Why I Hate EB Games

[jmfargo]

EB Game stores are stealing my money. They are sneaking into my house, late at night, looking through my wallet, and taking my hard-earned dollar bills. Oh, I would report them to the police, but the problem is that the police might not look at it as stealing. See, EB Games is always careful to leave merchandise in my money's place, with a carefully made receipt placed in a nicely left bag so they frame me to look as though I have actually bought these things!

The worst part is that since EB Games has started selling their used games at prices meant to sell, like 99 cents, this habit of theirs has increased. Before hand, in actuality, they only stole $50 once a year or so. Now? They've snuck into my home and force-fed me at least 30 different games. Cruelty, I tell you!

And then they give me games like Star Wars: Battlefront, Call of Duty, The Sims, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

What am I supposed to do? They're stealing from me, but giving me such gaming goodness!

I'm so confused...

Help me Obi Wan, you're my only hope?

Comments

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

So, you're saying I should sue EB Games for making me fat, right?

What?

I appreciate what you're saying, and for the most part I agree - games aren't good for me, and I really don't have the time to be playing them. I guess a part of it is that when I do have the time to play, I'll have a wide selection. I've actually been pretty good about my gaming time, limiting it to every now and then, and the weekly Friday LAN parties that Derek is throwing. It's really not that bad. Add to that that I'm back on track with working out and losing weight, and I'm pretty okay with having lots of games.

I want to be a Jedi, and that will never change. Is that wrong? Maybe. Is it a fantasy held by geeks the world over? Yes. Somehow, that makes me feel unclean.

[(Anonymous)]

>So, you're saying I should sue EB Games for making me fat, right?

Stranger lawsuits have been filed, and won...

>limiting it to every now and then, and the weekly Friday LAN parties that Derek is throwing.

So, now and then, and on Friday, and then you have LARPs and D&D on top of that. I'd like to get away with playing that much ;)

>I want to be a Jedi, and that will never change. Is that wrong?

I'm too materialistic to be a Jedi :( I guess I'd have to be Sith ;)

-tt

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

Stranger lawsuits have been filed, and won...

Yeah, but unlike most of America, I'm not lawsuit happy, and not greedy enough to try, even though a part of me says I probably COULD find a way to win it with a good enough lawyer. No thank you. I don't want to be that guy.

So, now and then, and on Friday, and then you have LARPs and D&D on top of that. I'd like to get away with playing that much ;)

Well, let's see. You can take out the LARPs because the work I'm doing from home keeps me busy on Saturdays, and I know no self-respecting LARP that doesn't run at least on a Saturday if not through it. So I don't get that any more.

D&D is Wednesdays, and that's all right now. Friday LANs are taking place of Derek's D&D game because we finished it, and won. Yay, winning!

And really, I only work part-time, so that leaves me quite a bit of extra time to be productive around the house, and some time to fool around gaming now and then.

Really, it's not all that much. However, I will accept your envy with wide gloating. ;)