Halo 3, and how to spend $155
Thank goodness I didn’t buy Halo 3 Limited Edition. The reports from my local store (name withheld but you know it) say that 250 people showed up to buy the game at midnight. Thankfully I wasn’t one of them. But everyone that got the Limited Edition got hosed becuase the same store now has 30 returns of the LE because of the scratched disk. Oops.
Microsoft quickly updated their site to have this problem fixed, but seriously if there’s something that can go wrong for Microsoft, it will. Besides, since you are already waiting for (1) your Xbox 360 to be returned to you fixed, (2) the adapter for your MS Wireless Wheel so you can play it with the AC Adapter again, what’s another month waiting for Halo 3?
In other news, I guess I got lucky. My daughter is a ginormous fan of Hannah Montana and is in the Miley World fan club. Today was the day tickets went on sale at DCU center so it was my responsibility to obtain said tickets. Based on the web articles I’ve seen, I had heard it was harder to get than U2 tickets (that fan club sale was a clusterfrick — by the way guys, still waiting for that last printed issue of Propaganda you owe me but thanks for ignoring my emails). Anyway, I went right to ticketmaster at 10am, entered the presale code and got two tickets. Of course, in typical ticketscalper fashion two tickets at $64.75=$155. I love their fuzzy math — I had to pay an $11 per ticket “f-you convenience charge” and a $1.25 facility charge, and a $3.55 order processing charge. I’m sorry, wouldn’t the ‘convenience’ of ordering online count as the order processing charge? Oh and of course my favorite — we’ll mail you tickets for free on our own card stock, or you can use your own printer at home to print your tickets for an additional $2.50! Everyone is okay with this?
Okay, I’m just ranting now. But seriously, that needs to be fixed. Okay, time to try out some Hot halo action.