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Screenshot of the Week #75
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Screenshot of the Week #74 - Inventory
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Should the "upgrading Nintendo Switch microSD storage" question be reopened?
This is about the currently closed question: What should I look for when upgrading Nintendo Switch microSD storage? It had been left closed in the reopen review queue.
I don't think the above question ...
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Should AutoHotkey and similar questions geared towards remapping keys/moving cursors/automation be allowed?
A question was recently asked about the Linux-only AutoKey, which is a scripting application that allows you to create hotkeys among other things. This is similar to the (Windows-only) AutoHotkey, ...
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Screenshot of the Week #73
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I have a potential recommendation question
I want to make sure this won't break the rules, so I'm asking here first.
I am on the final trophy of Pacman World Repac, which is to beat level 9 of Original Pacman. There 3 are patterns to follow, ...
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Screenshot of the Week #72 - Living with Nature
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What do we do with questions about games that can no longer be played?
So City of Heroes shut down over the weekend. There is no longer any way to play it, as the servers went dead.
Now, we only have seven City of Heroes questions, so there's not a lot of content, one ...
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List of Bedrock NBT workarounds to be posted as separate questions
Visit this post to see my proposal on MCBE NBT question split.
Here is a list of the changes that should be done if we approve of it:
New questions
If a question about BE NBT is possible using one of ...
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Merge synonyms for tags on Meta
There are a few duplicate tags on our meta site that need to be synonymised (is that even a word?):
new-user > new-users
user-accounts > users
flagging > flags
answering > answers
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Screenshot of the Week #71!
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Should we deliver the final blow of the Bedrock NBT question split?
It's been a while, but I'd like to revisit the movement we made of splitting the MCBE NBT question into multiple questions for each possible workaround. We made a plan for retargeting duplicates, ...
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Can I change my username? [duplicate]
How I can change my username? As you can see my name is was The Piano Man because I started out in music stack exchange. Now I am in different communities, and I think it's funny to have someone named ...
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Screenshot of the Week #64 - The Great Outdoors
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Screenshot of the Week #70 - Supernatural & Undead
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Clean-Up: [framerate] and [performance]
I'm not sure if this should be a merge but I think there should be a discussion on it either way. I think having both framerate and performance is excessive, and as performance is a more generic term ...
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Screenshot of the Week #69!
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Should there be a [minecraft-nbt] tag?
I've gotten in a dispute over correct tagging of the question Adding custom structure to replace ancient_city_center, in which the creator is adding minecraft-nbt and I think it's unnecessary and am ...
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Screenshot of the Week #68 - Sheer Dominance
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New Minecraft proposed Site. What do you guys think?
I just proposed a new site on Area 51. It is about Minecraft, and I would like to know if it is possible to move all Minecraft questions from this site to that site (assuming that site gets made). And ...
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Is asking about the plot of a game accepted here?
Sometimes we have questions about the story of a game when it's confusing for us to understand one point; and many other reasons.
Can we ask these questions here?
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Do we have different definitions of "Looks OK"?
When a new user asks a question, I usually open it to check it and give them a welcome. Sometimes those questions are badly worded, have missing punctuation or some misspelled words, or in other cases ...
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Screenshot of the Week #67
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Screenshot of the Week #66: Epic Fail!
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Screenshot of the Week #65
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Making list of achievements?
I was wondering if this has been done before on Arqade, and if it helps people or not. I am assuming making a list of achievements e.g. will not really help at all as there are many websites online, ...
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Are questions regarding how to spend rare resources on-topic?
A game I am playing has a rather rare resource, which I am uncertain how to spend effectively. I would like to ask a question on what the best way to spend said resource would be, but I'm worried it ...
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Is Namco's F-1 (1976) in-scope?
Namco's F-1 (1976) electro-mechanical arcade racing game bears such strong resemblance to a "modern" video game that I'm wondering if it should be considered on-topic. The game itself is ...
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Fix tag inconsistency for Kingdoms of Amalur
We have two tags for this game:
kingdoms-amalur-reckoning for the original 2012 version
kingdoms-of-amalur-re-reckoning for the remastered 2021 version
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Screenshot of the Week #63
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How to handle multiple games with the same exact name?
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is the 2005 EA Black Box game that's imho the only Need for Speed game worth playing of the titles I've tried so far. Box art straight from Wikipedia:
Need for Speed: Most ...
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I provided Random Seeds to an existing answer, but my edit was rejected. Why?
This answer mentions that you "will need to keep restarting until it appears." because it is a "rare node". I have provided the Game Seed that you can enter, so you are not ...
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Meta Tag: Top-7
Noticed someone added the tag top-7 to a few things. Wondering if that serves some purpose I don't know of.
https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/top-7
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Alpha/Beta participation questions
I wanted to know whether or not questions about the participation itself of a certain Alpha/Beta is on or off topic. Nowadays there are many games that let you participate in a Beta as a casual gamer, ...
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Where can I find the Arqade UFO animation?
I always seem to miss it :(
It's the one in the top right with the UFO and antenna and it sometimes shoots lasers.
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Can we ask about the specifics of mod incompatibility?
So we know that asking about mod related minecraft issues are off topic, but I was wondering if it was more specific, would that be on topic?
For example; "I am using mod X and mod Y in my ...
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Screenshot of the Week #62 - Bosses and Villains
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I have a question about AlphaStar. Is this the right SE to ask it?
AlphaStar is an AI that plays Starcraft 2. I want to know if AlphaStar can play FFA (free-for-all, basically there are 4+ players in the same game and the winner is the last player standing).
Is this ...
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'Skyrim Special Edition' question handling
As the Skyrim remaster is out today, we need to determine how to tag it.
According to this discussion, it should get a new tag if it's a rework with new mechanics, but it shouldn't get a new tag if ...
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Screenshot of Week #61
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Screenshot of the Week #60: Moments After Disaster
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Minecraft Java edition commands in Bedrock questions - "Fix my answer for me"
Now, recently Minecraft bedrock and Java edition have grown very similar in most gameplay aspects, so in most gameplay questions I don't think it's a big deal if you are answering from a Java ...
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Is this question about modding on topic?
I cannot answer a simple question: how do people mod games if the source code hasn't been made public?
This has been a point of interest for me lately. Unfortunately Why isn't it the norm for gaming ...
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Screenshot of the Week #59
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Tag rename request [fire-emblem] -> [fire-emblem-blazing-blade]
The description for the tag fire-emblem mentions that this is for a specific game named Fire Emblem : The Blazing Blade in the Fire Emblem game series. The tag name is misleading because it could be ...
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Why is this question not about technical support for modded minecraft?
The question Recreate Item from NBT was reviewed as leave open by a moderator with no explanation, despite myself and three different close vote reviewers agreeing the question should be closed.
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How should I handle multiple helpful but incomplete answers?
On Is there a reason to complete additional research tasks after a Pokédex entry is completed?, I received multiple helpful answers from different users. In particular, Wondercricket and Joe's ...
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Screenshot of the Week #58 - Pets
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Is it okay to ask the name of a composition from a game? [duplicate]
I do not find anything in the help center. To clarify I want to know how a composition is named in a game. Can I ask this on Arcade Site?
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Is asking about getting a game ROM to run on a type of architecture off-topic?
Specifically, I own Pokemon Puzzle League, but I'd like to try and run it on my MacOS for easier screen capture. The problem is, on MacOS it doesn't run with Mupen64 emulator core. I can't find any ...
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