In response to Prof. Prole's fanboy inqueries:
-I used to wonder what some of those guys did for a living too, but I wasn't going to make the mistake of talking to them any more than I had to!
-One friend of mine who did almost nothing but play MMORPGs (this was back when Everquest was the big game) was able to keep up his lifestyle because his parents were rich. The room he had in his mother's house was bigger than the last apartment I lived in! At one point he got kicked out of school (one story I heard was that he was into some game which had bases you needed to defend. Everything was real time, and if your base got attacked, you had the option of getting text alerts [possibly phone calls?] to your cell warning you about this. So he'd get these messages and BOLT from class back to his dorm room. I WONDER WHY HE FAILED OUT?) and as "punishment," was confined to his room all day long. His parents took away his car, so all he'd do 24 hours a day for six-eight months was play Everquest until 8am, sleep until the late afternoon, get up and order a pizza, and repeat the entire process all over again.
-I don't think any of the fanboys that came into my store had the most luxurious of jobs. Most of them wore years-old faded comic book t-shirts. There was this one trio of dudes we used to call "The Three Amigos" who, for most of the nine years I worked at the store, wore the same exact clothes every time they came in, no matter what the season. These guys never bought anything; they'd just come in, ask to check out the latest import, and then leave to go get themselves a burned copy. The leader would always say "My girlfriend in Japan's going to send me a copy," LOL. We stopped seeing them after we were finally given permission by the boss to not let them try out any game until they finally bought something. I remember one of them muttering something about how he had purchased a game like
two years earlier.
Eventually they did come back, but only that same guy would come in alone and attempt to try out a game while the others sat in the car outside.
-Your impression of the guy who called about Area 51 was dead-on except for the end. He SCREAMED "AREA 51!!!!!!!!!!!!!" incredibly loud and slammed the phone down!
I guess the "punchline" is that he was so convinced the game existed on Dreamcast, and wanted me to waste time running down the gun games on the system anyway.
-@ Swaggaz' anime club story
-Totally in agreement with everyone on the nostalgic memories of there being far less fanboys back in the day. It's hard to believe I used to actually enjoy going to game stores once!
