Why You Should Never Lend Games

Turn off your PS3 in the background...

So true though, I usually have to go to someones house and grab my shit back when they're not paying attention or I'm never seeing it again. Lost tons of games like this as well as my NES, N64 and PS2.
 
[quote name='QiG']Turn off your PS3 in the background...

So true though, I usually have to go to someones house and grab my shit back when they're not paying attention or I'm never seeing it again. Lost tons of games like this as well as my NES, N64 and PS2.[/QUOTE]

I record using the ps3 so that's impossible at the moment.
 
Here's a better one: how about a roommate who lends out your games for you?

So long, Smash Bros. Brawl, Metroid Prime 3, and Fire Emblem 10.
 
My friend has this really irritating habit of "shuffling" his games and music cds in different cases so if he did borrow one I'd maybe have to go through all his shit to find it. Luckily we've not had to trade/borrow that much. If it were anyone else it would be a flat out NO.
 
If its one lesson I learned as a kid, you dont let your friends borrow your toys. It can end friendships and someone is usually crying in the end.

The video wasnt bad, its in dire need of some editing though to shorten it. Takes way to long to tell a story we all know the end to just by reading the title.
 
[quote name='gargus']If its one lesson I learned as a kid, you dont let your friends borrow your toys. It can end friendships and someone is usually crying in the end.

The video wasnt bad, its in dire need of some editing though to shorten it. Takes way to long to tell a story we all know the end to just by reading the title.[/QUOTE]

LOL it's a video not a commercial. It's 2 minutes...that's short enough.
 
[quote name='the_legend_of_drtre']LOL it's a video not a commercial. It's 2 minutes...that's short enough.[/QUOTE]

2:44 it took to tell a joke you could have in 80 seconds.

But its not my video. All I know is it had potential that was wasted. More people watching that video will be thinking "You know I let someone borrow my game once and ........" and thinking back on their experinces and immediately forget the video they just watched, instead of saying "ha hah that was a funny video".
 
When you lend anything, you always lend it with the expectation that you will never get it back. This applies DIRECTLY to money.
 
I'm not stingy, but man, it gripes me lending and never seeing it back... $60 a game is not cheap... Ever had a game come back scratched and the case jacked up. I try to keep my cases/cd in mint condition... like it's my shrine of accumulated goods. =P
 
OP: Is that based on a true story?

I got a horror story of a game I lent out. I worked in a video game store when I was younger and a co-worker of mine (I'll call him Rufus) just got a Saturn. Rufus knew I had a nice Saturn collection and asked if he could borrow a game. I said sure and ended up lending him Panzer Dragoon Saga. Rufus was always picked on at school, and had really low self-esteem so I felt sorry for him. He seemed honest enough like a quiet nerd but made him understand how rare this game was and he agreed if anything happened to it he would be responsible for it.

So about a week goes by, Im at work and Rufus comes in through the back door holding a plastic bag, pushing a busted bike, crying and saying his arm was hurt. He claimed he was on his bike headed to work when a car forced him off the road crashing, hurting his arm, bending the wheel on his bike and destroying the game. I looked in the bag and sure enough my Panzer Dragoon Saga was badly damaged. The case was shattered, two disks were cracked in half. I put the game aside to see if Rufus was okay, but he declined going to the hospital, no scrapes or bruises. He apologized for the game, but he was still crying and shaken up so we sent him home saying we can deal with it later.

So Rufus comes back the next day and we discuss what should be done about my very rare Panzer Dragoon Saga. Something felt off about his story, I didn't see any injuries on him, but my game and his bike were trashed. A bunch of different things could've happened. My guess is Rufus got jumped by bullies and they trashed my game (thinking it was his) and his bike. Whatever it was it's obvious he was too embarrassed to tell us the truth. I should've pressed the issue but I didn't. Anyways we settled on $100 for the game and I sold the manual, insert and 2 working disks on ebay and made out about even.

Years later I learn some very odd things about him. He ran off to Vermont with some middle aged hairy dude and was really into gay furry porn. I'm not making this up.
 
[quote name='j-cart']When you lend anything, you always lend it with the expectation that you will never get it back. This applies DIRECTLY to money.[/QUOTE]

Yup, this is very true. I've "lent" out a few games and movies and its pretty much a black hole. So I usually only lend stuff out to people I don't really care about or to friends that I really like so that if they never return the item back to me I can live with it.
 
I have my own specialized borrowing system.

Money is money, but games are gold.
When lending, demand half the retail value of said game as insurance and two games of my choosing from the client's collection to be kept for the duration of the time borrowed. Keep a record of everybody you deal with and the game borrowed, to avoid the "three months later, I didn't borrow anything" routine.
If the game is damaged, lost or sold (it happens), put the borrower on the grey list, taking special note of their crimes. In the event the game cannot be returned, the money and games put down as insurance by the borrow are to be kept until he/she can reimburse the damages sustained by the lender.
3 strikes against your record, and you're put on the black list. NEVER to be dealt with again.


It's a little extreme, but I've never lost a game I didn't eventually get back.
 
I no longer lend out games do to friends damaging, breaking or just never giving back games as a kid. It's crazy how people can just wreak a game and give it back like nothing happened. I once got back a 2 disc ps1 game from a friend and didn't touch it for a while, a month later his brother in random conversation apologized for breaking the second disc in half...... Um wut? o_O After complaining to his parents they replaced the game but it took a while to get back to me, I asked about it and he said he was playing it since he got the second disc again..... Thankfully I was a clam kid so instead of stabbing him in the face with a spork, I followed him home and got back my game.

I have a few stories about games being wreaked or scratched to hell but this isn't my blog. :p I feel like such a jerk telling people I don't lend out games now but oh well, $60 is a lot of money and you know some people would rather disappear then pay up on owed money.
 
I'll give you a real experience that I faced years ago. I lent out Metal Gear for the NES when I was in grade school and the guy never returned the game to me. I had to basically go with my uncle and get the game back. Boy, did I learn a lesson. Plus, other people, don't care for you games; they eat and drink while playing games and make the cartridges (oh my!) oily. Nowadays, CDs and DVDs can be easily scratched. But in the future that may be alleviated by downloads via the cloud! I guess in that case you won't be able to lend out your games.
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[quote name='USB Cable']Thankfully I was a clam kid so instead of stabbing him in the face with a spork, I followed him home and got back my game.[/QUOTE]

I hate it when human kids stab me in the face with a spork. That is why I only ever deal with clam kids. They are much nicer.
 
i once lent my friend my pokemon red game. he and his other friend were having a sleepover in the tent and i guess it started raining and my game got caught. he lied and told me it "mysteriously" broke. his friend told me.
 
[quote name='Average Gamer']I'm not stingy, but man, it gripes me lending and never seeing it back... $60 a game is not cheap... Ever had a game come back scratched and the case jacked up. I try to keep my cases/cd in mint condition... like it's my shrine of accumulated goods. =P[/QUOTE]
THIS. A buddy of mine was borrowing my original copy of GTA San Andreas a couple of years ago and I received it back in scratched up condition. What pissed me off was that I had just had to have it resurfaced a couple of weeks prior due to a PS2 I bought from a local shop leaving a ringed scratch in it.

Thus far I've had at least 3-5 books and at least one PS1 game(MGS) disappear into the void of his room and not be returned to me.

But we've been friends for so long that I only joke around about my missing shit to him, since I don't wanna cause a rift over something so trivial.

At most the books and copy of MGS cost me a grand total of $5-6. That's not worth losing a friend over, if you ask me.

He currently has my one PS3 slim on a long term loan and I've been letting him borrow 1-3 of my games at a clip to play on it while I try to whittle down my backlog.

He seemed kinda down that I took back 4-5 games the other night, even though he was largely done with 3/4's of them, but I just didn't want a repeat of the above items with the games.
 
I have a story about this. I leant my friend Resident Evil Directors Cut for WCW VS The World. His disc was scratched and mine was minty fresh. A week later, he brings the game back, it's scratched to fuck. then the mother fucker has the nerve to tell me it's only a light scratch. This thing looked like it went to war. So I went to the bathroom, put the disc in my ass, farted on it several times then gashed it on the bathroom stall. Walked back out and gave him the disc back and said I might have put a scratch on it too. I should have shat on that disc.

Never loaned him shit ever again.
 
I remember lending this guy at work my copy of Perfect Dark on N64. He never gave it back and when I would ask about it, he would avoid the subject. I knew where he lived so I could have went knocking on his door but I decided it wasn't worth a potential physical confrontation and police involvement. He then got fired and I didn't see him for a good while. When I did, he waved at me like nothing happened but I still remembered that he never gave me back my damn game.
 
[quote name='Paco']I have a story about this. I leant my friend Resident Evil Directors Cut for WCW VS The World. His disc was scratched and mine was minty fresh. A week later, he brings the game back, it's scratched to fuck. then the mother fucker has the nerve to tell me it's only a light scratch. This thing looked like it went to war. So I went to the bathroom, put the disc in my ass, farted on it several times then gashed it on the bathroom stall. Walked back out and gave him the disc back and said I might have put a scratch on it too. I should have shat on that disc.

Never loaned him shit ever again.[/QUOTE]
:lol: Considering all of the scratches on his disc, I wouldn't have put it anywhere near my ass. Lord only knows what else he did to the disc.:whistle2:#
 
I remember during the N64 era when I'd lend my two controllers to a friend who was having a four player/multiplayer type party. I would get my controllers back, but obviously in poor condition. The "A" button would stick/wouldn't feel right. The control stick was worn out like they tried the Mario Party/ helicopter shy guy mini-game several times. Found out that guy switched his crappy controllers for my newer ones. We had the same colored controllers. It was annoying trying to convince his parents, who acted like there was no difference.

Before the N64, I got Sonic 3 back with my save files erased from another friend. Lent out another game to a different guy and said he lost it at Walmart. I'd see him playing the game, claimed it was a different copy.
 
Lesson learned in high school...I let a 'friend' borrow a copy of one of my N64 games and it came back cracked. Wouldn't even fit into the game slot and the guy said to me that it had to have happened after he returned it to me. Ooooo the nerve. >.
 
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