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Lazers 2.0

15:02

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Q: How to defeat plantera in terraria mobile

How do I beat plantera I was using full hallowed armour and a true nights edge with full gold hearts and he still killed me like nothing what do. and what do I need to defeat him?

Kevin van der Velden

@Lazers2.0 MOAR dps

Grace Note

@StrixVaria The gravestone. Every time.

Yuuki

@Lazers2.0 WHAT DO?

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Oh cool, Stack Overflow broke 10mil questions

Grace Note

Stack Overflo,ooo,ooow

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badp

15:06

04 NUMBER_OF_QUESTIONS PIC 9(6)

Jason Berkan

@twobugs Glad I could do my 0.0006%.

two bugs

I think I only asked one or two really bad questions on SO because it's just much more intimidating

Unionhawk

Yes

Jason Berkan

@twobugs Yeah. I have my doubts that I will ever ask an SO question again.

Kevin van der Velden

I've asked 3 questions on SO because all the other times I've wanted to there already was an answered question

two bugs

15:10

I can't even imagine trying to moderate it given how much activity it gets

Jason Berkan

Also, if anyone is into old RPGs, GoG now has the best of the best available‌.

Kevin van der Velden

CC @fredley if he wants to go be boo again

two bugs

Yeah, the GoG versions are pretty much the best, too.

Kevin van der Velden

(That's not what Jason linked to though it's also on sale)

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With some really simple mods you can get infinity engine games running at 1080p widescreen

Jason Berkan

15:12

@KevinvanderVelden He can roll a miniature giant space hamster in Pool of Radiance. I don't think they have a sprite for that, though.

two bugs

Oh, I thought he would be linking to the general Forgotten Realms sale

And, of course, Baldur's Gate

Kevin van der Velden

Same, but I checked afterwards =p

Jason Berkan

Baldur's Gate crappy combat can suck eggs. The Gold Box games are infinitely better.

two bugs

It's a disappointing sale for me because I already own most/all of them

murgatroid99

Jeb Bush thinks Americans have too much personal civil liberties

two bugs

15:14

@murgatroid99 ...

I thought conservatives wanted small government...?

Unionhawk

Except the NSA.

Rapitor

no

Kevin van der Velden

Also except womens rights

And the army

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Keep the government out of my medicare! But make sure it gets into my bedroom and all my files!

Kevin van der Velden

Look it's all very complicated but just vote for us and everything will be money uuuh fine! I said fine

Rapitor

15:18

who took the photo...

curiosity pls.

Kevin van der Velden

It's stitched together, look at the shadows

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@KevinvanderVelden That's what THEY want you to think

Clearly it was the female ghost from the other picture

Kevin van der Velden

Seems legit

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Is it legal to use the ojama monster from yu gi oh in gaming?

as the question says , I want to use the ojama in my game development , as main characters , is it legal to do so , or what conditions .... etc

pc

Rapitor

that little guy needs a wash.

SaintWacko

15:21

@Rapitor It was taken by the camera boom

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@Rapitor For some reason the damn labor unions are refusing to service him. Something about jurisdiction or whatever

Yuuki

@Rapitor ALIENS

Either that or Matt Damon.

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Wrong planet for Matt Damon.

SaintWacko

That tube on the top that sticks up and then is cut off at an angle

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/…

Yuuki

@twobugs Mars, right?

The Martian | Teaser Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX

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@murgatroid99 People need to realize that you can't have a completely free state and a completely secure state.

Or rather I'm pretty sure people realize this, they just don't want to admit it.

two bugs

15:26

@Yuuki Oh, duh. I was thinking Interstellar

I think a lot of people just want to feel safe. They're not really interested in actually being all that much safer. Security theater stuff is super popular

Yuuki

So fun times. Apparently, during WWI, the Germans tried to disguise one of their ships, the Trafalgar, as a British ship, the Carmania, to ambush British ships. Guess who they ran into on their first voyage/mission/operation?

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German ships which sunk them?

Unionhawk

That ship is a spy!

Yuuki

@twobugs No, they ran into the Carmania, the exact ship they were pretending to be.

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@Yuuki That is far better than what I had hoped for

Yuuki

15:30

> Carmania: Wait a minute...

> Trafalgar: You have got to be shitting me.

The Carmania proceeded to sink the Trafalgar.

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> Carminia: Identify yourselves.
> Trafalgar: Uh, we're the Carminia.
> Carminia: No, we are. You guys are spies.
> Trafalgar: ...Maybe YOU'RE the spies!

Yuuki

> The Trafalgar holds the dubious distinction of being the first armed merchant cruiser to have been sunk by a ship of the same class.

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Hm, why didn't my italics work?

Yuuki

@twobugs Markdown doesn't work on multi-line messages.

It's why I split mine into two.

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Oh, phooey.

Sterno

15:38

urmom doesn't work on multi-line messages

SaintWacko

Hey, guys, lifehacks!

Household tip: Tired of buying so much toilet paper? Try unspooling the paper from the roll before using it. A single roll can last for multiple days that way, and it's much easier on your plumbing.

These are brilliant!

I wish I would have thought of them before!

Rapitor

...

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@SaintWacko Not a lifehack, using a thermometer as a thermometer. -1

Chippies

murgatroid99

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15:42

Well, on Lifehacks.SE I've seen people get downvoted for suggesting answers that won't kill you because it's "not a lifehack"

Example: using a cleaning agent to clean something is "not a lifehack"

Yuuki

I still remember that one rule about using products designed for that purpose not being a "lifehack".

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They took it to a ridiculous degree, too. Using baby wipes to clean a keyboard? Not a lifehack, because they're designed for cleaning

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Minecraft Test If A Chest Contains An Item

I've seen a lot of questions for finding specific items in chests using commands using testforblock but how would you test if any block/item has been placed in a chest? Thanks

minecraft minecraft-commands

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Q: Need help with Ars Magica 2, spell crafting not working

I have my altar built correctly, and have even tried multiple different configurations and locations. It will accept the blank rune, but then the next ingredient it asks for is always the blank parchment, nothing more. When I try to craft a spell in the inscription table, as soon as I put a book ...

minecraft minecraft-mods

Yuuki

I'm sure it's been revoked since then, but it was stupid while it was around.

Sterno

LifeHacks.SE is best SE

Yuuki

15:55

Rapitor

puns make me unreasonably angry.

Yuuki

Sterno

Is that brown one pooping?

Yuuki

Probably.

SaintWacko

@Sterno Wouldn't you be?

badp

16:15

@Rapitor Is it because they're particularly pungent?

Do you dislike how they punctuate one's talking with punctillious wit?

(for the purposes of the transcript I shall record that Rapitor has left this chatroom, _pun_ilaterally)

SaintWacko

You've spun quite a punishing web there

badp

@SaintWacko Puny humans need not apply.

Yuuki

Huh. When did they start allowing words to have partial Markdown?

murgatroid99

A couple of months ago, I think

And I think it's just partial italics and bold

venidi vidici vicini

Thanks for helping me get this far

Trusted user <3

Now I can finally freely edit tags without waiting in the queue :)

StrixVaria

16:29

@venidividicivicini Pretending you're a new user is both 1) inane, since they can easily see your rep, and 2) intentionally misleading people, which could be treated as malicious behavior.

I don't know why you keep insisting on doing this, but it's dumb. You should stop.

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria Which one is this?

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko Retrosaur.

SaintWacko

Ah, that's what I thought

Didn't want to make that accusation without being sure, though

Yuuki

@StrixVaria I think he's also now basing his Chat.SE profile off another site to try avoid the whole "20k rep user on ignore, it's Retrosaur" thing.

murgatroid99

@Yuuki except that chat shows network-wide rep

StrixVaria

16:35

Banning trolls who tiptoe on the edge of the rules is fun. I wish I had an excuse to do that.

Yuuki

@murgatroid99 Not on mouse-click menu thing. I think they have to have several messages in a row before it displays network-wide rep?

murgatroid99

@Yuuki or if you just look at the user profile link

SaintWacko

@Yuuki I noticed that he's basing off of math now

Yuuki

@murgatroid99 I usually click on the "specific SE site profile" instead of Chat.SE profile.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Can I run Fallout 4?

Ok, my pc isn't like a beast but I can run Fallout:New Vegas and Skyrim on high. Obviously I know Fallout 4 is extremely more advanced, I'm not looking for high on everything, I just want functional.

pc fallout system-requirements

Arperum

16:43

@Yuuki Doesn't stop the ignore though.

Yuuki

@Arperum Nope.

Kevin van der Velden

I don't think the ignore is necessary nowadays, he gets called on his crap and leaves within minutes =p

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Meh, unignoring is too much work. Same for other ignored users. It takes a while to get on my ignore list, but getting back of is pretty damn hard.

badp

17:01

fffffffffffffff

SaintWacko

@badp Is there anything happening there other than a wipeout?

badp

@SaintWacko just the wipeout

it took him a LOOOOOOONG while to stop that car.

SaintWacko

Yeah

Rapitor

@badp at least it didnt go airborne

badp

@Rapitor The only real way F1 cars have to go airborne is to get rear-ended

Rapitor

17:10

or if aero screws up

badp

maybe a sudden gravity inversion?

Yuuki

@badp What exactly happened, his rear tire blew?

badp

@Yuuki Yeah, apparently they were expecting a much colder weather

GnomeSlice

@twobugs Isn't this already what everybody does?

Jason Berkan

@badp Wheel on wheel will get some air under the car.

two bugs

17:20

@GnomeSlice Nope, not by a longshot. And I've made the mistake of buying based on promise before, too.

GnomeSlice

Gfycat refuses to play more than a fraction of a second on my phone

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Early Access isn't inherently bad, but it's been abused enough that I'm going to be very selective with it

GnomeSlice

@twobugs lol, well that's your fault, not "early access" fault.

Games have been released in beta state since long before steam came up with a buzzphrase for it.

Especially shooters

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It's a system that is designed for unfinished games with no incentive to finish them for developers.

It's been used very well, yes. But it's been used very poorly as well.

Chippies

@GnomeSlice games in beta state usually weren't sold at full price before steam allowed it though

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17:24

Steam refunds definitely make me more likely to try out an Early Access game, though.

If I can download a game, play for 30 minutes and tell that I just don't enjoy how it controls or something that is fundamentally unlikely to change I'll return it

GnomeSlice

Same for completed games, then?

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Yeah, true.

GnomeSlice

I haven't tried the refund thing myself

Rapitor

hm, splatoon seems to be doing very well in eSports, so much so that there is a tournament starting in Japan with a $1million prize pool

as well as puzzles and dragons tournament (wat)

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I don't have a problem specifically with Early Access. I just feel like it's been used in bad faith by depressing number of developers

And not just like, guy in basement who got run over by a car and can't continue development. By real studios like Double Fine.

GnomeSlice

17:27

"Real studios"

Hamstare @twobugs

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Is Double Fine not a real studio?

I should have said established studios, rather.

They've got games under their belt.

GnomeSlice

People blaming steam is stupid too, people still sell unfinished games in other places too

Plus, preorders.

That's a thing.

IMO preorders are an actual problem, but they're bigger than ever

Chippies

@GnomeSlice I don't think people blame Steam, people blame the concept of selling games at full price with the tag "early access" full of promises and no guarantees

GnomeSlice

Don't buy it then

Chippies

I don't

GnomeSlice

17:30

Wait till its done or abandoned

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The difference I think with Early Access is that it's being sold as an in-development game. It's not explicitly stated but it's heavily suggested that the game will be finished at some point.

Chippies

@GnomeSlice except sometimes a good game doesn't get finished because no one bought it at early access

so that's the other side of it

GnomeSlice

Right

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But people have just put a game up on Early Access, collected $$$$, and then ditched it

GnomeSlice

@Chippies but some people don't mind buying unfinished games

Chippies

17:31

early access, just like kickstarter is a great platform for scamming people

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@GnomeSlice That's fine, and I'm glad Early Access exists so that people who want to 'invest' in a game and be a part of the development can do so

Chippies

@GnomeSlice the thing is, these unfinished games are sold at a price of a finished game with the promise that it will have the content of a finished game in future

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It's just an avenue for my $$$$ that I have deemed too risky

Chippies

I only buy games in early access that I deem finished enough, with the chance of being better in future

GnomeSlice

Most of the problem I think, is caused by the fact that developers don't always know what they're capable of

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17:33

@GnomeSlice Absolutely, but there are definitely bad faith cases too

badp

@JasonBerkan I guess that counts as getting rear ended from the side? :P

GnomeSlice

If you visited a game studio when they were coming upwith the concept f9r their game it would be the same thing

Chippies

but there's people that buy games in early access to support the developer in hopes to see the game finished, but the shitty dev just takes the cash and runs

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People really underestimate how hard it is to make anything, really.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: In Diablo 2 the monastery has a massive prison complex and torture chamber. Is/was this normal in real life?

I've just been wondering about the factual validity of the game setting. The crusaders did some pretty insane things so it's believable, but are there really any instances of torture chambers in monasteries IRL?

diablo-2

GnomeSlice

17:34

YEAH it's gonna have lasers and space bees and topless women and be 2 billion square miles and have the best AI ever

But by the time they're done the scope is considerably smaller

Chippies

@GnomeSlice well, 4 out of 5 of those things are fairly simple to implement... :P

GnomeSlice

This happens with a lot of games, we just don't see the development process

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@GnomeSlice And you can like fly between the planets and stars and find aliens

Ender

@StrixVaria what was your old avatar? I seriously identify most of you by your picture not your name haha!

GnomeSlice

Early access just means we can see what they WANT to put it before theyve done it, in some cases.

Chippies

17:35

did @StrixVaria change his avatar? :O

Ender

@wipqozn will always be a tortoise to me for example

StrixVaria

@Chippies A few weeks ago.

GnomeSlice

So yeah, buy it based on current content, for the most part

Ender

@chippies he may have even changed it a long time ago, and I just now noticed

Unionhawk

BRB ANNOYING BRIDGE

SaintWacko

17:35

Hey One Way Heroics players

StrixVaria

@Ender To be fair, you also have a new avatar.

GnomeSlice

No he doesn't

SaintWacko

What is "Desire weapons" as a wish?

Chippies

@StrixVaria oh yeah, I knew that. Your avatar changes are done right, because the differences are subtle enough to not confuse me

Ender

@StrixVaria I changed this only when Ender's game came out, for obvious reasons. Previous to that moment, there was no widely known and accepted image for Ender

GnomeSlice

17:36

Heh

Well there was the novel

Chippies

you had the invader zim dog, then the poke-owl and now the fishy

James

\o

Ender

Yes but the novel was from the time when novels covers had random images

Chippies

I'm great at describing things

Unionhawk

ANNOY BRIDGE STATUS: CACHING

GnomeSlice

17:36

Oh true

Ender

so there was no static image for ender still

now THAT piece of info blew my mind when I learned it

RANDOM images for your book cover.

Holy cow.

GnomeSlice

Lots of books still have different covers depending on where they're published

Or something

Chippies

If I ever wrote a book, I'd get a random photo from @spugsley collection (with permission, of course)

Ender

@GnomeSlice yea but image if Harry Potter was on the shelf, and on it's cover, was a random deserty looking image with some rocks and cacti?

People are taught to not judge books by their cover, but it's human nature to do so at least a little.

Chippies

@Ender boring covers are overlooked because they look boring, duh

GnomeSlice

17:39

Yeah true

Chippies

I mean, the only way you'd pick up a book with a boring cover is if you had already known more about the book from other sources

Ender

The funny thing was, I spent a large amount of my adolescence confused about a lot of my favorite books, who'se covers had images that had NOTHING to do with the story.

I never knew why

@Chippies I disagree, titles say a lot

I've picked up books purely by catching the title

Chippies

@Ender well, yes, but the title has to be readable well at a quick glance, which is part of the cover, I guess :P

Ender

^

But what if books had numbers instead of titles?

O that's, 79034659, I remember that!

Jason Berkan

My favourite cover as a young boy:

Ender

17:41

See what I mean? That's exactly the kind of cover I'm talking about too.

That books probably about some aquamarine planet or something else totally unrelated.

Jason Berkan

But that actually is Arkady on the ruins of Trantor.

Unionhawk

I bet there aren't even any human characters in it

Ender

Not sure who or what that is Jason, but the picture is pretty cool for what it's worth.

Jason Berkan

Asimov's Second Foundation

Unionhawk

(it probably has something to do with the story, and what he's saying is "no this doesn't illustrate your point")

murgatroid99

17:43

I just looked for Ender's Game book covers, and I couldn't find any that were actually irrelevant

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@JasonBerkan Oh wow, I love the Foundation series but I've never seen that cover and I wouldn't have guessed that was a Foundation book

Granted, my school library only had the cheap and crappy paperbacks

Jason Berkan

That's what my paperback copy looked like.

Would have been purchased in the late 80s.

badp

@Ender Apparently no book cover designer has actually read the book they're designing the cover for. Typically all they have to go on is the book title

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I think my copy had some really weird art that was supposed to be the mule

That was mine

Oh

Ender

@badp Yea that would figure.

badp

17:48

Ender

@murgatroid99 the only enders game cover I've seen that made any sense had a spaceship near a giant space station. It COULD be an image of battleschool. Maybe. I dunno.

badp

of course they're the same book

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What's the optimal racetrack to use for the Rocket Manski achievement?

The description for the Rocket Manski achievement reads as so: You've driven faster than a Russian torpedo, which incidentally is 230 mph (370 km/h). I have yet to find a race track that lets me drive this fast before a shard corner or anything. What is the optimal track to drive on to obt...

achievements grid-2

Ender

@badp That really proves my point entirely right there

badp

@Ender yeah I don't think book covers are often the same across translations

SaintWacko

17:50

golems are awful

Ender

@Badp I wouldn't be surprised if you were correct, but that is still exactly the kind of thing you can see even within the same language.

venidi vidici vicini

@StrixVaria I make an attempt to have unique usernames and profile icons for all of my stackexchange account.

I simply choose a chat profile with an icon I like for the time being, and then move on

StrixVaria

@venidividicivicini And that's fine, and not at all what I took issue with.

venidi vidici vicini

Right, my previous actions have been made in jest but I understand how I could be perceived as being trollish

StrixVaria

Don't try to trick people into thinking you're a new user by changing your avatar/username/associated profile.

badp

17:52

@Ender Also the same book

StrixVaria

You can change those things, just not for that purpose.

murgatroid99

@Ender Almost every cover I can find has either that spaceship, a space station, a kid running a simulation, a kid in the zero-G battle area thing, or a bug alien thing

how dare yo u

Now it should be back to normal

Rapitor

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Q: If corners were illegal, where would the ghosts live?

Some societies in our current world have strong beliefs about ghosts and spirits. This affects their architecture, e.g. 6 Bizarre Ways Architecture Is Designed to Ward Off Ghosts By Christina H December 14, 2010 The methods vary from the colour of paint you use to the shape of door...

architecture

um...

MBraedley

Minecraft Snapshot 14w34c -- Attack Speed and Damage Changes

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17:53

@Rapitor This question is amazing, by the way

murgatroid99

@Rapitor I love WorldBuilding

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Worldbuilding is great.

MBraedley

testfor might actually become useful now.

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People asking these completely off the wall questions and getting awesome and well thought out answers

Ender

@murgatroid99 More power to ya? I'm talking about a handful of books I owned as a child, are you sure your looking up the OLD publications and not all the new bullsh** released after the movie?

Unionhawk

17:54

@MBraedley It's useful currently for single effects (if the player meets this condition, set off TNT at this set position) but not in the general case

Ender

@badp lol!

murgatroid99

@Ender I'm looking on Google Image Search, and most of what I found is from before the movie

MBraedley

@Unionhawk Yeah, but you can do that with execute easily enough, and without the redstone delay.

Unionhawk

@MBraedley Well... oh yeah that's right

execute @p ~ ~ ~ {nbt} summon primedTNT ~ ~ ~

badp

"oh right this is sci-fi, then uh drop the samurais and replace them with lazers"

Ender

17:55

@murgatroid99 shoot, maybe I just got unlucky? Ender's game was an example for a practice that is un-arguable though, so perhaps just a bad example?

MBraedley

@Unionhawk or select a scoreboard objective

badp

\o/___~~~___NBT____TNT___@PL__

Unionhawk

@MBraedley I don't even think you'd need to in the case of NBT matching

You might, though, I forget

MBraedley

I didn't think you could NBT match with execute, but I could be wrong on that.

Unionhawk

I'm probably wrong here, I forget

Rapitor

17:58

most definitely

idk what you are wrong about

LessPop_MoreFizz

Bears take over Rockaway Township pool

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MBraedley

Although tab completion in command blocks makes me happy

LessPop_MoreFizz

/CC: @Sterno

Lazers 2.0

18:42

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Q: Does Call of Duty United Offensive need COD2?

Hey I know that the game is pretty old but I have heard its awesome. When installing CODUO does the game require COD2 ? I mean is the expansion stand alone or dependent on COD2 ?