texts: How do the odds of producing Uranium-235 and Uranium-238 work?

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I've finally got a nuclear reactor up and running.  In order to do this, you need both Uranium-235 and Uranium-238 to create a Uranium fuel cell (as well as iron plates, but that part is easy).  To make both Uranium-235 and Uranium-238, you need to use a centrifuge.

From observing the centrifuge as it works, it produces much more Uranium-238 than Uranium-235.  This is having a major impact on producing the fuel cells needed to power my reactor since the production of Uranium-235 is so little.

What are the odds of producing both Uranium-235 and Uranium-238? Is it random with a heavier weight towards Uranium-238 or is there a defined odds such as 100:1?


texts: I'm not too far in the game yet, so traveling at nighttime is pretty scary, since high level daemons come out and absolutely destroy my party members who don't understand the concept of fleeing (looking at you, Prompto). I'm curious if this will always be the case or not. I've noticed that some of the daemons were only in their 30s. For me, that's really strong, but I believe the level cap is 99. Therefore, when I'm further in the game, will the nighttime daemons continue to scale up in levels so that they're always stronger than me? Or will I eventually be on equal ground with them?


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I was playing GTA SA for some time, but the main problem for me was earning money. I either cheated or murdered to get money, sometimes completed missions.
But I want to ask, what are the ways to earn money in GTA SA, except murder, cheating and horse races hack?


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I've recently installed Portal 2 on my Ubuntu partition, and I've noticed an interesting issue that has popped up while playing community test chambers, but it has also surfaced around the beginning of story mode Chapter 1. I can usually get upwards of 60-70 FPS based on my graphics settings, but whenever I look at a movable panel, my frame rate drops severely, usually to below 30 FPS. My specs are as follows:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Kernel version 3.18.0-031800-generic
Intel Core i5-4200U (2 physical cores, 4 total logical cores)
Intel HD Graphics 4400 iGPU (Driver: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller version 09)
(Note: The driver version number is according to the output of sudo lshw -C video)

And my Portal 2 video settings are:

Aspect ratio: 16:9
Resolution: 1366 x 768 (Native)
Display mode: Full screen
Laptop power savings: Disabled
Splitscreen direction: Default
Anti-Aliasing: None
Filtering mode: Trilinear
Wait for Vertical Sync: Disabled
Multicore Rendering: Enabled
Shader Detail: Low
Effect Detail: High
Model/Texture Detail: Low

Is there anything I can do to fix this issue? I'm still able to play normally, but the FPS drops catch me off-guard and can get annoying.


texts: How do I fix Universal Minecraft Editor's broken chunk locator?

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The Universal Minecraft Editor allows users to edit many different parts of their world, including the  NBT of items, entities, and blocks. It is commonly used to edit NBT data of items.
However, the 1.16.100 update of Minecraft Bedrock Edition has broken the editor's Chunk Locator. Instead, the Chunk Locator shows a blank white canvas and I am unable to select a chunk to edit:

If you still attempt to select a chunk and hit the "Open" button, no luck, the following error appears:

This seems to only happen in worlds that are 1.16.100+. Older worlds will still open properly.
Why is this happening and how do I fix it?


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I noticed after playing Temple Run 1 for a while and fully upgrading my powerups that there's an option for disabling powerups. My question is how game mechanics handle this decision, and I have a couple theories:

Powerups in general  have a constant chance of appearing at specific intervals in a run, and disabling a powerup allows other powerups to occur more often. e.g., constant chance of 10% in general, so 2.5% chance for magnet, invisibility, boost, and mega coin, and disabling one of them allows the remaining 3 a 3.33% chance of occuring.
Each powerup has a specific constant chance of appearing at specific intervals, (e.g., 2.5%) and thus the overall chance of any occuring is 10%, and disabling one of them reduces the overall probability to 7.5%.

I can see why disabling powerups would be advantageous in the first scenario if you have a preference for specific powerups, but I have no way of determining which of these mechanics are what's happening. Can anyone verify either of these, or state if there's actually a different mechanic than either of those going on?


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After a toxic fallout event, most of the animals in the area died.

Is it safe to butcher and eat them? Will this poison my colonists?


texts: Stop fish spawning in a 1X1 block water tube

texts: I have a tube system which carries loot with packed ice on the bottom and water to push it around quickly. This works very efficiently however I am getting an excessive amount of fish and dolphins spawning inside of the tube which I think limits the tubes ability to carry loot as well as make the game a bit laggy. I want to know if there are any ways of stopping the fish from spawning in the tubes or killing them effecgtively whithout removing the packed ice from underneath. The top and sides of the tube are currently made from glass. I'm aware that mobs can't spawn on magma blocks however I don't want to switch my ice for this - will replacing the sides with magma help? (don't want to set that all up for it to then fail). I have also tried placing sea pickles on source blocks but that hasn't done anything.


texts: Elder Scrolls lore before starting Skyrim

texts: I am waiting for Skyrim but I never played any other games of the Elder Scrolls series. Where can I find more info about the lore of Elder Scrolls series, in general, so that I can start reading something before the release?


texts: If I complete quests at my level cap, will the XP I could have gotten go to waste?

texts: I have the Starter Edition of WoW, so my level cap is 20. If I complete  quests at my level 20 level cap and then buy the full game, will the XP I could have gotten but didn't get because I was level 20 be wasted, or saved up and given to me after I buy the full game?


texts: power supply required for terminator 2 console

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I recently dug up my decades old Terminator 2 video console (aka Ending-Man BS-500 AS), and, because of nostalgia, I wanted to play some Mario on it. Unfortunately, I'm missing the power supply cable and I have no clue on what its power supply requirements are. Internet searches didn't come up with any answer, so any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.

Thanks!


texts: Game disk is broken! Can i get a disk from another region and play?

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My friend broke his bf4 disk. He's from Canada and he came to live here in lebanon.

The disk he's got is from Canada and he's got the dlcs and all the updates so he doesn't want to go through with downloading them again.

Can he just buy a disk from Lebanon (Europe region) and run the game with the disk or does he have to reinstall the game to be able to run it?

Thanks for any speedy answers!


texts: Where do I put downloaded maps on Trackmania Turbo?

texts: Where do I put my downloaded Trackmania maps on Trackmania Turbo so I can play them?


texts: Is there a term for using cover to artificially block AI attacks?

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One of the key techniques for playing the original Doom games was to stand with a wall, column, or other terrain feature between the monsters and you, such that your ray-traced bullets passed through, but enemies shooting fireballs or other projectiles with size were blocked. Arachnotrons were particularly susceptible to this exploit. I'm sure a thousand other games have this phenomena, though hopefully modern AI is smarter about moving when the target is blocked.

Is there a term for this technique?

To be clear, I'm not talking about simply using cover, or dodging out from cover to take a shot and then retreating, but rather situations were you can stand still and cherry-tap the target to oblivion with your pistol, perfectly safe.


texts: So, I keep seeing statues here and there. What is with them? I can't attack them, searching around them doesn't yield results...What are they for?


texts: What are the secret achievements in Machineers?

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I have completed the main story mode of Machineers, earning an achievement (Google Play Games) for each puzzle, but there were still 5 secret achievements left. After a bit of poking around and trying alternative solutions, I managed to snatch two of them: "The tank" and "Ruby's birthday". These are fairly straightforward and their titles are good clues as to where to find them, but in any case, if you are reading this and would like some hints, I'll gladly tell about them. For the other three I only managed to learn their titles and the puzzles they can be earned in:

Landing Lights - found in Lorry's Oil puzzle.
The Safest Course of Action - found in the Train Tracks puzzle.
Efficient Invasion - In the Intruders puzzle, getting the aliens to move using the smallest number of parts.

For 1. I tried making the letters scroll by one by one from left to right, and scrolling from the two ends towards the middle, but none of these were what the developers thought.

For 2. I have yet no idea, but will keep on plucking at it.

And for 3. I have a solution that uses the trivial parts outside the main logics box, and only 2 belts + 1 gear in the main logics. Yet this is still not enough (or maybe I have some other error in there?)


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It appears that the stronghold locations have moved.  I had found a strong hold at one point in a creative world that my little kids like to play in.  I found it in 1.0 or 1.1.  I didn't write down the coordinates.

Since that time, we're running 1.2.4 and we are using an eye of ender to try and find the stronghold again, and it's taking us to a nearby, but different spot, a spot just on the edge of what we had previously explored.  So, when we get to new areas, we find vestiges of a stronghold, all of which end abruptly at the "old explored area" vs. the "newly generated area" boundary.

I've also tried flying to a totally different part of the world, to see if the eye of ender takes us to a different stronghold, but no luck.  It's my understanding from the Wiki that there should be 3 strongholds, all roughly equally spaced around the center, roughly 1km from (0,0,0) but no matter where I go, the eyes of ender always take me back to this non-existent stronghold.

Is there any app that will give me strong hold locations for a 1.1 minecraft seed?
My seed is:
-6550982739431437639

Any suggestions?


texts: My Fire Walkers burn the ground I walk on, dealing 100$ weapon damage to enemies within a radius. Can the boots do critical hits? If so, is the crit damage based off your normal damage or the damage the boots do (in this case 100% so it would be the same thing)?


texts: Does jumping to a nebula still slow the rebel fleet if they're not yet visible in the sector?

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It's not unusual to find a few nebula beacons in non-nebula sectors. These apparently delay the rebel fleet's advance when you visit them. It seems like they always end up clustered right around where I start in the sector, though; do they still delay the rebel fleet even if the rebel fleet hasn't (visibly) arrived in the sector yet?

Alternately, how many jumps does it normally take before the rebel fleet appears in the sector?


texts: How is the density of spawning Pokemon in a particular area determined?

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Quite simply, in Pokemon Go, how are Pokemon distributed?

From my experience, they appear to be based on the trainers in the vicinity, because there are many Pokemon and trainers at my house, but in my local town, there is nearly no Pokemon! But neither are there any Pokestops.

Are Pokemon spawns more common in highly populated areas? Are they based on the density of Pokestops? Or what about the amount of Pokemon Go trainers in the near vicinity?


texts: How do you make more Golden Cookies appear in Cookie Clicker more often?

texts: I want to get as many achievements as possible, but I don't want to cheat! How can I get more Golden Cookies without any cheat codes? Help! Also, how often do Golden Cookies appear? I never really time it.


texts: Recently while roaming the imperial fleet, there came a warning message saying that Tatooine has been hit by the Rakghoul plague, and visitors shouldn't go. Now I've seen med droids sell antidotes but the question is what is the Rakghoul plague? Does it do anything special like kill your character instantly or spawn a large group of Rakghouls and such?


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I've recently seen something on Fortnite: Battle Royale, and other games. They're called packets, and I have honestly no idea what they are. It'll say something like:

Packets: 12
Packet Loss: 0%;

Also, should I be worried about anything if I lose packets? Thanks!


texts: How to make a dwarf start playing an instrument if he does not have any musical skill?

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I have a fortress with 200 plus dwarves but none of them plays an instrument.
Is there any way to get a dwarf to start playing?


texts: Is there any way to fight trainers again?

texts: In Pokemon Black & White there was the Vs. Seeker that let you have rematches with some trainers. Do X and Y have a similar item or mechanic?


texts: How can I find out the number of actions I have left to take before ending my turn in civ 6?

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In multiplayer where there's a timer I often run out of time while picking a pantheon or something. I was hoping there was some kind of indicator that would let you know how many actions you have to perform before you can end turn. For instance, it tells you that you still have to assign production for several cities, move 5 units and pick a Great Person.

Thanks


texts: Is there a chart showing all unit upgrade paths in Civilization 5 Brave New World?

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Is there a chart showing the upgrade paths for the units? Something like

Warrior → Spearman → Pikeman...

for all of the units, similar to the chart on this site for vanilla and for Gods and Kings.


texts: How do I join the Thieves' Guild in Skyrim?

texts: I heard about the Thieve's Guild, and I want to know how to join it. I really need some extra cash since I'm always raiding places and bribing guards. I can't really fight them and get money from their corpses, since I suck at combat.


texts: You are told "good things may happen" if you expand your castle, but beyond the associated Plaza Tickets, what effect does your castle size have?


texts: How am I supposed to expand the cafe? I know it can be expanded because I've visited other players cafes and there was a second floor! How do you get it? Also how many times can it expand?  Only once or multiple times? Help!


texts: Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes tales of valor

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I Downloaded COH Tales of valor and after play i see need coh new steam version
but when i click play it's want to download it
but both files is same
coh is 7.5 gb and coh tales of valor is 7.6gb
and how i can get steam to validate coh tales of valor files to coh new steam version without download


texts: What's the name of this NES game with a yellow child as the playable character?

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I recently came across a video which briefly showed a few seconds of gameplay from a game I played as a child:

There was no mention of what its name is, and I can't remember it myself. I'd love to play it again, or at least watch more of it.

The kid(?) in yellow is the playable character.


texts: What is more efficient - Liquid XP from OpenBlocks or Mob Essence from MFR?

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I built two types of mob traps. One MFR based: mob spawners(from vanilla minecraft) + grinder.

As you can see there is tesseract which transfers mob drops and MobEssence to Auto-Enachnter (MFR) and Auto-Anvil (MFR) which do the work.

The second one is OpenBlocks/ThermalExpansion based. Couple of Autonomous Activators filled with swords (possibly made of Tungstensteel which have durability about 5000 and enchanted on durability and looting) which will attack nearby mobs, and a Vacuum Hopper (OpenBlocks) to suck dropped items and, the most important - experience orbs. After - transfer it to Auto Enchantment Table (OpenBlocks):

Something like this. I use this trap to kill mobs one by one by teleporting them using portal gun. So the question is - is there common sense to build such complex (comparatively to the first one) mob trap to get liquid XP instead of Mob Essence? I can see that Auto Enchantment table from OpenBlocks works much faster (instantly), does not require energy and liquid XP is more bright (which is just good looking) and has more uses - it can be absorbed using xp shower or tank (OpenBlocks). But HUGE disadvantage  of Auto Enchantment table from OpenBlocks is that it doesn't enchant books.

So how can I calculate real cost of liquid xp and mob essence? Other words - how can I calculate how many zombies should I kill by each trap to get 30 lvls cost enchantment?


texts: Best weapons types for certain vocations

texts: My question is to know the best weapon type for a mage useing lots of mana and magic(I use wand), and the best weapon type for a healing , reviving strategy minstrel. (I use a sword , currently have inferno blade)


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With a group of friends, we fired up our old copies of AoK to play together through LAN, as the HD version (through Steam) only offered unplayable games.

To play our "not so recent" games, we use an OpenVPN network I set up. This solution, while not being the easiest one to configure, is the most reliable one as it has a very small memory footprint and offers great pings.
With it, we've managed to play several games successfully. Up until the "Age" series.

So, few days ago, we installed AoK, patched it to the latest version and added "UserPatch" to the mix. We all have the exact same version.

We were 3 to do our tests, all on Windows 7.
Both my friends could see everyone's games, could host and join each other.
But as for me, they could see mine, I could see theirs, but the connection would always timeout either way.

So I did several tests:
- my firewall (software) was set to allow everything from AoK
- my firewall (hardware) was set to allow everything from OpenVPN (setting it off didn't change anything anyway)
- UPnP was off (unneeded for LAN anyway, apart from a rule for OpenVPN as I'm hosting the server)
- we're all using the same antivirus
- they both have the same router, I don't; I have a Speedtouch 780WL
- I tried switching on network-related services that were off, without success

As they could play with each other, I thought it was a network issue on my part, so I launched TCPView to see what was happening as they tried to reach my game.
I could see them trying to reach me, but to my surprise, the IPs shown on TCPView weren't the OpenVPN ones, but their external (ISP) ones.
So we did one more test: playing through Direct IP, using external (with proper ports forwarded) and OpenVPN IPs, instead of LAN, but this wasn't successful either.

So I'm clueless as to why it doesn't work. It's quite frustrating as I'm also the one who set up their computers.
The only thing that might differ is that I have a static IP for my own network (192.168.x.x), set in stone in both the router and the network card.
Though I don't know why this would cause an issue honestly.

Edit 1: Even when it works, TCPView still shows the external IPs, so it's probably not related.
Edit 2: I also tried hosting the OpenVPN server on a remote server instead, to see if that could cause the issue, but it ended with the same result.


texts: My Minecraft Folder not showing up on macOS

texts: I'm trying to access my Minecraft folder to install a resource pack, however the folder doesn't seem to exist. I've looked in "Application Support" and it's not there. I've tried executing commands in terminal to show hidden files. I've tried typing in "~/Library/Application Support/minecraft" in the search bar and the folder does show up, however when I click on it finder crashes and displays the message "The Application Finder is not open anymore".


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I've noticed that shooting a deployed mine with a parasite will deal 10 damage to it, but after firing two or three I've always been shooed away by pesky gunfire (if there are Marines around) or opted to leave it alone in favor of a more valuable target (if there aren't).

Can parasites actually destroy/detonate a mine from a distance? If so, how many will it take?


texts: What happens when I exhaust a mine/quarry?

texts: After I use up all the materials in a mine or quarry, what happens to it? Does it just remain as an unusable chunk of land, or does it slowly recharge or decay, or something else entirely?


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I was just wondering, What if I visit a star. I mean landing on a star (Sounds foolish and impossible), but I am curious. According to their statement : every star in the sky is a sun that you can visit, I wonder if they actually meant 'every star (star-system) in the sky is a sun that you can visit'; or it's a hint that we can actually visit/land on a star.

While jumping one planet to another within a system, we can see a star. What if we fly there? Did anyone try? I couldn't find any screenshots or videos of it. I could try. But I'm afraid of dying in space and losing all my collections and starships.

P.S.: I can get a hint from question : Are there any double, triple star systems in No Man's Sky? But, I am pretty sure that is another question than mine. My question is Can we visit and if yes, can we land on a star? No matter how many number of stars available in a sytem.

Question remains : Can we visit star? Any Idea?


texts: What do the symbols on the top of The Witcher 2's screen mean?

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Ok, so I get that these are active effects that you are currently under, and the timer is straightforward and what not, but the symbol itself is nigh meaningless, and I don't know what effects I'm under...

I've installed the game vanilla through GOG, and I let the installer patch itself to 3.2 and I'm aware of an "Official UI Mod" that comes with patch 3.2, I've left it on as the default setting...

So is there like a guide or something which helps disambiguate this?


texts: How can I get rid of rubber trees in Redpower?

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I'm playing with the Redpower mod and spawned near a village. After helping it grow, I've run into a problem where some rubber trees are blocking building space (in addition to looking ugly).

There are about 4 other trees nearby not included in this image.

First, I tried to burn them down, but found out that neither their leaves nor their wood is flammable. Then I tried to cut down one of the trees, but I gave up after about half an hour.

How can I get rid of those trees and the leaves of those trees that got partially removed by the Millénaire mod faster without using TNT and blowing up the village completely?


texts: The Shadow City cools its bones near this water. Where is the next clue?

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I have been searching throughout the Shadow City of the Sunspear in Westeroscraft for weeks now and still have yet to find the next clue.

I have read the books and watched the show and do not believe there is any reference to this in either. I have taken into account that the Water Gardens may also be a possibility but did not find anything there either. While scouring the internet for answers, I also came across the possibility that somewhere in King's Landing may also be called the Shadow City, but have yet to find anything to back that up.

If you have perhaps completed the scavenger hunt, it would be really helpful if you could tell me where (more specifically) to search or at least if I'm on the right track.


texts: How do I open the Xbox 360 guide on Xbox One?

texts: I know there's some way to do this, but when I press the guide button, a short hold goes to the Xbox One home and a long hold goes to turn the controller off.


texts: Alternative source for Vertibird Signal Grenades?

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I can't buy Vertibird Signal Grenades from my initial source anymore. Is there an alternate source? If so, how do I access them?

   I've heard that Tinker Tom will start selling them. When does this happen?


texts: CS:GO server is ignoring settings in server.cfg

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I have just installed CS:GO server on a Linux VPS. I have set up steam account and everything in the ~/csgo/csgo/server.cfg. The server clearly reads the file correctly, since it shows correct server name and requires the password that I have set. However setting any game settings is ignored. This is the config:

hostname "XXXXXX"
sv_setsteamaccount "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
log on
sv_logfile 1
sv_password "XXXXX"
sv_enablevoice 0

mp_endwarmup_player_count 2
mp_autoteambalance 1
mp_friendlyfire 1
mp_freezetime 120
mp_forcecamera 1
mp_autoteambalance 0
mp_autokick 1
mp_friendly_grenade_damage 1
mp_buytime 1000

cash_player_interact_with_hostage 700
cash_team_loser_bonus_consecutive_rounds 1000

Everything under sv_password is ignored. When I query the values when the server is running, I can see that they were overridden or ignored. Is it possible that other config is overwriting my settings? What can I do?


texts: When I push △ to go to the intel map and pick the mission I want to replay, it just plays a video and goes back. Can I replay missions? How?


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My understanding is that the Tempest was always intended to replace the Carrier. The Tempest was originally developed for Wings of Liberty and shelved in favor of the tried & true Carrier. When the Carrier saw relatively little use in the Wings of Liberty metagame, the Tempest was brought back for Heart of the Swarm and at one point during the beta replaced the Carrier entirely.

Why did Blizzard opt to leave the Carrier in?

Also, from a balance/tactical perspective, what different roles do they fill?


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I have installed Minecraft on my laptop running i686 Debian Wheezy. When I try and run Minecraft it started but showed a black screen. It started playing music and when I click on certain areas of the window it makes click noises.

Launcher Log: http://pastebin.com/AYC0A3Mu

Game Output: http://pastebin.com/UKD8TYMn


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Possible Duplicate:
  How do I get a Seraph Crystal?

I have completed the main story line for the Pirate DLC. I have also killed (solo'ed) Gee and Hyperious at least twice on different days and I havent seen a seraph crystal yet. Have I missed something or done something wrong?


texts: When transferring between 3DS systems, is the target permanently lost?

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I've been able to find some good data about the 3DS system transfer, but there seems to be conflicting/incomplete info about the state of the target system.

I have a 3DS (source) and a 3DS XL (target). On the 3DS I have Pokemon X downloaded, on the target XL I have Link Between Worlds. There's also some save data on both, but it's not a huge deal if I lose it. Both are linked to the same Nintendo account.

Will I permanently lose my games on the target, or will I retain them? (It's fine if I have to redownload Zelda). What will be the exact state of the target? From what I understand, I'll have everything on the source's SD card, and the target's is invalidated (except for pictures and sound), but that doesn't tell me much about the licenses I still own on the target.


texts: What prevents users from cheating from outside a game?

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When I thought about asking this I was watching a StarCraft 2 replay, but I guess this can happen on any game that has spectators, in which secrecy is a major part of the game (like hiding your tech from your opponent in sc2).

How (if at all) are users prevented from spectacting a game and feeding information to a player via (for example) instant messaging? I'm guessing friends or clan members would do that.
Is this just ignored? Is it not a big problem in general?


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In Kittens Game, up to researching Navigation, things go fairly quickly; there is always something to do, something worthwhile to build. Post-Navigation, things slow down a lot.

The successor technologies are Architecture (fairly useless at first except as a stepping stone to Acoustics), Physics, and Geology. All of these carry a hefty price tag in both science and compendiums. To raise your science cap, you need to build observatories, which need a lot of scaffolds. Scaffolds are second-order crafts (wood to beams to scaffolds), while compendiums are third-order (furs to parchments to manuscripts to compendiums, leaving aside the slow trickle of manuscripts from your steamworks). So you need a high crafting ratio to make these things efficiently.

Thus, there is a long, slow interval where the only effective strategy seems to be to keep your smelters running full blast; for iron, to build harbours, so you can improve your workshop; and for gold, to improve your tradeposts and buy iron.

Building ships does not seem useful at this point, with only enough starcharts to build a few, and Expanded Cargo not yet researchable. I’m slowly maxing out my population and infrastructure. Happiness is pretty good. I’ve researched a few useful things from Order of the Sun. I’ve stopped making steel to save iron, and I’ve stopped making manuscripts to save the time spent hunting. But things continues to crawl along slowly.

Currently, workshop is at 38 for a crafting ratio of 3.33 with artisan leader. Three observatories for a science cap of 40.75k. Population 67. It seems like perhaps I should bite the bullet, cut a ton of wood for more observatories, gradually research Physics and Chemistry, and enter the titanium age. But it will take a long time.

Any suggestions?


texts: How to drain the well with the Song of Storms

texts: My 6 year old son is playing Zelda and needs to drain the well in Kakariko Village but needs to know how to become an adult first? Also, he's been trying to figure out how to play the Song of Storms on Gamecube. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: What determines which "version" of Jessica you see in the ending?

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Spoilers Ahead

I've recently completed my first run through of Outlast 2. Until now, I didn't think there were multiple endings.  It turns out that there is kind of.  I found out that Jessica can have two appearances in the ending cut scene.  The below screenshot shows her two appearances:

If you look closely, the left Jessica has a bruise/scab around her neck and her face is blue due to suffocating, presumably from when she was hung by a noose (this is seen throughout the game).  The right Jessica looks normal in appearance with no bruising or blue face.  In my run of the game, I saw the left Jessica.  I only found out that there were two different versions of her by watching a Markiplier video and his game showed the right Jessica.

The source that I found the image from isn't sure what causes the different versions of Jessica in this cut scene.  As far as I can tell between what happened in my game, and the Markiplier video, the cut scene is exactly the same except for Jessica's appearance.

What determines which Jessica you see?


texts: Why do lyrium veins heal you when the codex says they are fatal?

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The codex entry on lyrium says the following:

  Even though dwarves have a natural resistance, raw lyrium is dangerous for all but the most experienced of the Mining Caste to handle. Even for dwarves, exposure to the unprocessed mineral can cause deafness or memory loss. For humans and elves, direct contact with lyrium ore produces nausea, blistering of the skin, and dementia. Mages cannot even approach unprocessed lyrium. Doing so is invariably fatal.

Thus I find it baffling that touching a raw lyrium vein (as a mage no less) doesn't kill me outright, but rather heals me. I can kind of reason that raw lyrium has different properties when you encounter it in the Fade, but this also happens while underground in the Frostback Mountains.

So why do lyrium veins heal you when the codex says that they are fatal?


texts: How do houses / apartments / condos work in GTA Online?

texts: My friend just bought a place in GTA Online, but I was wondering... Can I purchase that same place (without him connected to my game)?  If so, can he still join my game?  Will there be any conflict?  Are these places considered safe houses?


texts: Minecraft 1.8.8 fails when connecting via Direct Connect

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I am trying to join a family member's world.  We are both on PCs, one Windows 8.1 and one Windows 7. We both use Minecraft 1.8.8

My family member's PC firewall is open to Jave SE binary and to Minecraft on the Public network, which is how the household WiFi router is set up. My firewall is also open to same (Java, Minecraft), and network is also public.

My family member enters their local world, and opens it to LAN, so "Local game hosted on port 5xxxx" appears in chat. I open Minecraft, click Play Multiplayer, and it scans forever on my local network (we don't have an actual LAN, just share a WiFi router). So I do Direct Connect and enter IP:Port, where IP is from doing "ipconfig" on the hosting PC and using the IPv4 local IP (192.168.x.xx), and Port is the 5xxxx mentioned above.

When I join I get the following error:

  java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out:no further information:

Note that I can go to cmd window and ping either her local IP (192.168.x.x) or the external IP (found via WhatsMyIP.com) for her machine, and the ping yields an apparent success ("Reply from ...").

What else can I try to enable me to connect to the other computer?


texts: How can I increase my Temple Run multiplier?

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In Temple Run, I have all the objectives completed, but my multiplier is only 35.  My friend's multiplier is at 42 and she doesn't have all the objectives.

How can I get a higher permanent multiplier?


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I'm used to playing a Monk, where I'm defensive enough that the slams don't really bother me and have enough healing that I never really gave them any thought.

Now, I'm playing a Demon Hunter, and even though he telegraphs the slams with a big green meteor circle, I don't know how to avoid the impact. Even if his arm doesn't hit me, I'm still taking damage from the slams. Since I die in 2 hits to the slams, and my healing options are limited (potions have a cooldown and my damage output isn't exactly amazing while I'm running for my life to take advantage of Shadow Power), the best option is probably to avoid taking damage from them altogether.

Is there any pattern to his slams? How should I move to avoid them once he starts telegraphing that that's his plan?

To clarify, since there has been some confustion, this is not asking for Demon Hunter specific strategies. This is asking about Belial's attack pattern and how to predict and avoid it in general.


texts: How do I get a companion when it thinks I already have someone but I don't?

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I had my companion with me on the mission "Forsworn Conspiracy" and after completing the mission they vanished.  I figured 'oh well, I'll go get a different companion', but when I tried they were all saying that it:

  Looks like you already have someone.

I tried fast-traveling and waiting to no avail.  How can I fix this error?


texts: Why do different codes work to get the secret ending in INSIDE?

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INSIDE has a secret ending that can be accessed by

   discovering all the orbs, going to the underground research lab in
 the cornfield and using a code to unlock the door there.

I have seen different codes published to unlock this secret ending. A popular one, on Primagames.com, appears to be:

   Up, Up, Right, Left, Right, Right, Right, Up, Up, Up, Right, Left, Left, Left

However, I used another one I saw on Techtimes.com that worked just fine:

   Up, Up, Up, Right, Left, Left, Left, Up, Up, Right, Left, Right, Right, Right

As you can see they are different, but they both work. Why is this? Does anyone know the actual syntax needed to develop a working code? I noticed both of these have

   14 directions

---would any similar combination work as long as it numbered the same?


texts: What is a galaxy seed and setup to get the Immortal Bard achievement?

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For the immortal bard achievement you need to hire two specific heroes:

   Tethys and Karta

Can you give a Galaxy seed and setup details where achieving this is possible?


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I am pretty early on in the game and I'm low health (I can hear a heartbeat).

What methods are there are replenishing my health in Sleeping Dogs?


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I've logged a little bit over 700 hours in Dota 2. Mostly playing with friends. I started out with watching videos from Purge and other and this really helped me improve. I also follow the streams from a few competitions, most notably the international right now. Though I have the feeling I learn less from that (probably because the live-commentators do not always have time explain the reasons behind choices pro players make, and because pro games techniques are not really applicable to normal games)

Though I really enjoy the game I have the feeling that for the last six months I am no longer improving. While I have no intentions of becoming a competitive player and I do not care about my exact MMR I do wish to be able to keep up with my friends who continue to improve. I have the feeling that I've really hit a ceiling and I do not know what I should do to overcome it.

A little about how I play.

I can play most heroes ok, though I almost never play hard-carries (except Sniper) as I am unable to farm gold fast enough to be effective and tend to die a few times in the beginning. So I usually play a support role, I love Windranger, Keeper of the Light and Earthshaker. I think one of my strengths as a player is how I use Force Staff. In most games I see my play drastically improve when I get it and I'm usually able to both save myself and my carries from bad situations with it. However I do tend do die too much and have problems especially against very aggressive heroes and physical carries. I also have a hard time deciding what to do when nothing is really going on. As a support I do not want to be ganked and its hard jungling so in games where the enemy is mostly farming I tend to lag behind on gold.

I think my biggest problems are: not being effective when nothing is going on. Unable to farm gold fast enough. Dying too much early game (maybe I want to harass too much) and not contributing enough to team fights in which the enemy team uses scary heroes (physical carries, Silencer, Doom).

What resources are available to help me overcome these problems? Are there pro-players that sit down and explain advanced mechanics, or maybe explain how games went (preferably not live commentary). There seems to be a lot of info for newbies and some info for pros but in between its a bit barren.


texts: Can I reset the the level of a promoted unit?

texts: I've just gotten Felicia to level 15 and I'm looking to change her class. Using a Heart Seal will allow me to do just that, but her level is still 15. Is there a way I can reduce her level to 1 so that she can continue to level and gain more experience?


texts: When should Infinity Edge be prioritized on a carry?

texts: When is Infinity Edge the best option in a build, with respect to early game success and ranged carry types?


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At the beginning of each race, how is the starting grid determined?

Often, in real life, the grid is determined with the championship position of the driver in reverse order. Let's say you are rated 12th on 20 drivers and we follow this rule, then you would start at the 8th position.

I was wondering if it's always the case in Motorsport Manager, or if some voted rules can change how the grid is arranged.


texts: Does reporting someone automatically mute them?

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In Dota 2, I've noticed that whenever I report someone, I (happily) never see any messages from them for the rest of the game.  As I highly doubt trolls of the nature I've encountered would just suddenly be completely silent, I suspect there's some other mechanic at work here.

I've also been threatened with a report by a rather abusive player I encountered recently, and yet I noticed that after he claimed to have reported me, he was still giving me helpful advice like "shut up retard".  Does him responding to me prove he didn't report me?

Does reporting someone mute them? Is it possible to remove this mute?


texts: Playing Aion or Tera on a Japanese Server

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I'm at a middle/highschool level of Japanese and I currently live in America. I want to practice my Japanese through through playing a MMORPG so I was thinking of trying to join a Japan Server for Aion or Tera. The problem is that they IP lock. There's a further difficultly in that Tera is owned by different companies for the American server (En Masse in America and Hangame for Japan I think).

I've considered using a proxy but I was afraid that it would slow my connection. Any suggestions on how to get onto a Japanese server or keep the maximal Japanese exposure as an American player?


texts: Is it possible to restart story missions in Borderlands 2?

texts: Because in the DLC for Pirates booty one of the missions is to climb a light house and put the compass in it. The only problem is that the quest marker says that I've done the specified objective, but won't update to a new one. The quest I believe is called Let There be light.


texts: 1.15.2 - How do I test for if a player's inventory is open?

texts: I'm trying to do something that gives you mining fatigue while your inventory is not open, but stops whenever it is opened. I would appreciate some help with this. Is there an NBT tag for this?


texts: Is there a way to disable certain features provided by Railcraft? For example, I do not want to be able to get more rails for the same amount of resources, since I want to keep the values as much vanilla as possible.


texts: How can I skip the intro sequence on the console version of Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens?

texts: Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens has an unusually lengthy intro sequence (with videos for Traveller's Tales, Lucasfilm, etc.) that plays when I start the game, and I'm forced to watch the whole thing every time. I'm playing on a PS4, and I've tried all the buttons I can think of that other games use to skip cutscenes (options, face buttons, touchpad), but to no avail. Is there any way to skip the intro sequence on consoles?


texts: How are train breakdown events determined?

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Getting heavy into Pocket Trains lately. As one builds up it becomes increasingly more expensive to expand with more rail roads. I'm finding it difficult to build up cash due to an oddly common incident: train breakdowns. My question to you: What things affect how often a train breaks? Is it just the type of train? Or does number of engines and fuel cars have an effect?

I'm playing on iOS if that matters.


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Within the last two weeks or so (I think since I last did a system update), my PS3 has on occasion been causing my television to freak out and stop accepting commands via remote control and the buttons on the face of the television itself, until I pull out and plug back in the TV's power cable.  What happens is that, as the PS3 turns on, I hear a couple of beeps from the TV as if it's changing inputs, and the TV briefly shows the selected input on the screen.  A couple seconds later, I'll sometimes hear another beep and see the same thing on the screen, and then I'll notice that the TV no longer responds to volume changes, nor any other command (such as input changes or even the power button).  The video image displays just fine, though.

The TV is an LG 47LE5500, and thinking the HDMI cable might have been going bad, I replaced it but still had the problem.  I then tried switching HDMI ports, to see if the HDMI input that I had plugged the PS3 into was bad.  The problem remained, however.  Since I also have a Windows-based DVR plugged into a third HDMI port on the TV and have no such problems when watching that, I've concluded that it's the PS3 that's causing this.

Has anyone experienced something like this before?  It seems like my PS3, upon powering on, is sending garbage data over HDMI which is causing my TV to lock up.  I took a quick look at the video settings on the PS3 but didn't see anything that looked odd that might cause my issue.

Update on 7/10/14:

My DVR is now causing the same problem with my television, so it is definitely the TV that is causing the problem.  As I point out below, keeping the resolution at 720p gets around the issue, though it's not ideal.


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I'd like to use my pro in Arena, but I'm unable to do so. When I search for my player in my team I cannot find him!

Any idea how to do it? I'm currently playing in AC Milan, but on loan in another team.


texts: Can't play on minecraft mineplex together

texts: My brother and I can't play on mineplex together,  we can never see each other or play on the same survival game as we somehow on different servers even if we try?


texts: Does blinding cloud completely disable siege tanks in siege mode?

texts:
Blinding cloud reduces attack range of anything under the cloud to "melee".

Since sieged tanks have a minimum range, does this disable them completely?


texts: What is the prompt of a pikachu wagging a joycon mean?

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I often get it after hard fights like gyms and bosses.

Its in the bottom left corner, and is simply a pikachu wagging a joycon from side to side.

I'm guessing it is a reminder that the 2 player mode exists? I'm using the red joycon and he has the blue one.

But I never got a tutorial or an in game explanation of what is that icon.

EDIT: Also, there's the constant reminder of the 2 player mode with the green icon, that is usually bottom right.


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After playing for over 5 hours I brought every upgrade in the Chompers Toy Making minigame, including the CP to PG conversion to the point that I should have a 100 CP => 1PG conversion rate.

However, when I quit I have about 1.6 million CP which should turn out to be 16k in PG. However I don't see this get added to my current fond, and when I re-enter into the minigame I still have 1.6 million CP.

So how can I convert my CP into PG?

NOTE: My Current sport in the game is:

   After Al-kampus where the main plot has me headed to the crescent island to locate the Ba'al there while in the side-story I am going back into Jackel's hideout to look for the cave entrance behind his chair.


texts: How much more damage is a "critical" XMP burster hit?

texts: Sometimes when using XMP Bursters you see that you have scored a "critical" hit on an enemy resonator. Does anyone know the likelihood of a critical hit taking place and how much more damage (ie. is it double a normal hit) it causes?


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I've made sure I'm running the latest version of Dragonvale on a Galaxy Nexus, but I can't see any "Login with Facebook" option in the options screen.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts: Import map to MoJang Minecraft version for Win 10 Beta Testversion

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The test version of Mojang Minecraft version for Windows 10 offers an Option were you can Import maps as .mcworld-files. But looking for such files online keeps returning no results at all. I'm only able to find zip files filled with several types of files (.dat, .mcr, etc.).

Is it possible to import maps at all in this version? If yes, how?

Sorry if it's a stupid question, i'm entirely new to actually playing Minecraft :)


texts: I was just playing Advance Wars Dark Conflict and hit the unit limit of 50. I have played all the previous titles, and do not recall ever hitting this limit while playing them, is Dark Conflict the only one to have this?


texts: How do you use the JSON "can_place_on" tag to specify what kind of blocks (same name, different data value) to place on?

texts:
How would you use the can_place_on or can_destroy tags to specify which data values are valid for the blocks?
Example: I want a diamond block that can be placed on magenta wool only, not any other types of wool. What I've got so far is this: /give @p diamond_block 1 0 {"can_place_on":{"blocks":["wool"]}} I'm not sure how to specify that the wool needs to be magenta only, which is a data value of 2.


texts: How does the Smite effect work on Sky Splitter?

texts:
I have bought a Sky Splitter from the AH and the weapon description says:

10-20% chance to Smite enemies when you hit them.

How does this work exactly?

How much and what kind of damage does Smite deal?

Can it be resisted, and if yes, does it scale with monster level or difficulty?


texts: In the Legend Of Zelda Breath Of The wild, I am looking for sapphires so I can make the sapphire circlet. I am wondering which stone talus (Where) gives sapphires.


texts: How well does Metroid Other M take advantage of the Wiimote's unique features?

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Since I am near the end of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for the Nintendo Wii, I am considering new games for me to play next. I am interested in Metroid: Other M, but I want to know without spoliers how well it takes advantage of the Wii's unique capabilities.

For example: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has certain moves Samus can perform which are invoked by "flicking" the Wiimote or by casting the Nunchuck in various ways. Interaction with various objects requires unique and semi-accurate motion of the Wiimote. Also, certain monsters require you to shake the Wiimote to escape their grasp, and the game uses a point-and-shoot interface of the Wiimote for aiming. However, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption does not take advantage of the Wiimote's ability to play sound.

As opposed to a game like A Boy and His Blob for the Wii, which doesn't take advantage of the Wiimote's capabilities in any form.

Without spoliers, how well does Metroid: Other M advantage of the Wiimote's unique features?


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In Guitar Hero III on the PC, I am getting some weird bugs.

On my guitar background, there is blackness and visual errors. Stuttering also happens occasionally, but I could probably figure that out.

I installed Patch 1.3.1, which got the game to initially work, but those errors happen. Is it because I have too modern hardware or playing the game in 4K? Is there a compatibility settings I could try?


texts: Is it possible to learn more then 1 skill in a single battle?

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I'm actually fighting Giromon and multiple guides say about all his 3 ability that the whole game has just 1-2 occasions to get them. Right now I'm having a Andromon who is even capable to learn all 3 of his abilitys.

And since DG Dimension is the 1 of the 1-2 occassions and I'm doubting when the 2nd occassion for the other 2 abilitys will occur, that I have even a mech digimon capable of learning them, I would love to get out of the combat with getting all 3 of them. But I made now allready like 6 fights and never learned more then one of the 3 abilitys.

So is the ability learning per combat limited (to 1)?
Or is it just unlikely that it will be more then 1 (but possible)?


texts: I keep finding batteries and I can't pick them up. Why?

texts: I keep finding batteries but I can't pick them up. What are they for?


texts: Why can't I log onto my wifi with my DS Lite?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  No wifi connection on DS Lite

I keep getting the "51300" error when attempting to connect to my wifi network. I'm positive that I've entered the WEP password correctly.


texts: What is the difference between Neural Damping and Neural Feedback?

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XCOM: Enemy Within introduced several new toys for the player to use, including the ability to genetically modify your soldiers. Most of the new gene mods are straightforward but there are still a few that leave out a detail or two.

Neural Damping gives +20 will when defending from psi attacks and gives immunity to panic and Mind Control.

Neural Feedback damages anything that attempts a psi attack and forces all of that enemy's psi attacks to go on cooldown.

Does Feedback also provide immunity to Mind Control? If a Sectoid Commander or Ethereal hits my soldier with Mind Control and lives, does the control still take place? Does Feedback also damage an Ethereal using it's Psi Lance?

I feel like Damping is better all around for preventing psi attacks, but does  Feedback provide that same level of protection, or is it more situational and gimmicky?


texts: I expect that using right-mouse button in Salvaging tab perform the action, but instead it equips the item I press. Am I missing something? Do exists a faster way to salvaging magical items to blacksmith without drag & drop them one by one?


texts:
Please could someone give me some advice.  My son has been playing on Minecraft in creative mode.  He has spent hours building a world and today built a portal to the Nether.  He is completely lost and cant find his portal. He seems to be underground.

My question is how can he get back to his much loved world?

Thanks for your help.


texts: What attack does the Wizard do when attacking with a spell while out of Arcane Power?

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I've noticed that if my Wizard runs out of Arcane Power while I'm spamming an ability that costs arcane power, I start shooting little white dots at the enemy which do damage. This surprised me because I would have expected it to default to my primary ability, which doesn't cost any Arcane Power, when I run out of the shiney purple stuff

What attack is this?

Not sure if it matters, but I usually equip wands, so perhaps it's a wand attack? If it is a weapon auto-attack, is this a wand-specific attack or a wizard-specific attack? For example, if I equip a sword instead of a wand, will I start swinging my weapon instead of shooting dots?


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I want to experience PS:T because of the story. I am, however, short of patience for gaming nowadays so I found what seems to be the best novelization around. I feel in my gut I should play the actual game though, which I already bought some months ago and stopped playing after 30 min, because I do not have the patience for the combat mechanics.

To decide, I want to know:
 - can I experience the story as in the novella with one run-through ? (which should I do, I'll cheat and also play on Easy as a means to not get bothered by combat) ?
 - if so, will it require me to go and chat with every NPC just because 'what if he has something to say?' ?

I remember fondly of playing BGII:SoA, but I know that if I'm required to explore all the NPC's and handle inventory I'll end up not playing the game. I do expect to read a lot, but not to pixel hunt and do inventory management.

This question of course was also born of a fear of the novella being incomplete in relation to the game, though it doesn't seem that way.

Link to the stuff I found: http://discogenie.dyndns.org/planescape/

What I really want to know: can I play for the story without getting bothered by game mechanics ?


texts: What is the cool-down period on reselling items on the Real Money Auction House?

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From the Blizzard Auction House FAQ:

  If I no longer need an item I bought in the auction house, can I relist it in the auction house?

  Yes. Once you've purchased an item you can do anything with it that you could if you had acquired it through your own adventures, whether that be using it yourself, or, after a cool-down period, trading it to another character or relisting it on either the gold-based or currency-based auction house.

EDIT:  I know for the Gold auction house, there is no cooldown, but I was wondering if there was one for the RMAH. I don't want to put down cash to test this out, but I would also like to know how long I have to wait before reselling an item or trading it to a friend.

How long is the cool-down period for reselling/trading items purchased from the RMAH, if any at all?


texts: How to backup progresses in Candy Crush Soda for Windows 10?

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When I upgraded to Windows 10 from 8.1 I noticed the presence of the game "Candy Crush Soda Saga" in the start menù (I don't know if it was already there in Win8.1 because I never used the metro start screen).

I started playing this game and beated quite some levels, now that I have to reinstall windows I would like to back-up my progresses, where are they?

I should point out that I never registered myself with the game's company, nor associated the game with my facebook profile. When I started the game I was logged in Windows with my Microsoft account, then some times later I logged out from the Microsoft account and started using Windows with my local account, so the progresses should reside on my PC only.

I know that the app is in this folder "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga_1.65.800.0_x86__kgqvnymyfvs32"  but are the savegames there too?

P.S. I cannot log in and create a profile now, because all Windows 10 apps stopped working (even the start menu and edge), that's one of the reasons why I'm reinstalling Windows.


texts: What's the easiest way to change Playstation Network date of birth?

texts: I must have set up my account when I was 17 because my DOB is a year off.  I'd like to have it right in case I need to recover my password/account.  What's the easiest way?  I couldn't find it anywhere in the PSN account settings online.


texts: How do I most efficiently maintain my weapons in System Shock 2?

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Gee what a game,

Ammo is scarce enough as it is, but I have so far been able to scavenge enough. However, my guns are breaking down and I only have a few repair tools left for them. The repair tools also seem to give me a single point to my guns so far which is not satisfactory. How can I keep my guns in usable condition in an efficient manner?


texts: How do I enable the console in Supertux2 v0.5.1 on Debian?

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I installed Supertux2 from the Debian stretch/stable repositories. According to supertux2 --version, it's v0.5.1, but according to man supertux2, it's v0.3.2-SVN. Anyway. According to the documentation, I should be able to create the ~/.supertux2/config file and populate it with (console #t) to enable the console. Once I do that, however, pressing ^ inside the game doesn't bring up the console...

Plus, if I run supertux2 --console from the terminal, it says Error: Unknown option '--console''. even though the --console option is documented in the man page.

How do I enable the console?

Again, there isn't a supertux or supertux2 tag, so I'm only including the linux tag.


texts: How does an SSD improve gaming performance?

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How would an SSD improve my gaming performance? Is there any FPS increment after using SSD instead of HDD?

My System Configuration

Windows 7 Professional
Intel Core i7 3770
8GB Ram
EVGA GTX 980
ASRock Professional M Motherboard
HDD 2TB (1TB+1TB)


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Obviously being out in the open, exposed, or making sound by running or sprinting will negatively affect stealth.

But:

How do enemies detect by light?

Does being in shadow or nighttime matter?
Does your flashlight affect stealth?

The handbook says hiding in foliage makes you less visible. Do you actually need to keep leaves/branches/stalks in between you and the enemy, or can you just find a big fern and crouch near it?
There seem to be a lot of boxes, crates, low fences, and other cover which is almost high enough to cover you, except you can just see over it, even crouched. Is this considered hidden or not?
Does being on a different level (1 floor up or down) from an enemy affect your chances to be seen?

How does the enemy 'alerted' behavior work (affect their vision and ability to spot you)?

Are they more likely to look up and down or do they just look at the spot where they last thought you were? They seem more likely to see you in foliage as well.
Are enemies alerted forever? (i.e. If they detected you, will they be permanently be on alert for you, or will they go back to their previous routine once you have been out of their sight for some time)

How do enemies detect by movement sound (when you are not in their vision)?

Will walking or crouch walking lessen sound (compared to sprinting)?
Do 'noisier' floor attract more attention, when you walk/sprint on them? (e.g. walking on a 'noisy' metal floor, compared to walking on grass)

Does difficulty level affect stealth?
Anything else affect your likelihood of getting spotted?


texts: What's the mechanics of yellow bulbs in Celeste

texts: In some Chapters of Celeste, you'll find three yellow bulbs, which (after you make proper moves) follow you and combine to make a strawberry. (Sorry, but I can't find a proper picture - on top of head I saw it in Chapter 2, Chapter 4). The only thing that makes them follow is when Madeline's hair is Blue (i.e dashed), but I don't know what's the exact mechanic that makes them move. Any ideas ?


texts: Where is the witchery spirit world inventory saved?

texts: I just encountered a bug in witchery (i suppose) which made it such that on death, my inventory was not saved but put in a gravestone instead. It is a pain to get it back, plus it contains baubles that should have stayed in the overworld, but got put in the grave as well. I would like to try to transfer the gravestone content in the normal witchery inventory, but I can't find where it is saved. Please tell me in what NBT tag that inventory should.


texts: Do I have to get rid of my mods to play multiplayer?

texts: I have some mods downloaded for a single player world I play on and I was wondering, if I want to play in multiplayer, will I need to get rid of these mods? Similarly, if I have multiple single player worlds with different mods in both, should I have only the mods needed for the world in question in my mods folder? For instance, in one world if had the more enchantments mod and in the other orespawn, would I have to take out the enchantments.jar when I play the orespawn world?


texts: What damage does Legacy of Nightmares work with?

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For those who don't know, the Legacy of Nightmare is a ring set that boosts damage by 100%, and reduces damage taken by 4%, for every piece of ancient legendary item equipped. Patch 2.4.1 at time of writing

With all ancient gear (helm, chest, belt, legs, shoulders, bracers, gloves, boots, ammy, 2 rings, and both weapon slots) this can add up to 1300% damage and 52% damage reduction.

My question is: Does this damage boost apply to all sources of damage? The character, his pets and follower, item procs such as Odyn Son or Fire Walkers all the legendary gem procs, thorns, bleed, damage gained from items such as Soul Smasher and Death's Bargain, etc?
Any special exceptions?

I'm hoping for a list of things it will (or won't, if that is easier) work with but any information is helpful.


texts: What is the best ammo strategy to use in Resident Evil 4 in Professional mode?

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When RE4 came out on PS2 I loved it, finished it on normal difficulty and forgot about it.

Now that it's come out on Xbox 360 (yay) and of course has achievements, I'm trying to complete the game in professional mode.

Honestly, it is pretty difficult, but obviously it is not impossible. I've mastered the use of the knife in previous games and normally end up with ridiculous amounts of ammunition at the end.

One of the keys to professional is using the continue points in the game to your advantage massively, in ways such as:

Restarting from a continue point when you've been struck too many times and thus used too many healing items / ammunition.
Walking through one, killing a couple enemies, walking out, walking back in to kill a couple more and repeat until you've cleared the room (enemies reset their positions when you leave).

The first point actually hinders me quite a bit because I always end up feeling like I've used too much ammunition and restart to try improve on what I've done. Sometimes it takes me over an hour to clear a single room and by that point I've managed to do the entire thing without using more than 2 handgun bullets or similar.

I realize this is pretty overkill, so I've been wondering - are there any guidelines around how much ammo I actually need at given points in the game? I always feel as though I'm going to eventually come up against something in pro that will need a lot of bullets to kill and I won't have enough.

Also, which bullets should I be using? I found myself at the end of normal mode having killed almost every boss with the mass handgun bullets I'd found + maxed out Red9 (because it's boss) with around 50-100 handgun bullets and then 600+ of rifle/shotgun bullets.

If anyone has any insight into the couple of points above, that would be awesome and help me stop being extremely overkill with my ammunition conservation and actually start playing the game.


texts: Which PS1 Memory Cards work on a PS2 Slim

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So I've got a few PS1 memory cards and games that I want to play on my PS2 slim, but despite several years of searching, I have yet to find a memory card that my PS2 will manage (mostly I just need to clear out the crap the previous owners left on it).

Is there some trick, or rule that I'm not aware of that I need to be able to save these?


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I've got a pair of classic NES consoles; one in near-pristine condition and the other that shows a bit more exterior wear, but still functions just fine.  Since I still enjoy throwing games on the original console from time to time, I was thinking about disabling the 10NES chip in the latter unit to increase its overall reliability.

The question here is twofold:

Is this a simple task (e.g. just cut a pin with a pair of wire cutters), or is it more involved (e.g. time to break out the soldering iron)?
Will this modification have any negative effects from a usability standpoint?


texts: Does follower equipment carry over difficulties?

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I have recently completed Normal mode and moved onto Nightmare. With this, all of my followers will have to be re-acquired.

Do equipment and spells carry over to each difficulty? I'm assuming yes, but I've also noticed that followers aren't shared with other characters.


texts: Not only have I checked the underground, but also the whole world. I also have 54 keys to the temple. Yet I can't find it. Any idea?


texts: I accidentally have choosen Bulbasaur for my starter where I wanted Squirtle. Is there anyway to reset it? I have looked in the options menu and there does not appear to be a way to reset it. I guess that I could make a new Google Play account for it, but that seems like a mess.


texts: Can you use a private match to fulfill mission objectives?

texts: The missions with the various Attacks. Can you go into a private match with your buddies, like interrogation where you have infinite lives, and just let each other kill the other to fulfill the mission objective?


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I'm new to linux so I'm having some problems.

I installed higan emulator (I'm running a virtual machine with Ubuntu 14.10 in a windows 8 notebook) to play some SNES games but at launch it said I had some problem with OpenGL 3.2 and it asked me to change in Settings->Advanced Options. The problem is that higan only gives me a black screen and a library screen. So how am I supposed to access settings? (there is no button, no nothing).

Searching in internet I found the Settings.bml file (~/.config/higan folder) and changed the Driver: OpenGL space to Driver: SDL and I could run the game just fine. But now I need to map my USB controller to play the game. There is a input.bml file but I don't know what to write to map my controller.

So, can someone help me

open/find the settings in Higan, so i can use the program's mapping tool

or

teach how to manually map the controller? (what do I write in the input.bml file?)

Thx


texts: Do I need to have a separate copy of the expansions for each account?

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I have the expansions downloaded from a previous account, but want to use a different account to play the expansions on.

Is this possible to do this without buying them again? If I have to buy it again, and I bought the digital version, could I switch computers sometime and play my account on that computer?


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I got Large Knapsack drop/reward (don't remember exactly) and it has been in my bag since a week and I am trying to figure out how to use it. From the description it has (12 slot bag), it seems useful.  But when I click on it it says "No equipment slot is available for that item".

I want to make sure I dont regret later by selling it in frustration. Now what to do with this?

If it matters, I am lvl 42 Arms Warrior


texts: How often does Miranium and Revenue tick?

texts: There doesn't seem to be a discernible pattern to how often you get Miranium and credits from mining/research probes. Additionally, they seem to go at different intervals - sometimes mining will trigger, sometimes the money will trigger, and sometimes the rare materials will trigger. Is there a pattern or timer to this behavior?


texts: Can I transfer game data from one Xbox One to another?

texts: If I have my game data on one console with my account, is there a way to continue playing it on a different Xbox One and a different game disc?


texts: How is accuracy calculated in Battlefield 3?

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Since there is no official source for this kind of information and I haven't found any data on the internet, I'm asking this here. The details:

In which cases shots are affecting the specific gun's/general accuracy? Will my accuracy go down, if I just stand at one place and put 1000 rounds in the ground?
How is calculated rocket launcher's accuracy? Is the indirect damage a miss or a hit?
What math is used? Shots hit / shots fired? Or something more complicated?
Off-topic: Why is my general accuracy around 13, if 26 guns out of 30 in my top weapons have 18+ accuracy (sniper rifles 30+, pistols 20+, rocket launchers 55+).

Any info will do - personal observations, tests, videos, maybe game-file tear-downs or unpopular developer blog entries, or closed forum posts, any.


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Certain abilities (e.g. the Wizard's Mirror Image) can break conditions. In testing this, I discovered you can break at least Freeze, Root, and Snare.

I assume there are conditions that I can't break, so what conditions is is possible to break?


texts: With the new Metamorph league I'm getting a ton of hearts to take back to Tane's lab. Is this just based on RNG or is there a way I can force a particular unique organ to drop after filling the Metamorph's rating on maps?


texts: Is a shield or dual wielding better for shamans?

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A friend just got dual spec. for her Level 40 Shaman.  She had been enhancement spec. for soloing and leveling.  Now she's adding a resto spec for work with groups.

She's asking about the trade offs between using a shield vs. an offhand weapon (obviously when she in her enhancement spec).  To me it seems obvious that she should be in her resto spec. when healing, and only be in enhancement when tanking or doing DPS.  It also seems obvious that she should use a shield any time she's tanking (unless she has a really good item for her offhand that somehow beats out the damage mitigation from all that extra armor).

Now she's asking about how that relates to her dodge/parry talents.  (Does the average frequency of dodging/parrying mitigate as much or more damage than the extra armor from a shield?  Does the second weapon improve or affect dodge/parry at all?  Does a shield offer benefits to dodge/parry?  (Is that what the "blocking" factor is)?

I suggested she just go solo a few mobs that are about 3 levels higher than her ... say 10 with the shield and 10 with dual weapons.  Then review her combat log and figure out the benefits from that.  I think she'd be able to feel the difference without even doing any mathematic analysis.


texts: What does "FOW" stand for in Just Cause 3?

texts: It seems to be the long-range weapon Di Ravello's forces have, but I don't remember anyone ever explaining exactly what it is or even what "FOW" stands for. In my head, I've been thinking of it as the "Freaking Owesome Weapon," but I vaguely suspect that's not quite right.


texts: Fort suddently died, looking for an explanation

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I had reclaimed a fortress in a hot region, and started to dig looking for water. Then a message about the fort's death appeared. One tick, I had 7 dwarves happy digging, farming, brewing, in multiple layers of cavern, and one tick later (a looong tick, the game froze a bit) and I got the fortress death message.

I did not have a savegame since not even a season had passed.

I don't have any mods. Just ironhand tileset. After reclaiming again I've got a hidden collapse, skeleton of dwarves and a dog on upper layer, and just some bag in the lowest layer where miner was working. No cave or other !!FUN!! has been located.

I'm puzzled.

EDIT: Another collapse on level lower than I had dug. I'm puzzled and scared.

EDIT: Corpses are found "dehydrated", but dwarf was fine and a lot of booze was there.

EDIT: Dug to the collapse, seem unrelated as I found a seasonal flooding magma sea and water. Also a lot of nether-cap inside the magma sea suggest that the first winter's magma flooding has filled the cave causing the collapse somehow, maybe the first time meeting the water lake.


texts: Can I stop people kissing me all the time?

texts: People are always kissing me, and more often than not they've got garlic breath, which really gets my mood down. Is there any way of preventing people from kissing me?


texts: Why does Minecraft show this crash report about 'BlockEntity' when I try to log into certain servers?

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Why does Minecraft say this:

  Server forgot to send required information to construct BlockEntity

It says this when I log into certain servers in 1.10, like Mineplex or Cubecraft.


texts: What are the benefits for self-employed writers?

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Does being registered as an self-employed writer help me in any way? are the royalty checks bigger?

Are there any other benefits from being registered as self-employed?


texts: How do I turn off the Resource Pack music in Minecraft?

texts: I recently downloaded the Party Island Pack on Minecraft: Xbox One Edition, but I really despise the music that plays when I’m in game with the Pack. I tried turning my music down, but it doesn’t work. Does anyone know any commands or just anything that would turn it off?


texts: My llama is almost dead, what does it eat to give it more health?


texts: Should you delete your Saves folder when reverting to vanilla Skyrim if you want to retain those saves?

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I have installed a load of mods over the past few weeks and now have a much clearer idea of what I want to keep and what I don't. My /Data folder is a mess as a result.
I was considering doing a clean install but I came across this guide, which apparently gives you the same result, but you don't have to re-download several gigabytes of data, you just have to be careful and methodical about what you delete.
The guide says, in step 11, to delete "all files and subdirectories", from My Documents/My Games/Skyrim which would include the Saves folder.
What is the point in deleting the Saves folder if one wants to keep one's saves? Surely it should be left [and backups made, just in case].
FYI I am on Linux, I don't know if that makes any difference. I don't think it does, apart from the fact that the Saves folder is - for me - in
/home/user/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/compatdata/72850/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/Skyrim/

rather than
 C:/Documents and Settings/user/My Games/Skyrim


texts: Will any wireless headset work with the Xbox 360?

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I want to get a wireless headset for my Xbox 360, but I would also like to be able to use it for skype and maybe even my droid.

Is this possible? if so, what am I looking for?


texts: What's the disadvantage of not completing bonus objectives?

texts: The first mission in Thief has a bonus objective "headshot 10 threats", but as a veteran Thief player killing random guards is completely unacceptable. Will I miss anything important by not completing this bonus objective?


texts: Keyboard stopped detecting multiple keypresses

texts: I have been playing CSGO on my Lenovo Ideapad 300-15isk for more than two years. Few days back when I was playing CSGO multiple keypresses stopped working. It still detects two keys pressed at once. But, it is not detecting more than two keys. Now I can't move diagonally while shooting or I can't shoot while crouch moving. This is really annoying and the game is almost unplayable. What could be the reason behind it and how to fix it?


texts: How do you get wheelspins in Forza Horizon 3?

texts: I noticed that you can get wheelspins, the game's equivalent of a gacha roll, every time you level up. I also noticed that you can get it at the end of a race. But what happens when you reach max level? What are the ways to get wheelspins?


texts: Can I kill both Mick Zaford and Jimbo Hodunk in same playthrough?

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Is there anyway to farm both Jimbo (for unique SMG) and Mick (for Maggie) in same play-through?

The Clan you can kill will be based on decision made by you on railway station(Clan wars mission). After that you can farm the clan leader of the clan(which you killed in the last part of the quest).

My question is can I farm both bosses Mick and Jimbo in same play-through ?


texts: Do companions benefit from wearing stealth armor in fallout 4

texts: I've equipped Cait with a stealth chest piece. In sneak mode, I can still see her.  But I can't tell if NPC's can see her or not.


texts: How do I determine my fuel level in Silent Hunter 5?

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The manual doesn't state where to find it. A web search says "the engineer can report it", but Joseph doesn't have this option in his dialog. I cannot determine which gauge on the boat show this information. Ditto on CO2, batteries, etc.

Can someone guide me please?


texts: Europa Universalis IV Kinslayer Achievement Question

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Usually a dynasty question like this would involve PU. But for once it doesn't.

I am playing a Ryzan that has manage to grow up to about 500ish total development (Mostly in Crimea/Ruthenia area). I plan to enlist Russia (with one of the last surviving Rurikovich beside your truly to expand into baltic/danzig area.

I was hoping that Russia through one or various wars they had along me would cause a non-Rurikovich to come to term. They somehow manage to survive being shred to low manpower AND westernization at the same time...

Good news although I get 10% discount for tech!

Bad news I am trying to figure out a way to cause a non-native dynasty to come to term. Couldn't really comes up with one so.

I am aware that the simplest way is to conquest their land. But AI Russia being "annoying AI" decide it was a good idea to have Quantity... They can easily field 120ish units. While I am barely at 60. So ideally I would like to keep them around as a punch bag.

Question: Put simply. What is the best way to get a foreign heir on another country? Does turn revolutionary cause the dynasty for Russia to change right?

I plan to use a vassal to grow in Caucasian due to "50% extra cost to coring". If their dynasty count against you then I could just diplo-annex them not a big deal.

Question: Do vassal's family count against you?


texts: How to get LAST card for Monster Summer Sale Badge?

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Maybe it's silly, but this Badge only needs just one last card "Gold Helm", and I even can see some my friends have it. Steam offers me to trade them., but when I go to Trade Window I cannot see any Monster Cards in the friend's inventory not in my inventory as well. I can see them only on the Badge Crafting page.
From the looks of it trading for these cards has been disabled once the Monster Summer Sale finished, but I'm just speculating here. Can somebody confirm that?
And if yes: Is there any option to obtain this last card?


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I do not own a XBOX and never did, so I do not know how it works. However, a few friends and me were talking about it in the light of Grand Theft Auto 5 bans and wondered how it exactly works.

How does the console tell me that it is hardware banned and can you still use it offline after it? Can someone please elaborate on this?


texts: Why do my huns need houses in AOE II Conquers expansion

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So the Huns in AOE II Conquers has the special benefit that they do not need any housing and as a penalty for that, start with 100 less wood.
So I a few minutes after starting a game, I found out that I needed to create more houses!

After some searching I found out that the full tech tree disables all unique stuff, inclusive the benefits, for the selected civilization.

So I started a new game with full tech tree disabled. And I still needed to build houses.
The part I did not tell thus far is that this is a multiplayer game with a custom created map.

Is it because of multiplayer mode that these benifits are not available?


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Across my travels I've come across 2 business ledgers. I can't remember where the first one was (I think it was some sort of shop or a jarl's room), I found the second one in the stable house.

Both of them had the following tooltip when moused over "Forge Numbers Business Ledger". Both times I attempted to use them a message popped up "There's nothing to change in the ledger".

What do I have to do to be able to use it, and what does it do when I do use it?


texts: What's it mean when a figure player is marked as "Light" or "Cool"

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I decided to try feeding an amiibo some spirits and noticed there's a trait I'm unsure about next to the type.  The only values I can seem to make it are Light and Cool, depending on which spirit I pick.

What's the difference between these? Are there other options?


texts: How do you get Quillmane to spawn in EQ1?


texts: Nexus Mod Manager says "Unable to get write permissions for: C:\Games\Nexus Mod Manager\Skyrim\Install Info

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I downloaded Skyrim from Steam, and I have a few mods from the Steam Workshop.

I decided to start using the Nexus Mod Manager (0.46.0) only to find that when it scanned my games it showed the error message:

  Unable to get write permissions for: C:\Games\Nexus Mod Manager\Skyrim\Install Info

I believe that I moved the file to the appropriate folder, etc. I'm sorry for being somewhat vague, but I am not computer savvy.


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So today I was completing a few quests and after I cleared a dungeon out i wanted to trade with my follower but he wasnt there!I checked the WHOLE dungeon and no sign of him.I also dont have any quest which makes you have another follower.Also if I try to recruit another follower it just says I already have one.

Also im on PC and my follower was called Stenvar.I have tried the prid 000B998C moveto player command and it doesnt work.


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In Legend of Grimrock, there are several hidden locations. You can find various items in these secret rooms (weapons, armor, etc.).

The one that's piqued my interest the most, however, is the Skull.

Normally, I'd think nothing of this. Just a skull in a pile of bones. Seems to be fairly common in dungeons like these. The confusing part is: They get their own section in the Statistics page.

Do these skulls do anything for me? (i.e. will collecting ALL the skulls get me a super-secret ending and/or weapon?)


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I assume this means I should talk to Tybir and learn something, but I have no idea how to trigger it.

I've tried going through his dialog choices but nothing seems to remove the blue speech bubble. What am I doing wrong?


texts: Dead Money Crashing After "Fires in the Sky"

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I have completed the "Fires in the Sky" mission, and am attempting to head back to the fountain after getting Dog / God to stay at the switching station.  Once I finish the mission and am awarded the points, I try to open the door back The Villa and the game crashes.

It happens every time I try to open that specific door.  I've had zero issues with the DLC thus far, and no issues with Fallout: New Vegas in general.  Anyone have ideas as to how to get past this bug?


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My TV was recently stolen, so now I'm hooking the PS3 up to a Dell monitor 23".  But I have found out it is really difficult to get the sound out of the PS3.

My problem is even if I connect my USB headset, I can't play audio through it, only voice.  There are some turtle beach headphones that work off a special plug on the PS3 (or something) but they cost $150.  Is there a more clever way to get audio out of the PS3?


texts:
I am planning on creating a village, but I am wondering if I can influence them to spread around a little bit more.

Currently, I have a small temporary village set up, where I have 4 houses and about 10 villagers. All the 10 villagers always cramp around in 1 single house.

How can I make it so they use up more houses? Is this intentional or a bug/glitch?


texts: Can I rearrange the placement of the items in my inventory?

texts: When playing video games, I can get pretty pick about things. Specifically, the placement of items in my inventory. For this reason, Skyward Sword is bothering me slightly, since my Slingshot is in the lowermost slot of my B-activated inventory area, when I feel it should be at the top. Is there any way I can rearrange which items go in what slot, or am are they stuck where you are when you obtain them?


texts: What other ways are there to obtain sector data?

texts:
While playing FTL, I have suddenly gained information on the sector without having Long-Range Scanners or having paid a mercenary for a scouting report. IE, I can see environmental hazards and potential ship locations.

It has happened a few times, on different playthroughs. When it happens, it lasts for the duration of the sector, and then goes away.

Is there an event (other than paying mercs to scout), or something else that triggers this?


texts: Can You become the Thane of Riften if a NPC dies before you complete a quest that's required?

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Can you still become a Thane in Riften if Wujeeta dies before telling you about the skooma? I was just starting to ask her when a dragon came down and wrecked everything.

Can I become the Thane of Riften even though this NPC died before I could finish this required quest?


texts: Is the game different in any way if I chose Jude?

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When i started the game for the first time i was given a choice between Milla and Jude (which i assume is the game skipping the title screen and going to New Game) and i chose Milla.

the game then showed Milla and Jude encountering one another just outside the sewer entrance to the lab. further in just before the Lilium Orb tutorial i meet Jude and it seemed there was a bit of story that was skipped over (something about a professor who called Jude to the lab and apparently they're dead).

I am wondering, if i started a new game and chose Jude, would the game be any different as opposed to me selecting him as the party leader after choosing Milla?


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I plan to create my own Xbox anti-dust cover that I can easily remove every time I play. I intend to use a canvas/wool bag and cut it to be placed on top of the Xbox (shaped to cover the holes). However, I'm worried that the material could emit damaging static charges.

What would be the safest material to use?


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Throughout the game, the darkling helps you a lot. Near the end, you learn that he's at the mercy of the darkness and that it can kill it, it even fears it.

What side is the darkling on? Why does he help you? Is he somehow part of the darkness?


texts: In Heroes of the Storm I know that I can purchase heroes with in-game gold. Is there anything else I can purchase with that gold: skins, mounts, etc.?


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I've just started playing the indie game "The Swapper" (I'm hooked—it's very good), and am a couple hours in.  I was looking through the story logs (pieces of written text from the in-game characters), I've just realized that I don't have #13.  I've gotten all logs in order (barring that one apparently), and I have all the way through #23.  There aren't any markers on my map from areas I've already been.

Are you supposed to get each log item in order?  Does it show up later, or should I circle back?  Is there a log #13?

(*hattip* to the developers, this is a beautiful game.)


texts: How do I get my hands on higher-tier equipment and magic in Tactics Ogre (PSP)?

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I've finished a play-through of Tactics Ogre and as a completionist have been using the World Tarot to go back and complete the other routes (e.g. Law route) to recruit more characters. My party members are all level 28-30 and have equipment and magic that I have been able to purchase since Chapter IV (e.g. Siege Bow, Baldur Daggers, Brigandine, Heal III).

All of the enemies scale to be the same level as your party, and I've noticed that their equipment, skills and magic seem to be related to their level. This means that the enemies are using weapons like 'Frost Bow', 'Wyrmscale' armor and spells like Judgement III while I'm stuck with the equipment I got almost 10 levels ago. It's not getting difficult yet, but I imagine that if I continue to level up, the enemies will eventually have access to things that I can't keep up with.

What is the best way to get my hands on stronger equipment and magic? I've had a Holy Comet and Roodbow drop after playing for about 8 hours but that was all, and I won't be able to gear everyone up properly if it's that inefficient to get decent gear. It seems like there must be a secret shop somewhere or some other more logical method.


texts: I'm thinking about buying Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box on Steam. I also want the addons to the game, such as Big Surf Island and Cops and Robbers. Are they available for PC or only for consoles? Are there any addons available for PC?


texts: I broke my Quarian. Do I get a replacement?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Does anyone step in to fill the holes in your roster?

So, I was dumb and messed up the Suicide Mission in ME 2 slightly. Tali ended up.... Slightly dead. I could go back and fix this, but I figure casualties build character.

I know Tali returns as a squad member in ME3, but obviously not if she's dead. If that's the case, is there a replacement availiable? Or will I just always be shorthanded by one Quarian?


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Assassin's Creed 2 gets stuck at the cut-scene where:

   Leonardo DiVinci repairs your hidden blade, just as you get it.

I can open the map, options dialog, and change weapons but the cut-scene will not proceed.

I have tried replaying this memory several times, but it does not help.

I am running AC2 on Steam via UPlay (Windows 7, SP1, 64 bit). This is a legit copy.

Googling around suggests some others are having issues with this scene as well, but the issues seem to be with pirated copies only.


texts: Are there any checks for cheating, or is the game based on trust?

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I have been playing Draw Something for 24 hours and I have noticed that a few random opponents spell out the answer if they cannot draw it.

This kind of ruins the fun, but I can imagine it would be a very quick way to earn coins which would otherwise cost money, to buy new colour packs.

So my question is, are there any checks in place to stop this? The players who have written out the answer in games against me seem to have got away with it.


texts:
I'd like the output signal to be half the input signal strength.

I was able to use the 'lookup table' approach, which can convert pretty much any input to any output, but is bulky, noisy, somewhat slow, and quite expensive.

Is there a neater, more compact, or faster way to convert input signal strength 0-15 into range 0-8 (or similar, small off-by-one changes allowed, e.g. 0,1->0; 14,15->7).

Bonus: divide by a different number?


texts: Why do the prison ages differ in Myst IV: Revelation compared to Myst and Riven?

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In Myst, players quickly discover that the brothers Sirrus and Achenar are trapped in books, and they can see and communicate with the player through the book:

I vaguely recall these being referred to in the journals you find as "prison ages" intended to trap greedy explorers. It is possible to get an ending where you are trapped in the age, where it's all dark except for the window you peer out of at any outside observers.

This matches how the prison ages are portrayed in Riven and plays a pivotal role in that

   you must enter a prison age in order to trick Gehn into following you into one, and it is dark except the window, just like the other one.

In Myst IV: Revelation, we visit these prison ages. Sirrus (red book) was trapped in Spire and Achenar (blue book) was trapped in Haven. However, they are entirely different in that instead of being a pitch black area, they are entire ages with large landscapes, and there isn't any way to communicate with the outside world. Certainly nothing that seems to indicate that there is a window to talk through.

So why do the prison ages differ in Myst IV: Revelation compared to Myst and Riven?


texts: ps4 controller won't connect on initial startup

texts: My PS4 is on the initial startup screen (when you first buy the system) and the controller doesn't connect to the system. I've tried resetting the controller and using different wires, but still nothing. The controller only connects to the system on safe mode (with any wire), but after I choose an option, it goes back to the initial startup screen and the controller doesn't work anymore. Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts: Can't play Minecraft 1.7.5 - sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException?

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For some reason my PC can't download authlib/1.3.1/authlib-1.3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'.

Does anyone know what's causing this?

Development Console:

at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.ChecksummedDownloadable.download(ChecksummedDownloadable.java:49) ~[launcher.jar:?]
    at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.popAndDownload(DownloadJob.java:108) [launcher.jar:?]
    at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.access$000(DownloadJob.java:12) [launcher.jar:?]
    at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob$1.run(DownloadJob.java:89) [launcher.jar:?]
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_51]
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_51]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_51]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_51]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_51]
Caused by: java.security.cert.CertificateException: No subject alternative DNS name matching libraries.minecraft.net found.
    at sun.security.util.HostnameChecker.matchDNS(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.util.HostnameChecker.match(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkIdentity(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
    ... 22 more
[19:37:39 ERROR]: Gave up trying to download https://libraries.minecraft.net/com/mojang/authlib/1.3.1/authlib-1.3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'
[19:37:40 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\No need to know :)\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.5\1.7.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
[19:37:40 ERROR]: Job 'Version & Libraries' finished with 1 failure(s)! (took 0:00:03.305)


texts: Is it possible to fast-fall ZSS's neutral B?

texts: I keep trying to fast-fall after using neutral B on Zero Suit Samus, but either I can't see well, my timing's not good, or it's not possible. Can this be done?


texts: Can I play with my friends on PS4 while I'm on PS Vita?

texts: I'm on the PS Vita and my friends are on PS4, can I play games with them?


texts: Are some "health" foes weak against Corrosive?

texts:
Borderlands 2 introduces a telltale yellow Armor bar for Armored foes, generally making it much easier to tell when you should use Fire weapons versus Corrosive ammo. However many Health targets also have armored parts.

Notably there are Spiderants and Hyperion Soldiers like Engineers. Engineers appear to be almost completely covered with armor. Are they weak to corrosion or flame? For Spiderants I know Fire works well on their unarmored thorax but Corrosive works, with reduced damage, on the armored parts (just like it worked in Borderlands 1).

With Hyperion I've had a harder time telling; in the first playthrough it seems both Acid and Fire work servicably, but in the second playthrough elemental effects are more pronounced, so I'd really like to know which element I should use against them.

Are "armored" looking enemies with red health bars still weak to flame (ignoring elemental enemies of course)?


texts:
The Bazel Helm Beta helmet provides the Earplugs Level 2 skill and allows a level 3 and level 1 decoration slot. Equipping an Earplug Jewel 3 into the level 3 slot does not give the expected result of earplugs level 5. Instead, on the equipment summary screen, it shows earplugs level 3, not 5.

For comparison, I purchased a Bone Mail Beta, which has Attack Boost level 1 and an open jewel slot. Placing an Attack Jewel 1 into the open slot results in a combined attack boost level 2.

Why might the combining of skills work for Attack Boost, but not for Earplugs? Is there a subtle prerequisite I am missing here, or is this perhaps a bug?