<![CDATA[Comments from DualZen]]> <![CDATA[Comments from DualZen]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on What's The Longest You've Gone Without Gaming?]]> The first six months of my game testing career. I was burnt out.

Fun times though.

]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on Have a Penis? Play Halo 3? You are Child Man]]> I work fourty hours or more a week at my day job, and spend about twenty two more hours in night classes trying to get my gen ed out of the way. I get this wonderful 65 or so hour a week schedual for another two and a half years until I get my BA.

And I have a girlfriend.

And friends.

Yet, with what free time I have, downing a few drinks and playing some Halo 3 with my co-workers makes me a child man. An underachieving child man. American dream realized!

]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on 28 Confessions Of A GameStop Shift Supervisor]]> As a former EB Games (turned GameStop) employee, yeah, that article is 100% accurate. On the store level, you have bad stores and good stores (gosh, like at any chain!) and ones that are so-so.

And honestly, some customers are just plain stupid. I had a guy try to use the warranty he bought for his PS3 after he had popped open the whole console and removed the blu-ray drive. He didn't even both to put it back in. Why? To save his copy of Call of Duty 3. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Then there was the group of (little) kids who destroyed one of our display cases (gameboy games) while the mother was ignoring them. I mean, the list goes on.

As for all you people demonizing those employee's who do thier job by pushing pre-orders and subscriptions? Go ahead and work a seasonal position at your local GameStop. Then you can see how GameStop corporate likes to muscle it's retailers into pushing those reserves and subs. It can turn some stores bad.

Defense of sir article writer aside, I'm also very, VERY glad I no longer work for EB Games.

]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on Warcraft Wiki Hits 40,000 Articles]]> @zeroraveson: That's because the people who are really obsessing over WoW can't bear to stop playing to write a Wikipedia article.

]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on Warcraft Wiki Hits 40,000 Articles]]> I like wikipedia, I just don't trust much of the inforamtion I find on it unless I can verify it elsewhere... But fourty thousand articles?

I wonder, if someone shut down all the WoW servers for a week, how many people would die from withdrawl?

]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on What Are You Playing This Weekend?]]> Medal of Honor: Airborn followed by probably finishing off Blue Dragon.

]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on Star Wars Galaxies Razes Houses, Raises Money]]> And! Because that link is broken, you can have the link here:

www.childsplaycharity.org

]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on Star Wars Galaxies Razes Houses, Raises Money]]> @mossberg: For reference, Penny-Arcade runs a the Childs Play charity (and collects no administrative fees). You can view the site and the previous years total donations at the official Childs Play website.

Ironically enough, 9 out of 10 gamers I know donate to this charity.

]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on Star Wars Galaxies Razes Houses, Raises Money]]> @mossberg: Then how do you explain Childs Play raising over 2 million dollars for childrens hospitals over the past few years?

Either way, I never really liked SWG very much, but at least they're doing somethng nice.

]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on Justify Your Kane]]> As a fan of the series... That was quite possibly the most singularly awesome thing I have EVER seen.

]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on Speed Racer The Movie The Game]]> A speed racer movie? And game? Those two going together spell 'disasteriffic'. Rarely does one see a good movie/game combo, and the fact that they are thinking about both at the same time does not bode well... I mean, I would think it would be prudent to concentrate on one and then the other, right?

]]> <![CDATA[DualZen commented on War Is Not A Game]]> Oh boy oh boy, do we ever love those hot-button topics! Lets see where to press this time...

I think it's generally agreed that the AA game is just another arm of recruitment, I mean, it's pretty obvious. However, and I could very well be wrong, I'm pretty sure the Army was created to protect the freedom and liberties of the U.S.

To that end, the existence of the AA game, while not exactly ethical, is entirely justified. Conversly, so is the protest. Both can exist here because of those freedoms they protect... Current war aside, of course.

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