Wed 15 Nov 2006
Well, I’ve camped in some pretty crappy weather for boy scout camp, but never for Playstation 3 camp. These are pictures of 4 individuals I interviewed outside of the Best Buy in Orem, Utah. It was 3 guys around the age of 22 and a girl age 17. I tried, but couldn’t get a statutory confession.
So, yes, that’s them in front of a tent on Monday night, even though the system doesn’t come out until Friday. And yes, these kids have jobs for the most part. Fortunately they all seem to work at the same place and have each other’s shifts covered or something.
Dedication
Although they show dedication and discipline to camp out in freezing weather for 4 nights, it is discipline and dedication towards hedonism. These kids will probably finally buy their game console (with the money most kids use to score some mouth watering sticky bud, or to make their car into a rice-rocket-wet-dream) and go home in their big 1988 Dodge Van and submerse their soft and impressionable brains in liquid violence (while they smoke some mouth watering sticky bud). So, no, lets not applaud or celebrate such dedication to oblivion… but let us working class slobs sigh in silent desperation.
So I asked them if they thought there would be a lot of competition to buy the PS3 (in 4 days). They assured me that there would be tons of competition for the very limited number of breadcrumbs falling from Sony’s lap. So in this harsh video gaming climate of limited supply for an always growing demand, ants will be forced to line up before the crumbs are even spilt.
That was Monday… I’ll pass buy Best Buy again tonight to see how they are faring. Make sure to check back soon to find out if they have new competition! We might see rioting with hundreds of angry mob-mentalites tearing at the doors of Best Buy with fingernails flying in different directions, or we might find that the hundreds have gathered to sing hymns for world peace as they take advantage of their already lazy and peaceful dispositions (and some wicked bud as before mentioned already). Or, we might find our 4 campers alone still.
November 15th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
I bet that come Friday, nobody else is outside of best buy except these kids. The PS3 will never sell out, and will only have marginal sails in the US. The kids will grow up realizing they wasted a lot of time being lame - but it was a fun ride. They all die alone - except the 17 year old who dies in a freak gasoline fight accident with several of her friends. Also, there will be more eels.
November 15th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
umm… “sails in the US?”
I think someone has really been thinking a lot about the cigaweed lately. Probably more than just thinking about it.
-jon
November 16th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
[…] So I revisited the scene of the great PS3 rush of 2006 at the Best Buy of Orem, Utah (a small town adjacent to the booming metropolis of Provo). Our brave pioneers from day one could not be found. My only thought is that they were consumed by these hungry Donner-looking pilgrims pictured above. Those pictured above claim that the original campers were kicked off by “the Landlords” whatever that’s supposed to mean. I think its some strange vernacular from some sort of alternative society that has obviously begun to form here. […]
November 17th, 2006 at 1:35 am
[…] I cruised by in my sweet Jeep Commander (which I have for a couple days while they repair the door on my car) at around 5:20 this evening through Playstation 3 Camp and took these two photos (so sorry so blurry. I am part Asian too you know, so I was driving while Asian, and using a camera phone). […]
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