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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Oh right, don't you have Safeway as well? Randall's to everyone else (in Texas). Randall's is great because you can buy the same shit as everywhere else but for $2-3 more! Hooray!

You can also just go to H.E.B. and just buy some Central Market crap from there for slightly cheaper, they are both owned by Howard Butt, who I think is dead. Dr. B is Doctor Butt cola! Also H.E.Buddy is an awful paper sack with a big toothless gum of a mouth! I used to think H.E.B. and subsidiaries was cool when I lived in Houston where they were less prominent, especially because the one near my apartment at the time was tiny and you never see tiny grocery stores anymore in Texas (tiny as in 1980 normal), but they will probably become the next Wal-mart. They are appearing everywhere and there's no need for them to be that big and contain a shitty clinic and whatever else inside.

Why don't you want to be like one of those poor people and keep a shopping cart near your front door for trips like that?

Merus, that was a completely interesting read and it's awesome your mom cares so much and keeps trying even after scare tactics of getting her home raided. I absolutely hate that shit. I had no idea any country had trouble with their postal service going broke besides the United States. I have no idea why such a thing is a private entity, and it looks like your country was trying to make it the same. I think it should be against the law to even allow the post to not be a government entity anyway but that's that damned commie in me. Can your mom come take on the U.S.? And wow, I'm getting the 50 mbps speed tegan has now for $35 a month, just because Google Fiber is about to unveil itself in Austin. Time Warner had to step it up and replace all of the cable all over the city to stay competitive. What I have is the basic speed. Since they failed to tell me they changed, I was getting a spotty connection with 120 Mbps for a few months but realized I could save $10 and go to 50 and still be happy. I would totally switch to Google Fiber if they weren't charging $70/month though. I remember when I was getting 750 kbps through AT&T at my first apartment. Gah.

Oh yeah apparently they threw DNR on top of it as well. Here's an article, as Simpsons is especially tragic considering all of the background gags: http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/24/6060887/fxx-is-cropping-standard-definition-simpsons-episodes I supposed to late fans who have hardly ever seen the episodes, it won't matter because they have been watching them widescreen anyway, but it's still disrespectful to the people who worked on the show when it was 4:3.

I get the feeling Mario 64 is not that hard if you mostly just take the straight path and don't try to get all of the stars, like collecting all of the red coins and such. I know I would have spared myself so much grief had I not had to gather those coins at once in many levels. So I'd be curious if those explaining their experience with the difficulty are factoring in collecting all 120 stars (or 150 on DS). Also I feel like Rayman 2 was the first 3D platformer to totally refine such a thing into a smooth, playable experience, but I get the feeling not many people agree with me, or never have given Rayman 2 much thought.

Hey I forgot to use the first page of this thread to complain about FXX marathoning all Simpsons episodes cut down from the original 4:3 ratio to fit 16:9 widescreen TVs. That is some fucked up shit. What is wrong with people and correctly using a god damn TV? If it's not people stretching their shit, it's cutting it. Even worse is when something ends up pillar and letterboxed because of either non anamorphic formatting (early DVDs get a pass) or because people don't format their shit right. GOD DAMN IT PEOPLE TVs ARE NOT THAT COMPLICATED! AND NETWORKS NEED TO STOP CATERING TO THE IDIOTS!

But they make that wonderful Nesquik! Just kidding it's terrible and I am an Ovaltine man!

I wish I lived an action adventure life.

Hmm, I found it pretty difficult at times due to camera and precision, but I also have only finished the game on DS, and last year in fact. I remember it controlling better when playing the 64 long ago, but that was at a friends house and I never got that far. The problem I had with the DS one was mostly just on levels where you can't see shit and you are climbing a pole or something and it knocks you into the lava causing you to restart the whole level. It's even worse when sometimes the camera is locked and you can't move it. I hear I did not play the game under the most ideal conditions, but 64 DS has all of the extra stars and stuff as well as characters, so meh. I did get all of the stars, and it wasn't until near the end where the game was making me want to tear my hair out at times.

I read that as a boner story.

I finished Fuse recently and I actually really loved it despite only forcing myself to play it because it's from the Ratchet and Clank team. The level design is often weak and too linear and sometimes the bad guys are repetitive but I enjoyed the solid gameplay. Once you really harness the power of each of the four individual players and see how well balanced they are and the role they play on the team, the genius really gels together. I also like being able to instantly switch to any available character (if there are not four players taking them all up) so that you can approach separate sections of levels completely differently. It's especially useful if maybe you are trying one part with a certain characters and find yourself dying a lot when a different character might allow for a better approach more suited for your play style. That said I only ever really got the hang of two of the four characters but it was also because in certain online modes, I was the most reliable on random matchmaking when I could play one of the two and not let the rest of the team down. It was very interesting to see some people completely use the characters I don't use in a more effective way than I would have fathomed. This is especially true with the hardest character I found to play which is the token buff white dude who actually is a shield style character and not much for running and gunning or heavy weapons like you might imagine. He often plays as more of the sidelines but has an invincibility aspect when his shield has enough energy. I just found it very cool when I was on a four player team and we all just gelled, each understanding the function of the character, because if one of them is not playing the archetype very well, everyone sort of suffers and the incentive is to always keep everyone alive as a team. Everything within the game is based on co-op play, no versus modes, and it's all completely tailored to fit. I love it. What I don't love is the big change in tone and art style from the original trailer. This was most likely the demise of the game, which is very unfortunate but sort of exciting because it shows fans were not interested in the shift to mocking the ugliness of the Mass Effect series. I guess it's a toss up on whether EA requested this change because of cold feet being the first to publish an Insomniac game outside of the umbrella of Sony or if it was truly an internal decision to maintain the gore and push the T rating. I think you could have kept the gore and had a more stylistic and colorful game as original trailer and just went with the M rating, but I suppose games have to fit in the general mold certain age categories to ensure sales. Lo and behold though, every review lamented the style change when the game was released and most likely docked points out of such disappointment. I'm less disappointed after finishing it, but it still leaves that empty feeling from wondering what it could have been. It was more humorous than I thought it would be and I found myself interested in the story, but they picked a really shitty moment to throw in a cliffhanger. I guess they thought it would sell well and justify a sequel, but no dice. Yet another disappointment.

I always forget what Digimon originally was. I used to love messing with those original LCD thingys. I remember thinking it was awesome when I got the guy on fire.

These Gamergates really are grasping at straws for their conspiracy truth these days, since this was all discussed last year. You'd think they would have dug up something more substantial at this point if what they say is true instead of just constantly being jerks and repeating the Zoe Quinn thing.

Whoa, that's a neat effect from scooping out the back. HMMMM.

I won't lie, I've done that a ton if I am far away from everyone in an emptier theatre and you want to whisper something. I figure there's no harm in that. Won't do that at Alamo Drafthouse or I'll get kicked out because every seat is taken at every showing and there are no safe whispering zones.

Guess I way way dropped off before that ever happened.

I love fucking up the worker bees' chant in Grim Fandango. I feel like I have amassed a few hours doing that among multiple plays. The first time I figured out I could chant out of key like an asshole I was on the floor.

I really just wish the sad face wasn't this , but I also like the angry tomato.

Wha? Just talk at home when you watch. Theatre is like a library.

I always just felt gifted or higher level classes were just a the only way to not have the shittiest education ever in a Texas public school.

Oh yeah one year I did a bunch of pumpkins because I guess boredom. Maybe I'll try to do some again this year because I don't have much going on in the job department. I just hate when pieces you really needed to not break, break.

John K.'s was just dreadful. It made me lose faith in him as an animator since he was on this shtick for a while that he should just keep animating even if he draws something weird and get all nuts with his inbetweens going all over the place. But his new short is a return to form, just wish he could have applied his traditional animating style to the Simpsons since it's sort of a big deal. The fact that Dr. Monroe was never actually shown dying or dead always used to bug me as a kid because I guess I took the trivia more seriously.

Yeah I don't know if I was, I'm just mad. I honestly don't know what is up with superheroes the past five years besides the major movie marketing push but it seems like comics are more marginalized than ever to me. Before the movie deals the last I heard people talking about that stuff was like elementary school. I just think if we are asking for social change in comics then redressing a tired concept is the wrong way to go about it. I think you'd get way more mileage actually supporting non franchise comics by the many female writers and artists out there instead of supporting a demographic grab for a major company that is all created by yet more white males. I mean if you like superheroes and that's your thing, it's fine enough, but to me there's just way too much hubbub going on with what is ultimately like talking about McDonald's everyday (to me).