{"id":3047,"date":"2009-09-21T20:57:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T01:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2013-01-28T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T16:20:33","slug":"consumer-whore-act-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=3047","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Whore – Act III"},"content":{"rendered":"

So when I was in Fargo (again) with the folks a couple weekends ago, I made sure we made a mandatory stop at the local Toys R Us. I was actually on the hunt for the 25th anniversary re-release of the original Ninja Turtles toys, but all they had were Bebop, Rocksteady and Splinter. I only want the four turtles, but I think we all know that once I get them, I won’t be able to stop until I have the whole collection, as evidenced by the similar situation below:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>While my hunt for Ninja Turtles was largely unsuccessful, I did spy the second round of Street Fighter figures. I mulled over them for a good twenty minutes, and decided that it would be best to get them there since they were considerably cheaper there (even with exchange). It was also a gamble whether we’d see them in my store or not, but of course the next week they came in. Still, having Guile, Chun-Li and Akuma hanging around makes my room feel a bit cooler. At least to me. I know the woman isn’t overly thrilled about them…<\/p>\n

On the upside, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up<\/em> releases tomorrow, and pre-release impressions have been pretty good so far! After the whole Mutant Melee<\/em> debacle, I’m still a little weary about it, but it looks like Ubisoft has been trying really hard, and their game would have to be really atrocious to top Konami’s weaksauce offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So when I was in Fargo (again) with the folks a couple weekends ago, I made sure we made a mandatory stop at the local Toys R Us. I was actually on the hunt for the 25th anniversary re-release of the original Ninja Turtles toys, but all they had were Bebop, Rocksteady and Splinter. I … Continue reading Consumer Whore – Act III<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tmnt","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}