Embarrassing

I still play video games. Usually, I buy games from Amazon. Occasionally, I go to the local store and buy them in person. I've longed believed that these stores are pulling off some kind of scam. Because there is only 1 or 2 games a month that anyone wants, but somehow there are stacks of games that align the walls that I assume will never get bought.

Even crazier, they buy back your old games for a respectable amount of money. So there's a used section, and just, games and games and games and no one buying them. I'm not sure what's going on or how they are making money. Also, there's Amazon and Target and Walmart and Toys R Us. I don't get it.

Anyway, as I was browsing, the guy who worked there was all over me. I brushed him off, picked up the game I wanted and then met him at the register.

Instead of simply ringing me up, the guy starts barraging me with specials and offers and the like. First, he wanted to know if I was a rewards member. I'm not, and I don't want to be. He then asked what other games I'm "in to". I mentioned some, and he asked if I wanted to pre-order them.

Okay, that's another thing that is suspicious. They're always wanting you to pre-order shit, and yet there is no wait time to get these games. The day it comes out, you can simply go to the store and buy it. Or order it online like a normal person. So I'm not sure what the point is.

But he said if I pre-order it, it comes in a special case! And there's an extra world already unlocked! And it comes with a collector's item map! And an action figure!

He keeps going and going, and finally I have to break it to him:

I'm an adult.

But as soon as I tell him that, I realize something:

I'm an adult.

I'm buying and playing videogames. I'm the asshole in this equation.

He wasn't stupid for thinking I would like these "bonuses", I was stupid for buying the thing in the first place. The reason they're offering them is because only kids should be playing these games.

So then I went home and played the shit out of FIFA '13.