Her: "Um, how does this work?"
Me: "What?"
She hands me her DS and turns it on. The flash cart hangs at "Loading."
Me: "Oh. That. One minute."
I take her to my computer and hook the Micro SD up to the computer.
Her: "So? What's the diagnosis?"
Me: "It needs to be reformatted. Your data's become corrupted."
Her: "Back up my files before you do that stuff, then."
Me: "I can't. Any files on this Micro SD could become corrupt."
Her: "Why?"
Me: "Corruption spreads."
Her: "Oh."
We spend about 30 minutes formatting the Micro SD and returning it to how it was before, minus corruption and save files. She proceeds to turn on her DS and try playing her games.
Her: "Where are my save files?!"
Me: "I told you. We couldn't recover those."
Her: "But the games are all here."
Me: "I doubt anyone would have a Japanese Pokemon Black save file with the female character named Billshut, with three Darumakas named Grrrrl, Pony, and Retard in the party, a level 1 Mijumaru in the PC, 99 Potions, and 12 Cut HMs. Plus being at the fifth Gym with about 12 Dream World Pokemon on hold in the Entralink, and being able to connect to your Dream World account." (I knew this information because the day before, I had to help her figure out what cheats to turn off based on what the cheats did to her game.)
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Him: "This music sucks."
Me: "What?"
Him: "On Jam with the Band."
Me: "Oh. You finally decided to get it? Let me help you find some music for it."
We spend about thirty minutes looking through all of the BDX files.
Him: "There isn't any Lady Gaga or more Utada or any country music?"
Me: "Well, this game is more for Japanese music and video game music."
Him: "Don't you make these? Make me a few songs..."
He goes to list off about twelve songs, none that I've heard of.
Me: "Do you have any music sheets for all the instruments in those songs?"
Him: "No."
Me: "Unfortunately, I can't do it without sheet music."
Him: "Why? Don't you just put the song in a converter?"
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A friend told me this story about her first day of work at the local game shop.
Her: "Welcome to *game shop*."
Him: "Don't talk to me, bitch!"
He looks around for a few minutes and picks out Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days.
Him: "IS THIS KINGDOM SPADES."
Her: "Do you mean Kingdom Hearts, sir?"
Him: "Uh... Maybe. Is it?"
Her: "Which Kingdom Hearts game were you looking for?"
Him: "There's more than one?! Then which one did my son want?"
Her: "I don't know...? When did he ask for it?"
Him: "After a commercial for it yesterday."
Her: "Then this is the wrong game."
He goes and gets the other Kingdom Hearts game.
Her: "Okay, let's just ring this up."
The guy's son walks in.
His son: "Dad, why are you holding a DS game?"
Him: "You wanted Kingdom Clubs!"
His son: "I wanted the one for the PSP!"
Him (turning to her): "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME I HAD THE WRONG GAME"
Her: "Why didn't you tell me your son owned a PSP?"
Him: "Bitch, I'm never shopping at this store again!"
Her: "Have a wonderful day, sir."
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Him: "Oh my god what do I do?"
Me: "Explain, please."
Him: "Oh yeah...Uh... My self-cooking bacon died."
Me: "Before you got to the first town?"
Him: "Yeah. How do I get it unkilled?"
Me: "Walk into the first town and find the professor."
Him: "No, I want to unkill my self-cooking bacon first."
Me: "There won't be any battles between there and then."
Him: "Okay, but...... Hey, she says I can revive my self-cooking bacon here."
Me: "Yes."
Him: "Just a minute, I have to show this thing to a friend....."
Sounds of shuffling and talking come through the phone. Then I hear this:
Him: "What the fuck is a Tepig?"
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Alessa: "I can't believe this!"
Me: "What?"
Alessa: "I keep dying on this game."
She hands me a copy of Final Fantasy 1 and 2 Dawn of Souls for the GBA. She just bought it yesterday to play it with my DS.
Me: "You can't win the fight at the beginning."
Alessa: "But if I lose I have to start over, right?"
Me: "Yes, that's how it works usually, but you can't win at the beginning of the game."
Alessa: "Why not? It'll just boot me to the load screen if I lose."
Me: "It's impossible to win that fight unless you start at level 1000."
Alessa: "Wait, so how do I do that?"
Me: "You can't."
Alessa: "Oh. So this game is trash then."
Me: "No, after you die a cutscene will start and you'll be able to continue playing as normal."
Alessa: "Really? Oh. I never played past dying, so I didn't know."
QUOTEChell: "Mother fucker! *My name*! Come see this stupid game!"
I go into the living room and she's playing Ico on Alessa's PS2.
Me: "Oh. Yeah. That's a fun game."
Chell: "But these retard shadow things won't leave me alone!"
Me: "I know."
Chell: "And why are they going after the girl? I'm the one that can kill them."
Me: "Have you paid attention? You were left there to die and are of no meaning to the shadows."
Chell: "Wait, so she's got magic powers?"
I facepalmed since she was well past the part where you first encounter the doors only Yorda can open.
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Him: "*Something in spanish I don't understand* and it's a bitch! Oh, uh, Yoshi Touch and Go."
Me: "Excuse me? You spoke half in spanish, so I couldn't understand your problem."
Him: "Oh. Well this thing enacts a time limit in one mode, but if I go to the mode without the time limit it takes me to different places. And it's a bitch!"
Me: "That's just how the game works. Time attack is supposed to have a time limit. It's a 'see how far you can get within a certain period of time' mode."
Him: "Really?"
Me: "That's how Time Attack always works."
Him: "Oh. Go figure."
I almost facepalmed, since Time Attack is his favorite mode in a LOT of games and he should have known what it entailed by now.
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Alessa: "Hey *My name*, I think I accidentally broke your R4."
Me: "Why is that?"
At this point, I pick up my DS and turn it on and all that spiel.
Alessa: "I was messing with the settings and all your save files were showing... I went to see the info of your Tales of Innocence save but I accidentally clicked delete."
Me: "Oh. No problem."
I hadn't gotten the R4 to boot yet, since it's started having trouble being detected recently, despite having the paper trick done to it.
Alessa: "I also deleted some DS menu thingy."
Me: "DS Underscore Menu Dot Dat?"
Alessa: "Yeah. I thought it was a virus."
Me: "That's okay. I needed to update the firmware anyway."
Alessa: "It's really okay? Really?"
Me: "Yes, and I had a backup of that save."
Alessa: "Really?"
Me: "Yeah."
I stopped trying to boot the R4 and connected the micro SD to my computer... When I went to get my backup ToI save, it wasn't in there. As of such, I've now told Alessa she can't use my R4 anymore unless she promises not to mess with any settings.