@omniverseal I think that would be permitted... but honestly you might have better luck on reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick

I think the problem is that that essentially runs into the same problems that our game identification restrictions address, exception that the thing you remember about the game is the name instead of some other characteristic.

@murgatroid99 I've been thinking more on this and I agree. Basically all the same issues apply to Game ID, but it's not quite the same.

So I think the way this would go is you'd post the question, folks would cast close votes, other folks would go "This isn't really covered by the Game ID rule", so then we'd make a meta, which would probably result in "The same rules for Game ID should apply here too."

aka I don't think that would be considered off-topic right now... but I but asking it would spin off meta that would result in it being considered off-topic afterwards.

If you had an actual audiovisual artifact to go along with it, I'd say it's fine, but otherwise you could be remembering the name of the game wrong.... hence why your google-fu is failing you.

I think the game identification rule does actually apply here. Identifying a game's developer is functionally equivalent to identifying a game, because you need to know what game it is to know who made it. Normally referring to a game by name is fine because people can look it up and read about what it's referring to, but if there's no reference to it anywhere, then the name is just a thing you remember about a game that might not be accurate.

Or, an alternate perspective, would an otherwise banned game identification question become allowed if the person includes in the question the name they think they remember the game having, but looking that name up doesn't find the game they're looking for?

@murgatroid99 I agree

got my COVID jab. was going to get Pfizer in a couple of days but because my mum wanted to rush things i got Moderna today

not 100% sure if the tiredness i had about 4-5 hours ago was because of the jab or just the normal tiredness i get since i started working from home

besides that i feel fine, no metal sticking to me, no strange messages from Bill Gates wanting to hook up

@omniverseal What is the name of the game you're wanting to know the developer of?

Because oftentimes games get released under different names in different regions

For example, I had been looking for a specific game that I was absolutely sure I knew the title of (Dementia), but it turns out that's only the name it's known by in Belgium, and the official name is "Armed and Delirious"

@Memor-X woop woop! First jab?

For me most side effects were arm hurting the day or 2 after

@Fredy31 my first jab, I had a sore arm, my second jab my entire body was sore

Yeah i also got worse on the 2nd jab

hits you like a truck

but that is small potatoes compared to getting a hard covid

like being sore 2 days is not much compared to spending 2 weeks at the hospital with a tube down your neck

pcgamer.com/uk/new-world-making-gpus-unwell-again New World is bricking GPUs AGAIN

Apparently people are having issues when changing settings, because the game hard resets the settings and starts rendering them from scratch again, stressing the GPU immensely

@Nzall What the actual fuck.... like you play the game and just that bricks your whole PC?

Or does irrepairable damage?

@Fredy31 pretty much yeah. the worst part is that it generally only happens with REALLY high end GPUs, the kind that costs over a thousand USD even without shortages

Like how do you fuck that one up? I've never heard of running a game being the sole reason of a part of your computer crashing beyond repair

@Fredy31 the last time it happened it was poor soldering by a single brand in early production runs

I guess they do something that just falls straight down a path that doesn't have self-saving checks

@Fredy31 last time it happened because of uncapped FPS in in the game's menus

I really wonder how something physical could crash your card if you use some software in particular

@SaintWacko Konar can be hit or miss but it's nice to get tons of points, I've been point boosting

so hopefully konar will be nice for task 150

But usually, I think most PC parts have self-saving checks, meaning if it does something that would create long lasting damage, it will shut down before doing so

like if you overclock it to a point where it would overheat, it just stops before overheating

come on konar show me, bloodvelds in the catacombs or something

meh, 122 turoth in the fremennik slayer dungeon, not too bad I guess

this will be 270 points though which is cool

@SPArcheon normally, i'm skeptical of "false flag" accusations, but genshin has a very big chinese playerbase, iirc, and this is something that chinese fan communities have done before

@Yuuki don't worry, if the screens are true, mostly english.

I mean...

@SPArcheon man, never knew that being from one country means you can't learn the most widely used language in the world

having been born in china myself, i have no idea how i can write in english

@Yuuki I meant that I sincerely doubt everyone there is from China.

at the very best, having kept an eye on the Genshin reddit in these last days, seems there are plenty of English speaking users that are quite proud of the mess they did.

I know the written language means nothing, but I somehow doubt everyone in China went to organize a strike on the English reddit channel.

it's not all-in or nothing. just because the english reddit organizes something more directed towards relevant people/groups/things doesn't mean that it's the same people review-bombing google classroom of all things

Relevant?

was there some massively upvoted post on reddit that called for everyone to review bomb every page on the google store?

i might have missed that then

Shut down video games forever

@Wrigglenite to be fair, that does seem to be the goal of the mass review bombing

Abolish gamers

Not wanting to start an argument about WHO made this, mind you, but from what I see it would feel very odd to say that the blame is (mostly) on a specific country.

i mean, i am chinese, so i'm not at all unfamiliar with those kinds of race/country-based accusations. and i probably shouldn't have jumped the gun on mentioning that

it's honestly a dumb situation all around. it's people being up in arms about anniversary events and the value of digital goods for a gambling game essentially

@Yuuki basically, but I guess that the Yoimiya-Raiden/Beiduou/Kokomi/KFC Glider things played a part too.

on the tangent of dumb video-game related situations, i don't know if anyone here follows the LoL professional scene, but this G2 thing is making for some nice possible drama

@Unionhawk Yeah, he hasn't sent me to any really stupid places yet

My current task is killing blue dragons in the Ogre Enclave

just wait until you get something like, greater demons in the brimhaven dungeon

esports has been rife with really scummy employment practices and this is hardly the worst, but the players just don't seem interested at all in proper collective bargaining

probably 'cause they're all kids

to quote john mulaney: "because that's what needed revamping in [blizzard]". that was the squeaky wheel that needed the grease."

@Fredy31 yep, first one, next one is start of November

@Fredy31 i do have a slight ache in the arm but i get that when i get the flu jab

@Yuuki Just look how the players association in the LCS (NA LoL) is just... a joke.

@SPArcheon yeh that kind of review bombing is not on

Oh wow, Imposter Factory is released store.steampowered.com/app/1182620/Impostor_Factory

@Unionhawk Upgradessssss