Just tried to get some Battlefield 1943 on and it won’t let me connect. Great job EA! Just keep up the good work consuming small and talented game companies so you can shit out more sequels of already popular games. Oh, and even better job of not supporting the games you currently have out. This problem has been around since July…
I’ve been pretty excited about the most recent release of Magic, M10, and because of that I think I just hooked my best friend. We went to a comic shop yesterday and he bought a pre-constructed deck. Later on that night another friend came over and we played until about midnight. Needless to say, the new guy with the pre-con deck actually won both times! I really need my rares to come in the mail.
Found this from @thatgirlallie on twitter. It seems that women of the future will be wearing dresses of al-u-minium and men will have a jumpsuit that will have ‘candy for cuties.’ Shit, looks like they even had the future covered for perverts too.
Well, I just read on twitter that the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN, duh!) videos are back! Apparently there were contractual issues that had to be hammered out and that now everything is a go! Also, it seems that James Rolfe was on XM radio last week (O&A’s channel) talking about AVGN videos and other things (also that includes Back to the Future). You can check it out at cinemassacre.com
So basically sat around today doing mostly nothing and napping. I’m still stick but at least my nasal congestion isn’t as bad as it was yesterday. The only productive thing I’ve done all day was get my ass kicked in SF4 by Algeni. He pretty much whooped me all around by every character I could think of. Yeah, I guess my coworker was right, I need to learn how to defend…
Due to a 101 degree fever since 4am last night I called out of work. While I was home going between hot and cold spouts I was playing SF4. I unlocked all the characters in one sitting (though I did pass out to take a nap in the middle while that ‘indestructible’ song was playing in an infinite loop).
So now I have nothing less but to just work on getting better.
Alright, here is a quick run down on what I haven’t posted in over a month:
1. Offically got promoted at work. Don’t know if I mentioned that or not. More money is always good.
2. Got an Xbox 360, again. Most of my time has been spent towards that. I’ve been discovering Fallout 3, Gears of War 2, and Left 4 Dead.
… went out a bunch of times and did a bunch of things that really don’t add up to much. I also missed the conflux release for Magic the Gathering with pisses me off a little. Oh well…
I stopped by my local Circuit City last night and was shocked to see the place packed. All the sale vultures, all the flyer zombies, even my favorite rebate hunters were there. It was so terrible to see that place go down like that.
If you didn’t know, I worked there for four years. That store taught me much about the world of retail. Things like, “you never go home on time.” Also the favorite, “Oh no! Corporate is coming tomorrow, everyone clean until we’re done!” I have moved on to a much better place and I should feel way better about what’s happening to them. Somehow, I don’t.
The place was run by idiots, totally. They had a new strategy every other week. One week was ‘Sell volume, because revenue is king!’ The next week, ‘We’re a services company! Sell services! Nothing else!!’ Then it would flip-flop between the two. They laid off their best sales people which made me lose contact with a few of my closest coworkers. They restructured with a system that gave 21 year old kids keys to the store.
I can go on and on about their mistakes but it would write about that forever. Like I said before, I’ve spend four years there. I build all the fixtures, helped lay down carpet, took a lot of smoke breaks, and drank a lot of beers. Made and lost a lot of friends and made a few enemies along the way.
I saw many of my old coworkers during my visit. I felt the saddest when I saw them. These are people who looked to Circuit City for their career, not just a college kid job. They’ve been there during the best of times when CCity was the number one electronics retailer in the US. Now they’re closing down their store, the place they went to work to for the past eight years or so.
I guess I should be a little glad that they’ve folded, because of all the terrible things they’ve done. Really though, I’m just depressed about it all.
I’m sorry Deepak Shah, you can’t have your rebates today 
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