I used to live in upstate New York and we’d do this too. I miss having maple everything available when going to the store.

I tend to enjoy doing misdirections with wrapping too. Things like adding a little cardboard nook and fill it with some coins, bells, gift cards, or other things that will make unusual sounds when shaken, not to mention adding an unexpected shape to the package. Multiple layers of wrapping paper, making custom…

I have that Popple there, the green one in the back. I had a book about them too, likely from a Scholastic book sale. I loved playing with it, curling it up into the ball and popping it back out, but I was mildly off put by the texture of the fur fabric since after a while it started to mat up a little and I liked to…

I loved this book as a kid. I had another one too starring Grover about moving. Such great little books and I loved reading them over and over again.

I had that book too and another one with Grover about moving. I loved those books.

I remember as a kid hating how Elmo was gradually taking over the show and less and less of other monsters were getting to show up. My favorite Muppet on the show as Grover and he got pushed out pretty hard for more Elmo skits. I think I gave up caring about Seaseme Street after attending one of those Live! shows that…

There are a number of articles online touching on the differences in releases for FF7 in varying depth, but for the most part the main issue is that the original PC version was not based on the released PSX version, but an earlier copy of the game, resulting in lower quality resources, variances in terminology and…

I will happily battle motion sickness if it is for Rez. That is about the only franchise I’d do that for. With VR being optional, its a definite buy for me.

Level 5, Ding Dong Dell

I’d wondered what Food Network had done with Justin Warner. I was happy he won Food Network Star but then saw 0 from him outside of a one-off special and a couple appearances on celebrity special competitions. It’s good to know he is maintaining some form of show and getting to show off his unique style.

From my understanding, it has something to do with Marvel pre-Marvel Studios selling the rights to ‘mutant’ brands to Fox. So now Fox can make movies of any ‘mutant’ Marvel characters and Marvel Studios can’t. In response to that, Marvel is branding characters under other terms now so they can retain the media and…

Lack of Sable amiibo has me sad. I mean really? The shop sheep before Sable?! Digby and Lottie before Sable?!

Glad to hear I’m not the only one who finds the shaped pasta shapes tasting really really off compared to normal elbow macaroni. It really disappointed me as a kid since so many franchises like Mario had macaroni variants, but they all tasted so bad.

My sister was terrified when I showed her the Pikachu stickers I’d found and affixed to a picture in Gameboy Camera because of the misinformation regarding that situation at the time. She thought any Pikachu image could trigger it.

Helmet and ghost have been holding me back for ages and I know the same is true for a couple friends as well. We’ve tried spending hours at Court of Oryx, supposedly best place for ghosts at least, and gotten nothing of improvement.

Some newer RPGs have things like encouter rate sliders. You can make random encounters go from excessive to little or none at all. You just have to accept the difficulty of later fights if you haven’t grinded enough. Maybe you want to grind at enemies at X instead of Y because X is closer to supplies and a save point.…

I remember a local radio station used to have the ‘um’ contest. People would call in then be asked to talk about or answer a question for 30sec I believe it was, without saying ‘um’ or pausing excessively. I got through once to try my hand, but I stumbled fast. The topic at the time was about passing time on a rainy…

I started my first run of King’s Fall earlier tonight. We didn’t finish it but got to the checkpoint for the daughters. I generally enjoyed it so far...except for the transport jumping section. I adore jumping and climbing on things in games, getting up into nooks and heights you shouldn’t normally be walking along,…

What I didn’t understand is for the Voidwalker quest, on multiple occassions it said I generated the 7 orbs...but didn’t credit me, making it all the more frustrating. Lost track of how many times I ran Omnigul just to clear that quest.

My mom really liked the first on Android to the point of sending me a new Vita mem card so I could have room to get the Vita vers and try it out. I don’t know though if she’d enjoy this one if it is more cumbersome for getting from A to B.