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@Feeds I want a repair mechanic.
 
12:20 AM
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Q: Foolproof Strategy to Beat Civilization 2 on Any Level?

kirk.burlesonI'm curious to know if there is a foolproof way of beating Civ 2 everytime I play. I can do this on the first level and usually the second, but what about Deity level? Assume we're talking about conquest and not the space race.

 
12:36 AM
@Feeds Practice.
 
1:06 AM
Hey, I broke 1k rep!
 
1:17 AM
@GnomeSlice YAY!!!
@GnomeSlice going to view some up/down vote counts and start some gallery chat rooms right away?
 
1:45 AM
I don't think I could live without being able to see up/down vote counts
 
1:58 AM
our minecraft server now has a meta and a third place
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@WillfulWizard Yes to the votes, not even sure what a gallery chat room is.
 
2:38 AM
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Q: Is Fable III going to be available on the PC?

VaruuknahlSo everything I have read says Fable III is only on XBox 360, which sucks because I do not have an XBox 360, however I am over at Gamefaqs.com and checking to see what they have on Fable: The Lost Chapters, since I was in need of an rpg to play and they have an entry for Fable III under the PC se...

 
@Feeds vote to close as too localized
 
Is there a meta discussion about that somewhere that I missed?
That seems like a legit question at first glance.
 
too localized
 
Yes I read what you think it should be closed as. I am asking why.
 
we've talked about release dates before
those questions are only valid for a limited amount of time
I view this as in the same vien
 
2:44 AM
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A: Asking about upcoming game releases

Grace NoteThe problem with speculation questions is that they're often on the border of closing. Prior to the release date, it's subjective because it's only when people expect it to come out, you can't get the factual answer until release. Post release date, it's too localized because it's no longer re...

 
she doesn't provide a solid solution
 
But she does bring up a relevant point: that if there is a definite answer there's no reason to close it.
If it's subjective, then close it as such.
 
so there is no definite answer
there is only speculation from a reliable source
 
Since this one isn't subjective (you even answered it in your comment providing a source), I don't know why it should be closed.
 
its not guarantee to be true
 
2:46 AM
Should this be closed too, then?
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Q: What announcements have been made in reference to the beta release date of Minecraft?

Bruce ConnorI was thinking of purchasing minecraft once it's ready, but I've read it will increase in price after leaving alpha stage. Now I'm trying to decide whether to go for it or not, but I have no idea how much time I've got left. I am hoping to find anymore information that he has put out pertaining...

That's been open for quite a while.
 
we had a similar conversation about that question
which is why it was rephrased to ask for relevant information
I think there is also a standard of quality here
finding out about Minecraft is a difficult endevor
finding someone who thinks AAA Game X will be ported to system Y is not
 
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Q: Fat Princess - Is the story different from the online game mode?

SilverM-AI want to know if the story in Fat Princess is different from the online mode or if it's the same thing with Bots?

 
3:39 AM
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Q: How do you steer the screw attack in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption?

JoshWhen I received the screw attack in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, I was told that I could steer while using it by using <icon>, where the icon appeared to be the analog stick on the nunchuck. But try as I might, no matter what direction on the nunchuck's analog stick I press, I always go str...

 
Man, I just found out that NCSoft is not so named due to being in North Carolina.
-Sadface-
 
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Q: Can I charge the seeker missile without wasting a missile in Metroid Prime 3?

JoshIn order to lock on to targets with the seeker missile in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, I have to press and hold the down button on the D-Pad. However doing so fires a single missile, which is wasted. With only ~100 missiles this can be a big waste! Is theer a way to charge up the seeker missiles ...

 
 
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8:51 AM
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Q: How to improve Civilization 5 savegame load performance?

MartinMy PC running Windows XP sp3 has a Athlon 64 X2 3600+ processor, a 7200RPM 160GB HD, a ATI 3850 graphics card and 2GB of RAM. (Note that there's plenty of free space on the HD and it's defragmented regularly.) Loading a civilization savegame of a normal sized map of a somewhat progressed game ta...

 
9:09 AM
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Q: Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun on Windows 7?

RCIXI downloaded EA's free C&C: Tiberian Sun release, but when i try to run it, it complains of missing or broken DLLs. I tried to run the DLL regfix file, but it errored saying it could not access the registry. What do i do to fix it? I don't think the answer to this question would help (I don't...

 
10:09 AM
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10:39 AM
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Q: Playing coop games on Duels of the Planeswalkers

dlanodIs it possible to play the Two Headed Giant or Coop Campaign modes in Duels of the Planeswalkers, the Magic the Gathering game, on a PC? When I attempt to load these it tells me I need to attach a game pad and reload the game, which seems pretty stupid and potentially impossible in the PC versio...

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Q: How has WoW changed since Burning Crusade?

Andrew NatoliI stopped playing WoW during the good old days of Burning Crusade, mainly because I'd swapped guilds and stopped having fun when the new guild didn't really appreciate my prescence >.> So a few RL friends have convinced me to return. I'm in the process of retrieving my account at the moment (sin...

 
11:22 AM
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Q: Does hallucinated observer works as detector?

ViperI was reading a forum post on TeamLiquid where an interesting fact was posted. "A possible solution to this would be to allow the sentry to create hallucinated observers which can function as detectors. They'd still be super squishy (essentially only 30 HP) and not cloaked, but it would also...

 
11:41 AM
We're just 4.5 megs of data :(
and Maths beats us by a few KB.
We definitely need more data in the form of non-compressible random garbage.
This will make us champions of the SEs again.
 
12:16 PM
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Q: Production and Research overflow in Civilization 5

FabianWhat happens with overflowing research or production in Civilization 5? If you produce more research in one turn than is needed for the current technology, is the research surplus carried over to the next researched technology? The same question applies to overflowing production. Do I have to ...

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Q: How to flood a mine?

Jader DiasI have built an aqueduct from what seems to be the sea to the underground level. But the water level never rises above 1 tile of depth. How to make it 2 tiles of depth?

 
1:01 PM
@Feeds I hate questions worded like this.
"How to---"
 
"How do you" triggers the subjective warning
 
1:18 PM
Why?
I don't see how that leads to a subjective question.
 
1:53 PM
"How do you do X?" might trigger every person to reply how they do something
 
"How does one..."
would be the preferred way in english
 
 
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Q: Black Ops Prestige Question

RapidaWhat exactly is gained/lost from going prestige in Black Ops? I've heard that you keep the different layers, but not the various camo and attachments.

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Q: sorting by Pro Keys rating

Grasa TotalWhen I'm playing Rock Band 3 by myself, I want to go into Quickplay and sort the songs by their difficulty in Pro Keys. I can't figure out how-- when I log in from the keyboard and choose "Song Difficulty" as the sort order, it uses the regular Keys difficulty until I've played a song in Pro Keys...

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Q: Guardian Shield: Does it stack?

kazzamallaProtoss sentry units have the Guardian Shield ability which: Creates a range 4 aura that reduces incoming ranged damage to friendly units by 2. Lasts 15 seconds. If a unit is sitting inside the guardian shield created by TWO different sentries, is the overall damage reduction still just 2...

 
 
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4:32 PM
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Q: Can your companions die?

John RudyI've heard of some companions not leveling with the Courier, and being killed as a result. But every time my companions are beaten senseless, they end up merely unconscious. Can companions die? If so, under what circumstances? Is this a "hardcore mode" thing?

 
4:53 PM
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Q: Where to get many cards to Caravan?

MariusRawRI don't know much about the game, but I know that I need 30 cards to play. And it have to be different cards. Where can I get many of them? I really want to play Caravan... ;P

 
5:17 PM
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Q: What are the best games for 2 players (on the same screen) on Xbox360 ?

ChouchenosAlright, this can seem like a subjective question so I'll be clear and explain my choice as explained here : Good subjective, Bad subjective I just bought an Xbox360, I played a lot on PC before (online multiplayer games... and no, not WoW). My girlfriend never played video games, now she kinda...

 
@Feeds So so so subjective.
 
despite linking to the blog article, he missed the main point of "fact good, opinion bad"
 
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Q: Where is overall K/D ratio found in Black Ops Multiplayer?

colithiumI've found both map and gun specific ratios but not an overall ratio. Where is it hiding?

 
We really need more active 3000 rep users to clean up questions like this quickly.
 
It will come. For now, they go away in a few hours usually, and the mods are good at closing the especially egregious ones.
 
5:26 PM
well, I might as well post an answer in the meantime
 
@Brant That's why I want it closed quickly; so no answers can be posted.
 
from his requirements the question might as well have been "what is schizoid?"
 
I hate to seem like a rep whore, but getting rep on closed questions is :(
 
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Q: Do I need to rebuild a courthouse if I re-conquer a city I have captured in the past?

OakIf I remember correctly, courthouses are always destroyed when a city is conquered. On the other hand, when a civ loses one of their cities and then conquers it again, it does not have to build a courthouse there. My question is, does a city become "mine" after building a courthouse, e.g. if I l...

 
strix doesn't the recalc remove reo from closed questions?
 
5:32 PM
I thought it was only deleted ones
 
Oak
Don't think so, @tzenes
 
FO:NV got Zero Punctuation'ed
 
Oak
Only deleted
 
@StrixVaria You get rep for being up-voted, and even if the question ends up being closed, you still put in the effort and apparently someone found it useful. The question is still closed, the site is safe from dangerous opinion-seekers, and life goes on.
 
I don't put in tons of effort worrying about it; it just gets annoying when someone gets 250 rep because 25 people like Portal
 
5:35 PM
<insert standard grumble about being downvoted for what is, imo, a perfectly reasonable answer>
 
@badp With its popularity, it was only a matter of time. Did Yahtzee rip them a new one over the bugginess?
@StrixVaria how often has that happened? Seems like even when we weren't enforcing game-rec so strictly they tended to become community wiki pretty quickly.
 
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A: A gamer wakes up from a 10 year coma. What games should he play?

FabianPortal, it's a really good game, if a bit short.

First random search result.
And it happened to be Portal too.
 
@StrixVaria Touche. I was incorrect.
 
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Q: Why would my new GTX 460 not outperform my old 8800 GT?

Metro SmurfI just purchased an Asus ENGTX460 DirectCU TOP/2DI/1GD5 to replace my Asus EN8800GT TOP/G/HTDP/512M. For reference, here is a comparison chart of the approximate cards on Tom's Hardware. I ran the Crysis GPU benchmark with results of: 8800GT = approximately 32FPS GTX460 = approximately 32FPS ...

 
5:58 PM
@sjohnston No idea, will listen to it in a couple of hours.
 
I have a hard time logging into chat on some of the machines at school.
 
That was a pretty unusual ZP.
"It's basically a fallout 3 expansion pack, I already reviewed that game, so now I'll do a Let's Play"
 
My friend did a 'Let's play' of Wizpig in DKR.
I almost pissed myself laughing.
Someone should do a 'Let's play' of Yahtzee.
 
6:14 PM
Speaking of DKR "Let's Play"
Someone posted that the other day in here.
 
That would have been me.
And the aforementioned Let's Play.
:)
I don't understand why the general consensus is that Mario Kart 64 is better than DKR 64.
 
Both are dumb, Super Mario Kart was the superior game anyway.
 
Diddy Kong Racing 64 is probably my favourite game of all time.
On any platform.
 
Actually, I played very little DKR64, so I retract my statement
 
@Brant Wise decision. :)
 
6:21 PM
but SMK > MK64
 
I've never actually played Super Mario Kart.
They destroyed the DKR port to the Nintendo DS though.
Wayy too many touch controls, a bunch of missing characters (Rare spilt from nintendo), disgusting hovercraft controls, and the Genie's Arabic accent was switched to an American one.
I assume, because it was more politically correct.
 
7:17 PM
@GnomeSlice It would easily make the short list of my favorite games, and definitely my favorite racing game.
 
7:42 PM
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Q: Why would I want to raze a city?

DJClayworthWhenever I capture a city in Civ 4 I am offered the option to raze it or install a new governor. I almost always choose to install a new governor - after all, why not start with a partly-built city rather than build a new with a settler? The only times I raze the city are: The city is so far fr...

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Q: In Fable 3, what is the rent/profit payoff time interval?

ScottSAIn Fable 2 i think it was every 5 minutes, regardless if the game was playing. Any idea what the interval for rent/profit payout is on Fable 3?

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Q: Can you run an installed Xbox 360 game off of USB flash drives now?

JustinP8Since you can use USB Flash Drives for data storage now, is it possible to install a game to one? Or, can you install to HDD and then copy to flash drive? Unfortunately I'm one of those with an old 20GB HDD...so before I go buying a USB stick or two rather than a bigger HDD, I'd like to know.

 
8:09 PM
Trouble logging in? Try this troubleshooter.
 
@badp Looked at it. Everything was ok. I was getting the 'Login data is too old' shpeal.
I don't know how I lived without being able to view up/down votes before.
 
@GnomeSlice I mentioned that last night.
 
@StrixVaria You were absolutely right.
I feel like Jesus.
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8:28 PM
Jesus' account shows the account names next to the up and down votes
(or is that Chuck Norris?)
 
wait, mods are Jesuses?
 
@badp wth?
 
mods are able to see who upvoted what afaik, at least recent voting
or so I was told
activity tab and whatnot.
 
@badp False syllogism. Jesus is a mod. Not all mods are Jesus.
 
Syllogisms don't work with Jesus anyway.
That's the whole point.
 
8:32 PM
Isn't the correct nomenclature Jesii? If it isn't, it should be.
 
@badp Not to that extent
 
Can mods see who has favourited a question?
 
I don't think anyone can.
 
The DBA can
 
Except them.
 
8:53 PM
Just enjoying a treat.
 
@Gnomeslice wtf is that?!
 
Enjoying a treat...
 
To be a stickler for accuracy, Rare didn't split from Nintendo -- they got bought out by Microsoft (when Nintendo sold their majority share)
Frankly, Rare hasn't exactly been a particularly profitable endeavor for microsoft.
 
Agreed.
I mean, the new Banjo-Kazooie was quite entertaining, but it would have been nice to see one along the same lines as the first 2.
 
From what I understand, Nuts and Bolts wasn't particularly beloved.
 
9:08 PM
That's because people were biased.
They were hoping for a similar experience to Banjo-Kazooie, and Banjo-Tooie.
 
I've only played Banjo-Tooie, but I enjoyed it immensely.
 
I was too, but the new one is still quite enjoyable on its own merit.
It doesn't match up to the originals, but it is by no means a bad game.
 
That's interesting.
I've got a Wii -- maybe I will check that out.
 
I hope they continue to steer Sonic back out of 3D gaming.
The speed of the gameplay is just not suited to that environment.
 
@GnomeSlice um, wow
 
9:15 PM
huh, who knew.
 
I think that video injured me mentally...
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@sjohnston But in the best way possible.
'What are you guys dooin' ?
 
@GnomeSlice hmm, I think I like the reversed version better
It's like watching it undubbed in japanese
and it doesn't make any less sense
 
True enough, having just watched it.
I found this by means of The Gmod Idiot Box
Not that you've seen any of those, I'm sure.
 
Anyone else keep getting re-notified of new responses they've already looked at?
 
9:28 PM
@JavadocMD nope
 
@JavadocMD I've had that happen occasionally
 
@JavadocMD Yup.
"You have 17 new comments" Oh, really? Oh... nope. Just all the olds ones.
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Yeah. Annoying. : \
 
I was going to report that on meta if it happened to me again.
 
So, let me bounce an idea of y'all.
Are we agreed that Gaming.se 's current logo is, at best, ambiguous?
 
9:37 PM
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Q: What is the effective range of Umbrella Leafs?

KatieKWhat is the effective range of Umbrella Leaf plants? Do they protect plants diagonally adjacent to them? If next to a Cob Cannon (2 lawn squares wide), will the Umbrella Leaf protect both "halves" of the Cob Cannon? Also, do they take damage and need to be repaired/replaced like Wall Nuts?

 
@RavenDreamer pfft, dude, this is the best nerd dating site anywhere
 
it's about 8bit love @RavenDreamer
 
I honestly had no idea why it was a heart at first, but it's grown on me
Although I still have no idea why it's a heart
 
@RavenDreamer It is ambiguous, but I'm not convinced there exists a logo that is not ambiguous.
 
Anyway, I was thinking that we could slightly alter it to make it more clear that it's not "dating" related.
 
9:38 PM
@RavenDreamer I think it should be modified to a 3/4 heart, at least.
 
Simply add two more hearts to it, so it's a chain of 3 pixelated hearts.
 
I prefer multiple hearts to a single partial heart
 
That could work too.
Maybe 2 full ones, and 1 partial one.
Some health lost
 
So should I make a meta topic about it then?
 
@GnomeSlice sure
@RavenDreamer sure
 
9:39 PM
Might be hard to fit that into a favicon, but that would definitely work in the header.
 
There have been barely any Zelda questions on here and we're basing our logo off it :(
 
why does the Nike logo represent a sports clothing company @RavenDreamer?
I wish my GF was more of a gamer ;P
 
@StrixVaria While Zelda is the originator, it is not the only game with hearts for life
 
@Ivo Flipse I have no idea.
 
(ahem)minecraft(ahem)
 
9:41 PM
Yeah plenty of games use the hearts = health meter design pattern.
 
I thought of minecraft shortly after I said that and then thought "meh that hardly counts; zelda was the first"
 
@IvoFlipse The Nike Swoosh logo represents the wing in the famous statue of the Greek Goddess of victory, Nike.
 
I've gotten many "amusing" comments from friends who've seen me on gaming.
Apparently they take the Logo the wrong way.
 
@sjohnston Yep, the logo is in a really vague way related to sportswear, but not directly symbolic of sportswear.
 
The logo makes me think of gaming. There's nothing wrong with it.
 
9:43 PM
@JavadocMD One heart is fine for a favicon; Plenty of sites use a stripped-down version of the full logo for that.
 
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Q: How to jump in Medal of Honor?

phofferI just started playing Medal of Honor today on my PC, and I started with the lowest mission, for "beginners." However, I get stuck a few minutes into it because I have to jump over barrels in a hallway. However, I can't figure out how to jump! I tried a bunch of different keys and nothing seemed ...

 
@Brant Yeah that's what I was thinking.
 
not everybody relates Greek mythology with sporting clothes @sjohnston and it representing a wing is farfetched
 
@Mana It makes you think of gaming, but ideally, it should make everyone think of gaming.
@Brant Precisely, but with 1 half missing rather than 1 half full.
 
9:44 PM
the site is called gaming.stackexchange
 
@Gnomes: I don't think you saw what that said before I edited it.
 
unless you think stackexchange is a site where you hook up
 
@Mana I did not.
 
@Brant Yup, pretty much. I'd have that be the real logo.
Or something like it, anyway
 
@JavadocMD well, seeing as the company is named Nike, it seems pretty related. Whether or not "Nike == victory in battle == sports" is a reasonable association is not really the issue
 
9:44 PM
@IvoFlipse SWM looking to exchange stacks with sexy brunette
 
@Ivo For all we know, "stack" is a clever filter-evading euphemism for teh sex0rz!
 
you really have to be nitpicking on it to even remotely link us to dating
that would only draw in more viewers as it's probably the most queried term
 
I wonder about that
wish we had access to the logs
 
wait, so we're not all here to impress, er, gamergirls?
I quit!!
 
It could be a joystick with a heart at the end of the handle.
 
9:46 PM
@sjohnston We're not disagreeing. I'm saying that a good logo (and Nike is inarguably a good logo) really shouldn't be directly symbolic like a map symbol.
 
And that would totally not be a thinly-veiled metaphor for a penis.
 
@Mana No offence, but I'm not down for that.
 
first off 80% of our traffic comes through google
 
wow really?
That's awesome.
 
and most of them won't even type anything related to stackexchange or even use the word gaming
 
9:47 PM
That's not really surprising.
 
so anyone just sees the name of a question as his Google result and go: that seems right
which makes it SUPER important for people to write a decent title
because for a lot of potential users that is our entry point
 
@IvoFlipse Whoops. My bad.
 
Hmm, okay.
So...the name.
 
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Q: Logo for Gaming

JinHi all, Sorry about the delay on the logo. I was going to wait on the logo until we settle for a domain name. But due to the domain name policy change, I think I'll design a logo for the gaming theme, instead of tied to a particular name. I checked the current logo thread we have. The highest...

^ Just for some backstory.
To be fair, however, the other proposed logos were all pretty lame:
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Q: Logo proposals for Gaming

George EdisonPlease post as answers below, your logo proposals for this site. Rules: Original artwork only. You need to have a copy of your submission in a vector format. Return to Site Attributes

(Unless any of them were created by somebody reading this, in which case, they were pretty lame except for yours.)
 
@IvoFlipse While we may get a lot of traffic through Google searches, I think that the visual identity and community feel of the site is one of the most important factors for converting hits into new members, rather than people just coming here to get their answer and promptly forgetting about us.
yeah, none of the other options in those threads are very exciting
 
9:53 PM
perhaps cooking.stackexchange.com is a better design choice as it's more 'neutral'
 
it's just not very easy to come up with a single symbol that neatly represents all of gaming
 
['} how does this represent a super user?!?
 
@IvoFlipse weren't a lot of people there actually irritated by the use of the chef hat (forget the actual term)
 
@Ivo Actually, a few of the cooking.SE people hate that design :p
 
I just think our single symbol should not be something that our society usually associates with something else.
 
9:54 PM
@IvoFlipse It looks like a person. A user.
 
They think it's too "better homes and gardens" for professional chefs
 
@RavenDreamer right, the heart isn't actually much of a game symbol. It's only the pixelification that makes it more identifiable
 
which is a point I understand, even if I don't particularly care one way or the other
 
real chefs have no time to answer questions @Brant
 
Professional chefs can stuff it, I think Cooking's design is perfect. :)
 
9:55 PM
@sjohnston I don't think the pixelation is enough, though.
 
do note btw that just because a couple out-spoking users object to something, doesn't necessarily make it true
 
@RavenDreamer that's a fair complaint
 
@IvoFlipse How awesome would it be if Gordon Ramsay had a cooking.SE account?
 
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A: New Design Launched

danielI've said it before. I really don't like this design. It looks like a nice homey recipe exchange site, which is fine, except that's not what we are. Once again I must reiterate my deep disappointment that this was presented as 'preliminary,' when it was, very clearly, no such thing at all. When ...

 
go create a fake one ;)
 
9:56 PM
@JavadocMD wouldn't it just get banned for yelling at everyone?
 
actually I think he would dig it, if it made his own chefs in practice would learn anything useful from it
 
I know most of the powers of Ramsay.
 
Exactly! His only answers would be "Fuck off out of my kitchen!"
 
and he would still be right @JavadocMD
 
9:56 PM
Forget Ramsay, I'd rather see Alton Brown on cooking.SE
 
though we just have to explain him that a downvote will do
 
@GnomeSlice ah!
 
@Brant Certainly, but Ramsay would be more for the lulz.
 
Alton would be the Jon Skeet of Cooking.SE
 
Oh god it's a Cyriak video, I'm not watching that sober.
No freakin' way.
 
9:58 PM
well you can send him a tweet with a popular question
he might just bite
 
@Brant It's not as trippy as some of them.
 
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