Ian deserves a patience award for dealing with Pat sometimes.

Ian wanted to punch pat by the end of that. lol.

Ian was ready to punch pat at the end of this clip

Hey fellas, do you have many Tales from the Game Conventions?

You can always tell when the Meth guy visits the store. He's the one that knocks.

Nobody who's ever had a public-facing retail job should doubt the veracity of Ian's tales. In my experience, one nightmarish experience per shift was _below_ average.

Tippy says "Don't be lame, clean that game"!

If there could be a game store version of Pawn Stars you guys should do it. Pat would offer $5 for your sealed games. Frank can be your Chumlee. Ian would be the grumpy old man that takes being called "asshole" as a badge of honor.

Ian's right, a sign wouldn't help. My dad used to run a buffet restaurant, and the most common question was "Where's the soup?" The answer was "Under the sign that says 'Soup'."

I work in a grocery store and those people can be out of their goddamn minds.

Why is everything an argument w pat

People wouldn't read the poster anyways. I worked at Sam Goody and we were going of business, we had giant signs all over the store going "STORE CLOSING". You don't know how many times people were shocked when they went to buy something and I told them "no refunds" due to the store closing and their reactions "YOU GUYS ARE CLOSING?!" Like, no, we just spent a hour hanging all of these signs in the store for our own amusement.

Jesus, Pat, learn to read the room, lol

10:10 Put up a poster telling people to clean their games? First rule of retail, nobody reads the signs.

lol I'm glad pat's not my boss I'd never dock someone's pay for a silly accident if they were my best employee

If I ever visit Luna Games I want Ian to greet me like he does in the intro. :D

as someone who works a retail job, not like Luna Video but still having to deal with 'the public', keep the stories coming. What some people don't realize is those tiny little things all add up. I will seethe over a random crappy customer for the rest of the week, only to be replaced by the next one. Don't stop the whinging, Ian.

The game store should create a KZfaq channel and Ian can produce a variety of maintenance and basic troubleshooting how-tos.

*"...I BROKE THE TV"* *Ian I'm so proud of you*

i worked in a small local gamestore in my town, one day these 2 guys came in that ran a different gamestore, they were more tabletop than video games but the guy had several games and they looked in my glass case and saw conkers bad fur day for about 80 bucks and one of them said "that should be $200" and i immediately thought "shit its these kinda guys" i specifically remember them having a mario kart 64 with a ruined label and metroid 2 on gameboy among other things for what he had i offered about 50 bucks and the guy flipped his lid telling me that metroid 2 is rare and a $100 game, i dont think i have ever turned beat red so fast in my life, kicked them the fuck outta there almost immediately and they tried to slander the business because metroid is totally 100 bucks, ironically their business closed down a few weeks later

This is always my favorite segment

When is Volume I of Tales from the game store coming out?

Has Pat said who does the "Tales from the Game Store" voice at the end of the opening? It's a really good impression of the Crypt Keeper (John Kassir).

People do trade in their old tobacco pipes, they can be sanitized and it's all good.

Ian you need cameras with sound so we can experience these tales from the game store. Also, Pat... just stop talking.

This is always a good time 🙂 from someone who works at retail. I can comprehend every scenario

Damn, pat was annoying on this one. Especially at the end

If you are ever here in Northeast Bronx, New York Ian, definitely check out Moodie's Records. I know you love Reggae and being in a predominantly Jamaican neighborhood, they have an extraordinarily large cache or records for you to rummage through. There is also another predominantly Reggae store Millennium Music Mall, about ten blocks down

Real talk, there are MILLIONS of crazy motherfuckers walking around out there with serious mental and emotional problems who probably should be in a padded room somewhere. Horror stories like these of people just flipping out when they're clearly in the wrong are all too common. Thank god, I don't work in retail anymore. I had my fill of that crap in my life

love these stories you guys crack me up

Pat, I work in retail. You are vastly over estimating how many people will not only read a poster, but actually comprehend in any way what it means. I mean, I work at a grocery store, and somebody once asked me where the food was at. In a grocery store.

I imagine a show where Pat and Ian run a game store would be very similar to Clerks and I’m all for it.

It's frustrating listening to Ian get interrupted constantly by somebody who clearly isn't paying full attention.

Lol Gotta give it up to Ian for taking constant BS from people and not always losing his cool.

@Pat re: Q-tips. Sadly, people dont read signs. But the real problem isn't knowing about Q-tips/alcohol. Its form. We show people how to do it (2 Q-Tips, torx'ed so they apply good pressure). They will often say 'oh, you're doing that way more aggressively than I was!' They dont understand that its 20 year old metal that needs scrubbing, and that they need to put a lot of pressure down.

I can relate to Ian's general disdain for his fellow man. I could listen to even his most boring story as long as its starts with " So this fucking guy comes in the store"...

Having worked more than few years retail in my formative years, I have absolutely no doubt about any of Ian’s stories.

People do sell their old pipes and stuff btw.

Hey Pat, it was awesome meeting you at TooManyGames today, really appreciated gettin' a pic with you, thanks!

When I worked front desk at a hotel and shift manager of a McDonald’s I learned to kind of zone out the insanity. I was friendly but learned to not take customers too seriously and just disconnected myself.

It would have to be "Mister Cotton Swab" since "Q-Tip" is a trademarked brand name... Unless you sell actual Q-Tips there, then maybe you could say it's advertising. Surf Wisely.

You can tell I'm too much in a retro gamer mindset when he mentioned testing the N64 on a TV and I just assumed it would be a CRT because why would you plug an N64 into a flatscreen? I work in software and we'll put warning messages in our software saying things like "Warning, this can mess up your data if you don't know exactly what you are doing. Are you sure?" and it makes no difference. There are always users that just completely ignore them. Maybe it has a compounding effect in that maybe there are users that read the message and follow it and thus we get less support calls then we would if the message wasn't present. But it's a sieve, not a wall.

God pat should have been a high school Chemistry teachers. Dry sense of humor and all.

Ian, if a "customer" tries to be an ass and then says, "Tales from the game stooooore." as he leaves, don't tell their story.

Pat is Adam Carolla and Ian is Dr. Drew :D

Is it just me or is pat starting to look a sweathog.

Jeez Pat. You really got caught up in blame assignment.

Praying for y'all Ian and Pat. I hope y'all feel better and recover soon. I hope all goes well for y'all in y'alls futures with y'alls jobs and with the channel. I wish y'all the very best of luck overcoming any anxiety issues and struggles y'all face and with y'alls jobs and channel. God bless y'all my friends. God loves y'all.

Try convincing an old man that Great Value is NOT Safeway. -_- argued with this fella for at least a good 10 or so minutes because he was trying to return a WALMART item to Safeway and swore UP and DOWN that he got the product from us. XD So I had to go get a couple of OUR brands and show him that we dont carry Great Value. -_- he found his Walmart receipt...... With said item on it.

I used to suck at cleaning cartridges too. I think a lot of people who try cleaning them don't realize it's gonna take like 35 q-tips per cartridge at times. They get some grime off, but they don't realize there's still a lot more on there. Cleaning cartridge connectors; JUST KEEP AT IT UNTIL IT'S 100% CLEAN! Then the game will work.

if only you got the tv moment on video, you could make a jojo "to be continued" meme out of it

I love these

Mid teens is WAY too old to not understand the concept of overhead. I guess most high schools don’t get in to economics until the junior or senior year, but maybe that needs to change.

i feel like cosplaying as mr q-tip at RWX lol

I'm still planning a visit to San Diego and I've do hope to visit Luna Games This year. Also still love these tales from the game store.

where can we order the hd remaster collection of tales from the gamestore?

I don't smoke cigarettes, I don't smoke cigars, I don't smoke a pipe pipe pipe pipe.

9:46 I appreciate the Jericho reference there Pat. LOL

When does the SNES guidebook get released? Got mine preordered

A+ on the new intro

Great vid bros.

i got my grandpa's pipes too.

Just remember, if you use Q-tip as a name you may get sued. Try something like cotton swab Joe or something.

I’ve worked in a few gun stores and only had one guy give me shit

Love these guys!! I’ll totally buy a mr q tip shirt!

I never imagined Ian as a smoker but now I can't get the image of him in an old leather lounge chair smoking a pipe in a robe a reading a book lol

I drew ya'll a Mr. Q-Tip prototype poster the other day. =X

I do work in a tobacco pipe store, and I can tell you I have plenty of similar stories.

That poor TV, RIP.

Used to work at a comic shop where we also sold games. I had a guy one time bring in games to sell and these discs were so dirty, like they had crust and other stuff on it (I did t want to know). The dude gets pissed at me for not taking them saying I was offending him (somehow).

"I want them to know they are shitty-people" Ian is my spirit animal.

Man retail sucks for the most part I use to work for Babbages years ago and can relate to your stories for sure. It's a thankless job most of the time It really makes you bitter towards the public for the most part and makes you really appreciate the nice customers.

Mr qtip so funny but great idea! I can empathize with you guys I worked 12 yrs in retail and have heard every insult in the book even had people tell the manager on me after doing something special for them but you get used to it but it’s never 100 percent but it’s cool you can give them a little back although I probably wouldn’t unless absolutely necessary but I loooooove tales from the gamestore keep them coming! Yes I always think of clerks when hearing these

I would hate to work for pat. He seems like a complete sociopath of a boss lol. I still love you pat. No disrespect.

Why not have Ms. Menda bottle holding a Menda bottle and a bunch of Q-tips?

Now Pat is going to start sending crazies into Luna to make more Tales from the Game Store.

$80 for a little flat screen? Thrift store usually has em $19.99

I don't know if anything will ever top the "Little Bitch" story.

I think you would have to call him Mr. Cotton Swab

Pat is too hopeful for humanity, we have big signs that say above our self-service tills, "CARD ONLY" and still about half the people who go to use it expect it to take cash.

Poor Ian I can relate

Love the Mr. Q tip idea! It'd have to be swabby the cotton swab though, bc Q tip is a registered trade mark of Johnson and Johnson or some other pharmaceutical co. Make him a pirate. Arghh matey did you clean your game today? Because swabby like swab the deck

Yes we would riot if Tales from the game store gets canceled!!!!

One of the Tales from the Game Store is probably some regular viewer here hoping to be talked about on the Podcast. More likely one of those bunch that feel the need to thumbs down everything Pat and Ian produce.

I feel it, I work in a bike shop where we take in old bikes as TRADE only, I always start with YOU WILL make more selling it youself- then I give the amount. its always low.

It's funny to see stuff on the table shaking from Ian bouncing his knee up and down. I get the same thing with stuff on my tables moving cuz I bounce my knee up and down so much. I dunno why I do it. I'm just a very restless person. It's not from anxiety, though people think it is, but anxiety does make it worse. On the bright side, my leg muscles are really toned cuz I do it almost constantly.

Yes, there are people who buy/sell/restore Pipes. there's definitely a secondhand market they call them estate pipes lol. i use to buy pipes off ebay and restore them. ended up selling anything worth of note in my pipe collection because the truth is nothing smokes better than a 10 dollar meerschaum corn cob pipe! and out of all the pipes i was excited to get(higher end) ended up smoking like shit when i finally got them defintley not worth the investment, but tbh i got my money out of the pipes, and i still have a nice little tobacco cellar! Ian looks like a pipe smoker lol.

I could not deal with this kind of human garbage. Ian is very patient.

I work at a retro videogame and movie store and we get a ton of weird weird people coming in. And some really crappy moments. But they can be memorable

Nah he should just have q-tip hands

i feel bad ian

Mr Cuetip lmao

Hobby Shops have very similar customers

Old Man Ian!

"Dock his pay"? I thought Ian owned the store(s).

I had a feeling ian was a pipe smoker

At least it wasn't a CRT :)

And sir wipealot the scratch free cloth for CDs

I believe it. Any job that involves working with the public will ultimately lead to having to deal with shitty people. Hell even if you're not working with the public, there's always a handful of coworkers who don't know the first thing about their job, and you end up having to put up with their incompetence.

Haha the broken tv is karma for yelling at those damn kids!