texts: I've lost Shadowmere - where can I find her?

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So I own Shadowmere from the Dark Brotherhood.

However, I jumped on another horse for a few seconds, before fast travelling. I did a few quests, without even thinking about Shadowmere, and now when I need her, the horse that I rode for those few seconds appears.

Anyone have any idea where I can get Shadowmere back?


texts: Can I sell Items (non-Oddities) right away?

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I got this book, I believe from a crate in the first town:

The description says "Item", not Oddity or Artifact, and it's in my regular backpack, not the Quest Item section. I recently researched Oddities and found that most can be sold freely, while a few have subtle uses.

My question is, for an Item, how do I know if this can be sold without penalty, or if it has an application elsewhere? It has also crossed my mind that maybe this is what a Quest Item looks like before you pick up the quest? Maybe I'm wrong about that.

I am pretty new to the Numenera-verse, so I apologize if I am misunderstanding something fundamental about items or quests.


texts: What are the advantages of perfect pivoting in ssb4? How to perfect pivot in ssb4? I want to learn so I can improve my Marth play. Any aditional advice would be appreciated.


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The pre-game manual in my /docs install folder for the game says that Perception affects accuracy. However, the in-game tooltip for Perception doesn't say this, and the Accuracy tooltip also makes no mention of it.

Is this a case of the manual being out of date, or the tooltip not reflecting reality?


texts: Is there any way to fully silence my heavy armor?

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As discussed here, if you have a 1.0 magnitude of the muffle effect your armor will make no noise at all.  Does this also apply to heavy armor?

Has anyone tried to sneak with heavy armor and muffle (from a spell or armor effect) successfully? I´ve been wanting to make a heavy armor stealth assassin for a while, but not if it will fail hard.  On my light armor assassin I already have 85 Sneaking, Nightingale boots and muffle spell, I guess I will give it a try.

Anyone know if there is any way to remove or reduce significantly the noise from heavy armor so I can kill stealthily with a full set of heavy armor?

I know there are perks to reduce the weight of heavy armor but this is not what I am after.


texts: How is the Cache of Uldir item level reward determined in World Of Warcraft?

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For certain weekly events, a quest appears that rewards upon completion a "Cache of Uldir". Two weeks ago, the item level reward was from Heroic.

Under the item it shows different levels, such as raid finder, normal, heroic, and mythic.

How is the item level reward determined for the Caches of Uldir?


texts: Do supplies matter between Banner Saga volumes?

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I'm at the end of a replay of the first Banner Saga game. I came out in a far better position than previous play throughs and I have an opportunity to buy a bunch more supplies. This is the first time I've felt like I might be over-buying.

So my question is, do supplies carry between the Banner Saga and Banner Saga 2? Or is this like a certain earlier village stay were you your situation after a chapter jump is just wildly different?

The deets:

I finished the game after spending some renown on promotions for the final battle; I have 25 renown left.
I have 522 supplies, enough for 51 days
The caravan is actually on the small side, with 290 varl, 94 fighters and 433 clansmen. (At least it feels small compared to the earlier Varl war caravan; I don't remember the basis of comparison from my other play throughs.)
Boersgard market had over 200 supplies for sale; I bought none of them even though I could have bought all of them.

Do I get any benefit from having supplies at the end of the first Banner Saga? Should I just use renown to promote people now? Does renown carry over to the next game?


texts: The Assassin/Zero's Critical Ascensi0n skill stacks bonuses from Sniper Critical Hits. The stacks slowly decay, but over how much time? How can I check how many stacks I have? How can I tell if it's active at all? Does scoring a new Crit Hit preserve the whole stack for longer, or just the latest stacks? How can I prolong the stacks' effects?


texts: Lost my house. Can I teleport to quartz pillars via cheats?

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Well, I just did the noobiest thing a person could do in Minecraft. Lose their house. Ok well it wasn't a house. It was the spawn for my adventure map. I really don't want to have to rebuild it. It took forever!

The way that I could get back is if I could teleport myself to quartz pillar blocks. This was something I used in only my spawn and nowhere else.

I forgot to mention. My "spawn" isn't actually my spawn. It was the building I made for the spawn but then I forgot to set the spawn.

Does anyone know how to teleport players to certain blocks?

I just thought of something. There is a base finder feature on the Wurst hacked client. I don't hack on servers but I find it has some useful features. Hopefully it works. I will let you know.


texts: Why did my house disappear but the farm, and other things connected to it didn't?

texts: I play in creative, and I basically had a house with things connected to it with a path. I used the same wood for the other rooms but every little bit of my house is gone! Even my 6-7 dogs are gone and their dog house!


texts: What can I purchase with items I obtain from fulfilling Tokyo Airport cargo shipments? So far I have a single lucky cat. I'm not sure if there are other items that you can receive as well.


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The Haunted achievements wants you to

Meet the following ghosts:

Lucious the Depraved
Dataminer
Drury Brown
John Gorham Coffin
Fecklar's Ghost
The Archivist
The Tomekeeper

Where are these ghosts located?


texts: Will a UK-bought Gamecube Memory Card work in the USA?

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I have a UK-bought Gamecube and Wii (which I have been told will not work with US televisions), and some Gamecube games (which I have been told will not work with US Gamecubes/Wiis) - is the same true of Gamecube Memory Cards?

They were bought in the UK and a mixture of official and third party, if that makes a difference?


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Is there a way to remove Minecraft gamerules in-game?

I made a gamerule "New" and now want to remove it but I can't find a way to do it.

I searched in the minecraft help list and found nothing.

I also tried /gamerule and found nothing.


texts: Is there a way to add a game to a Category/Collection via the console?

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So i've had 2 Portable 4TB HDDs (S: and T:) that i've been downloading all my games onto as a sort of backup, the idea is not fill them up so i have space for updates and new DLC, about ~500GB each. now these drives are nearing that level and while i can download 100% of my collection before then, if i get any new, more recently released games i might need a third hardrive.

now currently i know that if i remove one of my drives Steam will just indicate that the games are not installed so i was thinking of creating Categories/Collections for which drives they are installed, that way if i get more games and get a third drive (U:) and not have T: plugged in, i wont mistake a game that it already download and installed with one that isn't, but with a large collection of games i can't remember which is installed onto which.

i can script something outside of steam to look in the manifest files and see if they are installed on S: or T: but the tedious part is then putting them into the category/collection. then i remembered the console, i can auto-generate a console script i need to know what to generate and i've had no luck finding a definitive list of console commands ([i did find this but from 2016 and might not have the possible commands for Collections)

So is there a way to add a game to a Category/Collection via the console?


texts: What happens when I recieve the same game as a gift twice?

texts: A friend of mine has 2 spare copies of portal 2, and I which to give one to another friend and keep one for myself. When I receive the second copy, does it get added into my inventory?


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I'm trying to find the publisher of a game from the early 1990s called "Torus".

It was a 2d realtime puzzle game on DOS or Windows 3.x.  Spinning rings of different colors fell from above onto spikes at the bottom of the screen.

You could manipulate the order of the rings on the spikes.  The goal was to match the colors to get some pattern (possibly three in a row) so they would go away and make room for more fallen rings.


texts: What does 'You need DLC to use this item' mean when modding Civ 5?

texts: I'm currently have this problem with the modding in Civilization 5 without anything only the basic game.In the steam workshop I find the mods that I want but it says "You need DLC to use this item." What does that mean?


texts: I killed all the badgers, where do I get more?

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I've killed all the badgers on the map, and I do not have a badger farm.

Is there a way to get more badgers so I can start a badger farm?


texts: How do I access Game Keys in the Desura Client?

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After activating or buying a Game via Desura, you can view your Keys for the game itself or other Digital Distribution Services on this page.

But how do you access this page in the Desura Client?


texts: What is the purpose of these metal doors in the Circle of Magi tower?

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In the Circle of Magi tower, in the Senior Mage Quarters there are metal doors that cannot be picked, or opened otherwise:

What is beyond them, and how does one get inside?


texts: I have upgraded my mega ring, it's 8:15 and I can't find any mega stones. Is this a glitch? Will i have to restart my game, or buy a new one maybe? I've tried finding all of the stones on many occasions but to no avail. I'VE ALREADY UPGRADED MY MEGA RING AND ITS AFTER 8 AND BEFORE 9. Why is this happening?


texts: What rewards do you get for skill points?

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Skill points and the acquisition of such are basically the ingame achievement system in Resistance: Fall of Man. According to the ingame system, I unlock Rewards at 10, 20, 40, 70, 100, and 126 points. However, I can't see what they are, as they're all behind strings of question marks.

Are there any gameplay advantages in the rewards, such as new weapons, or are they just extra like concept art or something?


texts: Fallout 3 Trouble on the Homefront trophy isn't unlocking

texts: I finished the Trouble on the Homefront quest but the trophy hasn't unlocked. Is it a glitch? Do I have to finish the quest in a certain way to unlock the trophy? I don't have any DLCs installed.


texts: Why is voice chat in Dungeons and Dragons Online usually not working?

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I rather suspect it's my ISP filtering it but I haven't figured out a way to prove this and they categorically deny filtering.

It's random, occasionally it suddenly starts working for a while, anywhere from seconds to hours, but it never lasts.  This started early this year when the Pirate Cove special showed up--at first it failed only in the wilderness part of it but soon it was at least 95% of the time everywhere in the game.

Turbine's tech support suggested the filtering bit as a possibility after exhausting configuration ideas, my ISP lied about it (I know they do traffic shaping) and I'm stumped.

Note that when people talk my screen does show that they are talking, I just don't hear anything.


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In Torchlight there is a 1st level Vanquisher power called Ricochet.  I have used the power, but I can't quite figure out the circumstance under which conditions it ricochets the shot, and I can't tell how many enemies it effects, and whether I can be hit by my own ricochet.

How does Ricochet work and how can I use it to the most effect?


texts: How do I get the Obscuridad del Santo Andres?

texts: How do you trigger the random event that allows you to get the Obscuridad del Santo Andres?  I am already at Hero fame status and have wandered around Las Hermanas for some time.


texts: I have Steam for Mac and every time the app updates, the language of the entire thing is set back to Spanish, my system language, and only changes after a million tries of setting the preferences. Opting out of the beta didn't help either.


texts: Changing the associated google-account for Ingress

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I made the mistake of using a Google-for-Business-Account for Ingress when I started almost 3 years ago.

I'm no more related to this company so they deactivated my account and thus I lost access to Ingress.

Is there any possibility to transfer an Ingress-account to another Google-Account? I read on Niantic's sites that this is not possible. But this was before they "split up" with Google.


texts: Why does Ammu-Nation never have any weapon in stock?

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Ammu-Nation stores all over the map always say "Out of stock" for every weapon. (It only shows 3 weapons: Pistol, Sniper, Heavy Sniper.)

I have started GTA V on the PC recently and haven't progressed much. Does that have anything to do with this problem?


texts: If I choose to take Killbane's mask, am I completely locked out of the Apoca-fists?

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At the end of the Murderbrawl XXXI mission, you can either choose to take Killbane's mask, which allows you to acquire his mask to wear, or he will tell you the "secret of the Apoca-fists."

If I choose to take his mask, does this completely lock me out of the Apoca-fists on that save? Or will I get the option to purchase them later on?


texts: If I use the "Redeem on Steam" function on Humble Bundle and get the key, can I give that key to a friend in a mean of gifting it to him?


texts: Can I select the nearest quest to my location in my Pip-Boy?

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I've gone wandering through wasteland finding and pursuing various side missions, and have found myself in the top right corner of the map.

When selecting a quest in my Pip-Boy is there a way to select the nearest one to me, as most of them are way back in the middle of the map?


texts: Questions while setting up the combo XBOX360 + TV + Home Theater

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I'm trying to set up a little combo to enhance the quality of the overall play. Did someone succeed at setting up an XBOX360 to play games on a TV and output the audio through a Home Theater?

I thought that if I can connect the XBOX using HDMI to the TV and use the common connectors with the home theater I might be able to do it, but the ports for both connections are way too close, and I can't connect both.

Any Ideas?


texts: Can the retail version of RUSE be entered into Steam?


texts: How do I backup my saves on skyrim for a mod?

texts: I want to get the "Burning Skies" dragon mod for skyrim, but it says you have to backup your saves first. It requires a lot of other things, but of course, it only has information about it on the Windows 7 and Vista. I have it on my windows 8 and it runs fine. I already have one mod but it's minor and doesn't really affect the gameplay. If anyone wants to see this mod, it's on the Skyrim Nexus (sorry, I don't know how to post links).


texts: What determines low health for the Survivor achievement?

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As per the title, the Survivor achievement says to survive combat with low health 250 times.

But how low is low?


texts: Is Research Tora's workbench affected by quality "gem XP" gained modifiers?

texts: When Tora is in the Research branch of the Syndicate, she offers a workbench that adds a flat amount of gem XP to any gem.  Does this gem XP amount change if the gem has a quality modifier that increases the amount of gem XP that gem gets, like Enhance/Empower/Enlighten Support's quality modifiers. I was under the impression that was only increased gem XP through kills, and not from a workbench.


texts: How do I get a five-star overall rating for a match?

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After a match in Pokkén Tournament is concluded, the player is given star rankings in four categories - Offense, Defense, Technique, and Bonus - followed by an overall rating based on those four. Getting five-star matches is required to unlock certain titles.

These stars seem fairly inconsistent, though. I've had Perfect wins (no damage taken) that only gave 2.5 stars for Offense and Defense, for instance, and I can't even tell what Technique is based off of. Landing a KO with a Synergy Burst attack seems to help Bonus but doesn't necessarily influence the others.

What are these ratings based on, and how can I reliably approach getting 5-Star matches?


texts: What kills count towards "To Pay the Bills" for Maya?

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I'm playing as Maya and somehow I've never been able to get the challenge "To Pay the Bills" to rank 5 to unlock the Admiral Asskick head.

This criteria for this challenge is:

  Kill 1000 enemies while using your Action Skill

As a siren, Maya's action skill only holds one enemy in stasis for a few seconds, allowing her (or others) to shoot them while they are immobilized.

I'm curious as to what all counts as kills towards this challenge. I know that having an enemy phaselocked when you kill them counts, but is it possible to get more than one kill at a time? 1000 kills with Phaselock will take quite a while, if it isn't. There are a few instances that I'm not sure will count towards this challenge, but would definitely speed up the process if they did.

The main three scenarios I can think of are:

Kills on enemies that aren't the target of phaselock during the time it is active
Other players killing your phaselock target
Abilities that cause AOE effects on your Phaselock target (like Helios or Cloud Kill) that can kill non-targeted enemies with fire/corrosive DoT

Which (if any) of these will give me progress towards "To Pay the Bills"?


texts: How to remove all non-steam games from games library

texts: Anyone have any ideas on how best to automatically and en-mass delete all my non-steam game links from my games menu?


texts: access gog galaxy savegames without installing gog galaxy

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I've played a game bought over gog.com and used the savegame cloud of Gog Galaxy, the game was the witcher 3. Now I would like to revisit it and continue from my old savestate.
The problem is that on my notebook, I'm running Linux. After quite some configuration, the witcher is now running nicely. But I would like to avoid going through the setup of Gog Galaxy. Is it possible to access the cloud savegames stored in Gog Galaxy without actually installing it?


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I know how damage works. I've tried my best (as far as I have found items so far) to maximize my damage but it looks like some people just kill like crazy, while I have to pause a moment or two for every white enemy.

For reference, this is the character I'm talking about, but I would appreciate a more general response. Furthermore, here's some info reported by the game:

Here's what I've done and I know they are kind of obligatory:

Get a good weapon and insert a critical hit gem in it.
Get a decent critical hit chance and damage and given a choice, increase the smaller one (CHD vs 10x CHC) (I know the math, but let's not get into that).
All this is done with a decent toughness and given a chance, increase the smaller of resistance and armor (Armor vs 10x Resistance) (again, I know the math).
(At least with monk), increase cooldown reduction (I know I can get 10 percent more with my helm, but that wouldn't make wonders suddenly).
(At least with monk), use passive skills that increase my attack speed.

Here's what I've done with my own wits:

Get a high lightning damage bonus (that kind of happened by chance and the set just worked in its favor)
Use mostly lightning effect on my selected skills
Have the damage bonus on the weapon be of lightning type (side question: does lightning bonus affect that?)
Get bonus damage to skills I use (FoT and WoL in this case)

Here are a bit of details of what I know I can do better:

Get that ring that makes every set look as if they had one more of it (set-bonus-wise)
Get 2 Sunwuko's pieces to increase damage by 20%

Now here's where I'm stumped. If I go to Torment 4, I progress slowly through the enemies but more than a handful of the people I see just walk and every white enemy seem to just drop dead. I know I could do better damage-wise, but I cannot imagine anything about 50% more.

Furthermore, with for example Wreath of Lightning gem (currently rank 15), the lightning seems to barely have any effect on even whites and upgrading it further doesn't significantly raise its damage either. It seems strange for the gem to be that underpowered.

All that said, what I suspect is there is some important factor I'm not taking care of. My question is therefore, what is that important factor? In other words, how can people kill like crazy while a build like mine is considerably inferior?


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Here is a link to the trailer: DotA 2 Trailer.

Does this guy have any relevance to the DotA story line or world, or is he just a character they added into the trailer to put a face to the voice?

I am not talking about the heroes, I am talking about the big-nosed fellow who is doing the talking.


texts: Where is the easiest place to farm falling chandelier kills for "Light Entertainment"?

texts: I need 666 falling chandelier kills. I imagine normal will be the best place to farm this, but what zone has the most successive falling chandeliers (and is easiest to restart, for the "farming" part)? What items, buffs, or skills will help with racking environmental kills? Also, how is environmental damage calculated for these chandeliers?


texts: Unable to start the dragon-slaying quest in Whiterun

texts: When you go to Whiterun in the beginning of the game to speak to the jarl who starts the quest to slay your first dragon, the quest won't start and the jarl is always in the same place every time I go to Dragonsreach. I don't want to restart the game because I'm really high into the levels


texts: How to quickly equip JAW rocket launcher?

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I am playing Crysis 3 on PC and I cannot see a hotkey for JAW. There are quite a few moments where it would be useful to quickly equip it. I sometimes manage to find it using the scroll button on mouse, but it's confusing and slow.

Is there a way to reliably and quickly equip it?


texts: original mario on nintendo switch - warp zone to 8?

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I've heard that from level 4-2 you can warp to world 8, but when I go up the vine the only tunnel says world 6.  Is this because I'm playing on Nintendo Switch??

Does anyone know why its not giving me the level 8 tunnel?

Thanks!


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When you try to activate/use/open hubs, consoles, boxes and other similiar objects in the game an interaction bar pops up and it takes up to few turns for it to fill up which results in you finishing your interaction with that object.

How can you cancel the interaction with an object while in the interaction-bar phase?

I noticed that if enemy hits you it will stop your interaction with the object. I also managed to stop interaction with the objects myself few times, but I really can't remember which button I pressed for it to work.


texts: Where, or from which monsters, do unique/rare plans for rare/legendary/set items and gem designs drop in Diablo 3?


texts: How can I see the ingredients for equipment in Atelier Totori?

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When crafting equipment in Atelier Totori (North American version), there seems to be no indication of which kind of ingot or cloth (e.g. Muffcot, Silkis, Polywool) it requires; only an indication of whether I can craft it or not.

Am I missing something? Is there a button I can press to view the ingredients?


texts: In GTA San Andreas a parachute would apear on your back the moment you boarded a plane. Now everytime I bail out of a plane I just fall to death. How does one aquire a parachute in GTA V?


texts: What is the number that appears when I use Doomfist's Seismic Slam?

texts: When I use Seismic Slam (E on PC), a number appears under the targeting reticle. It seems to vary between ~35 and ~90 depending on how far I travel. Does damage vary by distance traveled? I couldn't find anything on Doomfists' hero details to indicate what the number refers to.


texts: Do enemy ships have limited missiles/drones?

texts: Is it possible to wait for an enemy ship to run out off missiles and/or drones so that I can focus killing their crew with less pressure?  If so, are the quantities fixed or random within some range?


texts: Is it possible to dismiss all notifications?

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Is it possible to somehow dismiss all notifications, instead of right-clicking one at a time?

What I am thinking about is this little problem:

Here, I have 25 notifications after a couple of peace agreements. It is quite tedious to do around 30 right clicks.


texts: How to remove the strap from the Joy-Con strap?

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Is there a way to remove the strap from the Joy-Con strap attachment for the Nintendo Switch?

Note that I'm not asking how to remove the attachment from a Joy-Con (which can be tricky if put on incorrectly), but rather how to remove the string/strap itself from the attachment. I could just cut it off, but I figured there's a less destructive way of doing it.


texts: How can I change verification email on Xbox Live?

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I went to cancel automatic Gold subscription renewal (a sad moment in my life to be sure), and Microsoft emailed me a confirmation code that I had to copy/paste into a form to confirm the cancellation.

Interestingly, the email went to an old email address of mine. I've looked through my account on xbox.com and I can't find any remaining references to that email address. What am I missing?


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In pip boy, if you look under data > stats > general, and then scroll to the bottom, there is a statistic labeled "bright ideas."

What does it track?

Maybe savant bonuses?


texts: Making crafted items usable in adventure mode

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In a map I'm making the player has to survive while locked in a maze. To stop them from breaking out, they will be in adventure mode. However, I still want them to be able to craft items and use them with specified blocks. I have tried several methods already but they all have a flaw.

One method is to have a scoreboard objective called item and giving certain item entities a specific score using something like:

/scoreboard players set @e[type=Item] item 1 {Item:{id:"minecraft:sapling"}}

Then it is possible to select these items with:

/entitydata @e[type=Item,score_item=1,score_item_min=1] {Item:{tag:{CanPlaceOn:["dirt"],HideFlags:24}}}

This works but it requires the item to be dropped, which isn't a problem for saplings, but for tools and other craftable items, it becomes a hassle.

To fix this, I'm currently clearing tools without damage and giving the player a slightly damaged tool in return:

/clear @a minecraft:stone_axe 0 1
/give @a minecraft:stone_axe 1 1 {CanDestroy:["log","log2","leaves","leaves2"],HideFlags:24}

This doesn't work for items without damage values (e.g. torches), but I don't mind these having to be dropped as there aren't too many of these. However, there is another problem. In the nether, the player will have access to an enchantment table and an anvil. This means they can repair enchanted tools, which will cause them to be cleared and replaced with unenchanted ones as soon as they go back to the overworld.

I also thought about using a stat.craftItem scoreboard objective and giving them the usable item if they craft it. However, this would result in the player having a duplicate of every item they crafted, as I think it is impossible to select an item without NBT-data in the /clear command.

Is there any way to make this work? And if not, would it be better to have the player drop all crafted items or have duplicates of them all?


texts: I have 5,000,000 candies and the blacksmith still says that he has nothing more to sell


texts: Selecting wall row not always allowing upgrade issue

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In Clash of Clans, I'm allowed to select a whole row of walls.  I have seen a button that allows the whole row to be upgraded, however it is not always available.  I have checked that the row is the same level and tried to select other segments in the wall, but that doesn't help.  I have noticed that the row will get a discount when upgrading when it shows.

Is the upgrade row a random event, or has requirements I'm not meeting?


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Minisentries are my soldiers' nemesis. Damn tiny, dealing damage slowly but surely, inexpensive to replace, those darn things are more annoying then they're supposed to be. At point blank, the shotgun seems ineffective. At long range, they're a pain in the arse to snipe with the rocket launcher.

How can I counter them?


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I'm trying to make a two level piston (i.e. when it is powered on it pushes blocks up two levels rather than just one). The way that I am doing it is placing a row of pistons on top of a row of sticky pistons. I've placed a power line to both rows of pistons, and connected it to a switch. My intention is that when the switch is fired on, both rows of pistons get activated. When powered off, they both fall down two their base elevation (they both lose power, so they both retract, and the sticky pistons on the bottom pull the pistons on top down with them).

The problem I'm having is this: for some reason the sticky pistons aren't pulling down the pistons on top. The pistons on top just levitate in the air above the sticky pistons. Does anyone know why this is happening (possibly a glitch)?


texts: Do any Food businesses have stock times over one hour?

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I've noticed that in Tiny Tower most of the Food category businesses have very short restock times and thus very low stock count. Any time I don't check the game for more than 15 minutes my restaurants are always out of stock, and I'm usually out of stock before I can stock a second item.

I found the Donut Shop actually has very deep stock with long restock times; two hours to restock almost 3000 bearclaws. Do any other restaurants have stocks this large?


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Lakitus are one of the most iconic characters in the world of Super Mario that can be best described as:

  ...bespectacled Koopas who ride clouds through the skies. ...best known for tossing Spiny Eggs to Mario or Luigi below.

Source: Lakitu - Super Mario Wiki

However, I have noticed that there seems to be several different pronunciations in use for their names.

For example:

/läki:tu/ —  law-kee-tu
/lɐki:tu/ —  luh-kee-tu (The one I use.)
/lækɪ:tu-/—  la-ki-tu (Commonly used on internet.)
/lækiːtu/ —  la-kee-tu

...just to name a few of the many possible combinations.

Is there any official consensus on how the name of these characters is pronounced?


texts: In Overwatch coop can we make heavy assault fall off cliff?

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Heavy assault often charge at us. Can we do matador style and get out just in time?

Also some heroes like Doomfist or Junkrat or Lucio or Pharah can knock people out of cliff.

Can this be done to Heavy assault?

Any video showing this? I know carrier tried to do this and fail. I wonder if heavy assault have a property "can't fall of cliff" or something. I also know many regular soldiers can be pushed off cliff by doomfist.


texts: How to remove the key bindings from the conversation options?

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Since the update (I think 1.0.5) today (2017-04-06) the conversation wheel is displaying the key for each option.
While that is not too bad in itself, the game uses the German name for the keys so it adds [1 (Zehnertastatur)] for the 1 on the numblock.

How can I get rid of this?
Removing the bindings in the Game settings has not helped to hide them.

Update:
As you can see I have the game in English.
However it seems like the name of the key depends on the keyboard layout.
When I switch that to English too, it displays [Num 1] which is better, but still not perfect.


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I am making a points shop for kills. I have the objectives money and kills. When I press a button, a command block tests for my kills (hopefully) above 0, and if that is a thing, it takes gives me one money and takes one kill. But this never happens because it always "Finds" me, and now my kills are in the negative.

TLDR: How to /testfor a number only above zero?


texts: Outposts vs new cities in Fallen Enchantress

texts: What's a point of building outposts instead of cities? It seems there is no penalty for having a lot of cities, so why waste pioneer on an outpost?


texts: Poor performance during "Who Dares Wins"

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I've been playing Fallout 3 GOTY edition (via Steam). So far the game has been relatively well-behaved - good performance, and only an occasional crash (like once every 3 hours, which is something I can live with).

However, in the recent hour or so it has became worse; in particular, every time I open a container the game freezes for around a second, and crashing becomes much more frequent, around once every 15 or 30 minutes.

I am a level 30 character working on the Broken Steel "Who Dares Wins" quest, which is the quest where

   you assault the Adams Air Force base, fighting outdoors in the unique area opened by the quest, and inside the huge crawler.

And I think it might have been related. I also have a bunch of stuff in my inventory, but not more than what I've been carrying throughout the rest of game (though I do carry more weapons and less armor than what I used to).

Is this a known issue? Any idea how to solve this problem?

System is Windows 7 64-bit, 4 GB RAM, Core 2 Duo.


texts: Should I let fans of my game continue developing a fan game or not?

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I recently got this message from my employee:

"Boss, I've discovered that some really dedicated fans of pirate adventure have created a fan game using a lot of the material from our game. They don't make any money with it and just seem to do it for fellow fans. Our legal advisors strongly suggest that we shouldn't allow this to go on. What do you want to do?"

A bunch of fans have re-used material from my game about a pirate's adventure in The Scene. Should I follow my lawyers or should I stop them from doing this?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of stopping the fans or letting them be?


texts: I can't read signs on my minecraft pocket edition

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These problems are for Minecraft PE on Kindle Fire HD

My problem is that I can barely read signs. To read a sign I have to stand in a certain place and look in a certain direction and it can take ages for me to find out where that is. I have turned fancy graphics off and it still didn't work. I used to be able to see them but now I can't.

Can someone please help?
Thanks.


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Generally speaking, if I'm in a full group, will I level up faster than I would if I were playing solo?

This is obviously a broad question with a lot of variables, so let me try to eliminate a few:

Assume that we progress through content at the same rate in both scenarios.
Assume that the group always travels together so that everybody gains XP.
Assume the same number of monsters are defeated in both scenarios.

Given these constraints, if I want to level up fastest, should I be solo or grouped, and why? How will the XP be shared, multiplied, or split (if at all)? Will the monsters the group kills be worth more XP because they are tougher?


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Basically, having many technology blueprints in a single station is a death warrant. I often need to obliterate friendly bases to get my hands on them.

I want to order my units to start the attack, even if the enemy is friendly (doesn't return fire). Is there some way of doing this? (I always had to open fire manually, shoot until the relation meter drops two stages, and when the enemy started defending himself, the rest of my ships joined the fray.)


texts: How do I see what kits my team is using?

texts: The "Select Class" menu shows how many people are what class (Assault, Support, etc.), but how do I see, for example, how many Medics or Engineers we have?


texts:
I've noticed that you need twelve designs to get the acheivement "perfect gemology". But there are only five different kinds of gems with two designs each, so that gives 10 designs to find.

I've teached the jeweler a (lvl 60) ring plan, but that didn't count.

So how do I get myself these last two designs? What am I missing?


texts: I got the quest Beyond The Wall from the Adventure Journal. It wants me to go to Townlong Steppes. I can't quite figure out how to get there. I went to Vale of Eternal Blossoms and ran west but there's a bigass wall covering the entire western border (or so it seems). How do I get there? Assume I've never been to any zone except Vale of Eternal Blossoms.


texts:
Unlike Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, weeds do not get destroyed in Innocent Life when you throw it on the ground.

How can I permanently destroy weeds in Innocent Life?


texts: If my officers die in a campaign, do they die in single missions?

texts:
One of the loading screens for Door Kickers tells me that

  Your officers don't die permanently in Single Missions, but your tactics still suck.

Which is awesome.  But let's say that I play a campaign (maybe even an Iron Man campaign).  Let's say that my best dude gets capped in the first mission.  What happens to him in Single Mission mode?  Does he vanish from my roster entirely?


texts: There is now an option to respec your skill tree, but the price to pay for it isn't clear.  Is it some kind of calculation where you get back your skill points and a certain percentage of the cash spent ?


texts: Are there any inventory limits for equipment in DQ IX?

texts: Do I need to worry about keeping my equipment collection in DQ9 below any sort of limit? I haven't seen any indication in-game that I'm running out of space, but I'm not sure if it's actually infinite or not, and I don't want to risk losing an item because I accidentally maxed out my inventory.


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Some levels in Infinifactory contain so-called Failure Logs, which are 30s to 2min audio clips which provide a bit of background story. They are usually (but not always) found in the form of a dead person in a spacesuit. It appears that not every level contains such a Failure Log, but most of them do. Still, I was surprised by the scarcity of the logs in two level sets, so I was wondering if I just overlooked them or whether they really appear this irregularly.

Curiously, I wasn't able to find a complete list of the logs online, so here we go: which levels contain a Failure Log and what does it look like?


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The other day I was confronted by someone complaining that Watch Dogs does not have dynamic shadows. I thought Watch Dogs looked pretty good, why do you need dynamic shadows?

What are dynamic shadows and what do they look like?


texts:
So the main part of my problem is that in GTA Online my player will get stuck going in a certain direction while running, walking, or driving and nothing I press will fix it. I can't change the direction they are moving or fix them if they're going around in circles. It lasts for a while as well.

Also, if I'm aiming and start moving, the character will continue moving in that direction and I can't take off my aim, fire the weapon, or change my direction. If I try to fire the game makes a loud "booping" (too deep to be a beep) sound.

It makes it very hard to do some processes as it happens fairly occasionally and I have no way whatsoever to stop it and none of the buttons work while it's happening. I have a gig of extra memory in the graphics control and have smooth fps. Any ideas on how to fix this?


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I noticed neighbouring factions can be friendly or hostile.

When they're friendly, they'll pass by, visit or send trade caravans.
When they're hostile, they'll send raids and refuse trades.

Which leads to the question:

When I am friends with a faction, do I get "friendly visits" instead of "hostile visits" from the faction? In other words, does the storyteller decide "Ok, next story: faction X" and depending on the state, the faction attacks or visits?
Or, au contraire, does the storyteller decide "Ok, next story: a raid" and then chooses a mech-raid/space-raid/faction-raid/...

Because in the first case, it's a good thing to be friends: you get a friendly visit instead of an attack.
In the second case, maybe I'd rather be enemies with the faction: I seriously prefer a faction attack over a mech attack.

Are there other benefits/drawbacks to being friends/hostile with your neighbours?


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I'm in the Nexus in Demon's Souls and have progressed fairly far through the game. I've just completed World 4, the Shrine of Storms.

I've noticed some quite eerie organ music playing in the Nexus that I'm pretty sure doesn't exist at the beginning of the game. What is the reason for this change? Does it mean anything?


texts: Are there any benefits to capturing live zombies?

texts: Is it possible to capture a zombie live? Is there any benefit to doing so? I was really hoping that I could rescue some of my dead soldiers by capturing them alive as zombies. It's probably not how it works, but I'm curious what the benefits of capturing zombies are.


texts: How does shyvana's q proc on-hit item effects

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Twin Bite - Shyvana strikes twice on her next attack.

Dragon Form: Twin Bite cleaves all units in front Shyvana.
Shyvana strikes twice on her next attack, dealing (+0.8/0.85/0.9/0.95/1.0) physical
damage on the second attack.
The bonus damage is equal to 80/85/90/95/100% of Shyvana's Attack Damage.`

Dragon Form: Twin Bite cleaves all units in front Shyvana.
Cost
No Cost
Range
0

does this mean, Wit's End or other on-hit items will proc twice?

To Mind jumps:
Black Cleaver
Wit's End
Executioners Calling
BotRK

and the list goes on...


texts: Where did the Destiny bonuses to skills on each tier card go?

texts: I had a +1 bonus to all my skills because I had a tier 2 destiny and a +2 bonus for a tier 3 destiny, now they are gone and have no clue why. I have tried levelling up, going to sleep and having a full fate/reckoning bar. Does anyone know what I've done wrong?


texts: How does the computer AI decide who to surrender to?

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I'm pretty deep into my latest game of Galactic Civilizations 2: Twilight of the Arnor, and major races are starting to drop out of the game.  Except, in Gal Civ 2 instead of sticking around until they are totally eliminated, the major races will surrender to a friendly civilization, deeding their planets over to that friendly civilization.

How does the AI determine who to surrender to, and is there some way to game the system?  Daddy wants more free planets.


texts: What are the gameplay differences for Zerg between campaign and multiplayer?

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If I were to start playing Zerg in some multiplayer games, what differences would I want to be aware of before starting?

I know that all the specific evolutions (raptorlings, splitting banelings, etc.) don't carry over, but what other mechanics are different?


texts:
In Deus Ex's Hell's Kitchen, it seems to me that there is an inconsistency in the 'Ton.

If you check your compass as you enter or exit the 'Ton through Paul's apartment window, I think you get transported to another side of the building. It's very weird, can anyone else see this?


texts: Why are Steam's "hours played" numbers wrong for so many games?

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For many games on my game list, the number of hours I am "on record" for playing are much less than I've actually played.

My numbers for the game Altitude (bought in 2009, did most of my playing in the month or two after purchase) are accurate, while my numbers for And Yet It Moves (bought in 2009-2010) are about 10% of what I actually spent in the game.

What determines whether or not Steam keeps tracking my play-time accurately?  Are the actual for-real gameplay hours stored anywhere I can get at them?

Is this behavior intentional on Valve's part, something to improve performance?  Or have they been struck by accidental data loss on multiple occasions?

Edit: I always launch my games from within Steam, and I never go into offline mode (yay for living with always-on broadband).

For all the example games I gave (and others I didn't), I have logged in to Steam in the past and had it show me accurate playtime numbers.  But then, for some reason, those numbers disappear at some point.

Edit: Here is a screenshot from my games list

Altitude came out on December 4, 2009.  I believe the hours played number is correct.
And Yet It Moves came out on April 2, 2009 (after the March 2009 date mentioned by Anto).  I have beat the game, and logged probably
10-20 hours playing it.  I believe that the hours on record displayed
in the past was correct, but as you can see, it is not correct any
more.


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I have searched the web, I cannot find an explicit answer to this anywhere. :(

Can friends play co-operatively (i.e. summon each other) between platforms?

I believe the answer is no because in may case, I am on PC my friend is on XBOX and we have different death clock values.

We would like to be sure it is not the internet, and it is by design we can't summon one another.

Thanks


texts:
I am bread and I am stuck when trying to climb the wall in the tutorial level.

I want to try one of the approaches where it is like walking. I have no troubles walking. Yet I am having a hard time doing the flip on the wall.

See me fail:

I am playing on the PC using a XBOX 360 gamepad.


texts: Can you use high tier wings with other wings in the social slot?

texts: I want to use the duke fishron wings. However I enjoy the appearance of the ghost wings. Would it be possible to have ghost wings in the social slot but have the effect the fishron wings offer?


texts: Why are my parachutes failing to deploy?

texts:
I have 3 parachutes on my plane's tail, and I'm trying to deploy them while the plane is landing. However, when I deploy the parachutes in sequence, all 3 fail to deploy.

This is my scenario:

The plane has touched the ground and is moving.
The brakes are being applied to stop the plane.
The engine throttle is either set to 0, or the engines are completely off.

Yet when I deploy it in mid-air while the engine is on, all 3 parachutes successfully deploy (suspending the plane in mid-air).

Why is this happening?


texts: How can I change graphical settings without launching the game?

texts:
I am encountering a persistent DirectX error that began after beating the boss of the prologue, and has since prevented me from from even launching the game. The most likely cause that I can figure after some Googling is that I set one or more graphical settings beyond the capabilities of my system.

However I am having difficulty troubleshooting this point, as I cannot figure out how to alter the game's graphical settings from outside the game. I cannot even reach the menu screen without the above error crashing the game before it loads to that point.

So is there any way to alter the graphics settings from outside the game, or is my only option to reinstall the entire thing from scratch?


texts: I get the materials to make them like other games, but i can't seem to be able to make them.  Is there a quest that has to be done before you can make arrows.


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As per my other question, I successfully found how to solo Pyro Pete. Hyperius however, seems so much more difficult.

What is the most effective way to kill him? Should I go after the bots first then focus on him? Though once Hyperius loses his shield, he does a nova to take down mine. Since I'm using The Bee shield, this severely drops my damage output.

Also, are there elements I should avoid or try to use? For example, Will he take more damage from shock weapons because of that 'shield' he has around him, or more damage from fire because his health bar is red, meaning flesh?


texts: Where do I find meat for the hidden merchant?

texts:
I've found a hidden merchant on the overworld map in a tent northwest from Aogai Village. He said he needs meat so he can sell me his items.

Where's that meat he's talking about?


texts:
With the patch 2.0.1, you no longer can improve your MF with Paragon Level or Nephalem Valor buff.

So is there a way to improve that stats without raising the difficulty level or playing in coop ?


texts: Do citizens migrate closer to their workplace within the town?

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By using the Path tool (F2, 7) I have found some laborers walking very long to eat at home or to warm up in winter.

If I build a house close to a Quarry or a Mine, will Stonecutters or Miners move automatically to this house to avoid long walking distances between the workplace and home?

Or can I assign some citizens to houses closer to their workplace?


texts: So I had Villagence and I went and did some quest, This was at like lvl 10 and i lost villagence while doing it and now i apparently still "Have him" but he doesnt follow me anywhere and i can't find him. It wont let me get another because i still "Have" him. And i got the DLC and i want one of the hell hounds. I'm a level 32 so i don't want to go back and find the sucker so i can get another.


texts: What kinds of services can I get at the College?

texts:
I've noticed that certain members of the College seem to specialize in specific kinds of services. One person only sells Illusion spells, another offers enchanting, etc.

What are all the services offered in the College, and which members offer those services?


texts: Each of those buildings give 1/4 Mail (or 2/8, if you want to get technical.) The station's range is about five squares.


texts: How do I complete the "Fill a business with all Skill 9 workers"?

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I managed to place x3 skill 9 Bitizens in a food service job but the Emperor won't let me collect.

Does it have to be all lvl 9 and dream job?  Does it have to be something like Retail or Service, not Food?

Anyone else get stuck on this mission?


texts:
As far as I understand, your aircraft repairs itself when you don't fire.

Does this really reset your health to maximum though?

It seems to me that I can take a huge amount of damage at the beginning of a flight, but the longer I play the easier I reach critical HP levels. Is there some remaining damage that does not get repaired and reduce your health further and further the more often you get hit? Or do you simply take more damage the longer you play?


texts: Is it possible to gain summoner XP while afk?

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My summoner is still on a low level (10 currently) and I want to reach Level 20 as fast as possible to be able to buy tier 3 runes.
I wonder if it would work to create a custom game with only bots and gain experience for my summoner while I'm away from keyboard.
Other things I have in mind: Would it have any bad influence on my ELO or win-lose-statistics for normal games?


texts:
Me and my compatriots have been tasked with helping to clean out the once great city of Ubersreik from a filthy horde of Skaven. We enjoy cleaving and shooting our way through these filthy creatures invading our city killing any assassin, gas rat, or slaver rat in our sights.

However as fearless as my mighty companions and I may be there is one thing that fills our minds with nothing but thoughts of terror and death, the terrifying howl of a mighty rat ogre who always seems to find us at the least opportune times. Although me and my companions are wielding the mightiest steel we can find our blades and bows do not phase this great beast and it isn't long before the four of us are writhing on the ground in a bloody mess.

My question is how can my comrades and I avoid being turned into the previously mentioned bloody mess and vanquish this mighty foe and save what is left of Ubersreik?


texts: I logged in for Realms Alpha but the Realms icon is not appearing. Why?


texts: What causes a civilization to be unable to accept an embassy?

texts: I started a new game with Japan on immortal difficulty, and in the trade screen I can accept their embassy in my capital but they can't accept mine (that option is gray). Why is that?


texts: Where is the Steam game savefile location on OSX?

texts:
Specifically asking about Mac OSX Sierra.

(Not the game application location.)


texts: How can I gank effectively as Jungle Skarner?

texts: I like Skarner, a lot. But despite that, I don't understand him entirely to be honest. He has an amazingly short range, no proper initiate skill, and his CC is his ultimate. To even get his slow off you have to hit with it twice before it works. How can he jungle effectively without any kind of ability to properly gank?


texts:
While playing Kittens Game, I noticed I had some buildings in space I did not need anymore because of their minimal effect. I would have selled them, but there wasn't an option to do so:

Meanwhile, normal buildings can be sold:

Is there any setting to allow me sell things from the "space" tab? or is it not possible (without cheating)?


texts: Wii U - Can I have my own save game data?

texts: I want to play Mario Kart on Wii U, but I don't want to mess with the existing game data.  Is there a way I can have my own separate profile?


texts: What does this hand and number represent?

texts:
I'm playing Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and I just noticed something I've never seen before. On my Hand-to-Hand skill description, there is a hand with a number 4 in the lower right corner:

It's there even when I have nothing equipped, no non-birthsign active effects, and none of my other skills (minor or major) have it. I'm an Imperial.

What does it mean? (I'm not uisng any mods)


texts: If I retrain a crew can I still use them in a lower tier vehicle?

texts:
I have two SPG's, Tier 5 and Tier 3; My Tier 3 crew is rather experienced (better than the Tier 5) and I intend to retrain them for my impending Tier 6 SPG.

However; will I still be able to use the crew in my Tier 3 SPG as well?

And will the retrained crew gain experience that they can use in the Tier 6 SPG if I put them back in the Tier 3 SPG after they've been retrained?


texts: Does Inspiring Presence affect Threatening Shout - Demoralize

texts: Does Inspiring Presence increase the taunt time of Threatening Shout - Demoralize from 4 seconds to 8 seconds?


texts: What are the minimum requirements needed to survive long-term in the nether?

texts:
The nether is a very hostile and repetitive enviroment. I hate it feom the time my arrow missed a ghast and hit a random pigman behind it.

Some time later, I tried repeatedly to survive in the nether without contact wih the overworld, but without success. First I tried to take just some iron sword, a pickaxe and some starting food. I thought I'd get food and material (while in one of my mini-bases)  from the pigmen (rotten flesh, gold) and from nether fortresses. This failed after my pick broke. Every other try, I took more and more items, but without success.

So here comes my question: What items (minimaly) shoud I take to the nether to be able to survive for any period of time? Which items are crucial to survive?

I woud also say that being able to survive means to be possible to survive whatever mother nether gives you, and surviving means "staying alive".


texts:
I am trying to kill all entities in a custom dimension named "console" except myself, armor stands, and items. At the moment, it is killing all entities in all dimensions except me, armor stands, and items.
This is the command
execute in minecraft:console run kill @e [type=!minecraft:armor_stand,name=!MaximumCalamity,type=!minecraft:item]


texts: How to fix drop FPS when smoke on screen in Counter Strike

texts:
I have a gaming laptop and my drivers are updated.
Usually, I'm playing with 200+ FPS, but since the last CS:GO update, when a smoke pops on the screen I drop to 30-40 FPS. I'm playing with an AWP and when I zoom in it is horrible!


texts:
For the quest Cultural Burden, I have been tasked to "Drain the Xenomass lake at

   the crash site."

However, I've no idea how to do that.  Any improvement a worker can apply produces a warning that doing so will fail the quest, as does attempting to

   build an expedition.

What must I do to progress in this quest?


texts:
Is Battlefield 3 available as a digital purchase for PC?

Where can I purchase it online?


texts:
Do Banelings actually overkill in certain situations or will they always deal only the required damage?

Usually 2 Banelings kill 1 Marine. Can I somehow force 3 or more Banelings to detonate on 1 Marine, without "shooting them down".


texts: Where can I find Honedge with Stance Change?

texts: I'm trying to catch a Honedge with the Stance Change ability, but for some reason all the ones I've caught so far have No Guard. Is there only a specific place where they'll have that ability, or is there something else I'm missing?


texts: Looking through my investigations, I have a number of investigations for the same monster but with different time limits (50 minutes, 30 minutes, 15 minutes). Is the 15-minute monster weaker than the 50-minute monster or do they have the same health?


texts: Is the PAL version of Halo 4 playable on an NTSC Xbox 360?

texts: I have an NTSC Xbox 360. Can I play a PAL Halo 4 on it?


texts: How can I find out the rarest Steam achievement?

texts:
Having completed the most difficult achievements for a couple of games, I started wondering how difficult the worst achievements can be. One well-defined measure for difficulty of an achievement is its rareness. Sadly, I don't know how to find global achievement stats for all Steam games.
What I want to know is:

What is the most rare single player achievement on Steam, in terms of

individual players?
percentage of players?

As any answer would eventually become outdated, I'm not asking that question per se. Instead, I would like to know how the rarest achievements can be found.
A good answer, then, depicts a method for finding the rarest achievements on Steam.


texts: After I train a Master Assassin is it possible to train another to that rank in that den?


texts:
I have very few tenants, but lots of spaces I could place them. Problem is, I don't have very many unlocked, and I am not quite sure how to unlock more of them.

How do I unlock more of them?


texts: How do I copy and paste a command to a command block on Minecraft Xbox One?

texts: Mojang recently released the Minecraft Better together update and I want to know if it is possible to copy and paste custom commands in Minecraft on Xbox One.


texts: Are there any specific tactics or strategies I should use to improve my score at Fruit Ninja?

texts:
Obviously, I can just "miss fewer fruit" and "avoid more bombs".

But when I compare my score to the high scores, I suspect there's a specific approach more specifc than "go study with fruit monks in Tibet".


texts: Do bonuses on one weapon affect other weapons in Nier Automata?

texts: For instance, when I have a weapon giving me "critical+" in the heavy attack slot; is it applied to my weapon in the light attack slot when I strike only with light attacks ?


texts: How do I activate the north (second?) generator on the Sandship?

texts:
I've already activated the south generator on B1.  I can see the room the north generator is in, but its hallway door is blocked.

The room directly to its east is unlocked, but the door between the two is blocked with electric beams.  The room has bars between them, but I can't see anything to shoot in the generator room.

The east door is blocked if I turn off the time shift stone, so I can't just turn it off, run in, and pull the switch to unblock the hallway door.

How do I get to the north generator to activate it?


texts:
There are an interesting number of levels that are locked without a certain number of Star Coins. For the most part, you seem to be able to pass these levels by and just play the next level (with the exception of one of the Bowser's Castle levels, I think).

Do I need to unlock all of these levels to finish the main story part of the game? (Or do they just count towards one of the 5 shiny stars you need to get the Final Level?)


texts: What order are target selector results returned in if the sort parameter is set to "arbitrary"?

texts:
Target selectors are used to select certain entities. They accept different arguments to choose which entity to select. Usually, this returns a list of found entities.
Using the limit=n parameter limits the length of the list to n (useful with 1 as n to get a single entity selection). The sort parameter lets you choose which order the list of targets are sorted in.
The sort parameter has 4 options, arbitrary, furthest, nearest, and random. The Minecraft Wiki displays what each of these do:

sort=nearest — Sort by increasing distance. (Default for @p, @e,[BE] @a[BE])
sort=furthest — Sort by decreasing distance.
sort=random — Sort randomly. (Default for @r)
sort=arbitrary — Do not sort. (Default for @e,[JE] @a[JE])

nearest, furthest, and random are easy to understand in what they do. The one I am curious about is when the arbitrary choice is selected.
The item returned by a target selector is always an ordered list. What order are they in if they are not sorted?
Possible Theories
Here are some possible theories:

The list is sorted by UUID.
The list is sorted by time of creation. (newest->oldest, or oldest->newest)
The list is sorted by position of entity. Entities are ordered in a scanline fashion, so lowest Z is first, with X from lowest to highest, followed by those on the next lowest Z.


texts: I made a phaseblade and have no idea what to do next It said material so I tried to what to craft nothing needed it.


texts: How do I install the Don't Starve (Together?) "A New Reign" beta

texts:
A friend on steam told me there's (going to be?) a new expansion on Don't Starve (Together)? I'd love to start playing but am not sure how to install it.

Can anyone find/make a step by step guide?


texts: Does anyone understand yet, if only the 5-bux slot increases its price after every droid? Will the price be reset if you use another slot? Maybe it's more reasonable to just move onto the 15-bux slot and try to get the level faster than in the 5-bux slot?


texts: Do random treasure points in fractured dimensions count towards your records?

texts:
Treasure points are the sparkly points and bags found in the field of most non-town areas of the game and Treasure chests are the actual chests found all over.

You need to activate them for the titles "Loot Liker", "Loot Leige" and "Loot Lord" and the records "Treasure Found" and "Most Random Treasures Found".

Do the points found in fractured dimensions count towards your records of these things?


texts: Does the PS4 or Xbox One need an internet connection to work?

texts:
My friend does not have the internet. They will not have the internet under any circumstances, but they want to buy a new console now that the Xbox 360 is obsolete. We have both heard that both the PS4 and Xbox One REQUIRE connection to work at all by downloading some patch first.  That isn't an option for me (and no they wont bring it here I already asked and they refused with the words "I don't go near the net ever except if forced to at work").

Will either console just work out of the box?  Whichever she gets isn't ever going to be updated unless the discs of games do so. Its never going to be online, she isnt interested in online gaming at all, doesn't have an internet, or even email.  She won't even have a smartphone or MP3 player.


texts: Can I use a Dungeons of Dredmor expansion purchased through Steam in Desura?

texts: I bought the Dungeons of Dredmor expansion, Realm of the Diggle Gods, on Steam. However, I prefer to play DoD on Linux, through Desura. Is there any way I can move the expansion to the Desura install, perhaps through copying some files over?


texts: Am I supposed to know who James Vega is?

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At the start of Mass Effect 3, James Vega comes to collect you for a meeting with the higher ups. The conversation between you implies that there is history, but I don't recall ever encountering him.

The wiki on him states:

  [James] had taken up residence in Omega playing cards in bars. During
  a game, a broadcast regarding Commander Shepard's actions during the
  events of Arrival and the galaxy's reactions aired on a nearby
  vidscreen.

Arrival was one of the few DLCs I didn't play for Mass Effect 2, did I miss his introduction there?


texts: How far does Aimee's SNITCH detect enemies?

texts: Just curious after the latest update how far does her SNITCH detect enemies? Is it radial or LOS?


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I've got masks and colors, but can't find how to change a mask color.  When I preview it, it appears white...

Is it a bug of the preview mode, or am I missing something ?


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Story
I am making a chatbot in Minecraft. Players "type" in their messages to the chatbot using a grid of buttons representing numbers, letters, and symbols. Each button press appends a new string to an NBT list. For example, the L button runs the following command:
data modify storage chatbot:main CurrentEntry append value "L"

Once done, the player presses the Submit button, which concatenates all the values in the array into one string, and submits it to the chatbot.
Problem
To reduce processing times, I have decided to institute a rule that messages may only be two hundred fifty-six characters long or less. I need a way to figure out how many items are in the string, and if there are more than 256, set some sort of flag to be detected by the system as too long.
Core question
How do you get the length of an NBT string?
Given an NBT string...
Input:{String:"Life is a bowl of cherries"}

can you retrieve the number of characters in the string and output it?
Output:{StringLength:26b}

Notes

If your solution requires concatenating or splitting the string, please do also answer the matching question below.

See also

Concatenating NBT strings
Splitting NBT strings


texts: What does the Golden Spatula do in Legends of Runeterra's Lab of Legends?

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There is a new item in Lab of Legends that has a very mysterious description. If I pick the Golden Spatula what actually happens to the card it is attached to?

As you can see, I have it on my Laurent Chevalier but his stats and keywords did not change.


texts: How to automatically heartbeat a TF2 listen server?

texts: I am running a listen server from time to time to play with friends, i get annoyed that in order for the server to be lsited on the internet i have to manually "heartbeat" and "map " in the console. Is there a way to somehow automate this? I already have a "listenserver.cfg" file set up, but adding the commands there does not work, is there a way to set up the game to run these commands once the server loads, as i tend to let it load in the background and run other errands meanwhile?


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I want to be able to play the guitar and sing at the same times in games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, so I'm wondering how I can create a microphone stand out of common household objects. The mic stand...

doesn't have to be rock solid, once the microphone is put in place the mic stand will not be touched.
should preferably be small enough to easily be put away between gaming sessions.
should require as little assembly as possible at the start of each session.

Both solutions for playing while standing and sitting are welcome.


texts:
I'm trying to bind CTRL + Shift + F to one of my quickbar 4 slots but it won't register the key

command. CTRL + F works, as does Shift + F.

I'm using the Razer Blackwidow ultimate keyboard and naga mouse with the accompanying software. I don't know if that is making a difference.


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My saves are gone. Is there any way to recover them?
I got it on Steam, and after launcnhing it today the Continue options is greyed out. I played the game till almost level 10.


texts: Restarting first time setup for games on Steam

texts:
So by accident for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, I cancelled the VC-Redist setup before it went all the way through, and I think that's the result for me getting green bars when I start the game, and later, a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). Is there any way to fix this?

The intro screen looks like this:

System Specs:
Lenovo Y580
1080p screen (plugged into monitor)
Intel i7-3610QM
GTX 660m
8 GigaBytes of RAM


texts: Get different prices when buying or selling weapons and ammo?

texts: Will I get different prices with different weapon dealers or the prices are somewhat the same everywhere?


texts: How do you regain a Nation's favour once they have set a price on your head?

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I'm in 1665 and Duke of the English, Dutch, and French. After raiding the complete Spanish main and installing Governors of other Nation's in several cities, they are down only to a few cities and have set a price of 60.000 doubloons on my head. Yet, I'd like to get back into the good books of the Spanish now. I can't attack any of the other nation's cities due to standing in such high regard; taking ships will not gain me credit if I don't meet a Spanish governor thereafter.

How can I win their favor?


texts:
As I scanned my Clans list of members (My Clan tab) I noticed that just one member (not me) had a different icon to the left of their name...

What was even more surprising was that it was animated - it winked!  I saw it winked at least twice.  Later it reverted to a more normal icon.  What did it mean?


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I'd like to launch a rocket from the surface of Eve.  From what I've read, Eve is significantly harder to launch from than Kerbin.

How can I test my Eve launcher design on Kerbin to see that it has sufficient delta-v for the job?

I'm looking for an un-modded solution, something that works in KSP right out of the box.
I'm only looking at a craft to get from Eve's surface to low Eve orbit.  Don't worry about how to get that craft to Eve in the first place.


texts: Is is possible to obtain the Noble Team Statue without getting the Legendary Edition?

texts: I like to get the Noble Team statue from the Halo: Reach Legendary edition, but not have to purchase the Legendary edition. Can I get it else where as a stand alone product?


texts: What is the purpose of Dehaka's right arm?

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In "Supreme" mission on Zerus planet you can find it

   between first and second champion fight.

I can't do anything with it.

Are there any possible interaction with this easter egg?


texts: Do IVs affect a Pokémon's motivation degradation in a gym?

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Say I have two Pokémon (let's just say Vaporeon) in a gym and they both have the exact same CP.

Vaporeon 1 has an IV score of 100%, which means that Attack, Defense, and Health have a perfect 15/15 score.

Vaporeon 2 has an IV score of 10% (or less), so basically, it has the worst stats when it comes to Attack, Defense and Health.

Will their motivation deplete at the same rate, when placed in a Gym?

Will Vaporeon 1's motivation deplete slower or will they both degrade at the same rate?


texts: How long until a pokemon respawns in the same spot?

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It seems that pokemon tend to spawn in the exact same spot. From both my house and my workplace different pokemon keep appearing, but they always pop up in the exact same locations over and over again.

How long after I have captured a pokemon in a certain location will it be until another pokemon shows up?


texts: Can a National Park consist of all mountains?

texts:
I've got the tiles shown below that seem to meet the definition of a National Park. They're all mountains with breathtaking appeal. They're all within the boundaries of my city of Cumae. They are contiguous and form a vertical diamond shape. They have no improvements or districts.

However, my poor Naturalist doesn't seem to recognize this as a potential Park.  Is it possibly because the tiles are all Impassable (as are all mountain tiles) so the poor guy can't get there? This would imply that it isn't possible to designate a National Park consisting of all Mountains, which sounds like a bug to me. I'm sure a dedicated Naturalist would find a way to explore the space.


texts: Where can you see the Al Bhed Primers which you have collected?

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In Final Fantasy X you collect items called 'Al Bhed Primers', which allow you to gradually decipher Al Bhed text or speech.

Is there anywhere in the menus which gives me a list of which ones I've collected, or even what your 'title' is (based on the number of primers you have picked up)?


texts: Which champions are suited to League of Legends Dominion Map (and which should be avoided)?

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I'm not regularly playing League of Legends as a pre-made team and was wondering which champions are more suited to playing the Dominion map.

Obviously it depends a bit on what other champions have been selected for the team and your playing style but there is likely a number of champions which are more capable on this map than others...


texts: How do I get the cache behind this grate on Marine HQ?

texts:
On the Marine HQ level (level 5), there is a grate near the spawn where there is massive health crate and some item I've never seen before.  It's next to the red key card door.

Here is a screenshot below - it may be graphic due to the nature of the game hence why it's in the spoiler markup:

I don't want to progress any further really in this level until I figure out how to access it since I'm very nearly dead.  How do you open this grate to get in?


texts: How can I run a command if one or more conditions in /execute are satisfied?

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In Minecraft 1.16.1, I’m trying to make a system thats detects when one of several fake players doesnt have a specific score.
Here is my first attempt:
execute unless score sticks_have page-2 matches 2.. unless score plank_have page-2 matches 1.. run ...

After trying this, I realized that all scores need to be in the correct range before it runs the command! But I want it to run the command when any of the scores are in range.
I thought of using the following command, but it doesn’t detect fake players:
execute unless entity @a[scores={sticks_have=2..,plank_have=1..}] run...

I know I can use multiple command blocks, but I would rather not, just do I can conserve space.
What can I do?


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I was wondering if I could make a mod be disguised as another mob. For example, I built a witch hut and I would like a witch to live in the hut, move around, work in it, etc. Whenever I spawn a witch in the hut it despawns, so my idea was to spawn a villager in the hut and make it invisible while a witch is constantly teleported to it or attached to it in someway so it looks like the witch is living and doing stuff in the hut. Would there be anyway to do this?
I am also on 1.15.2

Thanks

Edit: I know you can use a nametag to keep the witch from despawning, but I would rather see if this idea is a better way of solving my problem


texts: Print XYZ of nearest Villager (or other entity)

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NOTE: Java edition 1.15.1

As an example, my villagers keep running off somewhere / getting stuck on the side of mountains - and it's not always easy to track them down by their sound.

Rather than fussing around - is there a way to print out the XYZ of the nearest entity?

Something like "print coord of @e[type=villager,distance=0..40]" - where it prints either the closest match, or all entities found.


texts: How to order a group of ships to protect a specific area?

texts: I just started playing Homeworld (Classic) and was wondering if there were any commands that could help with having a group of ships protect a specific area and attack anything that enters range of it? I know they added that to remastered but I was wondering if I was just missing something, or if thats just part of the gameplay is managing who your attacking when.


texts: So, my friends and I just beat adventure mode in Magicka. After defeat the most powerful wizard in the world (twice), a giant dragon, and Death himself, among others, we were expecting a fairly challenging final boss, to say the least. Instead, we just thunder bolted him a couple of times and beat him about maybe 20 seconds into our first try, before he was able to cast his first spell. So my question is: was the last boss in Magicka intentionally made easier than all the others as a final joke?


texts: How many vehicles can I store in Trevor's hangar? I know you can store 2 vehicles in each of the main character's safe houses, but for example if I stored 1 aircraft and a truck in trevor's hangar, will one of them disappear?


texts: Why is my Hill Orc apparantly no longer a priest?

texts:
I'm playing a Hill Orc priest, and I noticed I haven't been gaining any orc followers at all. Up at the top right, my title says "Moop the Fighter" and not "Moop the Proselytizer" or whatever it normally says, and Smite is gone from my abilities list. I also can't train in invocations anymore.

What could have happened?


texts: How can I quickly earn money / experience in Pocket Planes?

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(question inspired by a similar question about Pocket Frogs )

What are some strategies that can be used to quickly earn money or gain experience in Pocket Planes (especially in the early game, when bootstrapping the economy)?
You have the choice to invest in new airports, new airplanes, or upgrading existing ones, which should I prioritize? Should I go and max out airports/airplanes/upgrades, or do some of each?


texts: Is there any reason to keep my Screaming Demon Ring?

texts:
I stopped getting the bonus experience from this before I ever left Kingsmouth (I was informed you could tell when you stopped getting the experience because the preorder pet stops giving a buff at around the same point) and it was quickly exceeded in stats for the slot as well.  So, I haven't been wearing it for quite some time now.

Is there any reason for me to hold onto this item, or should I just toss it?  Can I reobtain one if I feel like I have a need for it?


texts: What's the most efficent combo to do as much damage as possible in 5 turns?

texts: Let's say that my opponent won't cast any spells during the first 5 turns of a duel. What is the best combination of spells to do as much damage as possible in that time?


texts: I've tried using it, and from what I see basically it lets you teleport for a distance and direction, both depending on your momentum. I find this highly limiting when I want to use it to dodge projectiles, which is what I'm assuming that it's meant for. Therefore, there doesn't seem to be much reason to pick blink over the other glide abilities.


texts: Do multiple user accounts on the Wii U all share the same save data for games?

texts: My little brother disgustingly hogs my Wii U so much and some games I like to do myself, like Splatoon, I can't because he played the ever living life out of it. If I make another Wii U Mii profile and picking it, would it treat the Splatoon save file as exclusive to the main Wii U Mii profile?


texts: Can I still explore after I have entered the White Witch tower?

texts:
I still have things to finish off and I prefer to do this before finishing the game. The sky pirate captain has asked me if I am prepared for final battle.

If I say "Yes", can I still escape the tower and continue to explore the world?


texts: What does it mean to be detected or raise suspicion in Thief?

texts:
A couple of times now people have asked in comments what exactly counts as "raising suspicion", or being "detected" etc. Since no one has actually posted it as a question...

What are the different NPC alertness levels in Thief and how do they effect the game-play and end of mission report?


texts: There are four promotional unlocks in Borderlands 2. What are they?

texts: The title pretty much says it all. There is a hack going around to unlock all four of the promotional unlocks. I was wondering what exactly they are? For example, in my game UnlockId=2 is set.


texts: Can winter lootboxes be opened after the winter event?

texts: Overwatch players get 5 free winter lootboxes if they log in between today and January 2nd (the end of the winter event). Can these still be opened once the event is over? From this I will extrapolate how other special event lootboxes work.


texts: I can't craft leather from deer hide with Skyrim Requiem

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I've got the latest version of Skyrim with all DLC.  When I load just Requiem alone (no other mods), I cannot craft leather from deer hide-- though I can craft it from leather armor.  If I disable the mod, I can.  I haven't found any patch or fix that repairs this.

How can I fix this?


texts: Do zombified units gain experience or AP?

texts: Do units afflicted with zombie status gain experience or AP from the battle?


texts:
In the section of levels where you get to mindlessly destroy all of your groceries, a few levels have ribbons relating to destroying a certain number of melons.

How do I destroy them? I have piled things on them and dropped them on top of one another from crazy heights but my melons just won't break.

How do I destroy my melons?


texts:
Can someone explain the sims 3 households for me?

So my fiancee created a sim and played with it in bridgeport. I then started a new game and created a new sim. We both want to marry eventually but yeah i keep explaining to her that this is a new iteration of sims(she says that in sims 2 you could do that).

SO basically we'll both be in different worlds but with the same characters, right? So if i get married in MY save file, she won't(unlike in sims 2 where you can "take control" of any other sims that are in the same neighborhood as yours)

Am I correct or is there a way? Come to think of it, I dont think thats possible with different save files as we have different states of play and progress and merging them will be a nightmare...right?


texts: How to "Investigate rock arches on the Mun" in Kerbal Space Program?

texts:
I'm doing historical missions, the "Investigate rock arches on the Mun" mission.

I've reached the Arch, taken samples, EVA, Crew reported, landed really near it (<100m), climbed it's top + crew report + Samples.. and still the contract is not satisfied.

What am I missing?

UPDATE

I think it's a bug. I've been there a second time, still nothing happens.

Screenshot added:


texts: How to deal with Amorphous Gel (chapter 1) using a team of fiends?

texts:
I'm playing FF X-2 for the first time with the PS4 remastered version, which has a mechanic of capturing fiends that can be used in the party instead of YRP. Each monster can be trained by using Items or Accessories, and they also benefit from a single Dress sphere in a chosen Garment Grid. However, after that the fights are resolved by AI without player input.

Amorphous Gel in Macalania Woods is nearly immune to physical damage, and has a move that crushes a fiend to 1hp (even from 1k+ hp). It also seems to be immune to Deathtouch (from Tonberry) so it can't be insta killed.

What team of fiends, capturable in chapter 1, would be likely to fare well against this obstacle?


texts: What are the timings for double pulling in safe lane, and pulling from offlane?

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So I know the timing for pulling the safelane with the easy camps is XX:12 or XX:42, but if you want to double pull to one of the hard camps, then is there a best time to do this? Or does it depend on which easy camp you get and therefore how quickly the easy neutrals DPS down the creeps? (Note - you need to quelling blade or tango a tree to do this successfully in radiant jungle, think you can maybe get away with not doing it in dire jungle? Don't know for sure)

Secondly, what is the timing for offlane pulling the hard camp from dire jungle, and easy camp in radiant jungle? (Again, this requires tree consumption on both I think)

Thanks in advance!!

PS - unrelated helpful note for anyone interested in learning more about pulling - if you get the camps with the healing creeps, you have to aggro by walking into them, not attacking them, as the healing creeps will remain stationary and heal if any of their compatriots are below 100% health. This was a revelation to me so thought I'd share :D


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I’m making the Infinite IKEA (SCP-3008, look it up, it’s pretty cool), except that’s it’s a square kilometer in area (1000 blocks by 1000 blocks) instead of being infinite. Now, in the IKEA, the day/night cycle is simulated through the lights shutting on and off. Considering my ceiling (and the cannon ceiling, probably) is at build height, using lanterns is a no-go. Therefore, I have opted for command blocks that simply alternate between a glass and iron ceiling. I say blocks plural, because each command block manages a sector of a hundred square meters. When one activates, a chain command block activated the next module, and so on.

Now here is the problem. If the command block is manipulating blocks that are out of view, you will get an error message saying that “blocks outside the world cannot be accessed”. Therefore, I need a way to load every chunk at once. Ticking areas will not work, as they cover at most sixteen hundred square meters, and you only have 10. I’ve tried altering my render distance through the game files, but to no avail. Is there a program that can either increase the ticking area’s power or force load many thousands of blocks? (A bit over a million).

Preferably, I would want this solution to be accessible to mobile, but if this is not possible, then that is fine.


texts: Does Deus Ex: Human Revolution support a third-person camera on consoles?

texts:
I'm one of those people that has developed an inability to play many first-person shooters, but not all.

Since a demo doesn't appear to be coming out for Deus Ex: Human Revolution I'm wondering if this game supports a third-person camera on the consoles (PS3/Xbox 360).

From what I can tell online it appears that the certain actions result in the camera moving outside of the main character, but I'd like to be sure that's the only time.

And since the stealth aspect is being mentioned a lot, and I can't see playing Metal Gear Solid 4 from the first-person perspective ...

(I'd ask if anyone who has difficulty playing first-person shooters has tried the game, but I know that's extremely subjective. Heck, I can play BioShock but not Dead Space, Just Cause 2 and most other third-person games, but Red Dead Redemption makes me ill.)


texts: On the story selection screen of ilomilo, I have the option of playing first adventure, or ilomilo shuffle, which is locked.  How do I unlock it?


texts: Do number of trees affect efficiency of hunting?

texts: Will a hunting cabin in the middle of a dense forest produce more food and leather than one in an open plain?


texts:
What's the "safe" to dig a vertical pit?

I tried to channel a 3x3 section straight down.  I also put in an up/down stair on the side of the pit but my miners ended up getting stuck, dieing of thirst, and falling and breaking their ankles.

HHH
HHH
HHH
 X


texts: I've found the remains of a doomsday-cult mass suicide. Can I do anything with their Poisoned Wine?

texts:
Just south of Boston Common, I found the remains of the Boylston Social Club, hangout for Boston's wealthy and powerful. It looks like, when the bombs hit, they raised one last toast and drank themselves to death with Poisoned Wine, a half a dozen bottles of which were still left lying around the club, 200 years later, for me to, well, procure.

The stat-line in the pip boy doesn't make this Poisoned Wine seem like it's anything different from regular Wine - it has an identical statistical effect - but it does sell to a vendor for substantially more.

That's boring though. Is there anything more interesting I can do with the Poisoned Wine? If I plant it on someone, will they drink it and die? Or am I overthinking some quick caps?


texts: Is it possible to kill the Ceadeus with SNS?

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I was only able to repel/kill the Ceadeus using the longsword. However, I much prefer to use the SNS personally. I was wondering if it was even possible to kill/repel the Ceadeus with SNS.

Thanks!
N.S.


texts: In the quest "The Molecular Level", what differences are there based on which faction you chose to help you?

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In the quest "The Molecular Level", you can choose to get help from either the Brotherhood of Steel, the Minutemen, the Railroad, or none.

What differences are there between each one? I chose to go with the Railroad, and they asked me to make contact with an insider in the Institute.

Are there different objectives depending on which faction you side with? And if you choose not to side with any of them? And who is the leader that is in charge of the project, and the scientist involved, for each faction?


texts:
Update 39 added perk decks that require perk points to unlock. But I don't know how to acquire these points, as it's not explained in the update log and I kind of skipped past the tutorial prompt.

How do I get perk points to spend?


texts: What's the link between the different game in the Far Cry series?

texts:
Is there a link between the games in the Far Cry series?

The only "confirmed" link I can find is that Far Cry 4 takes place after Far Cry 3 as it shares characters (Hurk and Willis) and refers to events in the previous games (Hurk's monkey exploits). Otherwise I couldn't find any "confirmed" links, aside from "wide beliefs" that the first game's protagonist is the second game's antagonist.

Is there any "chronology" to the series?


texts: Is it possible to purchase characters before I complete story mode?

texts:
I have unlocked a character or three whose abilities I want to utilise in levels in Free Play mode.  However, I can't work out how to buy them.

In previous games, it was possible to go to some sort of terminal in the hub to switch character even before you'd completed the story mode to unlock free play for the hubs - and you could buy characters there.  For example, Lego Marvel Super Heroes (at SHIELD terminals) and Lego Batman 3 (at character switch terminals) both had this ability.

Is this possible in Lego Avengers?


texts: Villagers aren't breeding (Realms - 1.15.2)

texts: They aren't picking up my potatoes, bread and even my carrots. I have a ton of beds, I've even tried trading with them but it wont work, any tips?


texts:
When I am investing points into my skills I assume that this is permanent.

Can you sell and rebuy skills to essentially respect your character? Or is it a matter of just grinding out more points?


texts: Are some items only available through "event" missions?

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Playing the standard promotion missions, I pretty much get the same set of items every time.

For example, in Weapon Promotion Tier 3, I get the Riot Gun, Electro Sword, and Blast Rifle all the time. However, I can't find the blaster frame (also a tier 3). It could just be that I need to play that mission a whole bunch more, but its making me wonder:

Are some items only available in the "event" (ie Weapons Wednesday) missions, even though their tier is available in the standard missions? The in-game help suggests some cards can only be achieved by playing in the Arena, but mentions characters specifically (not promotion items).

To be super clear, is there any Tier 1,2, or 3 item that is not given though the standard promotion missions? Obviously Tier 4 and 5 items are going to be difficult to get unless you go through the event missions.


texts: Eggs won't hatch while travelling on a boat

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I'm on a boat and the average speed is about 15 km/h, but the egg progress does not change. It worked fine the first day but now it doesn't. It usually works when I'm near land and travel slower so I guess it only works near land now? Or is the speed required different while at sea?

I could not have been banned since I haven't cheated or even played the game while going too fast. In addition, I really doubt it has anything to do with connection issues, since I'm writing this while travelling and I haven't had any problems thus far. Lastly, this has been happening over the course if a week at the moment. So, the same problem seems to occur as distance only counts when travelling near land as not even ~5mph speeds don't count towards hatching eggs so I'm guessing egg grinding is not supposed to happen at sea.


texts: Do Ultra or Master Balls exist in Pokémon GO?

texts: Are there Ultra Balls or Master Balls in Pokémon GO? So far I've only seen the normal PokéBall and Great Ball.


texts: Can I get Steam to stop annoying me with notifications that I've earned a nickel?

texts:
Steam has trading cards. Great. Now I have a bunch of nigh-worthless digital bits to get rid of.

Fortunately, the Market provides an easy way to do that! I can recoup pennies on the dollar from the cost of my poor choices during a given Steam sale by selling the trading cards!

However, since they're only worth a nickel or three, I don't really care that any given card has sold. I do however, want to know when the occasional valuable item sells for a buck or three, and I also don't want to just blacklist the email address to my spam folder, because it's the same address that Important Things like receipts for my ill-advised purchases comes from.

Is there any way to get Steam to throttle these notifications so that my phone will stop beeping every 9 seconds with a notification that my FTL card that I never cared about has sold for 12 cents?


texts: How to pick the HQ you want in skirmish mode?

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I have the game including "Jupiter" expansion (it was auto included), which means I have 6 HQs available, but when I start a skirmish mode, I can see only 4 HQs.

Is there a way to cyle through the 6 HQs ? or is there a way to disable Jupiter expansion so I can train only on the 4 basic HQs ?


texts: The game displays messy colors and pixels movements

texts: It looks a bit like the game Borderlands, and it's the same single player as multiplayer. When I use the Sphax PureBDCraft texture pack it also has a small square in the middle as a cursor which looks like it's giving me x-ray. I have no mods installed or anything and i've looked everywhere please help!!


texts: What is damage spread as it relates to Team Fortress 2?

texts: The term "Damage Spread" is thrown around, specifically in regards to "vanilla" servers in Team Fortress 2.  What does this term mean, and how does it relate to server settings and gameplay?


texts: Which Monk spirit-generator skills generates spirit the fastest?

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In what order does the Monk's spirit-generating skills generate spirit the fastest? Both with and without all runes unlocked?

I use Crippling Wave most of the time, but often find myself out of spirit so was wondering if there was a significant difference in the spirit-generating skills.

After looking into it a bit, I found that all 4 skills consist of 3 hit-combos, so generate the same amount of spirit per combo, although Fists of Thunder has the fastest attack speed, so generates the most spirit of the four without any runes.

However I don't like Fists of Thunder, and want to know which of the remaining ones are the fastest, and if there's even a significant difference in spirit-generation between them.


texts: Explain the best Y level (height) for mining in Minecraft

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I favor mining in straight, torch-lit tunnels. There aren't any mobs and it's easy to find my way back out. But I've never really been sure how deep I should go for the best results. I've seen all kinds of varying answers, but most of them don't come with any real explanation and almost none of them show their work.
To make the question more specific, these are the resources I'm usually hoping to find when I go to mine:

Diamonds for better equipment.
Lapis Lazuli for use in enchanting.
Iron for general use.
Gold (sometimes) when I want to make golden apples or trade with villagers/piglins.

I value them in roughly this order, though sometimes I want lapis more than diamonds when I really want to enchant some items.
I don't particularly care about:

Redstone because I have little use for it and I usually end up with plenty.
Coal because I usually have enough already.
Emeralds because I can get more by trading with villagers than by mining for them anyway.

So, what are the best Y levels to dig across in trying to get these resources, and why?


texts: Effect of difficulty on mass effect 3 story line

texts: Does the difficulty effect the storyline in mass effect 3 in anyway. Is it just me or did the dialogue options in mass effect 2 effect your story playout more than mass effect 3?


texts: Transfer "save data" from Wii-mode to "Wii U-mode"

texts: So the question is; I've now got an original Wii. If i play a VC-game on this, i understand that i can transfer this game onto a Wii U in "Wii-mode" if i buy this in the future. So far so good. I also know that i can download the game to "Wii U-mode" for a small fee. The big question is; will I be able to transfer the save-data that i already have for the game in "Wii-mode" onto the newly downloaded version on the "Wii U-mode"?


texts: How to deny Protoss observers effectively

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Usually (or very often), good Protoss players, after building a Robotics bay, build observer and put it to opponent base.

From my perspective if you know Protoss build Robo you should care about that observer.

How do I most effectively deny this observer?

The most often I play Terran and there are few ways for that:

Scan your choke and kill observer with marines. This can fail if observer is not in the scanned screen. That also cost you 50 energy (270 minerals). Observer costs 25/75... if we take gas/mineral exchange rate as 2.5 - it is pretty good price for killing observer...
Build Engineering Bay and build few turrets. that costs 150+x*75... also not too bad. This will take time, but could be also useful in a long run (detect DT or other observers, some defense against phenixes and VoidRays).
Build Raven (if you have StarPort with tech lab). That costs 100/200 - a little bit expensive for observer hunting, but you could later use Raven for PDD, etc...
Anything else?

Questions:

What is the best way to hunt observers?
How to deal with opponent observers if you play Zerg?
How to deal with opponent observers if you play Protoss?

Thanks a lot!


texts: Where did this deadly lichen come from, and what can I do about it?

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I recently went through quite a bit of effort to survive obtaining a key (fire trap in explosive gas room...). After obtaining said key, I was walking though the only hallway back to the vault on the level, and it was full of "deadly lichen" that had not been there earlier.

I would like to get back to the vault - my potion of detect magic indicated that all the items inside the vault have benevolent magical auras. However, but I don't know how to get past this "deadly lichen", nor am I sure what's its effects on me might be.

To test the effects, I used my wand of beckoning to pull a kobold over onto the lichen, and it immediately became "fatally poisoned" and died within a few turns, so I've determined that walking over it seems like a BAD option.

So how can I get past the deadly lichen?

As a bonus, I'm also curious how deadly lichen forms if anyone knows. It was in the key room, so it may just be part of an elaborate key trap, but I haven't seen this before if that's the case, and it seems a little mean for a depth 3 key room.