I hate Rock Band, and more!

[marty]

Ah, the beginning of the holiday shoppers. The worst time of the year.

Fuck you, Survivor.
There are over 50 songs on Rock Band 2, including the songs from Rock Band 1. So why is it that every single person who gets on our 360 arcade, every single person, plays "Eye of the Tiger"? Because if I hear that song again I may go into a murderous rage. Someone may not make it out of my store alive. I can hear that song when I sleep now and I know that never leads to healthy reactions.


Do not lie to me.
When I'm checking the games you're trading in for scratches and defects, do not tell me when I open every single case, "Oh, that one plays fine!" because no matter what you say, I'm still going to refurb the shit out of it because it looks like your dog got a hunkering for some Madden in his belly.


Hey, hey, hey, hey!
SC: Hey! I got a question!
Me: Give me one second sir while I finish helping these people and I'll be happy to answer.
SC: Hey!
Me: One minute, sir.
SC: Hey! Hey! I got a question!
Me: Hey! These people were here before you! Hey!

Yeah. I handled that poorly. But the people I was helping thought it was hilarious.


What I learned at work today
When the infamous mumbler speaks up, you still can't understand him.

SC: -mumble-
Me: I'm sorry, what was that?
SC: -mumble-
Me: You're going to have to speak up a little bit sir.
SC: -MUMBLE MUMBLE LOUD MUMBLE, angry arm flailing, stomps out-

Yes sir. And as soon as you stop sucking on your sternum and look me in the eyes, I'll be able to understand you.


I had more, but I'm too excited and in a good mood about getting a dog that I don't remember. More later when I get pissed off again after work tonight!

[Mike Taylor]

Luckily for me, the "social gaming" fixtures (Guitar Hero, Rock Band, NCAA '09 Football) are well away from where I actually work with customers in our media department. It used to be that the demo machines were right in the product aisles, which made trying to help customers a bit of a chore sometimes.

However, our worst offenders in the past three Christmases weren't video gamers. One year the (now ex-) General Manager had the bright idea of setting up an electric guitar for demo in hopes that people would leave the boxed guitars alone. Not only did they open the boxes anyway (and ruin the contents in the process), but the whole store was subjected to repeated bad attempts at "Smoke on the Water".

[Shards]

Wow... I'm sorry about the rock band thing...

Does it make me a horrible person that I'm now tempted to go to the local Gamestop and play 'eye of the tiger' on their rock band setup?

Hopefully it's not the same place you work or I may never make it to Basic Training, though...

[Pagan]

Fuck you, Survivor.
There are over 50 songs on Rock Band 2, including the songs from Rock Band 1. So why is it that every single person who gets on our 360 arcade, every single person, plays "Eye of the Tiger"? Because if I hear that song again I may go into a murderous rage. Someone may not make it out of my store alive. I can hear that song when I sleep now and I know that never leads to healthy reactions

I do believe that you work at the same store I do! However, I'm stuck in the Pharmacy and it's about 50 ft away in the Men's dept and I can't get away from it for 8 hours. They're also fond of "Living on a Prayer"....I used to like that song.

My problem is doubled though, I keep laughing every time "Eye of the Tiger" plays because of "Supernatural" a couple of weeks ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TtWxBdA7Xc That was freakin' hilarious.

[Salted Grump]

Hey, hey, hey, hey!
SC: Hey! I got a question!
Me: Give me one second sir while I finish helping these people and I'll be happy to answer.
SC: Hey!
Me: One minute, sir.
SC: Hey! Hey! I got a question!
Me: Hey! These people were here before you! Hey!

Yeah. I handled that poorly. But the people I was helping thought it was hilarious.

Someone's Channeling their Inner Navi.

[Mamadrae]

And just think...Thursday you will have a mob of WoW geeks lining up out the door for the expansion.

But...at least they won't be playing "Eye of the Tiger" more likely discussing gear and the like.

[ArcticChicken]

Someone's Channeling their Inner Navi.

I hate that fucking fairy.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

The Rock Band 2 display we have at work defaults to the Billy Idol demo mode unless someone is playing it. If I hear White Wedding one more time I think I'm going to go berzerk.

[depechemodefan]

I'm getting sick of kids and young adults interrupting me and another patron. And mommy doens't say anything to jr. ugh.

When we re-opened the library they put rock band in the meeting room for adults to play. And even though the evil sprogs had their own room where they can play their own Rock Band, they swarmed down to our area.

I fucking hate parents. Everyone else been takeing turns since we opened, but mommy decides that "who ever wins get to play the next person," ie, jr gets to play indefinately because he's the best. I told her no. She gives me a look like I just called her a bad word. I tell her not to look at me like that, and she goes psycho bitch on me and bitch to the manager.

Luckily I'm not around the Wiis but we do have flat screens that give info. on events coming up and I think it's playing some commercial for Rock Band. The band getting back together? It has a band on top of some van and they fall off the mountain and land right back on and keep on playing. Kind of annoying since it plays every 5 min.

[ShootMePlease]

I feel your pain Marty....

I have yet to understand the fascination with playing that song. I get to hear it at least 10 times a day and it makes me mental. I always put it on "Battery". That makes me happy.

[Mark Healey]

Do not lie to me.
When I'm checking the games you're trading in for scratches and defects, do not tell me when I open every single case, "Oh, that one plays fine!" because no matter what you say, I'm still going to refurb the shit out of it because it looks like your dog got a hunkering for some Madden in his belly.

I am convinced it is almost a physical law that the value of something is inversely proportional to (how much the seller talks * how worthy they claim it to be).

[Mamadrae]

What you guys need to do is get the game stuck on the hardest song for folks to play. They get a taste of it and you get to hear them cursing at the game as it pwns them.

[Lachrymose]

Someone's Channeling their Inner Navi.

I've posted it before and I'll post it again.

[Bandit]

Ah, the beginning of the holiday shoppers. The worst time of the year.

Fuck you, Survivor.
There are over 50 songs on Rock Band 2, including the songs from Rock Band 1. So why is it that every single person who gets on our 360 arcade, every single person, plays "Eye of the Tiger"? Because if I hear that song again I may go into a murderous rage. Someone may not make it out of my store alive. I can hear that song when I sleep now and I know that never leads to healthy reactions.

It could be worse - It could have Christmas music to go along with the regular mall muzak.

How many times can a person listen to *Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", or Seger's "Little Drummer Boy"* without going nucking futz.

My condolences to those who are subjected to them.

*Note - I like Springsteen and love Seger - seen them many times live.

B

[Broomjockey]

I love Eye of the Tiger! And it's on Guitar Hero: World Tour! So that means I never have to go to the store to play it and annoy the clerks. Heh.