confirmed with the next update, but it seems with have just two of them - both closed.
@MartinSojka heh, she started stray and slowly but surely made herself at home
she still visits a couple more families but spends the bulk of every day with her only idiots who let her sleep on the bed and feed her fresh ham and whatnot
You'll likely make too many mistakes at first, so I'd suggest playing it to learn the rules of the game first, until you're reasonably secure you know what to do; then restarting and iron-manning it.
Playing blind will give you the fervor and urgency to perform better that you'll need to advance, rather than getting comfortable and slipping up as a result of overexpectance of your capabilities due to familiarity
I guess my thought pattern is, getting comfortable with an easier difficulty and the convenience of the option give you a baseline to compare the harder task, which makes it feel more difficult
Hehe. Reminds me of the first time I did the level 85 Kartia instance in L2 with my tank. The first attempt took me nearly an hour (the instance has a 60 minutes timeout), with full GM buffs (there was an event).
Despite my having a skill that was supposed to shield me for more than twice my maximum health, this attack just ignored the shield
Forcefield is so awesomely overpowered. For 30 seconds it'll completely absorb the first 7,865 damage I get (when fully charged), with my max HP being 2,889
This is at level 10/15 btw
I guess its usefulness will start capping out at level 65 or 70 or whatnot, since the amount of damage absorbed doesn't scale with the player
(yes, its timeout is 8 seconds but casting it every 8 seconds doesn't give you time to charge it up)
The Issaries blessing "Spare Grain" is listed as "Obtains extra food via trade." On first read, I thought this meant bonus food only when buying food via caravans.
Does "Spare Grain" give you food automatically or does it require using caravans?
Upgrading my shields seems to work pretty well against beam and laser weapons as well as against drones, but it doesn't do anything against enemy missiles. Those missiles can hit a critical system if I'm unlucky, and they slowly grind down my hull HP, forcing me to spend scraps on repairs.
What ...
@StrixVaria I'm likely going to play through without Ironman the first time, but I'll do a self-imposed version where I'm only allowed to create saves at the geoscape level (i.e., not turn by turn during combat to redo a turn if something goes wrong). If I really don't like how a map turned out, I'll have to redo the whole thing, assuming the RNG makes it come up the same way again.
I'm hoping that's enough to make me just accept the consequences of failure except in cases where it's either catastrophic, or caused by something like me having to abandon what I'm doing because the baby just woke up
Once I have a good feel for how the game works, though, I intend to go all out with actual Ironman mode. That seems like kind of the point of the game to me, long term. Otherwise it would be kind of like playing a roguelike where you just restore the game to a few turns back when you die. It'd get boring fast.
There are a lot of skills in the skill trees of the characters, that are stated as a "Kill Skill", like "I'm the Juggernaut" from Salvador. There is also stated that they are triggered by a kill ("Killing an enemy gives +4% Damage Reduction for a short time." on the "I'm the Juggernaut" skill).
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Having played a few rounds of MvM with a Heavy, I decided to try out some of the other classes. Reading that Snipers can charge up the headshot and take out the bigger guys, I think - what the heck, I'll give it a try.
Shortly after joining the server, I was... "politely", shall we say... inform...
Actually right now I'm reinstalling Visual Studio 2010 because apparently I had Ultimate installed but I'm only licensed for Professional. I forsee a solid 90 minutes of watching loading bars and some rebooting in my future.
It's not a Microsoft product if you don't have to reboot at least three times during installation.
guys i have this really annoying problem everytime i try to ask a question it says dosent meet our quality standards and yes it have a clear title has a description and it has also a tag.
guys i have this really annoying problem everytime i try to ask a question it says dosent meet our quality standards and yes it have a clear title has a description and it has also a tag.
I got this response when I tried asking this question:
How do I beat level #8 in Zero Gravity?
The first 7 levels seemed quite trivial, but level 8 has me stumped. How can I beat it?
What does it mean precisely?
In World of Warcraft, you can create guild events in the built-in calendar, however creating events that reoccur is extremely painful. You can copy an event, but there is a time limit between creating events, thus mass pasting takes several minutes for each event.
Is there a more straightforward...
Everytime i die i only have the "respawn in town" and "respawn at the beginning of the dungeon level" options, but never the "respawn where you died" which would respawn you right next to your dead body. From what Iv'e read on internet other people have that third option and my friends have it a...
I still don't know where I stand on the whole "close questions about games that aren't out yet" thing, when they're otherwise valid questions. I don't like people question camping. But I also find it ridiculous to close a question 2 days before game release just to see it asked again 2 days later.
(yes, I realize it's currently 13 days, but where exactly do you draw that line?)
It felt particularly odd when we closed a ME3 question 4 hours before the game release "because the game isn't out yet"
@Sterno In this case, since the why includes "I got it early", that means that it should be disregarded and so we shouldn't care about the fact he has it. Thus making it still an early question.
I don't think the piracy point is relevant to its place in the site. Motivation of the asker is not important.
@Sterno Either way, it's the same reason why we don't allow questions about games that aren't out yet; there's no way for us to corroborate and verify those answers.
You can consider whether we can give "fair leniency" but then you have to decide what makes for fair leniency. Hours? Days? Short of just allowing them all, you need a metric. The current metric is currently set at "release time", but it's not something that is immobile. It can be moved.
Well, I know for instance that XCOM question, you'll want an alien containment facility to store them when you capture them alive, and one method of capturing them alive is with a stun rod
The line is able to be abolished, but then what determines the reasonability of asking early itself? Asking months in advance and staying open by virtue of being a valid question can be just as silly as asking hours in advance and getting shut down.
@GraceNote Agreed! That's why I started out saying I don't know where I stand. I'm really only arguing with @fbueckert since he's firmly on the "close it!" side :)
@fbueckert True. But I could play the game and still not know all the options available. Or I could not even play the game and just google around. It would just happen to be after release date when I do it. It's not like that doesn't account for a large percentage of the answers here
Honestly, overall I'm for closing the questions as long as we aren't stupid strict about it. ANd I guess where to draw the line will come down to votes with people
I do wish we had a mechanism in place to make sure they get reopened at the right time
On the plus side, for 80% of the questions, they're pretty dumb anyway, since it's hard to ask a good question about a game you've never played.
That console vs PC one though, I can totally see someone wanting to know the answer to before release date, since it probably is going to inform their decision on which to purchase.
If I was on the fence as opposed to squarely in the "Not buying" category, I'd definitely wait until I had suitable information. Otherwise, why bother being on the fence?
Ok, so this is a question brought to you by the wayback machine.
There used to be a game on the Atari something-or-other that was called "NightHunter". In it, you played Dracula as he wandered around and kicked some ass murdering and looting through some town.
You could turn into a giant bear-m...
@Sterno Hadn't crossed my mind. whistle innocently
That sounds more like a lack of communication from the publisher's side; they really should be promoting and outlining which version is the definitive version.
@fbueckert That'll never happen. I mean, I agree, they should outline the differences. But calling one the "definitive" version? I can't see marketing doing that.
Unless it comes out way later and it's just to get another sales spike
I got this response when I tried asking this question:
How do I beat level #8 in Zero Gravity?
The first 7 levels seemed quite trivial, but level 8 has me stumped. How can I beat it?
What does it mean precisely?
I can't find any abilities that aren't related to either killing or healing. How can I capture an enemy alien?
Ok, so this is a question brought to you by the wayback machine.
There used to be a game on the Atari something-or-other that was called "NightHunter". In it, you played Dracula as he wandered around and kicked some ass murdering and looting through some town.
You could turn into a giant bear-m...
