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Star Wars figures for sure...

Holy crap that party looks like it was *full* of FAIL.

I feel kinda bad for the people that set that whole thing up.

So, on an interesting side-note, as of 17,264 Votes:

- 44 out of every 100 poll voters (6% fail + 38% no-fails) bought it on X360

- 28 out of every 100 poll voters ((7% + 3%) fail + (13% + 5%) no-fails) bought it on PS3

So, out of the 72 out of every 100 people that voted saying they bought some version of GTA IV, 61% bought an X360 version and 39% bought a PS3 version.

This sort of checks out with the line at my local Gamestop at midnight. When they split up the buyers into two lines, it appeared to the naked eye that there were about 2 X260 purchasers for every 1 PS3 purchaser.

Also, this backs up for the most part the other Joystiq poll, http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/14/poll-results-achievements-dlc-main-reason-to-pick-gta-iv-for-x/, if not a bit *more* leaning towards the X360.

For obvious reasons, ever since GTA III, I have associated the GTA series as a PlayStation series. Meaning when I think of GTA I automatially think of Sony even though they released some Xbox/PC ports. So 61% of joystiqers buying it on X360 is very telling of the marketshare MS has gained this generation in the US.

DMC4 also sold tons on the X360. I wonder how many sales Konami is giving up by staying soley PS3-based for MGS4.

The entry fee is $10 if you register BEFORE the date of the tourney and $15 if you register THE DAY OF the tourney. It's not $25.

There's a Play N Trade by my house that opened up last Novemeber-ish. It's OK. Seems like a family-run Gamestop. If you can imagine that...

They have a few 8/16-bit items, and you can try pretty much any game before buying. Reminds me a lot of Funcoland before it got eaten up by Babbages/Gamestop.

Same guy (owner) is *always* there. I think every time I've gone in he's chatting away with the customers. He's a friendly, helpful guy. But, unfortunately, he always seems to bring up that they're 'the little guy' and the hardships of being so: How he can't match a price or can't take defective consoles back because they have to go to the manufacturer. How they're not Best Buy or Gamestop. And my favorite, how they had to eat a lot of loss on limited edition Halo 3's, etc.

They're selling prices are comparable to gamestop for new and used. Although, I did find it rather peculiar that almost every new game is like 20 cents off MSRP. I never trade stuff in so I don't know how they're trade-ins prices compare to others. Nice looking store though.

Too bad the contest is not Rock Band. That would be 10x more fun. Then again, the 'company truck' that's always parked outside has a huge GH3 graphics all over it. They look permenent too. Maybe Activision invested? ;)

What the...? I don't recall selling the rights to a Con in my name!

Are B-52s even rock?

Some Offspring would be awesome.

But you know what would be a kickass song? Silverchair's "Tomorrow". I hadn't heard that song in years until recently... and the first thing that popped into my head is "This song is PERFECT for Rock Band!"

I'm more impressed that you found a picture of a rock band... smiling! I thought it was illegal for a rock band to smile in any photos.

All my friends are seeing their star power engaged without warning. My first guitar was broken... the yellow fret button was DOA. So I got a replacement guitar and now the problem is that the stupid star power is deployed without my consent almost all the time. It's gotten to the point where I try to stay very very still so the star power doesn't auto-deploy. It's VERY annoying.

Thanks for the link to Efron's Wiki entry... you saved me a little time there. Anybody else wondering who the hell this guy was? High School Musical, eh? Blech. The need someone like Bruce Willis at this type of thing.

Me!