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Cerebralbore101 on 01 September 2019
Dgc1808 said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

We should only believe in that which can be proven. 

^This statement is contradictory, because the statement itself cannot be proven. 

Instead we should believe in that which can be shown to be most likely true. There are a great many things you can deny if you demand absolute proof. For example: You can deny that our senses are showing us the world as it truly is. And from there you can deny all evidence period. And from that point, nothing needs to be accepted at all. Now we've spiraled into a nonsensical world where all evidence is meaningless. All thanks to demanding that everything be 100% proven before being accepted as fact. 

Cool semantics bro.

I said nothing about absolute proof but feel free to beat on that straw-man.

I wasn't saying that you said "We should only believe in that which can be proven." I was just using the sentence as an example to set up my argument. 



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COKTOE on 01 September 2019

I still highly value GS ( EB Games in Canada ), because I loath online shopping, and they can get games I want that Best Buy, Wal-Mart, ect, don't get. I only buy new, and in that realm, they're at parity in terms of prices for the most part. There are still 4 locations in my city, and the staff has mostly been good. I have LITERALLY had EB staff, on more rhan one occassion, open my pre-ordered games to take home play for themselves though. I'm not kidding. I dealt with it.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

Pemalite on 03 September 2019
COKTOE said:

I still highly value GS ( EB Games in Canada ), because I loath online shopping, and they can get games I want that Best Buy, Wal-Mart, ect, don't get. I only buy new, and in that realm, they're at parity in terms of prices for the most part. There are still 4 locations in my city, and the staff has mostly been good. I have LITERALLY had EB staff, on more rhan one occassion, open my pre-ordered games to take home play for themselves though. I'm not kidding. I dealt with it.

EB Games (Gamestop) Australia does online shopping? Is that not a thing over in North America?



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COKTOE on 03 September 2019
Pemalite said:
COKTOE said:

I still highly value GS ( EB Games in Canada ), because I loath online shopping, and they can get games I want that Best Buy, Wal-Mart, ect, don't get. I only buy new, and in that realm, they're at parity in terms of prices for the most part. There are still 4 locations in my city, and the staff has mostly been good. I have LITERALLY had EB staff, on more rhan one occassion, open my pre-ordered games to take home play for themselves though. I'm not kidding. I dealt with it.

EB Games (Gamestop) Australia does online shopping? Is that not a thing over in North America?

You're confusing the hell out of me. :) I like EB because I don't like online shopping, and they provide a "brick and mortar" solution to obtaining the smaller, or as the Indians say, "maize" games that the big box stores often don't get. Did you see "loath" as "love"?



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

Pemalite on 03 September 2019
COKTOE said:
Pemalite said:

EB Games (Gamestop) Australia does online shopping? Is that not a thing over in North America?

You're confusing the hell out of me. :) I like EB because I don't like online shopping, and they provide a "brick and mortar" solution to obtaining the smaller, or as the Indians say, "maize" games that the big box stores often don't get. Did you see "loath" as "love"?

Apologies.

EB Games (Which is like Gamestop in the USA) in Australia have brick-and-mortar stores all across the country.
You can still walk into a store and purchase a game...

But they supplement that with an online store... Then if you buy a game online, the store closest to you that has it in stock will mail you the game.

Is that not how it works in North America as well?



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COKTOE on 03 September 2019
Pemalite said:
COKTOE said:

You're confusing the hell out of me. :) I like EB because I don't like online shopping, and they provide a "brick and mortar" solution to obtaining the smaller, or as the Indians say, "maize" games that the big box stores often don't get. Did you see "loath" as "love"?

Apologies.

EB Games (Which is like Gamestop in the USA) in Australia have brick-and-mortar stores all across the country.
You can still walk into a store and purchase a game...

But they supplement that with an online store... Then if you buy a game online, the store closest to you that has it in stock will mail you the game.

Is that not how it works in North America as well?

Yes, afaik, it's the same here.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

sethnintendo on 03 September 2019

Well apparently half their stores are now packed with action figures and those big head collectables.



sethnintendo on 03 September 2019
COKTOE said:
Pemalite said:

Apologies.

EB Games (Which is like Gamestop in the USA) in Australia have brick-and-mortar stores all across the country.
You can still walk into a store and purchase a game...

But they supplement that with an online store... Then if you buy a game online, the store closest to you that has it in stock will mail you the game.

Is that not how it works in North America as well?

Yes, afaik, it's the same here.

I thought GameStop bought out EB games here in USA.  I guess they didn't in Australia.



Pemalite on 03 September 2019
sethnintendo said:
COKTOE said:

Yes, afaik, it's the same here.

I thought GameStop bought out EB games here in USA.  I guess they didn't in Australia.

Parent company is Gamestop.

They also own ZiNG Pop Culture Australia which sells video game paraphernalia.



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BHR-3 on 03 September 2019

thats sad i met a few hot emo gaming girls that work there

i remember when they used to be called funcoland and at the peak of last gen there were building GSs everywhere there were two within 500 feet in some places

what i hated about them was how they try to push stuff down your throat pre order and subscribe to a whole bunch of stuff i also hated how they got rid of all the older used games meaning nes snes ps1 era games and now ps3 and ps2 era.

also there used game trade in and resale was ridiculously over and under priced trade in a new game that came out weeks ago for 20-25 bucks resale for 55



                                                             

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