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Is there any reason for me to sleep?
In Oblivion I'd sleep to level up, but that's no longer necessary.
Is there any benefit to sleeping in Skyrim? Will my character get tired?
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What is the blue aura around my Pokemon?
I was transferring a bunch of Pokemon recently, and I noticed that some of the Pokemon had blue aura's around them.
What do these auras mean?
You can see the auras in the cp159 Zubat as compared to the cp135 Zubat in the image below:
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Why is it needed to hold reset when powering off the NES?
Why are these directions required? Do some games actually run instructions that would be interrupted if the player just hits the power button?
Note I'm not looking for speculation, but rather a technical distinction between what would happen when…
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How do I unlock all the other ships in the hangar?
In my FTL career, I've managed to unlock one or two of the other ships in the hangar, but there are still some that are unavailable.
One thing that I've found is that there tends to be a relatively complex series of events that leads to unlocking…
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Why are bosses called 'bosses'?
There were bosses in games ever since 1975, and I don't think I really have to define 'boss' here. But how did the word get stuck? And when was the first time when the challenging enemy was referred to as a 'boss'?
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What does 8-bit / 16-bit actually refer to?
When talking about retro games, terms like "8-bit music" or "16-bit graphics" often come up. I myself often use these terms, but I'm not exactly sure what they refer to. What do they mean?
Kevin Yap
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Why are my kids naked?
I was playing my old Hearthfire save in Skyrim when I've noticed that my kids were only wearing their underwear. I attempted to give them clothes, but they didn't do anything with them.
Anyone else have a solution?
EDIT: Now the rest of the…
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Al Gore won't leave me alone. How do I unfriend him on Facebook?
In exploring South Park, I met a somewhat curious older gentleman hiding in the bushes over behind the movie theater. It turns out that gentleman was former Vice President Al Gore. He promptly became my Facebook friend, and asked me to help him…
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How do I remove the limit on PC keyboard button presses?
Whenever I play a PC game with the directional keys, I can only press two buttons at a time. For instance if I am playing a shooter like R-Type, I cannot hold down the fire button while moving diagonally at the same time. The computer simply…
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Does hitting a sheep in the face yield more wool?
This question is from Minecraft 1.1 to 1.6, when getting wool from sheep required hitting them, rather than killing or shearing them.
I haven't read anything that confirms my suspicions, but I can almost swear that after months of playing Minecraft…
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How can a deaf player detect where monsters and caves are?
I see all the time that the recommended ways to mine is to dig deep and listen out for the sounds of monsters in caves.
My niece is deaf, and whilst she loves the building aspect of the game, tasks like "finding caves" or "knowing a monster is…
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Does everyone see the same Pokémon?
I was wondering if everyone sees the same Pokémon on the map. If I catch all the Pokémon around me will others be unable to get any?
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I caught an Eevee, which of its evolutions will it evolve into?
So I just caught an Eevee. Now, I need 25 candies to evolve it. The fact is that in the GameBoy color versions, that Pokémon needed a stone to evolve instead of experience. Depending of the stone he was fed with (thunder, water or fire), he was…
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Why do console games require a button press before showing the main menu?
I am strictly a PC gamer myself, but I noticed a strange thing. When you start every released-for-console game, like Mass Effect or Borderlands, they ask you to press Enter (or any key, etc.) after the initial load, and only after pressing it do you…
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How do I accept a Yield?
I was fighting bandits in the sewers when one of them went into a "cower" animation, and began screaming about how he had given up.
Given that I found his terror endearing, I deigned to spare him. I tried talking to him, to no effect. Then I tried…
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