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Q: Imperial Assignments "Costume" Reward

I'm not clear on how the site tags things. Is there a meta on that?

Lazers

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My first reward was a costume, so I collected it from the Cargo Bay ... and after that I can't find it. Can someone tell me where the rewards appear after the Cargo Bay ?

tiny-death-star

@Sterno all over the place at the moment

most of the focus has been on scope and body content quality so far

tag discussions only started... yesterday?

2:05 PM

Kind of tricky, since it would be silly to repeat the question for both iOS and Windows, or whatever

Michel

discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/questions/12371/…

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@Michel that's an interesting thing about that site, self promotional "spam" could actually make a good answer

@KevinvanderVelden this is why there are quality guidelines in place for both answers and questions

failure to meet said requirements is ground for closure

@kalina jup, I'm aware :)

it means "spam" will still stand out

because it will be crap content

2:10 PM

Bla I should get you to invite me when I get home

@kalina You should look into asking for question and answer templates from SE

Cause I can't get on steam at work =p

Answer templates are already implemented

@badp hm?

you mean like the prepopulated things used for community ads?

Yep.

2:11 PM

interesting idea

Sounds like a pretty easy win.

I've already rep capped on mso for today though so it can wait until tomorrow

It's more of a meta.SR question

well question templates would be a feature request no?

Hardly useful on the network

2:14 PM

I'll make some noise about it later once I've put some thought into what the templates would actually look like

@kalina If the site does work, everyone on it will be very, very used to casting downvotes on answers.

Because without that, I don't think it can work.

plenty of downvoting happening

Ben Brocka

@badp I haven't seen that video in years

Hot Dog Stand templates or GTFO

Now I need to figure out how to ask a question about card mapping software

2:20 PM

@Sterno you'll feel dirty while doing it

@BenBrocka meowrf

The weirdness I see is that two questions can be nearly identical but with minor small details. One guy lists off a bunch of criteria with the addition "and I only care if it's free"

just cram as much information into it as possible

Someone else doesn't care if it's free or not... two different questions?

Q: How to update the character graphics in game "real life"?

Darkest Dungeon is being Kickstarted

> You will recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts and beyond. You'll battle not only unimaginable foes, but stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Uncover strange mysteries, and pit the heroes against an array of fearsome monsters with an innovative strategic turn-based combat system.

I've heard a lot about this.

Looks really promising.

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Lazers

2:23 PM

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I am 28 years old and my graphic doesn't look to good. My graphic card supports 2-eye-vision.dll and it's enabled. I don't have supporting glasses now. So in fact I can see some real nice character outside, but when I look at myself it's somehow pixeled and the nose seems to be displayed in a dif...

the-sims

5pike

@Lazers ...

what?

...

wait

is this a parody question?

Ben Brocka

It would appear so

5pike

The "the-sims" tag confused me a bit.

Wow they got like $80k in one day.

That's nuts.

> A distinctive game world featuring over a dozen unique playable character classes such as the Plague Doctor, the Highwayman, and even the Leper!

@kalina Now I just need a Software Recommendation Expert who is familiar with RPG battlemap software to join the beta!

2:27 PM

It's also coming to Steam.

@Sterno this is an attempt to be funny, right?

@kalina Mostly it's a snarky way of saying that while in private beta, the range of possible software recs seems too wide to provide a pool of experts who can answer a question

The scope of the site is "all software, ever". That's a big range.

the fundamental reason they want to make game recs off topic is because they're not gamers

and they're scared of people asking "what is a fun game that..."

#flappyjam

@kalina that one might be a good argument, you can get objective recommendations about games, but they're probably the minority

Q: Looking for First Person, Physics based, Puzzle games

2:31 PM

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Private Beta Notice: this question is a test question for Would video game related question be ontopic? I recently completed Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers, a Puzzle game, that revolves around it's physics engine. The main game mechanic is being able to slice various parts of the tera...

windows linux game puzzle first-person

@kalina jup, I did say it was possible =p

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@kalina DIBS

I do think it can work

@kalina I'm also brewing over a question about Toddler iOS games that meet specific criteria

I'm not sure I can see it working but I'm willing to give it a try just to see.

Q: Android educational games for small kids

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Please recommend me games for small kids (4-5 years) Requirements Android platform Tablet optimized No Ads! No in-app payments! Educactional Good for kids from 4 to 5 years Free or paid Good examples: Alphabet Cat Farm 123 ~ StoryToys Jr. Google play is full of crap apps, this is why I'm...

android educational game kids

2:34 PM

@kalina Except I have different criteria.

@Sterno it's just an example

gotcha

game-rec.se

Gimme

it's the closest example we have to a "please recommend me children friendly games for somedevice"

It also poses some problems, like "that game just added ads or IAPs. Your answer is now invalid."

I don't want to troll the site but in a way I want to ask the exact same question minus one bit of criteria to see how they deal with that.

2:36 PM

@Sterno I don't see how that is any different from "this minecraft patch just completely changed this mechanic, your answer is now invalid"

@kalina Because of the thing I typed right after it.

That particular dude doesn't want IAPs, but all those other criteria can generate an excellent list that helps others.

So do you downvote otherwise awesome answers because that one bit of criteria changed, even though they'll still be helpful to a ton of other people?

As someone who comes to the site after it's existed a while and wants to see a list of android educational games, do I have to ask my own question with my own specific criteria, or pour over the potentially dozens all with slightly different criteria to see if it's a dupe first?

It's not an insurmountable problem but it is a problem.

Yuki

@Ktash Something that bothered me a bit: Why did she pick Whoopi Goldberg to be the Genie instead of, I dunno, Robin Williams?