an agonizing gamestop moment episode 69: the lovelorn

[recursivelyenumerable]

This thread is making me wonder if I should've tried to hit on that adorably super-nerdy GS clerk who gave me an unsolicited (but not unwelcomed) disquisition on Sting games and SRPG tactics when I bought Knights in the Nightmare.  Now I'll spend the rest of the night moping and wondering what might have been.  Thanks a lot, Prole.

[Mandark]

According to cutting edge PUA research, you should have found a way to playfully assert your alpha-ness all in the context of SRPG's.  Maybe you can think of a way to do this for the next time.

[Diunx]

I was in the state during E305, the gamestops and eb games were like a real life current gaf gaming side, I couldn't spend more than 5 minutes without someone asking me if the graphics of killzone 2 would fit on a single dvd, luckily I had the "no hablo ingles" defense.

[Mr. Gundam]

bellevue crossroads gamestop. hey, if yer ever in the microsoft area, we should have lunch!

My mom used to work at Crossroads, so whenever I'd have lunch with her I'd hit up the Crossroads Gamestop, they always had great stuff in their used inventory.

I was at the International District Pink Gorilla the other day, and this dude who had to be in his mid-50s was rilfing through the old Turbo Grafix inventory and trying to impress the girl working with his knowledge of the system... I don't think he'd showered in a week. She looked really scared... 

[Kestastrophe]

On Thursday, the gamestop dude wanted me to justify moving my pre-order of Bad Company 2 to GOW3. I ignored him and got Red Faction off the shelf, checked my receipt that the move was made, and left without saying another word.

 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

The Pro^TM move would have been to trade-in MW2 towards BC2. smh

[Van Cruncheon]

kesta: maf did just that!

and yeah, tvc is getting ripped these days. he coulda crushed that nerd's head between his forearm and bicep.

[The Fake Shemp]

It's kind of scary to imagine TVC ripped.

... and a little erotic.

[The Fake Shemp]

Post pics plz

[BlueTsunami]

TVC is going to the gym? Oh god, the mixture of intelligence, cynicism, dark humor and muscles will be too much for life.

[drew]

So, I went to gamestop today and one of the clerks proceeded to hit on my mother saying shit like "If you want, I can give you my number and you can call and ask me about games". So I leaned over and said "Has dad talked about plans for your anniversary?" and he went in the back to check something and never came back.


I'll never be going to that store ever again!

if i was in your place i would have run a train on that mother fucker

[etiolate]

i wonder at what point does hiring tight jeaned hipster boys become financially beneficial in bringing in the female gaming crowd

I picture Gamestops looking like a lego smelly Urban Outfitters.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I met a guy who was still rocking the hipster look pretty well in his early 30s or so, so maybe there's still time for me.  But I've got to exercise.

[tiesto]

There was a mall in Hayward that had a Funcoland and EB Games in the same mall, and right outside across the parking lot (still within the confines of the "mall") was a GameStop. Then literally two blocks away was another GameStop.

And during the holidays, they opened a GameStop kiosk inside the middle of the mall.

I imagine we'll look back at that kind of expansion as one of the reasons the company is dead, along with the fact that most consumers buy their games digitally.

Right after the GS/EB merger, there were 4 GS stores in Roosevelt Field (largest mall on the island), and 3 in Smith Haven (which is where I live by, and probably the second largest), with a 4th store in a strip mall right next door. And it took them about a year or so to rectify this...

There was one cute GS employee I ran into at the Source mall a while back, she was a skinny Latina - She started talking to me all about games and stuff, then a few weeks later I returned and she actually remembered me. But that was when I was still too shy to ask for a # or something. Most of the GS I go to don't have any traditionally cute girls, mostly the nerdy tomboyish type (which is fine by me!) working there.