my parents and I would like to restrict my gaming time to one hour per day maximum during this revision period until late June. However, all of the programs I have found are designed to be 'net nanny' etc as well, and require a parent to have admin powers on the same machine while I would not. As...
Quadrapassel does not work properly on any version after 11.10, it just got upgraded to gnome games. Is it possible to install 11.10 quadrapassel on newer versions?
Sometimes I leave the first area getting only one additional hero and at times I get up to 4. Is there a deliberate way to get as many heroes as possible before you leave the first area? Or is it all random?
@badp 99% of games I can ask what changes in a difficulty level change in actual gameplay, secure in the knowledge that the game does shit-all to tell me other than say "It'll be harder"
Our current ways of dealing with prerelease questions just does not seem to work on all kinds of levels - a week doesn't go by that we don't have a controversial closure at this point - so we really should double back to that policy and really clearly and completely state what it is for as many cases as we can come up with and really just reevaluate it.
I'm not saying it needs to change, but I am saying that the current patchwork of meta answers that kind of halfway address the specifics of various questions on the subject is becoming unsustainable, and we really need to pay more attention to it.
It's the ones that are valid but we're closing because "Hey, dude, wait a few hours and then post at the stroke of midnight for the exact same effect! that seem silly.
@Sterno This this this this this. The game is out somewhere in the world. At that point, it's not pre-release. It's not speculative. Which is what the problem with those questions is.
Yes, people ask dumb questions without having played the game.
@badp We can close them as NARQ or NC if they're truly stupid beyond salvation, or we can downvote them if they're merely mildly dumb, and delete if the score is substantially negative. Either way, trying to call it off topic because of the time zone in which the asker's profile states he lives is beyond the pale.
The reason we don't like prerelease questions is because the answers are (at least in theory) fundamentally speculative. If the game is out on the other side of an ocean, then the answer is not fundamentally speculative.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I believe that's why we shouldn't like pre-release questions. However, I don't think that's why most people have a problem with them.
People just get up in arms about the whole "he's camping for rep!" thing
There are questions that can be asked without playing a game that are useful and important: "What specifically changes when you increase the games difficulty setting?" And there are questions that are asked without playing a game that are stupid "Can I ride a dragon in Skyrim I only buy games in which I can ride dragons." Either way, the fact that the game doesn't happen to be out in your time zone does not have anything to do with the quality of the question being asked.
@badp It shouldn't be. If they're good questions, they're good questions. If they're not, they aren't. We already have mechanisms for dealing with bad questions. Hiding behind "The game isn't out in your time zone" is cowardly and doesn't address whatever actual problems may exist, while throwing out legitimate questions.
@badp Here's the thing. if someone really wants to do this, they can do it completely in the letter of the law by waiting a few hours and shotgunning at midnight. Same shitty questions. Same camping behavior. Just a few hours later.
@LessPop_MoreFizz So are you or are you not arguing for "close is not a replacement for the downvote button"?
It's been suggested, and starred, that the community downvoted as if it didn't. That's what I'm saying.
By the way I didn't close or downvote anything, merely I deleted the question so that new users wouldn't be confused by seeing those questions closed OT for no obvious reason.
Actions taken on the merits of the questions at hand, whether close votes or down votes, may or may not be legitimate. I didn't see the actual questions, so I can't speak to those.
@LessPop_MoreFizz I'm arguing that doing that is just looking for trouble, asking for answers he can't verify or vote for or accept. There's a ton of people on the internet with a question, you don't have to ask it for others
Good question, Bad List, Fantastic question, nearly word for word of what someone else asked, List of indeterminate scope, may or may not be good, standard good question.
Are any voxophones (audio logs) missable? If so, which? Where are all of the voxophones? How do I unlock 1999 mode, and what does it do? Where are all of the telescopes and kinetoscopes for “Sightseer”? What are the differences between the difficulty levels in BioShock Infinite?
What I see here is that the community hates (rightfully or not) question shotgunning, the community hates (rightfully or not) question "camping", he is a community "veteran", he did both things at the same time and the community responded accordingly.
When I saw that the questions were closed, rather than letting those questions stay there on hold publicly so that googlers only would find heated meta discussion on the topic, I decided to simply get rid of them, hopeful that they'd get reasked.
Well you could be arguing that my deletion being a mod's action is undoable by normal users and is a power trip and it changes the cycle of closing and roepening or what the hell do I know you damn pesky users keep coming up with new problems!!
I recently got a 'Hard Unkempt Harold', a legendary Torgue pistol:
How does its damage work? Is the damage indicated in the 'Damage' stat, split per bullet fired per shot, or is every bullet doing 100% of the damage indicated in the damage stat?
Although in the written English language there is no standard way to denote irony or sarcasm, several forms of punctuation have been proposed. Among the oldest and frequently attested are the percontation point invented by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s, and the irony mark, used by Marcellin Jobard in an article dated June 11, 1841 and commented in a 1842 report. It was furthered by French poet Alcanter de Brahm in the 19th century. Both of these marks were represented visually by a backwards question mark, ⸮ (in Unicode: ). Using LaTeX, one can display it by including the gr...
When my friend told me Bioshock Infinite started throwing money at me when I got lockpicking, I didn't know she literally meant "Elizabeth will throw coins at you."
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> HoboWars is a popular free online game where you play as a hobo and compete against thousands of players from around the world to become one of the strongest and richest hobos in the city.
I am unable to get to the bridge. I am logged in to Arqade and SO.
But when I click on Chat link, it asks me to login into any SE site (Any site).
Here is a SS of it.
Umm now how do I enter chat? IE 10, Win7.
Still can not log in. Check the image below. Still not working. Agent86 thank you ...
I have set up a small city with a coal mine and a power plant. The city produces an excess of 200+ MW.
However, in a newly created city the game says I can only buy 76MW. Is this correct?
I see that on some buildings your can place a sign on the roof, or a flag in front of it. Does this serve some kind of purpose or is this just for looks.