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Which frames should I get for my backup glasses?

If #3939, which color?

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So, recently I've decided to get back into Fallout 3, and one of the "mods" is giving it the largeaddressaware flag to help with performance. So there's a .bat file that does that for you. Great, but obviously that alone wouldn't do jack shit, so the readme also tells you how to edit your boot.ini so that it actually works. (Adding, /3GB /Userva=2900 after the line in [Operating Systems].) And I've done that; don't worry, I didn't fuck up my boot.ini. If I did that I'd be posting from Andrea's computer, and the post instead would probably be just a large amount of swearing. What I want to know regards a disclaimer the author makes: "I only suggest this for people that are intermediate to advanced users, so if you don't feel comfortable editing a boot.ini, you may not want to proceed. Editing a boot.ini improperly may render your PC unbootable, which is why I suggest you copy/paste the entry in the boot.ini to make a new additional boot option, leaving the original intact."

So, if I just put another line underneath the default, it gives it another boot option? How exactly does that work? It seems like what they're saying would be to do it as such:

...stuff up here...
[Operating System]
blah-blah /fastdetect
blah-blah /fastdetect /3gb /Userva=2900

 I ask because that'd be pretty neat, if all I need to do is have the default line and under it for the /3gb version, since then I could boot based on whether or not I think I'll be playing Fallout 3, since I don't really see a reason to do it otherwise. But obviously this isn't something to toy around with saying, "Hmm, does this work? Does this work?" Because it isn't just a simple un-do.
So would that alone work? Would I need something else in there? And if it does work, how do you say which boot to do?


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Okay, computer stuff over. In other news, I'm finally playing New Super Mario Brothers: Wii. Had it since Christmas, but haven't played it until now. And I gotta say...
It's awesome. I mean, sure, it isn't as awesome as the classics, but it's a great Mario game. It's like a combination of Super Mario 3, and Super Mario World. That alone is already sweet, but there are two things that make it super-duper awesome.

1) The way multiplayer works. You can start a file as either single or multi, and everytime you start that file up again, it'll ask which way you want to play. So I can start playing as single player, but then later on if Andrea wants to play I can turn it off and turn it back on and tell the same file I've already worked on, "Let's do multiplayer now!" And that is awesome! I do remember some older SNES games that you had to specify single or multi at the beginning, and that was that, and you couldn't do it any other way. (I'm looking at you Donkey Kong Country.) And I want to say SMB3 did it the lame way, too. I don't actually remember at all how Super Mario World handled it; it might have done it this way where you could choose 1 or 2 player each time, but it might have locked you in to one type at the beginning.

2) Koopa Kids. KOOPA KIDS! I've been saying they should bring back the Koopa Kids for so long now!
They appeared in SMB3, then continued to be in Super Mario World. And then they disappeared. When SMW2 (aka Yoshi's Island) came along, it introduced Baby Bowser, although that one was, in fact, the real bowser as a baby. SM64 had no kids. But then in the Mario Party games (and that's a lot right there), and Super Mario Sunshine, and Galaxy, and Doubledash, and NSM:DS...it was Bowser's son Baby Bowser. And in a way it worked, you had Big Mean Scary Bowser for the final boss, and the little son Baby Bowser as the minor pest throughout. But...but where were the other Koopa Kids this whole time?! I always said they must've grown up and gone their own way, though one would wonder why Bowser had *another* kid.
But they're back! Now you've got the whole Koopa Family! You've got Bowser Dad, and this teenage-ish kids, and then the young Baby Bowser. Not sure actually how old they're supposed to be, but they sound older than Baby and younger than real. So I say teens. Or young adults or something.
Whooo! Koopa Kids!