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Question edit view displays same text for two edit descriptions
My edit's very atypical description exactly matches the one for @msell's edit. Either his description matched mine exactly or automatically duplicated it, or the page is displaying my description ...
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Are the “game-mechanics” and “game-design” tags redundant?
Anything about game-mechanics which is on-topic is by definition game-design. I could not think of a counterexample, so I've proposed a synonym.
Supporting evidence: gameplay is already synonymous ...
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Why was the 'simple snake game' question protected?
This question (which apparently just picked up a new mediocre answer, thus moving to the top of the questions stack) was apparently auto-protected by Community some time back. My question is why: was ...
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How can i earn enough reputation to comment?
I often find that i can answer a question partially, can help steer people in the right direction or provide a link with more information. These things however are almost never good enough for a full ...
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Are programming-game questions acceptable?
I've been trying out an AI programming game lately. It's not really game development per se, but it is AI programming. It also happens to be a difficult topic to search for, having only the terms ...
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Requesting tag synonyms
Note: I could not already find a question on Meta answering this. If there is one, then please provide a link.
I've been looking through the tags recently, and have seen a few that I think deserve to ...
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Is this a separate site from gamedev.se?
I notice I have all the rep from my gamedev account, but none of the badges...? I'm confused. Is this (meta.gamedev) a separate site or not?
Is the rep linked all into one?
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I don't understand the difference between “stackoverflow” and “programmers” [closed]
As the title says.
Damn you 30 characters.
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Chat.SE is down?
I know this isn't a question, but for the time being, chat.stackexchange.com is giving a 500 Internal Server Error, and none of the chatrooms seem to be working correctly. It doesn't appear to be just ...
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Generated vs Generation (vs Procedural-Generation and Content-Generation)
Prompted by this question over on main, there seems to be a lot of redundancy/confusion around these tags. I feel like both 'Generated' and 'Generation' are probably bad tags as neither suggests ...
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How it comes I was able to edit someone else question?
Saw a question and noticed it could use some formatting on code, clicked on 'edit' and did the work. Then it occurred to me that I don't have rep enough for this. Checked the reputation list and ...
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Should there be a difference between 'state' tags and 'fsm' tags?
Are there any questions that could pertain specifically to a state that are not inherent in an overall fsm (finite state machine)? It seems like any 'state' tag falls under the fsm umbrella because ...
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Is it fine to ask what are tools that could solve your problem?
Say you're confronted with a new problem and you don't know what tools exist to solve it. Is it fine to create a question describing your problem and asking what tools are used for that task?
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Gamedev causing a memory leak?
Lately I've been noticing very high RAM usage from Chrome. A little investigation points to Gamedev.stackexchange.com being the offending website:
This is found by using Chrome's Task Manager, by ...
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Curious for a second-opinion: Would this answer pass review?
Got this in the review stack and though it was pretty borderline. The question asks about a basic implementation of applying an acceleration based on a key press. Here's the answer:
you need to ...
