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While watching some YouTube build videos, I occasionally hear the word "priming" thrown around. For example, a weapon could be a primer, or something could be used for priming. What does ...
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I have been playing Minecraft, FNF, and other games for years, and that is why I need to know. Also, because I need to touch the green stuff.
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I was curious to know when diminishing returns as a mechanic first appeared in video games. The original usage may predate the term, so I'm also curious when the term "diminishing returns" ...
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This question is inspired by thegaming-history question "What was the first game to have a location bar style compass at the top?" Many games have a kind of "locator compass bar" ...
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The Deltarune speedrunning community recently voted to allow the use of a "30TBPS mod" in speedrunning. It is described as follows: The 30TBPS mod simply buffs the Wrist Protector to mash ...
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I enjoy single-player video games, but I have limited time for them. I tend to get absorbed by games with a long completion time, bingeing them and neglecting my responsibilities. At the same time, I ...
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Recently, I just reached up to Challenger rank in Counter-Strike 2 - FACEIT, and I noticed that once you're in the Top 1000 in your legion, your logo is different, and this thing appears in other ...
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Some modern games, especially "incremental" games, use the concept of "prestige", which usually is some variation of "performing well enough unlocks the next prestige level, ...
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I frequently hear people reference the Konami Code, sometimes in regards to multiple video games, which is especially confusing. All I know is that it's some kind of cheat code. What actually is the ...
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Most shooter games have an aiming feature to improve accuracy, generally referred to as aiming down sights or ADSing. In these games, shooting without ADSing is commonly referred to as 'hip firing' - ...
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One of the streamers I watch, Pointcrow, did a Pokémon challenge run a couple months ago called “kaizo ironmon”. What are the rules for this run?
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I sometimes hear games with limited time content (such as battlepasses) being referred to as FOMO/having FOMO elements. I watched a VLDL short yesterday where they mentioned this in a skit (trying to ...
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Sometimes when playing bug missions in Helldivers 2, there’ll be a pop-up on the HUD that says there’s been a bug breach. What does this mean exactly?
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I remember reading an article about Tekken 3 once, specifically I remember it talking about the guest character Gon. He's a little dinosaur character, half the size of all of the other fighters, and ...
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When encountering the connect-a-circuit science minigame in Spiderman, I was surprised at how simple it is. I also recalled similar full-size games I've played in the DOS era that have one do this on ...
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