Bartimaeus

But I have nothing else I currently want to change it to...

Packers home games just ain't what they used to be.

The original theatrical release versions? Even with the original female/warped-looking Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back?

Putting this person on my ignore list after seeing only their very few first posts in this section (not this topic, but this section in another topic) is seeming very prodigious right about now.

Possibly contributing was the torn labrum in his shoulder that he's getting surgery for ...

That's a pretty significant difference, particularly for the Intel CPUs. (edit): Well, all things considered, even the AMD results are pretty significant. Just that...the Intel results are even MORE significant.

I mean, it looks kind of silly, but swords were designed the way they are for a reason - so your fingers and/or hands aren't bloody sliced right off when another fighter's blade slides down towards your sword's hilt. (edit): although the fact that the image's lightsaber appears to have little bits of the hilt sticking out on the crossguard probably doesn't bode well for its design unless the hilt itself is resistant to...uh...lightsabering,

Really? Do you have any specific benchmarks in mind for me to look over? My general rule of thumb has always been that RAM speed matters so incredibly little for gaming, it is basically never worth paying anything more than a few bucks more total for faster models - say, the price difference between DDR3 1600 11 CAS and 9 CAS. Beyond that, I've never seen anything to suggest it serves any point for gaming...but again, maybe that's changed recently, and I'm happy to learn better. I mean, even the anandtech 6700k DDR3 vs DDR4 benchmarks I've looked at seem to suggest it's of almost zero consequence, with maybe 1% performance deviations on average...buuuut it doesn't seem to spell out the exact speeds of the two different RAM models used, so maybe it's misleading. Again, happy to learn more/better.

"- One obvious candidate would be dropping to a non-K CPU, which also drops the need for the third-party cooler (as K models don't come with one)." Is that a new thing? My 4770k definitely came with a cooler.

It depends on your needs. If you're not doing professional image/video editing, I would say 16GB is already way overkill, but good futureproofing. 32GB is just utterly ridiculous unless you have specific needs.

Yeah, most state flags aren't very good. I imagine it gets worse the more precise the location gets.

Your power supply model is necessary in order to help with a GPU. Case is so up to personal taste, you kinda have to provide a little more wants/needs...windowed or not, LEDs (color?) or not, any specific case color..?

Not the exact image I had in mind, but I can't find the exact image I had in mind. You can see where I was going with that similar weird pitchfork-like shape, though. (edit): lol, I always forget that Mongolia still actually exists, unlike so many other medieval or antiquity empires. Current Mongolian flag: Still got that weird...whatever shape that is. Reminds me of a combination of a crescent moon and a fleur-de-lis. (edit); Apparently, it (and at least some of the rest of the entire design) is called a "soyombo". Cool!

Funny, I've made the connection with that Rebel Alliance symbol to Islam a few times myself, although I never thought of Al-Qaeda, but rather the Mongol Empire or more likely one of its Persian predecessors or successors (can't recall exactly what, but I remember seeing a flag belonging to one of them that looked markedly similar).

I mean, if you've got a bunch of games that you've been trying to give away for months, it makes sense that you'd give them to just about anyone. Everyone has had a fair shot at most of ShadySand's games at this point, for example, so I'm sure he doesn't much care about where they go.

Yeah, and it would be showing intellectual integrity (especially so in the face of some of the reviewers admitting to having never even touched the first two). So screw that, obviously.

Sorry, my point wasn't really that the 3D Fallouts were going to automatically be the best out of all of them, but rather I would say that trying to compare all of them at once is a pretty pointless exercise before you even start to get into any specifics as to why one entry of the series is better than the other: the two game types are just too different to make any useful comparisons (this also holds true for your other examples). At least, they are to me: I dislike the 3D Marios, but I love the 2D Marios...I love the 3D Zeldas (some of them, anyways), but I dislike the 2D ones...but I daren't try to make any sort of comparison between the two quite wildly differing game types, or try to "rationally" explain why one is better than the other. You're free to disagree, of course, but it seems to me trying to compare games that are of different genres (or at least different subgenres) is just not going to lead to very good comparisons...so I would say IGN's first mistake was making it a "best Fallout game" instead of a "best 3D Fallout game" comparison, which makes their lack of respect for the first two Fallouts irrelevant to begin with, as their comparison is already worthless by making that mistake. That doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't be offended by their idiocy, of course, I suppose.

I mean, the first two Fallouts are so vastly different compared to the latest 3 (...I would just say the others, but I don't know enough about Tactics to say with absolute certainty...) that there would be little point including them in a comparison/ranking discussion to begin with (especially in the context of Fallout 4 being just released). Not that it's really an excuse, but...

We had three in just the last page, actually...

how did the bengals lose to the texans how and in a horrible game, too. at the very least, I'd understand it if both teams had looked competent offensively, but no

The one on the right is, too? I figured it was an actual real character, since it was being insulted.

Who is that character, anyways?

I once could not sleep for about 80 hours straight. I would not recommend it, if you can possibly avoid it.

The Giants were so close...where did today go so wrong?

I wish that story had a few more details. Was curious as to what exactly happened...but I guess since bombs were going off, it's understandable that details are scarce. Can't we all just live in peace and happiness?