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It's pretty obviously fake, it looks like a Tim and Eric sketch.
They gave you Risperidal for a reason.
Uh, being able to control things with alternative interfaces so that we can move beyond the stifling paradigm that is the desktop computer and into more portable devices is pretty important?
I think they usually do it through a level editor called Lunar Magic, though you have to have the ROM to do it.
(damn comment system)
Oh? Then let's hear the "truth", since you, as a judge, are such an unbiased source yourself.
As much as I hate to say it (though I'd love to be proven wrong even more, I could use a new subsidized phone), I think we all know the answer to this one.
It's been a few years, so I'd forgotten a lot of the story, but now that I think about it, it actually gets worse. DJPretzel, the site's owner, decided to add a huge sidebar to the entire web-site. It added a bunch of extraneous links that stretched the page, and added a lot of whitespace. Pretty much everyone complained about it, and rather than removing it he banned a lot of them from the forums. At the time, the Unmoderated subforum was more of a community, and had members that had been around longer than most of the come-and-go members in General Discussion. Since they were more well-known, they were singled out, and some people waned to "do something about" Unmod.

Their judging panel, who approve or deny submissions, were for some reason given moderator powers on the forums. One of them, ZIrcon, got his girlfriend Pixietricks on the panel (nepotism is awesome!), and she started having an influence on the site that some members didn't like. I was pretty ambiguous on her, up until anyone that criticized her (constructively or not) started getting banned. Of course, the more people that got banned, the more people started to backlash against her, causing (you guessed it) more people to be banned.

Eventually, at an event one year in which all the judges and DJPretzel were present, a fan of the site who happened to have posted in Unmod all of 2 or 3 times was also at the event taking pictures (of the whole event, not just the judges). They somehow got it into their heads that heads that he was "spying" on them, and when he made a thread posting the pictures. His intention was just to show what was going on at the event, but he got banned for the thread. Huge backlash, everybody gets mad, a lot of people get banned, and later that night DJPretzel deleted the subforum and childishly hosted a video of them cheering as he clicked the delete button.

After that I've never bothered to check back in on the site, and I refuse to support anything they do when they treat their fans like that. It's a shame that such talented people are also so arrogant and infantile.
And yet they're still jerks who banned an entire subforum of awesome people and cheered about it.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I need help! I want a small pocket camcorder but I'm not sure which one to get. I don't want to fall into the hype of the Flip because I worry two hours won't be enough. What should I be looking for when considering a small camcorder and where can I get a good quality one with expandable memory? Thanks!"
 

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