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Can you start with Pikachu in Pokemon Go?
I've heard you can start with pikachu in pokemon go instead of the 3 standard starters. How would one do this? Is this even possible?
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How can I stop NPCs from picking up my dropped items?
I would like to decorate my home in Skyrim (Blackthorn manor, from the Blackthorn mod). I have one problem though: if I drop anything when a follower or my steward is nearby, they pick it up and give it back to me.
Is there any way to stop this…
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Why would a Pokemons CP show as "???"?
Normally when I encounter a Pokemon, it displays the CP. A Venomoth popped up and I engaged to catch it. This time the CP was shown as "???".
I eventually caught it and it's CP was 285. Was there any signifcance to why the CP was initially hidden?
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Which NPCs share my love of eating dead NPCs?
After butchering a couple dozen Raiders, my health was low & I started working up quite the appetite. So naturally, I decided to eat a few of the Raiders. However, my companion did not share my enthusiasm and very pretty disgusted by it.
Later that…
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What's the point of fighting monsters in Zelda BotW?
When I first started playing BotW, whenever monsters attacked me, I engaged in battle. But soon I noticed that:
I'm basically getting the same stuff back that I spend and break fighting them;
Shrines contain much better loot;
Zelda doesn't have an…
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Is it possible to play two different Steam games on the same account at the same time?
I own a lot of games on Steam, and I'm overall a big fan of the service.
However, one thing about it really bothers me, and I'm wondering if anything can be done about it.
Let's say I have two different online, multiplayer games, both of which I…
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How to switch between 2 Steam accounts on one PC without having to enter mobile code every time?
My brother and I share the same PC, but we each have our own Steam accounts. Before Steam mobile authentication was introduced, we did the good old trick of adding the -login %u %p parameters to two different shortcuts of Steam, allowing each of us…
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Do I get any benefits from petting my chicken?
I recently unlocked the chicken coop and then I bought a chicken. I noticed that I can pet the chicken once per day and a little heart displays above its head.
I've done this every day for almost an entire season and I'm not seeing any benefits from…
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How many cities should I build for a cultural victory?
In Civilization V, you attain a cultural victory by accumulating enough culture to purchase at least 36 social policies, and then building a wonder. The catch is that the more cities you build, the more culture you need to generate before you hit…
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Part of my house is inexplicably gone
I have been doing a new survival world, and I was out on a completely different island exploring, but when I came back to my house, I was greeted by this.
My first thought was creepers, but I then realized that only my dark wood blocks disappeared…
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Why are people who spend a lot of money on video game micro-transactions called "whales"?
Pretty much every game that involves micro-transactions has a large amount of their micro-transaction revenue coming from a very small percentage of their players, the so-called "whales" that spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars per month on…
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What does "Game of the Year" actually mean?
Often times, many games have an additional variant named "Game X: Game of the Year edition" or "Game X: GOTY edition". Within the same year, there are multiple games that seemingly have GOTY versions.
Obviously there seems to be some discrepancies. …
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Does GLaDOS say anything meaningful when she "gives us the fast version" in Test Chamber 8?
When we enter the testing area, GLaDOS informs us that she has to go attend to the turbines; before she leaves, she sarcastically gives a radically sped up "explanation" of the test we face in the room. Does she say anything of note in this…
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What is the optimum pattern to place crops in Minecraft?
What factors affect soil hydration and crop growth time? What is the most efficient layout of dirt and water to grow crops?
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Unsold Atari videogames dumped in a desert?
I've heard about a massive amount of Atari consoles and video game cartridges (most of them were unsold copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) buried in a sort of dump in the middle of a desert in the early 80's.
Is this an urban legend or did this…
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