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Q: Is there a way to view controller support from my Library?

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Some Steam games offer full controller support, some offer only partial support, and some do not offer any support. What I want is a quick way to tell which of the games in my Library have some form of controller support. I recently got a gamepad and I'm wondering which games I should install to ...

@kalina He's AFK.

I'm bored

nn people

My cat has learned where the red dot comes from

No-one is safe

arm yourselves.

9:08 PM

@badp Right in the nostalgia.

Q: It wont let me type in minecraft pe

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I have a Motorola XOOM and it wont let me type on signs IP addresses or let me name maps at all please find a fix

minecraft-pocket-edition

It is so hard to focus on doing work after you give notice.

@StrixVaria It's probably also hard to focus on work if you're currently not working at Google.

@Yuki Right, that's the problem.

I only have 3 workdays here left. Tomorrow, and then 2 days 2 weeks from now.

@StrixVaria Blame your current workplace for not being Google.

9:15 PM

@Yuki This is how I explained why I was leaving, actually.

"What could we have done better so you didn't want to leave?" "Be Google."

@StrixVaria And I remember they agreed.

@StrixVaria At least they didn't leave in a lorem ipsum?

BREAKING NEWS: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

@StrixVaria So are you going to be working at Google HQ or at a branch office?

@Yuki I'm going to be in the NYC office.

@StrixVaria Dang. My cousin just moved from NYC. There goes my excuse for seeing if I can visit a Google office.

9:21 PM

Supposedly I'll have to travel to the Mountain View office a few times a year, though.

12345!

I've never been to California before.

I have 12345!! :D

This is awesome

Muwahahahahaha

@James *fixed

:O

I had 12345 :(

9:22 PM

MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@James This is why you immediately take screenshots for prosperity.

I should still have my 9999 party on MSO somewhere.

Ooh, just found a fixedart amulet

elona.wikia.com/wiki/Unknown_Shell

Always a handy one to get that one.

@GraceNote I'm sad that "@Sternold" doesn't ping me.

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@Sterno This is why my nicknames for @FAE were always things like @Fall Leaves.

9:29 PM

So I solved twenty sliding puzzles in Wind Waker last night only to discover that the Triforce Shard was in the basement.

New user, good first answer deserving of upvotes: gaming.stackexchange.com/a/133023/3062

Can't believe I forgot that the Shard was there.

On the bright side, I have a ridiculous amount of Rupees right now.

@Sterno Holy crap that doesn't happen often

Once I stop by a Fairy Island, I should be all set for taking on Ganondorf.

@GraceNote Does cooking corpses increase the stat gain from them?

9:32 PM

@SaintWacko That title deserves an actual question.

@Yuki Alright :P

Arqade will eventually be known across the Internet as the repository for all knowledge related to corpse mutilation and consumption.

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Q: Does cooking corpses make them better?

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If I cook a corpse before eating it, will the stat gain from it be increased, or am I better off just eating them right away?

elona-plus

I believe that is Step 2 in our seven-step plan for world domination.

@Yuki Step 3 is get rid of four steps

9:37 PM

@GraceNote And should feel bad?

Q: Does cooking corpses make them better?

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If I cook a corpse before eating it, will the stat gain from it be increased, or am I better off just eating them right away?

elona-plus

ken.ganong

@Lazers You are too slow!

@ken.ganong Faster than it normally is, as it were.

@GraceNote Clearly, @Lazers has a preference for corpse-related questions.

@GraceNote It did manage to actually beat someone to the punch recently.

9:39 PM

We did tighten the polling interval.

@Sterno You can fix that.

@Yuki I should probably be more concerned that I'm the one answering all of these all the time.

@GraceNote yay!

@GraceNote We shall call you The Corpse Collector.

GraveNote works too, I guess.

Grace note is best note

9:43 PM

@Yuki I shouldn't mention the amount of corpses I have sitting in my basement, slathered in antiseptic to prevent them from ever rotting.

Grave Note actually sounds like a pretty awesome alias.

@GraceNote your tea parties must be quite the social events.

If I felt at all inclined to play another MMO, I might go by that.

Worst note is grade note.

Or Hummingbird Saltalamacchia.

That's a really unwieldy name...

9:46 PM

@badp Those take place on the ground floor, not the basement. I even have a nice table for it.

@GraceNote Duly noted for next neat number hurdle :)

@Yuki Why would you jump spots?

Fibonacci I think? 1 2 3 5 8.. Hmm thats not right..

@James you're missing an 1.

@badp Yeah well I am not going to go back wards so I ignored that one, but I am only 3 points away from 1 2 3 5 8 Sooo its not a good enough hurdle.

9:48 PM

Even though one begins with an o, why does it feel so wrong to use an as opposed to a?

@James That 1 is not accessory! You should totally start bountying all the things!!

lol

@Yuki Maybe because it doesn't sound like it does. I sounds like it begins with a 'w, so 'a' would be appropriate.

Now I need to find some other words that begin with vowels but aren't pronounced as such for conformation.

@RonanForman Most things that start with u.

In fact it never really dawned on me that "one" is one of the most flagrant disregards to every "rule" in the English language.

Ullallulloo

QWOP is in the mobile bundle now?

9:54 PM

@GraceNote What other things does it do?

Ullallulloo

I didn't think it could get harder to play.

I now have a shop and a museum

@Yuki a vs an depends on pronunciation, not spelling.

I think ELU or ELL has a nice question about it somewhere.

@FEichinger What I just found confirms this.

@RonanForman It generates a W sound out of nowhere, the O either doesn't exist or is a short vowel when it is 2 spaces away from E/I/Y, and also English is stupid.

9:55 PM

@Yuki Same reason an herb sounds right instead of a herb

@GraceNote I got in trouble with my elementary school teacher when I asked about science when she introduced the "i before e except after c" rule.

@SaintWacko Unless you're British.

@Yuki Don't get me started on that.

@GraceNote Well, yeah, but they don't count

@GraceNote This. So much this.

@GraceNote I was about to say that.

9:56 PM

:P

The i before e rule actually has more exceptions that examples, but most of the exceptions are rare.

It's only I before E when it's a diphthong

Stack Exchange English Language & Usage Blog: Articles: “A” vs. “An”

waiwai933 on November 04, 2011

One of the prevalent questions on the English Language and Usage – Stack Exchange is about whether a or an is the correct indefinite article to use. It’s a straightforward question, but like all questions, there are subtleties that raise further questions.

General Rule The question of “a” vs “an” is always decided by the pronunciation of the word that follows the article, without exception. Words that begin with a vowel sound, such as apple, egg, or owl, use the indefinite article an. …

That is a thing that exists.

In a hiatus, I before E doesn't apply

@RonanForman You can't have exceptions be rare if they outnumber the valid cases!

The reality is "It's I before E only when it's I before E"! That's all it is! That's all it ever can be!

9:59 PM

@GraceNote Each individual exception is an uncommon word, that's what I meant.

@GraceNote That's the same with a lot of languages, though.

@RonanForman Not really. Many aren't actually that uncommon.

@GraceNote Fine, I'll try again, there are fewer examples than exceptions, but if you only look at common words the reverse is true.

Jason Berkan

I before E is dumb, because it is not a rule that helps anyone with proper English spelling.

@RonanForman I'm not sure I fully agree with this but it may simply be a lack of matching base betwixt us to define what counts as a "common" word.

Weird, innit?

10:04 PM

@GraceNote My point was that the rule works for primary school because it applies for the words they'll be using.

@RonanForman But what about SCIENCE?

And after that we just know the spelling of words without rules anyway, so we don't need to know the rule.

@Yuki I didn't say there are no exceptions.

Incidentally, I believe I'm going to bold and caps-lock the word SCIENCE whenever I use it from now on.

Q: Map wired 360 controller guide button to windows command?

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Is there a way to map the Guide button on a wired 360 controller in Windows to a command? Specifically I'd like it to run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -start steam://open/bigpicture. I'm assuming there is a little utility or piece of software that can do this. Thanks!

pc controllers windows-7

@StrixVaria not without being literally worse than Hitler

10:10 PM

@Sterno Depends on what you're being worse than Hitler at.

@Sterno Well no, because @Sterno will still ping you.

Side note: People who end their sentences with prepositions are worse than Hitler, depending on what perspective you're looking from.

If people I'm talking to comment on how I ended a sentence with a preposition, I just add ", Asshole." to the end

Q: GTA V All my savefiles were wiped

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I don't know what just happened, but I know this. I just tried to join an Online game. To my surprise I got in, but what I'm angry about is that before (first time joining Online), I had a 82% completion in Single-player, but for some reason, all my saves got reverted to beginning Franklin. Wh...

grand-theft-auto-5

I think I only comment on grammar errors when they make the sentence unintelligible. Or when I want to make a bad joke.

Or at least I try to do that.

10:19 PM

@Yuki It has been proven that bold-italics SCIENCE gets 50% more upvotes than just "in-game evidence".

Scientifically proven, at that

I don't think I've ever answered a question without any such science. I'm almost certain all of my answers (except maybe a couple answers on YG questions that boiled down to "read the fucking wiki, it's actually really good.")

Huh. That's interesting. Teraria is frozen, since it's out-of-focus (there's a slime in mid-air), but the torches are still flickering. Weird. (this is why I hate having ADHD)

@Unionhawk I decided to FOR SCIENCE the veracity of your assumption, and am amused that the first investigative point is about Overkill pants.

@GraceNote Heh. And, yeah, it appears that is entirely false. However, I'd be willing to bet that the majority of my rep comes from SCIENCE answers