Yah, I played Mafia Wars for a little bit, and that made me hesitate to play anything else. I can proudly say that I've never played Farmville or its kin. But it can't be impossible to make a decent Facebook game, right?
However, I refuse to do anything with facebook other than maintain an account with no pictures, nothing on my profile, and nothing in my feeds. To hell with Facebook.
And now, I return to the fiery bowels from whence I came!
OK i have asked every one i know and no one remembers the name i played it around 1996-1998 but i only played the demo and was HOOKED it started out by be thrown in to a bedroom with a broken TV that keeps shutting off a nasty kitchen/bathroom and what you would expect to see in a room posters, t...
I cant remember which system I played it on. But you were a human being and had this robot thing where you could fight other (NPCS). You were able to find parts while in roleplay or defeat and get a part or buy it. The parts/items were found in a pill like capsule. I dont remember the battle syst...
Trying out Angry Birds from the new iMac app store.
I'm unable to activate the blue bird's power (to split into 3 birds) using my Magic trackpad. I've tried most every gesture I could imagine with no luck. Their help documentation doesn't appear to have been updated for this version.
How can ...
I find it weird that mathoverflow.net is not a part of SE 2.0 sites. Any reason why?
The software behind mathoverflow.net is a bit old, and it can use some updating. Don't you agree?
Is there any software that allows me to use the WoW chat without being logged in ? Can I talk a friend that is playing WoW, without playing myself (suppose I do have an account but I just don't want to log in) ?
I've just started playing Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy and something has me mystified. I've figured out that the following gain me AP:
Having the game open for 2 minutes (+1)
Increasing maximum AP by 1 (+1)
Increasing Security Level (refill)
However, sometimes when I log on I find my AP h...
This is what I see, even with the Pixelation mod disabled, for the low quality posts review page.
This problem has been introduced recently -- the page used to be fine yesterday.
Hello,
I'm playing the wii version of call of duty black ops. What type of perks do you guys normally have setup? Which ones do you find the most useful?
Thanks.
Is there any software that allows me to use the WoW chat without being logged in ? Can I talk a friend that is playing WoW, without playing myself (suppose I do have an account but I just don't want to log in) ?
I'm trying to install Civ4 on Windows Vista 32-bit. The version on the DVD is 1.00.00. When I run setup.exe and follow the prompts, the dialog with "Install for All Users" is greyed out.
How do I install for all users? This worked fine when the same machine was an XP machine.
I have an old 4Gamers PS2 steering wheel (model: SPC2135). It has the flat wide 9 pin connector.
With a suitable PS2 to PS3 adapter will this work with newer games such as Need For Speed Hot Pursuit and Grand Turismo 5?
yes, and @badp claims it doesn't work because there's a too high barrier of entry. Therefore Google has to implement something like this into Android itself if they would want this to take off
Welcome to Gaming Chat, @TheX. Please enjoy your time here. And for the most part, we'll be nice. Heated topics may result in some of us being ornery, but nothing to worry about outside of that. ♪
@TheX Most games either a) Autosave to the cloud so there is very little have you to do (recent example, Deathspank) or b) Allow you to manually select the steam cloud (recent example, Civ-5)
If you don't use multiple PC's or PC's and macs, the steam cloud game saves really aren't that helpful unless your computer crashes.
It is very nice though for people like myself who use quite a few different computers, because I can always get to my saves regardless of which computer I choose to play on.
I understand you need to put an axle under the middle square, but does it have to be a vertical one? I would have thought you'd want it to be:
ground level:
XXX
XOX
XXX
one level down:
RRR
AAR
RRR
Where R is Rock, and A is your Axle (one is vertical, one is horizontal) but can you build a wi...
Delivery is an ego-centric business. Thou shalt be there when I shalt ring at thou bell, not one second leth, not one second more, lest thou shalt be screweth.
@kazzamalla I guess they just want a computer that they can just take back and forth from work and do their work on it and stuff, probably browsing with interwebs, word processing stuff like that
well, as long as "their work" doesn't include photo or video processing, gaming, scientific discovery, scientific theory, etc., you probably don't even need to spend $750 to get all they'd need.
well then you can just beef it up a bit, specifically more RAM, a faster hard drive (you probably won't get a SSD on that budget), step up the processor a bit.
I guess my point is, for a computer with those needs, you could walk into an electronics store, and buy the one that is on sale for the amount you are looking to spend and do just fine.
you'll more than likely find better deals though if you do your research online.
But yeah, that brings me to my second thing. I consider the mobile and laptop/desktop offerings of apple very differently.
For mobile, they are generally best-in-class. For everything else they are very overpriced for relatively little added value outside of simplicity
Well, added apparent value.
But the reason for that being my usual suggestion is, if they come to you for PC advice that means everytime anything goes wrong for any reason (including but not limited to viruses that they get from doing things they shouldn't) they will come to you for PC help.
By getting them a mac, I generally minimize the amount of irritation that they will cause as many of the problems they would get otherwise they just won't.
@TheX Except for the most part there are some inherent usability problems with Linux. But yeah, that's usually my second go to. You've utterly destroyed your windows installation? Congrats you get linux! Don't worry it's a better OS, you won't get viruses or anything.
Omitting that they won't be able to run much of anything.
@badp I've been slowly transitioning to google docs for all my document needs (hoping they send me a cr-48 :p) Only thing I still really use Word for is a few school assignments when I know I'll need some fancy formating that's a pita on Google, or when I want to act like I can write books
But I've heard that hardcore writers use like notepad and wordpad so may switch :p
@badp I was wondering if it would catch everywhere. Seemed to update instantly for me but I was mashing ctrl+r hoping that it would regain some of its clarity
I recently purchased the Mighty Eagle in Angry Birds for iPhone. To use him, you toss out a can of sardines and the Eagle swoops down to retrieve it, destroying everything in it's path, including all the pigs. If the Eagle destroys everything, you get a feather (you're rated on a percentage sca...
@TheX angry birds was bought by more than 6 million people on the apple app store alone, and now it is on android, windows desktops, and the mac app store. it's more, "who isn't playing it?"
Basically, yes. You see two separate lists of apps: iPad and iPhone. You can still run iPhone apps on the iPad. You can even scale them 2x so that they take up most of the screen.
I needed to log out of se.com, do the destroy credentials thing, relogin, open chat, click another login link, wait while it took forever to load, and THEN I got in
One of my favorite ways to play the original StarCraft was in a "Team" game. In this game type, multiple players on the same "team" would share control, resources, supply, and even the same starting location. It was like playing as 1 player, only 2 humans were controlling it. It was a lot of f...
There are quite a few ways to damage things in Bad Company 2, but I'm wondering what does the most damage in the game?
While I guess c4 can be piled up to cause a ton of damage at once, I'm only interested in damage per one attack or usage.
@CRoss Do you have any interest in the upcoming Monday night combat for PC? It seems to have done exceptionally well as sort a TF2/tower defense type thing on XBL.
I've considered pre-ordering it for a couple weeks now since they announced it'd be coming to Steam.
Something that I've read a lot about when discussing attacking and defending is often the discussion of forming a perfect "concave" with your army.
What does a concave look like and in what situations is this technique important to execute?
A question came up with a mass number of answers that are all repeats of earlier answers, and some even spam linking to other game-answer sites: What is the meaning of the Black Ops "Ascension" numbers.
Should we be counteracting this low-rep user posts with more than just down-votes and flaggin...
Even if I dismiss a badge notification ("You have earned the ... badge for question ...") using the close button at the right of the message it gets redisplayed again and again when I refresh the page until I open a new session.
Working with Safari 5.0.3 (6533.19.4) on Mac OS X 10.6.5.
Edit:
I...
Over on tex.SX, we were pondering the issue of what to do when a first time user posts something as an answer that would be better as a comment or a question. Today, I stumble upon a question here that reveals that I (as moderator there) now have the power to convert answers to comments. Yippee...
Trying out Angry Birds from the new iMac app store.
I'm unable to activate the blue bird's power (to split into 3 birds) using my Magic trackpad. I've tried most every gesture I could imagine with no luck. Their help documentation doesn't appear to have been updated for this version.
How can ...
I find it weird that mathoverflow.net is not a part of SE 2.0 sites. Any reason why?
The software behind mathoverflow.net is a bit old, and it can use some updating. Don't you agree?
Is there any software that allows me to use the WoW chat without being logged in ? Can I talk a friend that is playing WoW, without playing myself (suppose I do have an account but I just don't want to log in) ?
I've just started playing Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy and something has me mystified. I've figured out that the following gain me AP:
Having the game open for 2 minutes (+1)
Increasing maximum AP by 1 (+1)
Increasing Security Level (refill)
However, sometimes when I log on I find my AP h...
This is what I see, even with the Pixelation mod disabled, for the low quality posts review page.
This problem has been introduced recently -- the page used to be fine yesterday.
Is there any ammo for the thunder gun apart from the 12 shots when you unlock it?
Hello,
I'm playing the wii version of call of duty black ops. What type of perks do you guys normally have setup? Which ones do you find the most useful?
Thanks.
I saw that there are many skins that cannot be found and bought in League Of Legends' shop. Why?
I'm trying to install Civ4 on Windows Vista 32-bit. The version on the DVD is 1.00.00. When I run setup.exe and follow the prompts, the dialog with "Install for All Users" is greyed out.
How do I install for all users? This worked fine when the same machine was an XP machine.
If not, how about just to see which sites I have subscribed to?
I have an old 4Gamers PS2 steering wheel (model: SPC2135). It has the flat wide 9 pin connector.
With a suitable PS2 to PS3 adapter will this work with newer games such as Need For Speed Hot Pursuit and Grand Turismo 5?
I understand you need to put an axle under the middle square, but does it have to be a vertical one? I would have thought you'd want it to be:
ground level:
XXX
XOX
XXX
one level down:
RRR
AAR
RRR
Where R is Rock, and A is your Axle (one is vertical, one is horizontal) but can you build a wi...
I recently purchased the Mighty Eagle in Angry Birds for iPhone. To use him, you toss out a can of sardines and the Eagle swoops down to retrieve it, destroying everything in it's path, including all the pigs. If the Eagle destroys everything, you get a feather (you're rated on a percentage sca...
One of my favorite ways to play the original StarCraft was in a "Team" game. In this game type, multiple players on the same "team" would share control, resources, supply, and even the same starting location. It was like playing as 1 player, only 2 humans were controlling it. It was a lot of f...
There are quite a few ways to damage things in Bad Company 2, but I'm wondering what does the most damage in the game?
While I guess c4 can be piled up to cause a ton of damage at once, I'm only interested in damage per one attack or usage.
Is it actually possible to get the golden egg in level 1-8 in Angry Birds on Mac? My mouse is stuck with the catapult and I can't click the chest.
Something that I've read a lot about when discussing attacking and defending is often the discussion of forming a perfect "concave" with your army.
What does a concave look like and in what situations is this technique important to execute?
Even if I dismiss a badge notification ("You have earned the ... badge for question ...") using the close button at the right of the message it gets redisplayed again and again when I refresh the page until I open a new session.
Working with Safari 5.0.3 (6533.19.4) on Mac OS X 10.6.5.
Edit:
I...
Over on tex.SX, we were pondering the issue of what to do when a first time user posts something as an answer that would be better as a comment or a question. Today, I stumble upon a question here that reveals that I (as moderator there) now have the power to convert answers to comments. Yippee...
