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Q: Bl2 save lost need help to get it back

JamesI made a character in bl2 that was level 61 and had completed the campaign and had lots of good guns and stuff. But then my save got corrupt And I lost everything so I'm asking how can I make a character using bl2 gibbd save editor that is level 61 and has completed the story. Any help would be h...

 
FAE
12:15 PM
Mmmm, raspberry sorbet ice cream.
 
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Q: Changing Screen Resolution to exceed the maximum while gaming (SOFTWARE or METHOD)

Siddhartha SinhaThe max resolution supported is 1280 * 1024 On searching through the questions, I found a "scrolling" solution , but i would say it is rather unfit for gaming Is there a software which may lead to letter boxing , but can let me play atleast at higher resolutions?

 
Fucking Kickstarter taking all my money
 
@FEichinger Why's that a bad thing?
Teach a man to fish and all that, sure, but we're not in the fisherman teaching business. We're here to provide answers to video game questions and make it easy for other people to find the same thing.
Educating new users how to properly use the site can aid in that, but isn't the end goal.
 
Ids
@LessPop_MoreFizz where?
right the trudy person
 
12:30 PM
Downvotes are a bit harsh, it's just a new user who doesn't understand we're not a usual forum.
 
Oh ... My ... God
 
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@StrixVaria Oh yeah, forgot that was coming out.
It's got the achievements and the boosters, right?
 
> Character Booster – Find yourself stuck on a difficult section or lacking the funds to buy that vital Phoenix Down? With the Character Booster you can increase your HP, MP and Gil levels to their maximum, all with the simple click of a button, leaving you to enjoy your adventure.
I do not understand.
Is this pay to win at a single player game?
 
Looks like it
 
12:35 PM
Is it "I can't be bothered to actually play the game just let me win"?
 
@fredley ?
 
@StrixVaria Pace Farm
 
@StrixVaria I see some people don't internally spoonerise everything
 
12:37 PM
@fredley I have no idea what you're talking about.
 
A spoonerism is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis), between two words in a phrase; for example saying "The Lord is a shoving leopard." instead of "The Lord is a loving shepherd.". While spoonerisms are commonly heard as slips of the tongue resulting from unintentionally getting one's words in a tangle, they can also be used intentionally as a play on words. Etymology It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously pr...
 
@StrixVaria Maybe you just want to experience the epic story of a bunch of large man assaulting Cloud in a hot tub without worrying about things like combat and stats.
 
@fredley I was already here before I said that.
 
@StrixVaria Spoonerise Pace Farm, what do you get?
 
@fredley Face Parm.
 
12:38 PM
@StrixVaria Say it out loud
 
Is that like a cannibalization of Chicken Parm?
I wouldn't eat Face Parm.
@fredley I think I see what you're getting at, but I can actually pronounce Rs properly, so it doesn't sound like "Palm" at all.
 
My internal spooneriser causes issues when dealing with RackSpace
@StrixVaria Be more British
 
@fredley type it out as you think it so i can flag you
 
@kalina Nope
 
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Q: For the elder scrolls games, what is a class that is a mix between mage and warrior

AaronI'm thinking about the elder scrolls online where you get to pick a class like elder scrolls 1-4. But I'm looking for a class where it is a mix between warrior and mage but relies more on the warrior part. I'm assuming that all the classes in elder scrolls online will be like that of elder scroll...

 
12:41 PM
I'm seeing the Eurythmics Sweet Dreams video for the first time. It's kind of frightening. It is going to give me terrifying dreams, I think.
 
100% Uptime Promise
 
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@Sterno You've never seen that?!
 
100%
Uptime
Promise
 
@fredley headdesk
 
@FAE Nope
 
12:42 PM
100% Uptime Promise
 
No MTV growing up. I led a sad, deprived childhood.
Back when MTV wasn't just nonstop 16 and Pregnant episodes.
 
@fredley My company promises 99.9% uptime and it's awful.
 
@fredley ALRIGHT WE GOT IT ALREADY sets fire to @fredley
 
@StrixVaria One 9 isn't too bad
 
@StrixVaria I think we do 98%
 
12:43 PM
@fredley It's manageable but it's tight.
 
@kalina 100% UPTIME PROMISE
 
Well, since I'm watching messed up videos, I guess it's time for Erasure's Always.
 
@StrixVaria about 45 minutes of downtime a month
 
@fredley Maybe they're not talking about the network.
 
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@Sterno How?! Annie Lennox in a tux == <3
 
12:45 PM
I do think we have built-in maintenance windows that don't count as "downtime", though.
 
@Sterno They're keeping someone awake?!
 
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@Sterno I didn't have MTV either, so I honestly sometimes forget I can look up music videos on youtube nowadays.
 
@lazers kill it with fire.
 
Time to propose WhatTheHellIsGoingOnInThisMusicVideo.Stackexchange.com
 
@Sterno Closed as a valid tag on TV&M
 
12:47 PM
Probably valid on SciFi too.
 
@Sterno Game for the day: Find a question that isn't valid on SyFy SciFi.SE
@Sterno Or we could do it tomorrow.
3
 
@fredley "What isn't a valid question on SciFI.SE?" - Off topic, belongs on Meta SciFi.SE wins
4
 
talking about downtime, the site i am on is down now >.<
 
@Blem Obviously not hosted on sp... RackSpace
 
nop
 
12:50 PM
Oh God my internet history
 
@fredley It says something horrible about me that I knew what that was and clicked it just so I could listen to it.
5
 
and it is back up!
 
Gotta make my mind up! Which seat can I take? grooves
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@Sterno The orchestral cover is actually quite good.
 
I shall use this song to teach my daughter the days of the week.
Then the neighbors will call CPS.
 
Luckily, my internet is just slow enough that I can close the tab before it starts playing.
 
IT IS NOT FRIDAY STOP LINKING IT
 
Luckily, my sound is off.
 
@kalina It is friday in Fiji
 
Luckily, browser plugins require authorisation before they start running
 
1:02 PM
 
@kalina Timezones, dear. Timezones.
 
Timezones are irrelevant
 
@tombull89 So awesome.
 
Just. Like. You.
 
1:03 PM
@kalina Hush you. You like me.
 
@FEichinger Do I? DO I?
 
@kalina Yes, you do.
 
FEICHINGER LIKES KALINA: DATA ACCEPTED
 
no.
 
@kalina Too late. There are stars now.
 
1:08 PM
just further proof that everything that is starred is a lie
 
Good morning, Bridge
 
Good nearly friday @fbueckert
 
Bleh. I'm tempted to strip 95% of, "Mr. Just Copy and Paste Guide even though we told him not to"'s answers, since much of it isn't relevant.
But I've wasted enough breath on him. He can have downvotes, instead.
 
@fbueckert Concerned about you stripping users before your edit
 
@fredley I don't see why you would be.
 
1:19 PM
@fbueckert Also concerned what 95% stripping is
 
@fredley it's where you burn 95% of the user's flesh off through the use of extreme heat
 
@kalina One track mind, you.
 
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Q: What should we do about copy&pasting broad answers?

FEichingerToday, the front page has been flooded by new answers in the skyrim tag. The problem here (aside from the horrible formatting and nonsensical additional text) is that these answers are identical and by the same user. They're also an "all-encompassing" guide on this topic - only a tiny part of th...

Since it's gonna attract discussion anyway, I thought I'd just post that right now.
 
@FEichinger downvoted
 
@kalina I guess I deserved that for earlier, eh? :P
 
1:31 PM
no I downvoted it because I disagree with your question
The questions the answer was put on needs looking at tbh
 
@kalina I agree on that. (Although I'm not so sure on them actually being dupes. There's potential for a canonical question there, but not like that.)
 
Andy Murray not scared by inanimate objects.
 
meh I don't care
carry on beating on new users who're posting big answers
finds something else to do
 
@kalina Are you intimidated by a 6ft 8in Pole?
 
no
 
1:36 PM
@kalina I beat on new users who don't listen and ignore those that try to help them.
 
I'm bored of everybody spending more time trying to work out a method of deleting all of our content than trying to make it better
 
@kalina It's spam. Trying to improve spam is a route to insanity
 
@kalina The content is terrible, to be perfectly honest. In its current form, it's hardly helpful.
Normally I would fully agree with you here, educating a new user is a priority for me over content, but in that case it's rather pointless.
 
like I said, I don't care
 
I mean, it has already been tried and the user hasn't listened.
 
1:43 PM
@kalina I've made an answer you can downvote too
 
I said I don't care, stop notifying me of things I don't care about
 
@kalina Fine I'll just ping you randomly
 
turns off all notifications
 
@kalina But then you'll miss all the things.
 
@kalina Hey @kalina! People are starring things you said out of context!
 
1:55 PM
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Q: What should we do about copy&pasting broad answers?

FEichingerToday, the front page has been flooded by new answers in the skyrim tag. The problem here (aside from the horrible formatting and nonsensical additional text) is that these answers are identical and by the same user. They're also an "all-encompassing" guide on this topic - only a tiny part of th...

 
DESTROY ALL THE USERS THAT'S WHAT
 
Night Vale is now the #1 Comedy Podcast in iTunes. (And 11th overall!)
 
@badp I approve of this.
 
@badp Hi there! :P
 
@badp Destroying users is fun
Hmm, I've only destroyed 52 uses on Skeptics so far
 
2:04 PM
Without reliable Internets though I'd rather leave the destroying to mods that do have them
I've consumed my monthly mobile data cap in three days, including the grace quota on top of it <_<
 
@badp Ouch
 
The good part is I'm home tomorrow
That's why I was kind of careless with my data consumption
'sides I still have Internets, they're just rather unpleasant
@mad there's a number I can see?
 
@badp in your user history there is an entry for "moderator destroys user"
 
348 users were relieved of their existence at my hands
Most of them are in a better place now - spamming a different site, more accurately
 
@badp Technically, that's not a better place.
Arqade's just a better place without them.
 
2:17 PM
It's a more accepting place for their posts
 
2:32 PM
Huh. He got suspended for a day. Wasn't expecting that.
 
I got fgitw'd
 
Ids
@fbueckert Well that is annoying, I actually had a question regarding the guide.
You can use circlets and falmer helmets at the same time
 
@Ids Isn't that a bug?
 
Ids
@fbueckert Yep, as is necromage abuse imho.
 
Well, I've decided if he posts his guide again, without actually, y'know, listening to advice, I'm flagging it as spam.
I've expended enough effort trying to help him.
No more Mr. Nice Marshal.
 
Ids
2:37 PM
I made another edit to the guide, to make it a little bit more passable. But there is still a load that could be done, and I could not be arsed to do more
 
@Ids I applaud your effort to do that much.
 
Who wants to try making some potions for me?
 
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
 
@badp ?
 
@badp Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
 
2:42 PM
@TimStone Ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc
 
Qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq?
 
flags all of you as spam
 
@fbueckert Spams all of you with flags
 
Only flag that matters.
 
Ids
/me breaks the combo
 
2:50 PM
Today I learned The Bridge is the worst on July 4th.
 
Ids
bye bye!
 
@Ids bye!
 
@Fluttershy Because it's mostly dead?
Also, how's Planescape treating you?
 
@fbueckert I haven't really had a chance to play it yet. Work's only just starting to die down.
 
2:54 PM
@Fluttershy Aww.
 
Google fail: search for 'jggers are annoying' (NSFW?)
 
 
I'm more interested in Pacific Rim in a couple weeks.
 
@Blem A film by reddit, for reddit?
 
@fredley its syfy
 
3:06 PM
@Blem Oh
Wow
@Blem Did you star the Danish flag?
 
:D
 
@Blem You troublesome Danes
 
NSFW Denmark vs Sweden:
Anyone want to come visit me?
 
@spyder Hello!
 
Im off, time to call it a day
 
3:20 PM
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Q: How Medics gain points on Team Fortress 2?

ZigndI'd like to play as a Medic on Team Fortress 2, but I could not find anywhere on the official wiki how they can gain point. I know that if you use the secondary weapon and kill someone with it (of course) you gain points, but if you are using the primary weapon that only heal and UberCharge frie...

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Q: Can I bypass the new launcher?

YamikuronueFor 1.6.1, there's a new launcher. Unfortunately, I find myself sitting at the launcher for just long enough to get rather annoyed before I'm allowed to click the 'play' button. I usually launch the launcher from Steam; is there some way to point directly to the version I want to play and only us...

 
3. Check your flag history obsessively and then come to Meta and yell at badp when he disagrees with you. — Matthew Read 23 mins ago
Truth. So much truth.
 
I was never a fan, but I know it's one of the popular PSone games.
 
@wipqozn scroll up. Also, lol @ god mode button being a feature.
So very 90s.
 
@Wipqozn As games go, it's not bad, but it's not a patch on 5 or 6.
 
I think you mean 4 or 6.
5 is so overrated.
 
3:27 PM
I've never played 5, but I will agree with @LessPop_MoreFizz that 4 and 6 are amazing.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz 5 is better than 4 or 6.
Although I do prefer customizeable parties.
 
@Strix how does it feel to be a monster?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Nope. 5 is best.
4 is meh.
 
5 > 4 > 6
 
The lack of customization is admittedly a big part if what I love about 4. The characters serve the plot, not the other way around.
(This is also why GBA FF4 is a monstrous abomination to be abhorred and reviled.)
4>6>7>5>The Rest>8
 
3:30 PM
8 is the best.
 
Okay, now I know Strix is trolling me.
 
12 and 2 are the worst.
 
5 > 6 > 10 > The Rest
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz I've never played 8, but from what I've seen people either hate 8 or think it's the best thing since sliced bread.
 
@Wipqozn yes, and 5 is much the same.
 
3:31 PM
I really do need to play 5.
 
8 > 5 > I don't feel like going all the way down.
 
I won't deny that 5 is the best implementation of the job system the series has seen. I just think the job system is way overrated.
 
I want to try 8 as well, due to how love/hate it is.
 
@Wipqozn The magic system is controversial.
You steal it from monsters, and use up what you steal, so you have to regularly top up your spells.
 
@fbueckert Most of the complaints I've heard have been people who dislike the heavy focus on the romance plot.
 
3:33 PM
I don't think 8 will have held up as well as other titles in the series compared to modern standards.
 
I think a big part of your taste in FF's comes down to how you feel about character customization. If you want your choice if characters to be about sprites and dialog only and want their abilities to be functionally interchangeable, you probably like 5 and 8 a lot. If you'd prefer characters to have distinct and unique abilities in their own right, you probably like 4 a lot more.
 
I like 3, which doesn't even have discernible characters.
You're probably right.
 
5 is basically 3 except that the 4 generic characters have back stories.
They're still not discernible.
 
@StrixVaria I replayed 8 a couple years and didn't have a problem with it. But I liked it on release too
 
I never finished 8.
 
3:36 PM
And 8, for all the flashy different spell animations, is much the same - when you abuse the junction system, it becomes irrelevant who is in your party - you do the sane thing no matter which chars are there.
By contrast, in FF6 and 7, each character has a unique ability that could be used differently. Even if everyone can use magic, they all do so at different levels of proficiency, and they all can do something else.
 
Biggest differentiation in 8 is the weapons (mostly minor stat differences, though Squall and later Selphie end up with perfect accuracy) and the limit breraks (quite significant if you know how to make use crisis level/aura)
 
And in 4, your party is always rigidly defined, and constantly changing to serve the needs of the plot. Which means you constantly need to develop new strategies and learn to use different combinations.
 
I have been meaning to play through 4 again.
I didn't dislike it at all. I just liked 5 more.
 
4 is very much the antithesis of the chardev philosophy found in much if the rest of the series.
And it's much more densely and tightly plotted than 1-3 or 5.
@Strix the DS/iOS reissue of FF4 is quite good. The voice acting is even serviceable.
And the new ability inheritance system thing gives you a bit more customization without resorting to dumb Yang on the Moon shenanigans like FF4A
 
Always thought that was sort of weird on FF4 advance
 
3:54 PM
FF4A is awful and should never be played by anyone.
 
Everyone but @fbueckert can agree than 13 was the worst.
 
I never played 13, so I will stand by 8 being the worst. New Final Fantasy games don't exist.
 
I didn't play 7 until way after it came out. Never understood the love for it.
Seemed like a "you had to be there" sort of thing
 
12 is worse than 13 by a lot.
Not that 13 is good.
 
12 at least required me to do more than slap one button occasionally
Though its probably telling that I don't remember the plot at all.
 
4:03 PM
"I want to own an airship!"
That's the whole plot.
 
@fbueckert Who owned this house before you? This "daril fields" fellow we keep getting mail for? I wish to kill him.
 
@TrentHawkins I haven't the foggiest. All I know is that they were chinese, I believe.
 
We really should be writing, "Moved. Left no forwarding address" on them and dumping them back in the mailbox.
 
@fbueckert You'll never guess how many distinct layers of caulking I've found.
 
4:07 PM
@TrentHawkins Oh, joy. They were just lazy instead of stripping and re-doing?
 
@fbueckert OOOOHHH YEAH
Four, by the way.
 
sigh
 
taking a break, I've been stripping that tub for 2 hours, and I'm still not done the outside wall.
 
@TrentHawkins Yuck. That stuff's gotta be pretty darn hard if they were just layering it.
 
@fbueckert not hard - it's soft, but brittle, so you have to scrape it all off (and out, there's a good gap between the top of the tub and the bottom of the wall.
 
4:36 PM
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Q: Will Redd always have at least one real piece of art?

MargaretRedd has turned up in my town for the first time. I eagerly went in, and... I'm pretty sure they're all fakes. Does he ever have all fakes? Is it worth buying on of the ones I'm less sure of being a fake?

Reopen vote please? :3
 
@Fluttershy done
 
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Q: In Farcry2 how do you free the foreigner at the lumberyard?

ClintIn Farcry 2 I was given a mission by one of the factions, to free a foreigner held at the lumberyard. I have tried 3 or 4 times, but can't get the door open. I have even to a save before I received the mission and then went to the lumberyard, but no luck. Any suggestions on what to do?

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Q: Do the party skills of my companions add up?

k0pernikusWhen leveling up my companions I wonder how much influence their skill values have. Personal skill seems clear enough that it only concerns the actual companion. Yet Party skills have me confused. For instance, when building advancement or besieging a castle only the companion with the highest ...

 
@Blem Thanks! =D
 
OH GOD, WHY DID I PICK VERTIGO???!!!
 
@Yawus I had one of my best runs with Vertigo. <_< It's so much fun!
 
4:53 PM
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Q: Why does wineprefixcreate create an empty directory?

ZachI used this short guide to attempt making a separate wine prefix in my home folder: How to Use WinePrefix in Ubuntu to Optimize Gaming Seems pretty simple but isn't working for me. The mkdir works and puts a new folder in my /home folder. But when I use that folder name in wineprefixcreate it do...

 
@GamingTopicsFromOutside Because that's the way it written.
 
No summer sale today.
 
@Fluttershy And GMG hasn't put BL2 on sale again.
 
@Fluttershy This is the worst summer ever.
 
5:08 PM
When Steam finally has its sale I'm not even going to... oh who am I kidding I'll buy everything.
 
5:32 PM
69 hot dogs is a lot of hot dogs.
 
Now, to see if my 25 minute stored procedure properly imports everything without errors.
 
> How can I connect to my cousin's server?
... nice
Also, Happy 4th to the Americans
everyone else, happy thursday
 
@Ktash Thursdays are awesome because I never have evening plans.
It means I can stay home and relax.
 
@Ullallulloo Yes, but if you already own it (like me) the product key can't be used on Steam to activate it :(
 
@Ullallulloo Indeed.
 
user15026
It is 33 degrees out. If I suddenly disappear it is because I have to wait 10 more minutes for a bus and I have melted.
 
@AshleyNunn We'll miss you.
If you melt that is.
 
@AshleyNunn I helped a friend fix his truck a bit yesterday.
It was so hot, the battery was starting to melt.
 
user15026
5:51 PM
On the plus side I have my new reader now so if I make it to work and such without melting then I get to reload everything :p
 
user15026
@fbueckert wow that's not good.
 
@AshleyNunn Yeah, it definitely wasn't.
Battery acid all over is not at all fun.
Also, I'm liking some of the extra things Kairosoft added into Pocket League Story 2.
Skills, especially.
 
Has Square Enix DRM though. =/
 
@Ullallulloo Like what?
I just remember needing to put in the key when I installed my SE copy
 
user15026
@fbueckert I am just flailing around a lot, I haven't really got the knack of managing my team yet
 
@AshleyNunn I'm only about a year in. Won against the first two teams, and drew against the third team.
 
@Ullallulloo Hmmm, odd. I don't remember that requirement
 
@Ktash I think it's just the Steam version.
Because they added cloud saves.
 
:/
Maybe I don't want to activate it on Steam then lol
 
user15026
5:56 PM
@ullallulloo seriously? What is it about you that you get so many big ones?
5
 
blit blit blit
 
user15026
Also air conditioned buses are the best invention ever.
 
PaperStare @star
 
@Ullallulloo Sadly MeatStare is not active at the moment :(
 
Square Enix's registration page somehow disables the scroll bar.
 

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