But @Fluttershy The middle mouse wheel is your friend. The game will pick what it thinks you want to do but cycling that will cycle your options if you have any
@OrigamiRobot If you have nothing than fear nothing. That is my best suggestion. You can go through and learn the zombies abilities with out much fear.
@OrigamiRobot When I lost my first ghillie suit I just went into the closest towns and started dancing with the zombies to learn their ranges for sight and sound a bit better.
@Fluttershy You can press the middle mouse button to activate that selection or just open your inventory (which for some reason Iw ant to say is the G key?)
@MatthewReas To borrow a legal distinction, your question did not have evidende, it had testimony, which is the exact distinction that I'm talking about. Though I will say that your stubbornness in being unable to make this distinction is, to date, the best argument you've made. — LessPop_MoreFizz2 mins ago
@LessPop_MoreFizz Personally, I don't think we should be re-opening the discussion, even with hard evidence to identify the game. If someone already HAS a screenshot, chances are EXTREMELY good they already know which game it's from.
@fueckert you're not comprehending why someone would ask this sort of question and associating them too strongly with old ITG.
@Oak You're entirely missing the point of the sort of question we're looking to allow. The whole point is that it's not about remembering anything. So yes, the number of people seeking to remember the name of a game they have a screenshot is is very small. The point of allowing these questions is to allow people to identify artifacts that they encounter in other media. Which, in turn, resolves your problem number two of a lack of textual clarity/searchability. Once the source of the artifact is cited textually, the question becomes very searchable. — LessPop_MoreFizzyesterday
I found that once I hit 'Master' status with my restoration spells it was easier to just fork out gold and train it up 5 times with each time that I leveled. I know for certain that I'd done this with two of my character levels (ie - I'd go to the restoration trainer and train my restoration skil...
@LessPop_MoreFizz And that's the thing. If a user finds a screenshot, almost guaranteed, there will be context behind it to identify where it's from. In rare cases, like that Breaking Bad one, it's a sidenote. And there is no guarantee whatsoever that anything shown in cases like that is even from a real game.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Since the blanket ban on ITG questions, we've still been getting ITG questions. Do you honestly thing making that one tiny addendum to the rule is going to improve the site? Requests for game identification, with or without a screenshot, are bad questions.
@LessPop_MoreFizz It's like @fbueckert says. The odds of someone being able to provide a screenshot and still need to have it identified for them are very slim. It would be easier to continue the blanket ban on requests for game identification based on the fact that these types of questions you're arguing to allow are going to be a vast, vast minority in the grand scheme of new users seeing that we allow requests for game identification.
@LessPop_MoreFizz How often are we going to encounter questions like the Breaking Bad one where A) it's a real game, B) enough data is provided to be able to tell which game it is, and C) there's no context behind it to allow the watcher to identify it on their own.
Because your argument is not worth arguing in the grand scheme of game identification, honestly. And if you're going to continue being abrasive, I'm going to choose not to continue any discussion with you.
I've been making a java game just for fun, and am now wondering how I make it available for others to use? For instance, how to make an icon on my desktop so that it runs when I click it or make it available online for people to play.
@fbueckert He wants to allow requests for game identification if, and only if, they provide a screenshot. It's pointless. You and @Oak have both noted that the likelihood of someone still needing it identified after being able to provide a screenshot are very slim.
In the case of the Breaking Bad question, it's a clearly answerable question. Screenshot or no. The screenshot could have been skipped, and if you gave the episode number, people could still answer it
It doesn't have any of the problems the typical ITG had
I think we're just caught up on the fact that ITG is a thing that previously existed. We're way too scared about "Zomg, it might upon the floodgates for it to come back!"
@Sterno This has been beaten to death. There were several old ITG questions that were closed and deleted that "didn't have any of the problems the typical ITG had." It was determined then that these few good questions were not enough to salvage the category. Thus, the blanket ban.
I feel that you're all judging @LessPop_MoreFizz's point based on your previous feelings regarding ITG rather than understanding the nuances of what he's saying
@Sterno Cite my source? ITG has been banned for months and we still get shit ITG questions. People see [game-identification] as a tag, and the floodgates will open.
@Sterno Honestly, probably none. People still ask for ITG's and Game rec's, because They. Don't. Read. And don't care. This is their problem, and they want it solved, rules be damned.
Here's the thing. It seems like we're pretending no one will understand the distinction between "Hey, there was this game on this TV show (or whatever). Here's the source. What game was that?" and "Hey, guys, remember that game with that guy who had a gun and shot stuff? I think maybe the gun was blue? What game was it?"
@fbueckert Well, to be fair if you see a games Q&A site you won't assume that a question specifically about a game is off-topic (granted, they should read the FAQ but it is non-obvious if you haven't read that imho)
The big difference is the first case has a clearly correct answer that can be verified. it isn't "this is right only for the guy who asked"
@fbueckert It's hard to prove any negative. But saying, "I've looked into this and I'm pretty sure that's just some game they made up 20 seconds of that doesn't really exist" is a valid answer
Kind of like that awesome Unix UI in Jurassic Park
Solution #2: Migrate such questions to Movies & TV.SE :)
@Sterno Solution $3: Continue the blanket ban on requests for game identifcation and save everyone future headaches by arguing what is and isn't a request for game identification (especially when the question in... question... starts with "What game is")
I guess my main point is that I think this whole concept of "Floodgates! Future headaches! Chaos!" is overblown. And the whole Screenshot or GTFO thing is missing the point. Either a question is truly answerable, or it's a guessing game. And it's usually pretty easy to tell which one it is.
@DavidB I'd argue that any gamer who doesn't know what Minecraft is at this point has been living in a cave, or worse, without internet, for the last several years.
Hell, I know what Minecraft is, and I have never played it.
ok, I'm watching a video of someone's favorite 2D Sonic stages on Youtube, but he doesn't identify which Sonic game the stage is in. Is it useful to ask on arQAde?
@RonanForman Notice that the screenshots for most of those have a description that says what it is? :P Those that don't, I can bet almost anything they'll be described in the article where the screenshot is from.
@RonanForman see, that's a completely different concern. Whether someone deserves rep for something is independent of whether it is OK to ask on the site.
I've been making a java game just for fun, and am now wondering how I make it available for others to use? For instance, how to make an icon on my desktop so that it runs when I click it or make it available online for people to play.
