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| BOSS SED I HAD TA... |  | Category: Games
Monday, November 20th, 2006 @ 06:58 pm
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So Matt begged for an update and I'm off work at a Christian hour and don't seem to have any sexin' on the menu this evening. I don't play WoW, though, so let's see... what's been going on lately? Something that everyone who reads this site might be interested in?
Well, I found an old Whale video last week. It has a hot geeka chica singer in it crawling around with costumes on and electric guitars and the ol' grey brick and plenty of good stuff. I sure do miss Whale. Too bad that second album wasn't much good.
What? I'm the only one around here who likes Whale? Well fuck all y'all. I'll just talk about video games.
 So Friday the PS3 went on sale. When did douchebags start lining up in front of the place where I work?
Tuesday afternoon.
I realize I'm kind of the opposite of line waiters. In fact, I refuse to wait in lines ever if I can avoid it. I look at pictures from the Great Depression and shudder. Not because of the soul-crushing poverty everywhere, just because of pictures of bread lines and shit. The only lines I'm interested in form up on mirrors. (Just kidding, Baby Jesus!) So I don't wait in lines. And I'm patient about game releases. Hell, I usually wait for shit to hit the used bin. Only way I'm getting a Wii before it releases in black is if everyone I know has one and is playing it online and I'm feeling powerfully left out. And that's not happening. So I'm no waiter.
But these people waited like three days! And my store opened two hours early to accomodate that shit. I mean, that makes no sense. We had (according to the mighty Ko) only 20 on hand. Even if we had like 100 units, it would have taken only an hour to take care of that. 20??? For a store that's always worried about how labor is being spent, I can't help but think that spending two hours of labor for the whole store wasn't such a bright idea when you consider that there's no markup on the consoles and hardly any markup on the games. Oh well. I didn't get to see any of it because I went to work after all that shit. Apparently it was all over in about twenty minutes and the only big incident was some dude was leaving the store with his waffle iron in hand and some other dude approached him and asked him how much he wanted for it and the first dude was like "Six thousand dollars" and the second dude was like "Okay".
You with me?
This isn't waiting in line for concert tickets. This is waiting for commodity entertainment stuff that in a year will be so available you won't even think about it. It's just rare right now because Sony is run by retarded mole people. Some guy paid 1000% markup just to be able to play the thing now not a month or two from now. Unless he knows where to sell it and turn a profit.
So that's that.
 When I left work Friday there was no one waiting for the Wii.
When I got to work Saturday morning there was no one waiting for the Wii.
When I took a smoke break Saturday around noon, there was a kid sitting in a chair.
Two hours later he was gone.
When I left work at six he was replaced by three people.
I was off Sunday. Reportedly we sold out of our sixty or so units pretty quickly. Oh yeah. 20 PS3s merit opening two hours early. 60 Wii only get one hour. I'll never understand retail.
One more thing. I saw the Crue last week for free. Suckas.
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