September 24, 2007, 11:59 pm.
I was standing inside of a local Microcenter, listening to the manager go over their checklist, awaiting midnight. The throng of people swelled outside the store door like Wisconsin Convenient store on Lottery Friday.
Then it happened.
Read the rest after the jump!
The doors opened and a stampede of gamers came rushing through the door like a geek version of the running of the Bulls or something. I chronicled it all here.
Apparently this was happening all over the world or something. I don’t know. I barely go outside anymore. I’ve been staring at my xbox for so long that I’m starting to think Major Nelson is my alter ego, or something… Gawd, I look like hell and… kinda old…
Anyway, where was I… Oh yeah, Halo 3. Blah, Blah, blah… biggest launch day in the history of entertainment, blah, blah, blah. 2.5 million sold in a day. Yippie-kai-yay.
Because the Microsoft marketing department did their job exceptionally well, the launch of Halo Jesus appropriately checks in as number 2, I mean at number 2 on Sarcastic Gamer’s Top 100 Gaming Moments of 2007.
Gawd, I hope this is the last time I ever write about Halo 3.
I wonder what’s going to be number 1???
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13 responses so far ↓
1 AblativMeatshld // Jan 1, 2008 at 4:14 pm
For that first pic, I suggest the following caption: “4 men who have never known the touch of a woman - not even their mother”
2 Hollowcow // Jan 1, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I like Halo….but the crazy fanboy people make me mad. The game while fun is flawed! Yes I said it! Let the flame war begin.
3 Nobody // Jan 1, 2008 at 5:46 pm
The one on the right looks kind of female, so…
4 AblativMeatshld // Jan 1, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Yeah, I’m afraid I’m gonna have to see some genetic test results before I accept that…
5 GrimResistance // Jan 1, 2008 at 7:49 pm
How does camo and a paintball mask make a Master Chief outfit? Pfff, losers, my costume is going to be way better than that.
6 AblativMeatshld // Jan 1, 2008 at 8:48 pm
The one that frightens me the most is the duct-taped cardboard…
That he appears to be proud of…
7 Lono // Jan 1, 2008 at 8:58 pm
One of them is a female. Perhaps Meatshld does not know the touch of a female either.
Them be boobies on the lass on the right, matey.
Oh and easy on the peeps. I’m sure your self portrait isn’t much better…
8 Alecsander_C // Jan 1, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Did anybody get scared about this guys walking in a store dressed like that?
9 AblativMeatshld // Jan 1, 2008 at 10:21 pm
“One of them is a female. Perhaps Meatshld does not know the touch of a female either.”
There’s a “ask your wife/mom” comeback I could make, but I think we can just assume it gets said, and move on, yes?
And I didn’t stare intently at any of them, studying their bodies, taking in every single detail like you did Lono.
Female of not, she isn’t exactly full of win, ya know?
My self protrait would not, at the VERY least, invlve me attempting to cosplay a character using 8 bits of painted cardboard, and duct tape that ISN’T painted… And by god, if it did, I wouldn’t be in that picture willingly… The shame would likely kill me.
Alec, it isn’t that he walked into the store, it’s that he walked to the entrance of the store from his car, IN PUBLIC…
10 commander121 // Jan 1, 2008 at 10:32 pm
i dont think i could do that to myself dressing up as master chief . but i think you staff might be a little concerned seeing those people walk into there store
11 AblativMeatshld // Jan 2, 2008 at 12:18 am
I dunno if I’d be able to kick them out.
I’d be too busy laughing…
12 Lono // Jan 2, 2008 at 2:23 am
they were having a costume contest…. for crissakes.
13 AblativMeatshld // Jan 2, 2008 at 7:28 am
But if you saw that pic absent ANY Halo refference, would you think “Masterchief” or “Paintball team with their mascot, Capt Doofus”?
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