before i head off to el trabajo

Aug 08, 2005 10:21

From the top, let's all wish a happy birthday to esyla. She a cool chick and she lives over at the upper west coast (aka, the only good west coast). Hope the party is swell, and i know i wouldn't have been invited, but I would have shown my ugly mug anyways! I remember when i was 23...in a past life.

Got some caffy here, about to go to work, but I ( Read more... )

Leave a comment

Comments 13

trytodivulge August 8 2005, 16:06:13 UTC
Aeryn works at GameStop and I'm going to link him to this post.

Reply

trytodivulge August 8 2005, 16:25:01 UTC
"Don't even get me started on women depicted in Video games. Maybe that's just the Whedon worshipping in me, but I'd take an ass kicking intelligent NORMAL LOOKING gal (Beyond Good and Evil) than really anything else regarded as a "heroine". "

I vote for MYSELF as the model of this new breed of female characters

Reply

ultimate_ioga August 9 2005, 00:20:31 UTC
oh my word, if you were in any video games at all, I'd pray to the baby ghandi for a real nude code.

You HAVE to read runaways, it features "high school britt" as a character named Gert Yorkes. She's like this tenth grade socialist with purple hair that's cynical and mean as hell. She also has a pet velociraptor that her evil time traveling parents got her. I read it and went "britt"...

But yeah, seriously, people like you should be felling dragons, not size 1 chain mail bikini unproportionate redheads.

Reply


xivspew August 8 2005, 18:17:44 UTC
hey man, i try very, very, VERY hard to not turn my Gamestop into a soul-less gameselling machine. For every one of me, though, there's 5 other employees only concerned with reached their subscription/reserve quota for the week and making cash, and lots of Gamestops and other retail stores really suffer, as well as the customers. In my area, though, there's 2 independent game stores, one of which we ran out of business, and all the rest of them are Gamestops or EBs about to become Gamestops. When I started a few years ago everyone I worked with cared immensely about the state of the industry and helping people make smart choices, but now we're hiring at minimum wage and don't really care about the intelligence of our Game Advisors. fucking suck.

and don't forget there's nothing coming out cuz it's the summer and it's the end of this current generation of consoles...but there's lots of crazy good shit coming out in the fall and holidays that should satisfy anyone, myself included.

Reply

xivspew August 8 2005, 18:23:54 UTC
On a sidenote, which Gamestop are you talking about?

Reply

ultimate_ioga August 9 2005, 00:35:05 UTC
gamestop at richfield, the place is slowly devolving into a fucking stanky-ass german pub bathroom. It's terrible there.

Reply

ultimate_ioga August 9 2005, 00:33:33 UTC
No, listen, I totally understand. In my senior year of high school I worked at the suncoast video at the mall. There, my hours for the next week were directly related to how many of those goofy-assed "replay" cards i sold. You have to come off as every shopper's best friend, so that they feel they should spend that extra 6 dollars for that sheet of plastic that declares their exclusivity to that store. I feel your pain, and I promised myself to never work in any position similar to that. I can deal with people, i'm a very pleseant person, but being fake is the biggest wart on my ass ( ... )

Reply


vampire_ninja August 8 2005, 23:59:49 UTC
I know what you're saying, and I agree to an extent... though I doubt the gaming industry is coming to an end.

That guy at gamestop was a fuckin' liar, first off. People like that spew exaggerated facts to sell as much shit as possible. Though the presell shit is more of management's fault. You're supposed to shove presells down the customers' throats until they can't stand it anymore, because the higher ups make more money off presells. The same shit was going down at TRU; if you didn't sell enough presells, you risked losing your job. It's all nonsense.

Reply

ultimate_ioga August 9 2005, 00:39:59 UTC
shit, presells arn't even that bad, at least i'm guaranteed a fucking copy, I'm talking about those goofy rewards programs.

NO WAY is it coming to an end, but I see one person set down an x box controller as every two kids join up. Comics these days are written for us people that have been reading all these years, so it's more of a challenge to get the brats reading them. Video Games are entirely different.

That guy at gamestop can eat a dick in hell, I was even on his side for the most part. Then he had to try the same shit on me because I "haven't seen the new stuff coming out". What a penis.

Reply

vampire_ninja August 9 2005, 03:25:50 UTC
Yeah, I forgot to mention the "plans" we had to sell... if management was more anal about anything, it was those damn "warrantees"...

regarding comics, I wouldn't even know where to begin... I have all of one comic...

heh, he got mad when I wouldn't buy that damn discount card from him. "I mean, I can hook you up real cheap with this discount card!" Fuck that, I rarely shop there!

Reply

ultimate_flynn August 9 2005, 07:46:47 UTC
Gamestop...heh. Tell you the truth, I never go in the damn things unless I have to. If I want a game and it's not in Wal-Mart or Target, then I go to Best Buy. Best Buy people can get annoying at times what with all the 50 consecutive "can I help you that"s, but it's better than walking into a Gamestop and having my nigh-on 19 years of gaming experience spat on by some brainless counter-jockey. Excerpt from an actual conversation(note-I am generally loath to ask them a question for this very reason ( ... )

Reply


Leave a comment

Up