most recent 30 from gaming.meta.stackexchange.com 2025-08-05T10:52:49Z https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/feeds/user/1787 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/rdf https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/17558 10 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T03:11:39Z 2025-08-05T23:12:17Z

<p><strong>This event has now started. If you signed up, you can play by using the [room link](The Archipelago event has started. This is the room link: <a href="https://archipelago.gg/room/SHrUeGilRGmdmj432JKweg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archipelago.gg/room/SHrUeGilRGmdmj432JKweg</a>).</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://ap-lobby.bananium.fr/room/aa1d9183-f247-4bf8-a2f9-25a3cbed76d5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Signup page link</a></strong></p> <h2>What</h2> <p><strong><a href="https://archipelago.gg/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Archipelago</a></strong> is a tool for linking together multiple game randomizers into a single shared play experience. Whenever you collect an item in your game, it could be an item in someone else's game, or a different one of your items. Players will need to find and collect the items others need to progress to enable everyone to move forward.</p> <p><strong>Async</strong> means that players will not be expected to all play at the same time. Instead, players can play whenever is convenient for them, if they can make progress. That way, there should be no issue with time zones. Players should try to play at least once every 7 days, and should be contactable either in <a href="https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/35/the-bridge">The Bridge</a> or in the Arqade Discord server.</p> <h2>When</h2> <p>The multiworld will become available some time on Saturday, July 19, 2025. It will run however long it takes for the games to finish. Once the event starts, the room link will be provided in this post and in The Bridge.</p> <h2>How to Sign Up</h2> <p><strong><a href="https://ap-lobby.bananium.fr/room/aa1d9183-f247-4bf8-a2f9-25a3cbed76d5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Signup page link</a></strong></p> <p>Follow the signup page link and submit the YAML config file(s) for the game(s) you want to play in the event. Any game in the <a href="https://ap-lobby.bananium.fr/room/aa1d9183-f247-4bf8-a2f9-25a3cbed76d5/worlds" rel="nofollow noreferrer">signup sheet's game page</a> is supported. You can submit up to three games for this event.</p> <p>If you want to play <a href="https://archipelago.gg/games" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Archipelago's officially supported games</a>, follow that game's link to the &quot;Options Page&quot; to configure your randomizer settings. When you're done, choose &quot;Export Options&quot; to download a YAML file, then go to the signup page and choose &quot;Upload YAML&quot; at the top to upload that file. If you want to play one of the other games, it's up to you to figure out how to generate the YAML.</p> <p>The options page for a game also has a &quot;Generate Single-Player Game&quot; option. In order to make this go smoothly, if you sign up please also generate a single player game with your configuration and play at least a little of it, both to make sure you have the correct local setup to interact with the Archipelago system, and to make sure that you have some idea of what that game is like randomized.</p> <p>If you submit a game that supports cooperative multiplayer, feel free to invite other people to play with you. The point of this event is to have fun playing video games together. Just keep in mind that as the person whose name is on the slot, you are responsible for ensuring that the slot makes progress.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/17514 12 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T23:30:47Z 2025-08-05T08:00:12Z

<p><strong>Signups for this event are now closed. The room link to play the event is <a href="https://archipelago.gg/room/EzqeyGEcRp6abKzzDnEStg." rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archipelago.gg/room/EzqeyGEcRp6abKzzDnEStg.</a></strong></p> <p><em>Note: this is the same event described in <a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/17511/1787">this post</a>, I just wanted to make it a separate question for visibility.</em></p> <h2>What</h2> <p><strong><a href="https://archipelago.gg/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Archipelago</a></strong> is a tool for linking together multiple game randomizers into a single shared play experience. Whenever you collect an item in your game, it could be an item in someone else's game, or a different one of your items. Players will need to find and collect the items others need to progress to enable everyone to move forward.</p> <p><strong>Async</strong> means that players will not be expected to all play at the same time. Instead, players can play whenever is convenient for them, if they can make progress. That way, there should be no issue with time zones. Players should try to play at least once every 3 days, and should be contactable either in <a href="https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/35/the-bridge">The Bridge</a> or in the Arqade Discord server.</p> <h2>When</h2> <p>The multiworld will become available some time on Sunday, June 29, 2025. It will run however long it takes for the games to finish.</p> <h2>How to Sign Up</h2> <p>First, choose one of <a href="https://archipelago.gg/games" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Archipelago's officially supported games</a>, and follow the link to the &quot;Options Page&quot; to configure your randomizer settings. When you're done, choose &quot;Export Options&quot; to download a YAML file, then go to <a href="https://ap-lobby.bananium.fr/room/b63a4c5f-4ec0-44a3-a63b-98c63e41736d" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this signup page</a> and choose &quot;Upload YAML&quot; at the top to upload that file.</p> <p>Alternatively, if you are familiar with generating your own YAMLs for Archipelago, you can submit a YAML file for any of the <a href="https://ap-lobby.bananium.fr/room/b63a4c5f-4ec0-44a3-a63b-98c63e41736d/worlds" rel="nofollow noreferrer">signup sheet's listed games</a></p> <p>The options page for a game also has a &quot;Generate Single-Player Game&quot; option. In order to make this go smoothly, if you sign up please also generate a single player game with your configuration and play at least a little of it, both to make sure you have the correct local setup to interact with the Archipelago system, and to make sure that you have some idea of what that game is like randomized.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17499/-/17511#17511 9 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T04:45:46Z 2025-08-05T15:18:41Z

<p><strong>Signups for this event are now closed. The room link to play the event is <a href="https://archipelago.gg/room/EzqeyGEcRp6abKzzDnEStg." rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archipelago.gg/room/EzqeyGEcRp6abKzzDnEStg.</a></strong></p> <h1>Community Archipelago Multiworld Async</h1> <p>I will organize an Archipelago game starting on 2025-08-05, in order to try out the format for these community games. Signups are open on <a href="https://ap-lobby.bananium.fr/room/b63a4c5f-4ec0-44a3-a63b-98c63e41736d" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this lobby page</a> until that date.</p> <p>Archipelago allows you to generate a single-player game with a randomizer configuration, to effectively play it as a normal randomizer. Before the multiworld starts, you should do that at least once with your chosen game, and play at least some of it. That way you can be sure that you have your game configured correctly, and you will have some idea of what the randomized gameplay will be like.</p> <h2>Archipelago Multiworld</h2> <p>As stated on <a href="https://archipelago.gg/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the Archipelago homepage</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>This is a cross-game modification system which randomizes different games, then uses the result to build a single unified multi-player game. Items from one game may be present in another, and you will need your fellow players to find items you need in their games to help you complete your own.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Async</h2> <p>Archipelago multiplayer games are typically run in two primary formats: sync and async. In sync games, everyone starts at the same time, and plays continuously until the end, typically for several hours. In async games, once the game is generated, each player plays whenever is convenient for them, if they can make progress.</p> <p>In order to avoid any issues with synchronizing across time zones, this game will be an async. Players should try to play at least once every three days, and should be available to contact either in <a href="https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/35/the-bridge">The Bridge</a> or the Arqade Discord server.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17530/-/17532#17532 7 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T04:18:39Z 2025-08-05T04:18:39Z

<p>Site metas don't have reputation. Instead, your displayed reputation on meta is just your main site reputation. That means that there's nothing to put in a reputation profile tab on meta.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17527/-/17528#17528 6 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T02:50:42Z 2025-08-05T02:50:42Z

<p>This network previously had a winter holiday celebration called Winter Bash. <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/392846/sunsetting-winter-summer-bash-rationale-and-next-steps">It was sunsetted in 2023</a> because of excess costs. For that reason, it is unlikely that we will have another official holiday celebration in the near future.</p> <p>It is even more unlikely that we will have an official holiday celebration for just a single site, because all of the sites on the network are handled by the same developers. Any dev time spent on creating something for just one site that doesn't directly pertain to that site's mission effectively takes away from every other site.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17485/-/17487#17487 17 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T04:31:23Z 2025-08-05T04:31:23Z

<p>I've said some of this before in chat and I think it's worth expanding on in a more permanent place. I believe the main contributor to the decline in this site's activity over the last several years is the rise in strong alternatives, particularly game wikis, Discord servers, and subreddits.</p> <p>Game wikis satisfy this site's mission of being a repository of knowledge about a game, without needing to go through the ask a question/wait for an answer process to populate it. In addition, a wiki often has complete information, which makes them a better first stop when looking for general knowledge, and they are often more consistently searchable. For example, if you are looking for information about a particular item in a game, this site might have it if someone else happens to have asked about it before, and you can probably find it if you search right. But if you know that the wiki has all of the information about every item, then you know for sure that you can find what you are looking for by going there.</p> <p>Discord is on the other end of the spectrum. It's a terrible long-term information repository, and it can't be easily searched, but you can often go there to get a personal answer to your specific question very quickly. Many game Discord servers have a continuously ongoing conversation among whoever is online, so if you pop in and ask a question, you know people will see it immediately. In addition, many game Discord servers often have devs actively online, which gives you an opportunity to get authoritative information that can be hard to get elsewhere.</p> <p>Game subreddits occupy somewhat of a middle ground. The search is not great, and questions don't get answered quickly, but questions do often get answered, and a lot of games have a lot of active discussion. You can often learn quite a bit of information about a game just from reading the discussions other people have about it.</p> <p>What all three of these things have in common is that they are all communities for individual games. If you're a fan of a particular game and you want to engage with a community, you will find more people who share your particular interest in a community specifically for that game than in a community for gaming in general. I think all of that leaves this site in the awkward position of not having a lot to offer its target audience that they can't get more easily elsewhere, as a simple result of the nature of the site.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17335/-/17336#17336 5 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T19:31:59Z 2025-08-05T19:31:59Z

<p>It is not accurate to conclude from those questions that this site is hostile to &quot;individualized&quot; or &quot;difficult&quot; questions, because those questions have problems beyond that.</p> <p>I do not have much familiarity with Path of Exile, but the question looks very open-ended (&quot;how can I die less?&quot;) and the question links to a page with a lot of very detailed information about the build, while including insufficient relevant information in the question itself. It seems unlikely to me that &quot;Cast While Channeling Arc (CWC) Inquisitor&quot; is sufficient build information to determine what the problem is. So, the question should be edited to include all of the relevant information from the linked page that would be needed to determine what the problem is. However, if all of the information in the linked page is potentially relevant, that creates its own problems, because it's just an excessive amount of information to expect an answerer to analyze. To me, that's analogous to a Stack Overflow question with a large amount of code that asks &quot;why isn't it working?&quot; which is also not accepted there.</p> <p>For the Minecraft &quot;rising lava&quot; question, my interpretation of what that question is asking for is different from yours, which in my mind immediately justifies closing the question with the &quot;needs details or clarity&quot; reason. The asker needs to edit the question to more clearly describe what they want to accomplish.</p> <p>As a general note, both of the questions are referenced are closed with the &quot;needs details or clarity&quot; reason. This doesn't mean &quot;we don't like you, go away,&quot; it means &quot;Add details and clarify the problem being solved. This will help others answer the question. You can edit the question.&quot; This isn't &quot;oblivion,&quot; it's a prompt to improve the question. If the user chooses not to make the basic improvements requested, then it is reasonable for the question to stay closed.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17176/-/17177#17177 4 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T15:11:13Z 2025-08-05T15:11:13Z

<p>The tag <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emergency" class="s-tag post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;emergency&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;emergency&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-emergency-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">emergency</a> should be fine for that game. The tag <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emergency-series" class="s-tag post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;emergency-series&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;emergency-series&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-emergency-series-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">emergency-series</a> would be used for the series.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17159/-/17161#17161 4 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T23:53:13Z 2025-08-05T23:53:13Z

<p>Asking for a list of things to be ranked on &quot;goodness&quot; is inherently opinion-based, and the question should be closed with that reason.</p> <p>One possible way to salvage it would be to ask a mostly objective question without ranking, based on the last part that narrows it down:</p> <blockquote> <p>Which remembrance weapons scale with strength and/or dexterity and have a fast attack speed?</p> </blockquote>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17135/i-propose-that-the-hades-2-tag-be-renamed-to-hades-2-early-access/17136#17136 12 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T20:17:51Z 2025-08-05T20:17:51Z

<p>This is unnecessary.</p> <p>Even if the game changes dramatically between now and the full release, it shouldn't be tagged differently. The old answers should just be updated to reflect the new state of the game.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5165 8 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T16:11:45Z 2025-08-05T07:09:05Z

<p>The tag <a href="/questions/tagged/faq" class="post-tag moderator-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;faq&#39;" rel="tag">faq</a> is useful on many sites on this network for creating a list of questions that many users need to know but could never fit in the site FAQ. Arqade is not using that tag to its fullest potential. The tag currently has exactly 8 questions, and all are over a year old. This is not good because anyone trying to find out how our site works by looking at <a href="/questions/tagged/faq" class="post-tag moderator-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;faq&#39;" rel="tag">faq</a> will get a year-old picture of the site.</p> <p>As such, I think we should revisit the tag. What questions should be tagged <a href="/questions/tagged/faq" class="post-tag moderator-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;faq&#39;" rel="tag">faq</a>, and why?</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16786/-/16787#16787 11 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T20:37:17Z 2025-08-05T20:37:17Z

<p>Edits should not change answers by that much. Your edit adds significantly more content than is in the entire original answer. That would make the post more your expression than the original author's, which is not OK when their name is on the post. You should instead post a new answer with the information you found.</p> <p>There's no conspiracy here to suppress this information. It would stay just fine in a separate answer.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16275/-/16276#16276 4 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T19:48:44Z 2025-08-05T19:48:44Z

<p>Based on a quick look, I would instead say that that question has two <em>complete</em> answers. Each of the answers completely describes a different &quot;reason to keep completing a Pokémon's research tasks after its Pokédex entry has been completed&quot;, which is what the question requests.</p> <p>If one of those reasons is more useful than the other to you personally, you can accept that one. You can also choose not to accept any of the answers.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15915/-/15916#15916 2 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T19:53:27Z 2025-08-05T19:53:27Z

<p>Meta sites do not have the same rules about what questions are acceptable. Discussion and opinion questions are discouraged on <strong>main</strong> Stack Exchange sites, but they are accepted on meta sites, as indicated by the quoted description of the <a href="/questions/tagged/discussion" class="post-tag required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;discussion&#39;" rel="tag">discussion</a> tag.</p> <p>If you want a discussion about something related to a game, you can discuss it in chat, or try a different website like Reddit.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15910/-/15912#15912 4 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T16:18:31Z 2025-08-05T16:18:31Z

<p>Some badges are not awarded instantly when the corresponding event occurs. Instead, there are batch jobs that run at varying frequencies that check for the conditions and award the badges. After 24 hours, if you still don't have the badge, there may be an actual problem. It will often take less time than that, but it should never take longer</p> <p>The tracking UI clearly sees a different list of badges than the officially awarded badges. You should officially receive any badges listed there within 24 hours.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15902/-/15903#15903 3 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T22:02:08Z 2025-08-05T22:02:08Z

<p>I think the best way to approach this would be to answer as well as you can with information to help the human player succeed at the minigame, and <em>also</em> link to the program that will play for you.</p> <p>If a user is asking how to do something, just linking to a program that will do all of the work for them isn't really an answer. It's equivalent to answering strategy questions for an FPS with a link to an aimbot, or chess strategy questions with a link to Stockfish. From a gameplay experience perspective it's not much different from recommending that they use console commands to skip the content, or Steam Achievement Editor to just give themselves the achievement, in that in all cases, the player isn't meaningfully interacting with the gameplay.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15888/-/15889#15889 10 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T07:40:29Z 2025-08-05T07:40:29Z

<p>I agree that that question is too broad. The <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask">&quot;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&quot; page</a> says</p> <blockquote> <p>Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.</p> </blockquote> <p>I think it is entirely reasonable to say that if it is impossible for an answer post to contain the answer to the question, that is a strong signal that the question is not scoped properly for this site.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15862/-/15863#15863 20 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T04:45:45Z 2025-08-05T04:45:45Z

<p>It's entirely possible that nobody who actively uses the site knows the answer to your question. If that's the case, there's not much you can do on this site to address that. Your next most effective recourse is probably to ask elsewhere. You can link people back to your question here if you want with the &quot;Share&quot; link.</p> <p>It looks to me like answering that question requires some deep game knowledge, because you're talking about doing a complicated bit of computer engineering within the game. And Scrap Mechanic isn't one of the more popular games on this site, as evidenced by the fact that yours is the only question about it.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14966/screenshot-of-the-week-contest-8-scenery/14975#14975 12 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T00:02:18Z 2025-08-05T00:02:18Z

<p>View from the beginning of the mission Halo in Halo CE: Anniversary</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/10cZQ.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/10cZQ.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14780/-/14781#14781 6 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T07:38:09Z 2025-08-05T07:38:09Z

<p>A bug in calculating the Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges for answers was fixed. <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/339664/missing-publicist-badge/340289#340289">This main meta post</a> has the details.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7779 4 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T07:16:51Z 2025-08-05T23:51:25Z

<p>Pokemon X and Y just came out yesterday, and predictably we have gotten an influx of questions. Unfortunately, some are tagged <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pokemon-sixth-gen" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;pokemon-sixth-gen&#39;" rel="tag">pokemon-sixth-gen</a> and some are tagged <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pokemon-xy" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;pokemon-xy&#39;" rel="tag">pokemon-xy</a>. These tags are being used for the exact same set of games right now, so I think we should use only one of those tags for all of those questions. I suggest <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pokemon-xy" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;pokemon-xy&#39;" rel="tag">pokemon-xy</a> because all of the questions right now are specifically about those games and we don't know which of the questions will apply to other sixth gen games.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13613/-/13615#13615 1 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T23:46:17Z 2025-08-05T23:46:17Z

<p>Looking at the quote from the older question:</p> <blockquote> <p>If you ask a question similar to another question and it is likely to get the exact same answer, you have yourself a duplicate question</p> </blockquote> <p>The important thing is not whether they will probably have the same answer, but whether the questions are so much asking the same thing that you would expect them to have the same answer <strong>no matter what the answer is</strong>. It's not about whether the questions would just happen to having the same answer, but whether they are asking essentially the same thing, and would therefore <strong>necessarily</strong> have the same answer.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13602/-/13604#13604 2 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T04:35:43Z 2025-08-05T04:35:43Z

<p>I agree overall with FoxMcCloud's answer but I wanted to expand on the closure reason as I see it.</p> <p>I think the "primarily opinion-based" close reason comes from phrasing the question in terms of how "good" the graphics are. That's a fairly subjective measure that can mean different things to different people, and it's not simple to distill it down to technical measurements such as FLOPS, FPS/resolution specs, or many other things. Performance and appearance of individual games can be affected by a variety of factors, such as model complexity, texture compression, draw distance, shaders, available system graphics APIs, and others, and that can strongly affect peoples' perception of the system's graphics quality as a whole. If you are looking for specific technical specifications that you consider to be markers of overall graphics quality, such as the ones mentioned in your answer, that is what you should ask for in your question.</p> <p>One suggestion I would make for understanding how other people would perceive your question is to look at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSX_Reality_Synthesizer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">full technical specifications for the PS3 graphics card</a> and think about what aspects of it you consider to be important to the graphics quality. Maybe the raw processor speed? Or the on-board memory size? The processor bus bandwidth? The supported texture compression format? Maybe that's not everything, and something in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_technical_specifications" rel="nofollow noreferrer">overall PS3 technical specs</a> is important here too? Whatever you think, would you generally expect other people to choose exactly the same aspects? Were you expecting a complete comparison of the full graphics card specs of the two systems as an answer to your question?</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13563/-/13564#13564 2 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T04:38:54Z 2025-08-05T04:38:54Z

<p>I can see no reason why this stance would have changed. The answer to the original question about this policy (<a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/607/are-questions-about-adult-themed-games-allowed">Are questions about adult-themed games allowed?</a>) is based on network-wide policies that have not changed in the intervening time.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13431/-/13434#13434 -2 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T20:15:25Z 2025-08-05T22:24:05Z

<p>Historical trivia questions should be considered a subcategory of game identification questions and should therefore be off topic.</p> <p>After this community spent a very long time discussing game identification questions and whether to accept them, we were able to add custom close reasons including one that specifically called it out. The proposal that was chosen by community consensus at the time is in <a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7295/what-will-be-our-custom-off-topic-close-reasons/7299#7299">this meta answer</a>, and has the following text:</p> <blockquote> <p>Questions that ask which games or other products meet specific criteria are off topic. We primarily deal with questions about playing games, not about which games to play or historical trivia. We make an exception for identifying games based on <a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5081/here-is-a-thing-look-at-the-thing-do-you-see-the-thing-i-would-like-to-know">an audiovisual artifact from the game in question</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>This close reason as written at the time unambiguously bans these historical trivia questions. None of the linked meta posts in the question appear to directly discuss removing that text from the close reason or reversing that rule. Additionally, <a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8073/what-is-it-with-the-first-custom-off-topic-close-reason/8078#8078">this other meta answer</a> describes the reasoning behind the wording of that close reason. In particular, this paragraph is relevant</p> <blockquote> <p>[Concerning the first sentence of the close reason] I don't think this is controversial - or at least, the controversy is long settled. Game recommendations, and game identification are both off topic. The two are combined because fundamentally, they are the same thing; asking for the titles of games that meet various criteria. Also falling under this header are a peculiar flavor of game rec that we've had from time to time like &quot;What was the first game to introduce Bullet Time?&quot;</p> </blockquote> <p>At the time, the matter was considered settled and &quot;What was the first...&quot; questions were deliberately addressed. We should follow the existing community consensus, reinstate that rule, and ban those questions.</p> <p>In addition, <a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12501/why-is-the-baseball-rule-question-considered-off-topic/12502#12502">this meta post</a> is an example of one in which a rewrite of the quoted rule was used to describe why a question similar to the ones addressed here was closed. That post contains this paragraph with an example of a reason for these questions to be rejected:</p> <blockquote> <h2>Why it's a bad question for Arqade</h2> <p>It's not a practical question based on an in-game problem. It's trivia. It's not actually useful to anyone except to scratch a curious itch. Our site's focus is primarily to solve practical gaming problems. While we do allow some trivia, it's not meant to be a focus of this site, and the fact that it's simultaneously trivia and clearly off-topic makes it not a fit for us.</p> </blockquote>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13168/-/13170#13170 0 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T22:59:43Z 2025-08-05T00:27:02Z

<p>This question should not be allowed, and it should not be reopened. The issue here is not whether there is proof that the effect originally came from a game, or whether a relevant artifact exists. We only allow "identify this game" questions in which the original asker provides an artifact that directly depicts a game or a game asset. In the post in question, the artifact provided by the asker is from a TV show, not a game, so it does not meet our criteria. This conclusion does not change if a new artifact is provided in an answer or an edit by another user.</p> <p>Regarding the other example questions, they roughly fall into three different categories that should be handled differently.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/212585/what-game-is-this-knight-like-character-from">This question</a>, <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/158301/find-game-which-a-steam-profile-background-is-from">this one</a>, <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/81497/what-game-is-in-this-alienware-advertisement">this one</a>, and <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/207601/where-does-freak-fortress-2s-the-tank-theme-titled-metalfox-mp3-come-from">this one</a> all contain images or audio that are directly and officially associated with their corresponding games, and that the asker reasonably believed were from games. They conform to our ITG policy, so they should all be allowed.</li> <li><a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/317447/who-is-the-girl-with-white-hair-that-also-wears-a-black-thing-over-her-eyes">This question</a>, <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/250727/which-legend-of-zelda-game-does-this-link-with-the-white-cap-belong-to">this one</a>, and <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/322955/who-is-this-character-shown-on-the-video-games-the-movie-movie-poster">this one</a> all contain images that are clearly not directly from the video games the asker is looking for, so strictly speaking they should be closed. However, the characters in those images are depicted in a way that is so closely similar to the actual assets within the game that it is very nearly functionally equivalent to providing an artifact from the game itself, so it is reasonable to keep them around. But they are right on the border line of acceptable questions.</li> <li><a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/154983/what-game-is-this-possibly-recolored-sprite-of-a-girl-with-a-sword-from">This question</a>, <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/209598/where-is-this-point-click-adventure-game-character-originally-from">this one</a>, and the one this meta question is primarily addressing all depict art that is not from a game and is so stylistically different from the games the askers are trying to identify that some guesswork is needed to actually make that association. This guesswork is one of the primary reasons general "identify this game" questions were banned in the first place, so all of those questions should be closed.</li> </ul>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12217/-/12218#12218 5 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T20:47:10Z 2025-08-05T20:47:10Z

<p>The tag name is consistent with <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boi-afterbirth" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;boi-afterbirth&#39;" rel="tag">boi-afterbirth</a> and <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boi-afterbirth%2b" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;boi-afterbirth+&#39;" rel="tag">boi-afterbirth+</a>, both of which are expansions for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. I think changing the tag name is unnecessary.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12061/-/12062#12062 6 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T00:50:00Z 2025-08-05T00:50:00Z

<p>The first link absolutely qualifies as "an answer". It attempts to answer the question by offering a solution to the stated problem. The fact that it is a relevant attempt to answer the question is enough to count as "an answer".</p> <blockquote> <p>It does not inform the user about why his wolves won't stand back up or how to fix it.</p> </blockquote> <p>Clearly, the intention of the answer is that taking the action it describes (breaking the block that the wolf is standing on) would fix the problem. </p> <p>You should only use the "not an answer" flag for answers that don't even try, like "thanks for helping" or "I'm having this problem too" or "I'm having trouble digging, what can I do?".</p> <p>If you think the answer is a bad answer because it doesn't completely answer the question, that's a good reason to downvote. If the answer is incorrect, that's a good reason to downvote. If you think that primarily repeating information from a comment is not good enough, that's a good reason to downvote. But none of those is a valid reason to flag the answer.</p> <p>I can't speak to the response you quote, because I didn't write it.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12045/-/12046#12046 4 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T15:59:57Z 2025-08-05T15:59:57Z

<p>Question 2 asks how much experience medals award. The answer edit in question says what the formula is for determining the total experience award from multiple medals. With or without your question 1, this edit fits the criteria for a good edit: it adds clarifying information to an existing answer without changing the meaning of the answer.</p> <p>Once that edit was made, your question 1 was answered entirely by the answers to question 2, so the duplicate close votes are correct. Your question ended up pointing to a complete answer, so as far as I can see, the system worked.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11948/-/11949#11949 7 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T16:47:35Z 2025-08-05T16:47:35Z

<p>First, you can find our current duplicate question policy in <a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11895/duplicate-questions-a-trial">this question</a>.</p> <p>The first question you reference, the one about No Man's Sky, not only is still open, but it has only one close vote. The comments you got there simply do not reflect site policy or community consensus.</p> <p>Your question about Pokemon GO is essentially asking for an update to the answer in the linked duplicate. The correct way to do that is to actually ask for that answer to be updated, not to open a new question asking for the same information. And consider this: if the intention in your question is to keep the information in the answer up to date with new game updates, then the answer in that question and in the duplicate should always have the same information. And if your intention is to keep the answer to your question tied to that specific update, then the answer to your question will become out of date and useless, and the answer to the duplicate will stay useful.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17507/must-an-accepted-answer-always-be-on-top-of-the-list-of-answers?cid=51345 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T17:43:27Z 2025-08-05T17:43:27Z

Yes: <a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16087/do-we-want-to-unpin-the-accepted-answer-from-the-top" title="do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top">gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16087/&hellip;</a>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17387/why-is-was-janus-from-observer-inspired-by-spicy-city-considered-an-off-t?cid=50841 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T21:52:35Z 2025-08-05T21:52:35Z

Sure, people may do that in some cases, but in my experience it&#39;s not a common process, and I don&#39;t see any evidence that it happened with the policy in question.

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17387/why-is-was-janus-from-observer-inspired-by-spicy-city-considered-an-off-t?cid=50838 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T17:38:11Z 2025-08-05T17:38:11Z

&quot;Policies are retroactive&quot; is a nice thought, but practically speaking, when new close reasons are introduced, people do not comb through the entire existing history of questions looking for newly off-topic questions. I do think it would be closed under the current rules, because it is a question about why a game was designed in a particular way, which is exactly the kind of question &quot;developer intent&quot; was supposed to remove.

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17387/why-is-was-janus-from-observer-inspired-by-spicy-city-considered-an-off-t?cid=50836 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T16:26:09Z 2025-08-05T16:26:09Z

The second example lore question predates the &quot;developer intent&quot; close reason, so the fact that it is open doesn&#39;t imply anything about the applicability of that close reason.

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17335/why-are-we-so-hostile-to-individualized-or-difficult-help-can-we-be-nicer-mor/17336?cid=50580#17336 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T02:44:35Z 2025-08-05T02:44:35Z

If the Path of Exile question does have all of the necessary text to answer it directly in its text, I&#39;m sure someone who understands the game better than I do could make that case and get it reopened. But I already made the point about the excessive length of transcribing the full information; that&#39;s a reason for the question to be closed.

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17176/how-to-name-the-tag-for-emergency-free-to-play-on-steam/17177?cid=50162#17177 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T16:21:48Z 2025-08-05T16:21:48Z

There are 3 questions with that tag. You can just retag them yourself. Tag renames are primarily for when there are so many questions that retagging them all one by one is impractical.

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17159/is-a-question-asking-for-a-ranked-list-of-elden-ring-remembrances-on-topic/17161?cid=50129#17161 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T17:23:57Z 2025-08-05T17:23:57Z

That would be pretty much objective; answers just have to account for the different scaling of each stat, and how that makes the ordering depend on the player&#39;s stats. However, that&#39;s probably unnecessary because there are only about 4 weapons that meet those criteria anyway; once you narrow it down that far you can examine them yourself and make your own determination.

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17068/what-site-should-this-question-be-on?cid=49901 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T01:16:20Z 2025-08-05T01:16:20Z

I don&#39;t see any statement on the GameDev version of the question that it should be moved to Arqade. Maybe it was a deleted comment. Some questions just don&#39;t belong on any of these sites. Each site determines the boundaries of their own topics, and that inevitably leads to gaps where a question is not on topic anywhere.

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17064/why-was-this-question-about-running-valorant-on-a-mac-computer-downvoted?cid=49892 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T00:48:47Z 2025-08-05T00:48:47Z

The common sentiment on these sites is that downvotes are the result of the whims of individual users, and unless a person states their own reasons directly, it&#39;s often an exercise in futility trying to determine the reason from the outside.

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16786/why-were-my-edits-rejected/16788?cid=49187#16788 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T21:51:29Z 2025-08-05T21:51:29Z

@YetAnotherRandomUser Raw account age doesn&#39;t mean anything. You had no participation in this site before today. And if account age means so much to you, then does that mean that you give my answer more weight because my account is almost twice as old as yours?

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16786/why-were-my-edits-rejected/16787?cid=49183#16787 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T21:40:13Z 2025-08-05T21:40:13Z

People answer their own questions all the time. It is explicitly an accepted practice.

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16546/improving-question-on-championship-privilege?cid=48747 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T07:54:33Z 2025-08-05T07:54:33Z

<a href="https://sports.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1062/improving-question-on-championship-privilege">Very related question on Sports Meta</a>. <a href="https://boardgames.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2100/improving-question-on-championship-privilege">Another very related question on Board and Card Games Meta</a>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16015/tag-rename-request-fire-emblem-fire-emblem-blazing-blade?cid=47834 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T03:58:19Z 2025-08-05T03:58:19Z

It is possible to avoid leaving that signpost by creating the synonym to retag all existing questions, and then deleting the synonym, but then it&#39;s essentially just a mass retag. Doing a mass retag of one question is excessive and unnecessary.

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16015/tag-rename-request-fire-emblem-fire-emblem-blazing-blade?cid=47833 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T03:57:07Z 2025-08-05T03:57:07Z

A tag synonym leaves the original in place as a kind of signpost so that you can use it when tagging a question, and it automatically gets mapped to the other one. This is useful when there are multiple common names for the same thing (e.g. [star-wars-the-old-republic] and [swtor]). But it has the potential to be confusing when the original is the name for the whole series, because people might use it when they mean the series as a whole or any other game in the series. A tag rename isn&#39;t a separate thing, it&#39;s just creating a synonym for an existing widely-used tag.

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16015/tag-rename-request-fire-emblem-fire-emblem-blazing-blade?cid=47829 murgatroid99 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1787 2025-08-05T03:42:39Z 2025-08-05T03:42:39Z

It&#39;s not about what&#39;s easier, it&#39;s about what has a better outcome. And for the record, creating a tag requires 300 rep, while creating a tag synonym requires 2500 rep and agreement from 3 or 4 other users who also have 2500 rep (or moderator action). And I think a tag rename without creating a synonym can only be done by a mod.

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