Bartimaeus

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?

Packers lost to the Lions, the worst team in the league, at Lambeau. Me right before the end of the game: A cascade of emotions afterwards: A little later: Right now, after becoming hysterical and recognizing the sheer ridiculousness of it all: Topped off with a: (e): oh and a P.S. I quickly made this in the 4th quarter while the Packers were making a comeback. They didn't quite make it, but I don't have anyone else to show, so here you go: P.P.S. This may be way too many images for these boards: mods put a spoiler around them if you feel it's appropriate. (edit): Three tough losses. Still 6-3, though. Things could be worse, I know.

Ha! When I first saw them, my reaction was, "They look like pajamas!"...but nobody else agreed with me. I couldn't pin down exactly why, but it just seemed that way to me. They were also hilariously bad for red/green color-blind people: you literally could not tell the two teams apart.

Thanks for the context. Suddenly, the host's question to her about her choice of letters doesn't seem so innocuous. She had good composure, if so (and based on the amount of money she had and her previous level of play, it does seem so). I would've probably cracked trying to sell somehow missing three turns. (edit) O' Lord, why did I even glance at the YouTube comments? Wretched hive of scum and etc.

Z and X were her called letters...and she missed like three turns by being too slow. I'll admit, I was a bit surprised to see she was significantly ahead of the other two guys overall at the end of the video. Kind of weird to see that from someone who had been clearly killing it before this particular phase of the show...but I don't ever watch Wheel of Fortune, so maybe it's not as abnormal as it seems? Good guess on the part of the guy, too, I guess.

It would've been quicker for me if I could recognize what cheetahs looked like. I thought maybe it was a (female) "lie"-on, but I didn't really think lions were considered cats... (e): Apparently, lions are felines, too. Yeah, so I don't know anything about cats.

Yes, loudness is literally their only selling point. Glad we have that sorted out.

Unfortunately, they don't seem to make wireless mechanical keyboards, so I'm unlikely to ever bother with one...

The refereeing is inconsistent, period. I don't know if there needs to be more of them on the field in different locations, or better trained, or they need to be able to review plays to make sure of penalties (and penalties should be challengable), or... All I know is that they seem to miss or miscall at least a few pretty blatant things pretty much almost every game. Sometimes it's WRs committing passing interference, sometimes it's DBs blatantly interfering, offensive linemen holding, late hits...

Yeah, I wondered that, too: I don't think I would've been able to figure out how to turn off a fridge at age 4, or been physically able to even do it even if I did know how.

Actually, with how much I do random math calculations, a calculator key on my keyboard is awesome, and I love it and use it all the time.