 I fell off the internet again
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Jul. 31st, 2010 @ 07:49 am 
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There has been stuff! STUFF! I still owe people comment replies, even - I LOVE YOU GUYS JUST THERE HAS BEEN THIS STUFF I CAN'T EVEN.
Still, absolute total props go out to:
My new youngest friend, J., who is ONE WEEK OLD TODAY! ♥ Rock on, little J., you are the tiniest, cutest person IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. I know you're all over some vital skills there, with the breathing, sleeping, drinking, and pooping, the difficulty curve scales up from here but you have the fundamentals down COLD, son.
His mother, who is awesome, including for having forgiven me for having made her cry in a dream I had. I felt genuinely miserable ALL DAY because of that dream, and when I saw her, she forgave me and also noted that I'd been totally in the right ANYWAY and her dream self was JUST WRONG and I felt vindicated as well.
The older of his maternal aunts, who is the AWESOMEST PERSON EVER although way less cute than J. Like, WAAAAY less. Although she is a much better conversationalist DON'T WORRY J. DUDE I'M SURE YOU'LL BE GREAT TO TALK TO WHEN YOU LEARN HOW TO FOCUS YOUR EYES AND COMPREHEND ENGLISH AND STUFF LIKE THAT but it's fairly likely I'll always be closer to your aunt than you but that's okay I'll forgive you when you roll your eyes at me for being so OOOOOLD I'm like six weeks older than your mother so that definitely makes me old enough to BE your mother therefore I'm probably automatically totally uncool and I can live with that. But I will always love you anyway because I think it's pretty much, like, a REQUIREMENT to love someone if you've known them since they were three days old and also you've been friends with his aunt and his mother for years and years and years.
Anyway in half an hour or an hour or whatever Dean is getting up and then we're going in to town and I'm going to buy StarCraft 2. I was ambivalent but the reviews look like I will *totally love it* and also, on reflection, I feel like I owe Blizzard StarCraft money because I played a zillion games of StarCraft without ever actually buying the game (a friend recruited me for their LAN games). And StarCraft was awesome, and the people who say "but it's just like the original, only with new units, better graphics, and a new story, the basic gameplay is the same" like this is a BAD THING are deranged, if I wanted to play a *completely different game* I would play a *completely different game*, if I'm playing StarCraft 2 it's because I want MORE STARCRAFT.Current Mood:  hyper
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I hope you had a copy reserved because it was sold out everywhere I went today.
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| From: | ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) sami |
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August 1st, 2010 12:16 am (UTC) |
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I didn't, actually, but the second place I phoned had it in - EB Games on Hay St, just down from Carillon. They might still have some on Monday if you're wanting it. The guy said he'd almost sold out on Friday but then his stock guy came back with another 102 copies...
I got one, have been playing it, they may well still have some. :)
Ah EB Games was the one place I didn't check - I really don't like EB due to their focus on preorders and second hand games.
Ironic that they are the only place to have SC2 in stock that doesn't require a preorder.
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of EB Games but Gametraders wasn't going to have it in until next week and Sami didn't want to wait that long!
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| From: | sami |
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August 1st, 2010 06:13 am (UTC) |
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I know what you mean. I generally prefer to go to Gametraders (Carillon in particular because the dude who runs it is awesome) but they have a bit more focus towards consoles, and... yeah. EB actually had the game.
I figure I am okay with giving my custom to the company that was actually willing to stock it in large quantities. When I spoke to the guy at EB he said they were selling like hotcakes, and they came very *close* to selling out before their next load of stock arrived.
You'd think more stores would have figured out that StarCraft 2 was going to sell really a lot, given it's a sequel to a game that *still* sells TWELVE YEARS after it was released, and given that EB Games was actually willing to stock actual copies in large numbers.
Fair call.
It annoys me that you can buy it cheaper in stores than for a digital copy from the battle.net store (which obviously can't run out of stock, but is going for $90AUD; wtf).
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| From: | sami |
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August 1st, 2010 07:24 am (UTC) |
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Especially since you get stuff with the box version. Not a lot of stuff, sure - mostly just a booklet that contains an install guide and a detailed summary of the StarCraft/Brood War plot, but there's also a nifty little notepad with a Jim Raynor Wanted poster background - but still stuff.
(Oh, and a couple of guest passes to each of SC2 and WoW. But you know, whatever.)
Plus, you don't have to download eight gigs or whatever of install file...
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