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hard counter posted:
Ever get the watch back?
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Jul 21, 2017 05:19
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I'd imagine if you started calling the cops your watch would have magically reappeared ASAP.
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Jul 21, 2017 05:45
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i did not get it back - the clerk wasn't enough of an idiot to wear it right away or just hide behind the counter since my dad did check without asking so apparently a birdbrained, blatant lie forcing a my-word-or-yours situation against a dumb middle schooler was indeed the perfect scam  i guess nowadays just calling parents/police on a cell to sort things out straight away would work out better than not having a phone because it's the early 2000s, and then having to walk home for like 40 minutes before hearing a friendly voice that'll maybe help sort things out; the barest consolation here is that it was fitted for my skinny preteen wrists, and that it more-or-less required its included maintenance kit, so without its matching metal expansion links and other tools it's not going to fit anyone, sell for full value or last more than a year or two hard counter has a new favorite as of 06:27 on Jul 21, 2017 |
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Jul 21, 2017 06:25
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SpacePig posted:and about the time he totally slammed a guy into the side of his building when he tried to steal from his store So who else remembers Acts of Gord?
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Jul 21, 2017 09:04
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John Murdoch posted:So who else remembers Acts of Gord? I only remember one of those, where this guy came in and asked him to import Final Fantasy IX for him (apparently you can just do that), then came back and complained it was in Chinese. And he laid out this sick "No, Japanese. Because it's a Japanese game. From Japan. For Japanese gamers." And then I think he lit a cigarette and the smoke spelled out JOHNNY.
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Jul 21, 2017 10:04
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John Murdoch posted:So who else remembers Acts of Gord? Holy crap, I googled it after you mentioned it and I'm so glad I did. Fantastic read.
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Jul 21, 2017 21:07
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http://www.actsofgord.com/Chronicles/chapter12.php This sick Home Improvement reference burn has stuck with me for like 15 years, the only thing I remembered about Acts of Gord.
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Jul 21, 2017 23:45
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There is a comic book store in Eugene, Oregon that threatens anyone who gives it a negative review with a $5000.00 fine and six months jail time. They research the reviewer and post their names, say they are going to contact where they go to school or where they work. And my personal favorite, going through a customer's receipts and posting how much they spent in their google review response when the customer complained that they couldn't use a debit card for purchases under $3.00. quote:Response from the owner
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Jul 22, 2017 05:59
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:There is a comic book store in Eugene, Oregon that threatens anyone who gives it a negative review with a $5000.00 fine and six months jail time. They research the reviewer and post their names, say they are going to contact where they go to school or where they work. Good luck trying to follow through with that. My only bad nerd store experience is pretty par for the course. I went into a gamestop just to browse when an employee asked if I was interested in (I think) Super Street fighter 4. I don't know what I was thinking, but I told him SF4 got way too technical for me so I wasn't gonna buy the new one. As a neckbeard myself, I didn't know what to do when he cornered me and went into a long diatribe about the character Viper. It was a lot of 'oh really' and 'wow' until I lied about having to be somewhere. It's been years, and while I'm sure he doesn't work there anymore, I still won't go back. To put a happy ending on it, I started going to a local store where the employees were much more well adjusted. I still hang out with those guys.
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Jul 22, 2017 06:47
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:There is a comic book store in Eugene, Oregon that threatens anyone who gives it a negative review with a $5000.00 fine and six months jail time. They research the reviewer and post their names, say they are going to contact where they go to school or where they work. How in the gently caress do they get away with harassment like that?!? Is Eugene a corrupt enough town for them not to be shut down or what? What disgusting pricks, I hope someone has the cash and the desire to ruin the owners and participants permanently.
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Jul 23, 2017 22:03
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Quad posted:http://www.actsofgord.com/Chronicles/chapter12.php Haha thanks for sharing these, they are a good read. I like the early 2000s nostalgia, I forgot the PS2 was like $300 at launch. I do wonder if some of these stories wander into fantasy territory, especially anything involving Gord physically stopping a thief. quote:"You want trouble? You got trouble!" spoke one of the two individuals that Gord had stopped. The individual pulled out a metal pipe from his jacket.
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Jul 23, 2017 22:20
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Haha thanks for sharing these, they are a good read. I like the early 2000s nostalgia, I forgot the PS2 was like $300 at launch. Yeah there's no chance in hell thats a thing that happened that's like a story Steven seagall would tell about himself
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Jul 23, 2017 22:31
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Aesop Poprock posted:Yeah there's no chance in hell thats a thing that happened that's like a story Steven seagall would tell about himself It didn't involve crushing any dogs?
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Jul 23, 2017 22:35
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What's sad is of all the stories that finally convinced me (I was a dumb teen) was the guy who imported final fantasy 9 only to be incredulous it was in "Chinese". Even though to even play it you'd have to mod your ps1, and the odds of someone not understanding importing while also modding their console is basically 0.
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Jul 23, 2017 23:01
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RagnarokAngel posted:What's sad is of all the stories that finally convinced me (I was a dumb teen) was the guy who imported final fantasy 9 only to be incredulous it was in "Chinese". Even though to even play it you'd have to mod your ps1, and the odds of someone not understanding importing while also modding their console is basically 0. Nah, I'd believe that. My ps1 got modded by my parents paying some guy to do it so that we could use pirated discs. 
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Jul 24, 2017 00:03
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Intoluene posted:Nah, I'd believe that. My ps1 got modded by my parents paying some guy to do it so that we could use pirated discs. My 4 year sting has paid off. Book him, fellas
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Jul 24, 2017 00:48
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I was confused by him being the shop owner and yet having time to play multiplayer Starcraft at the counter. His opponents must have had strong tolerances for pausing matches, or he made a lot of customers wait.
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Jul 24, 2017 00:52
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Yeah, people showed up at the store I worked at with modded consoles all the time. They usually had a buddy or a friend of a friend who knew how to do it. I had a regular who was Extremely Christian and came in one day with an original Xbox that he had bought at a garage sale. This was 2010 or so, so the original Xbox was well past its prime. He had discovered that it had a full set of NES and SNES ROMs installed on it and he very desperately wanted me to remove any mods from the system (which we didn't do, and I didn't know how to do) and was extremely nervous to even have the thing in his possession. I suggested that maybe he could just... not play them, but even owning the thing freaked him out. He wouldn't give it away, either, since he thought he could be implicated in the sale of stolen goods. I gave him some instructions I found on Google to uninstall them, and then he asked me if I was a Christian and if I would be interested in allowing him to witness to me about Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I politely declined and never saw him again. That's nowhere near the awkwardness of some of these stories, but it was slightly awkward for me.
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Jul 24, 2017 00:53
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Intoluene posted:Nah, I'd believe that. My ps1 got modded by my parents paying some guy to do it so that we could use pirated discs. I've never been good at anything that involves technology but even I figured out how to rig a ps1 with a spring and a bootleg game shark so I could play burned games when I was like 10
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Jul 24, 2017 01:00
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Intoluene posted:Nah, I'd believe that. My ps1 got modded by my parents paying some guy to do it so that we could use pirated discs. Yeah but i assume you understood the concept of "Japanese games are in Japanese". Im just saying the inverse of not having a modded console would be more believable. "Hey you sold me a defective disc, it doesn't even work!"
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Jul 24, 2017 01:10
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I think even back then it would have kicked back an error message explaining that the disc won't work on your system, though.
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Jul 24, 2017 01:28
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Look at you nerds who had to mod your PS1 to play pirated games. I had one of the first ones they released, I didn't do the recall they did so no mod needed. Sure the drat thing hand to be played upside down but whatever.
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Jul 24, 2017 03:15
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Aesop Poprock posted:I've never been good at anything that involves technology but even I figured out how to rig a ps1 with a spring and a bootleg game shark so I could play burned games when I was like 10 Nah, this was a complete hard mod. I'd pop my ps1 open to find the chip but  . RagnarokAngel posted:Yeah but i assume you understood the concept of "Japanese games are in Japanese". Im just saying the inverse of not having a modded console would be more believable. "Hey you sold me a defective disc, it doesn't even work!" Yes but I was also fairly bright for a 10 year old.
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Jul 24, 2017 03:26
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I got to play with one of the weird blue devkit PS1s once that could play anything and had a bunch of weird outputs. That was a good nerd store experience.
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Jul 24, 2017 03:44
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These are some really old neurons firing, but IIRC Gord is absolutely 100% fake. When it got popular someone internet detectived the business and it turned out he was shady as all hell and had a list of legal issues as long as your arm. He was a terrible proto-redpilly nerd whose store went under while he was over in Japan on "vacation", which was him staying in glorious nippon for as long as he could by spending the store's money to stay longer, but he overspent it. He's a terrible person and nobody should believe anything he says. The entire site is 100% self-aggrandizing bullshit.
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Jul 24, 2017 03:58
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Suzuran posted:These are some really old neurons firing, but IIRC Gord is absolutely 100% fake. When it got popular someone internet detectived the business and it turned out he was shady as all hell and had a list of legal issues as long as your arm. He was a terrible proto-redpilly nerd whose store went under while he was over in Japan on "vacation", which was him staying in glorious nippon for as long as he could by spending the store's money to stay longer, but he overspent it. He's a terrible person and nobody should believe anything he says. The entire site is 100% self-aggrandizing bullshit. Hahaha he has his own SAclipedia entry: https://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=235 The whole thing is worth a read, highlights: quote:Canadian owner of a video games store. Runs a website, Acts of Gord, where which he describes the idiocy of retail customers and how he deals with them.
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Jul 24, 2017 06:07
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Well that was a bit of a ride. If a jackass of such caliber comes along again, maybe an exception should be made for callout bullshit.
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Jul 25, 2017 05:18
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I guess it was Korea and not Japan, tomayto/tomahto. Stupid is as stupid does.
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Jul 25, 2017 08:51
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In a Chapters, the science fiction section is right next to the anime and manga aisle. I was out looking at the SF books while waiting for my friend, and the smell from the other side wafted over and I almost gagged. Wasn't a big fat guy though, it was a bunch of skinny teenage girls who looked like they hadn't showered in days. Their mom was sitting by the edge of the aisle presumably ignoring them.
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Jul 30, 2017 19:06
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Real Gord is a lot funnier than those stories. What a tossbag. Also it's weird that all the Barnes and Nobles I've been to now have full Manga aisles.
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Jul 31, 2017 05:13
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mind the walrus posted:Also it's weird that all the Barnes and Nobles I've been to now have full Manga aisles. I can remember over a decade ago when bookstores began to carry manga and it was clear they had no clue "manga" wasn't a single genre about dragonballs and sailor scouts. My at-the-time teenage sisters had founded an anime club at school and I was looking for something new for them, possibly holiday gifts. Waldenbooks openly had adult manga alphabetically mixed in with the couple of shelves worth of stuff. The sort of stuff where the covers didn't make it obvious, but flipping through there were half-nude ingenue gynoids in provocative poses, the kind of stuff that would have at least been shrink-wrapped had it been at the city's single "anime store" instead of a national bookseller.
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Jul 31, 2017 12:43
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:I can remember over a decade ago when bookstores began to carry manga and it was clear they had no clue "manga" wasn't a single genre about dragonballs and sailor scouts. My at-the-time teenage sisters had founded an anime club at school and I was looking for something new for them, possibly holiday gifts. Waldenbooks openly had adult manga alphabetically mixed in with the couple of shelves worth of stuff. The sort of stuff where the covers didn't make it obvious, but flipping through there were half-nude ingenue gynoids in provocative poses, the kind of stuff that would have at least been shrink-wrapped had it been at the city's single "anime store" instead of a national bookseller. I went in to a comic store in Sydney and found an english version of a hentai manga once. Almost bought it for the sheer novelty factor before having better judgement and not wanting the cashier to judge me. The ratio of these reasons informing my decision to not buy it is an exercise left to the reader. For those curious, it was Bondage Fairies, I think.
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Jul 31, 2017 13:07
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When I worked in Borders we put the manga section opposite the YA section--at the height of the Twilight/Hunger Games popularity no less--and I always found it weird to have books like Parasyte, Berserk, and Uzumaki side by side with Pokemon, Naruto, Dragonball, and Fairy Tail. No one ever really browsed or bought anything though. Borders was crazy overpriced and deserved to die.
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Jul 31, 2017 13:47
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I got a copy of Mahoromatic as a teenager from Waterstones (the UKs biggest bookseller) without realising it was essentially a hentai book. I think I returned it but it's equally likely I shoved it away into a box in a panicked and embarrassed shame.
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mind the walrus posted:When I worked in Borders we put the manga section opposite the YA section--at the height of the Twilight/Hunger Games popularity no less--and I always found it weird to have books like Parasyte, Berserk, and Uzumaki side by side with Pokemon, Naruto, Dragonball, and Fairy Tail. No one ever really browsed or bought anything though. Borders was crazy overpriced and deserved to die. I found Monster as well as a thing about high schoolers committing suicide in the same shelf as the freakin Babysitters Club at a local used book store. The cashier didn't seem to care much when I informed them that stocking manga in the kids section might not be the best plan. At least I bought most of Monster.
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I also found the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service there which was a hidden treat. That one was on the line of inappropriate. No straight hentai, thankfully. I do kind of miss that job. The pay was trash and having to sort shelves after customers ravage it every day is a special kind of abrasive, but working with books is about as cool as retail gets.
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I don't read a ton of comics, but occasionally I would buy some back issues, or a trade from the local comic shop. A few years ago there was a Mortal Kombat comic coming out to tell the story of what happens between 9 and X. I went into the shop and asked if they had any copies, and the owner said they don't sell any thing like that. I said no worries I'll just order it online, and he loving flipped his wig. "You're killing retail!... Support small business" just on and on. I was kinda flabbergasted that he told me that he didn't sell what I wanted, didn't offer to get it in for me, then lost his poo poo when I mentioned getting it online. I haven't been back since. I think the owner owns the whole strip mall he is in, and that's how he stays open, since I drive by every day, and never saw anyone in there.
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Not a gaming-store story, but it is close enough to be on topic imo, and a lovely enough experience to make up for that. So, my friend and I were probably 12 years old, and our local small-town library had a couple of role-playing events; one for just kids early in the day, and one later on for anyone older. So, we sign up for the kids' one, and had an Ok time, but when asked whether we had fun, told the organizer that we had hoped it'd be more creative, like, improve theater-ish, and we were then recommended to check out the later event for non-kids, which made us feel pretty grown up & cool. At this event we were the only ones younger than, I'm guessing, mid-20s, but it might just have been that everyone appeared to be a grown-up, and we didn't recognize anyone else, other than the guy running the kids' event earlier in the day. Apparently he had a gaming-store in a nearby larger town. and most everyone else were like hangers-on. Anyway, the organizers split everyone up into two gaming groups, and my friend and I were placed in separate groups. The game is some crime mystery detective noir thing, and we both end up getting the token female-character assigned in each of our groups, which was a sort of "femme fatale" character. The organizer in my group was the dude who ran the game for kids earlier in the day, and he did a good job at including me in an appropriate way, and I had fun, but my friend was guided into role-playing some really inappropriate stuff, the worst of which, as I remember, was probably, that in a scene where an informant is meant to be pressured for information, my friend was cajoled into making a deal with the informant by role-playing that her character was giving him a blow job, describing that and being encouraged to make gestures.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Tale 2 An older post, but I wonder the following as a possible miscommunication: There is the stereotype in a lot of gamer geek circles that GS employees in general are far less knowledgeable about gaming stuff than they themselves are. Maybe he was pointing less at her chest and more at her nametag or GS badges or something at as reference to, "...considering (you work for Gamestop)." I mean, many of the "GS Sucks" rants I've seen on the internet swing between, "LIterally everyone working in that store is stupid and doesn't know anything about games" or "I used to work for GS and I was the only person who knew a thing about games in that store and everyone from my coworkers to my district managers were idiots!!"
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Grandmother of Five posted:Anyway, the organizers split everyone up into two gaming groups, and my friend and I were placed in separate groups. The game is some crime mystery detective noir thing, and we both end up getting the token female-character assigned in each of our groups, which was a sort of "femme fatale" character. The organizer in my group was the dude who ran the game for kids earlier in the day, and he did a good job at including me in an appropriate way, and I had fun, but my friend was guided into role-playing some really inappropriate stuff, the worst of which, as I remember, was probably, that in a scene where an informant is meant to be pressured for information, my friend was cajoled into making a deal with the informant by role-playing that her character was giving him a blow job, describing that and being encouraged to make gestures.  Where the gently caress were authority figures to reign that poo poo in?!
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