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Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

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Meta How should we indicate non-Q&A categories for Incubator posts?

Some proposals include categories beyond the defaults of Q&A and Meta. We don't have all those categories here on the proposals site, but we need a way to indicate which category a post is int...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Meta Highlighting the games we play with screenshots on Codidact

Something that could give us a bit of life and community beyond information-based content, would be a way for us to share experiences and highlights from our own game-playing experiences. Arqade SE...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Lundin‭

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Incubator Q&A Does a leaking underground gas pipe reliably show symptoms?

I live in the US midwest (we have all four seasons). Most houses here use natural gas for heating (and usually some appliances), and many homes are about a hundred years old. The main supply from...

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by manassehkatz‭

Question home-improvement utilities
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Incubator Q&A Does a leaking underground gas pipe reliably show symptoms?

Could the pipe be leaking nonetheless? Yes. I had a pipe leak (inside) that was extremely slow. So slow, in fact, that we only noticed when the stairway door had remained shut for a week or mo...

posted 3mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A Does a leaking underground gas pipe reliably show symptoms?

a plumber saying there might be a leak that needs repair If there are no symptoms, why would a plumber (or anyone else) think there was a leak? The only real concern that I can think of, abse...

posted 3mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Meta Can we have a Chemistry community?

We would like to have more and more-active communities, but we don't just want to create a bunch of communities and hope people will use them. (Some of our early ones have failed to thrive.) This...

posted 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Does the game's ending lock you out of existing progress and unfinished missions?

After starting act 3, is it possible to return to the game as before? Act 3's first mission, Nocturne OP55N1, is described as a "point of no return", but it also states that all side jobs and other...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Lundin‭

Question video-games cyberpunk-2077
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Meta How should we indicate non-Q&A categories for Incubator posts?

Tags are definitely the right choice, and I don't see many other practical options. Every tag specifying a category other than Q/A, should be a descendant of a "category" tag. I do think a better a...

posted 3mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Incubator Q&A Which method of lifeforms shooting fire would be better in real life, gaseous chemicals or liquid chemicals

Better is a Matter of Taste I believe the answer to this will lie in what it is you want your creatures to do with the flame produced. The main difference between liquid and gas is, of course, ...

posted 2mo ago by elemtilas‭

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Incubator Q&A What possible abilities could I add to my fictional human enhancement technique

Here are a few ideas: see-behind: the user can sense objects that are hidden from view, e.g. someone behind a door, or things in a wall. Works only on close people or objects (say, no further ...

posted 16d ago by celtschk‭

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Meta Why was the codidact proposals down all day

An incident postmortem with more details was posted on the blog (on Meta) today.

posted 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Alternatives to engineered wood wall sheathing

Standard approach before the advent of sheet goods was boards, sometimes set diagonally for better bracing. If they were cost competitive with the use of sheet goods, (whether Oriented Strand Boar...

posted 5mo ago by Spamalot‭

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Incubator Q&A Could a winged humanoid with two sets of wing types (one set on the back and one set on the arms) function properly

So, I've been experimenting with this idea of someone with the power of winged flight. The details about said character I haven't fully figured out and might not make. That said, I have a basic ide...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by honnza‭

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Incubator Q&A How do I find a good dumb TV?

You haven't defined exactly what features are part of "smart" versus "dumb". What most people consider "smart TV" features require a network connection. No matter how smart a TV is, if you don't ...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the benefit of mechanical keyboards?

I've heard people talk about how mechanical keyboards are better. But they seem to be much more expensive than regular ones ($100+). What is the benefit of using them over regular ones?

3 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A Why are many bond ETFs just like a worse-performing S&P?

There is a common notion that bonds and stocks hedge each other: When business is not going well, companies borrow money to make up for sales and investments drying up, and government (especially K...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the blue dye on edges of OSB boards?

Oriented strand boards (OSB) are often sold with a blue dye on the edges: What is this? I'm assuming it's some kind of chemical protection. Does that mean that when you cut the board and leave a...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Meta Home Improvement: Is it necessary to expand acronyms like OSB?

There are some acronyms related to home improvement that are very well known: OSB, MDF, PVC. Most people who know the material they refer to, know the acronym. In fact, I would guess that a lot of ...

4 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Meta Home Improvement: Is it necessary to expand acronyms like OSB?

My thoughts are already apparent in the question body, but I will also add this: It is inevitable that many new users will not bother to read the details of our style preferences. It is certainly ...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta Should the game name be included in the title?

For sample questions I asked, I elected to avoid the question in the title. My reasoning: It is redundant because the tag is already there If you clicked on the tag, you would get a list of que...

posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta Allowed types of questions for Worldbuilding

not having a strict policy of "ask your question correctly or it gets closed" This doesn't work well in a Q&A format, as opposed to a more traditional threaded discussion. These sites and the...

posted 7mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A Set shader settings only for specific world

Is there a way I can change the shader settings, but only for one world? When I change the settings in the pause menu, they get set for the whole game; all worlds and multiplayer is affected.

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Incubator Q&A Does Cyberpunk feature intentional torture of characters in the game?

Does Cyberpunk feature intentional torture in any sense? Will the player ever witness any sort of harsh torture, be it physical or mental? Is the game designed such that the player themself will co...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Incubator Q&A Change biome for entire world

How do I change the biome for a massive amount of blocks, possibly the entire world (existing generated chunks only)?

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Meta Is there room for a long list of types of buildings and facilities in a city or country?

Asking for a list, with answers submitting entries for that list, seems cumbersome. But consider instead a community resource, like Languages & Linguistics does. The incubator has the Article...

posted 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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