Downloading.
Hopefully this will help me get through my day.
:piss work :piss2
Downloading.
Hopefully this will help me get through my day.
:piss work :piss2
Just think about me and you on a trip in the mountains and we sleep in a tent together like brokeback mountain but instead of gay we are super gay. wat?
Just finished. Again, bravo for something I can listen to at work and get some amazing laughs, along with agreeing through most of it.
Fanboy story without your usual fanboys. I work at a game retailer that I'm not allowed to speak about online (it's in our manual that if we do, we could lose our job, but if you want a Game, Stop on by). It was the UFC 2009 release, and I was working for the first time in a couple of months. Keep in mind, I live in Kentucky. Our most dreaded releases are fighting games and NASCAR games. "That game... you know, OH NINE" is one of our popular sellers. Anyway, I was working the door, and was talking with some of the customers. One of them was dressed like an MMA fighter (because he was one, he just wore his gear to the store). Another gentleman walked up to him, and started yelling about the first guy sucking at UFC games. They went back and forth for a few minutes about how they could kick each others' asses at the game, as well as in the ring, until finally, the second guy pushed the first one into the wall. The first guy pulled his fist back at about the same time that the store manager turned around and threatened to call the police if it went any farther than it already had. We almost had a fucking fist fight in the prering line of our store over who was better at a UFC game.
And the usual fanboy story. Halo 3 release day, the line started at 4AM the day before. Someone actually sat outside the store for nearly a full 24-hour period. The only time he came in was when someone was there to save his place, and the reason for him coming inside was to buy one of each thing on the Halo merch standee. The guy must have dropped over $400 in one day, because he got the Legendary edition of Halo 3, and all that other crap. And he sat there all fucking day, talking about Halo and quoting lines and events in Halo lore.
Just finished. Again, bravo for something I can listen to at work and get some amazing laughs, along with agreeing through most of it.
Fanboy story without your usual fanboys. I work at a game retailer that I'm not allowed to speak about online (it's in our manual that if we do, we could lose our job, but if you want a Game, Stop on by). It was the UFC 2009 release, and I was working for the first time in a couple of months. Keep in mind, I live in Kentucky. Our most dreaded releases are fighting games and NASCAR games. "That game... you know, OH NINE" is one of our popular sellers. Anyway, I was working the door, and was talking with some of the customers. One of them was dressed like an MMA fighter (because he was one, he just wore his gear to the store). Another gentleman walked up to him, and started yelling about the first guy sucking at UFC games. They went back and forth for a few minutes about how they could kick each others' asses at the game, as well as in the ring, until finally, the second guy pushed the first one into the wall. The first guy pulled his fist back at about the same time that the store manager turned around and threatened to call the police if it went any farther than it already had. We almost had a fucking fist fight in the prering line of our store over who was better at a UFC game.
And the usual fanboy story. Halo 3 release day, the line started at 4AM the day before. Someone actually sat outside the store for nearly a full 24-hour period. The only time he came in was when someone was there to save his place, and the reason for him coming inside was to buy one of each thing on the Halo merch standee. The guy must have dropped over $400 in one day, because he got the Legendary edition of Halo 3, and all that other crap. And he sat there all fucking day, talking about Halo and quoting lines and events in Halo lore.
we need to read this next ep, kevin
The Anime X Overlord: This guy fit one of the anime nerd stereotypes at the time: Pale, skinny as a toothpick, goofy haircut, and tacky Hawaiian shirt. He looks at the tapes we have for sale and then asks me if I like anime. I was always hesitant to say yes, so I just said I'd seen a few things, and he DEMANDS to know what. "Uh, I like older stuff like Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, that kind of thing," I say. "Oh okay," he snorts, "I'm the president of Anime X, and if you had said Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z, I would have turned right around and walked out the door." The rest of this guy's annoying question-filled-no-purchases-made "visit" was spent with me wishing I'd said Dragonball.
I had many fanboy encounters when I worked at a now-closed used/import game store from 1996-2005. Some of the most memorable encounters include:
-Dragoncon '96: We had a booth set up and used our time there to hock Japanese games to the great unwashed attending the convention. Apart from selling an entire set of Dragonball manga to one of the members of GWAR, one fanboy who stands out in particular was a guy who absolutely jumped at the chance to get his hands on the GREATEST FIGHTING GAME OF ALL TIME-- I'm talking about of course Battle Arena Toshinden 2. After wiping the drool from his chin, the guy bought the game and asked any of us if we knew any secret codes. I, being the rookie, made the mistake of saying I knew the boss code, and then the guy runs behind the booth, gets in front of me, drops to his knees, and proceeds to bow at my feet, loudly proclaiming me his new overlord. The stench was vomit-inducing.
-The 30 year old Yu-Gi-Oh! Player: In the last few years before the store shut down, my bosses decided to start carrying trading card games, and after they started selling well, started holding tournaments on Saturdays at one store location, which I unfortunately had to go and work at from open to close for a period of time. There was a regular crowd of pre-teens every week, but also occasionally this group of creepy 30+ year old guys that would come in to trade cards with the kids and even take part in the tournaments. One unfortunate Friday, one of these guys comes in alone to thumb through the boxes of single cards for sale at the counter. He pulls out the cards, organizes them by type, and then proceeds to start going through them all-- this took about three hours. I made the mistake of allowing him to use the store bathroom -the place was FOUL for thirty minutes afterward- and during his absence, I phone another location to tell another employee about this loser. Turns out he had been at that store earlier in the day, for four hours straight doing the same thing.
-The Macross Uber-Fan: From the time he came into the shop until the time he left two hours later, this guy did not stop flapping his gums about Macross and how much he loved it. I got into a "fight" with the manager at the the time over who got to be the lucky one and leave to go get food for the two of us. He won, and I had to stand around listening to this guy go on and on over something I didn't know or give a shit about.
-The Light Gun Enthusiast: This was a phone call I received-
Me: Can I help you?
Him: Do you have Area 51 for the Sega Dreamcast?
Me: Area 51? That never came out for the Dreamcast. Maybe you mean the Sega Saturn?
Him: No, the Dreamcast.
Me: Well I'm sorry, but we don't have it, and to my knowledge that game only came out for the Playstation and Saturn.
Him: Can you tell me what gun games you do have on the Dreamcast?
Me: Sure, let me see here...we have Death Crimson OX, Virtua Cop 2, House Of The Dead 2, and I think there's one more...it's...hmm...let me see...
Him: AREA 51!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Phone Slams Down On The Other End*
The Anime X Overlord: This guy fit one of the anime nerd stereotypes at the time: Pale, skinny as a toothpick, goofy haircut, and tacky Hawaiian shirt. He looks at the tapes we have for sale and then asks me if I like anime. I was always hesitant to say yes, so I just said I'd seen a few things, and he DEMANDS to know what. "Uh, I like older stuff like Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, that kind of thing," I say. "Oh okay," he snorts, "I'm the president of Anime X, and if you had said Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z, I would have turned right around and walked out the door." The rest of this guy's annoying question-filled-no-purchases-made "visit" was spent with me wishing I'd said Dragonball.
QuoteThe Anime X Overlord: This guy fit one of the anime nerd stereotypes at the time: Pale, skinny as a toothpick, goofy haircut, and tacky Hawaiian shirt. He looks at the tapes we have for sale and then asks me if I like anime. I was always hesitant to say yes, so I just said I'd seen a few things, and he DEMANDS to know what. "Uh, I like older stuff like Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, that kind of thing," I say. "Oh okay," he snorts, "I'm the president of Anime X, and if you had said Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z, I would have turned right around and walked out the door." The rest of this guy's annoying question-filled-no-purchases-made "visit" was spent with me wishing I'd said Dragonball.
Imagine that times ~20 people and you wouldn't have my one and only experience with an Anime club 3 years ago.
My friend and I sat there as we watched these people would sing the intro to Ouran High School Host Club, do the Haruhi dance, discuss which Haruhi characters they would role play, have arguments about orders to watch Haruhi and eventually vote on what the next anime to watch was. My friend wasn't into anime, but I was, and needless to say, I didn't want to be after that.
I just remembered that the leader of the club was some Asian girl they would call *something*-chan. I don't want these memories :'( And these people were adults, or old enough to be in college.
well, lyte edge just gave us 15 minutes of listener comments :hyper
QuoteThe Anime X Overlord: This guy fit one of the anime nerd stereotypes at the time: Pale, skinny as a toothpick, goofy haircut, and tacky Hawaiian shirt. He looks at the tapes we have for sale and then asks me if I like anime. I was always hesitant to say yes, so I just said I'd seen a few things, and he DEMANDS to know what. "Uh, I like older stuff like Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, that kind of thing," I say. "Oh okay," he snorts, "I'm the president of Anime X, and if you had said Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z, I would have turned right around and walked out the door." The rest of this guy's annoying question-filled-no-purchases-made "visit" was spent with me wishing I'd said Dragonball.
Imagine that times ~20 people and you wouldn't have my one and only experience with an Anime club 3 years ago.
My friend and I sat there as we watched these people would sing the intro to Ouran High School Host Club, do the Haruhi dance, discuss which Haruhi characters they would role play, have arguments about orders to watch Haruhi and eventually vote on what the next anime to watch was. My friend wasn't into anime, but I was, and needless to say, I didn't want to be after that.
I just remembered that the leader of the club was some Asian girl they would call *something*-chan. I don't want these memories :'( And these people were adults, or old enough to be in college.
I'll give it a watch this weekend.
sounds like you met some "interesting" people Lyte
Wow Lyte. :lol
i really think it would be cool if lyte made an appearance on the podcast to talk about his fanboy experiences.
As for the ending of Drag Me To Hell:spoiler (click to show/hide)I gotta say I liked it a lot. When you look at most horror films, there's this period of victory where the heroine has "won" and then all of a sudden the tables are nonsensically reversed -- Jason/Freddy/whoever just shows up again for no explainable reason because they have to set things up for a sequel. You thought they were dead, but for reasons unknown they survived. At least here there was some kind of established setup for the twist ending. Yeah, it's a little slipshod and convenient.....but certainly better than average.[close]