Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions, influence site policy, or debate a particular topic, with the goal of reaching a community consensus.
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Screenshot of the Week #57
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Hello and welcome to the 57th edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! arghtype's picture of Helios ...
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What do we do with a Dead Link in a post?
It took me a bit to not start singing a shanty there...
[Ahem] So I came across an old question of mine, it is a very old question; to the point where it could be deleted and no one would notice. Do ...
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When is it OK to start talking about new games?
While I anticipated some push back surrounding
What new systems exist in Diablo 3?,
I was surprised that the push back seemed to be about the timing rather than the fact that is was a "list" ...
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Screenshot of the Week #56 - Sweet Rides
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To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Joachim's screenshot standing among ...
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Include the game in the question title so that it's clearer in the Hot Network Questions list
Suggestion: make all questions look like this one where it's apparent from the title which game is being discussed.
Reason is because it makes it clear from the HNQ list whether or not to look at the ...
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The Best of 2021!
So, it's the last day of 2021, time to look back and see the highest scored things on the site this year!
There are no prizes, just this commemorative post that you could, if you want the pride, print ...
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Top tags requiring a tag wiki
Tag wikis are now prominently shown on hover and when tagging a question -- all the more reason to at least write their excerpts down!
If you consider yourself knowledgeable about a game, please ...
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Include a game's name in question titles to avoid confusion in the HNQ sidebar [duplicate]
I just joined this exchange solely in order to post this meta question. Usually, I hang out in the programming-related exchanges, but, as with any old dictionary, one gets ... sidetracked ... by the ...
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What types of question are not a good fit for the Hot Network Questions list?
On 2019-03-11, a number of changes related to the Hot Network Questions (HNQ) list were applied across the Stack Exchange network. You can read all about it here: Updating the Hot Network Questions ...
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Does the media included in the "Naruto fighting game with Hulk and Homer Simpson?" question comply with our game identification policy?
This is about the game-identification question: Naruto fighting game with Hulk and Homer Simpson?
According to our game identification policy - What are the requirements for asking a game ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Screenshot of the Week Contest #55
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We should ensure consistency in closing questions that are simple requests
This recent question was closed, though I'm not certain why. It doesn't fall under the prohibited types of questions, it pertains to gaming and it is based on an actual problem as it was a simple ...
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Are ROM hacks considered piracy? [duplicate]
Are ROM hacks considered pirated software for purposes of site policies against supporting software piracy?
ROM hacks typically take existing game images (typically those of yesteryear) and edit in ...
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How do I thank somebody for an answer that really helped me?
I'm just trying to find out how to thank somebody here for their answer. Somebody else asked the question, but their answer helped me big time and I wanted to thank them.
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Can we ask questions based on ROM hacks or randomizers?
This question is the one in question, it being a ROM hack of FireRed.
This is not an officially released game, but a modified version of an official game.
My question also extends to hacks like ...
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Why is my question closed and marked as off-topic?
I have big doubts and competency about closing my question. How can I find more old-school players from Kazakhstan? Please re-open again.
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Screenshot of the Week Contest #54: Happy Holidays 2021!
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Hello and welcome to the 54th edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! arghtype's evening ride in days-gone, ...
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Merging DirectX tags
I stumbled across this while trying to assign a DirectX tag to Trying to Play an Old Game, will Installing Old Direct X Affect Anything?, which is about DirectX in general, as well as DirectX 6 in ...
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Screenshot of the Week #53
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Find the latest competition tagged screenshot-of-the-week
Hello and welcome to the 53rd edition of the Screenshot of the Week!
To start with, congratulations to the winners of the ...
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Screenshot of the Week #52 - Hero Pose!
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Find the latest competition tagged screenshot-of-the-week
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Handling dupes asking for updated info
Recently we had a Pokémon Go question asking for how a specific feature works as of a specific patch. We also have an old question which asks about how the feature works. I believe the answers on the ...
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When should "Why is it bad practice to test for item names?" NOT be used as a duplicate target?
I'm writing this because I notice that this question has been closed as a dupe of this. This is wrong, for a reason I am about to explain below. I left a comment on the question asking for it to be ...
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How should the Pokemon generation 4 remakes be tagged?
This upcoming week, the long awaited Pokemon generation 4 remakes will be released. The standard for generating tags is to include the full extended name of each game, for example:
pokemon-diamond-...
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Would a question about Genshin Impact team composition be opinion based? [duplicate]
Genshin Impact relies on building a team of various characters to leverage elemental reactions.
A question might entail giving a players set of characters and asking for ideas on team builds.
Possible ...
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Screenshot of Week #51
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To start with, congratulations to the winners (yes plural!) of the previous contest! We had a tie this ...
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My question is the first google result, but is so old that it contains misleading information. Should I worry?
In 2018 I asked about introducing a handicap system to my Age of Empires II HD games. The question contained the factual statement "Age of Empires II has no handicap system".
Since then, ...
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Screenshot of Week #50 - Halloween
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Is asking how to hack Pokémon necessarily a multiplayer cheat?
We have a broad question on cheating in primarily single-player games that have a multi-player aspect. I want to ask about applying this principle specifically to Pokémon main-series games. These ...
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Don't splatter tags all over the house (Rename [splatter-house-3] to [splatterhouse-3])
We currently have splatterhouse and splatter-house-3 tags, but the original and successor games consistently use the "Splatterhouse" name without a space.
splatter-house-3 should be renamed ...
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Asking questions about cheating in games that have a multiplayer setting?
So, a question has been posted recently about exploiting glitches in Minecraft; which is effectively cheating.
The base rule for Arqade is that we do not support this in Multiplayer games.
I don't ...
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What to do with an overwritten question with an open bounty?
I'm referring to this question, which previously was asking "How can I execute at a chest with a specific pattern of certain items?"
Several edits have occured, also because OP was ...
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Screenshot of the Week #49
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To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! pinckerman's submission of ...
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Why we should make a flag reason for closing modded Minecraft tech support questions
TL;DR We need a better flag reason for questions about tech support for modded Minecraft.
Yes, yes, I know, we have discussed this 4 years ago, but so far the only changes in hope of solving this ...
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How would a question about recreating a game in another game be tagged?
Recently I have been trying to recreate a video game in another video game. I am planning on asking a question here, however I’m not sure exactly how I should tag this question. With both games? With ...
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What are new users supposed to do when their question has already been asked but not answered?
A user asked a duplicate question today because he had no comment privileges to annotate his issues into the original. Normally such a user would be directed to chat, except brand new users cannot ...
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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top?
There is a on going Meta SE post about unpinning the accepted answers on a post from the top of the list of answers. In fact, Stack Oveflow has already unpinned the accepted answers.
For Stack ...
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Screenshot of the Week #48: Nighttime
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AI-generated answer?
This answer at a glance looks like a generic new user's link-only answer. But if you look at the article it links to - signed with the same name as the answer - it seems to have been generated by AI. ...
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Screenshot of the Week #47
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Asking to identify the game based on keyboard combination only
The oldest question on identify-this-game-like questions that I found here is 7 years old. So my introduction question is whether this class of questions are or are not allowed here as of today (2021)?...
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How can I improve my question when a comment was not supplied with a downvote?
meta about: Who is the target group for Apple Arcade (subscription gaming service)?
I am looking for very simple games (and platforms) that are graphically reasonably good and playable for older ...
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How should we handle questions asking how to solve a specific Minesweeper board?
The moderator team has noticed a handful of minesweeper questions which all amount to "How do I solve this exact Minesweeper board?", and we believe that these questions should be closed as ...
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Screenshot of the Week #46: Character Customization!
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To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! DefaultSimon's submission of ...
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Should this post be considered spam?
I notice that this answer has been deleted as spam and have gone to check it out. The contents of said answer are as follows:
I currently am working on a server-side Fabric mod which would entirely ...
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The moderator firmament is a little less shiny
Because I'm turning in my diamond soon.
Lately the spark of motivation hasn't been there for me, so I'm leaving the job to the rest of the team. I feel very comfortable doing so, they've got more than ...
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Community Ads for 2021
September update: Community Ads are now live network-wide. Since there were no ad proposal submissions on this site, none will be displayed — go to the main post on MSE for a list of the ads that are ...
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How to properly use the new review queues?
The new first answer and first question queues let you do these actions:
I've encountered a couple of posts that were a spam question and a question posted as an answer. The actions suggested were ...
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Should deadlines for competitions and giveaways be provided in UTC?
During a discussion on The Bridge regarding this giveaway, this message was shared:
Entries will be open until Friday 3/2 at 12pm EST. Selected entrants will be notified promptly.
Depending on your ...
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Please make more strict rules about what is to be considered a duplicate and what isn't!
I'm assuming in the following that rules about what is a duplicate are consdiered to be the same over the whole stack exchange network.
If this is not the case, my argument is invalid, but then there ...
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