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9:00 PM
@bwarner No, I'm just noticing a lot of my shitty answers have a higher score than some of my really good ones.
Which just isn't right.
 
If "will A, B, C, D, E, and F run game X" is a valid question, why isn't "will A, B, C, G, E, and F run game X"? The valid question would be "what do I need to run game X"
 
I guess I'm curious why if we're the best group to answer the question then why we do we not permit the question
 
because...it is too localized.
 
I've never really understood the 'too localized' close reason. Or rather, why it's a problem.
 
@tiddy we're also the best group to answer game-rec questions.
 
9:02 PM
Too localized in time I can see as a problem.
 
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A: How is scoring calculated in Tilt to Live?

GnomeSlice      You receive a certain amount of score for killing a red dot or collecting a powerup. This value increases by differing amounts depending on whether or not you killed a dot, or collected a powerup, and is the first number in the set. Of note is the fact that different power ...

@StrixVaria Do tell. =]
 
If an answer definitely will not be valid or useful in the future.
"When will [game] release?" is too localized for that reason.
 
@StrixVaria "it is [...] an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet."
 
@StrixVaria Oh, misread your message. I agree, 'too localized in time' is generally a no-no.
 
I understand what Too Localized is defined as.
I was saying I definitely agree with its existence for things that are time-local.
I could potentially see an argument made for removing it for other kinds of things that are currently too localized.
Although I'm not going to take a stance one way or another, because I don't actually care.
 
9:06 PM
for me it's either A) only one person will ever care, or B) this question will be completely (I mean this literally, not "sort of completely", see this) irrelevant in the near future
"too localized" does not mean that the question has some sort of geographic thing in it, as the reason is "too localized" not "localized in any regard"
 
Why are good health regeneration shields so damn rare
 
@badp Boarderlands?
 
yeah
 
Yeah, they are hard to find. I find they have low shield values. Or you can find high shields with high recharge, but no regen.
 
0
Q: Time spent on Walking Dead, Episode 1?

Sam TysonIt is an interesting concept, but it definitely doesn't seem that the story will last more than 2 hours. Is that the normal experience?

 
9:18 PM
It wasn't until just now that I noticed that the guy who pulled the SWTOR bounty shenanigans was the same guy who went on a retagging spree
 
Uh... anybody know anything about this?
That's my answer.
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A: Where Does Audiosurf Put Corkscrews?

GnomeSliceAfter playing for a while, I'm now under the impression that corkscrews are in fact placed completely randomly in the song. Unlike other people who seem to only encounter them at intense moments of songs, I may have actually encountered MORE of them in the least intense moments of songs (intro, ...

 
@Sterno it's safe to say this is not his first offense :)
@GnomeSlice this is actually pretty common.
 
@agent86 Oh?
 
@GnomeSlice That is not the first site I've seen that either directly copies or otherwise rips off Gaming.SE
(or any of the SEs)
On the plus side, they tend to pretty crap on SEO
 
there are lots of sites that scrape stack exchange and pass it off as their own content. sometimes it's legit (since everything's licensed creative commons) but sometimes you can report them to the SE team and get them DMCA'ed or what have you
I think there's a thread on meta about it
 
9:21 PM
 
I think mostly though they were concerned about sites with better SEO than us, now that @sterno mentions it
 
Well, at least this one gave us some credit. Not that that makes it okay.
 
I wonder if I shouldn't just invest in a tough guy shield
+40% health boost doesn't sound bad
 
Each individual page on this blog seems to link back to the specific question it copied, too.
 
9:22 PM
@GnomeSlice What's not OK about it?
 
I wonder what motivation this person could possibly have for this.
 
@StrixVaria mirroring?
 
@StrixVaria an attempt at complying with license terms I guess
they fail however with the credit bit
um, these I'm looking at do have links back to the authors
 
@badp What class are you playing?
 
@badp Where? I don't see them.
 
9:24 PM
@Sorean Support Gunner Soldier. Infinite ammo ahoy!
 
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A: Is it legal to copy Stack Overflow questions and answers?

Marc GravellStack Overflow is licenced under Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Generic, which states: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). I think it is pretty clear that t...

 
Seriously - +12 ammo regen is ridicolous
 
requirements for "attribution" blah blah
 
I can spam ALL the things
except grenades, those don't regen
 
@badp Isn't it great?! Anyway I prefer having the health regen shields, even if it means I run away for a while.
The extra health doesn't seem to help when they hit that hard normally.
 
9:26 PM
Here's another one that took the source from us: s66.codeinspot.com/q/2412571
It even has @Maxpm's gravatar and username.
 
I also had a +14 ammo regen mod but everything above +5 is pretty meaningless and that one didn't have +3 to Defense or somesuch
 
...And mine... and the other two answerers...
 
@GnomeSlice the attribution looks good there (except for that one guy with no name link)
 
If you ever see them above (or at least highly-ranked) on search results, you could probably report them here:
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Q: Report high-Google-ranking SE content copiers here

Popular DemandThis tweet by Jeff was posted in chat: for those of you seeing scrapers rank above #stackoverflow can you reply with your exact google query terms? (plain text only, no urls) Tweeted by codinghorror on December 9, 2010 at 7:59 AM Since some of us don't use Twitter, I thought it'd be helpf...

 
@NickT that's precisely what Shog told me to do
 
9:30 PM
@Fluttershy's done it it seems:
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A: Report high-Google-ranking SE content copiers here

FluttershyA few days ago, I posted this question on Gaming. Having not received a correct answer, I decided to do some Google searching, and stumbled upon http://b.vniup.com/index.php/gamer/can-i-play-seiklus-in-windowed-mode.html. It would seem they stole my question, as well as the answers. I've looked, ...

nice tags yo
 
@NickT POSSIBLE DUPLICATE
 
@NickT heh
 
It's funny because on the scraped questions the "possible duplicate" links point back to Stack Exchange
 
Oh wow.
TOR-OBS BALANCED PANACEA SHIELD
Quick Health Regeneration!
It's 430/65 instead of 582/86 very slow health regen...
 
9:35 PM
Let's see how it works in practice then
 
@GnomeSlice That is some interesting "web technical support"
 
Someone change this title to something more searchable, if you wouldn't mind. I'm off to class.
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Q: How exactly does the +1 airjump mechanic work?

Timothy RoyWhen defeating an enemy in mid-air, your character is able to use his/her jump again once more while in the air. I understand that from the tutorial. But now, let's take for example the blue character, he can jump once and then again while in mid-air. If he jumps, then defeats two enemies, how m...

 
@GnomeSlice you click that link? the image is too large for the content space so it overflows across the right column
 
so Chrome just gave me the message when it couldn't connect to a page: "Other users are also experiencing difficulties connecting to this site, so you may have to wait a few minutes." - does this mean Chrome is now sending my browsing history back to its servers?
 
9:46 PM
0
Q: How to lock in radio stations in Grand Theft Auto IV?

AProughIs there a way to lock a radio station to always be a specific one, or to at least eliminate radio stations I don't particularly care for? Some of the stations really annoy me, and I am tired of having to press on the d-pad to find one that doesn't make my teeth grit.

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Q: Is it true that Diablo 3 will require you to be connected to the internet just to play solo?

oscilatingcretinThis is what I've been hearing. I never had to plug my NES into my phone jack to play Super Mario Brothers, so I don't see how this could possibly be true with Diablo 3. Can anyone offer any links that prove this to be true?

 
I just ate a granola bar with a fork and knife. pretentious douchebag glasses
 
@bwarner I like how you nuked his rant about 20 seconds after he made it. You're speedy!
 
groans I'll get on it.
 
@timStone @Resorath They could just be using something as a query to downforeveryoneorjustme.com
 
10:00 PM
@TimStone I always thought that meant "Do a search for me on 404s"
 
@Sterno And he's already rolled it back.
Any mods want to back me up? gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/65027/…
 
@bwarner I don't even see a question there at all
 
@Resorath I think all of that functionality is grouped under the same umbrella, but I'm not sure.
 
@bwarner I was going to make the same edit. I also had a title edit in there that got rolled back. Boo
 
@bwarner im just going to VTC "Not a real question"
 
10:03 PM
Now I've removed my upvote AND given him a downvote for his trouble!
Edit wars ahoy!
Now the question appears to be reasonable and will get a bunch of upvotes to counteract the downvotes! Oh noes!
 
I like the SE diff'er
 
IF he rolls it back again I'm flagging it for "edit warring, lock it"
 
the only things that still remain after my edit are apparently "I've", "that", a pair of asterisks, "to", "this", ".", and "If"
 
@Resorath Oddly, there's a relevant Meta answer on this
 
-1
Q: Which Angry Bird is most Effective?

JerryRoxIn Angry Birds Space, which bird is the most efective? Is it the yellow one, or the exploding one? WHICH ONE??? I can't decide.

 
10:15 PM
> Warning! Please note that orders under $5.00 are not eligible to redeem Steam keys. If you are planning on adding your Humble Bundle games to your Steam library, please increase your order amount.
$5? really? no, thank you
I was going for $1
I guess it is no sale after all
 
user2334
They put a minimum because people were reselling the Steam keys
 
user2334
a few bundles ago
 
and he rolled it back again
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Q: Is it true that Diablo 3 will require you to be connected to the internet just to play solo?

oscilatingcretinThis is what I've been hearing. I never had to plug my NES into my phone jack to play Super Mario Brothers, so I don't see how this could possibly be true with Diablo 3. Can anyone offer any links that prove this to be true? Edit: Going to mark the first answer as best since it looks to be tru...

 
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
I should've gone to that damn SO meetup then
↑ that's, IIRC, Stermy, the top Italian Quake 3/Live player.
(I was busy though doing something else. I think I was in a family trip or summat.)
Don't give me the silent treatment dammit!
 
@badp Okay.
 
10:27 PM
crashes through red vs. blue
 
 
@badp I think actually people were using the steam keys to turn "free" steam accounts into "paid" accounts, for things like the holiday sale where you could get a bunch of potentially free games or coupons/coal/etc
I know of at least one person who set up a script to buy humble bundles at a penny, and use the keys to register steam accounts
 
@agent86 yes, that's why there was a limit set to $1
now though it's $5
 
probably $5 is just another attempt at preventing this
 
and I think $5 is way too steep, esp. when I do have the other two games
so no sale
 
10:31 PM
I guess the "pay what you want" model doesn't exactly work the way they expected it to :)
 
During this Humble Bundle I've spent €6... in two Indie Royales
 
this one I think upset people who ordered botanicula, they spent more and got less for the game
 
@agent86 Didn't they get The Witcher 2 for free?
 
I just bought the royale bundle today, because I want me some weeeeirrrdddd worlds
I think they got witcher 1, not 2
and that was after GoG facepalmed
they didn't know about the humble bundle, and kind of promoted the game pretty extensively
 
0
Q: Pokemon Rumble Blast Error?

JerryRoxIn Pokemon Rumble Blast for the Nintendo 3DS, you can let others that you streetpass see your shop. Well, I have 10 people that have visited my shop, and I recently played my Pokemon Rumble Blast game. I tried to access my streetpass shop, and it froze and all you see is a black screen. I tried b...

 
10:55 PM
@agent86 Let me know how that is, if you would.
@agent86 I'm not surprised. I'd pay more than the minimums, but I'm a student, and utterly broke.
 
user2334
If you're going to skip words, drop "what", too! "That's" —She
 
FAE
Done watching Captain America, ready to see Avengers tomorrow, woo.
 
Spoiler alert! Avengers is amazing, wait, that's not a spoiler, you already know that.
It has superb music too.
 
@FAE I just watched that again a few days ago. Liked it a lot more than the first time I watched it.
 
11:06 PM
@James Remeber to fill in the health spreadsheet.
And with that I'm off. Wheeeee!
 
@RonanForman Nice try but I dont get out of work for another 1.5 hours :)
@RonanForman Have a good one man ;)
 
FAE
@GnomeSlice Oh? How come? I thought it was okay. Not excellent but not horrible either. Chris Evans did a pretty good job I thought.
 
@James That's why you need to remember!
 
@FAE I dunno, I thought it was 'meh' when I first saw it.
Liked it a little more this time.
 
FAE
Gotcha.
 
11:10 PM
Does the Avengers launch tomorrow!?
 
@GnomeSlice Yes. And it's getting pretty good reviews.
 
FAE
I'm not sure. It came out here last week actually, but I skipped it for GW2 beta.
 
@GnomeSlice A lot of places are doing midnight launches as well.
@FAE Good choice.
 
FAE
We have friends who want to see it and they could only go Fridays, otherwise I would've hit up a midnight release last Tuesday.
 
Releases tomorrow in the US. Released international earlier, which is backwards from normal
Apparently Battleship is doing the same thing
 
11:11 PM
You know @FAE, every time I see you it makes me think of GW2 now. Which is horrible. Because it's not out yet.
 
FAE
@Sterno Yeah, I like it when that happens, I actually get a rare chance to gloat. :P
 
@Sterno lolololol Battleship. Holy crap that movie will be terrible.
Even by hollywood standards.
 
FAE
Instead of "Yeah I'll go see it when it's out here... y'know... 2 months from now..."
@Wipqozn You're welcome!
 
@FAE I truly feel for you guys when games end up releasing 3-4 days later for no reason
 
My zeus I hate Hollywood. And Seth MacFarlane. What that man does can't even be called writing.
 
11:12 PM
@Wipqozn But will it be so bad it's good?
 
FAE
@Sterno Yeah, I hate it. -_- I see everyone on my friends lists playing something and I'm like "Aaaaaaaaagh!"
 
@Sterno Like Dragonball Evolution was?
 
@Wipqozn I'm thinking more like Deep Rising
 
@FAE That sounds like a rather good way to troll you.
 
FAE
@Sterno Don't give them money for this
 
11:13 PM
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Q: What is the best way to create growth and cashflow in Kairosoft's Venture Towns?

Lana MillerThis game is not very rewarding because it is seemingly impossible to grow your town in any way because it is SO difficult to get the cash to do so. How do you grow in this game? You never have enough money, keeping your cashflow in the positive is extremely difficult and I don't understand how t...

 
@Wipqozn !!!!?
 
I really wish they'd hurry up and declare me supreme decider of all things movies / books / shows / et cetear.
 
@Sterno Pfffffft why
 
I'd pretty much stop everything from being produced.
In my ideal world people like Seth Macfarlane and Stephanie MEyer would be considered criminals. CRIMINALS I SAY!
@GnomeSlice Are you disagreeing with me, or were you unaware that movie existed?
 
@Wipqozn Unaware!
 
11:17 PM
@GnomeSlice Consider yourself lucky.
 
Battleship as in... "You sunk my Carrier"!?
 
@Wipqozn How much are their respective bounties?
 
@Krazer Death.
DEATH I SAY!
 
@Wipqozn Bounty, not punishment...
Nobody is going to turn them in if the reward is death.
 
@GnomeSlice I just got served.
finger snap
 
11:18 PM
@Wipqozn what did your order?
 
fine, the reward will be that those turning them in will be declared heroes.
 
@Wipqozn so... no money?
 
@GnomeSlice Yes.
@Krazer Being a hero comes with money.
Well, kind of.
 
@Wipqozn Lol. No.
 
You'll get one of these
 
11:25 PM
 
11:37 PM
@agent86 Surely old news... but how are we going to purge all of the old questions/answer for Diablo 3, once the real game comes out? Just corrections as necessary by the all-knowing benevolent community hive-mind?
... and by that I mean, those that are wrong/irrelevant, not all.
 
@EBongo Do you think there are a lot that will need purging? I haven't seen too many that are horribly out of date.
 
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Q: How should we deal with out of date questions/answers?

LessPop_MoreFizzThis is perhaps a concern largely unique to questions about MMO's, and other multiplayer games that see major game-balance patches released on a regular basis, but how should we address content contained on the site that is, by being out-of-date, no longer correct? For example, this World of War...

 

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