Wow, it DOES look ugly...

[taotrooper]

Still, from people complaining, I thought the new update page would be WAY worse. But yeah, ugly. And boring. SixApart's motto must be "if ain't broke, fix it anyway."

If you haven't seen this: OMG Mugetsu/kudakitsune plushie! ♥

I had three things to do today:

a) Pay the remaining payment of college. I, um, well. It was 9:30 am, and I was soooo sleepy, and I misread the receive. It said the whole year was two hundred and something, and this payment was eighty-something, and I understood I had to pay the two hundred (which I didn't have) so I left. FAIL from me.

b) You'd think El Corte Inglés, the biggest department store in Spain, would have employees who know when a certain game will arrive. Not only that dumbass had no idea, but kept arguing to me that the Gamecube version of Twilight Princess didn't exist and never would.

"But the official Nintendo Europe website says otherwise!," I replied. "There IS a Gamecube version, and will be released tomorrow the 15th."

"Well, er, even if that page says so, I haven't heard of that game ever coming here, sorry," asshat said.

And then she went ahead and told me they (El Corte Inglés) aren't going to get any new Gamecube games ever, and the only ones they were going to sell are the old ones they had over there.

...Way to go, asshole. Your ways to scare customers away is astounding! *thumbs up* Also, Elcorteingles.es disagrees with you as they're selling that game that doesn't exist and you guys aren't getting evah. If it wasn't for the shipping rates and the 10-day delay, I'd buy it online.

And then my uncle asks around in Carrefour, and they don't know about the game coming out tomorrow either. *facepalm* What the hell, department stores in Coruña. At least they didn't deny its existance while implying the Gamecube is obsolete.

In short, FAIL from everyone, but especially from the retarded Corte lady.

Tomorrow I'll be calling the stores anyway. Oh, I think my brothers and my mom know a videogames-only store, so I'll ask them the number.

c) Picking the new LCD monitor up and installing it on Larg. If you think having to deal with the new update page is bad, try to adjust your myopic eyes to a new resolution. I'm going blind or something. It so happens the monitor CAN do 1024x768, which is the largest resolution I can handle, but it looks all crispy and shitty. The 1280x1024 looks perfect, but after half a hour of doing random crap my eyes hurt.

So I'm using my Toph icon while I'm adjusting to this shit, because I'm wondering if I'll go blind. Hopefully, I'll be able to find settings to make 1024x768 suck less.

OK, I'm making a disk defragmentation now, so I'll move to the laptop. Meanwhile, a meme.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, amewarashi sent to me...

Twelve mon_starlings drumming

Eleven icephoenixs piping

Ten csakuras a-leaping

Nine icons dancing

Eight slayers a-milking

Seven books a-swimming

Six ducks a-laying

Five po-o-o-olar bears

Four star wars

Three emperor penguins

Two smashing pumpkins

...and a duklyon in an astrology.

Get your own Twelve Days:

A Duklyon in an astrology what?! But the rest is sorta amusing XDDDD I love how they picked up my animal interests because it sounds like the original carol or something.

And "fiiiiive polar beaaaaars!" makes me think of Lost. And I think I've seen an image (I don't know if it was fanart or official crack art, but I recall seeing it) with chibi Gourry in a cow costume *brain breaks*.

Can books swim? Wouldn't they just at the best case float and get too wet to be readable?

Comments

[su-chan.livejournal.com]

QUE MONO!!!!!!!!! ostras es adorable, y se enrosca igualito que Mugetsu ^_____^

Y tienes razon, la nueva pagina del update es una mierda..... pero habra que acostumbrearse.... :-/

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Es la caña, el Mugetsu ♥ Yo quiero uno!

Yo digo que podría ser peor. Uno se puede acostumbrar a los cambios de posición de la interfaz. Pero lo soso y feo que es no se lo quita nadie.

[su-chan.livejournal.com]

yo tambien!!!! el juego lo puedes comprar mas barato en cualquiere tienda online britanica... seguramente son versiones multiidioma....

y ya veo que te estas 'adaptando' a la nueva resolucion XDDDD el XP lleva una opcion para suavizar las fuentes en la pantalla, anda por opciones avanzadas en 'apariencia' (ahora estoy en un win2000, gomen) y va muy bien para tft's....

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Pero lo molesto de las tiendas online es que tengo que esperar más para que me llegue, y con las fiestas tan cerca a saber si no se tardan más en enviar las cosas. Estaré muy mal pero prefiero pagar los 60 euros enteros del juego y jugarlo lo más pronto posible. Igual ya lo reservé en la tienda que me dijo Etsipen y me van a llamar cuando les llegue. Jugar en castellano es para los débiles XP

Oh, qué shiny! Eso del XP no lo sabía. Yo lo que trataba de hacer era bajarle el sharpness a los settings del monitor pero no funcionaba del todo bien. Ya lo revisaré cuando no tenga el vago subido.

[su-chan.livejournal.com]

bueh, http://www.blahdvd.com/blah/Home.aspx tarda 3/4 dias 'pelaos' y gastos gratis por envio certificado ^____^ que game.es te clava por el envio.... solo que al ser certificado no te lo dejan en el buzon si no estas :-/ pero asi tampoco te lo roban si el cartero no la mete bien dentro.... la 'caja-DVD' quiero decir XDDDDDD

Y yo los juegos los _exijo_ en el idioma que fueron creados, que luego las versiones en español llevan cada cagada de traducion que no veas y los parches son una odisea ... y con los mangas pasa lo mismo, solo que el japones es mas jodido, pero la calidad de impresion compensa ^___________^

[suikascented.livejournal.com]

... Sin palabras para el comportamiento de la dependienta del Corte Inglés. Pensaba que habían de atraer clientes, no espantarlos. Lo del Carrefour es más comprensible, pero en ambos casos ¿no podrían haberlo consultado en el ordenador? Pierden clientes potenciales...

Yo los videojuegos acostumo a comprarlos en el Game (centro mail) o en su defecto, en el fnac. Del primero hay uno en A Coruña, podrías mirar allí.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Será esa la tienda que conocen mis hermanos? Está en un mini centro comercial céntrico así que bien podría serlo. De todos modos yo ya pensaba llamar la tienda de todos modos, pero puedo buscar la que dices en las páginas amarillas. Dices que se llama Game? O Centro Mail? O Game Centro Mail?

LOL Colbert.

[suikascented.livejournal.com]

Es la de tus hermanos. Se llama Game by Centro mail (ambas empresas se fusionaron) pero en el cartelito de fuera te saldrá un nombre u otro. Aquí (http://www.game.es/Tiendas/centro.asp?codmail=044&CodProvincia=15) tienes la información.

El icono me hace muchísma gracia =3

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Es ésa, sí ^_^ Creo que mejor lo compraré alla si puedo, para no tener que aguantar a la peña del Corte Inglés. Lo bueno es que el centro comercial está al lado de la estación de autobuses XD (aunque ECI también) Gracias!

[suikascented.livejournal.com]

De nada ^^ Lo bueno de esa tienda es que tiene juegos de segunda mano, así que si hay algun juego que quieras y que sea algo antiguo, tal vez tienes suerte.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Ya sé, de eso la conocen mis hermanos XDDDDD

[ayasugi-san.livejournal.com]

SixApart's motto must be "if ain't broke, fix it anyway."

Along with "if it is broke, then break it some more".

About the Corte person, discount "department" stores are notorious here for compartmentalization. If you ask a random employee where a type of item is, half the time they won't know, and sometimes even the "specialist" won't know, either. For their employees, quality isn't important; what is important is the wages and making sure that they follow procedure to the letter. Chances are that your encounter was with someone who was told by a superior to say that they wouldn't be stocking new Gamecube games ever and that she should stick to that story, no matter what.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

It was most likely like that, but she could've told me politely she had no idea when and if they were getting it, and that's it, no annoying "explanation". I would've left in a calm way and without starting to loathe the videogame department of that store. A less patient person would've never set foot on the store again because of the uncalled rudeness and wiseassery.

[ayasugi-san.livejournal.com]

If possible, I'd avoid that store from now on. Especially because, if she was following "procedure", it's likely that the store manager told her to say that; probably for reasons along the lines of "never tell a customer 'I don't know'". And if that's the case, then other sections of the store are likely to have shitty service, too.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

It kinda reminds me when I asked for a certain kind of denim jeans to my uncle when he went to N.Y.C., and since the store(s) he went to didn't have it exactly like I wanted he told me "they don't exist anymore!"

Sad thing is that store is the most complete department one in the city. At least I don't buy my clothes there because they're so expensive, but in some other areas they're better packed than the one I normally go to (the one I said they didn't know either but didn't make shit up.)

[threeleaf.livejournal.com]

que mal rato pasaste con esa vendedora...

Yo aun sigo buscando algun lugar donde conseguirlo, aunque tal vez me vea forzada a ir a USA a comprarlo (pero esta agotado!!) o ir con los comerciantes que traen todo de USA y te lo venden todo super caro (mas por la demanda), aunque tal vez sea mejor que espere un poco x_x

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Espero que tengas suerte D: