Saturday, January 28, 2006...

[Slime]

The Slime is now the Big Slime (Metal Gear Pun Intended). I am now finally 18 years old. Horay, *throws a party somewhere*

[Smacked Ass]

Happy birthday you slimy bastard! Wellcome to the world of the slimiest bastards of them all... THE ADULT WORLD!

j/k, Happy 18th, dude!

[Joe Snack Road]

Haps, suraimu!

[motosada]

Hey, cool. You can buy smokes now. gg.

[Slime]

smoking is bad mmmkay

I don't even have the proper ID, almost didn't walk out the store with Devil May Cry because my school ID and hospital card thing wasn't good enough. Must get driver's license asap

[Smacked Ass]

Godamned kids, always a tryin' ta git M rated games an' coffin nails with their school IDs!!!!

So, how was the Birfday celebration?

[gbomber]

I've never been carded for games.

I mean, this is a kid who bought GTA:VC for himself when he was like, 16 or so.

I guess they just know I'm a ninja.

[Steve]

I've never seen anyone get carded for a game, much less had it done to me...

[Joe Snack Road]

I was carded a few months back for Samurai Western.

...I had to laugh about it.

[motosada]

Unless like, you'd pass for 30, or I knew better, I carded. It pissed people off. I loved it.

[Smacked Ass]

Good for you, B. I watched some rich beeeatch buy her kid (~11 years old) GTA:VC at an EB in town, here. She didn't flinch or ask questions, just whipped out the platinum visa and that was that.

Speaking of EB, those punk bitches burst my bubble today. I took Devil May Cry 3, MGS3, and Battalion Wars in to see what I could get. $31.00 CAN. Forget that shit. I was going to put down a bit on MGS Subsistance for March, or maybe get the Greatest Hits DMC3, but $31.00 doesn't go far in that store. I really think they're trying to kill the whole used games market thingy. Who will buy a used game, minus instructions or with, but wreaking of smoke, scratched to shit or covered in sweet and sour sauce, for a meager FIVE bucks less than new? The only one worth anything was Battalion Wars, and I'm pretty tired of it already...

[motosada]

Well, the reason why DMC3 isn't worth much now is because of DMC3 Special; it's $20 new, so you really shouldn't expect much for trade-in of it.

Also, MGS3 was really disappointing sales-wise. I remember when MGS2 came out; we couldn't keep a used copy of it in stock to save a life, but just a couple days after MGS3 came out, the price dropped and we just got a steady supply of it being traded in, so it lost a fuckton of value.

Also, I've had people get pissed at me for making them come into the store so their 8-year-old kid could get Grand Theft Auto. Usually went something like this;

"Well, ma'am, it's Mature-rated game. It's like an R-rated movie."
"Why's it so bad?"
"Blood, violence, cursing, nudity, drug use."
"That's stupid that I have to come in for this!"
"It's so that you know what your kid is playing." (Meanwhile, I'm thinking, "And so that you don't freak out and sue everyone in the industry when you find out your kid bought a game where you could hire and kill hookers, dumbfuck.")

Or, sometimes, I'd mention foul language and they'd freak out like, "I'm not letting my child play that! Who's house did you play it at?!" "um... Ricky's." "Well, you're not going over to Ricky's house ever again!"

And sometimes, it was the nudity that did it - the foul language and large amounts of violence were okay, of course.

Gaaaaaaaaaahd, people piss me off.

[Joe Snack Road]

smackedass said:

Speaking of EB, those punk bitches burst my bubble today. I took Devil May Cry 3, MGS3, and Battalion Wars in to see what I could get. $31.00 CAN.

DUDE! That's like, twelve bucks american!!!

Man, we take it in the pants from EB's trade ins...

[Slime]

Only one EB checks for my ID, the other EB, doesn't give a crap.