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ari_o ([info]ari_o) wrote in [info]unfunnybusiness,
@ 2009-05-27 13:39:00
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I thought this was funny, then I thought it's really not...
Some poor schmuck punched in the face over Yu-Gi-Oh trading cards:

"A 21-year-old Somerville man reported he was inside Pandemonium Books & Games at 4 Pleasant St. with his wife playing a game at about 7:19 p.m. May 19 when a man approached him, accused him of having his property and told him he had 10 minutes to hand it over, according to reports.

The victim told Cambridge Police he tried to reason with him, but the suspect and another man took the victim’s Yo-Gi-Oh cards and tried to leave with them. Yo-Gi-Oh is a Japanese competitive card game featuring anime characters.

The victim grabbed the cards, and the suspect allegedly punched him in the face twice. The two suspects left the store after employees broke up the fight. Police said the victim refused medical treatment."

O_o

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[info]the__ivorytower
2009-05-27 05:57 pm UTC (link)
I could swear that more-or-less happened in the manga.

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 05:59 pm UTC (link)
Maybe it was an RPG?

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[info]the__ivorytower
2009-05-27 06:03 pm UTC (link)
Well, I know in the pre-American series stuff, Kaiba basically tries to steal Yugi's Blue Eyes in a really obvious and cheap fashion, and Yugi gets it back. Then Kaiba and his goons go to his grandfather's shop, beat him up, ransack the place, find the card and *rip it up in front of him*, because only four exist, and Kaiba has three, and you can only legally have three copies of the same card in one deck.

Kaiba is, in fact, a total dick.

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 06:06 pm UTC (link)
That just makes this incident weirder. O_o

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[info]hypno_jango
2009-05-27 06:06 pm UTC (link)
I believe Kaiba stole grandpa's card after he couldn't buy it from him once. The manga was violent and Yugi was extremely batshit crazy back then so it probably did happen somewhere.

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[info]hypno_jango
2009-05-27 06:08 pm UTC (link)
*Yami Yugi I mean.

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[info]the__ivorytower
2009-05-27 06:10 pm UTC (link)
...now I want to read the manga again.

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[info]hypno_jango
2009-05-27 06:13 pm UTC (link)
Yami killing a guy with vodka, a lighter, and a cigarette. That was so beautiful. *tears*

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[info]bigbigtruck
2009-05-27 06:22 pm UTC (link)
OK, I must have missed that, 'cause all I can remember is Yugi's creepy, creepy, creepy grandfather, with those horrible soulless eyes that haunt me to this day.

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[info]hypno_jango
2009-05-27 06:25 pm UTC (link)
Vol. 1- Duel 4: Jailbreak

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[info]deliciouschaos
2009-05-28 03:13 am UTC (link)
D&D...to the death!

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[info]cygnia
2009-05-27 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Holy crap, I used to go that store...*shudders*

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Does it have a lot of table downstairs? I think my husband dragged me in there once when he was feeling nostaligic or something.

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[info]cygnia
2009-05-27 06:15 pm UTC (link)
Well, I remember it when it was still in the Garage, so it didn't have a gaming area then.

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 06:22 pm UTC (link)
Was it right next to the Foot Sportif? It had lots of those little metal figures you can paint in the window?

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[info]cygnia
2009-05-27 06:33 pm UTC (link)
Back when I was there, it was across from the Newbury Comics outlet and next to an anime place (Tokyo Pop maybe?).

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[info]dorothy1901
2009-05-27 09:51 pm UTC (link)
It's near Central Square now. Their basement space is much bigger than the space they've got on the main floor, but very basement-y. I was there once, when Naomi Novik was promoting her latest Temeraire novel.

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[info]deliciouschaos
2009-05-28 03:13 am UTC (link)
Tokyo Kid! That place was so much fun.

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[info]ruffwriter
2009-05-28 01:41 pm UTC (link)
Awww, Tokyo Kid. I'll always remember when I was in there with my roommates, and the cashier asked us to explain why girls liked yaoi.

D: I miss Massachusetts.

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[info]floraposte
2009-05-29 02:55 am UTC (link)
I feel old; I remember when it was still Man From Atlantis. I think I bought a Bajoran earring there...

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[info]jedilora
2009-05-27 06:55 pm UTC (link)
::blink::

Wait, that's MY game store. I get all my Cheapass games from them, when I see them at Arisia in January. I used to shop at them more when they were in the Garage in Cambridge.

Huh. I'll have to check the Facebook group when I get home from work.

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 07:05 pm UTC (link)
I looked. Unless there is another group for the store there is nothing posted about it there. And the forum for the store's site is full of porn spam.

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[info]issendai
2009-05-27 10:07 pm UTC (link)
Mine too! My chain of thought went:

1. Hey! I know that place!
2. I wonder if I know the guys involved.
3. [starts making a list of all the guys in the area who have a punch in the face coming]

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[info]anon_a_mouse
2009-05-29 01:17 am UTC (link)
*waves* Same here. I haven't been there in a while...
...But I generally play with their nightly MTG crowd.

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[info]velvet_mace
2009-05-27 07:06 pm UTC (link)
Were they LARPing?

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 07:08 pm UTC (link)
I thought most LARPers ran around in the woods with fake swords and things, but who knows...

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[info]velvet_mace
2009-05-27 07:16 pm UTC (link)
I thought it was traditionally the steam tunnels under the school campus.

Depends on what you are LARPing: The vampire LARPers tend to prefer more enclosed urban settings, and they dress up in evening attire and wander around with their arms crossed to be invisible. Or so I've been told...

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 07:18 pm UTC (link)
I only know people who did the fake swords in the woods and like little packets of baking soda that explode when you throw them at someone. Oh and the people who did the Watership Down LARP. But that was at MIT.

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[info]velvet_mace
2009-05-27 07:26 pm UTC (link)
My friend was bitching to me the other day about how the Zombies were interfering with him getting in and out of buildings on campus. Because they were having some Zombie day -- with all the rules set up over how you could infect the masses and...

Yeah. He just wanted to get to his class. Apparently some of the involved were unclear on the concept of "not playing the game".

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[info]velvet_mace
2009-05-27 07:28 pm UTC (link)
Also, how exactly do you LARP Watership Down?

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 07:36 pm UTC (link)
I have no idea. It sounded very complicated, but my friend told me it was totally fun. I've never done any LARPing of any kind so it all sounds confusing to me.

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 07:37 pm UTC (link)
Damn zombies--getting into everything and mucking up Pride and Prejudice.

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[info]issendai
2009-05-27 10:08 pm UTC (link)
Highly unlikely. There's not enough space to have even a non-fighting LARP at Pandemonium unless the game monopolizes the gaming room for the day.

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[info]pocketfox
2009-05-27 07:07 pm UTC (link)
I'm probably a terrible person. My first thought when reading this wasn't "wtf is wrong with people" or "D:" but "people still care about Yu-Gi-Oh?"

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[info]rosehiptea
2009-05-28 12:26 am UTC (link)
To be honest that was my first thought too. Not that I don't feel sorry for the poor guy who got punched in the face.

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[info]lilpocketnin
2009-05-27 08:19 pm UTC (link)
I'm sorry, I can't see this as unfunny.


fffff. I got into a fight over YGO cards. IN THE FORTH GRADE.

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 09:32 pm UTC (link)
One person's wank is another person's unfunnybusiness.

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[info]jkefka
2009-05-27 10:13 pm UTC (link)
On the one hand, nerd slapfights are greatly amusing. On the other hand, Pandemonium is the nerdity of my youth, and it pains me to hear that someone was playing Yu-Gi-Oh there. Oh, and that there was fighting. That too.

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 10:22 pm UTC (link)
And the police had to show up. :/

Jeez. I had no idea there were so many Boston wankas.

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[info]jkefka
2009-05-27 10:31 pm UTC (link)
I'm noticing. I was in exile on the West Coast for a while. I'm back now, but I'll be going into exile in *shudder* Connecticut soon. One day I will be able to afford living in this crazy town and not at my parents'.

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-27 10:43 pm UTC (link)
I lived in Connecticut for years and years. I escaped though.

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[info]also_not_a_pipe
2009-05-28 02:37 am UTC (link)
I might be moving to Connecticut if I get work there and was all excited because it sounded light years better than fucking Ohio. Connecticut is bad?

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-28 02:48 am UTC (link)
Connecticut is boring and largely suburban or rather rural. It's very pretty in parts, but not my favorite place. YMMV. I've been to Columbus. I had a migraine.

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[info]deliciouschaos
2009-05-28 03:10 am UTC (link)
Where you are in Connecticut depends on how it is. The northeast bits are pretty rural and not doing so well financially, and are mostly farms and people commuting to larger cities these days. As you get to the center and the southwest, it gets a lot more urban, but the cities are still relatively small and commuter-centric. It really depends on what you're looking for in a place to live.

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[info]inappropriate
2009-05-28 04:10 am UTC (link)
Actually, I moved out of CT because I couldn't find work there. D: Lived there my whole life too. I never thought it was a bad place and I probably would have stayed if I could have found a job.

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[info]ari_o
2009-05-28 04:18 am UTC (link)
I couldn't wait to get out--but as with everything YMMV.

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[info]deliciouschaos
2009-05-28 03:08 am UTC (link)
I'm still so, so sorry. *pat pat*

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[info]iamnotyourmuse
2009-05-28 05:17 am UTC (link)
I was sort of planning on heading over there tomorrow. If I get punched in the face, I'll let everyone know!

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[info]inappropriate
2009-05-28 05:44 am UTC (link)
I'm so sorry, my first reaction was laughter. I mean, what ADULT punches someone in the face over Yu-gi-oh cards!? >:|

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