Monday, November 21, 2005

walk the line

As December comes along there's something that we have to deal with. Lines. No, not the kind you'd like to do in order to make your mall shopping more tolerable. But long lines of people waiting to buy their loved ones gifts. Now - with the invention of the internet (by Al Gore) you would think lines would be a thing of the past for many items. Now I understand, lines to the bathroom, lines at a resturant, even waiting on line to get a ticket to a movie.

there was a time where you'd have to wait online to get concert tickets. Even get up at 2am and go over or sleep out to make sure you were first online or make sure you get tickets at all. OR when they had those wristbands that had a random number and then it was sort of the luck of the draw.

Ticketmaster is pretty much only online, with the exception for a few outlets. But you'd also think with all these other sites around, there would be no need for a bunch of people to be lining up to get an x-box 360 the day before it goes onsale. I mean what the fuck? Is it really necessary to waste your time waiting in the cold and the rain in a shopping mall to buy an x-box 360? Now I would hope that this means the people will open it when they get home and play whatever game comes with the system. But are these people waiting online to wrap this up for christmas?

Is it really going to be that difficult to get one of these? Especially with the great name of 360 and its not even fucking round! So thats today's piece of shit for the day...

2 comments:

TommyG said...

Two Comments--

1. Al Gore never said he invented the internet - it's simply another example of the GOP propaganda machine repeating something so many times it's now considered by most to be the truth

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

2. X-box 360 is a waste of money - There's not one exciting game out for it

Karen said...

I concur. Not only that, but I don't know why people are lining up for these things. Most places that sell them took pre-orders and only some of the people who pre-ordered them are getting them. Yes, they are going to be that hard to get because video game companies ship only a fraction of the units that are in demand in order to make them more attractive (you want what you can't have). They do this especially when their system is a giant reeking pile of bear feces. (see also: PSP)

And that's what you get when you date a gaming geek :)