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I'm a woman who loves her video games. I'm also pretty much a nerd for all that is nerdy: MST3K/Riff Trax, Star Wars, Anime/Manga, Kevin Smith, X-men Comics, and of course all things video games. Someday, I would look to get paid to write for and/or about video games. I'm awesome, so it'll will probably happen.
I have a strong hatred for the Atlantic Ocean.
Yoshi BBFs forever: Me, Suff0cat, Wardrox, and ScottyG.
Preferred games are RPGs and puzzle games. I like the occasional FPS (Timesplitters: FuturePerfect being my favorite) and some racing (Burnout Reveeeeenge).
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Burnout Paradise
Left 4 Dead
Space Invaders Extreme
Harvest Moon Island of Happiness
Chrono Trigger DS
My Project 365
That link is to some of my photography/photoshop art done for Project 365. If you don't know what Project 365 is, GOOGLE IT DUH.
Notable C-Blogs:
The Start of the Affair: Harvest Moon
I also write a bit for Negative Gamer.
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Gamertag: Nintendoll
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Youtube user WhistleBlowerZero is unhappy about the way Gamestop is run (who isn't?). Instead of posting a whiny blog, he chose a different approach--making Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw-eque videos to explain why GameStop's business ethics are practically non-existent. He has appropriately dubbed these videos "Zero Originality."
While the voice-over is a little shotty (he doesn't talk as fast or clearly as Yahtzee), these videos are actually very accurate and funny. As an ex-Gamestop Employee, it gives me a bit of savage pleasure to see the the company being ripped a new one. Below is Episode 1, Part 1. There are 10 episodes currently, including episode "00- The Intro." Each episode is an impressive 7 minutes long. That's quite a lot of gripes he's got with GameStop. I've watched the first episode and it's both hilariously and frighteningly accurate. Definitely a series to keep an eye on.
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
Other than that, GameStop sucks. I know this and I dont even live in the US. :)
On-Topic: Fortunately I live in a country where people believe GameStop is a mental illness, because they never heard of it (because it doesn't exist here). Hurray!
I know gamestop is evil but... really? 70+ minutes of this? wow.
Yes but they get money by sacrificing customer service and quality. Whereas other companies try to improve them for more customers.
Either way, yeah... GameStop.
They aren't lying about anything. They aren't trying to coverup anything. It's not a conspiracy.
Even when I was 8 I knew that trading games in was a ripoff, and that was before gamestop.
So, it really depends on the store.
I think there are plenter of non-gamers who don't understand how GameStop works or even what their other options are. For someone like me it serves a kind of a funny, nostalgic look at a company where I used to work. Ah...the good ol' days.
Pre-order offers are annoying, but that's my only real complaint against them.
yeah, because some gamestops I've been to have really sucked, but other ones have been really helpful.
I did actually overhear an employee telling a kid that he was being ripped off. Of course, the kid wanted to trade in anyway. You don't care when you're 8.
The last time I ever entered a Gamestop was when I wanted to get the Metal Gear Solid Essentials collection. They didn't have it in stock New except for the floor model, which was unsealed and had the discs removed from the box. The clerk wanted to sell me this for full price. I kindly asked him if he was seriously going to sell me an opened, unsealed game for the price of a new game. He then laughed at me and replied yes, to which I promptly responded that he should proceed to sodomize himself with a rusted exhaust pipe.
I haven't stepped into a store since, and neither should you.
And you're right about it depending on the store. The store I briefly worked at was pretty crummy, but the other store in town I occasionally moonlighted at was a lot better. Better manager, better storefront, and better customers.
Oops, where was that? If you give me a link, I'll throw it up the the article. I try not to post what's already been done ;_;
Also, this isn't <i>that</i> old. Dude posted it like..a week ago?
They sell opened games as new,
They give virtually nothing for trade ins,
Most employees are self-righteous dweebs w/ attitude problems (which we all know is over-compensation for their low self-esteem),
They monopolize pre-orders & annoy the hell out of you to pre-order everything coming out in the next year every time you so much as wander by.
probably a bunch of other things too but I haven't had a chance to watch all those vids.
uh...xbox.
Pretty entertaining. He does need to learn to speak in clearer fashion though.