I remember months ago (think last spring) some wigger was hanging out at the counter of EB while I was in there. This guy had to be in his early twenties. He was asking about the PS3 and telling the clerk how his cousin stationed in Iraq has one, how Sony donated them to all the troops. The poor clerk is just nodding like "Oh yeah? Great...yeah...oh you don't say? Great...yeah" as this cockstick goes on and on about how awesome his cousin says it is.
I've always wanted to get a part time job at a game store just to be a total cock to people like that and not even give a shit if I'm fired. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I'll report back if it works out.
I consider actsofgord worth a read, once, but a lot of people hate it... not sure why just letting you know.
Because the stories are bullshit.
Anyway, I argued with this guy, probably 20 years old, for like 10 minutes. He said that he played Chrono Trigger 2 on various illegal programs. He kept telling me it never came out in the US. I explained that it was probably fan made and explain Chrono Cross and the oft rumored Chrono Break. He refused to budge.
Just this morning I had a guy call me, for the specific reason, I believe to argue with me. He kept asking me why he couldn't install Windows on his PS3. Conversation:
Me: Microsoft makes windows, they are not going to make an operating system for a competing machine.
Him: Well Sony makes computers right?
Me: Yes
Him: They have Windows right... SO THEY AREN'T COMPETING.
Me: Man, Microsoft doesn't even make computers.
They he told me that Microsoft "basically" invented the internet. I then told him, most of the internet out there was built off Cisco hardware.
Him: I took a networking class and I've never heard of Cisco.
I remember months ago (think last spring) some wigger was hanging out at the counter of EB while I was in there. This guy had to be in his early twenties. He was asking about the PS3 and telling the clerk how his cousin stationed in Iraq has one, how Sony donated them to all the troops. The poor clerk is just nodding like "Oh yeah? Great...yeah...oh you don't say? Great...yeah" as this cockstick goes on and on about how awesome his cousin says it is.
I've always wanted to get a part time job at a game store just to be a total cock to people like that and not even give a shit if I'm fired. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I'll report back if it works out.
Now that is a soldier who knows how dumb his cousin is and decided to have a bit of fun.
I've always wanted to get a part time job at a game store just to be a total cock to people like that and not even give a shit if I'm fired. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I'll report back if it works out.
i love the progression of these three sentences and the way they're delivered as though deserving of applause
i dunno, i definitely remember some pretty stupid shit pouring forth from the mouths of myself and my classmates way back in the sega vs. nintendo days just because it was so uncommon to have both systems. you defended what you had and shit on the other because by god, that thing that your parents had gotten for you for christmas was important to you and anyone who decried its worth was clearly full of shit. defending the virtue of mario against a sonic fan was a day-to-day occurrence in the second grade.
it's a little ridiculous that it has continued in some people up to their twenties but i mean i guess it's cool to get on the internet and scream about how one company or the other is fucking you!
I've always wanted to get a part time job at a game store just to be a total cock to people like that and not even give a shit if I'm fired. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I'll report back if it works out.
i love the progression of these three sentences and the way they're delivered as though deserving of applause
i dunno, i definitely remember some pretty stupid shit pouring forth from the mouths of myself and my classmates way back in the sega vs. nintendo days just because it was so uncommon to have both systems. you defended what you had and shit on the other because by god, that thing that your parents had gotten for you for christmas was important to you and anyone who decried its worth was clearly full of shit. defending the virtue of mario against a sonic fan was a day-to-day occurrence in the second grade.
it's a little ridiculous that it has continued in some people up to their twenties but i mean i guess it's cool to get on the internet and scream about how one company or the other is fucking you!
Hey I don't need your golf-clap (or the job!) but I still think it'd be a refreshing take on what a retail employee is supposed to be. I don't actually know what it'd accomplish besides personal amusement, so in that regard you're probably right.
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you'd get your boss in trouble if there was a complaint
you'd be known as an asshole by anyone who remembered your face.
you'd ruin a customers day, which even IF you don't care about the job and thus the customer's feelings aren't sacrosanct, is still just a dick thing to do to someone.
I convinced a clerk at gamestop that EA had pulled the plug on Spore because of about 20 religious nuts protesting the idea of evolution in a game outside their offices for about 6 days. He ate it up very quickly.
Me - "Spore poster huh? I guess you guys didnt hear."
Clerk - "What? Spore?... Yea what about it. It's coming out this year sometime."
Me - "No it isn't. Some Christian Rights group or something like that protested outside of EA HQ for about 6 days about the evolution aspect of the game. EA was put under pressure by about 20 insecure soccor moms and they pulled the plug on it, but Will is still intent on finding a way of maybe making handheld versions."
Clerk - "Oh?... Really? Th-Thats too bad, I was actually really looking forward to it."
Customer: "Excuse me do you have Hannah Montana for DS for my daughter?"
Me: "HA YOU FUCKING IDIOT THAT GAME BLOWS HERE PLAY DISGAEA YOU CUNT".
I'm saying more along the lines if someone come up with you with the most misinformed shit ever just be able to say "Do you seriously believe that?". This would apply more to jokers like the one I talked about above and not to misinformed parents/uncles/aunts/grandparents who get a pass on all shit related to electronics
I liken most of my secondary jobs I take as experiments ala Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm when he gets a job selling Toyota's. He doesn't NEED to work, but he just does it for shits and giggles. Same goes for me. But I've yet to work in retail and I've always been curious to try it for the hell of it.
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It doesn't matter that you are actually helping them.
I understand you don't work in retail so can't relate but if you ever did that... and you didn't feel like shit later for being harsh, you are an asshole.
explaining the truth in a kind way works though.
also, darkest... you go into a store and tell a worker a lie, and then they tell someone else and that someone else comes on here about how they heard from some idiot at EB that spore was cancelled... it's a stupid fucking circle.
It's like teaching a seven year old the wrong way to spell something and getting mad when they spell it wrong. Sure they can learn it from someone else but why fuck with them in the first place?
also, darkest... you go into a store and tell a worker a lie, and then they tell someone else and that someone else comes on here about how they heard from some idiot at EB that spore was cancelled... it's a stupid fucking circle.
It's like teaching a seven year old the wrong way to spell something and getting mad when they spell it wrong. Sure they can learn it from someone else but why fuck with them in the first place?
Because the clerk is always and asshole to me. For this day he wasn't because his manager was putting up a display orm something and was like right there. He almost always complains about whatever game he rings up.
"Oblivion!? I bet you never even played Morrowind or Daggerfall. Might want to just pick up Morrowind and work you way up to Oblivion, kiddo!." *rolls eyes*
I'm kind of left in a sort of face nearly every time we talk.
Yeah, that's rather ignorant of them. There were, as I recall, 7 mega mans before X came along, and in the midst of the X series, 8 and Rockman & Forte came out. It wasn't the tenth game.
also, darkest... you go into a store and tell a worker a lie, and then they tell someone else and that someone else comes on here about how they heard from some idiot at EB that spore was cancelled... it's a stupid fucking circle.
It's like teaching a seven year old the wrong way to spell something and getting mad when they spell it wrong. Sure they can learn it from someone else but why fuck with them in the first place?
Because the clerk is always and asshole to me. For this day he wasn't because his manager was putting up a display orm something and was like right there. He almost always complains about whatever game he rings up.
"Oblivion!? I bet you never even played Morrowind or Daggerfall. Might want to just pick up Morrowind and work you way up to Oblivion, kiddo!." *rolls eyes*
I'm kind of left in a sort of face nearly every time we talk.
I convinced a clerk at gamestop that EA had pulled the plug on Spore because of about 20 religious nuts protesting the idea of evolution in a game outside their offices for about 6 days. He ate it up very quickly.
Me - "Spore poster huh? I guess you guys didnt hear."
Clerk - "What? Spore?... Yea what about it. It's coming out this year sometime."
Me - "No it isn't. Some Christian Rights group or something like that protested outside of EA HQ for about 6 days about the evolution aspect of the game. EA was put under pressure by about 20 insecure soccor moms and they pulled the plug on it, but Will is still intent on finding a way of maybe making handheld versions."
Clerk - "Oh?... Really? Th-Thats too bad, I was actually really looking forward to it."
You know, I already knew you were a jackass, but you just earned about +30 douchebaggery points.
I convinced a clerk at gamestop that EA had pulled the plug on Spore because of about 20 religious nuts protesting the idea of evolution in a game outside their offices for about 6 days. He ate it up very quickly.
Me - "Spore poster huh? I guess you guys didnt hear."
Clerk - "What? Spore?... Yea what about it. It's coming out this year sometime."
Me - "No it isn't. Some Christian Rights group or something like that protested outside of EA HQ for about 6 days about the evolution aspect of the game. EA was put under pressure by about 20 insecure soccor moms and they pulled the plug on it, but Will is still intent on finding a way of maybe making handheld versions."
Clerk - "Oh?... Really? Th-Thats too bad, I was actually really looking forward to it."
You know, I already knew you were a jackass, but you just earned about +30 douchebaggery points.
Good job.
But, but Target. The clerk was kind of mean. That totally justifies it.
me: Hi, I'm looking for Megaman Anniversary Collection, do you have the PS2 version?
EB clerk: Yeah... I think we have the GameCube version; have a gamecube?
me: No, not right now.
EB: See what that company loyalty gets you? Nothing. What you should have done is bought an Xbox. It has Megaman. It has Xbox live. In fact, it has everything the PS2 has, with better graphics, and every game has online multiplayer. The Gamecube? Pretty much pointless.
Me, in an uninterested voice: ....really?
EB: Yeah. The Gamecube has maybe 3 good games. Everything else is better on Xbox, and online.
Me (just fucking with him): C'mon, there's got to be more than that.
EB: Nope. Just Metroid, Metroid 2, and Smash Brothers. Nothing else.
Me: What about Zelda, or Sunshine, or Mario Kart, or FZero, or whatever?
EB: Naw, those games all got poor reviews. So, is anything I can help you find? (as I'm walking out the door)
me: Hi, I'm looking for Megaman Anniversary Collection, do you have the PS2 version?
EB clerk: Yeah... I think we have the GameCube version; have a gamecube?
me: No, not right now.
EB: See what that company loyalty gets you? Nothing. What you should have done is bought an Xbox. It has Megaman. It has Xbox live. In fact, it has everything the PS2 has, with better graphics, and every game has online multiplayer. The Gamecube? Pretty much pointless.
Me, in an uninterested voice: ....really?
EB: Yeah. The Gamecube has maybe 3 good games. Everything else is better on Xbox, and online.
Me (just fucking with him): C'mon, there's got to be more than that.
EB: Nope. Just Metroid, Metroid 2, and Smash Brothers. Nothing else.
Me: What about Zelda, or Sunshine, or Mario Kart, or FZero, or whatever?
EB: Naw, those games all got poor reviews. So, is anything I can help you find? (as I'm walking out the door)
me: No, it's all good. Thanks. (leave)
Heh, game store clerks do seem to be getting more ignorant as time passes. What I really hate though, possibly even more than the ignorant ones, are the condescending ones.
Like the joker at a Gamecrazy that told my dad and I that Castlevania was the game wherein you play as "a guy with a whip". Thanks.
I mean, I guess he wasn't trying to be insulting, but at the time I was really put off by it.
I consider actsofgord worth a read, once, but a lot of people hate it... not sure why just letting you know.
Because the stories are bullshit.
Anyway, I argued with this guy, probably 20 years old, for like 10 minutes. He said that he played Chrono Trigger 2 on various illegal programs. He kept telling me it never came out in the US. I explained that it was probably fan made and explain Chrono Cross and the oft rumored Chrono Break. He refused to budge.
I consider actsofgord worth a read, once, but a lot of people hate it... not sure why just letting you know.
Because the stories are bullshit.
Anyway, I argued with this guy, probably 20 years old, for like 10 minutes. He said that he played Chrono Trigger 2 on various illegal programs. He kept telling me it never came out in the US. I explained that it was probably fan made and explain Chrono Cross and the oft rumored Chrono Break. He refused to budge.
He wasn't talking about Radical Dreamers?
Can you actually play the whole thing though? I know that those satellite SNES games are hard to... uh... well y'know. I'm just going to stop there.
Yeah, that's rather ignorant of them. There were, as I recall, 7 mega mans before X came along, and in the midst of the X series, 8 and Rockman & Forte came out. It wasn't the tenth game.
There were several compleing arguements against that I could see. X and X2 came out before 7 and if gamefaqs is to be believed X came out before 6 in the US. The X games all have titles that do not use roman numerals such as X2 and X3, if X did actually mean 10 that would mean Capcom completely skipped 11. The last numbered Mega Man game was 8, Mega Man and Bass does take place after 8 but according to the Mega Man community the game code refers to the game as 8.5.
While the comic got under my skin just from misinformation, what really got to me was Tycho actually defending that position in his newposts. If it was just said that the comic was incorrect I wouldn't have cared. I'm sure if I posted up some false World of Warcraft info someone would jump down my throat about it... I'd admit I was wrong though simply because I don't have alot of knowledge on the subject.
I convinced a clerk at gamestop that EA had pulled the plug on Spore because of about 20 religious nuts protesting the idea of evolution in a game outside their offices for about 6 days. He ate it up very quickly.
Me - "Spore poster huh? I guess you guys didnt hear."
Clerk - "What? Spore?... Yea what about it. It's coming out this year sometime."
Me - "No it isn't. Some Christian Rights group or something like that protested outside of EA HQ for about 6 days about the evolution aspect of the game. EA was put under pressure by about 20 insecure soccor moms and they pulled the plug on it, but Will is still intent on finding a way of maybe making handheld versions."
Clerk - "Oh?... Really? Th-Thats too bad, I was actually really looking forward to it."
He could have thought you were a liar and just avoided an arguement like most good Clerks do.
I consider actsofgord worth a read, once, but a lot of people hate it... not sure why just letting you know.
Because the stories are bullshit.
Anyway, I argued with this guy, probably 20 years old, for like 10 minutes. He said that he played Chrono Trigger 2 on various illegal programs. He kept telling me it never came out in the US. I explained that it was probably fan made and explain Chrono Cross and the oft rumored Chrono Break. He refused to budge.
He wasn't talking about Radical Dreamers?
Can you actually play the whole thing though? I know that those satellite SNES games are hard to... uh... well y'know. I'm just going to stop there.
I'm just going to say yes to the first part and leave it at that.
Oooh, I just remembered a good one. This Vin Diesel lookin' guy was talking to a couple of clerks at an EB while my games were being wrung up. He asked the clerks what they thought of Halo 2, and they were doing the requisite gushing. Then, he told them that he didn't like the single player much, and suddenly their tone changed and they started talking about how the bugs made the game unplayable or something.
Expecting game store clerks to know a lot about games is like expecting a Radio Shack employee to be able to help you find a USB mini-B cable. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about, because these places just hire young people with retail experience.
Yeah, that's rather ignorant of them. There were, as I recall, 7 mega mans before X came along, and in the midst of the X series, 8 and Rockman & Forte came out. It wasn't the tenth game.
There were several compleing arguements against that I could see. X and X2 came out before 7 and if gamefaqs is to be believed X came out before 6 in the US. The X games all have titles that do not use roman numerals such as X2 and X3, if X did actually mean 10 that would mean Capcom completely skipped 11. The last numbered Mega Man game was 8, Mega Man and Bass does take place after 8 but according to the Mega Man community the game code refers to the game as 8.5.
While the comic got under my skin just from misinformation, what really got to me was Tycho actually defending that position in his newposts. If it was just said that the comic was incorrect I wouldn't have cared. I'm sure if I posted up some false World of Warcraft info someone would jump down my throat about it... I'd admit I was wrong though simply because I don't have alot of knowledge on the subject.
Do you have a link to that newspost? I'm in the mood to get in a nerdy rage right now.
Oooh, I just remembered a good one. This Vin Diesel lookin' guy was talking to a couple of clerks at an EB while my games were being wrung up. He asked the clerks what they thought of Halo 2, and they were doing the requisite gushing. Then, he told them that he didn't like the single player much, and suddenly their tone changed and they started talking about how the bugs made the game unplayable or something.
Expecting game store clerks to know a lot about games is like expecting a Radio Shack employee to be able to help you find a USB mini-B cable. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about, because these places just hire young people with retail experience.
Eh that's bull. I know plenty of guys n' gals at my Local EB Games and Gamestop here that aren't there for show, minus the new hot girl they hired at Gamestop. (They always have one, I don't know why.) Most know what they're talking about but eh, all depends on the person.
Oooh, I just remembered a good one. This Vin Diesel lookin' guy was talking to a couple of clerks at an EB while my games were being wrung up. He asked the clerks what they thought of Halo 2, and they were doing the requisite gushing. Then, he told them that he didn't like the single player much, and suddenly their tone changed and they started talking about how the bugs made the game unplayable or something.
Expecting game store clerks to know a lot about games is like expecting a Radio Shack employee to be able to help you find a USB mini-B cable. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about, because these places just hire young people with retail experience.
Eh that's bull. I know plenty of guys n' gals at my Local EB Games and Gamestop here that aren't there for show, minus the new hot girl they hired at Gamestop. (They always have one, I don't know why.) Most know what they're talking about but eh, all depends on the person.
Yeah, that's rather ignorant of them. There were, as I recall, 7 mega mans before X came along, and in the midst of the X series, 8 and Rockman & Forte came out. It wasn't the tenth game.
There were several compleing arguements against that I could see. X and X2 came out before 7 and if gamefaqs is to be believed X came out before 6 in the US. The X games all have titles that do not use roman numerals such as X2 and X3, if X did actually mean 10 that would mean Capcom completely skipped 11. The last numbered Mega Man game was 8, Mega Man and Bass does take place after 8 but according to the Mega Man community the game code refers to the game as 8.5.
While the comic got under my skin just from misinformation, what really got to me was Tycho actually defending that position in his newposts. If it was just said that the comic was incorrect I wouldn't have cared. I'm sure if I posted up some false World of Warcraft info someone would jump down my throat about it... I'd admit I was wrong though simply because I don't have alot of knowledge on the subject.
Have you ever played Megaman 2X? The new DS version where you have biometals or something?
Yeah, that's rather ignorant of them. There were, as I recall, 7 mega mans before X came along, and in the midst of the X series, 8 and Rockman & Forte came out. It wasn't the tenth game.
There were several compleing arguements against that I could see. X and X2 came out before 7 and if gamefaqs is to be believed X came out before 6 in the US. The X games all have titles that do not use roman numerals such as X2 and X3, if X did actually mean 10 that would mean Capcom completely skipped 11. The last numbered Mega Man game was 8, Mega Man and Bass does take place after 8 but according to the Mega Man community the game code refers to the game as 8.5.
While the comic got under my skin just from misinformation, what really got to me was Tycho actually defending that position in his newposts. If it was just said that the comic was incorrect I wouldn't have cared. I'm sure if I posted up some false World of Warcraft info someone would jump down my throat about it... I'd admit I was wrong though simply because I don't have alot of knowledge on the subject.
Have you ever played Megaman 2X? The new DS version where you have biometals or something?
Oooh, I just remembered a good one. This Vin Diesel lookin' guy was talking to a couple of clerks at an EB while my games were being wrung up. He asked the clerks what they thought of Halo 2, and they were doing the requisite gushing. Then, he told them that he didn't like the single player much, and suddenly their tone changed and they started talking about how the bugs made the game unplayable or something.
Expecting game store clerks to know a lot about games is like expecting a Radio Shack employee to be able to help you find a USB mini-B cable. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about, because these places just hire young people with retail experience.
Eh that's bull. I know plenty of guys n' gals at my Local EB Games and Gamestop here that aren't there for show, minus the new hot girl they hired at Gamestop. (They always have one, I don't know why.) Most know what they're talking about but eh, all depends on the person.
That hasn't been my experience.
Then all I can suggest is finding ways to get them fired, or "taken care of".
Am I just lucky when it comes to game clerks? I mean, they were excited to hear that Disgaea got a reprint.
I think it's just that you're more likely to remember the jackass than the cool guy.
No I mean, like, the most jackassed thing I've had happen to me in recent memory is the dude forgetting to give me my PW2 preorder item. And when I came back for it, he was like "Oh, sorry man, I totally forgot."
Expecting game store clerks to know a lot about games is like expecting a Radio Shack employee to be able to help you find a USB mini-B cable. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about, because these places just hire young people with retail experience.
In fairness it's IMPOSSIBLE to know about everything going on in a radioshack. I work at one. We sell a LOT of shit. I know it may not look like it (especially since it's mostly low quality) but we touch on a lot of markets and we need to be experts in all of them.
How this relates to games is that, you can't possible play every game. I never played Halo 2, and I don't imagine that would be different if I worked at an EB. I'd go off what I've heard, and probably be fairly easily persuaded toward what the guy was saying because i don't want to come off sounding stupid. And also I surely don't want to offend the dude, he's a customer.
I'd have to say anytime someone has tried to pawn off a fan based created and thus completely nerdtarded timeline that tries and fails miserably to give and "actual" timeline for all of the Zelda games, not to mention a few other big name franchises.
I'm looking at you Final Fantasy and Mega Man
I'd have to say anytime someone has tried to pawn off a fan based created and thus completely nerdtarded timeline that tries and fails miserably to give and "actual" timeline for all of the Zelda games, not to mention a few other big name franchises.
I'm looking at you Final Fantasy and Mega Man
...Mega Man has an official timeline, dude. Classic, then X, then Zero, then ZX, then waay in the future is Legends(or is it just Legend?), then Battle Network is an alternate universe.
Oooh, I just remembered a good one. This Vin Diesel lookin' guy was talking to a couple of clerks at an EB while my games were being wrung up. He asked the clerks what they thought of Halo 2, and they were doing the requisite gushing. Then, he told them that he didn't like the single player much, and suddenly their tone changed and they started talking about how the bugs made the game unplayable or something.
Expecting game store clerks to know a lot about games is like expecting a Radio Shack employee to be able to help you find a USB mini-B cable. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about, because these places just hire young people with retail experience.
Eh that's bull. I know plenty of guys n' gals at my Local EB Games and Gamestop here that aren't there for show, minus the new hot girl they hired at Gamestop. (They always have one, I don't know why.) Most know what they're talking about but eh, all depends on the person.
Hot girls at Gamestop? Ours is...not...at all. And she can barely communicate It is a pretty awesome store though. They no longer actively try and shaft me on my preorders and whatnot.
Not really bs stories or anything, but I hated that period when the PSP was seen as the obvious winner in the handheld race. Ugh. On another note, a good friend of mine told me he played a SSBM demo before it came out that had Wario and Sonic in it.
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I've always wanted to get a part time job at a game store just to be a total cock to people like that and not even give a shit if I'm fired. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I'll report back if it works out.
Because the stories are bullshit.
Anyway, I argued with this guy, probably 20 years old, for like 10 minutes. He said that he played Chrono Trigger 2 on various illegal programs. He kept telling me it never came out in the US. I explained that it was probably fan made and explain Chrono Cross and the oft rumored Chrono Break. He refused to budge.
Just this morning I had a guy call me, for the specific reason, I believe to argue with me. He kept asking me why he couldn't install Windows on his PS3. Conversation:
Me: Microsoft makes windows, they are not going to make an operating system for a competing machine.
Him: Well Sony makes computers right?
Me: Yes
Him: They have Windows right... SO THEY AREN'T COMPETING.
Me: Man, Microsoft doesn't even make computers.
They he told me that Microsoft "basically" invented the internet. I then told him, most of the internet out there was built off Cisco hardware.
Him: I took a networking class and I've never heard of Cisco.
IT WAS INFURIATING.
Now that is a soldier who knows how dumb his cousin is and decided to have a bit of fun.
i dunno, i definitely remember some pretty stupid shit pouring forth from the mouths of myself and my classmates way back in the sega vs. nintendo days just because it was so uncommon to have both systems. you defended what you had and shit on the other because by god, that thing that your parents had gotten for you for christmas was important to you and anyone who decried its worth was clearly full of shit. defending the virtue of mario against a sonic fan was a day-to-day occurrence in the second grade.
it's a little ridiculous that it has continued in some people up to their twenties but i mean i guess it's cool to get on the internet and scream about how one company or the other is fucking you!
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In econ, the professor tried to make an example about supply and demand that we would understand, so he talked about the new game consoles...
Prof: So what's that new console that sells like crazy on eBay?
Jackass: The PS3! It sold for like ten thousands of dollars when it came out because people couldn't wait to get one.
Prof: What about that Nintendo Wii?
Jackass: Nobody gave a shit about that.
Yeah, fuckface, that's why Wiis are impossible to find and PS3s can be purchased at the fucking corner gas station.
He was acting like such a smug motherfucker too...
i thought it might be something like that but I wasn't sure. still funny but it sucks a lot if they are all just fake stories.
thanks i'd rather know that than have false info.
Hey I don't need your golf-clap (or the job!) but I still think it'd be a refreshing take on what a retail employee is supposed to be. I don't actually know what it'd accomplish besides personal amusement, so in that regard you're probably right.
you'd be known as an asshole by anyone who remembered your face.
you'd ruin a customers day, which even IF you don't care about the job and thus the customer's feelings aren't sacrosanct, is still just a dick thing to do to someone.
Me - "Spore poster huh? I guess you guys didnt hear."
Clerk - "What? Spore?... Yea what about it. It's coming out this year sometime."
Me - "No it isn't. Some Christian Rights group or something like that protested outside of EA HQ for about 6 days about the evolution aspect of the game. EA was put under pressure by about 20 insecure soccor moms and they pulled the plug on it, but Will is still intent on finding a way of maybe making handheld versions."
Clerk - "Oh?... Really? Th-Thats too bad, I was actually really looking forward to it."
Customer: "Excuse me do you have Hannah Montana for DS for my daughter?"
Me: "HA YOU FUCKING IDIOT THAT GAME BLOWS HERE PLAY DISGAEA YOU CUNT".
I'm saying more along the lines if someone come up with you with the most misinformed shit ever just be able to say "Do you seriously believe that?". This would apply more to jokers like the one I talked about above and not to misinformed parents/uncles/aunts/grandparents who get a pass on all shit related to electronics
I liken most of my secondary jobs I take as experiments ala Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm when he gets a job selling Toyota's. He doesn't NEED to work, but he just does it for shits and giggles. Same goes for me. But I've yet to work in retail and I've always been curious to try it for the hell of it.
I understand you don't work in retail so can't relate but if you ever did that... and you didn't feel like shit later for being harsh, you are an asshole.
explaining the truth in a kind way works though.
also, darkest... you go into a store and tell a worker a lie, and then they tell someone else and that someone else comes on here about how they heard from some idiot at EB that spore was cancelled... it's a stupid fucking circle.
It's like teaching a seven year old the wrong way to spell something and getting mad when they spell it wrong. Sure they can learn it from someone else but why fuck with them in the first place?
I hate that comic. Mega Man X is not Mega Man 10.
Because the clerk is always and asshole to me. For this day he wasn't because his manager was putting up a display orm something and was like right there. He almost always complains about whatever game he rings up.
"Oblivion!? I bet you never even played Morrowind or Daggerfall. Might want to just pick up Morrowind and work you way up to Oblivion, kiddo!." *rolls eyes*
I'm kind of left in a sort of
You mess with the dolphin, you get the nose.
an eye for an eye will leave everyone blind
whoops
Good job.
They should have just went with Final Fantasy X. It doesn't really bother me, but I still find it weird how few people call it "ten" instead of "X".
You mess with the dolphin, you get the nose.
EB clerk: Yeah... I think we have the GameCube version; have a gamecube?
me: No, not right now.
EB: See what that company loyalty gets you? Nothing. What you should have done is bought an Xbox. It has Megaman. It has Xbox live. In fact, it has everything the PS2 has, with better graphics, and every game has online multiplayer. The Gamecube? Pretty much pointless.
Me, in an uninterested voice: ....really?
EB: Yeah. The Gamecube has maybe 3 good games. Everything else is better on Xbox, and online.
Me (just fucking with him): C'mon, there's got to be more than that.
EB: Nope. Just Metroid, Metroid 2, and Smash Brothers. Nothing else.
Me: What about Zelda, or Sunshine, or Mario Kart, or FZero, or whatever?
EB: Naw, those games all got poor reviews. So, is anything I can help you find? (as I'm walking out the door)
me: No, it's all good. Thanks. (leave)
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Like the joker at a Gamecrazy that told my dad and I that Castlevania was the game wherein you play as "a guy with a whip". Thanks.
I mean, I guess he wasn't trying to be insulting, but at the time I was really put off by it.
You mess with the dolphin, you get the nose.
He wasn't talking about Radical Dreamers?
You mess with the dolphin, you get the nose.
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There were several compleing arguements against that I could see. X and X2 came out before 7 and if gamefaqs is to be believed X came out before 6 in the US. The X games all have titles that do not use roman numerals such as X2 and X3, if X did actually mean 10 that would mean Capcom completely skipped 11. The last numbered Mega Man game was 8, Mega Man and Bass does take place after 8 but according to the Mega Man community the game code refers to the game as 8.5.
While the comic got under my skin just from misinformation, what really got to me was Tycho actually defending that position in his newposts. If it was just said that the comic was incorrect I wouldn't have cared. I'm sure if I posted up some false World of Warcraft info someone would jump down my throat about it... I'd admit I was wrong though simply because I don't have alot of knowledge on the subject.
I think it's just that you're more likely to remember the jackass than the cool guy.
He could have thought you were a liar and just avoided an arguement like most good Clerks do.
I'm just going to say yes to the first part and leave it at that.
Expecting game store clerks to know a lot about games is like expecting a Radio Shack employee to be able to help you find a USB mini-B cable. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about, because these places just hire young people with retail experience.
You mess with the dolphin, you get the nose.
You mess with the dolphin, you get the nose.
You mess with the dolphin, you get the nose.
Have you ever played Megaman 2X? The new DS version where you have biometals or something?
I wonder why they didn't just call it Megaman 20.
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oh man. It'd be bad.
You mess with the dolphin, you get the nose.
Then all I can suggest is finding ways to get them fired, or "taken care of".
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I know this is total sarcasm but.... GAH MY HEAD MEATS!
No I mean, like, the most jackassed thing I've had happen to me in recent memory is the dude forgetting to give me my PW2 preorder item. And when I came back for it, he was like "Oh, sorry man, I totally forgot."
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And that's why they were in high school for seven years.
Er, was that too long ago in the thread? If so just ignore it.
In fairness it's IMPOSSIBLE to know about everything going on in a radioshack. I work at one. We sell a LOT of shit. I know it may not look like it (especially since it's mostly low quality) but we touch on a lot of markets and we need to be experts in all of them.
How this relates to games is that, you can't possible play every game. I never played Halo 2, and I don't imagine that would be different if I worked at an EB. I'd go off what I've heard, and probably be fairly easily persuaded toward what the guy was saying because i don't want to come off sounding stupid. And also I surely don't want to offend the dude, he's a customer.
I'm looking at you Final Fantasy and Mega Man
...Mega Man has an official timeline, dude. Classic, then X, then Zero, then ZX, then waay in the future is Legends(or is it just Legend?), then Battle Network is an alternate universe.
Not really bs stories or anything, but I hated that period when the PSP was seen as the obvious winner in the handheld race. Ugh. On another note, a good friend of mine told me he played a SSBM demo before it came out that had Wario and Sonic in it.
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