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BiggerBoat posted:A thread with the worst game store, comic shop and role playing game experiences might be funny. I tried to get back into D&D about 8 years ago and it didn't take me long to remember why I stopped. I agree! I'm trying to think of one that's good enough to start a thread and isn't depressing. There was this one guy who had a girlfriend the wife didn't know about and most of the time he was there with the girlfriend he wore gamer stuff but occasionally he'd stop in with his wife and they'd practically match in polos and khakis. It was an open secret. Never knew if the wife ever found out. I'm sure you can come up with better.
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A horrible little goblinman who worked at my local Gamestop used to follow me and my girlfriend around the store and hit on her all the time. When we told him to stop, he'd shuffle boxes around on the shelves for a minute and then come back and just stand really, really close to us. I think his name was Doug.
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Jun 28, 2017 19:04
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I walked into a video game store one time that also held Magic tournaments, and was immediately hit with a wall of rear end fumes and BO. I never went back thanks for listening
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Low Desert Punk posted:I walked into a video game store one time that also held Magic tournaments, and was immediately hit with a wall of rear end fumes and BO. I never went back This one shop I went to was next to a vape shop and an Indian place, add nerd BO to that and well it was enough to make me sick.
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Jun 28, 2017 19:23
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A former coworker I hated quit his job and was hired by Electronic Boutique, presumably because the hiring manager had a stroke, leading me to boycott the store forever more. (Not that great of a sacrifice, considering Steam and all.) I have no idea whether or not he still works there, but the gauntlet is down.
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Jun 29, 2017 03:48
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"FEEEEEEEEMALES!"
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I got shouted at at a game stop because i didn't want to buy the pre owned version for only 5 dollars less. He called me a retard for paying 5 more dollars "just for shrink wrap". I stood my ground but never went to a gamestop again. Also the game i got was poo poo.
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So, I was a kid, I played Warhammer, I collected Orcs and Goblins. I'm in the GW store, buying a few dozen night goblins. Guy who works there comes up to me. “Huh, goblins. You know what's better? SKAVEN!” I make the mistake of telling him I didn't like the skaven army. He starts bellowing at me. “How can you not like SKAVEN! They're awesome! FOUL MUTANT RATS IN THE IMAGE OF MAN!” He literally stops me going to the counter unless I buy some skaven miniatures too. In the end, I just left and didn't get anything. Apparently he did that with everyone. If they actually were buying skaven, he'd try and force them to get more skaven. He got fired eventually, when the owner finally realized his 'enthusiasm' and 'hard sell' strategy was just driving customers away, but he managed to last a long time, despite being a grown man who yelled at small children who weren't buying his preferred toy soldiers....
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Jun 29, 2017 10:51
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I got shouted at at a game stop because i didn't want to buy the pre owned version for only 5 dollars less. He called me a retard for paying 5 more dollars "just for shrink wrap". I stood my ground but never went to a gamestop again. Also the game i got was poo poo. GameStop incentivizes employees to stop people from buying new games or hardware in lieu of used. http://kotaku.com/new-gamestop-program-leads-employees-to-lie-to-customer-1791874332
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olaf2022 posted:GameStop incentivizes employees to stop people from buying new games or hardware in lieu of used. I know, and I hate them for it.
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Jun 29, 2017 11:07
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I bought some speakers about a month ago.
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Cumslut1895 posted:I bought some speakers about a month ago. I'm intrigued
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Some clerk tried to sell me extended warranty on a used game I was buying once. It was awful.
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I can't even imagine how bad it is to work at a gamestop considering how awful it is to shop there. They have to have the highest number of required upsells at any retail shop I've been to it takes like a solid 5 mins just to get to the actual ring up point
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Aesop Poprock posted:I can't even imagine how bad it is to work at a gamestop considering how awful it is to shop there. They have to have the highest number of required upsells at any retail shop I've been to it takes like a solid 5 mins just to get to the actual ring up point I worked at a FuncoLand (GS predecessor) briefly after high school before I pissed off to university. Wasn't bad. But then it was basically a different company then. Had a few annoying regulars that started to come in after a while, but I was fired shortly thereafter and they became someone else's problem.
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FuncoLand was a loving weird store. I remember when I was a kid they had all their trade in values and prices in a newspaper that they kept stacked on the counter. Closest thing to a harrowing story at a nerd store I've got is a few days ago I went to Best Buy with my roommate and we got cornered by a dude who worked there and wouldn't stop talking about how virtual reality and 3D printing were going to change the world. Like yeah dude that's neat but I'm starving I want to go home and cook dinner no please quit telling me about the VR. In hindsight that was pretty boring sorry
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There was a scuffle at the comics store on Free Comicbook Day 2015 when one guy accused another of cutting in front of him in line. The two guys (both around 30) started shoving each other fighting over the spot until the clerk yelled at them and threatened to ban them from the store. Also there was a time this huge guy in a pink cowboy hat got high rate in GAME (UK equivalent to GameStop) because they wouldn't give him £10 trade in on a DVD copy of Ice Age 1 which he believed he should get RRP for since it was still factory sealed.
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Not too long ago I worked for the company that controlled the Gamestop TV in the stores. When I would remote into the player (PC) behind the screen I could hear everything going on in the store. It was really sad listening to a clerk try to get someone to take store credit over cash for a trade in. I was really tempted to put up on the screen "Just give him the drat cash". Next time you are in a Gamestop lean in and whisper to the clerk that they can hear you through the TV.
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A guy in a comic book show once talked me into buying Civil War: Frontlines
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omg chael crash posted:A guy in a comic book show once talked me into buying Civil War: Frontlines Gross. Reposting this from the AUG thread that lead to this one: I used to work at a comic shop back in college and sometimes had to run the magic gaming nights. This one guy Bill was aug city. We banned him from sitting next to anyone under 16 because he'd try to tell the kids what cards to pick in the draft so he could get better cards. One of his ex roommates told us they kicked him out after he'd repeatedly leave for weekends to go back to his mom's house to play magic with his brother, because during those weekends he'd lock the router in his room and queue up terabytes of anime porn torrents essentially keeping everyone else from being able to even check their email. He left piles of trash every time he was in the store. Another story: When I was in Highschool I played in a local card game tournament (Legend of the Five Rings, what up nerds) and I beat a guy who was in his late thirties or early 40s. He was the worst smelling person i think I've ever met (I'm now a public librarian so I've met a lot). He wore a polo that was clearly white at one point, and there was a massive sweat stain from the front collar spread to the bottom of his shirt that was brownish. I ended up beating him and he cried, that was very awkward.
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In highschool I used to go to all the pre-release tournaments for new Magic: the Gathering sets. The way those work is you get a bunch of cards from the new set to build a deck with. There was a guy who also came to all of them with his daughter (who would have been about 8-10). At some point he was caught cheating by essentially pooling his and his daughters cards. It was pretty awkward, because obviously you want to ban the cheater, but you don't want to ruin it for his daughter (who either wasn't complicit or possibly just didn't realise it was cheating). But basically the game was ruined for her because no one wanted her father around and she was too young to just show up by herself.
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Cat piss man https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3460258
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one time I was in an unfamiliar town and drove by what I thought was a videogame store but it was actually like a Warhammer store or something. So I walked in and was hella embarrassed. But I couldn't immediately walk out because then they would know I had made a mistake and I would be more ashamed. So I looked around the store for a few minutes and pretended to browse. Then I left. In one section of the store they had some tables where you could play board games. There were some guys there and there was a female too. I didn't talk to anyone so hopefully no one realized what I did
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I went to a store for a particular cable, and was recommended a small game shop I hadn't heard of. However apparently just before I walked in someone else had come i with a few hundred pounds and cleared them out of all videogame stuff, so now they are just tabletop. That's literally what they told me happened.
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Chrs Gry posted:Also there was a time this huge guy in a pink cowboy hat got high rate irate?
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I stopped by a GW store while I was in Germany, one of the dudes there caught wind that I was American (after incorrectly guessing every Scandinavian country and Manx (??)) and wouldn't stop talking about how great America was. There was a stack of really low production Korean horror movies sitting out on the sidewalk outside that I brought back and still need to watch
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Once had a falling out with the people that ran Encounters(now Adventurer's League) at my favorite nerd shop. Went to another one to try to get in a game. They said that their DMs were paid and players had to pony up $15/mo. Talked 'em into prorating me because the month was half over and paid like 8 bucks for two weeks of gaming. I show up on game day and they seat me with some mid 40's nerd, his 12 year old daughter, and her friend. I sit down and unpack my dice, thinking that another player or two were gonna show up and make this less weird. The other players never did. This nerd shop looked at my then 26 year old rear end and thought it was a cool idea to have me paying money to hang out with literal children and their dad. I played enough to be polite for the 2 hours, told the guy at the counter to lose my info, and never went back again.
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this game store had this luxurious gaming setup (velvet loveseat and a 30" tv with all the new cd based systems hooked up) and i assumed it was for employees only and didnt ask if i could use till like the third time i was there. played the original legacy of kain game but didnt buy it because i didnt have a playstation at the time, suckers lol
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My problem is that when my friends dragged me to the game shop to play M:tG there was one rear end in a top hat who spent, not exaggerating, the better part of an hour berating me and literally every other casual/new player for not automatically knowing how the game works/the most minmaxed deck.
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One time I was at a game store for an event, trying to meet some people since I'd just moved hundreds of miles. Left when some fat 20-something in a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers shirt, two sizes too small and unwashed since the original run of the show, started talking about how he wished some anime card game would include a set based on some gross anime porn he watched....complete with descriptions of rapes and poo poo. The owner of the store was RIGHT THERE and did nothing, even as normal people like me were getting grossed out and leaving. That place changed locations and names since then but that was such a disgusting experience I've still never gone back. Seriously, nerd store people, shun anyone that awful, I promise it's okay to do so, everyone will be happier in the long run except the guy that wants to play cartoon rape card games, and gently caress that guy anyway.
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When I rarely go to a game store, I become incredibly uncomfortable with the way I've let the facade of maturity stand in the way of enjoying immature things, and the deep contradiction the rare exception makes.
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ikanreed posted:When I rarely go to a game store, I become incredibly uncomfortable with the way I've let the facade of maturity stand in the way of enjoying immature things, and the deep contradiction the rare exception makes. Who cares? As long as you're not eating like an idiot and the bills are getting paid, just enjoy what you enjoy. Worry too much about keeping up a childish "Facade" and you'll neglect the true feelings that it is masking.
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Sociopastry posted:My problem is that when my friends dragged me to the game shop to play M:tG there was one rear end in a top hat who spent, not exaggerating, the better part of an hour berating me and literally every other casual/new player for not automatically knowing how the game works/the most minmaxed deck. Sorry, I was in a bad mood that day
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Not in store but nerd related. I dropped my car off at a dealership and went to their sweet cafe they had. When I got there there was a young girl working and this 350 pound mid 20s guy non stop talking about video games. It had gone on long enough that this girl had dropped all semblance of politeness and would answer with one word if at all. "Do you play world of Warcraft?" "No" "I do because (45 seconds of his character). Do you play war hammer?" "No" And repeat. I ordered a coffee and this guy immediately started talking as soon as one of us finished a sentence and the expression on her face as she handed me the coffee was one of resigned death.
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more like oldJaceless
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that would have been funnier if I submitted it after your first post I've either been lucky enough not to witness anything like you guys brought up; or I've been that guy the entire time and never realized it Rangpur has a new favorite as of 17:56 on Jul 3, 2017 |
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When I was 14ish I used to go to a reasonably big wargames club - big enough that though WHFB and 40k were the main games, there were some other older guys playing some old historical games too. The other kids there were alright, all relatively normal, but some of the adults were a bit odd. The worst was guy in his late 30s who played brettonians and was the dictionary definition of a power gamer. Guy was a dick to play against. Fast forward 5 years and I'm working in a video store when my favourite person walks in. Weirdly, he had one of the guys my age (also from the club) with him. I don't know if they were related or if this kid was the only friend he could find. We had a awkward moment of recognition before they put a couple of porn DVDs on the counter, paid and left.
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A few years ago, for a Halloween costume, I needed a bit of paint. I didn't want to spend money on paint I wouldn't use, so I said gently caress it and figured I'd go to a now-closed GM store. They sell those tiny paint bottles, which was pretty much perfect for the amount I needed. My most vivid memory was the BO. I have a really weak sense of smell, and have my whole life, and it hit my nose like a freight train. I remember turning to my girlfriend and giving her a "is this a bad smell?" look, and she nodded like crazy. We find where the paints are being sold, and there's two guys hunched over a paint-covered desk, painting their figurines. You could've cast these two as Bulk and Skull in that Power Rangers movie, because shape-wise they fit to the T. One was quite overweight, the other was tiny and wirey, both with clearly unwashed hair. Big Buy had short brown hair and a neckbeard, Small Guy had long blonde hair and a halfhearted attempt at a beard, impeded by a lot of acne. As I'm looking for the colors I needed, these two begin what I think is a conversation. I only realize after the fact that it's an interrogation. Is that my girlfriend? She says yes, because she can speak for herself. Do I play 40k? I played Dawn of War, sure*, read too much of the lore, and I grew up with Starcraft, which was kinda-sorta 40k*. No, I'm not too interested in playing 40k, I've always been a little interested but the price is rather high and the idea of putting them together myself felt like a chore*. After that, the conversation was over, I had my paints, and we left. As we're driving home, my girlfriend told me that Big Guy kept licking his lips and staring at her tits. * They did not like these answers, for the record.
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MisterBibs posted:A few years ago, for a Halloween costume, I needed a bit of paint. I didn't want to spend money on paint I wouldn't use, so I said gently caress it and figured I'd go to a now-closed GM store. They sell those tiny paint bottles, which was pretty much perfect for the amount I needed. lolololololol you could have gotten six times as much paint for a quarter of the price if you weren't so weird about "paint you wont use". Especially for a costume - hobby miniature paint has a shitload more pigment in it than regular craft acrylic because it's meant to be thinned, and you'd never need that on a costume....and GW paint is insanely marked up even then. MisterBibs'd again!!
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