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In that kind of sense, it is almost a perfect symbol. But personally speaking, if we wanted to take that approach, I'd prefer to be "The Last Heart Piece", if you will.
Really, I'd just prefer something other than a heart.
That's understandable. On the question of "is a half-filled heart representative of something negative or something positive" I don't think we'll come to an agreement, but I certainly honor your opinion. Indeed if we were to take a poll, I'm sure the community would be pretty split between people who agree with you and people who agree with me.
So given that, I was trying to call into question whether or not that question can be used to decide if the logo is X or Y.
Of course you can extend that to call into question every decision...
To wit, I do agree with that. It kinda becomes the "glass half-full or half-empty" of Gaming: Is the heart half empty, or half full?
We could argue days on that, and it is more productive to move onto something more substantial, such as making it more Game-like
True.
And the whole thing would be easier from my perspective if I had a definite opinion of "this is what the logo should be", but I'm really split in my own mind.
I kind of agree with "if there's not a very good reason to change it, why change it?"
And I kind of agree with "the heart as it is isn't the best maybe".
I was very happy with our design... up until Game Development launched.
The main issue I've had with coming up with an alternative to the heart is... coming up with an alternative to the heart.
The catch 22. :)
Anyway, mainly I didn't want you to be offended or mad at me. I respect your contributions to the site.
00:08
If we have to stick with something heart based, I'd personally prefer we kept the full heart, for the sappy reasons I gushed out in the first comment.
No worries, and apologies accepted.
I'm not the kind of person to hold grudges, but even if I were it would be unsporting of me to hakkle you for your choice of words. Your intentions were towards the site, and we need people like that~
I'm a pretty sarcastic person in most situations... naturally that doesn't always come across well on the interwebs.
So when I say something that sounds snide, I probably was trying to be funny... I should lean away from that in those kinds of discussions, I suppose.
 
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01:51
So if I mention votes, questions, favorites, close, delete, comments, flags, or bounties, it pings every mod?
@Brant Well, only if we're looking at it.
Oh, got it.
I'm still going to file this information away for later though. ;P
you know, for... emergencies and such
Of course
If I say
votes, questions, favorites, close, delete, comments, flags, bounties
3 times fast, does it summon a mod, beetlejuice style?
votes, questions, favorites, close, delete, comments, flags, bounties
votes, questions, favorites, close, delete, comments, flags, bounties.
votes, questions, favorites, close, delete, comments, flags, bounties
... damn.
 
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Q: What is the creeper's "activation" radius?

Billy ONealI'm building my little base so that I can see around where I'm currently located at night, so see whether it's safe to go out the next morning, etc. I'd like to make my outer wall out of glass for this reason. In order to keep Creepers from being dangerous while viewing from inside the base, how...

04:10
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Q: How tall are each of the colossi?

DavidI am wanting to make a model of some of the colossi, can anyone tell me how large each of the colossi are? Height, width, depth.

 
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Q: How do I continue the game in Assassin's Creed 1 after I reach the credits?

JFWHow do I continue playing Assassin's Creed 1 in my savegame (Wandering around, trying the air assassination skill, open-roaming, getting all the Templar flags, ...) after I reach the credits in the same savegame? After going to the credits, I go back to the animus and I'm presented with the mem...

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Q: Unaligned number in badge pages

OakScreenshot says it all:

10:11
@LessPop_MoreFizz You should rather try using names, as in some sort of creepy voodoo incantation.
Grace Note Grace Note Grace Note Miguel!
Oak David Oak Atwood Oak Spolsky Miguel!
Jin Jin Emmet Jarrod and Juan Miguel!
Miguel!
MIGUEL!
dances in circles
10:49
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Q: Accessible game for motor impaired

Hugo RileyI'm looking for a game that could be played by a motor impaired boy. He's really into sports but playing FIFA, PES or NHL is out of his reach. The game should be slow paced and possible to play on keyboard with as few keys as possible. I remember SWOS could be played with only arrow keys and ctr...

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Q: Initiating companion quests in Fallout New Vegas

FabianUntil now I've only triggered Veronica's companion quest. I'd like to see the other now, so I'm curious about the exact trigger for initiating the companion quests. Do I only have to have them with me for a while or is there something else to do?

 
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Protip: if you are downloading a Steam mod, do not log out.
That'll clear all of your progress.
13:24
@badp That just reminds me of days of tricking people in Subspace into thinking they got disconnected at 95% download...
I'm pretty sure you said you weren't a meanie :P
I think I also said I was a witch, too.
That's true.
 
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14:35
Why did my caravan question get bumped?
@ArdaXi the answer was edited
17 hours ago.
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Q: Starting out in WoW

whaleyQuick scenario before my question(s): I bought WoW right when the WotLK came out - Toys'R'Us was running a ridiculous Black Friday sale where I nabbed WoW and the two expansions for around $50. I figured what the heck, I'd give the game a try. I started with my free month with a Drawf Priest (...

The homepage is moving a bit slow ;-)
@Fabian You mean not many questions or slow response time?
14:41
Not many questions
@LessPop_MoreFizz is Fabian's answer good enough for the bounty?
It's incomplete, but it's pretty good.
Also, Fabian, I am writing a fucking novel of an answer for that companion quest question, so you better accept it!
it's almost done.
Just need to finish going through how to gain trust with Arcade... dude likes to talk.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Shall I contact John Rudy? :)
@LessPop_MoreFizz Sometimes it seems there is only one person on this site answering Fallout New Vegas questions
@Fabian I think the only people I've seen are me, you, @Less and John Rudy
14:46
I think Less has more upvotes than the rest of the top20 users for that tag together
Less +31, John +7, Arda +5, Fabian +4.
(answers)
The FNV questions&answers seem to get a lot of traffic
Hot new game, of course they do.
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A: Initiating companion quests in Fallout New Vegas

LessPop_MoreFizzSo, this varies wildly by companion, but I'll try to run down all of them. Ed-E Quest: Ed-E My Love Trigger: Recruit Ed-E, then speak to Johnson Nash in Primm, either in his shop (after installing a new Sheriff), or at the Vicki and Vance (when you first arrive in town). Reward: If y...

plz to tell me if anything needs fixt.
Also, @fabian I blame rope kid (J.E. Sawyer) for my being wrong about That Gun/Cowboy. The bastard.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Nice answer, thanks
Now am I enough of a masochist to double back and link all of the locations and NPCs to the appropriate wiki articles
15:03
Well, time to play a bit more FNV
oh man those custom games in SC2 are so awesome
15:27
I did it. 75 links now.
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Is that the gaming.se record for links in one answer I wonder?
I also wonder how long it will take for someone to notice the one link that isn't to The Wiki.
16:14
@LessPop_MoreFizz They're 74 right now, tbh
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Q: Healing crippled companions in Fallout New Vegas

FabianVeronica got a bit crippled by the boomer artillery, now she's limping around and being all melodramatic, making me promise to bury her in a nice dress. I'm not playing hardcore mode. I slept in my bed, but she's still crippled and her HPs did not go back to full either. I think this is new s...

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Q: How much NCR infamy do I gain from arming ARCHIMEDES?

John RudyAccording to The Vault, arming ARCHIMEDES will kill all the NCR troops stationed at HELIOS-I. While that is a regrettable consequence, I really (really) want Euclid's C-Finder. So when this awe-inspiring weapon goes off, exactly how much NCR infamy am I going to gain? I want to know where my re...

by the way, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit will be released next week
I reused one @badp
@LessPop_MoreFizz $("#answer-10806 .post-text a").length gives 74.
It'd count reused links.
(that reads, "give me the length of the array of <a> tags in your answer body.")
So it does.
Time to find something else to link.
Maybe a second easter egg..
16:17
I'd go with an old school rickroll.
"Shoot her in the face, then open the companion wheel and make her use a stimpack." ...just, what.
Best solution ever.
It works!
(I had the same exact thing happen. Works on hardcore mode as well!)
So buggy.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Okay, I'm going to try it now
16:22
Not really a bug in this case.
The AI just isn't smart enough to use a stimpack if it's at full HP.
and companions normally don't cripple.
It's a choice by design that you have to pump lead into their face to convince them to--oh
I'm trusting you there, If she then pummels me to death you're responsible ;-)
What a game. What moral dilemnas you can pass by simply wearing a different outfit each day.
@Mana Well, you could punch her. Or cut her with a knife. Or take her into a combat zone and just let her get hurt normally before making her use a stimpack.
But I like shooting her in the face.
Oh you sadist you <3
16:25
@Mana Gamebryo is the very model of high end AI and physics modelling.
mmh, I got a bit carried away and killed her
The pinnacle of game development achievement.
That seems to cure the crippling without having to waste a stimpak
@Fabian Well shoot her with a weaker gun.
You could just pick up the dead body and drag it around with you
talk to it occasionally, share your dreams, your hopes, your life
16:26
I'm not playing hardcore
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Q: What is available for vintage game download on Wii?

動靜能量After purchasing some Nintendo credits, what can be bought online? MarioKart DS and GCN? Yoshi's island DS? Can you buy tracks for Mario Kart Wii too? Thanks

How do people find this sort of stuff? :<
Never mind, the answer's obvious, but still...I thought I was being a dick when I tossed five grenades at the doctor at the beginning of the game.
Finding this one is particularly impressive if you think about the environment where you're likely to have Kimball/Caesar's body lying around... remember, if anyone sees you eating a corpse, it's 'a crime against nature' and you lose massive karma and they'll all want to kill you.
tbh I haven't gotten to that point of the game yet
16:32
also, why would anyone eat House...
@Fabian You care if I edit in some more VATS specials into your answer?
I found a few more of the scripts
In fact, I could probably dig up all of them now that I know how to look :)
the 9 Irons special is a guaranteed knockdown!
@LessPop_MoreFizz You can do that of course
where were they?
if you pull up the weapon in the GECK, there's a VATS ATTACK section on the bottom right
there's an 'Effect' drop down, which is where any relevant scripts go, and then you can see the AP cost and damage multiplier.
so the 9 iron has the knockdown script attached
has a dam multiplier of 1
and costs 35 AP
Okay, that is where I looked, I just looked at different weapons it seems
Most had no script attached there
Yeah, that just means it's a different animation/AP cost/Multiplier on damage
the Chainsaw/Ripper/Thermic Lance is actually a good example of where that breaks down though
because they're 'automatic' weapons that hit for high DPS when you hold down the button - the VATS specials deliver all of that damage up front in one hit though, whichmakes them blast through DT like nothing
That is probably not how they intended it
16:45
They're also not all good deals.
like, the Back Slash - damage/AP is much lower than if you attack normally.
but I suppose for mobs you're one shotting it's a better choice.
'Lights Out' for weapons that have it is perfectly efficient though. AP cost and damage are both *1.25
The special attacks with the same name have sometimes different effects on different weapons, I just noticed
Compare SledgeHammer and RebarClub
Grand Slam is fucking amazing woah.
+40% AP cost for double damage
Both Mauler, one 0.5 damage and knockdown, the other 1x damage and no knockdown
Yeah, Grand Slam is probably the best of those
16:49
Rebar Club looks like a bug
costs more AP, no damage multiplier
looks like it's missing the Mauler script.
That game has a lot of bugs, and not just radroaches
;-)
...what
what is that weapon
@Mana Weapon? That looks like an internet communications device.
scary.
17:03
Didn't you recognize it? It's the iPhone 5.
It's so magic, it only needs one button to solve all of your problems.
Sometimes a massive death ray isn't the best solution to all of my problems.
@Mana It encourages you not to become somebody else's problem, however.
TRUE.
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Q: Is there any advantage to the PIMP-Boy 3 Billion?

John RudyI just got a PIMP-Boy 3 Billion. Aside from the fact that it looks a little cooler, if really gaudy, is there any advantage to using it instead of my old PIP-Boy 3000, or vice versa?

bahahahaha
wow, they would make that the upgraded version of the PIP-Boy.
17:15
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Q: How can I record myself playing GameCube games on my computer?

CoreyI'm wondering specifically for the GameCube, how can I record myself playing. My TV has two interfaces -- RCA sockets and a coax socket. Standard for most TVs, I guess. I currently connect my GameCube to my TV through the RCA cable, but there is an adapter that goes to the coax socket if I need...

@Mana don't make me open TVTropes
@Mana That's Euclid's C-Finder.
It's what you (eventually) get if you turn on ARCHIMEDES at Helios 1.
Also, that gif isn't as cool as pushy.gif:
so like I was kind of wondering what sort of weapon would be enough to convince you to slaughter the NPR
yeah. I understand now.
Why would you slaughter the NPR? THINK OF CAR TALK MAN? WHY DOESN'T ANYONE THINK OF CAR TALK.
Also, Yay I get to flag more spam!
17:32
I could delete that message
Then you'd have to nuke the entire conversation and the request for help on chat.MSO
No one's actually mentioned the conte... you also requested help on MSO?
10 messages moved to Gaming Police
Unused rooms ftw?
11/13 Puge Henis, never forget.
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Does it auto-invite everyone whose messages are moved?
17:35
@GraceNote Yep.
Ah, aiite
I will never forget that puge henis. It left a remarkable impression on me.
A puge impression, one might say.
¯\(ºдಠ)/¯
17:54
O_o
:<
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Q: What to do about a scratched copy of Black Ops?

EarlzSo I bought Black Ops on the midnight release date. It was all working fine then it started freezing up while loading certain maps. I took out the disc and there is a perfect circle around the outer edge of the disc(which is clearly scratches). Now I tried installing the game onto my harddrive bu...

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Q: What xbox 360 games offer split screen multiplayer?

JaydlesNote that I'm not looking for recommendations. Just trying to find a list of games that I can play simultaneously (i.e., not turn-based) with someone who is actually in my home.

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Q: For Mario Kart Wii, what is to flip the wheel downward or side way?

動靜能量In the video on http://www.mariokart.com/wii/launch/ under "New Features -> Wheel", there are movements to flick the wheel downward and it seems to do some trick (for Donkey Kong on the DK Summit run), and do trick moving the wheel sideway. What does flicking it downward do? I usually do tric...

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Q: In Risen, how do I brew beer?

MihaiI had one of the NPCs, Rhobart, teach me the Alchemy skill and explain me the recipe. But then, when I try to activate the Alchemy table, my character won't do anything.

 
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Q: Civ 5: Do railroads on a different continent give the production bonus?

Calvin FisherThe in-game help states that: Connecting Cities to your capital by Railroad will give them a 50% Production bonus. If the city in question is on a different continent, this would seem impossible. Does the link formed by a Harbor count for purposes of this bonus?

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Q: Which user-created campains can be recommended for Battle for Wesnoth?

MnementhI can download user-created campaigns from the extension-server, but the quality is varying. Are there recommendations for high-quality additional campaigns?

21:31
Uh oh, another game-rec
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Q: Can anyone recommend a good multi-player PC game for adult families?

ajax81I've been trying to find a good game for my family to play together, but I'm coming up null. The players include my wife, my father-in-law, and myself. I can't say for my father-in-law, but my wife and I have played WOW together and enjoyed it immensely -- however, the timesink is too much for ...

21:58
Idiot quest of the now: can you find on youtube a video of a failed run at Hero 30?
22:24
Go-go-gadget close button.
We're getting slower. That took just under an hour.
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VaruuknahlI am playing Fable: The Lost Chapters on the PC, and I have a couple of quests that will just not get out of my quest log. The book quest is one and the chicken kicking is the other. I have already gotten silver keys for both and a chicken hat from the chicken kicking. I have not gotten the emote...

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Q: wii star wars without nunchuck

kevinis there any way for two players to play star wars force unleashed with out or with only one nunchuck?

23:19
Nite.
23:40
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Q: Civ4 City population

elplayerHow do I keep the population in my cities down? My citizens keep getting angry because the city is over-populated, but I don't know how to fix it. How would I do so? Thanks, Elliot Bonneville


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