What was really fun was multi-part questions in Oracle certification exams. For multi-part questions, if you go back to review the question, it clears all the answer fields and makes you answer the entire thing again.
I've noticed that Valve hasn't been adding new hats to the game lately that can't eventually be crafted, likely due to the Max's Severed Head and Earbuds thing.
besides apparently as soon as you can just you'll be able to add steam wallet funds to transactions, the value of buds and bill's and heads and whanot will crumble
as they'll become just another hat.
Can you believe some people just want to wear hats?
@RonanForman Strange Medi-gun measures number of Ubers and number of assists. Strange Jarate covers number of enemies hit. Strange Wrench and Strange Jag track both enemies killed by the wrench and enemies killed by the Sentry Gun.
So, in a bunch of different games by Valve, there's this Garden Gnome, and he's usually associated with an achievement, involving carrying him through an area. Over the course of my internet travels, I've picked up on the fact that his name is "Gnome Chompski". What is the significance of this ...
> Why didn't I play longer? That's a good question. You see, the game requires an always-on Internet connection, and the servers seemed to set themselves on fire a few hours after I downloaded the beta, and this dumped me from the game.
Game Suggestion:
Super Spring Break SpeedBoat Hero SD
To be completely honest (for once!), I actually can't think of a more casual/accessible game than this for Game on! sessions. It's undeniably fun to build tracks, share them with other players, and compare your times. There was some grea...
If I were still playing WoW, I'd be frustrated that Blizzard seems to think I want the fights to be less of a challenge, without giving me an option (like the WotLK cancel-able buff).
Some people are idiots. I have someone arguing with me that plr_hightower is bugged because mp_maxrounds 2 makes it end after two point captures. On a single stage Payload Race map.
> If I remember correctly, there are 3 locations in plr_hightower and if you win 1st or 2nd you gain an advantage for next location and 3rd is the last one where the game should end. But for some reason it ended after 2nd location.
I disagree with the whole "heroic items are exactly the same as non-heroic items, except a different color, and with a tiny green "heroic" label on the gear itself"
@GraceNote I'm not familiar with Javascript, but I've been tasked to do some scripting anyway. I might badger you for your expertise. Just fair warning.
@Powerlord Oh, they do. But they're basically the same item.
Who were the drones in the Hyron project that you shoot. Was Megan one of the drones?
What happens to Megan?
Where will the DLC follow on from?
I skipped the credits, did I miss anything?
Thanks
Although the game isn't released yet, I'm sure this info has already been published and talked about, I just haven't read all the material, so I am not that well informed.
I was wondering how will the multiplayer work in Diablo 3, something along these questions:
can I create a "normal difficu...
I haven't played Gears of War 1 or 2. Because of the great marketing hype created for GoW3, I was thinking of buying one. How will my gaming experience be if I directly jump on to GoW3?
If you unfamiliar with the cavalcade of fun that is The Gaming Promotional Grant, please follow the link.
I present to you...Round 6! This is the first round using the results from the prevoius round of voting (as seen here). The 11 games that will be offered in Fall 2011 are:
Elder Scrolls V:...
Is there a significant benefit to running through the entirety of Braid to find the stars?
I have done a little FAQ reading and determined that I have screwed up my chances of using my existing save game, and would need to restart.
Is the "second" ending worth it though? I found Braid to be an ...
@Brett's comment on the latest grant about upvotes and comments not making any difference does present an interesting idea for the future. What if you had to "apply" for a grant, and the people receiving it would be chosen based on votes from the community. Your "answer" could say what you plan to do with it (I plan to write a game diary for the blog, or I plan to ask at least 5 questions, etc).
This would open it up for "rising stars" that may not have a ton of reputation yet but have shown themselves to create good content in their time here.
Not really. There is some popularity with regards to reputation, since popular users may be up voted just for who they are (like Jeff Atwood for example), but I would say most high-rep users have earned their rep.
I'm saying that you will have some users who have earned there rep just due to being popular, but the vast majority of users have earned there rep, popular or otherwise.
Saying they earned there rep due to being popular is completely different then saying they are popular.
You can be high reputation from contributing a bunch of stuff a year ago and nothing since. And you can be low reputation despite awesome contributions over the last month.
Look at the election for example, not going to name any names, but certain users had a huge jump in their activity who ran, but the moment the election ended their activity dropped again.
I think one important point is to distribute the games pretty evenly among those who qualify, so that not the same people always receive the games. Still, I think some reasonable rep threshold should exist to motivate people to participate, this is part promotion and part reward for the active members.
Though I wouldn't have set a strict limit of games, but just moved the priorities so that someone fulfilling the criteria who hasn't had a game yet is preferred to someone with higher rep who already received a game.
@Fabian I would agree with that. There is a two-game restriction in place right now, but modifying it so receiving the first game somehow affects your rating would be a good idea.
@Powerlord I'm in a similar situation. Although part of that is because the only games I would want from the grant are games which can be gifted through steam. I don't want to wait around for two weeks for a game I'm really looking forward to playing to arrive.
I don't think we need a vote, I see no problem with the mods/Brett deciding to take people off the list if they didn't meet the commitment. I wouldn't target a specific number of questions/answers, but decide on a case-by-case basis
@Brett's comment on the latest grant about upvotes and comments not making any difference does present an interesting idea for the future. What if you had to "apply" for a grant, and the people receiving it would be chosen based on votes from the community. Your "answer" could say what you plan to do with it (I plan to write a game diary for the blog, or I plan to ask at least 5 questions, etc).
@bwarner Yeah, that can be a problem. I bought kirby mass attack, and am going to try and push a few questions onto the site, but since it's a kirby game... I don't think I'll have many questions to ask.
The Witcher 2 is now in 3rd place according to views (data.stackexchange.com/gaming/s/822/game-statistics), so the first community promotion worked pretty nicely. Though still half of Minecraft and Starcraft.
"We decided we don't want players to be able to try our game before buying it," said A. Dumass, Director of Marketing. "After all, they may find out it doesn't work on their PC."
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(in case it wasn't incredibly obvious, that was a joke)
> "Besides, " continued A. Dumass, "we really cannot afford any resources to making demos as piracy continues to erode our revenues. We detected a large number of people illegally downloading the game since day 1, estimating damages for a couple bajillion dollars that will cost us three hundred thousand job positions and the country of Botswana."
I read it all and I agree with a lot of the points; I too had the idea for people "applying" to play the games and pitching what they intend to do with it, but then also thought against it. The "popularity contest" comments are dead on, it could get awkward and messy
And I have been tracking the amount of questions being asked by grant recipients (only done it for Deus Ex and Tropico so far, waiting a few days before I do Dead Island). Those first few rounds were disrupted by us dealing with int'l Amazons and faulty Steam, so I don't know how accurate the stats are. As in, some people got the games weeks earlier than others
@Fabian Exactly. Yeah. Although you could pitch that you would ask at least 3 or so questions. I find it weird to require a number of questions, but maybe in the replies users make their own promise of what they think they can ask and answer. I don't know if that would affect the actual selection process, but I'd feel better about people not meeting a req they set instead of one I set
@BrettWhiteΨ I think the distribution of the games is a critical factor, to be really effective we need the game in the hands of the users the day it is released. The number of people searching declines pretty rapidly after the game is released.
@Fabian That is 100% true. Having it delivered thru internet services has been faulty (although the recent Star Wars grant in the Sci-Fi site, all of them got their blu-rays on the day or day after it was released)
@Fabian Yeah exactly. I think it's problematic to require users to ask X number of questions. It is entirely possible that they will only have 2 questions about a game; I don't like them forcing questions that aren't genuine
I think you can only judge it afterwards, usually multiple people receive the game and you can judge somewhat how much there is to ask about it. I only would exclude people from further games if the number of Q&As is far outside the expectations.
@Fabian That is true, yes. I think this is all in the early stages anyway. Still feels experimental. I'm sure that come January, we'll have a firm idea of how to run it and what to expect, and also the most polite way to tell people they are banned from the grant. Maybe probation is a better word...
I haven't played Gears of War 1 or 2. Because of the great marketing hype created for GoW3, I was thinking of buying one. How will my gaming experience be if I directly jump on to GoW3?
If you unfamiliar with the cavalcade of fun that is The Gaming Promotional Grant, please follow the link.
I present to you...Round 6! This is the first round using the results from the prevoius round of voting (as seen here). The 11 games that will be offered in Fall 2011 are:
Elder Scrolls V:...
Is there a significant benefit to running through the entirety of Braid to find the stars?
I have done a little FAQ reading and determined that I have screwed up my chances of using my existing save game, and would need to restart.
Is the "second" ending worth it though? I found Braid to be an ...
