The Sun'll Come Out...
As gamers, we're an obsessive lot. We usually know about an upcoming game from the day its development is announced. We analyze and critique screenshots. We participate in beta testing, both open and closed. Some of us have probably even spent more hours playing a game before its release than those purchasing it ever will. We know what "gone gold" means and use it to help adjust our monthly budgets. Perhaps the most obsessive act of all of this is our fundamental need to own the game the moment it's available for sale. We've been waiting for the game for, sometimes, years. One would think that allowing the game an extra day or two for shipping and retail logistics wouldn't be very difficult. I'm just as guilty as everyone else showing up on Tuesday, pretending to casually ask, "So...when is [brand spanking new game] coming out?" even though I know full well the actual minute it was supposedly released and which regions of the continent have already reported physical sightings in stores. 
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Excellent
Worst signature ever.
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Bravo!
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This should have been on the T-Shirt.
Well done Sway!
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First Class.
"Eat Keel, Hellbug!"
Brilliant! Is that supposed to be Elysium in the picture?
And the gamer's retort:
I know you have one in the back,
So give it over you loathesome hack!
I yell as I shuffle toward the door,
In your parent's basement you'll live, ever more!
"You know, hubbinsd, as much as I don't want to go into library science, I still think you're pretty sexy." -Wordsmythe
I agree with Mateo, this should be on the T-Shirt. That is just classic...
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hahaha!
Pure genius, Sway. Genius.
“Science!” She says. “We can win by science!” - Rabbit's daughter on Civ5.
"The Demiurge is a magnificent, joyous beast." - Wordsmythe
Miami, FLSeattle, WAPrinted and now posted in my store.
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Genius. The rest of us should just go home now and build small tasteful shrines.
Not unless I'm retaining water, and by water I mean a lake.
I felt -- I feel -- that Shawn, Rob and Julian were making out with the game, and as their friend I felt it was important to point out that they were making out with an ugly chick. - Cory Banks, keeping it real
Dr. Suess would be proud.
He not busy being born is busy dying. -Bob
So would Shakespeare.
Well done.
light explosives now.....and..... ..now.
Outstanding job Sway. And this is why I avoid EB -- the guys that work at the store by my work are pretty much reciting this word for word, except they look like they should be working in a seedy music store.
no particular interest, no particular talent
I think I'll get some iron tansfer paper and make a shirt of this and stand otu front of EB this weekend
Steam: Painthappens
These just keep getting better and better! I'm suprised some goons from GameSpy haven't showed up at Sway's door to "convince" him to work for them. Although if they paid him in beer, it probably wouldn't take much convincing.
Credulous at best, your desire to believe in angels in the hearts of men.
Posted today on Gamers With Jobs,
Where many a geek and fanboi hobnobs,
Sway abondoned prose,
for something that flows,
and basically called us snobs.
Although with Sway I must agree,
Shopkeepers say the same to me,
To them I say,
"You'll rue the day!"
I never went back to EB.
Wow. You guys rock
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Wow, that poem was very well put together. I work in a GameStop, and couldn't have said it better.
"People in general have no principles, they do not believe in property rights (except as those rights apply to them), and they will steal all they want as long as they stand no risk of getting arrested for it. -GreatAjax on Piracy
That was utterly fantastic.
Morrolan wrote:
A tear, I say. A lone tear, springing forth from my eye.
Instant, instant classic.
"THE HELL ASS BALLS." - Prederick, expressing frustration in the time-honored way.
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Excellent stuff. I enjoyed that immensely!
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I really love this place! A mere 800 registered people here just tells you that there's about 6 bilion other people missing out on fantastic stuff.
Panem et circenses
"You really need to smoke a tree first to appreciate that one." - Sanjuro
But how many of the 6 billion are jackasses?
Fletcher wrote:
Naw, I guess they're still busy playing online games on the Dreamcast. That's what the commercials said over here!
Excellent well done... I can see that getting around the internet and quickly
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So um...when does GTA IV come out?
"Angels are not nice."
Um? Is there a reason you revived a 3.5 year-old thread to ask an unrelated question?
Certis wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:
<+katisu> Q-Stone is an internet genius
It's an awesome comic, I don't mind seeing it again
I heard that they were keeping Elysium in the ICU not because he needed intensive care, but because they needed to be careful of his intensity. - Wordsmythe
So Halo 2 comes out tomorrow? I hope it's good. Can't wait to see the ending!
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Favorite puzzle: Grim Fandango -- the metal detector
And yet I can still see kids going into the store asking for a game that's not been released yet. Adults do it all the time in movie stores for movies that have come out the week before. Now why in your wildest dreams would you think a movie that is IN THE THEATERS RIGHT NOW would be on DVD in the Rental Store at the same time? Idiots.
Prederick wrote:
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis.