A while ago my DSL connection went from around 10 MBit to 1 Mbit. I talked with tech support a dozen times over weeks, and in the end they just said that 1Mbit is the maximum my connection can do. Totally useless. I directly switched to 32Mbit cable afterwards
Which involved an engineer who actually looked at what I had, went "wwoah, you built your own router?" and then explained exactly wtf had happened to the line
Also they gave me discounts when I phoned up and went "I'm paying too much"
I am considering upgrading the Darkmoon fair trinket, but I see that the UI shows only the stats will be upgraded, will the use or proc be upgraded as well?
@kalina call me when you're the 1%, then. in 2095. if I'm still alive. or don't. I mean, the chances of me being still alive by then are... not looking good
@badp why would I do that? You couldn't even wish me happy birthday without being prompted, who says I'm going to remember who you are tomorrow let alone in 100 years
I guess it's better late than never, then; grats on another 366 days lived without fatal accidents.
@kalina Half of us have ceased being a teenager recently and we all know how it feels like - or, more accurately, how it doesn't feel like: different. :P
Though seriously? Turning 20 is not a big deal. Stuff where the work required was ever so slightly more than "stay alive" to achieve is where the real important milestones are.
@kalina My K/D ratio is 0.46. I have a lousy aim. My main method of killing people is setting up high explosives where they don't expect them, then blow them up to kingdom come, giggling maniacally.
@MartinSojka Freelancer isn't like EVE, the targeting is done by the player in Freelancer and normally getting opened up on with everything is a sign that you need to run rather than sit there shooting back
the person behind you thinks they have the advantage of having all of their guns pointed at you
The "no max velocity" rule is funny for the one accelerating - because the results seem to contradict it. If you put in 10 times the acceleration into your ship, you get to your destination 10 times faster, always. If you're at 1/5th the speed of light and it will take you roughly 10 years to reach your destination (which is about 2 light years away) and you could instead put 10 times as much acceleration (=energy) into your drive, you'd arrive at it in a tenth of the time - in one year.
Of course ... it would only be one year for you. For people outside, it would be closer to 5 years.
Not very fast at least, but does it matter? For someone, somewhere, we're already moving at a significant fraction of c.
BTW, how long would these "charity marathon" runs be? I'm thinking of proposing a real marathon for Minecraft (42195m), which would take about two hours if people know what they are doing and are allowed boats; three to four if it's mostly traversable terrain, or some hills and they get pig riding equipment at the start.
@MartinSojka Allegiance did have these. They're called 'alephs' and camping them is totally legit.
The offensive team who needs to push through an aleph camp can simply suck it, use a different aleph, use a distraction or pay for an aleph resonator that gives ample warning before exploding all the things too close (both sides).
At this point, a picture of a guy holding a bouquet is more unique than a picture of a guy holding a gun, as far as computer games are involved. Which for sure says something about a good part of the gaming culture ...
@badp This would be another example of one of those times I think the community is too hard on an asker, and one of hundreds of examples of why closing has a negative connotation. Even the closing of the question itself doesn't seem that big a deal to me... but 8 downvotes? I mean, he's a < 1k user...
I own Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic on Steam. Every time that I launch the game it crashes and I can't play it. No error message appears.
I have an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop, with an i7 3rd generation processor, 8GB of RAM, a Nvidia GeForce GT 630M graphics card, and it is running Windows 6...
@LessPop_MoreFizz Well, some of the comments have been deleted, so I can't see them all - but still. We should vote the question, not the user. He just has a frustrating problem, and he was trying to ask a community he thought could help. Unfortunately, he didn't understand our rules for asking.
If you want to send the message "You asked this question incorrectly, and we do not like you - leave and don't come back" I think 8 downvotes is a pretty good start.
@ebongo given that you can't see the initial backlash, I'll simply say: fair enough, but I also think the question is not very good, and, going back to "downvote the question not the user", well, it shouldn't matter that he has only 450 rep.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I mention his rep, just on an understanding of the rules basis. A bad question should still be closed, but I'd give him a little more time to address it (he has already edited it once, it looks like). I'm on a campaign to be less negative... until I get tired of it.
For the record, there are 18 deleted comments on that post
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I also encourage you to look at the original version of the post and not tell me "this question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful"
Like I said @badp - I can see how the close was inevitable without edits. I just think we should have given the guy a little slack. Did someone delete the question now?
@EBongo Yes. I have. Closed questions without a hope of salvageability from the community should be deleted. The asker is welcome to try again, next time with more details. I think this might also refund him the reputation he lost, but I wouldn't swear on it.
At the end of the day, we're not here to help the asker, we're here to help the internet at large. The two things sometimes don't overlap.
@badp Agree to disagree. From my perspective, the asker is the internet at large. The internet itself can't ask questions. If it could, we'd probably frown on that as question seeding... :)
Just as preventing information rot, and applying policies across all questions are a useful service to Arqade - I think recruiting new high quality users, and helping askers turn bad questions into good ones are equally if not more important.
Guys literally sniffed out youtube, but it only gives me Cochinay theme song. What I want is that epic music when you fight your way through to Cochinay during Dutchman final mission(where you eventually kill him).
Starts here at 7:36 :
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Who said anything about dishonesty? I'm all I'm asking for is a little time (I'd propose 24 hours for a case like this), some constructive comments, and only the downvotes needed to close the question if he doesn't clean it up. The outcome may end up the same, but instead of a user quitting - they instead understand why the rule exists, and why the question wasn't a good fit for the site.
When I was a new user, I asked some bad questions. I didn't learn why they were bad by having them closed. I learned by having folks explain it to me in comments, on Meta, and here.
@djsmiley2k It's a bounty. You can give them out if you think some answer is so good you want to reward someone - or you can put them on a question which you think didn't get enough attention, need a better or updated answer and so on. They come from the reputation points of the one giving the bounty.
I got Final Fantasy XIII when it came out, and played up to the beginning of Chapter 8 before real life pulled me away.
Being the impulsive spendaholic that I am, I have now purchased Final Fantasy XIII-2. My question is, should I go back to and finish the original before beginning on the sequel...
@badp I'd wager the vast majority of good answerers on this site, started by asking a question - possibly in many cases a bad one. Surely there are a lot of bad askers out there - I just propose it is hard to tell them apart until we cultivate them a little bit. If we could transform closing and question editing into a process which alienated less users I think everyone would win.
As a sidenote, this user has asked another technical question before, and he seems to abandon them the instant they get closed.
His Pokemon Online question seems to be really localized, as no one can reproduce it, but he's continuing to engage and attempt to resolve the issue, so that's good.
I usually play Dead Space on the hardest difficulty setting (except the "limited saves" mode), but it's been a while so I started up Dead Space 3 on the second hardest mode. While I die quickly, it's not all that hard.
So what all is the difference between the difficulty modes? How significant i...
The GOG downloader thinks that my download of The Witcher 2 is at 14.99GB / 14.99GB, though it has been like that for several minutes now (and still downloading). Windows explorer says there's only 14.2GB of files in the download folder
@chrisF althought editing the question IS apparently the go-to-solution, it isnt in the way you seem to feel, or that the other commenter seemed to imply. See, they still want you to answer the question, not edit an answer into your question, which is contrary to where the comments were going
In my case, an answer to a question which the asker seemingly abandoned and which would likely be closed as not being too constructive or a good question nowadays. :D Ah well, you've got to start somewhere.
I've noticed that the vast majority of servers are co-op rather than team-based multiplayer. This seems to be skewed in comparison to most other first-person shooter online games, which would have the majority of the servers running a team-based multiplayer configuration (Assault, Capture the Fl...
I am considering upgrading the Darkmoon fair trinket, but I see that the UI shows only the stats will be upgraded, will the use or proc be upgraded as well?
Guys literally sniffed out youtube, but it only gives me Cochinay theme song. What I want is that epic music when you fight your way through to Cochinay during Dutchman final mission(where you eventually kill him).
Starts here at 7:36 :
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