For the best learning of our friends in this place, should we attempt to write all or our answers in up goer five words?
This would help people who do not have a lot of words that they know understand new words.
I'm in the app version, and was wondering how I can play online with my friend (who also has the app version), does anyone know? If so, can you tell me how? With detailed steps please!
I'm in the app version, and was wondering how I can play online with my friend (who also has the app version), does anyone know? If so, can you tell me how? With detailed steps please!
> I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started.
When your options are "Disarm and save the day", "Fail and die an explodey death", and "Do nothing and die an explodey death", really the best course of action is to try.
I have a laptop that used to be able to run Mirror's Edge on the highest quality setting.
When I reinstalled Windows I downloaded all the drivers using "DriverMax" and installed
Mirror's Edge again but now it only works on the lowest quality setting. Why is this?
The electronic–hydraulic analogy (derisively referred to as the drain-pipe theory by Oliver Heaviside) is the most widely used analogy for "electron fluid" in a metal conductor. Since electric current is invisible and the processes at play in electronics are often difficult to demonstrate, the various electronic components are represented by hydraulic equivalents. Electricity (as well as heat) was originally understood to be a kind of fluid, and the names of certain electric quantities (such as current) are derived from hydraulic equivalents. As all analogies, it demands an intu...
I'm an EFL (English as a foreign language) teacher, and I've noticed that there's a huge difference between the language interests and perspectives of native English speakers/highly fluent people and English learners. There are different views of what is "correct," different perspectives on what ...
The issue of forming a site exclusively around "beginners questions" is one of reciprocity. Most sites at least perport to be experts talking to experts and answering each other questions. They, in turn, attract a fair number of enthusiasts and beginning learners asking interesting (albeit, begin...
The proposal is championed by a moderator of ELU and the top committers are all very active on ELU; the comment by another ELU mod is "I'm still not sure that there should be two English sites, but I would rather ELL succeed than let the current state of affairs stand as they are."
How many more stinks do you need before you can feel the reek of a ghetto for "the rest of them"?
True story:
Twenty-one years ago my wife and our son were sitting in McDonald's, eating and chatting. A stranger at an adjacent table approached my wife and said "Excuse me, but may I ask how old your son is?"
"Fifteen, no, sixteen months."
"That's astonishing" he said. "I'm a speech pathologi...
In trying to develop a good attack strategy, I need to know more about how the defense building AI works. As of this question there are seven different defensive buildings (cannon, archer tower, mortar, air defense, wizard tower, hidden tesla, crossbow). The game is pretty clear that some targe...
I know that if you fight monsters below your level you will get less experience, but what's with the item quantity and rarity? If the amount of items, especially rare ones decrease when fighting monsters below your level, by how much does it decrease? I'd appreciate as much info as possible.
What do I need to do to level up in Ultima 5: Lazarus (not the original Ultima 5)? I have tried sleeping in beds and outdoor in a bedroll over 5 times but have not seen Lord British in a dream. I have over 1000 experience points but have not leveled up.
Is there also a list of how many points ar...
Proposal: English Language Learners
Following the conclusion of the Definition phase, this proposal was recently closed in support of our English SE site. After a lot of discussion here and internally, we decided to re-open this proposal.
There were a lot of intriguing arguments throughout. I ...
> The new site will need time establish an "expert community."
I literally see Robert doing finger quotes there
because, yo, the best way for non-native speakers to have their questions answered on why native speakers do things they way they do is to have expert non-native speakers answer.
Q: WHY SENTENCE FRAGMENTS BAD A: Wait a second while I go ask on ELU for you and report back. Edit: OKAY BECAUSE SEGMENT FRAGMENTS CONFUSING
To be honest, I don't really care and have largely given up on the A51 process/new sites/ the network as a whole at this point. I'm happy with the answers I give and get at Arqade, but most of the stuff relating to languages has felt like a clusterfuck to date, tbqh, as have lots of other new sites.
@LessPop_MoreFizz There have been a lot of good new sites while I've been on the network, some of which have graduated (travel, skeptics). I think the bar is set far too low though for getting a beta.
Proposed Q&A site for anyone who has a question regarding older video games or systems no longer being manufactured. Similar to Gaming.SE except, with an expanded list of questions, including questions about hardware repair, finding old games and coding for old hardware.
In the first brainstorming session, we've discussed the status of "list" questions on Anime and Manga.
What are list questions?
Any question which asks for a list of items as the answer. Some examples:
Is there a definitive list of Zombie Anime out there or in the making?
What Bankais exist w...
@OrigamiRobot But from a biological perspective all matter is fuel, it just might need to by converted into a more usable format. Transforming horse protein into human protein is the same as converting 240vAC to 12vDC.
@OrigamiRobot No, it's just converting between different types of protein. Gas to electricity would be more like farming > turning nutrients in soil into protein.
@fredley Just to be a team player, what you should be doing is noting all the times I have said I don't run on electricity. I process @Wipqozn's tears. That is like a digestive tract.
@badp I think the logic was more "Oh my god make the ESL questions stop whyyyyyyyyyyyyy" but there was a big enough community that still wanted those "How do I shot web?" questions
I became extremely popular in my biology classes because on tests, instead of describing processes like a normal person or a scientist, I wrote ridiculous short stories. So for example, instead of explaining the normal hemoglobin process for the circulatory system, I described the woes of poor slave oxygen that was forced to work in the capillary mines as Hemogoblins drove them about on their sorta-donut-shaped boats. Except for the guys who had sickle-shaped boats, they lose a lot of slaves.
In the mists before the Beginning, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the mists to @GraceNote and said: "Now make mods for Me, for I have won the cast and the Game is to be Mine."
When @GraceNote had made the gods and @badp, @badp made a drum, and began to beat upon it that he might drum for ever. Then because he was weary after the making of the gods, and because of the drumming of @badp, did @GraceNote grow drowsy and fall asleep.
Sometimes the arm of @badp grows weary; but still he beateth his drum, that the gods may do the work of the gods, and the worlds go on, for if he cease for an instant then @GraceNote will start awake, and there will be worlds nor gods no more.
Some say that the Worlds and the Suns are but the echoes of the drumming of @badp, and others say that they be dreams that arise in the mind of @Grace because of the drumming of @badp, as one may dream whose rest is troubled by sound of song, but none knoweth, for who hath heard the voice of @GraceNote, or who hath seen his drummer?
But, when at the last the arm of @badp shall cease to beat his drum, silence shall startle The Bridge like thunder in a cave, and @GraceNote shall cease to rest.
I have just finished putting modules on this new ship, and upon undocking I am showing as though I have taken 33% damage to my shields, armour and hull - as per the screenshot below;
As you can see, the tooltips show that I am indeed at 100%, yet the graphical representation of this indicates ...
The new release of Minecraft PE features baby animals. Will these animals eventually spawn in existing worlds, or will my kids (who have built some rather elaborate structures for the Pocket Edition) have to start over?
It appears to be the case that animals never spawn in older versions of PE; ...
I can't find it anymore, below the user's flair. Did you remove it ? Why ?
I couldn't find any subject about that in meta (which seems curious), so I hope I'm not duplicating something.
I'll probably try to mess around with it more over the weekend. Still getting used to the interface, and the on-screen keyboard (previous phone had a physical keyboard... never really used an on-screen one before)
@agent86 If you're looking for emulators, find the "Xoid" set (gameboid, SNESoid, GBCoid). They're not in the market but you can easily find them online and they're quite good
By my observation, I sense this fact.
It's more frequently I see questions be closed or marked as duplicate in C#, but seems it's more freely to ask question in any quality of C. Why?
@BenBrocka I honestly don't mind playing games at normal speed. When I used ZSNES, I found I tended to fast forward past stuff, and I didn't enjoy the game nearly as much.
@fbueckert Depends on the game. Speed up is very, very very nice for any period where you need to grind, or to get past unskippable stuff you've already seen (old games were terrible at allowing you to skip things)
Functionally, we classify the perspective of a game with respect to the entity you control, so third person is any game in which the camera is not from the view of the entity you control, whether or not the player is considered said entity or not.
So for example, even though you're technically the "Summoner" in League of Legends, watching the whole thing, no one would call it a first-person game because the entity you are controlling is out on the field, in your view. Likewise, Actraiser's world map segments are still third person even though you are merely watching your angel do stuff.
Eh, I think there's a continuum between "locked to your perspective" (Half Life), "locked slightly above your shoulder" (Dead Space), "locked onto you farther" (Smite, Super Mario 64 default camera) and "top-down isometric" (DOTA 2, Simcity) that is poorly served by those definition
That said, @badp, I can understand why you'd actually still call it as "third person" since when you get further away from the "over the shoulder" perspective, the perspective choice is largely ignored in classification and taken as granted. Most people don't call the majority of JRPGs as third person even though they are, just because it's just, well, not a significant element. As compared to an over-the-shoulder perspective versus your general first person perspective.
@badp I don't disagree that first/third person perspective doesn't distinguish between the volume of third person perspectives. But I don't think its job is to do such. That's my thought pattern. We have the very terms like "top-down isometric" and "over-the-shoulder" and "side scroller" to handle that continuum.
Actually I lumped together the Smite camera and the Super Mario 64 cameras, except they aren't quite the same either (Smite's is also locked to face where you're facing and where your shots go)
@badp I'm guessing the Smite camera is always fixed in the direction you face and can't rotate like in Super Mario 64... yeah what you just said in your parenthetical.
They had almost convinced me that the compatibility mode thing was a bad idea (actually this is to force it OUT of compatibility mode). But yeah it was full of lies
I had forgotten IE9 still forces compatibility mode on intranet domains because it's incredibly stupid