I recently got the Games Freedom pass at Blockbuster, which allows you to have unlimited videogame rentals for one month.
Well, the majority of the games I've rented have been scratched at least a little bit. They typicially have fingerprint smudges and a few light scratches on the back of the CD/DVD. And these little things are understandable.
But today was different. Today I saw a disc that was so fucked up, I couldn't help but wonder how in the world it could get in such a condition.
Flashback to about 9 o'clock this evening. I'm browsing through the ps2 section for a game that might interest me. Most of the new games I have already played, seeing as how I've had the games pass for quite a while. So I come to the conclusion that I'll pick up a game I haven't played in a while. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City catches my eye.
I purchased Vice City the day it came out back in 2002. It was great. But alas, it got boring and I sold it. Well all this San Andreas hype got me in a 'gta-mood', so I snagged up the only copy and checked out.
When I got home, I popped open the case, and before even removing the disc I knew there was going to be trouble.
Greasy smudges, and what looked to be chocolate chip stains were quite visible on the TOP SIDE of the disc. The first thing that popped into my mind is that the bottom of this disc was going to look much, much worse. I was right.
I took the game out hesitantly, knowing that I was going to be greeted with a freak-show of a disc... Good God. Thick, nasty finger smears all over the disc. I pictured a shirt-less fatass sitting in a worn-down chair chomping down on pork chops with his bare hands, then picking the game up off of the floor with his nasty, fat-glazed hands.
Upon closer inspection, I noticed that there were circular scratches covering the ENTIRE disc. There was not one centimeter left untouched. It looked like someone took a ****ing coin and just went to town on the thing, scratching the hell out it because they forgot they needed a system to play it on.
THE DISC IS NOT A SCRATCH-OFF LOTTERY GAME. You're not supposed to touch the bottom at all, let alone torture the heck out of it!
Needless to say, the disc did not work.
So here I am, pondering as to why someone would do this. WHY? Is it because it's not theirs and they just want to be asses? "Heh heh heh, it ain't mine, I dun give a pig's snout!!" Or perhaps their pet dog needed a new toy to play with.
How in the world can someone's hands get so greasy? HOW?? Did they dip their hands in an economy-sized barrell labeled "Pig Fat"? DO THEY NOT KNOW OF THESE WONDERFUL LITTLE TOOLS WE CALL FORKS? NAPKINS?
Now instead of jacking cars in lovely Vice City, I get to picture a morbidly obese hick with a frontal lobotomy, flailing around on the floor and rubbing the poor disc on his un-bathed fatbody.
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Well, the majority of the games I've rented have been scratched at least a little bit. They typicially have fingerprint smudges and a few light scratches on the back of the CD/DVD. And these little things are understandable.
But today was different. Today I saw a disc that was so fucked up, I couldn't help but wonder how in the world it could get in such a condition.
Flashback to about 9 o'clock this evening. I'm browsing through the ps2 section for a game that might interest me. Most of the new games I have already played, seeing as how I've had the games pass for quite a while. So I come to the conclusion that I'll pick up a game I haven't played in a while. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City catches my eye.
I purchased Vice City the day it came out back in 2002. It was great. But alas, it got boring and I sold it. Well all this San Andreas hype got me in a 'gta-mood', so I snagged up the only copy and checked out.
When I got home, I popped open the case, and before even removing the disc I knew there was going to be trouble.
Greasy smudges, and what looked to be chocolate chip stains were quite visible on the TOP SIDE of the disc. The first thing that popped into my mind is that the bottom of this disc was going to look much, much worse. I was right.
I took the game out hesitantly, knowing that I was going to be greeted with a freak-show of a disc... Good God. Thick, nasty finger smears all over the disc. I pictured a shirt-less fatass sitting in a worn-down chair chomping down on pork chops with his bare hands, then picking the game up off of the floor with his nasty, fat-glazed hands.
Upon closer inspection, I noticed that there were circular scratches covering the ENTIRE disc. There was not one centimeter left untouched. It looked like someone took a ****ing coin and just went to town on the thing, scratching the hell out it because they forgot they needed a system to play it on.
THE DISC IS NOT A SCRATCH-OFF LOTTERY GAME. You're not supposed to touch the bottom at all, let alone torture the heck out of it!
Needless to say, the disc did not work.
So here I am, pondering as to why someone would do this. WHY? Is it because it's not theirs and they just want to be asses? "Heh heh heh, it ain't mine, I dun give a pig's snout!!" Or perhaps their pet dog needed a new toy to play with.
How in the world can someone's hands get so greasy? HOW?? Did they dip their hands in an economy-sized barrell labeled "Pig Fat"? DO THEY NOT KNOW OF THESE WONDERFUL LITTLE TOOLS WE CALL FORKS? NAPKINS?
Now instead of jacking cars in lovely Vice City, I get to picture a morbidly obese hick with a frontal lobotomy, flailing around on the floor and rubbing the poor disc on his un-bathed fatbody.
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