Fuck all you junkies and fuck your short memories...

... fuck all you gun toting hip gangster wannabes...

Let me start by saying I will be nice to Dan Brown and his prose today... today I move on to bashing SCEA -- Sony Computer Entertainment America.

Ohhhh... woe is me...

Ok. Let me tell y'all a story. Roughly.. oh.. I'd say maybe going on 6 years ago now, the good folks at Polyphony Digital and SCEA put out a little gem the went by the name Gran Turismo. Those of you who are familiar with the title and the consequential gaps in your life that were spent feverishly racing away and trying to get your super license may know already where I'm heading with this. The game was phenomenal and completely revolutionized the world of video racing. From the day you popped in the disc to discover that you could race everything from a plain old Civic hatchback, to an Accord, to the awe inspiring Skyline it was the game to play for racing. Enter Gran Turismo 2... continuing on the same vein, if anything making it worse with things like 60's muscle cars, RUF Porsche's, and more silliness.. racing Dodge Intrepid's and Accord station wagons for example. The game created a monster following, and I mean MONSTER. Enter the PS2 and with it GT3, woot! It was in-c-c-c-c-credible, fewer cars, but my god! what visuals. And so it was with baited breath that the league of Gran Tursimo lovers waited for the godsend that would be GT4..... and we waited...and we heard about what it would have.. and we saw pictures.. and we waited... and waited... waited... Then, the good folks at Sony delayed the release. Now by delayed, I mean they took a page out of Bill Gates's carefully thought out plan and fucking delayed it to the nth degree. To put it as Eddie Izzard did in regards to Window's release... "It'll be ready in a week... a month... six months... 2 years.......... we'll bring it out, when we're fucking ready ok" This game was originally slated to come out sometime last spring, roughly May I believe. Then it was end of July, then October, then it was definitely December 14, then it was just "after Christmas", then it was January 25th, then February 14th, then March 4th or something, and then surprisingly it got bumped BACK to February 22nd.... you'll notice it's February 24th and I am displeased. So the game is out, yet no one in Saskatoon actually has it, nor do they seem to know when they'll be getting it. What the fuck are you running here guys? What makes me the most upset about the entire affair is the fact that I'm to the point where I've lost interest in the game, wasn't particularly looking forward to it, didn't have it circled on the calender or anything silly like that... Tuesday came about and I thought, Hey I'll go buy GT4. I went and they don't got it..."We're supposed to get it anytime". Ok, no biggie, a bit odd this sort of thing has never happened before but whatever. Pop by on Wednesday after picking up some groceries... "We should have it by Thursday or Friday" uhhh ok... So now I sit on Thursday with no game and the conflicting urges of both wanting to get it and wanting to send SCEA a picture of my bare ass with a note saying, "Please put this on your business cards sir as this is the best representation of what you are". So we shall see if I venture over Walmart and buy this damn thing today, wait... to SEE if I can buy this damn thing today or not.