Nobody who's ever had a public-facing retail job should doubt the veracity of Ian's tales. In my experience, one nightmarish experience per shift was _below_ average.
When I worked front desk at a hotel and shift manager of a McDonald’s I learned to kind of zone out the insanity. I was friendly but learned to not take customers too seriously and just disconnected myself.
If there could be a game store version of Pawn Stars you guys should do it. Pat would offer $5 for your sealed games. Frank can be your Chumlee. Ian would be the grumpy old man that takes being called "asshole" as a badge of honor.
Ian's right, a sign wouldn't help. My dad used to run a buffet restaurant, and the most common question was "Where's the soup?" The answer was "Under the sign that says 'Soup'."
Learned that lesson very early on. "please close the door" "dont park here", none of that shit works. Máybe if it's a pictogram? Words, people won't read. Especially not the clueless and/or arrogant. They already know exactly what they think is correct and won't question it for one second to read ánything. It you really nééd a sign, do a pictogram, plus one or two words. That has sóme chance. As soon as it takes more than a glancing look to spot or entirely read, just don't bother.
People wouldn't read the poster anyways. I worked at Sam Goody and we were going of business, we had giant signs all over the store going "STORE CLOSING". You don't know how many times people were shocked when they went to buy something and I told them "no refunds" due to the store closing and their reactions "YOU GUYS ARE CLOSING?!" Like, no, we just spent a hour hanging all of these signs in the store for our own amusement.
Same thing happened to me at Circuit City. Although, people knew we were going out of business, they were stunned when we told them there were no returns. "Well, why not?", "Because the fuckin company won't exist in a week!". LOL!
Sold a rug on Craigslist, with measurements clearly marked, then repeated, with a note to measure before coming so as not to waste anyone's time. Still got a half dozen women turning up just to say "oh I thought it would be bigger/smaller"
@Pat re: Q-tips. Sadly, people dont read signs. But the real problem isn't knowing about Q-tips/alcohol. Its form. We show people how to do it (2 Q-Tips, torx'ed so they apply good pressure). They will often say 'oh, you're doing that way more aggressively than I was!' They dont understand that its 20 year old metal that needs scrubbing, and that they need to put a lot of pressure down.
as someone who works a retail job, not like Luna Video but still having to deal with 'the public', keep the stories coming. What some people don't realize is those tiny little things all add up. I will seethe over a random crappy customer for the rest of the week, only to be replaced by the next one. Don't stop the whinging, Ian.
i worked in a small local gamestore in my town, one day these 2 guys came in that ran a different gamestore, they were more tabletop than video games but the guy had several games and they looked in my glass case and saw conkers bad fur day for about 80 bucks and one of them said "that should be $200" and i immediately thought "shit its these kinda guys" i specifically remember them having a mario kart 64 with a ruined label and metroid 2 on gameboy among other things for what he had i offered about 50 bucks and the guy flipped his lid telling me that metroid 2 is rare and a $100 game, i dont think i have ever turned beat red so fast in my life, kicked them the fuck outta there almost immediately and they tried to slander the business because metroid is totally 100 bucks, ironically their business closed down a few weeks later
Pat, I work in retail. You are vastly over estimating how many people will not only read a poster, but actually comprehend in any way what it means. I mean, I work at a grocery store, and somebody once asked me where the food was at. In a grocery store.
I can relate to Ian's general disdain for his fellow man. I could listen to even his most boring story as long as its starts with " So this fucking guy comes in the store"...
If you are ever here in Northeast Bronx, New York Ian, definitely check out Moodie's Records. I know you love Reggae and being in a predominantly Jamaican neighborhood, they have an extraordinarily large cache or records for you to rummage through. There is also another predominantly Reggae store Millennium Music Mall, about ten blocks down
You can tell I'm too much in a retro gamer mindset when he mentioned testing the N64 on a TV and I just assumed it would be a CRT because why would you plug an N64 into a flatscreen? I work in software and we'll put warning messages in our software saying things like "Warning, this can mess up your data if you don't know exactly what you are doing. Are you sure?" and it makes no difference. There are always users that just completely ignore them. Maybe it has a compounding effect in that maybe there are users that read the message and follow it and thus we get less support calls then we would if the message wasn't present. But it's a sieve, not a wall.
Has Pat said who does the "Tales from the Game Store" voice at the end of the opening? It's a really good impression of the Crypt Keeper (John Kassir).
Real talk, there are MILLIONS of crazy motherfuckers walking around out there with serious mental and emotional problems who probably should be in a padded room somewhere. Horror stories like these of people just flipping out when they're clearly in the wrong are all too common. Thank god, I don't work in retail anymore. I had my fill of that crap in my life
I used to suck at cleaning cartridges too. I think a lot of people who try cleaning them don't realize it's gonna take like 35 q-tips per cartridge at times. They get some grime off, but they don't realize there's still a lot more on there. Cleaning cartridge connectors; JUST KEEP AT IT UNTIL IT'S 100% CLEAN! Then the game will work.
It would have to be "Mister Cotton Swab" since "Q-Tip" is a trademarked brand name... Unless you sell actual Q-Tips there, then maybe you could say it's advertising. Surf Wisely.
Try convincing an old man that Great Value is NOT Safeway. -_- argued with this fella for at least a good 10 or so minutes because he was trying to return a WALMART item to Safeway and swore UP and DOWN that he got the product from us. XD So I had to go get a couple of OUR brands and show him that we dont carry Great Value. -_- he found his Walmart receipt...... With said item on it.
We had to do the same thing with a guy trying to return a whole Walmart ham at our Cub except he never admitted he was wrong before he left. The worst is the people trying to return bags of half expired and half items we don't carry they got the food shelf to buy a pack of cigarettes.
Man retail sucks for the most part I use to work for Babbages years ago and can relate to your stories for sure. It's a thankless job most of the time It really makes you bitter towards the public for the most part and makes you really appreciate the nice customers.
Mid teens is WAY too old to not understand the concept of overhead. I guess most high schools don’t get in to economics until the junior or senior year, but maybe that needs to change.
I feel it, I work in a bike shop where we take in old bikes as TRADE only, I always start with YOU WILL make more selling it youself- then I give the amount. its always low.
Pat is too hopeful for humanity, we have big signs that say above our self-service tills, "CARD ONLY" and still about half the people who go to use it expect it to take cash.
Used to work at a comic shop where we also sold games. I had a guy one time bring in games to sell and these discs were so dirty, like they had crust and other stuff on it (I did t want to know). The dude gets pissed at me for not taking them saying I was offending him (somehow).
I believe it. Any job that involves working with the public will ultimately lead to having to deal with shitty people. Hell even if you're not working with the public, there's always a handful of coworkers who don't know the first thing about their job, and you end up having to put up with their incompetence.
Praying for y'all Ian and Pat. I hope y'all feel better and recover soon. I hope all goes well for y'all in y'alls futures with y'alls jobs and with the channel. I wish y'all the very best of luck overcoming any anxiety issues and struggles y'all face and with y'alls jobs and channel. God bless y'all my friends. God loves y'all.
Yes, there are people who buy/sell/restore Pipes. there's definitely a secondhand market they call them estate pipes lol. i use to buy pipes off ebay and restore them. ended up selling anything worth of note in my pipe collection because the truth is nothing smokes better than a 10 dollar meerschaum corn cob pipe! and out of all the pipes i was excited to get(higher end) ended up smoking like shit when i finally got them defintley not worth the investment, but tbh i got my money out of the pipes, and i still have a nice little tobacco cellar! Ian looks like a pipe smoker lol.
It's funny to see stuff on the table shaking from Ian bouncing his knee up and down. I get the same thing with stuff on my tables moving cuz I bounce my knee up and down so much. I dunno why I do it. I'm just a very restless person. It's not from anxiety, though people think it is, but anxiety does make it worse. On the bright side, my leg muscles are really toned cuz I do it almost constantly.
Love the Mr. Q tip idea! It'd have to be swabby the cotton swab though, bc Q tip is a registered trade mark of Johnson and Johnson or some other pharmaceutical co. Make him a pirate. Arghh matey did you clean your game today? Because swabby like swab the deck
I work at a retro videogame and movie store and we get a ton of weird weird people coming in. And some really crappy moments. But they can be memorable
Please don't use qtips on contacts, I'm sick of every time I get a cartridge game, there are fibers from the qtip stuck in the contacts, the most important part of getting the game to play. Just buy the proper bits to unscrew the game and clean it with alcohol and a non-colored rag (I've used a red rag and alcohol to clean a game before and the red dye from the rag stained the contacts, so stick to light colors, whites, grays, eyeglasses cloth). Of course there is the 1 Up Card, but I still didn't like the possibility of fibers getting into my systems. So make the guy hold a 1-Up card or rag, screw qtips.
I fucking hate when people scratch the shit out of games, CDs, DVDs, etc.! It's really not that difficult to take a small amount of effort to not scratch the disk, especially the side that is read. Hold it by the center hole and the side edge. Don't touch the bottom, don't set the disk bottom side down on anything, don't stack disks on top of each other, and for fuck's sake, keep the fucking disk in it's case when you aren't using it!!! If it didn't come with a case, or the case gets broken or lost, it isn't that hard to find a replacement, even if it's just one of those shitty paper/cardboard sleeves (I still think that these suck, but it's better than nothing). If you're too careless or stupid to do this, I have zero pity when you whine about your expensive games skipping or just not working, and when you can't sell your game because it's unplayable. It's common knowledge that scratching a disk fucks it up. I've even seen photos on Ebay of the disk just laying on something, read side down. Good job fucktard! I ain't buying your game! This is exactly why I would never lend my CDs, games or DVDs out to anyone, and why they all work flawlessly, some even after 25 years. I've even seen comments about this used as an arguement that digital downloads are better than physical media because they can't get scratched or broken. I have games nearly as old as myself, and they work just fine, as long as you're not a dumbass and take basic care of them Sorry for the rant, this subject just really brings my piss to a boil. Actually, I'm not sorry. Take care of shit or suffer the consequences!
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Ian deserves a patience award for dealing with Pat sometimes.
Ian wanted to punch pat by the end of that. lol.
Me too. He can get pretty obnoxious sometimes.
Yeah...I could feel Ian's restraint with him at the end.
Hey fellas, do you have many Tales from the Game Conventions?
I second this.
Ive seen some shit at anime and comic cons. I want to know the answer to this
Fantastic idea! I would LOVE to hear those stories!
this needs to be a topic asap
Yeeeeep
Nobody who's ever had a public-facing retail job should doubt the veracity of Ian's tales. In my experience, one nightmarish experience per shift was _below_ average.
I worked at Walmart. One was a good day lol
This all over.
David Levy I was the cashier at a club's bar.
And I think I could not survive retail
@@techguypaul Walmart was the dark times in my employment. On teams of useless people who blame you for everything.
Ian was ready to punch pat at the end of this clip
You can always tell when the Meth guy visits the store.
He's the one that knocks.
When I worked front desk at a hotel and shift manager of a McDonald’s I learned to kind of zone out the insanity. I was friendly but learned to not take customers too seriously and just disconnected myself.
If there could be a game store version of Pawn Stars you guys should do it. Pat would offer $5 for your sealed games. Frank can be your Chumlee. Ian would be the grumpy old man that takes being called "asshole" as a badge of honor.
Who would pat be Rick or Corey and who would be the other one
Ian's right, a sign wouldn't help. My dad used to run a buffet restaurant, and the most common question was "Where's the soup?" The answer was "Under the sign that says 'Soup'."
Learned that lesson very early on. "please close the door" "dont park here", none of that shit works. Máybe if it's a pictogram?
Words, people won't read. Especially not the clueless and/or arrogant. They already know exactly what they think is correct and won't question it for one second to read ánything.
It you really nééd a sign, do a pictogram, plus one or two words. That has sóme chance. As soon as it takes more than a glancing look to spot or entirely read, just don't bother.
Tippy says "Don't be lame, clean that game"!
I still want to stumble upon an NES cartridge with a "Be kind, rewind," or similar sticker on it.
People wouldn't read the poster anyways. I worked at Sam Goody and we were going of business, we had giant signs all over the store going "STORE CLOSING". You don't know how many times people were shocked when they went to buy something and I told them "no refunds" due to the store closing and their reactions "YOU GUYS ARE CLOSING?!" Like, no, we just spent a hour hanging all of these signs in the store for our own amusement.
Same thing happened to me at Circuit City. Although, people knew we were going out of business, they were stunned when we told them there were no returns. "Well, why not?", "Because the fuckin company won't exist in a week!". LOL!
Absolutely correct.
If there are more than a few signs containing more than a few words, people just ignore it.
Sold a rug on Craigslist, with measurements clearly marked, then repeated, with a note to measure before coming so as not to waste anyone's time.
Still got a half dozen women turning up just to say "oh I thought it would be bigger/smaller"
@@ComicGladiator , that's what she said.
Jesus, Pat, learn to read the room, lol
I know he's a NES guy, but I think he's on the spectrum.
@@ComicGladiator Naw, Patrick is just an eccentric
@@deezy81 11:30 is not eccentric, it's being an asshole.
The game store should create a RUclips channel and Ian can produce a variety of maintenance and basic troubleshooting how-tos.
He should do something like gas station encounters
@@luvmenow33 she gone
10:10 Put up a poster telling people to clean their games? First rule of retail, nobody reads the signs.
Put up a sign reading, *"PLEASE READ ALL OTHER SIGNS!*
so people can ignore *another* sign.
I work in a grocery store and those people can be out of their goddamn minds.
I'm high AF grocery shopping usually.
@Pat re: Q-tips. Sadly, people dont read signs. But the real problem isn't knowing about Q-tips/alcohol. Its form. We show people how to do it (2 Q-Tips, torx'ed so they apply good pressure). They will often say 'oh, you're doing that way more aggressively than I was!' They dont understand that its 20 year old metal that needs scrubbing, and that they need to put a lot of pressure down.
lol I'm glad pat's not my boss I'd never dock someone's pay for a silly accident if they were my best employee
Pat was 75% joking
@@oz_jones 🤣
as someone who works a retail job, not like Luna Video but still having to deal with 'the public', keep the stories coming. What some people don't realize is those tiny little things all add up. I will seethe over a random crappy customer for the rest of the week, only to be replaced by the next one. Don't stop the whinging, Ian.
*"...I BROKE THE TV"*
*Ian I'm so proud of you*
Why is everything an argument w pat
i worked in a small local gamestore in my town, one day these 2 guys came in that ran a different gamestore, they were more tabletop than video games but the guy had several games and they looked in my glass case and saw conkers bad fur day for about 80 bucks and one of them said "that should be $200" and i immediately thought "shit its these kinda guys" i specifically remember them having a mario kart 64 with a ruined label and metroid 2 on gameboy among other things for what he had i offered about 50 bucks and the guy flipped his lid telling me that metroid 2 is rare and a $100 game, i dont think i have ever turned beat red so fast in my life, kicked them the fuck outta there almost immediately and they tried to slander the business because metroid is totally 100 bucks, ironically their business closed down a few weeks later
If I ever visit Luna Games I want Ian to greet me like he does in the intro. :D
I would get mad startled!
People do trade in their old tobacco pipes, they can be sanitized and it's all good.
It's frustrating listening to Ian get interrupted constantly by somebody who clearly isn't paying full attention.
I imagine a show where Pat and Ian run a game store would be very similar to Clerks and I’m all for it.
Damn, pat was annoying on this one. Especially at the end
Pat, I work in retail. You are vastly over estimating how many people will not only read a poster, but actually comprehend in any way what it means.
I mean, I work at a grocery store, and somebody once asked me where the food was at. In a grocery store.
I can relate to Ian's general disdain for his fellow man. I could listen to even his most boring story as long as its starts with " So this fucking guy comes in the store"...
Ian you need cameras with sound so we can experience these tales from the game store.
Also, Pat... just stop talking.
That would be epic
If you are ever here in Northeast Bronx, New York Ian, definitely check out Moodie's Records. I know you love Reggae and being in a predominantly Jamaican neighborhood, they have an extraordinarily large cache or records for you to rummage through. There is also another predominantly Reggae store Millennium Music Mall, about ten blocks down
You can tell I'm too much in a retro gamer mindset when he mentioned testing the N64 on a TV and I just assumed it would be a CRT because why would you plug an N64 into a flatscreen?
I work in software and we'll put warning messages in our software saying things like "Warning, this can mess up your data if you don't know exactly what you are doing. Are you sure?" and it makes no difference. There are always users that just completely ignore them. Maybe it has a compounding effect in that maybe there are users that read the message and follow it and thus we get less support calls then we would if the message wasn't present. But it's a sieve, not a wall.
Has Pat said who does the "Tales from the Game Store" voice at the end of the opening? It's a really good impression of the Crypt Keeper (John Kassir).
Real talk, there are MILLIONS of crazy motherfuckers walking around out there with serious mental and emotional problems who probably should be in a padded room somewhere. Horror stories like these of people just flipping out when they're clearly in the wrong are all too common. Thank god, I don't work in retail anymore. I had my fill of that crap in my life
Agreed. I work a side job at a convenience store for some extra money. The 12 hours there are more frustrating than 40 hours at my office!
Lol Gotta give it up to Ian for taking constant BS from people and not always losing his cool.
Ian, if a "customer" tries to be an ass and then says, "Tales from the game stooooore." as he leaves, don't tell their story.
When is Volume I of Tales from the game store coming out?
This is always my favorite segment
I would hate to work for pat. He seems like a complete sociopath of a boss lol. I still love you pat. No disrespect.
🤡
People do sell their old pipes and stuff btw.
Hey Pat, it was awesome meeting you at TooManyGames today, really appreciated gettin' a pic with you, thanks!
I used to suck at cleaning cartridges too. I think a lot of people who try cleaning them don't realize it's gonna take like 35 q-tips per cartridge at times. They get some grime off, but they don't realize there's still a lot more on there. Cleaning cartridge connectors; JUST KEEP AT IT UNTIL IT'S 100% CLEAN! Then the game will work.
It would have to be "Mister Cotton Swab" since "Q-Tip" is a trademarked brand name...
Unless you sell actual Q-Tips there, then maybe you could say it's advertising.
Surf Wisely.
Having worked more than few years retail in my formative years, I have absolutely no doubt about any of Ian’s stories.
This is always a good time 🙂 from someone who works at retail. I can comprehend every scenario
Pat is Adam Carolla and Ian is Dr. Drew :D
God pat should have been a high school Chemistry teachers. Dry sense of humor and all.
Nah, he needs Ian as a catalyst.
if only you got the tv moment on video, you could make a jojo "to be continued" meme out of it
Try convincing an old man that Great Value is NOT Safeway. -_- argued with this fella for at least a good 10 or so minutes because he was trying to return a WALMART item to Safeway and swore UP and DOWN that he got the product from us. XD So I had to go get a couple of OUR brands and show him that we dont carry Great Value. -_- he found his Walmart receipt...... With said item on it.
We had to do the same thing with a guy trying to return a whole Walmart ham at our Cub except he never admitted he was wrong before he left. The worst is the people trying to return bags of half expired and half items we don't carry they got the food shelf to buy a pack of cigarettes.
@@brandonlink6568 XD! Oh wow......
I never imagined Ian as a smoker but now I can't get the image of him in an old leather lounge chair smoking a pipe in a robe a reading a book lol
I don't smoke cigarettes, I don't smoke cigars, I don't smoke a pipe pipe pipe pipe.
Jeez Pat. You really got caught up in blame assignment.
Man retail sucks for the most part I use to work for Babbages years ago and can relate to your stories for sure. It's a thankless job most of the time It really makes you bitter towards the public for the most part and makes you really appreciate the nice customers.
"I want them to know they are shitty-people" Ian is my spirit animal.
9:46 I appreciate the Jericho reference there Pat. LOL
i got my grandpa's pipes too.
Is it just me or is pat starting to look a sweathog.
Up your nose, with a rubber hose
@@johnschultz1650 Damn I was hoping to use that joke lol
Mistah Kot-ter! Ooo Oooo OOooo Very Arnold Horshack or Juan Epsteinish
Now Pat is going to start sending crazies into Luna to make more Tales from the Game Store.
i feel like cosplaying as mr q-tip at RWX lol
Mid teens is WAY too old to not understand the concept of overhead. I guess most high schools don’t get in to economics until the junior or senior year, but maybe that needs to change.
Just remember, if you use Q-tip as a name you may get sued. Try something like cotton swab Joe or something.
Ah... Beat me to it by 6 hours.
I feel it, I work in a bike shop where we take in old bikes as TRADE only, I always start with YOU WILL make more selling it youself- then I give the amount. its always low.
Pat is too hopeful for humanity, we have big signs that say above our self-service tills, "CARD ONLY" and still about half the people who go to use it expect it to take cash.
I’ve worked in a few gun stores and only had one guy give me shit
I could not deal with this kind of human garbage. Ian is very patient.
love these stories you guys crack me up
I do work in a tobacco pipe store, and I can tell you I have plenty of similar stories.
Why not have Ms. Menda bottle holding a Menda bottle and a bunch of Q-tips?
That poor TV, RIP.
I don't know if anything will ever top the "Little Bitch" story.
I drew ya'll a Mr. Q-Tip prototype poster the other day. =X
I think you would have to call him Mr. Cotton Swab
Used to work at a comic shop where we also sold games. I had a guy one time bring in games to sell and these discs were so dirty, like they had crust and other stuff on it (I did t want to know). The dude gets pissed at me for not taking them saying I was offending him (somehow).
I believe it. Any job that involves working with the public will ultimately lead to having to deal with shitty people. Hell even if you're not working with the public, there's always a handful of coworkers who don't know the first thing about their job, and you end up having to put up with their incompetence.
Yes we would riot if Tales from the game store gets canceled!!!!
A+ on the new intro
Praying for y'all Ian and Pat. I hope y'all feel better and recover soon. I hope all goes well for y'all in y'alls futures with y'alls jobs and with the channel. I wish y'all the very best of luck overcoming any anxiety issues and struggles y'all face and with y'alls jobs and channel. God bless y'all my friends. God loves y'all.
Nah he should just have q-tip hands
When does the SNES guidebook get released? Got mine preordered
I had a feeling ian was a pipe smoker
Yes, there are people who buy/sell/restore Pipes. there's definitely a secondhand market they call them estate pipes lol. i use to buy pipes off ebay and restore them. ended up selling anything worth of note in my pipe collection because the truth is nothing smokes better than a 10 dollar meerschaum corn cob pipe! and out of all the pipes i was excited to get(higher end) ended up smoking like shit when i finally got them defintley not worth the investment, but tbh i got my money out of the pipes, and i still have a nice little tobacco cellar! Ian looks like a pipe smoker lol.
$80 for a little flat screen? Thrift store usually has em $19.99
Haha the broken tv is karma for yelling at those damn kids!
where can we order the hd remaster collection of tales from the gamestore?
It's funny to see stuff on the table shaking from Ian bouncing his knee up and down. I get the same thing with stuff on my tables moving cuz I bounce my knee up and down so much. I dunno why I do it. I'm just a very restless person. It's not from anxiety, though people think it is, but anxiety does make it worse. On the bright side, my leg muscles are really toned cuz I do it almost constantly.
Hobby Shops have very similar customers
"Dock his pay"? I thought Ian owned the store(s).
I believe you guys but you say pat was there as if that increases believability lol
Love the Mr. Q tip idea! It'd have to be swabby the cotton swab though, bc Q tip is a registered trade mark of Johnson and Johnson or some other pharmaceutical co. Make him a pirate. Arghh matey did you clean your game today? Because swabby like swab the deck
And sir wipealot the scratch free cloth for CDs
I'm still planning a visit to San Diego and I've do hope to visit Luna Games This year. Also still love these tales from the game store.
I work at a retro videogame and movie store and we get a ton of weird weird people coming in. And some really crappy moments. But they can be memorable
Mostly drug addicts and drunks or nerds
At least it wasn't a CRT :)
Mr Cuetip lmao
Poor Ian I can relate
9:01 That's what she said....
i feel bad ian
Great vid bros.
Please don't use qtips on contacts, I'm sick of every time I get a cartridge game, there are fibers from the qtip stuck in the contacts, the most important part of getting the game to play. Just buy the proper bits to unscrew the game and clean it with alcohol and a non-colored rag (I've used a red rag and alcohol to clean a game before and the red dye from the rag stained the contacts, so stick to light colors, whites, grays, eyeglasses cloth).
Of course there is the 1 Up Card, but I still didn't like the possibility of fibers getting into my systems. So make the guy hold a 1-Up card or rag, screw qtips.
I fucking hate when people scratch the shit out of games, CDs, DVDs, etc.!
It's really not that difficult to take a small amount of effort to not scratch the disk, especially the side that is read. Hold it by the center hole and the side edge. Don't touch the bottom, don't set the disk bottom side down on anything, don't stack disks on top of each other, and for fuck's sake, keep the fucking disk in it's case when you aren't using it!!!
If it didn't come with a case, or the case gets broken or lost, it isn't that hard to find a replacement, even if it's just one of those shitty paper/cardboard sleeves (I still think that these suck, but it's better than nothing).
If you're too careless or stupid to do this, I have zero pity when you whine about your expensive games skipping or just not working, and when you can't sell your game because it's unplayable. It's common knowledge that scratching a disk fucks it up.
I've even seen photos on Ebay of the disk just laying on something, read side down.
Good job fucktard! I ain't buying your game!
This is exactly why I would never lend my CDs, games or DVDs out to anyone, and why they all work flawlessly, some even after 25 years.
I've even seen comments about this used as an arguement that digital downloads are better than physical media because they can't get scratched or broken. I have games nearly as old as myself, and they work just fine, as long as you're not a dumbass and take basic care of them
Sorry for the rant, this subject just really brings my piss to a boil.
Actually, I'm not sorry. Take care of shit or suffer the consequences!
I want mr q tip to be a thing