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My cat asked me post the following:

Meow!

That is all

I'd like to buy the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves.

Due to the ease of its location, I started buying games from GS that is 20 seconds from my house in a new strip mall that opened. Here is what I have learned or assessed from going there (and from other locations as well):

1.) If you know anything about gaming/games, you should not be allowed to work at Gamestop. This may not make sense to you, but it does to a person that doesn't want to sit behind someone for 15 damn minutes and listen to them drool back and forth with the employee about the latest and greatest of whatever. Ring me up, shut the hell up, and get me out of the store.

2.) The price of used games at GS, is out of control. I stopped in at a local Target to look at PSP games. They had a couple I wanted at $14.99, but I decided to just hit GS on the way back home and get the used ones cheaper. Nope. I got to GS and they had all the games anywhere from $3.00-$6.00 higher...USED, than they were new. I asked the clerk working if they would price match the used games to save me a trip back. She said, and I quote "No we can't because the return policy is just the same as a new game." I stared at her for what must have been 2 minutes hoping she would realize how stupid she just sounded. I said "I can go buy the new ones cheaper, and have the same return policy, from another store. I am asking you, if you could match the price to a.) save me a trip and b.) get some money in this stores already fat pockets". She did not seem to understand the problem with the situation. Which leads me to my next point.

3.) The people that work at Gamestop, and I am going to go on a limb and say...90% of the employees, are all morons. We have two in my city, and I have been to at least 40+ across the US in my travels over the last year, and at each store, almost always a moron behind the counter. Now this could be true anywhere you go, and it usually is, but the monosyllabic vernacular of the employees of GS is amazing. I am sure there are rare cases where a potential Nobel Prize winning physicist is working behind the counter, but that is just as rare as winning the Nobel Prize.

4.) Anyone else want to punch the clerk in the face when they try and sell you on anything from a reserve, pre-order, or peripheral? I understand the "upsell and make a sale" moto that these stores push but this is the ONLY store I have ever been too where 5 minutes is wasted during the "I give you money you give me game" transaction for "Did you reserve Madden yet? Do you want to?"; "Have you checked out the new wireless headset and doodad that attaches to your heart and kills you for real when you die in game?".. seriously, stop it. I have never had a time where I went into a GS and didn't get the run-down. (I know there are forums dedicated to this rant).

What is really bad about the push concept, is that it negates a lot of games that don't get the push. Games that are great and looked over because the pockets of the company that made it were not big enough to grease the hand of Gamestop to push their game. That is just sad..

5.) Unless someone steps up, and I mean another company, and attempts to dethrone GS as the be all, end all, gaming store for the masses, it is only going to get worst. The prices are going to climb in their stores, the employees are going to get even worse. I mean think about what they pay people..only dipshits and mongrels are going to want to work for that kind of pay. The pushes are going to get out of hand, and the library of games is going to suffer from it.

Not only do I approve of the Mullet, I am a client!

"in middle ages it was often a very common tactic to surround a particularly dangerous enemy until someone much more qualified could come and fight them"

That...made me chortle. You a big expert on Middle Age fighting tactics when dealing with multi-dimensional horde beasts? Come on..

Am I the only one who misses the point of this genre of game and its recent surge? From Dynasty Warriors to Heavenly Sword, to this pile of excrement. It seems like a mindless bash. Is that what video games, and the players of said games have come to? Gamers are so dumb now the only thing they know is "push X really fast!!!!!11". That is all these games are.

Don't you dare say it takes skill either, or this game is a challenge. Because if you believe that then I can only assume that you have failed at preparing a Pop-Tart. Same amount of effort required in both. What skill and challenge is there in, "Oh, 100 guys coming my way, better slam on the X button....there we go. They dead..oh wait..100 more."

Mindless.

I can't wait to see what the next line of games like this will be. "Are you ready for Slash Your Ass Off 2k9?! In Slash Your Ass Off 2k9 you take on hordes of drones of mindless fucking has beens and worthless AI as your controller plays the game for you! Just load the disc, sit back and get ready for the EXTREME!"

They are part of the Halo Universe whether you like them or not. I would not want to face the beer swillin' frat boys that make up the large portion of Halo's online Universe weaponless. Because I don't think my fist would be enough...

I have been rejected at multiple Circuit City stores. Their claim "You have to buy a 360 to get that deal". I called them out on this but each time was shot down when multiple managers got involved.

For Nintendo the only game it can be is Super Mario Bros. Every game since then is still building upon what that game created.

Favorite location (subject) - City-scapes, any city, using my pet Goldfish as the subject.

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