Best of Arqade: 100,000 Questions on Arqade!

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Sometime last week, Arqade reached a major milestone. The site has reached 100,000 questions!

Arqade was established a bit over 13 years ago, and currently ranks 25th in question count across the Stack Exchange network.

The Best of Arqade!

For fun, feel free to share one or more of your favorite post(s), whether it be your own or someone else's, and perhaps a short tidbit on why it's your favorite post.

There won't be any kind of winner like we do for Screenshot of the Week, and we will be skipping Screenshot of the Week this time around (it will resume on August 21st 2023).

Answer 1

This will forever be the best question on this site just for how it sounds out of context.

How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat?

Answer 2

I've always been fond of the question How do I show my wounds to Robbie?. It's mostly because the accepted answer is so ridiculous, but absolutely valid

Answer 3

I love how family is a strong value here on Arqade.

• My children are useless. What should I do?

• What is the fastest way to kill my family?

• Will sleeping with my son's wife have a negative effect on our relationship?

Answer 4

I appreciate the diversity and breadth of knowledge that Arqade offers in various fields of learning, such as:

• Chemistry and Breaking Bad: How do I cook meth?

• Social Etiquette and Interpersonal Communication: Does shooting people make them dislike me?

• Cultural Studies and Anthropological Analysis: What benefits does being a Jew give me?

• Religious Studies and Theology: Where can I find Jesus Christ?

• Biological Experimentation and Medical Research: How can I increase my chances of getting cancer?

• Social Psychology and Criminology: Why can't I stop myself from shooting the President?

• Gastronomy and Nutrition: Are there any disadvantages to eating corpses?

• Medicine / Surgery: How do I remove people's intestines?

Answer 5

Probably one of my favorite posts is What additional features do you get after spending five dollars on Steam?

Ave and myself both wrote an answer, and both of the answers were very well recieved (over 250 upvotes each!). Amusingly, we also posted at nearly the same time. However, if you do some digging, my answer was just a few milliseconds or seconds before ave's (I don't remember how much exactly, but it was close it was apparently 44 milliseconds).

Lastly, the community took it upon itself to make sure the answers both have the same amount of votes. Even to this day, both answers still have the same amount of votes, and whenever I get the occasional upvote on this answer, I always go back to see if ave's answer is still the same amount of votes, and it always seems to be!

Answer 6

A particular favourite of mine is Which doge represents what number?

Truly the very best/worst of the site.

Answer 7

One of my favorite posts was to dishonestly get honesty. At the time, a large portion of the regular members of the Bridge where playing a bunch of different Incremental and Clicker games. It being a web browser game, combined with with many of those playing it being programmers of some sort led to us finding exploits quite quickly.

Answer 8

Long live fish-activities

• Game about being a fish and fish activities (10k only)

Background: Fish-Activities Tag?

Answer 9

It's hard to pick just one great post, but a memorable one is definitely the time when GnomeSlice was in a bit of a pickle:

Do Blasts Pass Through Obsidian?

For context: this was before the change to how TNT worked in Minecraft - attempting to break the TNT would set it off, not simply drop it.

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For one of my own posts - one that sticks out is the time I manually calculated just how many unique Pokemon could be obtained purely in Pokemon Emerald (i.e. with no trading, cheats/glitches/ACE or Nintendo events etc).

How many Pokemon can be obtained only in Emerald?

On the surface it sounds simple but there's quite a bit of nuance - for example, there's only one Moon Stone available, so you can either evolve Skitty -> Delcatty OR Jigglypuff -> Wigglytuff, but not both. It was an interesting exercise at least!

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Also I'd like to give a shout-out to Question #1, which (as of writing) is still open, and still valid/relevant to modern TF2!

What is a good strategy to deal with lots of engineers turtling on the other team?

Answer 10

The Classic struggles you have when playing the-elder-scrolls-skyrim, from dislocating your head over destroying a temple on a wild night out to the wondrous properties of horses defying (most of) gravity and physics. Romance can also be problematic at times.