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Next time, I'll do it with my knees.
So we went to Funan IT Mall the other day. Turns out, that the Decline of Video Gaming is already upon us. There are less than half the number of game stalls in the building, and the massive infrastructure of shelves where every game from every genre and category in Challenger itself is gone, replaced by a bunch of office software. The games section has been shifted over to a corner, where the X-Box is dominant. The PC games are in what would be a neatly organised bargain bin. 'Cept that they're really expensive, still.
There was an entire 3 rows of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. The rest was filled with a bunch of games that I'd never heard of. The only redeeming factor, in my opinion, was that they still had a games section, even though the big overhanging sign saying "PC Games" was no longer there.
The rest of the mall has been taken over by computer hardware stores, cake shops, and hair salons. There must be over a thousand miles of USB cable in there. Cake shops that I'd never seen before, and a hair dressing place that could have fit 4 of what I would consider "stores that matter".
Aside from the lack of places at which I could obtain my wanted merchandise, there seems to have been a price-jump over the years. A game that was released in 2000, I bought in 2003 for 45 bucks. Now, same game, less plastic, goes for $65.00. But the fantastic thing is that people still play that game. Heh.
On another note, we watched 2 movies that day. The Simpsons Movie was just an elongated version of an everyday episode. It was just what you would expect from a cartoon. Excellence. Rush Hour 3 had no depth at all. But the name calling scene and that thing in the hotel made it quite worth the money. Still, I think that the first two movies were much better. The whole concept of the "brothers" thing just made it really... Chinesey. And nothing much happened in Paris, either. I was hoping that we'd get to see the Louvre Pyramid, but all we got was a done-to-death swordfight upon the Eiffel Tower. Also, how the hell does Jackie Chan try to save some ass who cut him with a sword? That part, made no sense.
And since we're on the topic of making no sense at all,
Whoohoo, we're going to talk to people we've never seen in our life, and possibly puke/die/become unconcious
-Joe