BogusMeatFactory wrote:
Started my first real day in the retail department I was assigned. I had been working this past week as a cashier and it has been exhausting. So I am working in the electronics department and met some of my co-workers. Let's talk about Guy (not his real name). Guy is a 20-something who was showing me around on how to work our photo equipment and setting up mounted photos and picture frames and on and on. Or at least, he was supposed to.
Instead, I was subjected to some of the most frustrating conversations I have ever had. The kid talked about his D&D campaigns and his GURPS campaigns where he was the coolest and most powerful being on Earth as I feigned interest. We are talking about going into in depth detail about what advantages and disadvantages he picked, how that affected all of his stats as well as the GURPS mechanics on Mechs. We are talking hair pulling stuff hair.
When I finally get a word in and say I have an interest in video games, he goes on to tell me he is a master at video games and how he knows everything there is to know about videogames. He talks about his love for Blizzard and how Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 are some of the best games ever made and how it is a shame that someone would like me would like Diablo 2 over Diablo 3.
I mention I love fighting games and talk about Virtua Fighter, only to be cut off and told that Mortal Kombat is the best fighting game ever, next to DragonBallZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (a fun game..but not a great fighting game) and how he is a world tournament champion in DBZ and about how he beat the previous champion with freaking Mr. Satan.
I tell him some of my favorite games, Shenmue, Shadow of the Colossus and Riven: the Sequel to Myst and his response is, "Never heard of those."
He then talks about how he loves Sonic the Hedgehog and how they are all awesome. I responded with, "After Sonic '06, you can't get any worse," and low and behold..he had never heard of the Sonic the Hedgehog game where he kisses a human.
He then tells me how I can't be a true gamer if I don't play Starcraft 2 because all the real gamers out there play StarCraft 2.
Oh.....his favorite movie director? MICHAEL BAY! He is so excited for TMNT movie and he thinks that Donatello looks BADASS!? I also told him Michael Bay is not directing TMNT and is only a producer and he told me I needed to get my facts straight.
He went to great lengths to explain to me how the Transformers moves were some of the best action sequences in the history of film and how the 4th movie did a great job in rebooting the franchise.......
