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Q: How valuable is it to build next to a river?

John MeeFor some reason I give a very high preference to hexes that put my cities on a river. But I'm asking myself if I'm overdoing it for Civ5. Given a city planted in the middle of 7 Grassland hexes... How much more value is there if a river runs directly down the middle? Any difference if they're ...

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Q: Order dwarves to stand in a specific place (trap room, etc.)

XavieranI've just gotten a large number of immigrants, most of whom I don't want, and I would like to get rid of them. I have a small room set up to flood with water, but short of giving those dwarfs I want to kill a bedroom in there I'm not sure how to get them to stay in there. So, basically, what is a...

Such a wasted opportunity. That question title could have been "How do I get rid of unwanted immigrants?"
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Q: Can I delete my Rock Band 2 content?

ShaneCWe bought Rock Band 3 and want to do the song transfer which will take 1.9 gigs. Can I delete the main Rock Band 2 content to free space?

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@Brant Change it.
He hasn't got enough rep. I've fixed it.
Plus it'd be trying too hard to actually go back and edit a question to fit a running gag. :P
this one was too good, it already had a fitting body intro.
01:58
7 more posts to go
 
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valid answer or not?
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A: How do I get to "Hell" / "The Nether" in the new Minecraft update?

BlueRaja - Danny PflughoeftIt should be mentioned that, to everyone's disappointment/anger, you cannot currently get to The Nether in multiplayer! (You can however start the server in either the normal dimension or the nether dimension, but cannot go between one and the other on the same server. Booting the server in The...

 
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eh, it's a valid enough nugget of info to stand alone as an answer, imo
 
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Q: Other Super Metroid-like game suggestions?

HamsterJust finished Super Metroid for the first time in my life. One of those games I regret never getting to play when I was younger. Anyway, I'm still hungry for more along those lines. ROMs or freeware or whatnot. Suggestions?

06:58
The thought that our 10,000th post could be Game-rec kind of curdles my blood.
 
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only three posts left.
Time to warm our keyboards!
10:07
nearly there, you seriously want it, don't you @badp ?
want?
I went and got it :P
What is that
Oh god no.
That is our milestone?
improvement rush!
I know, "shaking" should've been "shakin"
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Q: how do u move the paddle in pong

badphi good sirs, i cant move the paddle in pong plz help im shaking my joystick but it doesnt move thx in advance bp

10:09
@ArdaXi Hey, at least it's a real question.
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Q: Question 1-Million ... ?

Aiden BellCongratulations everyone! We all love Stackoverflow! A huge personal thanks for a great site to Jeff and everyone involved :) ... I hope this question can be a landmark in the question time-line and a chance for people to put a stake in the ground marking classic and good questions for future ...

still, I'm going to do my best to actually answer the question.
@badp No it isn't.
@ArdaXi fire your lazers, then :D
I'm Firing my Edit and answer lazerz
imma firing mah close lazers because I can't use any other
now I may happily leave to gym
@LessPop_MoreFizz it wasn't. happy? :P
10:18
now it has become a better question, time to answer it.
@alexanderpas don't forget to mention a pong game where you actually can play by shaking the controller, I'm sure the wii must have one
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Q: Is Playstation Move worth buying?

bronzebeardif someone has tried it out, i would like to know the response times etc. I really loved Heavy Rain and wanted to buy this for my second play through.

11:04
please kill that one!
and kill @badp pong question too :P
 
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Q: How to unpause during a multiplayer game?

Ivo FlipseI was just stuck in a multiplayer Starcraft 2 game for 10 minutes, because I didn't know how to unpause the game! So please, fellow gamers, help me and other newbies out and explain us how to unpause the game!

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@IvoFlipse: Sent a Friend Request. :-)
it's Espilfovi, but haven't gotten one yet
or my email off course
ivo.superuser?
You said once but I forgot
no, just my name @ google's mail thing ;)
Without a dot?
yeah, get online, so we can do 3v3 :P
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Q: What system to buy for Rock Band 3

OakI do not currently own any consoles, but Rock Band 3 looks so appealing for me that I am considering buying a console solely for that game. Discounting Nintendo DS, the game supports PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. Naturally I've been looking at the cheapest console - the Wii - as the leading o...

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I missed the lasers because I went to bed. :(
@LessPop_MoreFizz see? not a game-rec.
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And thank [your-preferred-invisible-omnipotent-entity-in-the-sky] for that.
I pulled off the most awesome blood trick last night at a party
walked into the room and had blood dribbling out of my mouth at a steady stream for 45 seconds and then fell straight back. At first people were laughing and then a couple girls started screaming. :D
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way before you :D
16:30
woehoe had my first multiplayer games with @TomWij
@badp Disregarding the first question (my answer isn't there) I end up at vitamin megadoses
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@IvoFlipse you mean you just finished?
well one game took us 1.5 hours ;)
though we won ;P
and we played some 3v3
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@IvoFlipse: I agree. My first expansion went fine, but I should've done my second expansion earlier.
When I started harassed their mineral line I had 1300 when I said "bye Minerals"
And then you said "hello Minerals" and I though that was about your own minerals and due to my units being produced the message that I received flooded by.
So after the harassment I looked at my resources and was like "wow, I've gathered 3k"
Should check resources/supply/unit-producement during the heat of the battle.
 
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Q: How is it possible Zerg with biggest advantage can still loose to Terran?

PajaThis replay exlains it all. T Tarson versus Z Bly play on Xel'Naga Caverns. Bly destroys Tarson's expansion, and pushes into his base, does a TON of damage, and kills all his SCV except for 2. Then he retreats, to defend against Tarson's final push (since it's his only choice at this time). The ...

ah I guess I messed up your assessment of your own resource gathering ;)
best moment to expand is when you are attacking
but I guess we should have merged those two attacks in stead of me going solo
and I was unlucky with the tanks :(
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@IvoFlipse: Send a single unit first to check for tanks and how his army is formed. :-)
"With my brains and your brawn, we'll make an excellent team!" — Half-Life
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Q: How much money is required to get to the key in the Fable 3 Sanctuary treasure room?

BlakeThe question likely says it all, but, in the treasure room in the Sanctuary is a key up high. As you gather money, the pile grows and you can climb on it. I'm wondering exactly how much gold you are required to accumulate to be able to reach the key. I assume the key opens the chest in the same r...

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Q: Is there any way to cause lava source blocks to replicate in Minecraft?

MBraedleyYou can create an infinite well using two buckets of water and a hole that is one block deep and two blocks by two blocks wide. I'm wondering if it's possible to do a similar thing with lava, now that obsidian is so valuable for making gates. I have an idea for making it easier for creating gat...

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Q: How to predict when Jack-in-the-Box zombies are about to explode in endless survival?

serg555 These zombies are pretty easy to kill, only it seems that sometimes they explode prematurely and take down a whole bunch of plants. So what are the signs that they are about to explode and what triggers explosion?

Oak
Oak
Isn't that question a duplicate of
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Q: Creating a Lava Spring (or flow) in Minecraft

indyK1ngHello, I am on a multiplayer server and am trying to create a lava fountain in front of my door. I have it enclosed in an area so the lava won't block any routes. The only problem is that I can't get the lava to flow. I've been told that I just need to put a bucket on top of a block and it sh...

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@Oak no, that's about a multiplayer bug that may or may not have been fixed in the meantime.
@alexanderpas may want to update the answer
I don't think so, one about flow, the other about springs.
Oak
Oak
OK just making sure
I'm answering both BTW ;)
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@alex what was the version number of the pre-boo Minecraft version?
0.12? 0.14?
free weekend version + _01 (If I'm not mistaken)
0.12_01 then
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Q: Consider retagging version specific [minecraft] questions to [minecraft-0.12]

badpWe currently have 42 questions about Minecraft. Some of those can be expected to still be valid in the final release (examples: 1, 2, 3, 4), while others are more or less clearly version-specific (examples: 1, 2, 3, 4). We should consider retagging the more likely to be version-specific problems...

user30
Any diamonds around?
@ThomasMcDonald I can mine for some ;)
user30
Regarding that question @badp, we started with a [wordpress-3] tag on WPA to represent where significant code changed.
user30
And now we have both a [wordpress-3] tag, and a [wordpress-3.0.1] tag, used interchangeably, even though there is very little difference between the two codebases.
user30
There's also a worrying amount of questions just tagged with [wordpress-x], but I guess it's not so much of an issue as minecraft isn't the primary focus of 'gaming'
Oak
Oak
21:19
@Thomas hello
user30
@Oak You have powers across all rooms right?
Oak
Oak
Dunno, haven't tried
What do you need?
user30
Well, there's no mods about on our WP room, pretty much ever
user30
I was going to add our question feeds on, and then I realised you needed powers not held by the peasants.
Oak
Oak
Link me the room?
user30
21:22

 The Loop

Where humor doesn’t work.
user30
Could you add me as an owner?
gaming.stackexchange.com/q/9273 is a duplicate of gaming.stackexchange.com/q/8295 now I've posted my answer. (also, upvotes please!)
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Q: SMP Alpha. Water not transferable.

SoulmanOn an SMP alpha server is water movable? Last night I tried to make a green house with water for the crops and every time I dropped the water in the trench it did not spread and disappeared within 3-4 seconds. Is this a known issue or is there a trick to get this working in alpha SMP? Thanks

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Q: Creating a Lava Spring (or flow) in Minecraft

indyK1ngHello, I am on a multiplayer server and am trying to create a lava fountain in front of my door. I have it enclosed in an area so the lava won't block any routes. The only problem is that I can't get the lava to flow. I've been told that I just need to put a bucket on top of a block and it sh...

@alexanderpas I tried back then, then the close vote failed.
There's a better answer now. Or should I duplicate my answer ;)
@alexanderpas hey, that link doesn't onebox.
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A: Creating a Lava Spring (or flow) in Minecraft

alexanderpasI'll be adressing both water and lava in this answer. First of all, Lava sources, unlike water does not spread on the overworld. (more info..) Now, SMP still has several bugs, one of which is a problem with the bucket handling on the server. This is typically shown, as your bucket emptying and ...

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Is @TomWij here?
Nope.
Oak
Oak
Yes, your discussion definitely belongs more in here than in comments...
Its impossible to convince someone you're having a discussion with to change venue
Oak
Oak
Maybe invite him to chat via a comment?
I don't think he'll respect that coming from me
Oak
Oak
21:42
You want me to add it?
@Oak to the rescue!
user30
@tzenes Did you want me to email past gamingse contributors with infos on how the setup will work?
@Oak He has done that here.
Oak
Oak
@TomWij yea but it only works if you've been in this room in the past 2 days or something like that... so I wasn't sure
Been so, it's in the scroll-back buffer with Ivo. But indeed, it wouldn't work otherwise I guess...
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Q: Recent 3d RTS games that creates units by training them

MarkI had lots of fun back in the day with Populous, the RTS by bullfrog (tbh I only played the demo, lol). I really enjoyed the 3d, the landscaping, the awesome magics, and most of all, the unit production system by which you send worker into a building to upgrade it into a higher tier unit. a recen...

@tzenes: His attack at 12:43: The effect of his Banelings has been minimized by the Marauders (he got the Marauders down but it would've been better against Marines), the Zerglings got weaker before they managed to get to the Marines and so he had to retreat and wasn't able to take out the Marines + Medivac, Factories and Teched Rax.
Tarson didn't properly use his Marauders and neither has created a Tank which allowed Zerg to be able to harass the minerals that way. Tarson didn't know the Banelings were coming, his Banshee scout failed and neither did he have map control... If he did, the Banelings were moot.
has a massive dejavu
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@ThomasMcDonald Yes
@TomWij Minimized sure, Tarson played well, but that didn't mean they were worthless, just that Tarson set up well
He also couldn't afford tanks
even if he knew banelings were coming he can't just switch
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Q: Do wonders in puppeted cities have any effect?

gnarfI just took over York from england and puppeted it. It has The Forbidden Palace (unhappiness in cities) and I was curious if I got its benefit.

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Q: Is there anything I can do to attract spiders in Minecraft?

ChrisFI really need to kill some spiders so I can make a bow and fishing rod, but there are no spiders to be seen in my vicinity. Is there a technique I can use to either attract them to a known location or discover where they are? I'm playing on easy/normal so the mobs do spawn - I've seen creepers ...

a tech switch is expensive and take a lot of time
and I don't think any of those things makes Banelings moot
the majority of the power in Tarsons force were the Marines
by 12:43 tarson has enough troops and Bly can't produce enough
@tzenes Why not? He has the buildings... It would be a matter of producing other units, perfectly able to be done in the time difference.
@tzenes Less Banelings = Less Resources lost = Better spent
He wasted part of the Banelings (Resources) there which could've been more effective on Zerglings (Non-Morphed + Resources) taking out his army and Mineral line.
And he could use the Gas for an upgrade or a better unit for example.
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Q: What version of Minecraft am I playing?

Raven DreamerI finally decided to go ahead and buy Minecraft. I purchased a premium account via paypal, downloaded the client, logged in, and am at a main menu screen: Single-Player Multi-Player Play Tutorial (grayed out) Options If I press "Single-Player" what version of minecraft am I playing? (Alpha, S...

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I can do @tzenes too!
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A: How to quickly create a safe shelter

alexanderpasThe big trick here is wooden blocks, and some coal for the lights. Each log block you get from a tree will give you 4 wooden blocks, which you can use to build a seperation and a door. Now, here is a step-by-step tutorial, assuming a completely new spawn. The First Day Punch down a single tre...

@badp: Nice job on improving your answer, but it starts and ends with Alpha. Is that right?
@TomWij Fixed seconds ago.
+1 :-)
@badp damn you, now there is already a good answer! ;)
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23:46
will I reach the rep barrier today or not?
BTW: this is the first day of the week, this is going to be a fun league this week!
Yeah, there's actually a bunch of titles to let people compete for rep in different topics. Very fun week indeed.
Luckily, I own none of them.
@badp he should've done that as a secret in the halloween update.
Or introduce a alcoholic beverage item. :D

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