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Q: Glowing Mushroom farming in Terraria

lunboksI'm aware of the general mechanism of mushroom growing (place some mud and sprinkle mushroom seeds on it). However, I'd like to know a bit more about it before I start building my farm, so I'd appreciate it if anyone could give me the lowdown. Specifically: How deep down exactly do I have to g...

 
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04:29
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Q: What's a good key configuration for FoFiX with a rock band guitar?

ripper234I just installed Frets on Fire - an open source "Guitar Hero / Rock Band like" game. I'd like to configure a RB guitar, and it seems I need to manually configure each key. I figured out what Fret #1 ... Fret #5 should be mapped to (the colored keys), but I have no idea what's a good configuratio...

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Q: How do I get to the laboratory for Scent of Incense?

sjohnstonI'm working on the Scent of Incense quest in Flotsam (Chapter 1). I got the real recipe and talked with the scholar. I refused to be blindfolded, so he marked the location of his laboratory on my map. Unfortunately, I can get close to the marker, but I can't seem to find a way to actually reach ...

04:42
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Q: How do I find books about a particular monster?

sjohnstonI have a couple of side quests to kill monsters of a particular type, and they say I should read up on them. I can double-click the quest in my journal, and the tracking symbol appears, but it doesn't mark anything on my map. Is there any way to track where these books might be? Or do I just hav...

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Q: How far can redstone current travel?

soulBitI know that there is a 15 block limit before a repeater is needed, however I am looking for the TOTAL distance that current can travel. Is it infinite? Can I keep adding repeaters and go on forever? I don't mind whether "old-school" repeaters are used (2 NOT gates) or the ones added in Beta 1.5,...

I feel the bounty turned that question—which was good in and of itself—into a far more abstract and useless one
04:57
I'm so proud of Budda. His grammar and manner have improved so much these past few months.
wipes tears from eyes
@KevinY Something's wonky. I should give my PC a rest, I fear.
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Q: If I buy a SC2 digital copy from LA, will I be able to switch to the NA servers?

RogerThis warning comes on top of the screen when I try to buy the game: "Retail copies sold in Colombia (your account country) will connect to the Latin America game region." I so don't want to pay that amount of money to play in a server that seems to be the lowest populated and lowest level serve...

05:42
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Q: So I was out drinking last night... How do I remove a tattoo?

Raven DreamerGeralt got into a bit of fun with the Blue Stripes last night. After getting rip-roaringly drunk, the Witcher thought it might be good to see if it was possible to float across the river on the bums of four prostitutes. It wasn't. The Witcher woke without equipment and a new tattoo on his neck. ...

06:06
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Q: How do I select difficulty in FoFix/Frets On Fire?

ripper234When I choose a song, it says "select a difficulty" and displays the different difficulties, but I don't see any way to choose between them. I try hitting up/down, and manage to select different difficulties somehow, but it's pretty random - I don't see any visual indication of the actual difficu...

 
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Q: What happened to all the 3D Platformers?

da code monkeyIn the days of the Nintendo 64, my favorite single-player video game genre was the 3D platformer. Games like Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, Rayman 2, Spyro the Dragon, their sequels, as well as many others, were very popular. Features of the genre include the distinct emphasis o...

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08:24
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A: Gargoyle Contract: what is the ordering of the signs in the rooms?

FabianThere seem to be multiple different puzzles, and which one is finally used in a room seems to be random. There are three rooms in total where you must extinguish the signs in the correct order. They are all underground, look for stairs leading down in the three locations marked on this map: Th...

@badp Do you think it is appropriate for me to change the question into one about all of the possible solutions?
This would be a pretty radical change, so I hesitate somewhat, but I think the question would be more useful that way.
08:54
@Fabian I don't know, honestly; I think it's more for gamedev than it is for us. If you think it can salvage the question, though, feel free to try and do so.
@badp Sorry for the confusion, I meant the question I posted to chat
@Fabian The one you linked an answer to?
Yes
I Wanted to link the question
@Fabian I don't have enough field knowledge to tell really.
Since that question already does have answers, would your change invalidate them?
He asks about the solution to one out of six possible puzzles, which are chosen randomly. The other answers would be somewhat incomplete after the change, but not wrong
09:22
@Fabian Are the six similar, or equally difficult?
@badp They are six variations of the same puzzle, you have three rooms in the game you have to solve. They are assigned randomly as far as I can tell.
@Fabian Well then, if they're similar enough go for it.
I think the OP also abanded the question after he solved the puzzle himself, I'll edit now
 
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11:43
hrm
it appears the 4th item wasn't released after all?
oh, nevermind. The gunboats... meeeh.
@badp Gunboats?
@ArdaXi Not my fault the fourth item still has the question mark on it
@badp You don't retro-actively change an update.
@ArdaXi It was, to add the link to the gunboat page for example.
Or to put the death tallies.
@badp No, it links to the victory page.
11:50
And the gunboats announcement.
Which is item #4
The demoman page also has a question mark there.
Hm, no, it's a large white cross.
@badp Err, no.
It's a question mark with a white cross over it.
Okay, so I got the color wrong.
Still, it was clearly updated.
Not the question mark.
That's still there.
The 123 links are to anchors on the same page.
11:52
Yeah, okay, so?
For the question mark to change, the actual update would have to change.
Which is what I meant.
So it makes sense to cross out the demoman's fourth question mark, and it doesn't to change the soldier's fourth question mark into a 4?
@badp Yes. Exactly.
That was not a real question. The answer is obviously "no"
@badp No it isn't.
It does make sense.
11:54
They changed one, and they changed the latter too by making it into a link that changes. On hover.
The answer would be no if the gunboats were announced on the same update as all the other weapons.
@badp They didn't change the question mark.
Then it could be a glowing 4 or something; it didn't have to be on the same page.
1 links to the first weapon on the page
2 links to the second.
3 links to the third.
? does not link to the fourth weapon on the page.
Hence ? is not 4.
4 would link to the fourth item unlocked as part of the War update, although it isn't on the page.
So it still makes sense.
@badp That's what you make of it. I disagree.
11:56
I could say the same of you.
@badp Did I deny that?
Well, then, let's agree to disagree.
@badp Don't we always?
@ArdaXi Eventually. It's not the destination, it's the journey.
12:08
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Q: What's the best way to sober up?

bwarnerI needed some information out of someone so I had to out drink him. After a few mugs of ale, my vision started to blur and the room started to wobble, but he still wasn't ready to talk so I had a few more mugs. Eventually he caved, but by that time I was pretty far gone. Now I'm seeing double ...

12:41
Hmm, Mumble encrypts all traffic?
Isn't that a little OTT?
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Q: Are there any ways to farm orens in the Witcher 2?

ExtrakunIs there anyway to "farm" for orens in the Witcher 2?

@ArdaXi They also use certificates for all authentication, for that matter.
@badp That is good. Encrypting all voice traffic with AES-128 is a bit much though.
@ArdaXi Still quite more secure than a lot of services.
@badp What do you expect? Someone launches a MITM attack on your clan's server to eavesdrop on your supah-secret communiques?
12:49
@ArdaXi What do you expect? Someone launches a MITM attack on your web server to steal your supah-secret terrible mod in the making?
@badp Nah. That's why I'm not so paranoid.
So you don't login using SSH?
@badp Not for web-stuff, no.
Wouldn't using rsync be faster?
@badp If I were mirroring something, it would.
12:51
So you don't have a local copy of your site you develop on?
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Q: Automatic 1 undelete vote for deleted answers?

Bart KiersThe last couple of days, I've noticed that most deleted answers had a single undelete vote. To see if this was a coincidence or not, I deleted my last SO answer, hit refresh and saw that it too had a single undelete vote just seconds after deleting it. Why is this?

13:08
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Q: Problems logging in from my WP7 device

ChristiaanVSince a few days it doesn't seem possible anymore to login to StackOverflow (or any other variant) from my Windows Phone 7 device. When I go to the login page it only shows me the recover your account information, not the icons to choose by which service you want to login. Anyone having the same...

13:21
@badp No. I have off-site backups.
My site is less safe than my site's site. So for backups, I need a safer site than my site's site, which is then off-site.
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Q: Mod that makes dropped items stand out?

jaeOne thing that annoys me with Oblivion (even though it is realistic) is that when you kill a mob, and they drop their weapon(s), you have a hard time finding them in, say, tall grass. Especially when you're on a hillside (and Cyrodil seems to be very hilly :D), stuff rolls/slides down, landing s...

14:03
does airblasting an enemy put him off fire?
14:54
The Spike looks pretty impressive ;-)
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Q: Built upward staircases in Dwarf Fortress don't reveal tiles??

AnnanWhen I [d]ig an upward staircase it reveals the tile above so I can excavate it and make a downward staircase. When I [b]uild one it doesn't reveal the tile above and I can't dig upwards. Have I made a mistake or is this a bug? Is the only way around this to dig a new staircase?

@Fabian We can do better, we can do better.
user30
@badp nope.avi
I think AskUbuntu was linked from certain places in 11.04, they're cheating ;-)
@Fabian It is.
15:00
I'd call the community grant thingy a sucess, as we're now discussing if it works too well
15:24
So was the Witchier Witcher the first grant game? Who received it, the people in the meta post?
@NickT I'm not sure how many got it, but the ones mentioned in the meta post did receive it as far as I know
I occasionally wonder if I should just cruise other forums/bbs looking for interesting questions (having never played the game) and just repost them here
16:16
@NickT If they have the question they probably have the answer too.
Hang on a second, that nope.avi meme was that video by Jimbomcb? Awesome.
@ArdaXi That's not my definition of awesome.
@badp The fact that I know the guy and saw that like a year before it was a meme is.
@ArdaXi nope.avi
(We've come full circle.)
16:34
@badp Incredible.
Hmm, there are two really different routes out of the first dungeon in the Witcher 2. It definitely has some serious replay value
And on a completey off-topic note, Skeptics is somehow becoming a site about animal behaviour ;-). Every single animal questions makes it to the top of the supercollider.
16:49
@Fabian I'd like to dispute that "fact."
One could said that Gaming is all about weird titles, but they stopped being a novelty long ago.
The animal questions are getting a crazy amount of votes
Again I wish I could also set an end marker.
> Thanks for the subtitles; I've always wondered how to say "ding" in Portugese.
Good niiiiiightadingdingdingdingding.
@badp pulls funny face
17:03
@ArdaXi upvotes good!
@badp I'm confused. What's going on?
for posterity.
My unparalleled MSPaint skillzors again make the world a better place to be.
I'll now leave for a while.
@badp brings in crowd of people holding up alternating 1 and 2 signs.
That looks shopped. I can tell by the pixels
@sjohnston Oh no sir. I don't even have Photoshop.
17:07
@sjohnston Yeah, and I've seen a couple shops in my time.
@ArdaXi Funnily, in some games the participant with the lowest score wins.
(I don't have the time to pull out the exact GLADOS quote.)
Do we still not have a question about what science collaboration points really are?
@badp I thought we did.
> 12 million copies were produced, even though only 10 million Atari 2600 consoles had been sold.
What?
hmmm... all the portal authoring tools crash...
@RonanForman All the? They released more?
@ArdaXi hammer, model viewer and face poser
17:12
@RonanForman Ah.
As far as I know only Hammer was actually updated for Portal 2.
I'm still waiting for the film maker :(
> This tool was expected to be released to the public upon release of the final Meet the Team video, however this was not the case
But the final Meet The Team video hasn't been released, has it?
Why would anyone buy Cities XL?
Ooh.
17:33
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Q: How do you start the Troll Contract?

ExtrakunThe guide for Witcher 2 which comes with the premium/collector's edition says you can get the troll contract off the notice-board, but I never got any. Do I have to read the notice to get the quest? (And what should I do if I've sold off those notices?)

@badp I totally agree with @Fabian's point that a lot of our current users simply ask too few questions, that's what makes certain popular games stand out 'negatively' with their flooding of the frontpage. So rather than call out Fabian, we should be calling out others for not trying to be a little more like him instead!
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Q: Minecraft Biome Modification? (SMP)

Kort PlecoHello MC Fans I host a SMP server on a VPS and lately there's been a couple of hard crashes at the hosting facility which has caused some interesting biome glitches. The initial spawn area and the surrounding blocks were forest/rainforest when the world was first created. Also I claimed a rain...

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Q: Is there a mod / bukkit plugin to fine-tune mobspawners in SMP?

Tobias KienzlerUsing WorldEdit I can create a mobspawner of arbitrary kind (except that it still spawns client-only ghost-pigs that haunt me 'till I reconnect). Unfortunately they work too good so rooms get overcrowded. So is there a bukkit plugin to set spawners up such that they only spawn a limited amount of...

18:05
@badp Yeah, but pulling out the answer in a forum thread can be a huge pain in the ass
@IvoFlipse I think we're certainly question-limited, and not answer-limited. But I'm still surprised that we have just about a handful of users participating in the Q&A for the Witcher 2. We're probably just too small and too divided between different games at the moment to get more people asking and answering for each game.
@Fabian I wonder if there's a query to see how many questions users on average ask
@IvoFlipse Divide the number of questions by the number of users?
excluding the users who didn't ask any at all @ArdaXi
your questions are doing extremely well, especially given you have quite an amount of questions
I'm not even in that list.
We've got about 670 active users at the moment: data.stackexchange.com/gaming/s/873/number-of-active-users
StarCraft 2. That was to be expected.
identify-this-game is 2nd... :(
@Fabian Anyway, I think a lot of users are just slacking on the question asking side
@IvoFlipse That problem has existed for years.
18:22
the site hasn't existed for years yet ;-)
@IvoFlipse SE has.
well on the trilogy that problem was never as big as on the se2.0 ones
@IvoFlipse It was is still there, though.
@ArdaXi well then surely you agree the sponsorship was a good idea, yes?
@IvoFlipse I have no feelings either way. I stayed away from that for a reason.
18:42
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Q: What are lures for?

ExtrakunI notice a category of items in the inventory called "Lures". What are they for? I guess they're for attracting monsters. If so, what lures would attract what type of creatures?

bleh. I'm getting a little tired of the "lootable item" that isn't lootable bug in Witcher 2. How can my RPG OCD cope with not collecting all the things?
@Powerlord Told you they wouldn't remove the Saxxy stuff.
Also hi.
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Q: How does Quen work?

BoraI know how to activate Quen, and I am aware that it absorbs damage during the time it is active (about 40 seconds). Now, the manual says: .. the Quen absorbs all damage directed at you, and the upgraded version reflects 50% of the damage at the enemy .. Is it time-based, that is, am I pr...

19:03
@IvoFlipse kinda surprised that WoW is up there, WoW questions aren't as great here because everything changes so fast
and there are plenty of other websites that are devoted to keeping up with the bleeding edge of changes
@NickT World of Warcraft had a new expansion in December, which essentially redid 2/3 of the game world.
An increase of questions due to that wouldn't be a surprise.
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Q: why is every high level driver in need for speed world driving nissan silvia?

CsabiHi I play need for speed world and i noticed that every high level player drive nissan silvia which is a tier 1 car and has no low points either for speed, handling and acceleration.so I do not understand why they drive and win with nissan silvia. thanks for any answer

I'm surprised that people bother to come here for those questions
19:19
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Q: Scoring in Entanglement

WoobleHow are scores calculated in Entanglement? I find that breaking my longest path record isn't getting me close to my high score record, so clearly it's not just path length that's relevant.

19:31
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Q: Identify this old point and click PC game featuring a prehistoric man

HalHi. I can't remember the name of an old game I used to play on PC (on Windows). As far as I can remember, it was a kind of point and click or RPG in which you were controlling a prehistoric man. I don't remember what was the aim of the game, but you had to feed your character using tools you had...

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Q: The Witcher 2 - What determines the success of Axii / Persuasion / Intimidate?

Raven DreamerSometimes in dialog of The Witcher 2, Geralt gets the option to try to alter the course of the conversation with persuasion, intimidate, or the axii sign. In practice, I've had intimidation fail to work, so I'm curious as to how the chance of success is determined in the first place. Is it relat...

Kongregate is having all sorts of problems today, I see.
20:06
Am I the only person who finds this absurdly high?
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Q: How can I pick up treasure chests?

victoriahI see them all along my route, but I can't figure out how to pick up the gold inside them. Thanks!

@NickT had I still played WoW I would have been all over the place
20:29
@ArdaXi No, I find that absurdly high, too.
I also find the % of people wearing it absurdly high, but eh.
Well, I've finally knocked Tzenes back down to #2.
@RavenDreamer Congratulations
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Q: I beat the Kayren, what can I do with its corpse?

Raven DreamerAfter a long struggle, I managed to beat the Kayren. Great! Now I have a neat Kayren Trophy, a Kayren Hide, and other Kayren bits to round out my loot. I know the Kayren Hide can be crafted into either Kayren Hide Armor, or a Kayren Hide Armor Enhancement, and the Kayren Trophy is already useabl...

@Fabian - congratulations yourself. Look at all the "my question got a lot of views" badges you're racking up.
Well, I've got 34 popular question badges now, 1k views are really easy to achieve on this site.
user30
20:36
even I've managed 2 popular question badges...
I only have 12, so you're probably better at it than you think.
@ThomasMcDonald Me too!
Except for me, that's 20% of my questions.
Oh, for you it's 40%. Never mind. Ask more questions!
I'm at 17%, @Arda
Wasn't @Lazers animated, before?
@RavenDreamer You just ask too many questions.
Clearly.
user30
20:46
Yes, there was some discussion about it
@RavenDreamer Shush. We just got rid of that.
And wasn't it green?
@ThomasMcDonald Actually, it was angry mob v. @badp, as usual.
user30
Mostly @badp announcing he was using his dictator-like powers to force a new unpopular avatar upon us.
user30
@ArdaXi if you let me finish...
20:47
@ThomasMcDonald You were so clearly understating it.
Yeah, Badp definitely rubs me the wrong way sometimes.
@RavenDreamer Angry mob agree with you.
user30
> 52 down
user30
@ArdaXi, Y U DOWNVOTE LOTS
@ThomasMcDonald I am the angry mob around here.
20:49
You and Tzenes
@RavenDreamer Nah, @tzenes is a good guy.
I am the embodiment of all the negative energy of our users, in teenage form.
Oh. I was associating "Angry Mob" with "Dares to disagree, and prepared to defend their statements"
Did you have a different notion?
@RavenDreamer ANGRY MOB NO LIKE QUESTION. ANGRY MOB USES CLOSE VOTE. IT IS SUPER EFFECTIVE.
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My definition --------^
Well, you know, someone has to do it.
If I weren't here, nobody would disagree with @badp.
Okay, time to boot up and get a better answer for gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/22896/what-are-lures-for
@Fabian - Natty Narwhale?
@RavenDreamer Yes, that's the name of Ubuntu 11.04
20:57
uh-oh. I thought of another decent question for The Witcher 2...
@RavenDreamer "Where are all the woman?" ;-)
"How far back does The Witcher 2 hang onto old autosaves?"
@RavenDreamer I'm pretty sure the answer is "forever"
It seems that way
@Fabian I think it only supports forever on drives with upwards from ∞ GB of space.
21:00
Good thing I have a Terabyte HD
I had collected around 3GB of saves at some point
@RavenDreamer ∞ GB is 0.0009765625∞ TB.
Oh, wow. I feel effective. My 2nd highest tag on Meta is "Status-Completed" (as per Users Page).
My highest tag on Gaming is Steam, but that's because almost all my Enlightened and Nice Answer badges are in that tag.
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Q: Unable to change OpenID to StackExchange OpenID

SathyaI'm trying to change my primary OpenID ( on my Super User account) from MyOpenID to Stack Exchange. Went over to my profile, clicked on "Change OpenID", and selected Login with Stack Exchange. Instead of logging in, I got the below error message: Could Not Find Pending Authentication Reques...

21:13
So, @Fabian - what do you see as the best mutagen?
@RavenDreamer I used mostly the critical effect ones, but I only had about 4 mutagen slots in total so they didn't do that much.
Did you beat the game already?
The later game got pretty easy anyway, especially after getting the Swordsmanship ultimate ability (aka "I Win" button).
@RavenDreamer Yes
21:42
@IvoFlipse Where am I calling out Fabian?
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Q: Hidden Mysteries in AC Brotherhood?

atticaeIn Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, are there any hidden things/easter eggs that you might miss in a normal playthrough? I remember there were some things in the AC1 that you could do with the computer in the office. Now in Brotherhood as Desmond you can run through the city for 10 minutes, is it j...

@RavenDreamer Yep, it was, and I got surprisingly little complaints about it; I guess most people just silently ignored/adblocked that image. :)
Something looks missing from the FAQ/About: Is it ok to ask about technical issues on Gaming.SE? Like: d3dx9_35.dll missing?
@Iszi Go ahead and try us, but we're not really awesome at this kind of questiosn
@ArdaXi Thanks for being the black sheep
What'd I do without you? I mean, while I wouldn't be arguing. Oh, okay, perhaps getting stuff done. Oh well :P
21:55
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Q: d3dx9_35.dll missing?

IsziI just downloaded and installed The Witcher from GOG.com. However, when attempting to launch the game (the game itself, after the launcher) I get the following error: The program can't start because d3dx9_35.dll is missing from your computer. The system is Windows 7 64-bit. Any suggesti...

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As awesome as 4od, iPlayer et al are, it's pretty annoying when the synopsis of the final episode is pretty difficult to not read (as in, you browse by series and the synopsis is right under the player), hence ruining some of the series.
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Q: Starcraft 2 - 2 part question about resource feeding in 2's and ranking system

snerd7OK, part 1, feeding and cheesing. Is feeding in a 2v2 game considered cheese? I played a few with a buddy (we are high bronze), and he has been feeding me resources as Terran while i go mass blink stalkers, w/ 3rd tier upgrades if the battle takes some time. Is that cheese or is it legit? Par...

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Q: In Angry Birds Rio, I can't seem to find the fifteenth watermelon, where is it hiding?

drachensternIn Angry Birds Rio, I can't seem to find the fifteenth watermelon, where is it hiding? I'm on my iPhone if that helps. I've found the ones on the following levels: 5-5, 5-11, 5-13, 5-14, 5-15, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, 6-5, 6-6, 6-7, 6-9, 6-12, 6-14

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