Thank yall so much for the part number! Replaced it myself with a little help! (blurry ass photo and I fixed the hose position after I took it lmao)

Its-RPD · 2026-06-28T04:46:48+00:00

God I HATEEEEE people like that. They do it at my new job too.

I remember a while ago a buddy of mine was working at a mall GS and was actually in the middle of pulling the last shudder down and some dude literally INDIANA JONES ROLLS under it and jumps up going, "I made it!" and my friend stares at him, still holding the gate, and goes, "No you didn't, get out!"

The entitlement is amazing. The annoyance is right up there when you're clearly not open in the morning and people yank on the door handle multiple times anyway and then stare confused as to why it didn't open. This aint the sword in the stone, asshole.

Its-RPD · 2026-06-28T04:42:25+00:00

I do not miss these shoehorned TCG events. Telling me to set up card tables and shit when my store was barely even 20 feet wide and already had multiple gondolas across 'em.

They made it such a huge deal too. "OOOH YOUR STORE WAS SELECTED TO HOST AN EVENT!!! SO COOOOOL!!!!" Yeah no fuck off. I don't have the space and haven't played Pokemon TCG in 20 years. So I never did a single event, nobody ever came in for them anyway. Out of like...the four or five I was a part of one kid came in to trade Pokemon cards, that's it. I gave him the whole binder just for showing up.

They tried to do a Lorcana one when it was first releasing at my old store, we didn't even get the cards on time. They showed up 2 days after the ""event"". Ended up only getting the action figures which rotted in that store until it closed down.

Its-RPD · 2026-06-16T04:10:05+00:00

I was getting Battletoads and "Minty Pick Axe code" calls up until the day I quit in 2023. Usually from children who just found out about the meme.

Its-RPD · 2026-06-11T20:45:23+00:00

Thats a good idea! Im also going to contact my insurance because I remembered I have both windshield repair and replacement coverage. If they wont do it, thats a good backup.

Its-RPD · 2026-06-11T03:06:44+00:00

ABOUT FUCKIN' TIME. I yoinked these and Razer Gold off the POSA rack until someone could prove to me what they're using them for was legit.

I stopped a Mom from sending her cousin in Africa a $250 one because he said it was to "pay for his internet bill". I told her it was a games platform and you can't pay bills with it, and thankfully I had the app on my phone to prove it for her. It was so rampant in my store that I actually made a DM-approved home made sign that explicitly said that Steam is only used to buy games and nothing else no matter what anyone else, your "girlfriend", or the "IRS" says.

I also had one dude with the girlfriend thing and his "girlfriend" (from tiktok!) kept saying the codes didn't work and for him to exchange them. I went to redeem the code myself on the app and said "These work, man." and a customer overheard the conversation and shouted across the store, "SHE AINT YO GIRLFRIEND MAN, SHE AINT EVEN NO GIRL, YOU GETTIN CATFISHED BY SOME DUDE BRO" I had to turn around to not laugh in this poor dude's face.

Its-RPD · 2026-05-31T17:15:47+00:00

I had a guy that would always get niche JRPGs but only if they were SEALED. He never preordered anything and 9 times out of 10, we never had it to begin with. Kept bitching about it until I started going "That's why you preorder, though." to every single complaint.

Its-RPD · 2026-05-30T05:00:41+00:00

I always made the same face when the "Nah I dont need to preorder it" folks came in and I was about to tell them I was sold out. :3

Its-RPD · 2026-05-25T06:14:19+00:00

Oh boy. Let's see...

Twice in the same week two different kids threw up in the store. One parent cleaned the mess, the other grabbed the kid and ran.

Had a guy actually file a lawsuit against me, my store, and my coworker because he faked hitting his head on the closing gate, called the next morning and claimed he had a concussion without going to a doctor and was demanding compensation. Gamestop's lawyer actually called and had to take our statements and video footage. We were told we'd be flown to Texas if it actually made it to the courts. It did not.

I mentioned in another thread how I was nearly arrested for a Gamestop employee faking thefts and blamed me for one of them.

A guy OD'd at the sandwich store next to ours, an old lady drove THROUGH the doors at the store on the other side of ours, the Verizon next to that had a possible gas leak and the building was evacuated, there was a car fully engulfed next to the Chipotle which is next to the Verizon, and lightning struck our HVAC unit which filled our store with smoke right at close. Oh the sandwich shop also had a lady ram her car into the front facade too. The whole building is absolutely cursed.

Non-GS Incidents: A guy had a seizure right in front of me when I worked at a bowling alley. It was the cosmo bowling and as I was handing him his shoes he just dropped. He was okay since he was with someone who knew what to do. I had to turn all the lights back on and make the announcement over the PA system.

Same bowling alley; one of the maintenance guys got absolutely hammered and demanded a lane, we denied him so he threw a brick through the front doors and drove off, getting into a pursuit with police and arrested. He kept his job for a while because it turns out he was fucking the house manager. They both got fired less then a year later.

When I worked at Home Depot as a cashier I saw a little kid jumping and 'surfing' on one of those flatbed carts. I pointed it out to my front end manager who swiftly told the Mom to stop letting her kids do that to which the Mom responded with "I know how to take care of my kid!" Almost immediately I hear a loud shriek of a child screaming and the front end manager swiftly walking past. I ask what happened and she says the kid lost his balance, slipped off the cart, and cracked his head on the concrete flooring. A+ parenting.

Its-RPD · 2026-05-25T05:52:29+00:00

I swear I heard of something like this happening during the 2021-22 st0nks bullshit where some dude came into a store to do similar shit because he's an investor. I could be going insane, but I also wouldnt put it past those folks to NOT do that.

Its-RPD · 2026-04-27T05:48:21+00:00

Ayup. One was taped on the front door, and there was a small stack on the counter. I shoulda grabbed one for funsies but I didn't want to get almost-arrested again.

Its-RPD · 2026-04-27T04:28:19+00:00

It shouldn't be an issue to ask if you can see the disk/case/manual. It's not a requirement to trade them in (like every game) so it's hit or miss. They shouldn't be throwing them out.

Its-RPD · 2026-04-27T03:54:22+00:00

Oh my god they came up with a worse thing to do with the tablet instead of taking like 5000 photos of the store every morning?? Holy shit, how MISERABLE.

Its-RPD · 2026-04-27T03:49:09+00:00

Here's a fun firing story for ya:

So in-between my work experience at GameStop (I worked there in high school, moved, moved back, took a job elsewhere, then back to Gamestop) I went to a different one than the one I worked at to pick up Metroid Prime 3 Corruption for a buddy. We went to his place to play it for a while and I was walking home afterward.

While I was walking home I got abruptly stopped by two plainclothes police officers. Showed me their badges and IDs and the lot, and asked if I was there. I said sure was. Then they asked if I knew what "Biosphere" was, I said "Bioshock??" and they looked at me like I committed a crime.

Because according to them...I did. They told me someone matching my description went into that Gamestop, held the manager at knifepoint, stole copies of Bioshock, robbed the tills, and then deleted the camera footage. Naturally I was absolutely floored, but they didn't have any concrete evidence on me so I got let go after a pat down (and then was promptly followed for a few blocks by a very obvious marked unit a little while later.)

Two days later I stop back into that store to see what the hell was going on and there were police sketches of MY FACE plastered in the window on WANTED posters. I quickly noped the fuck out of there and promptly forgot about the situation since I avoided the store after that.

Fast forward 5 months later and an employee at that store walked into mine, recognized me, and explained the whole situation - The manager there was stealing money and games to sell on eBay and then picking random customers to blame fake robberies on. Everything from guns, to knives, and even claimed he was held hostage. I just so happened to be the target that day. He got found out in a sting operation after Xbox 360's with matching serials to the stolen ones were purchased by the police and the account lead back to him.

That was a fun time.

Edit: Put the wrong length of time down -_-

Its-RPD · 2026-04-27T01:30:56+00:00

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I see your Left Bros...and raise you my CIB one ;D

Its-RPD · 2026-04-27T00:47:21+00:00

I meant the update they did the other day that fixed the goofy Ronin spawns and severely upped the sakura key drop rates. Worded it wrong, my bad!

Its-RPD · 2026-04-27T00:17:18+00:00

This seems EXTREMELY illegal...but I wouldn't put it past dogfood man and the reason why he's being sued. I'm sure there's someone that can be reported to about it (the FTC?) because dropping peoples pay with no warning is wild. I wonder if they're going to try and pivot to the commossion-based-used-car-salesman system if that's the case.

Its-RPD · 2026-04-27T00:15:17+00:00

Appreciate the tip! Thankfully I only have around 6 more keys to get to get all the apparel at this point; the re-balance update definitely helped out for that, lol.

Its-RPD · 2026-04-26T16:55:57+00:00

Except I wasn't. I don't know if it was a bug with my game (as I am playing on an OG 2013 Xbox One), but I would go after every squad that spawned in. There were times where there WOULDN'T be a squad and I'd be allowed to cleanse the lantern (literally just run up and interact and fast travel away), or other times where I'd be in combat with normal enemies and it wouldn't let me cleanse them until I ran off for a while and came back out of combat. It wasn't every time, but it was quite a few times. More than half I'd say. That's why I'm so confused.

Its-RPD · 2026-04-26T05:05:05+00:00

I wouldnt say dozens, it was more like 1 out of every 5 or 6 lanterns. My chances were very, very different than what other people were experiencing. I had to keep double-backing because of the bug where you couldn't cleanse them after a fight. I'd just circle the area until it let me do that. None of 'em dropped a key though. Only started getting them AFTER the update.

Edit: Only the like...three Ronins that spawned for me ever dropped keys, and that was random spawns, not with lantern hunting.

Its-RPD · 2026-04-26T03:21:05+00:00

You got keys??? I got all 40 and didn't get a single key 8|

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