Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

When I worked for GameStop back in the day, there was a running joke in the distric that any store I went to had to have a zombie apocalypse plan. The best was at a store that shared a wall with Office Depot. The plan was to pull the gate, lock the back bar, and use the ceiling to get into Office Depot and secure it. The GameStop itself would be a fall back, and the furniture and paper in Office Depot would allow for fire. Plus, all the peanut butter stuffed pretzels and water for a while.

All i got outta this was Zombies and Twinkies confirmed for smash..

@HobbitGamer That just reminds me of The Day After Tomorrow where they smash open a vending machine and someone says how they wont last long on pretzels and m&ms. lol

@HobbitGamer
Hahahah what you guys smoking there, I want this as well!

@HobbitGamer You don't really need anything more than peanut butter pretzels, ever.

Hey cool, the Assassin's Creed movie is on the FX website. The work day is less quiet now

I feel really really tired after playing 32 DDR songs by total from Dance Dance Revolution Ace Arcade. 😩
Just look how many kcal i had burn.

It was more than 770 kcal.

I have the day off to spend with my kids. We went out for a big breakfast. It’s a beautiful, sunny, cool spring day, so naturally I chose the most dad activity ever; a dark arcade. We played Mario Kart, and my daughter beat both the bots. We also had fun with Rabbids, Space Invaders, and Jurassic Park light gun games. My daughter cried when we didn’t have enough tickets for a plastic ninja sword. The Ghostbusters theme came on the radio on the way home. It was a great morning. Thank goodness for nap time. I think I’ll pour a Stone Tangerine Express IPA, and head outdoors to do some sitting and drinking.

@bimmy-lee "My daughter cried when we didn’t have enough tickets for a plastic ninja sword. " I do that all the time.

@NEStalgia - Don’t feel bad, it was a really cool ninja sword. By my calculations, at the rate we were accruing tickets (because I wasn’t able to play Skee Ball while wrangling two kids), I would have needed to spend another $40-50 to get the sword. People have cried over much less. There are people crying right this very second under the My Nintendo article because the 10% discount they’d never activate isn’t for a game they actually wanted.

@NEStalgia Man, the mental image of you that I'm putting together is getting stranger all the time...

This is why I heart Bimmy

@bimmy-lee I've cried a bit, on the inside, but only out of a mild frustration over SO many discounts, that I'll never be able to make use of, because I can't and won't, seeing as I've already spent several hundreds of euros last month, and life is unfortunately more than just about spending all your hard-earned money on games and related items...

Did also buy a couple of Xbox One games and a Commodore Amiga book, though...

But that was that, for at least the next two, three months or so. I've never spent that much money all at once for just games. The only time I actually do spend hundreds, is once a year, when I usually buy a new console or handheld.

@ThanosReXXX - I know, Club Nintendo was better in every way. It wouldn’t be Nintendo if they weren’t completely off base on a few things. The bigger laugh is the clockwork like regularity of it all. Every My Rewards and NES Update article has the exact same comments. You at least got your gold coins though, right?

@HobbitGamer - As Sam Wheat would say, “Ditto.”

@bimmy-lee Yes I did, and I subsequently used most of them to get discounts on all the games I bought digitally. But I wasn't talking about Nintendo rewards, which actually can hardly be classified as such nowadays. I find most of the stuff to be completely laughable at best.

No, the discounts I was talking about, were for actual games. Right after I made use of the discount wave that included the games I bought, another two separate discount waves came along, and these definitely included quite a few titles I would also be interested in, but having already spent that much money, I found myself stuck between the feeling of "I want those games too" and "but I simply can't afford to spend any more, and I need to be the responsible adult and pay my bills, and have some money left for a month's worth of food"...

@ThanosReXXX - I see. I know the feeling too. It’s so difficult to summon the willpower to not buy a game I’m interested in when it’s on sale and I know I shouldn’t spend the money. I’ve been on spending freeze for the last month+, but Ape Out on sale buckled me last Thursday.

@ThanosReXXX - I forgot to mention, that Bitmap Commodore Amiga book looks great. A nice collector’s piece. I’d like to get Chris Scullion’s NES Encyclopedia when it’s available in the US.

@ThanosReXXX Ninjas are ageless. No shame in crying over missing out on a ninja sword.

The arcade has dishonored me.

@NEStalgia Would the arcade need to commit seppuku by filing Chapter 11? Asking for a capital investor.

@bimmy-lee Yeah it does, doesn't it? As a long-time fan of the brand, and owner of several models of Commodore Amiga (A500/A500+, A1200 & CD32) I simply HAD to buy this book before it runs out of print. I've missed another Amiga book before, but maybe that was destiny, because this book is SO much better, so I'm glad I was able to snag a copy.

NES book sounds good too, although personally, I didn't have any connection with that console. Didn't jump into the Nintendo scene until the N64. I was still gaming on my Amiga systems until then...

And that is yet another reason why I'm happy that I was able to get my hands on both the NES and SNES Mini,
so I could at the very least kind of complete my Nintendo systems collection...

@NEStalgia Well, good luck trying to perform seppuku with a plastic sword, then...