Sonybot: "Nintendo? Don't say that word, my ears are bleeding!!"

[Diablos]

Fucked up.

[etiolate]

I'd only rub one out for a metroid game. 

[Diablos]

 

 

[cloudwalking]

Unrelated to games, but someone who worked at an Olive Garden near where I used to live got in big trouble when he got caught jizzing in the food somehow. The place ended up closing because no one would go there after that.

[MrAngryFace]

ALFREDO!

[The Fake Shemp]

I'm trying to find a definitive special sauce joke for that, but having trouble narrowing it down to one...

... an unrelated note, what did you think of the food, cloud? 

[CajoleJuice]

People are fucked up.

[cloudwalking]

I'm trying to find a definitive special sauce joke for that, but having trouble narrowing it down to one...

... an unrelated note, what did you think of the food, cloud? 

I never went there It wasn't in the same city I lived in, and I never really got around to driving out that far to go to it.

One of my friends dad owned an Italian place in town and I got to eat free there anyway 

But some of my friends had gone to that Olive Garden, they were traumatized for weeks after they heard this.

[The Fake Shemp]

That's bullshit, cloud.  I have been told at Olive Garden that you FEEL LIKE FAMILY and you have just insulted FAMILY, you fiend!

[MrAngryFace]

I KNOW PEOPLE HATE OLIVE GARDEN BUT THE ZUPPA TOSCANA ROX!

Ingredients:
12 small spicy sausage links
2 medium potatoes, cut in half lengthwise, and then cut into 1/4" slices
3/4 cup onions, diced
6 slices bacon
1 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
2 cups kale leaves, cut in half, then sliced
2 tablespoons chicken base
1 qt. water
1/3 cup heavy whipping cream


Directions:

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Place sausage links onto a sheet pan and bake for 25 minutes, or until done; cut in half length-wise, then cut at an angle into 1/2 inch slices.

Place onions and bacon in a large saucepan and cook over medium heat until onions are almost clear. Remove bacon and crumble. Add garlic to the onions and cook an additional 1-minute. Add chicken base, water, and potatoes, simmer 15 minutes. Add crumbled bacon, sausage, kale and cream. Simmer 4 minutes and serve.



This recipe for Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana serves/makes 4

[The Fake Shemp]

That's because YOU ARE FAMILY, MAF.

YOU MESS WITH ONE OF US YOU MESS WITH ALL OF US.

[MrAngryFace]

MY FAMILY DOESNT DO THAT TO MY FOOD!

[Bloodwake]

Honestly, I am the only game store employee who knows his shit, because I get it from GAF or news sources rather than pulling it out of my ass.

Most of the people who work at GameStop/EB are pretty much those kids who you remember from high school who would make shit up off the top of their heads to try to impress you because they know you are the video game geek.

For example, in 2002 three or four people tried to tell me all about the PS3, whenever there wasn't hardly any official information. Most of those people are trying to get a job at GameStop.

At my GameStop, I automatically correct other employees if they start telling customers bullshit. Most of the time, right in the middle of whenever they are telling people that shit. I then proceed to tell the customer the correct information. The other employee doesn't do it anymore after that.

GameStop/EB tries to find people who know more about working retail and who will do it for minimum wage rather than find employees that know their shit. People with experience in retail know how to pitch reserves and subscriptions, and push selling used stuff. People who know games need more training.

Which is why after this month, I don't plan on working at a GameStop anymore.

Fuck it, I'm going to make a thread about the shit they've pulled while I've worked at GameStop... since this is a closed (more closed) forum, I shouldn't get fired for it.

[MrAngryFace]

Yeah, I dunno, id still be careful.

[Bloodwake]

Yeah, I dunno, id still be careful.

Yeah, you are right.... ON AUGUST 24th, YOU WILL HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT GAMESTOP FROM AN INSIDER... BECAUSE I WON'T WORK FOR THEM ANYMORE.

[Diablos]

No one knows who you are.

[MrAngryFace]

1st Rule of the Internet: Trust No One

It has served me well.

[Bloodwake]

1st Rule of the Internet: Trust No One

It has served me well.

I've heard enough horror stories about people getting fired for posting about EB/GameStop on the internet in a less than positive way. Even on really lesser known forums. I think they hire people to just search forums for people who bitch about their jobs so they can fire them.

I've got two or three weeks left... I will wait. Plus, now that I think about it, a lot of people I work with know I post on GAF, and know I go by Bloodwake, so that probably wouldn't be too smart to do a shoot promo on GameStop quite yet.

[Diablos]

You've already posted your pic here, and the fact that you even considered exposing some things about them shows that you have at least some disdain for the company. If anyone was watching, they'd already be obligated to inform them about this.

[BobbyRobby]

I love game store employees, and regular customers.

I used to have this one kid who came in all the time, who was a total Nintendo fanboy.  I loved him to death.  He'd just walk around the store trying to strike up conversations with me.  He had some of the all-time worst segues into conversation ever.  One time he was looking at the box to the PS2 Shinobi, and says, "Ahhh, Shinobi.  That was the first game I rented for the Sega Genesis."  Another time he was talking about the Metroid Prime 2 demo that you got for registering Nintendo games, and I said sometyhing like, "You got yours already?  It's been like two weeks and I haven't got mine."  The next day he comes in and starts talking about it again, and I tell him I still haven't gotten mine.  He asks me if I want to try out his, and I ask, "Oh , you have it with you?"  He did, so I unlocked the store Gamecube and played it, while the kid gave me a tutuorial the entire time.  It was surreral.

I felt bad for the kid because one day he was in the store buying one of the Mega Man Battle Network games with his dad, and there were these kids from his school behind him.  As soon as he left, one kid says, "he's a senior, and he's buying fucking Mega Man with his dad," while snickering.  The way I see it is that Gamestop is probably one of the few places these people feel welcome, who am I to take that away from them
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I think that Olive Garden story is an urban legend.  I heard a similar story that some girl got AIDS from eating there, and they tested the food, and there was semen from something ridiculous like 5 people.

Do you live in NJ Cloudwalking?

[cloudwalking]

Do you live in NJ Cloudwalking?

nope

[Bloodwake]

You've already posted your pic here, and the fact that you even considered exposing some things about them shows that you have at least some disdain for the company. If anyone was watching, they'd already be obligated to inform them about this.

Eh, that's okay. I just got my schedule for next week, and evidently they don't believe in letting me work my final two weeks. I only work two days next week.

If I keep gettting shifts like that, it won't matter if I get fired or not.

[Flannel Boy]

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[Van Cruncheon]

Bloodwake, your issue lies with the magazine rack. Go forth and express your gamestore employment frustrations in the time-honored fashion.

[Bloodwake]

Bloodwake, your issue lies with the magazine rack. Go forth and express your gamestore employment frustrations in the time-honored fashion.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!

True story... I kicked it one day after close. I then had to clean it up. It was still funny.

[brawndolicious]

I'd only rub one out for a metroid game. 

[Mr. Spinnington]

To thread:

Yes, EB Games/Gamestop is distinguished mentally-challenged as hell.  It's sad that there's one Gamestop slaving most gamers at Ball State, but there is also a Circuit City, Best Buy, and Wal*Mart.  People who shop at Gamestop are just plain dickheads, anyway...

All my preorders for consoles will be at major retailers this year, just avoid this:

Okay, so today I had a job interview, and it happened to be close by to my mom's store. So I agreed to go in and help her after my interview was over.

She recently hired a new assistant manager. I hadn't met him yet, but mom described him as a "character". Okay.

So I walked in after my interview, and I see the guy, and my first impression is that he looks like some sort of child molestor or something. Just sorta creepy-looking. But whatever, I do the polite thing and introduce myself, then I go behind the front counter and start ringing up customers while him and my mom unpack shipment in the back.

After about 15 minutes, it got slow, so I took the time to have some of my drink and bust out my DS to take a look at what time it was, and maybe play some FFIV.

Well he comes walking up to get a boxcutter or something and says, out of the blue, In an excited child sort of tone, "You hear about the PS3?"

Since he seemed creepy I decided to keep my side of the conversation pretty limited. "Yeah."

"It's gonna be sweeeeeeet."

"Yup."

"You know about all the stuff it can do?"

At this point I wanted to mention that yes, I do happen to know all about it, I read gaming news everyday and I just happened to be at E3 when they showed the damn thing. But I just said "yes."

My mistake! Even though I had just told him I have adequate knowledge of the PS3's functions, he proceeded to list everything off that it could do, including, as he put it, "You can burn your own games to a memory stick"

So then he says "Oh I just can't wait. It's going to be so awesome!!! I'm saving up for one now, and I already have a premium preordered for $150. ARE YOU GETTING ONE?!"

I was like "I don't know. It's pretty expensive. I'll probably get Nintendo's console first."

So then he does the dumbest thing, he gives me a look like he has a headache and proceeds to jam a finger in his ear.

"AUGH! I think my ears are bleeding! Nintendo, ew, if it isn't Sony I don't want to hear about it!"

Then he fucking turns around and walks into the back room like he was disgusted with me.

Are all Sony fanboys this creepy in real life? I just coudn't believe this guy.

I really can't believe how angry I get when I hear misinformed information that people are bent on believing.  It's like... what am I supposed to do to that person?

There has to be a way to embarrass people like this so that they stop... one day.

[Bloodwake]

Its a good thing you didn't tell him that you were at E3 Cloudwalking, he might have just whipped it out and started masturbating furiously right there.

[The Fake Shemp]

IT PUTS THE LOTION ON ITS HAND OR ELSE IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN