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Techniques to deal with game 'addiction'
I'm sure it's happened to all of you that around midnight you realize you've been playing for four or five hours more than you had time for tonight and it's not first time this week. (well maybe not all of you)
My question is how do you get yourself…
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How do I start a new game when a save file already exists?
How do I delete my save data and start over? My brother grabbed hold of my 3DS when I wasn't looking, and I now have twice as many Pokedex entries, all named such travesties as Purkachurrr, Panpurrr, Durnspurrrrr, and Metapod (an Azuril,…
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Under what circumstances can I unlock the negative levels in Super Meat Boy?
While playing one of the dark world stages in Level 1 of Super Meat Boy, I reached the end of the stage after dying several times. However, Band-Aid Girl, instead of doing her normal crying animation, was messed up in appearance: glitchy and…
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View optional mission objectives during a mission?
Most missions in GTA5 have optional mission objectives. Completing them or not determines what medal you receive at the end of the mission (gold, silver, bronze).
So far I have found it quite frustrating to complete a mission only to be told that I…
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Is it possible to trade Pokemon from the 1st generation games to the most recent ones?
I know that you can trade Pokemon between games of the same generation (Gold/Silver, Ruby/Sapphire) and even trade between 1st gen and 2nd gen. However, I haven't been able to find a way to trade Pokemon so that I can play with my 1st generation…
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How are "Foil" Badges different from common game Badges?
As I understand it, crafting a set of regular Steam Trading Cards gets you a common Game Badge. I also know that it is impossible to use a mix of regular and foil cards to craft a badge. Either you craft them entirely with Foil Cards, or you use no…
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Is there a way to get the latest server jar through a URL that doesn't change?
I'm writing a bash script to manage a vanilla server install on my eeePC. Right now I've been using http://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/minecraft_server.jar to get the minecraft_server jar. It seems to only be getting the 1.5.2 server…
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What DLC is included in borderlands 2 season pass, and what is not included
I cannot find a clear list anywhere of what exactly is and what is not included in the Borderlands 2 Season Pass.
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What effects do the sword enchantments have?
In the forge, you can enchant the sword with different scrolls. What are the different enchantments I can get and what is the effect of each?
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How can I stop invitation spam?
Occasionally, I receive invitations to join a Steam group from people I've never met, and which are most likely just sock-puppet accounts to begin with. However, 99% of the time, none of my friends are in these groups, which makes it rather…
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In Civ5, is there any point to immediately annexing a city?
Following up to this answer, given that a newly conquered city will
spend a few turns of zero production ("rioting")
after that, will be hampered in production because of diminished population and destroyed buildings, so that building a courthouse…
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How do you know whether a game is in the Public Domain?
There's a lot of games out there whose original creators have long gone out of business. How (if at all) do these enter the Public Domain, and how can you tell? Are there other kinds of abandon ware?
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How high is the production bonus of a great engineer in Civ5?
To quote the manual:
Special Ability: Hurry Production
You can expend a Great Engineer to create
a sudden burst of production in a
city. The production is immediately
applied to whatever is presently being
built in the city – unit, building…
Martin
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Is it possible to force Steam to convert all games to 'the new format' in one go?
I just tried to start a game I haven't played in some time, and Steam has informed me that I need to wait for an unspecified period of time while it converts the game data into a 'new, more efficient format':
Is there a way to do this pro-actively…
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What are ammo boxes for?
I've started up New Vegas, and exploited the shop glitch to get some caps. (SO glad they didn't fix that bug.) So I got some decent weapons and ammo, but saw some things in the shop that I wasn't sure what they were for.
Under Miscellaneous (not…
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