You owe nothing to St. Louis when you buy a Snapple (which is not made in St. Louis).

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Oh, you have a park? Guess which other city has a park: ALL OF THEM. No lie. They all have parks, and zoos, and museums, and fucking golf courses.

Forest Park is almost twice the size of Central…

Another happy Textra user here.

Marvel Heroes 2015. I expected it to be terrible, as many licensed games are... but it's the opposite of terrible.

Yeah, it just sounds like so much unfocused mess, honestly. It'd have to be distilled and focused a lot to get to a point where the fun matched the ambition.

I strongly believe a game needs to be deep, and to be a smooth experience. Making it broad takes resources and attention away from the important stuff.

It makes me think of the deer antler outline thingy that rednecks have on their back windows. Plus a pair of Klingon daggers or something.

Anyway, it's kind of a dumb logo.

I often am slow to recall the names of people I have worked with for years.

Not everyone has time to do that. I had a friend who had to take time off work just to go to HOA meetings and be heard at all.

Glad I live in an older, non-HOA neighborhood where the houses aren't all the same and people grow flowers or vegetables or whatever. There are still city ordinances about maintenance, but…

Seriously, global chat was like reading the comments on YouTube, only in realtime. Ugh.

Combat in this game either has me going "what the hell just happened? Okay, reload, new strategy" or howling like a maniac and falling out of my chair.

Teleport-throwing an exploskeleton next to a barrel of oil that's also conveniently near the enemy mage? Bwahahahaha.

Herding the nosy citizens upstairs at the inn by…

It may be old-school in sensibility, but Divinity: Original Sin is still a fine-looking game that takes advantage of the processing power of modern PCs. There does seem to be some technical crustiness going on, as it took me ages tweaking my settings on a fairly beefy new PC to be able to run it smoothly, but now that…

PC: Divinity: Original Sin

I literally just started playing it yesterday, but it's been great so far. It's been called a modern Baldur's Gate and that's a pretty fair assessment... except I'd add "better" in there somewhere.

Boss Smiley?

I once worked a 19 hour day as a game developer. There was a nap in there somewhere I think. There was also some walking around and an obscene amount of caffeine — I'd never gotten the shakes from a caffeine dose before.

And there was probably about 10 hours worth of useful work accomplished, 7 of which was quality…

Fish are animals. They can be stressed by poor living conditions including too small a space, poor water quality (and that's a complex subject in itself) or temperature, parasites, rapid changes in water conditions, poor food, intense light or sound/vibration, not enough of or too many of their own species, a bad…

I was in the alpha. Aside from being unpolished and poorly balanced as you'd expect an alpha to be, it really felt like a plain old shooter with some very awkward rhythmic mechanics added to it.

I'm a musician. I've been a semi-professional taiko drummer. But nailing the rhythm while trying to build or repair a…

Vote: Epson WorkForce WF-3540

It's fast. It's wireless (and you can print from your phone/tablet too, or from memory cards or USB sticks). It's been 100% reliable — the first printer I have ever owned with zero problems ever, in the couple of years I've owned it. Its output looks great. It makes nice quick copies…

My BMI predicts that running is a bad idea no matter what.

Walking on the other hand? Love walking in these shoes, particularly in grass and dirt. Sidewalks are okay if I don't push it.

What always amazes me about FiveFingers is the irrational dipshittery of people who just think they Look Funny and cannot resist using insults appropriate to a jock on a 5th grade playground making fun of that one weird kid.

I own two pairs of them. I don't run. They're comfortable and I like them for walking,…

I have some very specific requirements for a desk — I use it for both gaming and music production. I want the option to stand at it, need to support two LCD monitors and largish speakers kept at head height, space for MIDI keyboard and drum machine as well as computer keyboard, and it has to fit in the available…

I want this for Guild Wars 2, to identify the armor skins that actually look badass without showing 87% of the skin.