I was trying to think of the last time I bought something at gamestop and it might have been Guitar Hero back in like 2006 or 7. They asked me if I wanted to preorder Guitar Hero 2 for 5 dollars and I was like… I don’t even know if this one is good yet! And that put me off from it right then and there.
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What the hell? I played McDonald’s Treasure Land on my birthday earlier this year!
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It’s just the right thing to do.
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i’d be scared with normal traffic
First time l’m catching up to the most recent episode!
I’d like to think that I’m on a similar level as the panel when it comes to identifying and tracking down the games, but there’s this one thing I remember playing once on my older cousin’s computer that never turned up even after extensive search, to the degree that I’m doubting how much of it was real.
It was basically a side-view action game (don’t remember if it had scrolling or just page flipping) set in a modern city like environment, but it had some exploration as there were gaps in the back- and foreground where you could go to switch to different planes. You were playing as some dude, but there must have been an enemy that at least a little bit looked like some kind of brain-like thing on a machine, cause my cousin was telling me that’s Krang and it’s a TMNT tie-in and the guy you’re playing is really Casey Jones.
I thought it looked better than the C64 games I was used to at the time, so I often figured it must have been an Amiga or even Atari ST, but I didn’t identify the machine at the time. There’s a few action games there with the page flipping, but none quite fit the theme and feel. (Prison on Amiga comes closest, but I’m pretty sure the scale was smaller and fighting was more dynamic with jumping and stuff.)
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With the brain thing my first thought was total carnage, but I feel like you’d remember if it were a shooter?
Ah I finally remembered the last time I bought a game at GameStop. It was Pokémon Sword. I used to do all of my game shopping at Video Games New York because they would always break street date (no narcs here yeah?) I remember playing Persona 5 like three weeks early.
Anyway for whatever reason they didn’t have Pokémon and I compromised.
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There are several old as butt computer games I witnessed as a child that I’ve never come across again and a few I have come across. I’m not sure if its even worth finding them, my imagination of them might be better than the real thing. One had a big old spider in it. One was a detective game of sorts.
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I think my only unidentified childhood game is the memory of some 90s 3D racing game for PC, where you race around a beach. The only point of interest that I remember about it was how you could straight up miss the finish line and have laps not count if you didn’t keep on the road. Strange.
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Yeah, more than that, even if everything else is a figment of my imagination, it was definitely viewed from the side (though there might or might not have been a bit of an angle like in a typical beat-em-up)
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I think if members of the public who don’t live in that building, can freely enter the building and use the bathroom then I would consider it a public bathroom.
But in all liklihood, to your point it is probably exclusively for the inhabitants of that building so I don’t quite consider it a public bathroom.
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The only way to clear this up is do the responsible thing and have him doxx himself.
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The last game I bought at a GameStop was Super Mario 3D Land + Bowser’s Fury and I had a very similar experience. If you can’t just waltz into a Gamestop to buy the new Mario game, then surely you can’t find any game in there reliably. Why even buy games from GameStop instead of Best Buy at this point?
Edit: Correction, it was Super Mario Wonder. Now you, dear reader, can better place the death of Gamestop as a Stop for Games on your timeline.
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No, I’m Frank Cifaldi! We are all Frank Cifaldi!
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I gotta admit the toilet question would have me stumped cause “close to my home” would be the last place I’d be informed about public bathrooms.
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Yeah. I live in a very small town right now. “Public toilets” aren’t exactly a thing.
But I do keep track of the best bathrooms at whatever university I’m at. Mentally I think in a few dimensions:
- Gender neutral or single stall. So, what bathrooms are accessible irrespective of gender?
- Quiet/private. Where would it be exceptionally unlikely to encounter someone else? What’s the best kept secret bathroom? Where can I be guaranteed a quiet respite?
- Clean/pleasant. What smells nice, always has a good supply of towels, has warm water from the faucet, and so on?
Stacks of libraries often score well in being quiet and moderately clean. Newer buildings tend to be pleasant but crowded, though there is an art to going at the right time. (Museums and performing art centers can be good spots during the day, since their bathrooms are designed for larger capacity during events and are meant to satisfy a higher-earning set.) Older buildings are where the real fun is. Sometimes one has undergone a renovation and has a really, really nice and underutilized bathroom (I’ve lucked into a few really good facilities in lab buildings). Sometimes it smells like piss-boiled hot dogs no matter how many windows are open. Usually it’s in between.
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The public toilet hack, maybe this is just a big city thing, is hotels. always hotel lobbies.
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This reminds me of the worst bathroom at USC - sometimes I had morning classes in this one building, and the only bathroom there was just a row of toilets with no stall door. the bathroom itself also had no door and you just walked straight in from the hall. Naturally, there were also mirrors facing the stall, meaning if you ever had to sit on that thing anyone walking by could glance in and see you. There were times I had no choice but to use it as I described here and it was a source of great anxiety which I obviously remember to this day! I’m not sure how that was even legal. The tuition for this school (I was on full scholarship) is currently $95,000/year.
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In the U.S. other than hotel lobbies I think Kohls is my favorite retail stablishment bathroom wise. They’ve lways had good clean quiet bathrooms imo
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If you’re looking for dramatic and arbitrary reasons the roads are empty, and with no cops around, I witnessed bith city and town I was in during the eclipses in the past few years empty out since everyone is too busy glazing their eyes to do the job
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