texts: Does the conversation with Matriarch Aethyta go the same way if you haven't watched the video archives in the Shadow Broker base?

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Unfortunately, I didn't realize that there were actually 3 sets of videos in the archives when I played through Lair of the Shadow Broker. By the time I knew, I'd already finished all of my sidequests, so I couldn't go and do a mission to trigger the 3rd set to show up. I ended up just importing my Shepard to Mass Effect 3 after having only watched 2 of the sets in the interest of time.

Now, during a conversation with Matriarch Aethyta,

  Shepard mentioned that she saw a video of her staring at a picture of Liara, which prompts Aethyta to admit her parentage. Do you still find out about Liara being Aethyta's daughter if you haven't seen this archive?

Essentially, I'm wondering if I may miss other triggers based off the set of videos I missed... Is Shepard's mentioning of the video merely an added bit of flavor if you've done the DLC, or is it a needed trigger in order to find this information out at all?


texts: Is there any advantage to researching all addons for a weapon type?

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I have the legendary gunsmith, who allows you to customise your weapons.

Once I started playing around with it, I realised that developing certain addons for one weapon would make them available to others in the same type - for instance, scopes & suppressors are shared between sniper and assault rifles, and certain ammo / magazines and stocks.

I realised that I was able to research the same addon (for example a foregrip) for two different assault rifles... so I was essentially paying twice for the same thing, since I can just customise rifle B to add rifle A's foregrip. However, not researching the foregrip for rifle B blocked further progress.

Considering that I'd end up researching the same thing more than once, it seems like a waste of GMP to research everything in a weapon type - is there an advantage to this, or would focussing on a single weapon (UN ARC for instance) be a more cost effective strategy?

Are there any addons for that weapon type that I would not be able to acquire if I chose a single weapon to develop?


texts: How long do my games have to be to count towards experience?

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I was playing SC2 today, and I decided to build a pool before any workers. I sent out 6 zerglings who then encountered my opponent's cannon cheese at the bottom of my ramp. I was able to destroy the cannon just after it warped in (lost one ling) ping then the probe who summoned it, then the second cannon before it warped in. After that, my opponent resigned. The replay says the match duration was 2:26, but apparently he resigned at 1:58. I didn't get any XP because the match was too short. How long does the game have to be to give XP?

After a short game, the experience tab is "greyed out", and when I hover over that tab, the following message appears:

Experience can be earned on Blizzard maps and
Extension Mods. Matches which end quickly or are
resumed from replays do not grant experience. This
section is also not viewable via match History


texts: Redstone circuit that activates on short pulse and does not activate on longer pulse

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I made a circuit that activates on a long signal but I am missing one that activates on a short pulse and does not activate if the pulse time exceeds a certain pulse. Everything I made still activates on a longer pulse which is a problem as I only want one output in a one input system (see below for more details). I would like to have this as an adjustable circuit (minimum/maximum pulse length).

System details:

1 input
2 outputs
Longer signal will output a certain signal (x) - this has been made
Shorter signal will output a certain signal (y) - this is the problem
Longer signal will not output the signal (y) - this is the problem as it currently does

Current system (very basic)


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With the release of The Taken King expansion for Destiny Legendary Marks have been added to the game.

How do you earn them?


texts: I've been farming creepers for music discs but I can't find the disc 11. Is it even possible to get? I don't want to use creative or commands to get this.


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I have Minecraft v1.11 and am trying this command to summon fallingsand but it is not working. Why?

Command:

/summon FallingSand ~ ~1 ~ {Block:command_block,Time:1,TileEntityData:{Command:/fill ~ ~-1 ~-1 ~ ~50 ~-1 redstone_block},Passengers:[{id:FallingSand,Block:redstone_block,Time:1}]}


texts: It is an imaginare game and it has 2 series and a 3rd part will come very soon but the picture isn't the first character and game is first person game


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I've been using the

/give @p minecraft: diamond_shovel 1 0 {CanDestroy: ["minecraft: sand", "minecraft: grass"]}

command to destroy blocks in adventure mode, but now I need the pickaxe to break all the blocks. Can I do it without specifying all the blocks?


texts: Is there any way to see other player's pet hp bars?

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I'm playing a Monk and my boyfriend is a Witch Doctor, and I was wondering if there is any way to see his pet's hp bars so I can heal them if needed.

I can see my own pet's hp (yes, I'm calling my Monk's Mystic Ally a "pet" :)) next to my portrait, and I can turn on other player health bars, but I don't see an option to turn on other player pet hp bars.

Is there a way to show other player's pet hp bars?


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I have finally figured out how to make new groups and stuff in groupmanager. I made some standard groups and went on the server to do /manload (reloading the GM config file)

But when I did, I got this error:

  An internal error occurred while attempting to perform this command

before it started raining. I would turn it off with /weather clear, and it reports another error:

  you don't  have access to that command

What is going on? It worked fine before I made one group and typed /manload. Now I don't have access to any command at all.


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I'm wondering where do Mana that falls into bottomless pits goes. Is it lost forever? Is it going into my bank? What happens to it? Should I care of it falling down the pit or not?

Also, Mana despawns after a while... is the same thing happening to that mana?


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In Forza 5 your Drivatar appears in other people's races. If you own a qualified car will it drive that car? Livery, tune, and all?

for example, if your Drivatar enters a Modern Grand Touring race and you own a GTR will it take that GTR(with Liveries and custom tune) or use a GTR or use any random car qualified for the league.


texts: How do I give Claptrap a high five for the "Up High, Down Low" achievement? I found Claptrap in Sanctuary after Roland's house and it had a "high five" dialogue option after I finished its mission, but that doesn't do anything. Is that where I do this? Some place else? What's the trick?


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I have encountered several fishing schools that I could not cast into because the water was too shallow.

How can I catch the fish in schools of fish that reside in shallow water?

I did some research and found the following post on the forums

Fishing pools in too shallow water

This is a single post that mentions an occurrence of this phenomena in the vicinity of "Lost veil anzu" in the Spires of Arak. I have not been fishing in that place myself. Most recently I encountered this near to "Mok'gol watchpost" in Nagrand, I have also noticed it in several other places so I do not think that it is a feature of a specific place.


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I remember reading at GetSatisfaction and also somewhere else that biomes are not saved together with the chunks, but instead are calculated on-the-fly based on some random generator.

Is this true? Are biomes saved together with the map data? Or are they always generated from a seed?

Related question (that inspired this one): How can I copy part of a Minecraft world into another Minecraft world?

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm asking about the biome information (which is used for defining the grass color and if it rains or snows). I'm not asking about the actual blocks (that I know are saved in *.mcr files).


texts: When does the Town Shield kick in after an attack?

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i've noticed when i get attacked or when i attack a Town Shiled is deployed (at no cost when it was on myself) for 12-16 hours. In an 9 hours period i was attacked twice.

I am wondering when this shield is deployed after an attack or if it's possible for 2 people to attack one town at the same time.


texts: Which items cannot be smelted in neither the smoker nor the blast furnace?

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1.14 saw the addition of smokers and blast furnaces to Minecraft. Their main purpose is to speed up the smelting of certain items. Smokers are for smelting food, and blast furnaces are for non-food items. Right?
Apparently, I was wrong.
I just tried to smelt sand to make it into glass. It wasn't a food item, and I put it in the blast furnace. It wasn't accepted.
I then thought maybe that it was considered a smoker item, not a blast furnace item. So I decided to put it into the smoker and test it.
It also wasn't accepted.
Therefore, it must be that some items cannot be smelted in either special furnace, and must be smelted using the normal furnace.
I now know that Sand → Glass is a recipe that must be used in a regular furnace, and not a smoker/blast furnace.
The Minecraft Wiki doesn't provide a full list of these items, only saying that "some items" are not compatible with either furnace.
To save me from having to enter the maintenance area of my Smoker & Blast Furnace Super Smelter™ and pluck out items that don't belong, could someone provide a full list of these items?


texts:
The Hearthstone "Total Dominance" quest is: "Win 7 games in any mode"

Does "any mode" include duels?

I know that quest has been around longer than the actual ability to duel has.


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I was thinking and I had a thought, if i gave my sword -1 knock-back would it fling the attacked towards me, away like usual or do nothing.

Or if I enchanted my bow with -1 punch, what would it do?

If I gave my armor negative thorns would it hurt me, heal the attacker or nothing, ect.


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While vistas, POIs, wps, hearts and skill points are listed and easily visible on the map, allowing a player to compare a fully explored map from the internet with his own map, this is not completely true for the concept of "areas", required for certain achievements split in Ascalon, Kryta, Maguuman and Shiverpeaks.

To get 100% map completion you don't need to explore every area, so it becomes hard to tell, in the end, which areas you missed while exploring.

What is then the faster way to see which areas are missing? Is it just a matter of looking manually for "blurs" in the map where you haven't been yet?

Bonus question: Will exploring different areas of the map with different characters on the same account add up in the achievement (like jumping puzzle, for example) or, like standard world completion, you have to explore them all with the same character?


texts: What is the math behind the weapon strength?

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I'm looking for example showing the math behind the calculation of the weapon strength. I'm aware of other questions, but can someone show the actual math in the following weapons?

Pistol 1:

Weapon screen: Physical damage 26 - 52, +5 Physical damage, Speed .64, DPS 67
Character screen (under strength): 37-67
Arcane screen: 37-67, DPS 82

Pistol 2:

Weapon screen: Physical damage 26 - 52, +7 Electrical damage, Speed .64, DPS 68
Character screen (under strength): 39-69
Arcane screen: 31-61, DPS 85, +8 Electrical damage

Hammer (two-handed):

Weapon screen: Physical damage 81 - 163, +7 Poison damage, Speed 1.32, DPS 97
Character screen (under strength): 103 - 198
Arcane screen: 95-190, DPS 118, Speed 1.28, +8 Poison damage

Well, how does the game get these numbers and should I sling the pistols or wield the hammer?


texts: Minecraft malfunctions with a low enough Y-value?

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I'm playing in the void with Minecraft when I suddenly realised that my Y gradually stopped working (exact value:Y=-36 028 797 018 963 968, can't really find the exact value). See this video:

First the decimal places start to stop updating. Then the whole Y co-ordinates update starts to slow. Then finally it freezes there and sometimes I get a lag spike. Why is this happening? What is the explanation behind this? Is the data too big to handle? Is my computer too slow to handle?


texts: Is there a drawback to skipping the prologue?

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I just recently started playing Kotor2.

In the beginning, when you're in the medbay and the player controls the android, there was the chance to skip the prologue and I took it.

Since I'm not very advanced in the game, however, I was thinking about restarting to gain possible boons I might have missed, like items, XP or force points.

Was there anything of value I missed?

Also, if there are there any other skippable scenes in the game, the questions count for those as well.


texts: Is it possible to shootdodge without going into bullet time?

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"Shootdodge" is a core feature in Max Payne, allowing the character to dive through air in slow motion. There is a key binding in the control options for "shootdodge only"—because bullet time is a finite resource which doesn't automatically recharge, diving in real-time would be a great way to move behind cover and gain distance. Max Payne simulates bullet ballistics and evading is always feasible. However, the "shootdodge only" move also enables bullet time as does "bullet time combo" and I can't notice any difference between these features. Both trigger the shootdodge move and enable bullet time, disabling it when Max lands.

I doubt that the game has two identical key bindings. I'm sure that my mouse has the corresponding buttons (MB 2-4) and that I'm hitting the correct keys. "Bullet time only" solely enables slow motion, as described. Game version is 1.05.


texts: Games from gamejolt.com aren't permitted to run

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Whenever I run a game from http://gamejolt.com, Java prevents me from playing it.
It tells me Java doesn't allow applets without an approved certificate.  From what I understand, GameJolt's games are self-signed, meaning the creators signed their own games.

Downloading the game seems to fix it sometimes. Adding GameJolt to Java's security exceptions didn't work either.

Why won't Java let the applet run? What can I do to fix this?

I'm using Chrome on Windows 7.


texts: What is the most feasible option to play (almost) all Zelda games?

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Given the timeline list of games on The Legend of Zelda - Wikipedia, what would be the most feasible option to preferably legally play all (or a vast majority of) the games in the series?
These are the options I can think of:

buying all original consoles + games (difficult & expensive)
buying all cartridges/disks + a way to read or back them up, and use emulation to play them (this might not be legal in some jurisdictions or at a point in time)
buying consoles which offer the older games for download (either original or remastered/updated/special editions, if the latter doesn't dramatically change the storyline).
Downloading everything (this might not be legal in some jurisdictions or at a point in time)

What would the most feasible option be?


texts: Does the original N64 Zelda: OoT have small black borders like this or is it my TV accessory?

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To connect my N64 to my TV I have to put it through an RCA to HDMI converter.
Are the black borders output from the console or is this added by my TV accessory?
I'm guessing that this is actually padding for old CRT overscan but I don't know for sure.


texts: How to detect if anyone stepped on block and then execute command toward that play

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Me and my friends are making an advanced parkour map and it is filled with redstone.
One of the repeater circles has 4 command blocks with the following command:

/execute @a ~ ~ ~ detect ~ ~-1 ~ minecraft:stonebrick 1 /tp @p @e{type=Villager]

When ANY player steps on mossy stonebrick (minecraft:stonebrick 1) it teleports the nearest player to the command block to the villager regardless if he step on the mossy cobble. So we edited the command to:

/execute @a ~ ~ ~ detect ~ ~-1 ~ minecraft:stonebrick 1 /tp @a @e{type=Villager]

Which is what is now. It's temporarily but works like it's supposed to, but now I have to re-teleport the villager whenever I'm working on a new addition, which is annoying. Not to mention on how far another the other person has to go if he is testing out the parkour map.

That brought me to an idea: Find the person responsible and teleport only him. I know this is possible because I found a parkour map that does this (unfortunately I cannot find the responsible command block for this).

TLDR: How do I execute a command that detects if anyone steps on mossy stone bricks and teleport the responsible player?

(P.S. The map that this kill the responsible player [I need to teleport]: http://www.yourminecraft.com/lava-and-slime-parkour-map)


texts: My friend left his wireless PS3 controller at my house. He told me I can keep it because he plays XBOX 360. My wired controller stopped working last night. I tried to use the wireless one my friend left to play Grand Theft Auto V. It does work but, the L1 and down button on the D-Pad don't work. I have the controller apart but, I can't see anything wrong with it. I don't see the sense in throwing it away because it works great except for those 2 buttons. How do I repair it?


texts: Cookie Clicker- [Last chance to see] and [All natural sugar cane] shadow achievements

texts: Are the [All-natural sugar cane] and [Last chance to see] achievements just luck-based or is there a specific way to get them? to get the [All-natural sugars cane] achievement you need to harvest a golden sugar lump and to get the [Last chance to see] achievement you need to burst the near-extinct shiny wrinkler. is there any specific way to do those things or is it just luck.


texts: How do I work out how many Gems are needed to rush build an upgrade?

texts: I know the number of gems required to instantly finish building/upgrading is determined on time. I was wondering if there was a formula for working out how many gems are required to instantly finish building an upgrade without having to click on the building itself (so by just looking at the timer that's above it) or before I go to build/upgrade.


texts: Why cant I see my minecraft texture pack images?

texts: How come when I go into my Texture pack assets, then Minecraft, then textures, then items, the pictures are just flowers. And not the texture pack images


texts: Giving the "attack/defend the flag" command

texts: In conquest mode, normally when you are not at the flag cap area, you can give flag attack commands. But when you are inside that area, it doesn't work anymore. Is there a way to give a flag attack command when inside the flag cap area?


texts: How do you make steel weapons and armor in Dwarf Fortress Masterwork Mod?

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In the Masterwork Mod for Dwarf Fortress, there are lots of new buildings and some old buildings disappeared. The manual says that weapons are made at "Forge". How do you build a forge in Masterwork? It doesn't show up on the list of forges if you press b-e.

I've tried building about half the other forge buildings, and so far still can't make steel weapons or armor. The only weapons the dorfs have made are wooden crossbows at the Bowyer's Workshop, and stone war hammers at the Stoneforge. The Weaponry can "upgrade" a stone war hammer.

But which building makes the simple metal weapons, armor, and ammo in Masterwork? I want to make steel war hammers, steel crossbows, steel bolts, and steel armor. Currently it's up to winter and the fortress is looking pretty dooomed due to lack of this necessary equipment.


texts: How do I add a radius to a tp command with another specification?

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I'm trying to make a certain amount of villagers look a certain way, but I can't figure out how to add a radius (so only some of the villagers look that way).

My command is /tp @e[type=Villager] ~ ~ ~ -90 30


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I'm playing Sky Factory and when I started playing it, I had a tooltip appear at the top of the screen showing the % of blocks (like the sieve or barrels for composting), but I think I've hit a key that's turned it off since it's disappeared.

I've no idea what the mod is and tried randomly hitting all keys. Anyone know what it is and how to get it back?

Thanks.


texts: What is the proper teleport command in Skyrim?

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How does the coc command work? When I type in for example coc Whiterun, it works. But when I type in coc Dawnstar, nothing happens. Did I miss anything here?

Also, how do I enter names with multiple words?


texts: How would I go about doing this? I can't find anything useful in the Xbox 360's wonderfully informative menus.


texts:
We know that above a certain total amount of zombies the only places where zombies spawn is in tiles with neighboring zombies.

Would it be a good idea to start killing zombies strategically from the start, to try to keep some parts of the map zombie-free? Has anybody tried something like that before? It should also reduce the number of tiles with many zombies on them, reducing the chance of people getting stuck outside.

I'm mainly wondering if it is even possible with the mostly crappy weapons you have in the beginning, and if the efforts would pay off. If I want to try it I'll have to convince my next town that it is a good idea.


texts: Who are the captains for Madden 13 Ultimate Team?

texts: All the literature states that when you start an Ultimate Team in Madden 13, you'll choose a starting captain that will determine things like your stadium and jerseys. It also implies that there will be one starting captain for each team. Who are all of the starting captains for Madden 13 Ultimate Team?


texts: Gamepad for Assassin's Creed for PC not working

texts: I have a Logitech wireless gamepad which is not recognized by AC. Any ideas?


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My island is a Northern Hemisphere island.
Nature day is a event beginning on 23rd Apr, and ending on 4th May.
My game version is currently 1.10.0
I've set my system date to 22nd April, saved the game, quit, and set the date to 23rd April and started the game. There is no announcement of nature day in the mail or by Isabelle. How do I trigger the nature day event by time-travelling?
In general, how can I trigger past time-based events?


texts: What happens to accessories equipped to Claves?

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Before entering Andante I equipped her with 2 accessories. One gave Regen and the other Light Body; I did so thinking that she would remain in the party as my healer until I got Polka back, but:

   when I saw her die, the accessories weren't in my inventory.

Since I haven't met back up with Retto, I'm wondering if I get those accessories back after meeting back up with him, or if they are now lost forever.


texts: How much bonus ranged damage do Walls of Babylon give?

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Walls of Babylon  The walls of Babylon increase the damage output of all the city's ranged attacks and increase the city's defense.  +6 Armour +100 HP

It doesn't however state how much the bonus damage is. Are there any numbers?

Also does it stack with the pantheon ability below?

  Goddess of Protection    +30% increase in city  Ranged Combat Strength


texts: How do I get more factories built in Victoria 2?

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In Victoria 2, I'm Brazil and trying to get some factories built. I have 10 factory plans, but all of them have very little investment and and resource acquired.

How do I get more factories built?

Thanks


texts: Minecraft Windows 10 Edition False Duplicate Pack

texts: When I import my .mcpack texture pack file, Minecraft says I have a duplicate pack, even though this is my first time trying. The texture pack is unfinished and I do have another custom texture pack in the game already so that might be the problem but I just don't know.


texts: Can one specific Amiibo create 2 differents saves on 2 different Fire Emblem Fate Cartridges?

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Me and my mate are sharing a bunch of amiibos for our Super Smash 4 Game and thought it would be great to have Ike/Marth on our Fire Emblem games. However, we are not sure if the fact of creating a ''IKe'' save on one cartirdge will disable the possibility to create one in our other 3ds game (we each have one Fire Emblem Fate game).

Is the unlock of amiibo character a ''usable once'' possibility per amiibo?


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I've got a cool blue gem which allows me to summon up to 3 zombies from dead enemies' corps.  It's now level 4, but I haven't noticed any difference in the spell (no more zombies, the summoning time looks pretty much the same, ...)
And when hovering the gem, there are no help or tooltip explaining what upgrade will come with the next level.  So what's the point of leveling these gems ?


texts: Unlimited Pro Pack in Doodle army mini militia

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While playing the online game Doodle army 2 mini militia I have seen users with unlimited life and extra guns/ammo. If anyone has played this game then they might know they have extra guns and bombs from the starting of the game and how useful that is in game.

How do they do that? Is there any kind of cheat or hack I am unaware of?

Doodle army 2 mini militia


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Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle both occur in the same mansion.  Day of the Tentacle also shows the mansion in three different points in time.

How has the mansion evolved over time?

Are there any rooms omitted from any one version of the mansion?

Has the structural layout (positions of doors, entirely new floors etc) changed in any iteration?


texts: Where can I order thumbsticks for my PS3 dualshock 3 controller?

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My son has a nervous habit of chewing on the PS3 controller's thumbsticks during cut-scenes.  One day, he actually ripped the top of it off.  Glue worked for awhile, but the top eventually came off again.  Where can I find/order new thumbsticks for my controller?  It seems a shame and a waste to drop $40+ on a new controller.

Update: The thumbsticks are model number NXPR3R-004, and work with both PS2 and PS3.  Armed with this, a Google search turns up a lot of options.


texts: In the game Monsters' Den is it possible to stack the +10 hp regen per turn bonus you get from the rangers skill "Nature's Balm"?


texts: Can I use Mass Effect 3's coalesced editor to make it think I've completed a certain mission?

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I've been having an issue with the Grissom Academy mission. It's a glitch, one that doesn't seem to have a chance in hell of getting fixed in the near future, and EA didn't seem interested in a problem that only a handful of people are experiencing. I suppose servers have to explode before they'll bat an eye.

Anyway, the glitch is causing me to not be able to complete the mission. I finished the game once (and was not happy with the results of not completing the Grissom mission), and am now doing a Part II runthrough in which I've used Gibbed's Save Editor to tweak some romance options, etc. Nothing big. I've also updated both my game and Origin to their respective latest updates (I'm on PC if you can't tell). I've worked my way back up to the Grissom mission and am still having the same fall-through-the-floor-after-Orion-cutscene problem. Very irritating. And before you ask, I've tried everything I can think of to fix the problem, including things suggested by others. I doubt there's a workaround; it's something that needs Bioware's attention, if only they'd actually pay attention.

So what I'd like to know is if I can use the handy coalesced editor that I've downloaded (Wenchy's version) to make my game think I've completed the mission. I realize I could totally exploit this and make ME think I've completed ALL the missions, but then what's the point in playing? I just want to make it think I've finished THIS mission, since Gibbed's editor doesn't let me edit which missions have been completed like it does for ME1 and ME2.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!


texts: Is there a way to make the mouse cursor easier to see?

texts: I keep losing my mouse cursor in big fights with lots of projectiles.  Is there a way to make the mouse cursor stand out more?


texts:
So I finished the main game, completed every level, collected every star coin, I even

   finished the secret star world and collected every moon coin

Right now I have about 57K coins, it seems absurd to repeat this process 20 times to reach 1M coins... I know playing the game in coop yields more coins, but unfortunately I'm the only one I know who owns a 3DS and lives in my vicinity.

So how can I reach the 1M coin target? Do I repeat endlessly the rainbow levels? Is there some sort of glitch? Or am I missing some special game mode which yields unusual amount of coins?


texts: What do I do with the giant cubic rocks?

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Does anyone know what ride Pokemon I need to break the big grey cubic boulders in Pokemon sun and moon.
And where can I get the ride Pokemon needed to break it


texts: How does the Level select work with the game timer?

texts: In Prince of Persia Retro for iOS, you are able to select a level from the main screen. I remember the original game had a 60 minute time limit--does selecting a level affect the timer?


texts:
I have tried racing in Path of Exile after a year-long break and was stunned to see Descent: Champions. Before, Descent had locations such as the Heart of Phrecia, so it was likely set in Wraeclast. Now, Descent: Champions has Gravicius welcoming contenders and a lot of NPCs (Nessa to Oak to Fairgraves to Hargan) standing in the cheering mob of people at the back of the starting area. Seems like Descent: Champions is set in Oriath, but do we have any confirmation on that from Grinding Gear?

This strikes me as strange: why would you have a hall full of monsters to feed on unlucky contenders in the middle of your capital city? Nuke it from orbit / seal it if you can't. Instead, they are letting adventurers in.

Should I, out-of-universe, think that Descent: Champions is just a race and is not really related to the main game storyline?


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When I login to the game, I'm always placed in a channel "General Chat (deDE)". Unfortunately I don't understand German, so when I join a match I'm placed with German players who no doubt don't understand my English either.

So how can I join an English channel?

I have tried /join General Chat ( but I just get about 15 deDE channels listed as possibilities.


texts: How do movements while concealed affect alien patrols?

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I recently had an experience that seems to be common, judging from other posts on the internet. Using my starting Concealment, I stealthed my whole team all the way across the map to the objective, bypassing a pod along the way. However, once I neared the objective, all three pods on the map converged on it, leaving me no options but to evac or to fight the entire enemy force simultaneously.

Other posters have observed this tendency of enemies to converge if you remain concealed. Over at The enemy knows where you are in concealment on the Steam forums, Prince Ian shows this image of 5 pods all converging on his concealed ranger:

Clearly this convergence is real, and some mechanic must drive it. However, the internet is divided about what that mechanic is. From sources like the previously linked Steam forum thread and https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/44xs8y/psa_lesserknown_pro_tips/, I've seen a couple of explanations:

Enemies can hear you when you dash, and will move to investigate the noise.

Variant 1: this only applies to dashes, not to double moves
Variant 2: this is actually a short-range ability (only about 5-6 tiles) and is documented in the .ini files

The mechanic is specifically triggered when you're close to the objective; if you get too close to the objective, the enemy sends a patrol there.

Variant: the game tries to evenly space enemies along an invisible line that passes through both your squad and the objective. When you get close to the objective, this line becomes short, resulting in enemies converging.

Surely at least one of these claims must be true (perhaps several!), but it's difficult to tell which. Can anybody point to hard evidence - like official documentation, an analysis of the source code, or YouTube videos showing experiments designed to differentiate between these different hypotheses - that establishes what is true and what is fiction?


texts: How much space do large thrusters require?

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Space Engineer's wiki suggests that Small Thruster on a Small Ship destroys an area of 3x3x4 (width, height, depth) behind the exhaust, assuming the space is completely enclosed and filled. A small thruster is capable of dealing damage of up to 5 blocks depth over open space.
However, the wiki doesn't specify whether large thrusters work the same way, and damage the same area. Since a large block is 5x5x5 of a small block, it's reasonable to assume a destruction zone of 15x15x20.
Does anyone know for sure if the destruction zone works that way? I can always test manually, but figured I'd see if stackoverflow knew first.


texts: BF 4 render distance and interaction range

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As most games does, i'm sure that BF 4 has a render distance, where, past a certain point, the game does not render anything but a "generic background" (a.k.a a mountain, sky, etc...), but that does not mean that past that point there is not a legitmate interactable object (a.k.a a player, a structure, a tank, etc...).

My question here is: If i take my long ranged weapon (sniper or tank) and shoot it, can i hit a target dispite its distance? which could translate to "hey player, dispite not showing you, there was a head where your bullet landed, so, good shot!"... or the alternative is true? "hey player, your shot was supposed to hit a head, but you took it from too far away, and after X km, I stop calculating collisions for that bullet, despite the fact that physics calculations predict that it carries enough energy to kill..."


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I would like to know if mobs can see me through glass and therefore pile up in front of my window even if I stand 2 square away?

I currently have a rather small stone house with a wooden door and no windows. I would like to add windows to make it look nice but I don't want to attract mobs.


texts: How to determine the number of already created entities of a give type in a settlement's storage?

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So when you go around a settlement and clean it up, you can store some things instead of salvaging them (tab in settlement edit mode for the computer).  Once stored, when you go to build that type of entity again, it will place build it  without using any resources until you have used up all the ones in storage (it will also not award experience points for building them, as you aren't making new ones).  Once you have used up all the ones in storage, it will begin building them by deducting from your resources and awarding experience.

My problem is that I don't see any indicator of how many I have left before it will cost resources.  Where can I check so I don't go wasting resources?


texts: Config file location for Civlization V on Linux

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On Linux-family systems, where are the files that store user configuration (particularly pertaining to resolution) found?

I've been looking over the usual suspects (~/.steam, the game installation directory) without any success.


texts: How can I locate my disabled train stop among many stops with the same name?

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I need to locate a specific train stop in my factory but there are a number of problems making this difficult

My factory has like 500-1000 train stops in total so locating it manually would be like looking for a needle in a  hay stack.
This specific train train stop is disabled so I can't send a train to it (and locate it that way).
There are 14 other train stops with the same name. Usually you can put a train stop in a train's schedule and click on the text to locate it, but this only ever locates one (and the same) train stop sharing my sought-after train stop's name.

What can I do to find my train stop?


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While Sven the bard is playing at the Sleeping Giant Inn in Riverwood, you may occasionally here a discussion between himself and Delphine (prior to the quest Alduin's Wall) that goes like the following:

  Delphine: "Sven, we need to talk..."
  Sven: "Here we go..."
  Delphine: "It's about your singing. Well, not your singing, your songs. But you know what I'm talking about."
  Sven: "You do realize these simpletons
  wouldn't know real music if it bit them in the britches, hmm? Very
  well. Your wish is my command."
  Delphine: "Wonderful. And let's not
  have this chat again next week. Agreed?"

I emphasise the line from Delphine; But you know what I'm talking about. What IS she talking about?

Based on the response from Sven is implies she feels the locals dislike the song choice, however the songs he plays are no different to any other bard in Skyrim (Ragnar the Red, The Age of Aggression and Tale of the Tongues). Plus this discussion is had when Whiterun hold remains neutral in the war and "The Age of Aggression" is the political song of choice, so it can't be that his songs are anti-Imperial rule, not that she even cares that much about the war, though I don't imagine she would support the Stormcloaks.

I also don't think any of the songs are disruptive of her secret identity or overly difficult to understand for the local simpletons.

So, again; What is she talking about?


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The problem is I have just a 4 tile jump height instead of the 6 tile in Terraria. It is really  really annoying and I don't know why did this happen. I cant find anything about it at the internet, just keep searching but I can't find anything.
Does anyone know how can i get back the 6 tile jump height? I have the game on steam, 1.3.0.8


texts: He gets me every time. Is there an effective way to avoid getting hooked by him?


texts:
I got FNAF 3 recently and I've been having a lot of trouble with Night 3. I always seem to get multiple errors and while I'm rebooting the systems Springtrap either completely disappears or comes and kills me.

When and Where should I be using my audio lures? What should I do about the Shadow Animitronics? What do I do if Springtrap get's into the hallway outside my office?


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I was playing Final Fantasy VIII ages ago, and I had to stop for a while (technical difficulties, and real life preventing me taking the time to solve them). It's been several years at least, but I recently picked up my old save again. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to progress.

The save says I'm still on disc 3, but there's nothing left to do. I have Ragnarok, I have all GF's except Eden, I have everyone's best weapon, I've farmed four sets of all magic except Ultima (I was farming the Elnoyle in Esthar city when last I played), and most early locations don't have anything left. I've been back to Tear's Point, Trabia Garden, Fisherman's Horizon, Shimi Village, Lunatic Pandora Laboratory, Lunar Gate, and Esthar City, among others, and it seems like I've accomplished everything.

I've also been back to the orphanage. I cannot get to the lighthouse. Cid and Edea are both there, and Edea admonishes me to be patient with Rinoa.

I have read ahead some to try to figure this out on my own. It seems like maybe I should enter the obelisk floating above Tear's Point, but I can't see find how to do that, and it feels like I've played that sequence before.

I also have vague memories of seeing and climbing the chains leading into the castle. I wonder that I have done that and then taken a portal out of the castle... but if so, how do I re-enter? And why does my save game say "Disc 3"?

Any help appreciated.


texts: Need help with redstone logic memory cells

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I need some advice if possible regarding making a memory cell, specifically what type of memory cell I should look at employing. I assume I want a T-Flip-Flop but I'm not too sure.

Basically the switch is going to be used as a track selector for a rail system, each location is connected to at most two other stations. What I'm attempting to do is probably best explained in a picture:

As you can see I would like to have the current state of particular junction saved in a particular state. When a button is pressed it toggles the state of that lever which is then saved again. I'm assuming for this I would want a T-Flip-Flop switch and I would need to feed the input buttons from all stations to meet at the input end of this switch, would that be correct?


texts: Do the new DLC items count towards the collection achievements?

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Some months ago, Ashes of Ariandel released as DLC for Dark Souls 3 adding in many items including 4 new spells and 1 new ring. However, DS3 already had achievements for collecting all spells and all rings.

Do these new items affect the achievements so that I will have to gather the DLC items as well as the already existing items in order to get the achievement?


texts: How does the Empire's Power Relays work?

texts: The tutorial mentioned that the Empire team's Power Relays operated by Line of Sight. Does that mean that so long as there isn't anything between the two relays, I can make them any distance apart from each other? Does that mean that the structures that team makes have to be in sight too, or just in range of a Relay?


texts: My sim died  by freezing. Making an ambrosia is quite tough. Is there any cheat code to revive my sim?


texts: How to survive in the middle of a storm?

texts: No habitat, no rover/truck/spaceship and no cave near. The storm right next to your face, how do you survive?


texts: When does the day end in The Four Kings Casino and Slots?

texts: In this game you can complete daily missions and spin a special slot machine once a day. When does the day end in this game so I can spin again?


texts: What are the Decals in the rewards section used for?


texts:
I am trying to make the Arms Assistant from the QuiverBow Mod ignore my PortalGun Sentry turret. However I don't know what to put in the writable book, the documentation is not very extensive...

Here is what I tried:

craft Book and Quill
write "Sentry Turret" in it
give it to the Arms assistant
give a weapon to Arms assistant

Result: it attacks the sentries.

What am I doing wrong here? I tried also "PortalTurret", which is the name of the Sentry turret item (I think not of the entity), but that didn't work either.

I would appreciate an answer that is general enough that it allows me and other people to apply it to any kind of entity that needs to be blacklisted.


texts: How to compare different Pokémon with the same CP?

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I am familiar with the Pokémon GO Species/Moveset Analysis Tool spreadsheet, which is very helpful, when one wants to compare movesets of one Pokémon or to compare different Pokémon on the same level. But for the sake of efficient gym training, I would need to compare different Pokémon with the same CP. Let me give an example (to simplify things, let's ignore IV or attack types for now):

Let's assume, I have following three Pokémon:

Snorlax (Lick, Hyper Beam), level 15, CP 1250
Snorlax (Lick, Hyper Beam), level 7, CP 550
Raticate (Bite, Hyper Beam), level 15, CP 550

The spreadsheet enables me to compare #1 and #3, so even without understanding what all these ratings exactly mean, I can easily see that Snorlax is far superior to Raticate both defensively and offensively, which is something I would guess just after seeing their CP (1250 vs 550).

But assume, I need to train a gym with Pokémon around 1100 CP in it. To get maximum prestige, I would want to use Pokémon that has around 550 CP. Thus, I would need to compare #2 and #3, which are different levels, but the same CP.

Is there a way to use this spreadsheet so that it can do this kind of comparison? Or is there other spreadsheet/tool/website where I can do this comparison?


texts: Minecraft server hosting not working on MacOS Big Sur

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I set up a Minecraft server on my Mac (macOS Big Sur 11.1) using Mojang's provided server jar file (https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server). It worked when I joined from the LAN with the IP localhost as well as the IP address the computer used to connect to the internet (I am connecting to the internet with iPhone USB hotspot as I cannot get WiFi where I live). However when other people tried to join they got this error message:
Failed to connect to the server
io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel$AnnotatedConnectException: Connection timed out: no further information:

This happened even when I disabled my firewall and allowed all incoming connections.

How do I solve this problem?


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Does the number of candies received from a transfer depend on the CP of the pokemon?

I have a Pidgey with 26 CP and caught a Pidgeotto with 14 CP. I am debating which to transfer.


texts: How to unlock victory achievements in Pandora First Contact

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In Pandora as in many Steam games are a list of achievements featuring many different things you can do in the game.

However, it seems some of them are not always unlocked even when the prerequisites are met.

For example, I just won a military victory but haven't received the achievement. But the achievement for refitting a unit has been unlocked. What may cause this difference?

I start games without any mods, with the real paid game, from the new game advanced menu.


texts: How to swap single player and arcade mode ships?

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The Wikipedia on Tyrian says:

  It is possible to switch between the Single Player and (1 person) Arcade modes using a secret routine (not cheat codes). Since it is possible to find exotic weapons early in Arcade Mode (by contrast in Single Player, such weapons can only be bought at the end), using this switch will allow such weapons to be brought over to single player. Likewise, generator and shield upgrades from single player will result in a better ship for Arcade Mode.

What is this secret routine?


texts: How can I effectively utilize Zarya's skillset?

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In Overwatch, Zarya is a 'tank' character. However, she's one of the more confusing ones to play as her health total is relatively low. She hinges heavily on her abilities - a shield for her teammates and a shield for herself - but these have very short duration and relatively long cooldown. As a result, Zarya feels very punishing to play.

I love Zarya's fantasy and character design, but I'm not effective when playing her. How can I utilize Zarya's skillset to benefit my team?


texts: Why can't I get anywhere near the medal times for survival mode?

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I've been playing a bit of survival mode in Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter and Serious Sam 3: BFE, but I'm having a lot of trouble even getting a bronze medal time, let alone get a silver or gold.

I managed to eek out a bronze time for the Death from Above map in TSE. However, I'm not getting anywhere in any of the other maps—my best time for Kleer Base in TSE is 1:50, and the bronze medal time is 3:00. On every other map I play, I seem to miss the medal times by a large margin.

I suspect there's something systematically wrong with the way I'm playing. I obviously can't describe my playing style in full detail, but I will update this question with more information as needed.

Edit 1

Just got a 4:06 time on my first attempt at Deserted in BFE, a map that is wider open and has fewer and more powerful enemies positioned far away from Sam, especially for the first few minutes. The Death from Above map mentioned above is similarly wide open, though enemies are positioned a bit closer.

This is telling us that the problem is in close-quarters combat and large groups of smaller enemies. Any ideas?


texts: Does the car wash actually wash the car?

texts: In the Gran Turismo series, does the Car Wash washes the car or is it only a fake car wash? I don't remember that the cars got dirty and I don't remember seeing a difference before and after going to the car wash.


texts: Minecraft Command working in text chat but not in command block 1.14+

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I have a command in a command block that doesn't work. However, it works fine when I put it into text chat.

Here is the command:

playsound minecraft:ambient.cave block @a[x=-190,y=78,z=196,distance=..100]

Any ideas why it isn't working?


texts:
I am playing as Brazil. I have attacked several of my neighbors without justification, and brought my infamy up to 95. This resulted in the Netherlands declaring war together with their ally Great Britain, although I have managed to fight them off and get peace.

I would like to continue conquering my neighbors, but since I don't seem to be getting war justifications, I would increase my infamy and probably have the whole world attack me. How can I lower infamy?


texts: Can Steam downloads be set to run consecutively instead of concurrently?

texts: This is more of a general question about the best way to expedite Steam downloads. I'm on a slower DSL line at home so if I end up with multiple downloads from Steam running at the same time it bogs them all down. If one of the updates happens to be a game I want to play, I end up having to juggle the downloads by pausing the ones I am willing to wait on, then un-pause them later. I'm away from my home PC so I can't really dig through the menus on Steam right now, but is there an option somewhere that will force Steam to queue up the downloads so that they run one after the other instead of it being all of them rushing for the door at the same time?


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I was wondering, I have optifine and I can get HD yexture packs but if I get anything over 128x Minecraft crashes.  Why is this happening?  My computer is very new and has great proccesors and graphics cards.  My processor is an intel i7 3,4Ghz and my graphics card is a one of the higher AMD Rathelons and I usually get 200fps with Minecraft.  I also have 8GB of RAM.

EDIT: When I use mc-patcher with a 256x256 texture pack I get this error report:

---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// Would you like a cupcake?

Time: 6/23/13 7:46 AM
Description: Rendering screen

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at bio.a(SourceFile:388)
    at bio.<init>(SourceFile:136)
    at bio.<init>(SourceFile:108)
    at biq.a(SourceFile:127)
    at biq.c(SourceFile:94)
    at bir.b(SourceFile:80)
    at bge.d(SourceFile:350)
    at bge.c(SourceFile:301)
    at bjx.a(SourceFile:146)
    at axt.a(SourceFile:175)
    at bjw.a(SourceFile:109)
    at bfq.b(SourceFile:768)
    at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.K(SourceFile:597)
    at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:526)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Head --
Stacktrace:
    at bio.a(SourceFile:388)
    at bio.<init>(SourceFile:136)
    at bio.<init>(SourceFile:108)
    at biq.a(SourceFile:127)
    at biq.c(SourceFile:94)
    at bir.b(SourceFile:80)
    at bge.d(SourceFile:350)
    at bge.c(SourceFile:301)
    at bjx.a(SourceFile:146)
    at axt.a(SourceFile:175)
    at bjw.a(SourceFile:109)

-- Screen render details --
Details:
    Screen name: bjw
    Mouse location: Scaled: (125, 143). Absolute: (375, 530)
    Screen size: Scaled: (427, 321). Absolute: (1280, 961). Scale factor of 3
Stacktrace:
    at bfq.b(SourceFile:768)
    at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.K(SourceFile:597)
    at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:526)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

    -- System Details --
    Details:
        Minecraft Version: 1.5.2
        Operating System: Windows 8 (amd64) version 6.2
        Java Version: 1.7.0_25, Oracle Corporation
        Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
        Memory: 5540872 bytes (5 MB) / 904527872 bytes (862 MB) up to 954466304 bytes (910 MB)
        JVM Flags: 2 total; -Xms512m -Xmx1024m
        AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
        Suspicious classes: [com.prupe.mcpatcher.MCPatcherUtils, Config, MCLogger, ...], [com.prupe.mcpatcher.mod.ColorizeItem, AAHelper, TessellatorUtils, ...]
        IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0
        LWJGL: 2.4.2
        OpenGL: AMD Radeon HD 7570 GL version 4.2.12002 Compatibility Profile Context 9.12.0.0, ATI Technologies Inc.
        Is Modded: Very likely; Jar signature invalidated
        Type: Client (map_client.txt)
        Texture Pack: 1.5TP_HD_By_Lancer_256x256.zip
        Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
        Vec3 Pool Size: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null


texts: Does the Advanced Warfare Center healing bonus stack with the bonus from HQ?

texts:
The Advanced Warfare Center is an Avenger facility that can be staffed with an engineer in order to increase the rate of healing for your injured soldiers (I think the healing rate is doubled?).

Scanning at your HQ can also increase the healing rate of your soldiers, if you purchase the scanning bonus at HQ.

Do these healing bonuses stack, or can you only receive the bonus of one while scanning at HQ?


texts: Does doubling base damage have the same effect as doubling base attack in Heroes of Might and Magic IV?

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In Heroes IV the damage formula was changed compared to Heroes III. It is now directly proportional to attacker’s Attack value, and inversely proportional to target’s Defence.
There is certainly a big difference between having twice more HP and having twice more Defence: more Defence is better against ordinary attacks, as wounds will be twice easier to heal using spells, while twice more HP is twice better against magic, as magic is not resisted by Defence at all. It matters even for Frenzied Gnashers/Black Dragons, because if they had lower defence for higher HP, when fighting a hero with Grandmaster Melee they would get less damage due to GM Melee being able to reduce enemy Defence, but to no lower than 10.

With damage and Attack it seems to be a bit harder to judge. Well, heroes can get numerical, non-percentage based increases to Attack value, and their damage grows with level (if I am not mistaken), so it does matter for heroes — for example, +5 to Attack would produce a vastly different relative damage increase for a hero with base Attack of 10, 20 or 40.

However, I don’t remember anything that gives plain numerical bonuses to creatures’ base damage and/or Attack. Everything that I remember — spells, artifacts — increases their stats based on percentages, such as +25% to Attack.
What if, for the purposes of clarity, their damage would be changed to include their Attack bonus, and their Attack would be set to some fixed value for all of them, or at least for all creatures of the same level? For example, if a creature used to deal 20-30 damage with Attack of 15, and another creature used to deal 10-30 damage with Attack of 20, the first could be changed to deal 30-45 damage with Attack of 10, and the other one — 40-60 damage with Attack of 10.

Would anything practically change except probably some rounding?


texts: Can i apply a rule-set to campaign mode in Cities-In-Motion-2? I created a new one and want to apply it. Is it possible to do so?


texts:
I've just build a naturalist in my game, and I want to use it's ability to build a national park, but wherever I place it the button doesn't seem to light up.

What determines if a tile is valid as a national park?


texts: How to list up all Steam Workshop games?

texts: I like those games which support Steam Workshop. How to list them up?


texts: Is it possible to design custom tattoos in SIMS 4?

texts:
I am aware that we can select a tattoo for our sims from a range of available tattoos in Create A Sim menu, either from a dresser or a mirror. However, as they are limited, I am wondering if there's a tattoo parlor (or a machine) that allows us users to generate custom tattoos? I have seen mentions of tattoo machines in SIMS 4 forums but I have never seen one in the game-play.
Would be great if it could be found in the original game itself.
But if not, a mod would also be okay.


texts: I've heard people talk about Pyros being able to rocket-jump in TF2. Since they obviously don't have a rocket launcher, how is this possible?


texts: Chess: The Gathering has little to no documentation in its current state, and I have absolutely no idea what's going on.  Is there a manual or tutorial for it somewhere?


texts:
My inquisitor survived an attack from another religious unit.

How can I heal this unit?

There is no healing option. Resting the unit within my borders did not work. Resting in a city did not work either. Even a city with a holy district.


texts:
I have been trying to run minecraft under 64-bit JRockIt, hoping to get better performance (Will I? It works very well for server applications.)

I use the command:

"C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java" -Xms512m -Xmx4096m -cp "%APPDATA%\.minecraft\bin\*" -Djava.library.path="%APPDATA%\.minecraft\bin\natives" net.minecraft.client.Minecraft

However JRockit probably considers the "." in the any name as a package delimiter

C:\Users\Midhat\Desktop>java -Xms512m -Xmx4096m -cp "C:\Users\Midhat\AppData\Roa
ming\.minecraft\bin\*" -Djava.library.path="C:\Users\Midhat\AppData\Roaming\.min
ecraft\bin\natives" net.minecraft.client.Minecraft
Exception in thread "Main Thread" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: C:\Users\Midha
t\AppData\Roaming\/minecraft\bin\lwjgl/jar
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: C:\Users\Midhat\AppData\Roaming\.mi
necraft\bin\lwjgl.jar
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Could not find the main class: C:\Users\Midhat\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin\lw
jgl.jar.  Program will exit.

Is there any way I can use JRockIt to run Minecraft? Could this be a JRockIt bug?


texts: How can I confirm I'm playing the current version of Civilization 5?

texts: I feel like I am encountering bugs that were reported as fixed in the most recent patch. Is there a way I can confirm what version of the game I'm running?  I can't seem to find an "About" menu anywhere.


texts: How to cross the room with symbols on the floor

texts: What is the logic behind the room with the symbols on the floor in the French Chateau? I realise I need to follow the directions in the journal, but it seems that even when I take exactly the same path I fail at different points.


texts: What traits do the Dwemer have in Elder Scrolls' lore?

texts: I'd like to know what traits the Dwemer have in terms of character creation on the ES games. For example, Wood Elves are good at archery. Is it known what the Dwemer were good at?


texts: What is the spawn code for pine wood in Minecraft?

texts:
What spawn code do I need to use to spawn pine wood block in multiplayer? On some website I saw something like 17-1 (17 for the sapling, and 1 for pine since 1 is the type of a sapling).. But when I try spawning 17-1, i get the "There's no item with id 17-1" message. Oh and I tried googleing, but can't find the code anywhere.. Hints? Thank you.

(using up-to-date Minecraft 1.7)


texts:
I noticed that the RuneScape NXT client uses about 1.6 GB of memory when I am in the Living Rock Caverns on the LRC world, even when I have all graphics options turned down. While I have 4 GB memory on this system, this much memory for that application makes my system unstable. The old java client didn't seem to have this problem.

Is there a settings file that allows me to limit the amount of memory, or an other way that allows me to hint the application to only use about 1GB?


texts:
I am trying to make a pro custom design hat that looks like Dawn's hat from Pokemon. The way to make hat designs is really weird and drawing a straight line makes it curved which makes it very difficult to make it.
Is there a better way to make it or am I missing something.


texts: How can I change the decal on my vehicles?

texts: I've seen vehicles with decals saying PlanetSide Beta and others. How do I put one of these decals on my vehicle? And how do I get some more?


texts: How to get /testfor to only find one player with a score value?

texts:
I set up a huge randomiser that gives you a random score on a scoreboard called 'say'. There is also a constant /testfor command running to detect a player with each of the possibilities of the randomiser, but no matter what, somebody is always being detected.

I used the command

testfor @p[score_say=13]

(13 is one of the possibilities). I need help making it so that it doesn't always detect every player, but only the player with the score.


texts: I've sided with Dawnguard, but I chose to become a Vampire Lord during Chasing Echoes. Now the people in Fort Dawnguard won't sell them to me. Is it possible to get bolts while being a Vampire Lord?


texts:
Why do Electronic Arts games for Genesis (Mega Drive) have a different cartridge size?

Jungle Strike Cartridge:

NHL95:

The Immortal:

"Normal" USA/Europe cartridge:


texts: When do resource-generating skills work on destructible objects?

texts:
I've noticed that when attacking an object (e.g. a barrel) with a fury-generating skill as a Barbarian, I generate fury as if I would have attacked a monster. Attacking a barrel with a spirit-generating skill, however, does not generate spirit.

My question is, when do resource-generation skills actually generate resources when attacking an object?

Does it only depend on the class?
Does it depend on the specific skills used?
Does it matter if the object is a red-highlighted one (e.g. a barrel) or a non-highlighted one (e.g. a tombstone act 1 graveyard)?


texts:
Several early levels in Snake Pass begin with an intro cutscene from Doodle the Hummingbird explaining the game's story. While these are charming the first time, they can be a bit annoying when replaying levels for hidden collectibles.

Is there any way to skip cutscenes in Snake Pass?


texts: How do your get generator-settings for a void world

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Pretty much the title, I have tried before but to no avail, I am asking here because I do not know how the new json format works and have found no documentation on it at all.
I have tried to use this command:
{"layers"\:[{"block"\:"minecraft\:air","height"\:1}],"biome"\:"minecraft\:the_void"}

but it won't work.


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On 16th June (or so) the preseason ends and the game will rewards players for their rank in Hero/Team League.

I've recently acquired rank 1 and I don't want to play until rewards are handed out so I don't lose it.
Is there any system in place that will lower my rank for league inactivity?


texts: Can a game purchased from the nintendo store be moved to a different console?

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If I purchased a game from the Nintendo Store can I move that game from my 3DS to a different one? Or is that game permanently stuck on the console that you buy it on?

If a 3DS broke could you redownload it on a new one?

Can you give a game to your friend if you got it online?


texts: Gamertag and hasn't changed after paying for the service

texts: A few weeks ago I paid 10 dollars to change my Xbox gamertag. It still hasn't changed. It says on the website that it's changed, but on the Xbox application & in Minecraft it displays my old one. I really don't want to experiment and pay another 10 dollars so how can I fix this?


texts: Any benefits from transferring older generations Pokemon to new ones?

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Are there any benefits or gifts from transferring older generations Pokemon to the newer ones?

I can't remember correctly but I read somewhere that if you traded Pokemon from Gold or Silver from Virtual Console to Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon you were able to get a full set of the johto poke balls (Apricorn).

Aside from that, is there any other benefit from transferring Pokemon from older generation (Pokemon RBY/GSC from the virtual Console, and Pokemon RSE/FRLG/DPP/HGSS/BW/B2W2/XY/ORAS) to Gen 7 games(USUM)?

By this I mean anything, like a certificate, an item, a PC Wallpaper, something obtained for taking the time to transfer your old mons.

Edit: It would be nice to also know if there is anything to be obtained from transferring Gen 3-5 to Gen 6 games, but my main interest is from Gen 7, since they are the only ones where you can get Pokemon from all generations.


texts: How strong are the conjured "Bound" weapons compared to their physical counterparts?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How much damage does a conjured weapon do?

I've really come to enjoy conjuring, especially dual-wielding bound swords.  They weigh nothing, and I get skill just for bringing them out, and the coup-de-grace is that they automatically soul trap (hooray enchanting!).

The issue is though, how much damage am I losing by using conjured weapons over carrying the average/best weapons available to my level?

I have the perk that increases bound weapon damage, and I know it's augmented by my one handed skill, but does my conjuration skill also augment the damage? or just the cost/duration?


texts: Is there any way to use mods in Minecraft demo version?

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How can I use mods in Minecraft demo version? Can NTBExplorer do what I am talking about?

Before that when I didn't know that mods don't run in demo version, I wasted a lot of time trying to use mods but nothing useful.


texts: Does Madden NFL 11 support  local multiplayer?

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I was looking for a game that my son and I could play together on our xbox.  I picked out the game Madden NFL 11.  My son asked "Are you sure we can do multi player on the same xbox?"  I told him that I thought so, but I better check before I open the game.

Is it possible for us to play together using the same console?


texts: Why are artifacts in Puzzle Craft 2 not working?

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My guess is that items in these rows

Magnificent Feathers gives you a fixed amount of gold
Witch's Workshop gives a bonus in XP gain
Tribal Artifacts unlocks a puzzle

So far I've found 2 items on the second row, and one on the third (the necklace) but I don't feel any extra XP gain (although 5% may not feel like a lot xD) and worse, on the puzzle page all 5 puzzles that say "You can unlock this species only by completing a special collection" still stay grey.

What am I missing?


texts: What is the benefit of Accept Culture change?

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Maybe the first question should be: what is the impact of the "Accept Culture change"? Does it only change country culture or culture of ALL provinces?

If that only change main culture... what is the benefit of Accept Culture change at all?


texts: Why am I unable to play the newest version of Minecraft?

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I have an Mac OS X Yosemite computer and I've been wanting to play the newest version of Minecraft. Any time I try to open a version of 1.13 or higher, it gives me the exit code 0.
I have little to no technology knowledge but I do have the newest version of Java. Even if i try to play 1.13 it gives me exit code 0. I don't know why this is happening or what I could do to fix it.


texts: Is there a (playable) helicopter in Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers?

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In one of the tutorial messages, Gyro Gearloose tells about a (heli)copter, something along the lines of "Gyrocopter is also available". I've assumed that the helicopter is an unlockable item in the game, but does the vehicle actually exist and does it have any gameplay purpose?
I've played the PC version and I don't know if there are major version differences. Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers is known as Donald Duck: Quack Attack in Europe.


texts: How do I get my ships to travel between systems which are not directly connected?

texts: How do I get my ships to go between systems like the blue and green ships?


texts: How can the "Clear The Whole Game Field" challenge be completed?

texts: Am I missing something here or does the game present some different particles after a while which can clear all the present atoms plus the next atom?


texts: When is the best time to take down a tower if you're winning in your lane?

texts: When is the best time to take down a tower in your lane if you're winning the lane?


texts: Playstation 3 HDD Change - "Cannot start.The correct hard disk was not found."

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Error message when it boots is in the topic : "Cannot start.The correct hard disk was not found."

I have a 40GB old PS3 model, and i was swapping the system drive for a 60GB Corsair SSD Force Series.

Before HDD swap i did backup to another USB HDD i had lying around.
After HDD swap

Insert Corsair from wrapping: This error.
Make partition on Corsair format as FAT32. This error.
Make sure partition on Corsair is MBR not GUID. This error.
Put FW 3.50 on USB stick in PS3\UPDATE. This error.
Hold power button until two quick beeps to enter diag menu. This error.

What i haven't tried: Putting in another hdd that's not the original (that's coming now,i have a 120 and 320 lying about to test with).

Anyone had similar issues or tips?


texts: Should tanky players use Aspect of the Crab?

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I play hardcore sword and board and have 90% estimated physical damage reduction at rest.

It promises 20% physical damage reduction when fully stacked.
Which would result in a total of only 8% damage coming through.

Does Aspect of the Crab stack on top on the physical damage reduction from armor?
Is the Crab still effective above the 90% physical damage reduction cap?
Since as a tank I'm charging and jumping into enemies all the time, the Crab stack is being reset all the time. Is there even a benefit to using the Crab? The Crab might be more useful to ranged evasion builds.


texts: Bandwidth spikes lead to crash on specific world on server

texts: When i connect to this server, and only on a certain world in that server, i get high bandwidth spikes. No one else on the server experiences this problem. Normally your bandwidth usage will spike when you load new chunks or a lot of stuff is being rendered and received from the server, but it is doing it while i stand still. I've tried updating my java and reinstalling minecraft. This doesn't happen on other servers or even on certain worlds in the minecraft server, my bandwidth is really bad at about 2.5 mbps down speed, but why could it be spiking as shown? Thanks.


texts: Are there underground mobs in peaceful difficulty?

texts: In peaceful, can you find mobs underground in caves? I know they don't spawn on the surface if you have the difficulty set to peaceful on pocket edition but I was wondering if there was any below the surface.


texts: Are the Gearbox weapons supposed to be spec'd for Level 1?

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I just installed the additional DLC packs from the Borderlands 2 GOTY edition.  When I loaded my game, I got a notice that I now have some "Gearbox" branded weapons in my backpack.  However, they're really low capability.  For example, the damage ratings are:

11 for Gearbox Renegade Assault Rifle
11 for Gearbox Projectile Convergence SMG
41 for Gearbox Callipeen Sniper Rifle

Since I'm on my second playthrough in True Vault Hunter Mode, these weapons are useless.  Should they be spec'd according to my level, and this is a glitch, or is this how they are supposed to be delivered?


texts: How do you keep the mobs away from your house at night?

texts: I'm playing Minecraft on creative mode, how can I keep mobs away from my home? I don't want to disable hostile mobs entirely by setting the difficulty to Peaceful, just keep them away from my house.


texts: iCade bluetooth keyboard mappings for MAME?

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I just got an iCade -- it is technically for an Apple iPad, but it is basically a generic bluetooth keyboard arcade controller.

It's great! But once I paired it with my laptop as a bluetooth keyboard for testing, I discovered something odd that does not bode well for using the iCade with MAME. All inputs show up as two (and only two) keypresses – one key when pushed down, and another key when released. Like so:

Joystick

      ↑ w, e

← a, q   → d, c

      ↓ x, z

Buttons

(1 red) y, t  (2 blk) u, f  (3 blk) i, m  (4 wht) o, g

(5 red) h, r  (6 blk) j, n  (7 blk) k, p  (8 wht) l, v

Most MAME emulators expect standard keyboard behavior. That is, when you are pressing left you hold down left the entire duration of the movement.

This isn't a big deal for the buttons -- buttons are instant activate so if I pressed y on my keyboard that is the same as, say, pressing fire in Galaxian.

But it makes the joystick a non starter since the keyboard key is not "held down" -- that is, when I use the joystick and press ← one a is sent.. ever. But when I stop holding down ← q is sent.

How can I configure MAME or other emulators to work with the iCade joystick and its peculiar keyboard interface? Is there any way to create a MAME config file that will work with the iCade?


texts: Why do the endless ask if you need their help?

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During the game the party meet some of the endless (The dragons, e.g. Sea Dragon / Grass Dragon).

If you meet one of them and Ryu talks to them, they ask you, if you need their help. If you answer yes, Ryu can use their powers during the round based battles from time to time.

However, if you talk to an endless, he asks you "Do you need my help?". You can choose to say Not now so I was wondering, what, if any, impact does this have on the gameplay. Does anything change if you choose to not request the help?


texts: So I'm having a very annoying problem: Paladin Danse won't give me the next Brotherhood of Steel quest (the one that has me go to the prydwen, via vertibird), and he won't have cognitive conversation, just a repetitive menial response, including "I'm busy right now." I've done Haylen and Rhys's missions for 2 and a half hours. Can someone help me?


texts: Connect to the same server on MooMoo.io?

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I've found moomoo.io recently and wanted to test it out with my friends. But we can't quite hit the same server.

I guess it's something similar like Agar.io, where you find the socket in your browsers console and connect to it there, but I can't quite figure it out here.

Edit: There has been an update with the party button being added. It worked for us some moments ago, but it has a bug at the moment that renders it useless. Regardless of that, I'm looking for a way to force join the same server without using the provided party option.


texts: How do I accept and complete missions in World of Tanks?

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I didn't get how to work with the missions's menu.
I want to do the income increase mission but how do I accept it and how do I see my progress and requierments?


texts: Does Mojang blacklist or throttle login attempts from specific IP addresses?

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I recently ran a Minecraft event with 50 players, all in the same physical space with a shared internet connection.  About 2/3 of players were challenged for their authentication credentials, and after entering known good email addresses and passwords that had all previously worked, login was denied with an error indicating invalid credentials.

I was able to reset the passwords on these accounts, but even after resetting the passwords they still did not work.

The strangest thing was that the newly reset passwords would not even work when trying to log in via https://accounts.mojang.com/login -- I would reset a password, get the green confirmation message that the new password was successfully set, and then when I tried logging in again via the web site it would not accept it.

Switching over to an internet connection via a cell phone resulted in everything working.  We tried to fool the system by logging in over a cell connection, and then switching the network back, and that worked for a few accounts but then we started getting "invalid token" errors after switching networks.

Then after a couple hours, everything worked again.

To me this points to a temporary throttling or blacklist of the network's IP address.

Since everything worked fine before and after the event, I tend to believe it is not a problem with the firewall or network configuration on our side of things.

Is this a known practice used by Mojang?

What triggers it?

Is there a way to proactively avoid it by getting an IP address whitelisted?

Why don't they provide any actionable information when they are doing this, and why would they permit a password to be reset but not used?


texts: How do I open the door to Alftand Cathedral? I have tried a couple of times, and it seems that I can't open it.


texts: Is a bile jar guaranteed to spawn before map 4's crescendo event in Dark Carnival?

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In Dark Carnival, a bile jar comes in really handy at the end of map 4, the Farms, for passing the gates and going upstream the flow of zombies without taking too much damage. Of course, most noobs, if they have a bile jar, tend to waste it before that critical moment -_-' but that's not the issue...

My question is: is at least one bile jar guaranteed to spawn somewhere in Dark Carnival before map 4's crescendo event, in every instance of that campaign?


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In Duelyst, if I replace a quest, does it ever re-appear?

I've only ever skipped one quest ("play four games as [some faction]"), and I don't complete quests often enough to know for sure if it's going to come back or not.


texts: How does the counterfeit machine interact with the double coins spin prize?

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I am considering buying the counterfeit machine in Jetpack Joyride, but I am curious how it interacts with the double coins spin prize.  Does it:

A. Remove the possibility of winning the double coins prize.
B. Make the double coins prize have no effect.
C. Make the double coins prize worth quadruple coins.

?


texts: I have the 1.8.8 updated Minecraft Console edition. In the previous version, lapis lazuli, was highly prevalent, on par with red stone or something. Since the update, I have not found nearly as much. (4 blocks total) I have found 5 times that in diamonds. I am playing in the level of bedrock to + 50 above bedrock, and I haven't found hardly any. I am using the branch style of mining, which has been highly effective in finding everything but lapis. What happening? Has lapis become more rare in version 1.8.8?


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Some guy had me go on a quest to find a Memory Book, which he then gave to me.

He told me that in order to fill it, I had to complete certain actions over and over again to unlock pages that would then "tell me about the world".

What sorts of things to I have to do over and over again in order to fill this book? Does the book do anything useful if I fill it up?


texts: Does the Uncharted 1&2 Twin Pack come with the bonuses of Uncharted 2 GOTY?

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Sony recently released an Uncharted 1 & 2 Twin Pack (in Australia at least). I haven't played either before and was wondering if getting this bundle was worth it. Uncharted 2 Game of the Year Edition comes with some perks that look good, but the Twin Pack seems like it contains the original version of #2 (from its cover art and list of features). This seems a bit odd to me considering the GOTY version came out a year or so previous.

Has anyone had experience with this Twin Pack? Or does someone know for sure what's included one way or another?


texts: My DualShock 3's L1 button stopped working. Can I fix it without soldering?

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On one of my DualShock 3s the L1 has stopped responding. It "feels" OK, presses normally, and from taking the back cover off looks like the rubber pad is being pressed, so I assume the problem lies within the PCB under the rubber pads.

I have a couple of SIXAXISs I can salvage components off, however my technical abilities are limited so I can't really solder anything. Before disassembling my controller further, is it possible to fix the controller without soldering, given I have the replacement parts?


texts: The crew rank I should be at is 'Channing Tatum', but it just says 'Enforcer'. I checked online and everything is good, but every time I level up it says: 'Crew Rank: Enforcer'.


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I am running Burnout Paradise on a laptop with a Core 2 Duo processor and an Intel X3100 GMA integrated graphics card. With all the settings in the menus turned down to minimum, the game is actually quite playable (although not at a very high framerate in the downtown areas).

I have noticed that even through all the graphical options are either off or at their lowest settings, bloom is still on. This is depriving me of precious frames per second I require for getting my Burnout Paradise license. I located a config file in C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Criterion Games\Burnout Paradise\Config.ini, but there isn't even an option for HDR or bloom in it.

Am I out of luck, or can I turn this effect off?


texts: Do skill enchantments on armor work for companions?

texts: I have been using Lydia and have noticed the following:  If I put on a ring, armor, boots,  necklace and head piece all with bow damage percentage increase, my bow damage rating in my own inventory screen goes up to about 140 for an ebony bow.  If i then give this bow to Lydia, the damage on the bow is the 140.  If I give her the bow to start then give her the clothing with bow damage percentage increases, the bow damage remains at the base level in her inventory screen.  Same thing if I give her the bow with bonus damage to start then give her the clothing.   The bow damage always remains the same as what it was when I gave it to her...so do enchantments on armor and such actually provide a benefit or bonus to your companion?  Perhaps it is just not visible?  Thanks!


texts: I log in to my steam account with internet, without coming up with an option of offline mode it goes straight to steam warning, steam is having trouble connecting to the steam servers, does not fix when I restart computer or try authenticating or updating my account. Could anyone please explain to me what's happening?


texts: How do you get drops from spectators in the Arena? (Far Cry 4)

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In Shanath Arena, sometimes the spectators drop in items to help you fight. I've heard audio like

"I've got a lot of money on you. Take this and don't die"

then there are coloured smoke drops with weapons, ammo or health packs.

Shown above. The purple smoke on the right.

How do I get the spectators to give more drops? Is it the number of kills, accuracy, or points?


texts: What's the difference between a Battle Tag and a Real ID?

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This is the only answer I could find. Is this limited to just seeing the real name?

https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5051975802

Also, why do my friends keep asking for my realid? Are there any added benefits?


texts: What do I earn for playing on Hard or more?

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I just got the Berserker title, which requires 256+ battles at least on Hard Battle Rank. Is there a reward at all I can benefit from for battling on anything but Normal?

Even some simple field monsters manage to beat my characters to a pulp unless I micromanage too much which, along with too much grinding, I totally hate, and I don’t plan more than one play-through.

I’m used to Tales of the Abyss system of Free-Running, so it’s frustrating they get to corner me so easy on this game. Even Tales of Phantasia (SNES) on Hard was easier than this, or maybe it was that Cless was more responsive; I don’t know.

So, yeah, I’d like to know if I can simply switch back to Normal and enjoy the ride without losing anything too important.

Thanks.


texts: What happens in the case of a tie in Clan Wars?

texts: When there is a clan war, what happens in the case of a tie? Does it default to some of the stats used to describe the clan war? or does it have like a deathmatch?


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I've played the open beta and some hours now and I'm really comfortable playing snipers but I'm not sure if my positioning is as it should. I started playing them on the top of the buildings as I had better vision but at some point when leveling up, people was always checking those spots so I moved back to the ground and, since the game was released, I was playing them on a closer distance hiding behind a truck or something else while peeking out to shoot and the hide again.
So far, it worked perfectly and, after about 10 games I have a kill/death ratio of over 12 but it might be because of my low level.

So, anyone knows if there's any position I should be focusing on playing as a sniper or does it depend on many aspects that I should just adapt depending the match?

Side note: by snipers I mean the heroes Hanzo and Widowmaker.


texts: StarCraft2: 2nd CC without expansion - is it worth?

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Once watching own replay I figured own very obvious and very crusial thing.

In this replay I had around 35-40 harvesters on main+natural and income around 900-1000 minerals (per minute?) When I detected lack of harvesters I called 4 (or 5) MULEs. After that (if we believe to replay statistic) my income was JUMPED TILL 1800-1900 per minutes. It was kept on this level for 1.5 minutes...

It's obvious but it's so huge deal. That means that in 1.5 minute I get (almost for free) 1k5 minerals (30 marines!!!)

Plus add this topic StarCraft2: MULE - can he work on one mineral patch with another SCV in parallel?

Here I can conclude that often when:
 - you plan to expand but due to some reason can't move your CC to natural;
 - OR you plan to have 2nd expand but need to clean-up enemy forces from new location;
 - OR don't plan to expand but temporary have exceed of minerals

it could be a good idea to create a new CC on you main build a OC just to call for MULEs. Also, id you DO have expand or 2nd expand... It seems like very useful to build ONE MORE CC+OC just for CALL mules...

Usually Terran plays main+natural, and having 4 CC doesn't seem to bad for me. 4 CC means that 1 will be used for scanning and 3 more will be able to provide MULEs for 2 bases...

I understand the drawback of such strategy: instead of building production building and army you will increase economy strength and it is necessary to balance... But having enough minerals temporary you could put them in a CC+OC - and will pay for himself very quickly.

Am I right? Is there something that I missed here?

Edit: Forget to mention - CC is an additional supply, so it's actual cost is not 400, but 290 only! Though OC costs additional 150 minerals


texts: How do you see your horse's health in Skyrim?

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I'm tired of my horse dying because a mob gets a lucky shot or I don't start healing fast enough.

Is there a way to see your horse's health?


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I had just got the boss key for the Ikana temple, but then I went back to Clock Town for some milk, but then I realized my ocarina was gone. I can no longer enter Ikana Valley because I need Epona to get in.

I tried restarting my game and when I go to my gear none of the 4 instruments are their. My ocarina also isn't appearing in the corner of the screen either.

Is this an intended event or a bug? Is there anything I can do to get my Ocarina back?


texts: How are rainbow adventurer's tickets obtained?

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In the shop there is an option to buy 4★ heroes with rainbow adventurer tickets.

How can these coupons be obtained?


texts: How to find amateur online sc2 tournaments?

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Sometimes it might be fun to enter a tournament every once in a while, but I don't really know where to start. How does one go about finding online amateur-level tournaments?

I am hoping for something like a simple news feed / calendar that links to upcoming public tournaments. I am hoping for something nice and accessible, and avoid having to "become involved with" a forum or community and spend a lot of time searching.

Basically something to supplement ladder play with a different dynamic, and a tangible end result.


texts: Where are the slaughter arenas in the game and which one can I get to the earliest? I just finished the part where Sanctuary lifts off.


texts: "Choose production" bug: game stops map scrolling and doesn't respond to orders, but shows tooltips and animations

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There is an annoying bug in Civilization 5: Brave New World, when in certain conditions game stops responding to your orders: you cannot move units, switch between them or choose their actions. However, the game doesn't hang up - it still shows animations, shows tooltips for terrain tiles while hovering the cursor, the menu can be shown and the game could be saved/loaded in this state.

Reloading the saved game during this "limbo" state results in an infinite rotating globe cursor loop. However, loading the bugged saved game after killing and restarting the games loads fine and the game can be resumed.

This bug happens frequently during the production changing for the city, so it's widely called the "Choose production bug". But it also happens when you use the ranged attack, found religion, switch between units. Validating the game doesn't show any problems.
Have anyone got rid of this bug?

EDIT1: If I exit the game in that "limbo" state, I notice that the game executable still resides in memory, playing music. Is this a kind of a sign that the bug is related to the multimedia issue?

EDIT2: The saved game immediately before the bug (after the caravel move) is available at https://www.dropbox.com/s/1p859xbfhifgue3/6.Civ5Save


texts: Every couple of days or so a huge Radiation Storm blows through the area that I'm currently in. How do I decrease my chances of contracting RADS if I'm outside?


texts: How to Defend against the Stefano build?

texts: As a Protoss how do I defend against the Stefano style build that consists of making three very early bases and pushing once there is a huge number of roaches, sometimes maxed out, at a very early point in the game? It is very deadly to protoss and I don't know how they can even think of stopping it.


texts: Can the whole prologue be skipped with other method than using saves?

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Every time I restarted the game, I had to go through the whole "walking cinematic" with Dr. Reed, where the game doesn't prompt any means to skip it.

The reason why I'm asking about not using a save method, is because of the use of mods: he game crashes when loading an unmodded game or one that won't coincide with game's mechanics.

I was wondering if devs made about some deep mechanism about it (maybe a hidden console thing, starting the game with parameters, etc) though I haven't found any so far.

Game has some modding potential, but it seems that nobody made a mod to skip the whole prologue (starting at Sarif, augmented, 6 months later).


texts: How can you type in Minecraft enchantment table font?

texts: So me and my friend want to message each other in the Minecraft enchantment table lettering and it would be great if someone had an idea on how to do it.


texts: Everdrive save states, how is it possible?

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In a previous topic, we have an explanation on why a device between the console and the card game cannot save the current state of the game :

Save States for older game consoles?

  [...] Saving state is done by copying the current contents of memory/registers into a file, and then loading that file again later. The console's memory is not  part of the cartridge. Therefore, this can't be done by capturing the data coming off the cartridge - you'd have to open the case, and solder down something that is capable of reading the contents of the console's memory, and allow it to be restored later. This is a complicated process, and would likely be hard to get right. [...]  - agent86

This explanation makes a lot of sense and I'm agree with that.

But then I think about the Everdrive, made by Krikzz, the x7 model notably.
This stuff can actually make save states, the game is like emulated with a rom, just like PC emulators, but it's running on the real console hardware. So how is it possible ?

I'm confused, please enlight me.


texts: Why are Endermen walking around my house at day?

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I don't mean that they walk IN the house.

After a long strip mining trip (day 18 IIRC, Normal Difficulty), I started building a new house, when suddenly.... 3 Endermen appeared far on the horizon, walking towards me.
It was noon, and it wasn't raining; I thought Endermen would teleport somewhere else because of the sun, but they kept walking/teleporting on my direction as if they were planning to kill me!

They walked past me *phew*, and went on forward until they reached the ocean, then they teleported back near my house (100-50 blocks away).

I'm wondering if this is because the game wants me to go to the End, or perhaps I may be near a dungeon?
I read the wiki, and it does not explain this behavior, and it didn't happen ever before 1.8


texts: Minecraft closes whenever I alt tab from full screen

texts: Every time I attempt to get out of Minecraft (i.e alt tab, windows key) it closes. if I go to windowed mode, this doesn't happen. How do I stop this?


texts: What is the easiest way to exchange cars between characters in GTA V?

texts: I'm wondering what is the easiest way to give a car from one character to another (perhaps on the opposite side of the map). The garages can only be accessed from the owner and cars left without a character nearby may disappear. I remember reading something related to parking lots and car storage but can't recall the details.


texts: What is the quickest way to unlock the Rose Knight?

texts: I know that in Lords Mobile to hire Rose Knight I need to unlock elite level 6-12 and collect tokens or medals for hiring the hero. Currently, I am in level 32. So, what is the quickest way to unlock the hero? Where I need to focus for that purpose.


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I am using minecraft bedrock on my switch.
All I want to do is to remove all the oak trees so am using the fill/replace command but all I get back is “syntax error: unexpected “minecraft:log”: at “05 94 -41 >>minecraft:log<< “
I have no clue what it means
My starting point is -891, 60, 409 and my end point is -305, 94, -41
The exact thing I am typing in is
/fill -891 60 409 -305 94 -41 minecraft:log replace minecraft:air

Am I missing something?
Thanks


texts: What is the difference between "Damage Health" and "Ravage Health"?

texts: I've been experimenting with Alchemy in Skyrim, and I've noticed that I've acquired two distinct alchemical effects: "Damage Health" and "Ravage Health". They both cause instant poison damage, so what's the difference? Why do some ingredients give "Damage Health" while others give "Ravage Health instead?"


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I'm trying to clone something when an arrow is fired.
I'm using this command:

execute as @e[type=minecraft:arrow] run clone 90 56 33 107 59 30 ~ ~ ~

But it isn't doing anything at all when I fire an arrow.
It's in a repeating command block, by the way.


texts: How to charge a Sony PS3 wireless keypad with a PC?

texts: I can charge the PS3 controller with a standard USB port of a PC. But I can not charge the PS3 wireless keypad. When I connect it to the PC, I get the error, that a driver is missing. I do not want to use is with a PC. I just want to charge it. Do I need the driver to charge it? Or what else do I need to do to charge it with a PC?


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I decided to try out the Player role in Madden 17's franchise mode. This allows you to control only one player both on and off the field, removing any responsibility for personnel decisions or ability to control other players.

I was playing as a quarterback. After three years I was 24 years old, 97 overall, and had just come off a 5,000 yard season and a Super Bowl loss. I had never missed a game.

I tried to simulate through the offseason, as I had the previous two years, and when it was over I found that I had retired. This seems to make no sense.

Why was I retired early, and how do I avoid it?


texts: How can I run a dedicated Team Arena server using ioquake3 on OS X?

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I am trying to get Team Arena to run as a dedicated server on OSX using the ioquake3 engine. I've managed to get Q3 to run okay but not the addon. Everything is installed for Team Arena in the missionpack folder. I tried running the game_restart missionpack command but the console says the command can not be found. I also tried adding this to the autoexec.cfg but didn't have any success.

I am running version Q3 1.36.

The OS X is pretty only as it's a spare Xserve running 10.5.8

Can anyone offer some help?


texts: How to allow my friends to join my Risk of Rain match?

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How do I allow my friends to join my Risk of Rain game so we can play co-op. I followed this tutorial. Is there anyway I can fix it?

EDIT:
It would say Failed to Connect for my friend.


texts: What effect do fortresses have on the world in Dwarf Fortress?

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In dwarf fortress, what effects do fortresses have on the overall world? Can you play a military outpost defending from invading armies or play a large farming complex supplying the surrounding area with food through trade?

Overall can your fortress have a lasting effect on the world? (limited to of course what a small/medium fortress could do)


texts: Command so that anyone within a radius who isn't me gets teleported?

texts: I know [r=x] is to make a radius and you can do /tp @a[r=30] x y z to teleport someone everyone 30 blocks away but how can I do it so it excludes me? So let's say that me and two other people are standing 10 blocks away from the command block, how could I make it that it teleports everyone else apart from me?


texts: Free to play games go missing in the Steam library

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I added the Free-To-Play Team Fortress 2 to my favorite games in the Steam library, and played the game.

After reinstalling steam, the game went missing from the library completely - it does show up in neither favorites nor recently played games.

All other games work perfectly fine. I am logging in to the correct account and did not mess around with Steam in any way.

I can still install/play the game by going to its store page, but that's cumbersome. Is there any way to fix this?


texts: Does death affect drop rate of legendary in nephalem rift?

texts: My friend told me the longer I survive in battle the more likely legendary drops, and death will reset the timer,is this true?


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I have not played Team Fortress 2 (so forgive me if I've missed any details), but I couldn't help but notice that the Spy uses masks to disguise himself. To his teammates, he looks like he's just wearing a mask, but to the enemy team, he looks like whoever is on his mask. How do the masks fool the other team (from the point of view of the actual team and not the players)?

Was this ever explained anywhere?