Screw You EB Games

So I went over to Tuttle Mall today to pickup a new comforter for my bed as an early birthday present (thanks Mom & Dad) and while I was over there I remembered the new Ghost Recon was released yesterday and I wanted to pick it up. So I went down to EB Games and asked if they had it in yet. They responded with asking if I had a pre-order. I did not. I think pre-orders are a waste except for major releases such as a hardware unit or huge game like Halo 2. Anyway they said they didn’t have any copies if I didn’t have a pre-order and that in the future I should always make sure I have a pre-order for a new release. Screw that! When I was young and naive and used to place pre-orders for every game I planned on picking up it would often turn out that some other store would get it first and since I’d already put money down I had to wait until X store got it. I really wanted to tell the guy off, but I’m quite non-confrontational so I just walked out and drove down the road to best buy where they had plenty of copies for me to pick from. I then really wanted to drive back to EB and tell the guy how much pre-order’s suck because BestBuy has plenty of copies down the road, but my lunch break was up and alas I did not. Anyway, I’ll be enjoying the nice 720p action of killing terrorists and hostage takers tonight no thanks to EB Games.
The draft went well and was very enjoyable. Every participant showed up for some amount of time which I guess was a first. It’s kind of cool to watch the World Baseball Classic and see some of my team member’s play. I’ll try to post my roster later on this week.
I still haven’t got a chance to snap some shots of my new laptop but I promise I will. I’ve actually been messing around with it trying to get OSX installed as a dual boot, which I did successfully except I messed up the MBR to where I can’t boot into Windows now. That will also need to be taken care of tonight. /end geek talk