Just a quick tid-bit here :) Last night I go to Wal-Mart to wander around. I end up picking up Viva Pinata because I feel it will take over my free time like there's no tomorrow...I'm an Animal Crossing fiend. I love that game...my DS and I have personal time every day just to run around, harvest fruit, shake trees, and write letters to idiotic, but cute little animals. So why not pinatas right? :)

Anyway, I go to the counter earlier on to do a price check on the game as it was just lying in a huge bin of death. There were 3 employees at the counter just chatting away. The one lady took the game, scanned it and told me the price. Then...the guy next to her...probably in his late teens or early twenties took a good hard look at me, and just very honestly and abruptly asked me, "is that for one of your neices or something?"

My first reaction was that of the usual gamer-snob...you know...the kind of person that would just completely start on a rant on how just because the game is supposedly targeted towards kids doesn't mean that the art and gameplay in it isn't genius...that he should wake up and smell the coffee...that there are far more greater games out there and more unique games to play than HALO 3 AND HE SHOULD SHUT HIS FILTHY MOUTH! That was my first internal reaction :) (nothing against Halo 3 though ;) )

The lady next to him vindicated me by saying that it was a fun game. Now, not sure if she herself had ever played it...but clearly...she saw some odd charm in a grown man buying a game that...frankly...looks like a box of breakfast cereal. I cracked a smile and "laughed" and said, "No..it's for me."

The guy looked at me as if my head had opened up and the olsen twins spewed out of it. Needless to say...I don't think I'll be swapping colorful candy filled animals with him over Xbox Live anytime. ;)