Bartimaeus

It's one user's way of denoting sarcasm. Whoever says "blue" (teal) means sarcasm in their signature. They were just posting recently, but I can't remember who it was...

I carried two bags of 25 pounds of basmati rice up a flight of stairs while carrying other bags of groceries. The "never take two trips" principal is upheld strongly and steadfastly.

We post too much music: I was desperately trying to think of a song I hadn't heard in a while and couldn't remember the name of...and then I remembered that I had posted it in one these threads anywhere between 1 and 3 years ago. I blew like 45 minutes looking through each of these threads for my own posts for the specific song, and literally gave up and was about to stop bothering looking for it when I decided I may as well check the one last page I was on since it was already open...and there it was! Woo! (edit): Oh yeah, by the way, the whole "look at what member x has posted" function is completely useless: it only goes back a year! Unrelated song. Singer of Golumn's Song from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (link in case you've forgotten). Not sure what to make of her music quite yet.

I've been that way for a few years, now...and I'm not exactly old, . The current gaming landscape has just kinda worn me out and I just don't see anything I'm interested in anymore...

Its Bruce, I have to ask for proof (edit): Bah, why do you have a double-space in between the emoticon and proof? Now I have to edit it, and, well, that just ruins everything, really. (edit): And my double-space doesn't even show up. Confound it all!

This is Peyton Manning, the football genius...supposedly the smartest quarterback in all of NFL history...who was unable to play competently for the majority of the season. He lead the league in interceptions throughout the regular season, while missing like a...uh...I want to say third of the regular season (I think it was about a total of 6 games, plus two half games?). I understand that the scheme may not have been a perfect fit for him, but...that's playing pretty badly. I also watched way too many passes early in the season by him that should've been interceptions, and some of those games they just barely won because of the defense. The only game where he looked like his old self was against the Packers (my team, of course...), and then it was all downhill again. To me and most everyone else, he has been playing really quite poorly this season. Not that his receivers dropping his actually good passes like crazy has helped him any...nevertheless, though.

Yeah, but if the Broncos win, it'll be hilarious. Peyton being not much more than a game manager (if even that) at the very end of his career, while a near historically good defense shreds. I can't imagine the Broncos would've been anything less than undefeated this year if they had Peyton from 2013.

Yeah, I worried that after saying that, the universe would prove me wrong. It really did. Sorry Cardinals, (edit): Dangit, Cardinals, the Packers didn't die for this!

Panthers have been a first half team in a lot of games. We'll see how the rest of the game goes. But yeah, now that the Broncos have won, I can rest easy about the Super Bowl, as I don't mind who wins.

Hmm, do you have to be convicted to be a criminal, or do just have to be engaging in criminal behavior? If the former, illegal immigrants technically wouldn't be criminals until actually caught and sentenced...if the latter, most of us probably are criminals because of random, obscure laws x, y, and z (that may or may not actually ever be enforced) that we've broken sometime or another...

Well, I mean, "peppers" isn't necessarily clear: could include jalapenos, banana peppers, etc.

It's not so hard: treat every negative as a -1, then multiply. So "never" (-1) * not (1) * unfun (-1). Outside of probably a few rare cases, it's not really accepted to put three negatives in a single clause like that, though.

Does it still count as "pizza" if there's no sauce?

It's been like -15F (-26C) here...-35F (-37C) with windchill. Not pleasant at all. (e): Actually, that makes me think: I'd rather have -25F, even -30F straight up vs -10F with like 15 degrees' worth of windchill: I don't think the current calculation is accurate at all, and strong winds should cause much worse windchill temperatures. But that's just me.

Weird playoffs: all 4 wild cards win for the first time in NFL history in the wild card round, all 4 lose in the divisional round.

Yeah, as long as Broncos make it, I don't much care what happens anymore, as I'm alright with anyone but the Patriots winning, . But yeah, more likely, it's gonna be the Patriots...so go NFC!

Yeah, I said that near the end of the half, where they were down 0-31, haha. Yay, Broncos win! Though everything everything went wrong yesterday, everything went right today. Unfortunately, I don't think either the Steelers or the Broncos are capable of beating the Patriots, so it's irrelevant...best of luck to them, regardless, though.

It sucked to lose to the same garbage overtime rules in the playoffs two years in a row in a time and age where the game favors the offense so much more than the defense...particularly at the end of a game, where defenses are so gassed, and where the coin flip is quite literally the deciding factor. Rodgers remains winless in OT games (both post-season and regular season) over his starting career (8 years, to be exact) thanks to the Packers being spectacularly bad at OT coin flips and his defense being similarly spectacularly bad in the OT period. However, it was a pretty fantastic game, and never expected to go toe to toe with the Cardinals. It was so, so frustrating to see the defense drop literally about 4-5 sure interceptions: we get those, and there's absolutely no way the Cardinals stand a chance. It was amazing see Rodgers make magic again with literally our first (Jordy), second (Cobb), third (Adams), and fifth string WRs (Montgomery) out, as well as our first string TE (Quarless), and to see another amazing "Hail Rodgers" to bring us back when our defense failed him again. Still, fantastic game, didn't hurt too terribly, particularly after last year's total collapse (this was a much, much better performance, IMO, even though it may not be reflected by the scoreboard). I'm also pleased to see the Seahawks getting utterly annihilated by the Panthers right now: happy that either the Panthers or the Cardinals will end up going (well, almost certainly, anyways).

This hurts the same as Christopher Lee. RIP Mr. Rickman.

That doesn't sound horrible.

Yeah, that sounds terrible. All this terrible talk about this is just making me want to keep my wisdom teeth even harder...and to brush and floss them like crazy to try and make sure nothing ever goes wrong with them.

My immediate family has probably had a combined total of like 7-8 dentists over the years. If none of them can do it right, I'm not even sure what the point of looking for another would be, . Current dentist is the only one that's actually believed and tried to work around it, so...

My family appears to have resistance to the painkillers used for dental work, as we need significantly more than normal to be numbed, and we need it applied much more frequently in order to stay numb. The general anesthesia used to put a person to "sleep" for more extreme procedures also does not work on us, as one of my poor sisters discovered when she had her wisdom teeth removed...and as we heard in her secret recording of herself that she took with her phone, as she screamed bloody murder the entire time while the tooth surgeon or whatever kept telling her to stop it and that she was perfectly fine...but she was definitely not fine in the slightest. Most dentists don't appear to believe you when you say you can still feel stuff: I was lucky in that I was initially fine for a procedure I was undergoing, until I was suddenly not...and in fact, random parts of my mouth that were supposed to be numb were actually not numb at all to begin with. I was also lucky in that the dentist I had actually cared about my well-being, and decided to experiment and verify that the painkillers were not working as they should, which we then worked around and knew for the future. Regardless, I don't feel too comfortable undergoing surgery if I can avoid it.

I have official (except where denoted) soundtracks in some form or another (almost entirely CD FLAC - almost) from the following series: Age of Empires series (1, 2, Conquerors, 3 other compilation CDs) Baldur's Gate series (1, 2, unofficial ToB, unofficial Dark Alliance) Banjo-Kazooie series (Kazooie, Tooie, Nuts & Bolts, "BK Betas", "Everything and the Kitchen Sink") Diablo series (2, LoD, "The Music of Diablo") Donkey Kong series (Country 1, Country 2, Country 3, 64) Half-Life series (1, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, 2, Episode One, Episode Two, Portal, Portal 2, "Songs to Test By", The Orange Box) Icewind Dale series (1, HoW, 2) Secret of Mana series (SoM, SoM +, LoM, SD3) Neverwinter Nights series (1, 2, unofficial MotB) (Dark/Demon) Souls series (DeS, DaS 1, DaS 2) S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series (ShoC, CS, CoP, unofficial ShoC) Super Mario series (Bros. 1, Bros. 3, "World" which also includes Bros. 2, World 2, RPG, Land, 64) The Binding of Isaac series (original, Rebirth) The Legend of Zelda series (too numerous to detail: at least 20 different releases spanning from the original up to Twilight Princess) WarCraft series (1, 2, BtDP, 3, TFT) The following individual games: Chrono Trigger (original, "Playstation Original Soundtrack") Actraiser Soul Blazer Terranigma The Illusion of Gaia (unofficial) Eufloria Fable (original, unofficial The Lost Chapters) Jet Force Gemini Kid Icarus Metro 2033 Planescape: Torment Quest 64 (unofficial) Rogue Legacy World of Goo In short, I have way too much video game music. I also have way too much non-video game music. Note that while I have a few JRPG entries (Terranigma, Secret of Mana, Quest 64, etc.), I am actually not really much of a JRPG fan: I just like JRPG music. Top favorites would probably be Twilight Princess, Quest 64, Shadow of Chernobyl, Diablo II, and...Donkey Kong Country 2. Something like that, anyways.