I played the board game Eclipse for the first time on Friday. It was a ton of fun! We had six players, one person playing the Elders of the Solstice, an expansion race that is basically Santa Claus. When the dust settled from the rest of us fighting each other in the last round, Santa ended up winning.

Blame my dad, apparently, or the candy selection in Portland, Maine in the early 80s?

Like, that's my FAVORITE name!

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I have a small box of Lemonheads on the kitchen counter. I will be eating it this weekend at some point.

I still amuse myself remembering how excited I got over those goddamn rumble strips of candy dots stuck to strips of paper. Yum, colored sugar with paper bits attached to it!

You all mistakenly tried Turkish Disgust instead. It's easy to confuse the two.

That was your story on GLOG, wasn't it? Crazy stuff.

As a kid, I absolutely loved the hard caramel bars like Skor and Butterfinger. Now I hate having that stuff stuck in my teeth, though occasionally I'll have a Skor for nostalgia.

I love fruit flavored candy. For soft gummy ones the best to me are Sunkist Fruit Gems:

Probably because some US companies have been replacing the cocoa butter in candy bars with cheaper alternatives like vegetable oil.

I think they actually disappeared and then returned, but I could be totally wrong about that. Maybe they had some sort of relaunch that I'm remembering.

Reese's Peanut Butter Heart Surgery?
Roadkill?
Xenomorphs?

You should know! Captain Lou Albano?

It was called Fester's Quest on the NES.

Making Fester the center of both movies was a bit ridiculous, yes. But at least in the second film it worked out great. The first film's insistence on the "is he Fester or an impostor" story took some of the fun out of it.

That is it. And for crying out loud is it terrible.

Nono, she's making a sitcom about Edward Kenway, then protagonist of Assassin's Creed IV!

Oh, I get that. If I'd seen it as a young child it would probably have terrified me. But some other films from that time period (Trilogy of Terror, Salem's Lot) are still scary, whereas Chainsaw to me is, like I said, just intense. Once the final girl gets captured, the entire dinner scene and escape are harrowing,…

He did Salem's Lot? *shudder* Floating vampire kid is the stuff of at least ten years of my nightmares.