[Ninjavenom]

You know that i have never, in my entire life, EVER been able to walk into Funcoland and simply complete a transaction and leave? Never. Every time i go to trade something in, i Need ID. Cue a fifteen minute wait for the clerk as i search for one of my parents so i may get their driver's license. Every time i trade something in, i get less than 1/4 of it's resale value. This is normal for Funcoland, because that's how they make money on trade-ins. Fine. But when i bought Xenogears for $30 and traded that ridiculous piece of shit in, i got FOUR. Four fucking dollars. That's worse than the game itself. This bitching is spawned by the fact that when i went in today, i had my card with me, and was going to buy some NES games with the $25 on it. It turns out, my card expired. "Okay," i thought, "I must have left it in my dresser." I offered to put the games back, but the guy told me he would do it for me. that was fine. So when i get home, i immediately search for my card. "I got the money and card", i thought, "from trading in Splinter Cell, a waste of fifty good dollars." It was the first time i didn't feel cheated by the Gamestop franchise, getting half of a game's worth. It was store credit, but that didn't bother me. What did was that i remembered i had a receipt from that purchase, not a card.

Shit.

I looked all up and down my room, but i knew what happened to it. I looked in the laundry at the pants i was wearing the night i traded it in. There it was, three yellow scraps of twenty-five gdddamn dollars. I tried for twenty minutes to carefully open the pieces without tearing, and all i could make out was the disclaimer on the back. Silly me, i had to fold it FRONT SIDE OUT. Now i loathe Splinter Cell, because that game ended up costing me seventy five god damned dollars. Do you know what i could have bought with that? I could have doubled my NES game collection, and still have had money for the new Samus Aran figure. Or i could have bought fice or six used psx games. Or two swords from ebay. Or five cds. Or something WORTH SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS. I'm not going to blame Funcoland for my washing that receipt, but instead i'm going to blame that god damn Splinter Cell, and the fact that my Dogma prevents me from EVER profiting from a transaction at Funcoland.

(I reach the amount of $75 by reasoning that it was the absolute total about of money i had in the week, and that losing Splinter Cell was a gain)

Care to know what the games were?

Astynax
Skate or Die
Faxanadu
Kid Niki: RADICAL NINJA
Ninja Kids
Demon Sword
Wrath of the Black Manta
Little Nemo in Dreamland
Deja Vu
War something or other, a Contra clone


FUCK.