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That's me. I really like zombie stuff, pretty much every type of video game, drawing things (It's been like six months), play music in a band, and am a geek. Very much so, in fact. Also, I drew the Maxx that I'm using in my header. It's going to stay there until I hit some inspiration for some video game artwork.
My job is to make the computers and electronics at my work rise again from the dead. It's alright, as jobs go. Of course, since I'm heavily into computers, I either have or have had every major type of personal computer known to man... so if you ever want to discuss computer things, I can probably have a lengthy conversation about it.
I live in the mostly sunny Central Florida, and have for about 16 years now. I'm pretty sure I'm too old to be playing games anymore, but I really don't see that ending any time soon and hope it never will.
I have a gaming PC (C2D E6550 2.33Ghz/8800GTS 512), PS2, Dreamcast, N64, DS, PSP, Xbox 360 and PS3, but I have owned an Odyssey2, Aquarius, ColecoVision, NES, SNES, Genesis, GameBoy (as well as Advance and SP), PS1, Xbox, and a Wii as well. They've all either been broken, sold, or have been grudgingly traded in for the "next best thing" due to lack of funds to buy them outright.
I read fanatically, and even though I have plenty of different books there are several that are read over and over again. Pretty much anything that William Gibson or Terry Pratchett have done are my favorites, but there are plenty of writers that still get my attention. To be certain, I'm happy Rhianna Pratchett is writing for videogames.
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The random girls they employ there on occasion really make me laugh.
I should have known something was up. The one guy looks like he spends too much time with his hair, and the other was a candidate for being permanently named "Doofy".
Why is that?
I think they have to have one on staff because of discrimination or whatever, if thats the case they could find on educated in games I mean some of us do exist :p
I work in a game store and guys dont ask me questions about games because they think I won't know. When I start talking they get either surprised or intimidated. you cant win.
Also if you still need component cables I would recommend these as they are cheap and work great.
Bitches have to respect me.
And I the people at my gamestop know me and treat me quite well, I'm gonna miss that when I move from here.
And I never said that all Gamestop's were horrible, and is actually a rare case in my experience.
I particularly said that the employees from ONE STORE sucked horribly. The one that I regularly go to has employees that are knowledgable (except one) and they know me and the games I like quite well. For that matter, I went to the one closer to my house to pick up the cables ($18 set of used Ninty ones), and those guys actually chatted with me and seemed passionate about the games.
The other two I described were reading a quiz about Star Wars and giggling to themselves, and apparently not paying attention.
Me: Could I get a copy of Tales of Vesperia?
Not so sharp: For the Xbox 360?
Me: ...yeah
See the ones I like would have known that it's only on the 360.
Still, this is an industry where the products change on a daily basis. It is very hard to keep on top of everything. BUt that doesn't mean that more of a n effort shouldn't be made. It is, after all, their business.
Street Fighter IV is a 2D game, though.
For instance, after i heard about the Street Fighter 4 art books w/ pre-order i went & put a pre-order down. Which took about 5 mins of convincing the guy i didn't want to pre-order everything else under the sun. I swear his eyes never left the screen as he rattled off a list game after game.
"no, no, no, no, this will be it i don't want anything else"
then he tries one last sales pitch for Tomb Raider Underworld, telling me "It runs on the same engine as Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, so you know it has to be good.". I couldn't resist I had to point out the irony that it was on 360 & PC too & that Naughty Dog (a Sony studio) made engines optimized for parallelization (cell). I don't think he understood what I was saying though, so i just asked for my receipt & said i was in a hurry.
I swear if it wasn't for their acquisition of pre-order bonuses because of their market power, & the general naivety of soccer moms thinking they're getting good advice from employees (or their 12 year old kids who try & drag them there every time they walk by the general vicinity furthering that belief) GameStop would have gone belly up long ago.
It's 2.5D. But that argument doesn't even save him. He was trying to convince me that the 3D renders were all hand-drawn. Magic pixel faeries mapped hand drawn animation to 3D renders. This, he said, was what the company had told him.