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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is so gay, a rainbow blew apart my anus, and I liked it

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I want to taste the rainbow

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would have cost you nothing to not write this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

and yet his bravery shall inspire us all

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Was Anon just being a pedantic dick, or are they profoundly ignorant? Why would they fail to make the obvious assumption that the parent meant Call of Duty? Isn’t helping clueless parents a regular part of the job?

Or am I the ignorant one, and missing the joke entirely?

[–] [email protected] 158 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anon was being a PoS. Ofc they knew they meant Call of Duty.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If karma is real that guy should have is brake lines checked regularly.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You are the ignorant one, unfortunately. It is a well known fact that GameStop cashiers just want to watch the world burn, and that is exactly what they did to that family Christmas.

They did the little man dirty for the lulz.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Can confirm.

I haven't purchased a game at a GameStop in decades. But I'll never forget the time a cashier was getting yelled at by a shitty teenager because the teenager felt conned having preordered a JRPG thinking it was a First-Person Shooter, and the teenager was throwing empty game boxes around calling the cashier all sorts of 2000's era offensive names.

I don't understand the full story but I think about it often.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It’s funny. The most innocent pranks ever on YouTube happen at GameStop.

LEAVE OR I CALL LAW!

Every time!

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

Anon was obviously trolling the parent.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Despite the other comments, this has real /thathappened vibes. First of all the OP would have to be a dick, second, why buy 3 copies or have any sort of “buy the same game x3” deal. Nobody does that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“Everything written on the internet is true.”

-Abraham Lincoln, 1801.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The internet was invented by George Washington, the boy who could not tell a lie. That's why it was designed to be lie-proof.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809, making it literally impossible for him, even telepathically, to say that quote.

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Yeah, as an ex GS employee - GS does not have the profit margins on new games to do a sale like that on new games. Only used games get put on buy two get one sales, and those can be returned.

So this is definitely a /thathappened moment.

Also like... How old is this post? Even when I worked at GS years ago parents knew what CoD was. The first CoD came out in 2003 it is not the kind of obscure that parents would ask about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Buy cod for all 3 of your kids so they can play it together, if they're talking about it. Or cousins.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Store had a big stock of that game that nobody wanted to buy, and Anon managed to get rid of three copies from that stock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

CEO mindset right there. Anon is going places

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Or am I the ignorant one, and missing the joke entirely?

Oof.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I several times explained age ratings to grannies looking to get GTA for their grandsons, and I haven't ever worked at a real game store.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kid is dumb for assuming mother knew what cod was

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mom is dumb for not clarifying?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Kid doesn't deserve cod

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The "three copies" part makes this seem really fake. Why would a parent buy more than one copy of a game?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And why would they open all three? Or even one?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it were a single one I could see a kid playing it to see if it's any good, but three? Makes no sense. I know most of these green texts are fake, but anon could have done better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a flimsy argument but the only thing I can think is the kid thought it was a joke and opened all three to make sure they were indeed all the same

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

A couple of my kin pulled this exact joke on me, funny enough two of the joke games ended up being pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Gotta get two copies of Bonestorm https://youtu.be/FgXxtgu76Ag

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You thought it's a fishing game. It was Skyrim.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

One for my kid, one for each family of cousins (my brother's and sister's respective kids) "so they can play their nintendo machines on the internets like they always do?"

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

Did a quick search, that game is available to pretty much every platform. PS2, PS3, PS4, Wii, WiiU, NDS, 360. The buy 2 get 1 free makes more sense now

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago

Thought it was a prank and one was going to actually have CoD in it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

I know every greentext ever written by anybody for any purpose is fake but:

A person being seen by you as your lesser is not unworthy of your kindness. Be more kind to the people of the land, anons.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Anon ahould have kept his copied of sega bass fishing. The most intense game ever produced

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

(งツ)ว

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Well actually cod is meant to be played by adults only

So, you know, it's a good deed in a way. A very deceiving and lucrative one, but still good 🧐

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