Bartimaeus

Alright, I'll bite: what did he do that positively affected the economy?

From what I can vaguely recall, there was a bug in the original game with specifically Conrad Verner that the relevant variables weren't set correctly, so that regardless of what you did, it was always going to import to Mass Effect 2 as having been mean to him or whatever...and they never bothered fixing it (perhaps because they noticed late enough that it would be pointless for the majority of players - and since they never bothered creating the minor content if you *had* been nice to him, why bother?).

Well, that was one of the most disappointing losses I've had to sit through recently. Darn our coaching thinking being a score and a half ahead is enough of a lead that we shouldn't have our offense play. Our defense SHUT THEM OUT in the first half, but out offense couldn't make a single one of our five field goals into a touchdown. Even though our offense was weak that game, it was still better than the Seahawk's until the last five minutes of the game. So it goes, I guess. If the Seahawks play like that next week, I don't see any way for them to win the Super Bowl...Tom Brady'll be winning his fourth Super Bowl,

I used to for uploading music, since it was the premier video-sharing site at the time (and still is). Hard to do that without signing in.

I tried watching the first 15 minutes or so (being a fan of the original movie), but didn't really care for what I saw, so I stopped watching. Was the latter part of the show better?

Man, that reminds me that I used to get those all the time. Never accepted one, though - in fact, most of the time, I actually blocked whoever was doing it, unless they just seemed like a regular, random person, in which I just rejected. Most of the time, I get them from random mid-sized channels. Glad that with new YouTube, I don't get those anymore. Of course, with new YouTube, I don't get anything at all anymore because I refuse to use Google+. I miss receiving random PMs...and I miss having a comment system that, while still really bad, wasn't literally the absolute worst comment system I know of, (i.e. YouTube's current). In fact, their pushing of Google+ and the associated "benefits" that came with it were pretty much the entire reason I stopped taking care of my channel and videos. So stupid.

Not the most pleasant version of that song I've heard from them.

Sometimes, I wish I was really good at trolling so I could pretend to be one of these people and construct serious arguments as to why being dragonkin is great (or whatever) and why you're all privileged straight white men who are oppressing me and/or racist. I feel like it would be an endless amount of fun. My only consolation is that nobody else is currently doing it so it's not instead me being infuriated by said trolling. That, and if anyone here actually is one of these kinds of people, they're not making a hullabaloo of it and so probably aren't worthy of my contempt to begin with.

Manning should play for GB next year so that when Rodgers inevitably gets injured and would otherwise cost us our playoff chances, Manning can step in and continue to kick butt. :D

I was seriously amazed when the catch was overturned. I understand why it was ruled incomplete, but it feels and looks like a catch - that I'm a Packers fan doesn't change that. When McCarthy challenged it, I thought it was gonna be the waste of our last time out - it was his FIRST successful challenge all season - and it might cost us the game after we got the ball back with only a few minutes left to make a touchdown (if they successfully got a 2PC) or a field goal (if they didn't). It's hard to say whether or not that cost the Cowboys the game. It certainly cost them the lead, since it would be extremely unlikely they'd not get a touchdown there, but the Packers drove down the field after the ball was turned over and were in field goal range with two minutes left. But...there's no way to tell if that would've actually still happened if the Cowboys had scored a touchdown. A crappy end to an otherwise extremely competitive and tense second half.

It's crazy, to me, how many people have them disabled. I don't understand how people get along without them - desktop, at the very least, would be unusable for normal file downloading and such - would have to view everything in Windows Explorer where it actually displays it. You can enable file extensions in Windows 7 by opening any folder, clicking "Organize" in the top left, "Folder and search options", "View" tab, then unchecking "Hide extensions for known file types" in about the middle of the list. Vista is probably the same - don't know for 8.

I can't believe how many people are falling for this...how do people just open randomly downloaded .exes? Everyone must have visible "standard" file extensions disabled. Run a malware scan. (edit) Ironically, if a keylogger WAS installed, changing your password just makes it worse - if you set Steam to automatically log in upon system startup and remember your password, you'd never type in your password anyways - ergo, it couldn't be recorded. Now that you changed it, however... If you have Steam Guard enabled, I imagine that you also logged into your email...

Bought 2x 4TB WD Blacks at ncixus for $68 each in a super special flash sale...I don't need them at all, but the price was too good. Thinking about selling one to recoup my costs and using the other as a backup...or, actually, I'd probably use it as a main and then make my old 1TB Barracuda the backup. Right after I got them, I refreshed the page and they were already out of stock.

A hint: reload back to where you have at least SOME time on your filters left, and just keep putting on your mask after you nearly asphyxiate and then immediately take it off and rinse and repeat. It's basically infinite filters.

I'd rather have the Packers play the winner of the Cardinals/Falcons game, so even though I obviously don't like Suh, I'm a little happy he's paying a huge fine instead. Hopefully the Lions will "repay" the Packers for their transgression and beat the Cowboys and/or Seahawks for us...though I'm not really expecting either.

Um...or they could both turn out to be bad.

I don't think I could be in any more love than I already am with Aaron Rodgers after today's game. Though I nearly had a heart attack when he went down and was carted off, and continued to nearly have heart attacks each time anyone even got sort of close to him after he came back...

It's what I have. The only thing I don't like about it is the position of the left analogue stick...I do miss the 360 controller's location for it. I actually saw the wired 360 controllers going for $15 on...somewhere recently. I forget where. Probably Amazon or newegg. But...I didn't care enough to get one.

What a primitive game. Can't believe I used to play this over and over. I keep hitting the space bar to jump and forget this stupid game doesn't have a jump ability. *Sigh* I legitimately cannot tell if Solaufein is trolling... Dark Souls 1. Forgot to kill off Kalameet in my SL1 run. Fun boss, but took a little less than ten tries, so it wasn't too hard, I guess. Probably because I learned his moveset a lot from my SL99 NG++++++ run a while back.

I only know it because I watched Walk the Line.

Gromnir changed his avatar for the first time since I started coming here way back in 2008. My day has been ruined.

I haven't bought a physical PC game in about 7-8 years - ever since Steam got...uh...steam and started getting everyone to publish there.

Speakers finally arrived today. Something called Kanto YU2 - don't ask me! They were on sale much cheaper than they normally are, so I decided I'd give it a try. First time I've ever had speakers, and I'm liking them so far.